{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_1581/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_1581","id":"gutenberg_1581","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1581","summary":null,"tags":["Bible","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"The Holy Bible\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in\nDivers Languages\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\nWith Annotations\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by\nBishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752\n\n\nContents\n\n The Old Testament\n The Book of Genesis\n The Book of Exodus\n The Book of Leviticus\n The Book of Numbers\n The Book of Deuteronomy\n The Book of Josue\n The Book of Judges\n The Book of Ruth\n The First Book of Samuel, \n   otherwise called the First Book of Kings\n The Second Book of Samuel,\n   otherwise called the Second Book of Kings\n The Third Book of Kings\n The Fourth Book of Kings\n The First Book of Paralipomenon\n The Second Book of Paralipomenon\n The First Book of Esdras\n The Book of Nehemias,\n   which is called the Second of Esdras\n The Book of Tobias\n The Book of Judith\n The Book of Esther\n The Book of Job\n The Book of Psalms\n The Book of Proverbs\n Ecclesiastes\n Solomon\u2019s Canticle of Canticles\n The Book of Wisdom\n Ecclesiasticus\n The Prophecy of Isaias\n The Prophecy of Jeremias\n The Lamentations of Jeremias\n The Prophecy of Baruch\n The Prophecy of Ezechiel\n The Prophecy of Daniel\n The Prophecy of Osee\n The Prophecy of Joel\n The Prophecy of Amos\n The Prophecy of Abdias\n The Prophecy of Jonas\n The Prophecy of Micheas\n The Prophecy of Nahum\n The Prophecy of Habacuc\n The Prophecy of Sophonias\n The Prophecy of Aggeus\n The Prophecy of Zacharias\n The Prophecy of Malachias\n The First Book of Machabees\n The Second Book of Machabees\n\n The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour\n   Jesus Christ\n The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to St. Matthew\n The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to St. Mark\n The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke\n The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ  According to St. John\n The Acts of the Apostles\n The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans\n The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians\n The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians\n The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians\n The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians\n The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians\n The Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians\n The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians\n The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians\n The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy\n The Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy\n The Epistle of St. Paul to Titus\n The Epistle of St. Paul to Philemon\n The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews\n The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle\n The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle\n The Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle\n The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle\n The Second Epistle of St. John the Apostle\n The Third Epistle of St. John the Apostle\n The Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle\n The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle\n\n Appendices\n\n Additional Books\n The Prayer of Manasses King of Ivda,\n   when he was held captive in Babylon\n The Third Booke of Esdras\n The Fovrth Booke of Esdras\n The Prophecie of Abdias\n The Catholike Epistle of Ivde the Apostle\n \n Supplemental Material\n The Preface to the Reader\n Hard Vvordes Explicated\n\n\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF GENESIS\n\n\nThis book is so called from its treating of the GENERATION, that is, of\nthe creation and the beginning of the world. The Hebrews call it\nBERESITH, from the Word with which it begins. It contains not only the\nhistory of the Creation of the world; but also an account of its\nprogress during the space of 2369 years, that is, until the death of\nJOSEPH.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 1\n\nGod createth Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.\n\n1:1. In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.\n\n1:2. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face\nof the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.\n\n1:3. And God said: Be light made. And light was made.\n\n1:4. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light\nfrom the darkness.\n\n1:5. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was\nevening and morning one day.\n\n1:6. And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and\nlet it divide the waters from the waters.\n\nA firmament.... By this name is here understood the whole space between\nthe earth, and the highest stars. The lower part of which divideth the\nwaters that are upon the earth, from those that are above in the\nclouds.\n\n1:7. And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under\nthe firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.\n\n1:8. And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning\nwere the second day.\n\n1:9. God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be\ngathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it\nwas so done.\n\n1:10. And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of\nthe waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:11. And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as\nmay seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may\nhave seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.\n\n1:12. And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth\nseed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having\nseed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.\n\n1:14. And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of\nheaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and\nfor seasons, and for days and years:\n\n1:15. To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the\nearth, and it was so done.\n\n1:16. And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day;\nand a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.\n\nTwo great lights.... God created on the first day, light, which being\nmoved from east to west, by its rising and setting, made morning and\nevening. But on the fourth day he ordered and distributed this light,\nand made the sun, moon, and stars. The moon, though much less than the\nstars, is here called a great light, from its giving a far greater\nlight to the earth than any of them.\n\n1:17. And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the\nearth.\n\n1:18. And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and\nthe darkness. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:19. And the evening and morning were the fourth day.\n\n1:20. God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature\nhaving life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the\nfirmament of heaven.\n\n1:21. And God created the great whales, and every living and moving\ncreature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and\nevery winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.\n\n1:22. And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the\nwaters of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.\n\n1:23. And the evening and morning were the fifth day.\n\n1:24. And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in\nits kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth,\naccording to their kinds. And it was so done.\n\n1:25. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds,\nand cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind.\nAnd God saw that it was good.\n\n1:26. And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let\nhim have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air,\nand the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that\nmoveth upon the earth.\n\nLet us make man to our image.... This image of God in man, is not in\nthe body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with\nunderstanding and free will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to\ninsinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity.\n\n1:27. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he\ncreated him: male and female he created them.\n\n1:28. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the\nearth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the\nfowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.\n\nIncrease and multiply.... This is not a precept, as some Protestant\ncontrovertists would have it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful;\nfor God had said the same words to the fishes, and birds, (ver. 22) who\nwere incapable of receiving a precept.\n\n1:29. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed\nupon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own\nkind, to be your meat:\n\n1:30. And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and\nto all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they\nmay have to feed upon. And it was so done.\n\n1:31. And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very\ngood. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 2\n\nGod resteth on the seventh day and blesseth it. The earthly paradise,\nin which God placeth man. He commandeth him not to eat of the tree of\nknowledge. And formeth a woman of his rib.\n\n2:1. So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture\nof them.\n\n2:2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and\nhe rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.\n\nHe rested, etc.... That is, he ceased to make or create any new kinds\nof things. Though, as our Lord tells us, John 5.17, \u201cHe still worketh\u201d,\nviz., by conserving and governing all things, and creating souls.\n\n2:3. And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it\nhe had rested from all his work which God created and made.\n\n2:4. These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they\nwere created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the\nearth:\n\n2:5. And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and\nevery herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not\nrained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.\n\n2:6. But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of\nthe earth.\n\n2:7. And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and\nbreathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living\nsoul.\n\n2:8. And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the\nbeginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.\n\n2:9. And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees,\nfair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the\nmidst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.\n\nThe tree of life.... So called because it had that quality, that by\neating of the fruit of it, man would have been preserved in a constant\nstate of health, vigour, and strength, and would not have died at all.\nThe tree of knowledge.... To which the deceitful serpent falsely\nattributed the power of imparting a superior kind of knowledge, beyond\nthat which God was pleased to give.\n\n2:10. And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise,\nwhich from thence is divided into four heads.\n\n2:11. The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all\nthe land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.\n\n2:12. And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium,\nand the onyx stone.\n\n2:13. And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that\ncompasseth all the land of Ethiopia.\n\n2:14. And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along\nby the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.\n\n2:15. And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of\npleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.\n\n2:16. And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou\nshalt eat:\n\n2:17. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not\neat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the\ndeath.\n\n2:18. And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us\nmake him a help like unto himself.\n\n2:19. And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts\nof the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see\nwhat he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature\nthe same is its name.\n\n2:20. And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls\nof the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not\nfound a helper like himself.\n\n2:21. Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was\nfast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.\n\n2:22. And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a\nwoman: and brought her to Adam.\n\n2:23. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my\nflesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.\n\n2:24. Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave\nto his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.\n\n2:25. And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not\nashamed.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 3\n\nThe serpent\u2019s craft. The fall of our first parents. Their punishment.\nThe promise of a Redeemer.\n\n3:1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the\nearth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath\nGod commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?\n\n3:2. And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that\nare in paradise we do eat:\n\n3:3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise,\nGod hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not\ntouch it, lest perhaps we die.\n\n3:4. And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the\ndeath.\n\n3:5. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof,\nyour eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and\nevil.\n\n3:6. And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the\neyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and\ndid eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.\n\n3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived\nthemselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made\nthemselves aprons.\n\nAnd the eyes, etc.... Not that they were blind before, (for the woman\nsaw that the tree was fair to the eyes, ver. 6.) nor yet that their\neyes were opened to any more perfect knowledge of good; but only to the\nunhappy experience of having lost the good of original grace and\ninnocence, and incurred the dreadful evil of sin. From whence followed\na shame of their being naked; which they minded not before; because\nbeing now stript of original grace, they quickly began to be subject to\nthe shameful rebellions of the flesh.\n\n3:8. And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise\nat the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of\nthe Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.\n\n3:9. And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?\n\n3:10. And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid,\nbecause I was naked, and I hid myself.\n\n3:11. And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked,\nbut that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou\nshouldst not eat?\n\n3:12. And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion,\ngave me of the tree, and I did eat.\n\n3:13. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And\nshe answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.\n\n3:14. And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this\nthing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon\nthy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy\nlife.\n\n3:15. I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and\nher seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her\nheel.\n\nShe shall crush.... Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this\nplace, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed.\nThe sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the\nwoman crushes the serpent\u2019s head.\n\n3:16. To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy\nconceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt\nbe under thy husband\u2019s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.\n\n3:17. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of\nthy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that\nthou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and\ntoil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.\n\n3:18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt\neat the herbs of the earth.\n\n3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to\nthe earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into\ndust thou shalt return.\n\n3:20. And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the\nmother of all the living.\n\n3:21. And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins,\nand clothed them.\n\n3:22. And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and\nevil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of\nthe tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.\n\nBehold Adam, etc.... This was spoken by way of reproaching him with his\npride, in affecting a knowledge that might make him like to God.\n\n3:23. And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to\ntill the earth from which he was taken.\n\n3:24. And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure\nCherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of\nthe tree of life.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 4\n\nThe history of Cain and Abel.\n\n4:1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain,\nsaying: I have gotten a man through God.\n\n4:2. And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a\nshepherd, and Cain a husbandman.\n\n4:3. And it came to pass after many days, that Cain offered, of the\nfruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord.\n\n4:4. Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their\nfat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.\n\nHad respect.... That is, shewed his acceptance of his sacrifice (as\ncoming from a heart full of devotion): and that, as we may suppose, by\nsome visible token, such as sending fire from heaven upon his\nofferings.\n\n4:5. But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was\nexceeding angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n4:6. And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy\ncountenance fallen?\n\n4:7. If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but if ill, shall not sin\nforthwith be present at the door? but the lust thereof shall be under\nthee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.\n\n4:8. And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And\nwhen they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and\nslew him.\n\n4:9. And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he\nanswered: I know not: am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\n\n4:10. And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy\nbrother\u2019s blood crieth to me from the earth.\n\n4:11. Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath\nopened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.\n\n4:12. When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a\nfugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.\n\n4:13. And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may\ndeserve pardon.\n\n4:14. Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth,\nand from thy face I shall be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a\nfugitive on the earth: every one, therefore, that findeth me, shall kill\nme.\n\nEvery one that findeth me shall kill me.... His guilty conscience made\nhim fear his own brothers and nephews; of whom, by this time, there\nmight be a good number upon the earth; which had now endured near 130\nyears; as may be gathered from Gen. 5.3, compared with chap. 4.25,\nthough in the compendious account given in the scriptures, only Cain\nand Abel are mentioned.\n\n4:15. And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever\nshall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark\nupon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.\n\nSet a mark, etc.... The more common opinion of the interpreters of holy\nwrit supposes this mark to have been a trembling of the body; or a\nhorror and consternation in his countenance.\n\n4:16. And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a\nfugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.\n\n4:17. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth\nHenoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of\nhis son Henoch.\n\nHis wife.... She was a daughter of Adam, and Cain\u2019s own sister; God\ndispensing with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as\nmankind could not otherwise be propagated. He built a city, viz.... In\nprocess of time, when his race was multiplied, so as to be numerous\nenough to people it. For in the many hundred years he lived, his race\nmight be multiplied even to millions.\n\n4:18. And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad begot Maviael, and Maviael begot\nMathusael, and Mathusael begot Lamech,\n\n4:19. Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of\nthe other Sella.\n\n4:20. And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell\nin tents, and of herdsmen.\n\n4:21. And his brother\u2019s name was Jubal: he was the father of them that\nplay upon the harp and the organs.\n\n4:22. Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and\nartificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain\nwas Noema.\n\n4:23. And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye\nwives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the\nwounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.\n\nI have slain a man, etc.... It is the tradition of the Hebrews, that\nLamech in hunting slew Cain, mistaking him for a wild beast; and that\nhaving discovered what he had done, he beat so unmercifully the youth,\nby whom he was led into that mistake, that he died of the blows.\n\n4:24. Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech\nseventy times sevenfold.\n\n4:25. Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and\ncalled his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel,\nwhom Cain slew.\n\n4:26. But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man\nbegan to call upon the name of the Lord.\n\nBegan to call upon, etc.... Not that Adam and Seth had not called upon\nGod, before the birth of Enos; but that Enos used more solemnity in the\nworship and invocation of God.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 5\n\nThe genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Noe. The\ntranslation of Henoch.\n\n5:1. This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God\ncreated man, he made him to the likeness of God.\n\n5:2. He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called\ntheir name Adam, in the day when they were created.\n\n5:3. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his\nown image and likeness, and called his name Seth.\n\n5:4. And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred\nyears: and he begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:5. And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:6. Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.\n\n5:7. And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:8. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and\nhe died.\n\n5:9. And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.\n\n5:10. After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n5:11. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he\ndied.\n\n5:12. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.\n\n5:13. And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel, eight hundred and forty\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:14. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and\nhe died.\n\n5:15. And Malaleel lived sixty-five years and begot Jared.\n\n5:16. And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:17. And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:18. And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Henoch.\n\n5:19. And Jared lived after he begot Henoch, eight hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n5:20. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years,\nand he died.\n\n5:21. And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.\n\n5:22. And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala,\nthree hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:23. And all the days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty-five\nyears.\n\n5:24. And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took\nhim.\n\n5:25. And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot\nLamech.\n\n5:26. And Mathlusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and\neighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:27. And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine\nyears, and he died.\n\n5:28. And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.\n\n5:29. And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us\nfrom the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord\nhath cursed.\n\n5:30. And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, five hundred and ninety-five\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n5:31. And all the days of Lamech came to seven hundred and\nseventy-seven years, and he died. And Noe, when he was five hundred\nyears old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 6\n\nMan\u2019s sin is the cause of the deluge. Noe is commanded to build the\nark.\n\n6:1. And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and\ndaughters were born to them,\n\n6:2. The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair,\ntook to themselves wives of all which they chose.\n\nThe sons of God.... The descendants of Seth and Enos are here called\nsons of God from their religion and piety: whereas the ungodly race of\nCain, who by their carnal affections lay grovelling upon the earth, are\ncalled the children of men. The unhappy consequence of the former\nmarrying with the latter, ought to be a warning to Christians to be\nvery circumspect in their marriages; and not to suffer themselves to be\ndetermined in their choice by their carnal passion, to the prejudice of\nvirtue or religion.\n\n6:3. And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because\nhe is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.\n\nHis days shall be, etc.... The meaning is, that man\u2019s days, which\nbefore the flood were usually 900 years, should now be reduced to 120\nyears. Or rather, that God would allow men this term of 120 years, for\ntheir repentance and conversion, before he would send the deluge.\n\n6:4. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons\nof God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth\nchildren, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.\n\nGiants.... It is likely the generality of men before the flood were of\na gigantic stature in comparison with what men now are. But these here\nspoken of are called giants, as being not only tall in stature, but\nviolent and savage in their dispositions, and mere monsters of cruelty\nand lust.\n\n6:5. And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth,\nand that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all\ntimes,\n\n6:6. It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being\ntouched inwardly with sorrow of heart,\n\nIt repented him, etc.... God, who is unchangeable, is not capable of\nrepentance, grief, or any other passion. But these expressions are used\nto declare the enormity of the sins of men, which was so provoking as\nto determine their Creator to destroy these his creatures, whom before\nhe had so much favoured.\n\n6:7. He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of\nthe earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the\nfowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.\n\n6:8. But Noe found grace before the Lord.\n\n6:9. These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man\nin his generations, he walked with God.\n\n6:10. And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n6:11. And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with\niniquity.\n\n6:12. And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh\nhad corrupted its way upon the earth),\n\n6:13. He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth\nis filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the\nearth.\n\n6:14. Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms\nin the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.\n\n6:15. And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three\nhundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it\nthirty cubits.\n\nThree hundred cubits, etc.... The ark, according to the dimensions here\nset down, contained four hundred and fifty thousand square cubits;\nwhich was more than enough to contain all the kinds of living\ncreatures, with all necessary provisions: even supposing the cubits\nhere spoken of to have been only a foot and a half each, which was the\nleast kind of cubits.\n\n6:16. Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou\nfinish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the\nside: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make\nit.\n\n6:17. Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth,\nto destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All\nthings that are in the earth shall be consumed.\n\n6:18. And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter\ninto the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy\nsons with thee.\n\n6:19. And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two\nof a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee: of the male sex,\nand the female.\n\n6:20. Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind,\nand of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind:\ntwo of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.\n\n6:21. Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou\nshalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.\n\n6:22. And Noe did all things which God commanded him.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 7\n\nNoe with his family go into the ark. The deluge overflows the earth.\n\n7:1. And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the\nark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.\n\n7:2. Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.\n\nOf all clean.... The distinction of clean and unclean beasts appears to\nhave been made before the law of Moses, which was not promulgated till\nthe year of the world 2514.\n\n7:3. But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the\nfemale. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the\nfemale: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.\n\n7:4. For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth\nforty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I\nhave made, from the face of the earth.\n\n7:5. And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.\n\n7:6. And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood\noverflowed the earth.\n\n7:7. And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons\nwith him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.\n\n7:8. And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing\nthat moveth upon the earth,\n\n7:9. Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the\nLord had commanded Noe.\n\n7:10. And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood\noverflowed the earth.\n\n7:11. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second\nmonth, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the\ngreat deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:\n\n7:12. And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.\n\n7:13. In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his\nsons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into\nthe ark.\n\n7:14. They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in\ntheir kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to\nits kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that\nfly,\n\n7:15. Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein\nwas the breath of life.\n\n7:16. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as\nGod had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.\n\n7:17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters\nincreased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.\n\n7:18. For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of\nthe earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.\n\n7:19. And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all\nthe high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.\n\n7:20. The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it\ncovered.\n\n7:21. And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of\nfowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that\ncreep upon the earth: and all men.\n\n7:22. And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth,\ndied.\n\n7:23. And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from\nman even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and\nthey were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they\nthat were with him in the ark.\n\n7:24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 8\n\nThe deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and offereth a sacrifice.\nGod\u2019s covenant to him.\n\n8:1. And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the\ncattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the\nearth, and the waters were abated:\n\n8:2. The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were\nshut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.\n\n8:3. And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and\nthey began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.\n\n8:4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth\nday of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.\n\n8:5. And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month:\nfor in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the\nmountains appeared.\n\n8:6. And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of\nthe ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:\n\n8:7. Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up\nupon the earth.\n\nDid not return.... The raven did not return into the ark; but (as it\nmay be gathered from the Hebrew) went to and fro; sometimes going to\nthe mountains, where it found carcasses to feed on: and other times\nreturning, to rest upon the top of the ark.\n\n8:8. He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now\nceased upon the face of the earth.\n\n8:9. But she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him\ninto the ark: for the waters were upon the whole earth: and he put\nforth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark.\n\n8:10. And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the\ndove out of the ark.\n\n8:11. And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive\ntree, with green leaves, in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that\nthe waters were ceased upon the earth.\n\n8:12. And he stayed yet other seven days: and he sent forth the dove,\nwhich returned not any more unto him.\n\n8:13. Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month,\nthe first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth,\nand Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face\nof the earth was dried.\n\n8:14. In the second month, the seven and twentieth day of the month,\nthe earth was dried.\n\n8:15. And God spoke to Noe, saying:\n\n8:16. Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of\nthy sons with thee.\n\n8:17. All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in\nfowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth,\nbring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply\nupon it.\n\n8:18. So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his\nsons with him.\n\n8:19. And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep\nupon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.\n\n8:20. And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle\nand fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.\n\nHolocausts, ... or whole burnt offerings. In which the whole victim was\nconsumed by fire upon God\u2019s altar, and no part was reserved for the use\nof priest or people.\n\n8:21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more\ncurse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of\nman\u2019s heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more\ndestroy every living soul as I have done.\n\nSmelled, etc.... A figurative expression, denoting that God was well\npleased with the sacrifices which his servant offered.\n\n8:22. All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,\nsummer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 9\n\nGod blesseth Noe: forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy\nthe world by water. The blessing of Sem and Japheth.\n\n9:1. And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase,\nand multiply, and fill the earth.\n\n9:2. And let the fear and dread of you be upon all the beasts of the\nearth, and upon all the fowls of the air, and all that move upon the\nearth: all the fishes of the sea are delivered into your hand.\n\n9:3. And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you:\neven as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:\n\n9:4. Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.\n\n9:5. For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every\nbeast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his\nbrother, will I require the life of man.\n\n9:6. Whosoever shall shed man\u2019s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man\nwas made to the image of God.\n\n9:7. But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.\n\n9:8. Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:\n\n9:9. Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed\nafter you:\n\n9:10. And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all\nbirds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of\nthe ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.\n\n9:11. I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no\nmore destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from\nhenceforth a flood to waste the earth.\n\n9:12. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give\nbetween me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for\nperpetual generations.\n\n9:13. I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a\ncovenant between me and between the earth.\n\n9:14. And when I shall cover the sky with clouds, my bow shall appear\nin the clouds:\n\n9:15. And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living\nsoul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood\nto destroy all flesh.\n\n9:16. And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall\nremember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every\nliving soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.\n\n9:17. And God said to Noe: This shall be the sign of the covenant,\nwhich I have established, between me and all flesh upon the earth.\n\n9:18. And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and\nJapheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.\n\n9:19. These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind\nspread over the whole earth.\n\n9:20. And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a\nvineyard.\n\n9:21. And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his\ntent.\n\nDrunk.... Noe by the judgment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in\nbeing overcome by wine: because he knew not the strength of it.\n\n9:22. Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his\nfather\u2019s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren\nwithout.\n\n9:23. But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going\nbackward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were\nturned away, and they saw not their father\u2019s nakedness.\n\nCovered the nakedness.... Thus, as St. Gregory takes notice L. 35;\nMoral. c. 22, we ought to cover the nakedness, that is, the sins, of\nour spiritual parents and superiors.\n\n9:24. And Noe awaking from the wine, when he had learned what his\nyounger son had done to him,\n\n9:25. He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be\nunto his brethren.\n\nCursed be Chanaan.... The curses, as well as the blessings, of the\npatriarchs, were prophetical: And this in particular is here recorded\nby Moses, for the children of Israel, who were to possess the land of\nChanaan. But why should Chanaan be cursed for his father\u2019s faults? The\nHebrews answer, that he being then a boy, was the first that saw his\ngrandfather\u2019s nakedness, and told his father Cham of it; and joined\nwith him in laughing at it: which drew upon him, rather than upon the\nrest of the children of Cham, this prophetical curse.\n\n9:26. And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his\nservant.\n\n9:27. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Sem,\nand Chanaan be his servant.\n\n9:28. And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.\n\n9:29. And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years:\nand he died.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 10\n\nThe genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled\nafter the flood.\n\n10:1. These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and\nJapheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.\n\n10:2. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and\nThubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.\n\n10:3. And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and Riphath and Thogorma.\n\n10:4. And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.\n\n10:5. By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands,\nevery one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.\n\nThe islands.... So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to\nwhich they went by ships from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, etc.\n\n10:6. And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.\n\n10:7. And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma,\nand Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.\n\n10:8. Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.\n\n10:9. And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb:\nEven as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.\n\nA stout hunter.... Not of beasts but of men: whom by violence and\ntyranny he brought under his dominion. And such he was, not only in the\nopinion of men, but before the Lord, that is, in his sight who cannot\nbe deceived.\n\n10:10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and\nAchad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.\n\n10:11. Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the\nstreets of the city, and Chale.\n\n10:12. Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.\n\n10:13. And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim and Laabim, Nephthuim.\n\n10:14. And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines,\nand the Capthorim.\n\n10:15. And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,\n\n10:16. And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.\n\n10:17. The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,\n\n10:18. And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards\nthe families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.\n\n10:19. And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara\neven to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and\nSeboim even to Lesa.\n\n10:20. These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues,\nand generations, and lands, and nations.\n\n10:21. Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder\nbrother of Japheth, sons were born.\n\n10:22. The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and\nAram.\n\n10:23. The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.\n\n10:24. But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was born Heber.\n\n10:25. And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg,\nbecause in his days was the earth divided: and his brother\u2019s name\nJectan.\n\n10:26. Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,\n\n10:27. And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,\n\n10:28. And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,\n\n10:29. And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these were the sons of\nJectan.\n\n10:30. And their dwelling was from Messa as we go on as far as Sephar,\na mountain in the east.\n\n10:31. These are the children of Sem according to their kindreds and\ntongues, and countries in their nations.\n\n10:32. These are the families of Noe, according to their people and\nnations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the\nflood.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 11\n\nThe tower of Babel. The confusion of tongues. The genealogy of Sem down\nto Abram.\n\n11:1. And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.\n\n11:2. And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the\nland of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.\n\n11:3. And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and\nbake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime\ninstead of mortar:\n\n11:4. And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top\nwhereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we\nbe scattered abroad into all lands.\n\n11:5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the\nchildren of Adam were building.\n\n11:6. And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue:\nand they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their\ndesigns, till they accomplish them in deed.\n\n11:7. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their\ntongue, that they may not understand one another\u2019s speech.\n\n11:8. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands,\nand they ceased to build the city.\n\n11:9. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there\nthe language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the\nLord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.\n\nBabel.... That is, confusion.\n\n11:10. These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old\nwhen he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.\n\n11:11. And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n11:12. And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.\n\n11:13. And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:14. Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.\n\n11:15. And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three\nyears: and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:16. And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.\n\n11:17. And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four hundred and thirty\nyears: and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:18. Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.\n\n11:19. And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two hundred and nine years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Sarug.\n\n11:21. And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two hundred and seven years,\nand begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:22. And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot Nachor.\n\n11:23. And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years, and\nbegot sons and daughters.\n\n11:24. And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.\n\n11:25. And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen\nyears, and begot sons and daughters.\n\n11:26. And Thare lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and\nAran.\n\n11:27. And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begot Abram,\nNachor, and Aran. And Aran begot Lot.\n\n11:28. And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his\nnativity in Ur of the Chaldees.\n\n11:29. And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram\u2019s wife was\nSarai: and the name of Nachor\u2019s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran,\nfather of Melcha and father of Jescha.\n\n11:30. And Sarai was barren, and had no children.\n\n11:31. And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son\u2019s\nson, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and\nbrought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan:\nand they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.\n\n11:32. And the days of Thare were two hundred and five years, and he\ndied in Haran.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 12\n\nThe call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in\nChanaan, and then by occasion of a famine, goeth down to Egypt.\n\n12:1. And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from\nthy kindred, and out of thy father\u2019s house, and come into the land\nwhich I shall shew thee.\n\n12:2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,\nand magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.\n\n12:3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse\nthee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.\n\n12:4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went\nwith him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from\nHaran.\n\n12:5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother\u2019s son, and all\nthe substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had\ngotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And\nwhen they were come into it,\n\n12:6. Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far\nas the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.\n\n12:7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will\nI give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had\nappeared to him.\n\n12:8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east\nside of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west,\nand Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and\ncalled upon his name.\n\n12:9. And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.\n\n12:10. And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into\nEgypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.\n\n12:11. And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his\nwife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:\n\n12:12. And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She\nis his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.\n\n12:13. Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may\nbe well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.\n\nMy sister.... This was no lie; because she was his niece, being\ndaughter to his brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the\nHebrews, she might truly be called his sister, as Lot is called Abram\u2019s\nbrother, Gen. 14.14. See Gen. 20.12.\n\n12:14. And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman\nthat she was very beautiful.\n\n12:15. And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the\nwoman was taken into the house of Pharao.\n\n12:16. And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen\nand he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and\ncamels.\n\n12:17. But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous\nstripes for Sarai, Abram\u2019s wife.\n\n12:18. And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou\nhast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?\n\n12:19. For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might\ntake her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go\nthy way.\n\n12:20. And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led\nhim away and his wife, and all that he had.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 13\n\nAbram and Lot part from each other. God\u2019s promise to Abram.\n\n13:1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he\nhad, and Lot with him into the south.\n\n13:2. And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.\n\n13:3. And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to\nBethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between\nBethel and Hai,\n\n13:4. In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he\ncalled upon the name of the Lord.\n\n13:5. But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds\nof beasts, and tents.\n\n13:6. Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell\ntogether: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell\ntogether.\n\n13:7. Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram\nand of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled\nin that country.\n\n13:8. Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech\nthee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen:\nfor we are brethren.\n\n13:9. Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray\nthee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou\nchoose the right hand, I will pass to the left.\n\n13:10. And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the\nJordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom\nand Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes\nto Segor.\n\n13:11. And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he\ndeparted from the east: and they were separated one brother from the\nother.\n\n13:12. Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns,\nthat were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.\n\n13:13. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the\nface of the Lord beyond measure.\n\n13:14. And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him:\nLift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the\nnorth and to the south, to the east and to the west.\n\n13:15. All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy\nseed for ever.\n\n13:16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be\nable to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy\nseed also.\n\n13:17. Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth\nthereof: for I will give it to thee.\n\n13:18. So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of\nMambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 14\n\nThe expedition of the four kings; the victory of Abram; he is blessed\nby Melchisedech.\n\n14:1. And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar,\nand Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites,\nand Thadal, king of nations,\n\n14:2. Made war against Bara, king of Sodom, and against Bersa, king of\nGomorrha, and against Sennaab, king of Adama, and against Semeber, king\nof Seboim, and against the king of Bala, which is Segor.\n\n14:3. All these came together into the woodland vale, which now is the\nsalt sea.\n\n14:4. For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve years, and in the\nthirteenth year they revolted from him.\n\n14:5. And in the fourteenth year came Chodorlahomor, and the kings that\nwere with him: and they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and the\nZuzim with them, and the Emim in Save of Cariathaim.\n\n14:6. And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of\nPharan, which is in the wilderness.\n\n14:7. And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same\nis Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the\nAmorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.\n\n14:8. And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrha, and the king of\nAdama, and the king of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor,\nwent out: and they set themselves against them in battle array, in the\nwoodland vale:\n\n14:9. To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal\nking of nations, and Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of\nPontus: four kings against five.\n\n14:10. Now the woodland vale had many pits of slime. And the king of\nSodom, and the king of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were overthrown\nthere: and they that remained, fled to the mountain.\n\nOf slime. Bituminis.... This was a kind of pitch, which served for\nmortar in the building of Babel, Gen. 11.3, and was used by Noe in\npitching the ark.\n\n14:11. And they took all the substance of the Sodomites, and\nGomorrhites, and all their victuals, and went their way:\n\n14:12. And Lot also, the son of Abram\u2019s brother, who dwelt in Sodom,\nand his substance.\n\n14:13. And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who\ndwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and\nthe brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.\n\n14:14. Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was\ntaken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and\neighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.\n\n14:15. And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and\ndefeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left\nhand of Damascus.\n\n14:16. And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with\nhis substance, the women also, and the people.\n\n14:17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned\nfrom the slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with\nhim in the vale of Save, which is the king\u2019s vale.\n\n14:18. But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and\nwine, for he was the priest of the most high God,\n\n14:19. Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God,\nwho created heaven and earth.\n\n14:20. And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the\nenemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.\n\n14:21. And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and\nthe rest take to thyself.\n\n14:22. And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most\nhigh, the possessor of heaven and earth,\n\n14:23. That from the very woof thread unto the shoe latchet, I will not\ntake of any things that are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched\nAbram.\n\n14:24. Except such things as the young men have eaten, and the shares\nof the men that came with me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take\ntheir shares.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 15\n\nGod promiseth seed to Abram. His faith, sacrifice and vision.\n\n15:1. Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to\nAbram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy\nreward exceeding great.\n\n15:2. And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go\nwithout children: and the son of the steward of my house is this\nDamascus Eliezer.\n\n15:3. And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my\nservant born in my house, shall be my heir.\n\n15:4. And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He\nshall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him\nshalt thou have for thy heir.\n\n15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to\nheaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall\nthy seed be.\n\n15:6. Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.\n\n15:7. And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of\nthe Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess\nit.\n\n15:8. But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess\nit?\n\n15:9. And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years\nold, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle\nalso, and a pigeon.\n\n15:10. And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid\nthe two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided\nnot.\n\n15:11. And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them\naway.\n\n15:12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and\na great and darksome horror seized upon him.\n\n15:13. And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed\nshall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them\nunder bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.\n\n15:14. But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after\nthis they shall come out with great substance.\n\n15:15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a\ngood old age.\n\n15:16. But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as\nyet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this\npresent time.\n\n15:17. And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there\nappeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those\ndivisions.\n\n15:18. That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed\nwill I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river\nEuphrates.\n\n15:19. The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,\n\n15:20. And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,\n\n15:21. And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and\nthe Jebusites.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 16\n\nAbram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael.\n\n16:1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but\nhaving a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,\n\n16:2. She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from\nbearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her\nat least. And when he agreed to her request,\n\n16:3. She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they\nfirst dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to\nwife.\n\nTo wife.... Plurality of wives, though contrary to the primitive\ninstitution of marriage, Gen. 2.24, was by divine dispensation allowed\nto the patriarchs: which allowance seems to have continued during the\ntime of the law of Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced marriage to its\nprimitive institution. Matt. 19.\n\n16:4. And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with\nchild, despised her mistress.\n\n16:5. And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my\nhandmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child,\ndespiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.\n\n16:6. And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in\nthy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted\nher, she ran away.\n\n16:7. And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of\nwater in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,\n\n16:8. He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and\nwhither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my\nmistress.\n\n16:9. And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress,\nand humble thyself under her hand.\n\n16:10. And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it\nshall not be numbered for multitude.\n\n16:11. And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt\nbring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the\nLord hath heard thy affliction.\n\n16:12. He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and\nall men\u2019s hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against\nall his brethren.\n\n16:13. And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou\nthe God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the\nhinder parts of him that seeth me.\n\n16:14. Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and\nseeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.\n\n16:15. And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name\nIsmael.\n\n16:16. Abram was four score and six years old when Agar brought him\nforth Ismael.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 17\n\nThe Covenant of circumcision.\n\n17:1. And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord\nappeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before\nme, and be perfect.\n\n17:2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will\nmultiply thee exceedingly.\n\n17:3. Abram fell flat on his face.\n\n17:4. And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou\nshalt be a father of many nations.\n\n17:5. Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt\nbe called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.\n\nAbram.... in the Hebrew, signifies a high father: but Abraham, the\nfather of the multitude; Sarai signifies my Lady, but Sara absolutely\nLady.\n\n17:6. And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make\nnations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.\n\n17:7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between\nthy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to\nbe a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.\n\n17:8. And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy\nsojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I\nwill be their God.\n\n17:9. Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my\ncovenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.\n\n17:10. This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you,\nand thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised.\n\n17:11. And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may\nbe for a sign of the covenant between me and you.\n\n17:12. An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you,\nevery manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as\nwell as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not\nof your stock:\n\n17:13. And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.\n\n17:14. The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised,\nthat soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken\nmy covenant.\n\n17:15. God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call\nSarai, but Sara.\n\n17:16. And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I\nwill bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall\nspring from him.\n\n17:17. Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart:\nShall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old?\nand shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?\n\n17:18. And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.\n\n17:19. And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son,\nand thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant\nwith him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.\n\n17:20. And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless\nhim, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve\nchiefs, and I will make him a great nation.\n\n17:21. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall\nbring forth to thee at this time in the next year.\n\n17:22. And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from\nAbraham.\n\n17:23. And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his\nhouse: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his\nhouse: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the\nvery same day, as God had commanded him.\n\n17:24. Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the\nflesh of his foreskin.\n\n17:25. And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of\nhis circumcision.\n\n17:26. The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.\n\n17:27. And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his\nhouse, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 18\n\nAngels are entertained by Abraham. They foretell the birth of Isaac.\nAbraham\u2019s prayer for the men of Sodom.\n\n18:1. And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was\nsitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.\n\n18:2. And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three\nmen standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet\nthem from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.\n\n18:3. And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not\naway from thy servant.\n\n18:4. But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest\nye under the tree.\n\n18:5. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart,\nafterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your\nservant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.\n\n18:6. Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make\nhaste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the\nhearth.\n\n18:7. And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very\ntender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and\nboiled it.\n\n18:8. He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled,\nand set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.\n\n18:9. And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy\nwife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent.\n\n18:10. And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time,\nlife accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when\nSara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.\n\n18:11. Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had\nceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.\n\n18:12. And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my\nlord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?\n\n18:13. And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall\nI, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?\n\n18:14. Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will\nreturn to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall\nhave a son.\n\n18:15. Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But\nthe Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh.\n\n18:16. And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes\ntowards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way.\n\n18:17. And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to\ndo:\n\n18:18. Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all\nthe nations of the earth shall be blessed?\n\n18:19. For I know that he will command his children, and his household\nafter him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice:\nthat for Abraham\u2019s sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he\nhath spoken unto him.\n\n18:20. And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied,\nand their sin is become exceedingly grievous.\n\n18:21. I will go down and see whether they have done according to the\ncry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.\n\nI will go down, etc.... The Lord here accommodates his discourse to the\nway of speaking and acting amongst men; for he knoweth all things, and\nneedeth not to go anywhere for information. Note here, that two of the\nthree angels went away immediately for Sodom; whilst the third, who\nrepresented the Lord, remained with Abraham.\n\n18:22. And they turned themselves from thence, and went their way to\nSodom: but Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.\n\n18:23. And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the\nwicked?\n\n18:24. If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish\nwithal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty\njust, if they be therein?\n\n18:25. Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with\nthe wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is\nnot beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this\njudgment.\n\n18:26. And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within\nthe city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.\n\n18:27. And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will\nspeak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.\n\n18:28. What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou\nfor five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not\ndestroy it, if I find five and forty.\n\n18:29. And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt\nthou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.\n\n18:30. Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What\nif thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I\nfind thirty there.\n\n18:31. Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord:\nWhat if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the\nsake of twenty.\n\n18:32. I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet\nonce more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not\ndestroy it for the sake of ten.\n\n18:33. And the Lord departed, after he had left speaking to Abraham:\nand Abraham returned to his place.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 19\n\nLot, entertaining Angels in his house, is delivered from Sodom, which\nis destroyed: his wife for looking back is turned into a statue of\nsalt.\n\n19:1. And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was\nsitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went\nto meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.\n\n19:2. And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your\nservant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall\ngo on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.\n\n19:3. He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were\ncome into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread,\nand they ate:\n\n19:4. But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house,\nboth young and old, all the people together.\n\n19:5. And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came\nin to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them:\n\n19:6. Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:\n\n19:7. Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.\n\n19:8. I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will\nbring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so\nthat you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the\nshadow of my roof.\n\n19:9. But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in,\nsaid they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will\nafflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot:\nand they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.\n\n19:10. And behold the men put out their hand, and drew in Lot unto\nthem, and shut the door.\n\n19:11. And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the\nleast to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.\n\n19:12. And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any of thine? son in law,\nor sons, or daughters, all that are thine bring them out of this city:\n\n19:13. For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud\nbefore the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.\n\n19:14. So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have\nhis daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the\nLord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were\nin jest.\n\n19:15. And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise,\ntake thy wife, and the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also\nperish in the wickedness of the city.\n\n19:16. And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his\nwife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.\n\n19:17. And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and\nthere they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither\nstay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain,\nlest thou be also consumed.\n\n19:18. And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,\n\n19:19. Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast\nmagnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life,\nand I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I\ndie.\n\n19:20. There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a\nlittle one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my\nsoul shall live?\n\n19:21. And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy\nprayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.\n\n19:22. Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing\ntill thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called\nSegor.\n\nSegor.... That is, a little one.\n\n19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.\n\n19:24. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire\nfrom the Lord out of heaven.\n\n19:25. And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all\nthe inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the\nearth.\n\n19:26. And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of\nsalt.\n\nAnd his wife.... As a standing memorial to the servants of God to\nproceed in virtue, and not to look back to vice or its allurements.\n\n19:27. And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where\nhe had stood before with the Lord:\n\n19:28. He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that\ncountry: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a\nfurnace.\n\n19:29. Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering\nAbraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein\nhe had dwelt.\n\n19:30. And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his\ntwo daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he\ndwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.\n\n19:31. And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there\nis no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the\nwhole earth.\n\n19:32. Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us lie with him,\nthat we may preserve seed of our father.\n\n19:33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder\nwent in, and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when\nhis daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.\n\n19:34. And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay\nlast night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night,\nand thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed of our father.\n\n19:35. They made their father drink wine that night also, and the\nyounger daughter went in, and lay with him: and neither then did he\nperceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.\n\n19:36. So the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.\n\n19:37. And the elder bore a son, and she called his name Moab: he is\nthe father of the Moabites unto this day.\n\n19:38. The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that\nis, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this\nday.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 20\n\nAbraham sojourned in Gerara: Sara is taken into king Abimelech\u2019s house,\nbut by God\u2019s commandment is restored untouched.\n\n20:1. Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt\nbetween Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.\n\n20:2. And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the\nking of Gerara sent, and took her.\n\n20:3. And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to\nhim: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath\na husband.\n\n20:4. Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou\nslay a nation that is ignorant and just?\n\n20:5. Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my\nbrother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have\nI done this.\n\n20:6. And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere\nheart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I\nsuffered thee not to touch her.\n\n20:7. Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and\nhe shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not\nrestore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are\nthine.\n\n20:8. And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his\nservants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men\nwere exceedingly afraid.\n\n20:9. And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast\nthou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought\nupon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou\noughtest not to do.\n\n20:10. And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou,\nthat thou hast done this?\n\n20:11. Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there\nis not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the\nsake of my wife:\n\n20:12. Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of\nmy father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.\n\n20:13. And after God brought me out of my father\u2019s house, I said to\nher: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall\ncome, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.\n\n20:14. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids,\nand gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,\n\n20:15. And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall\nplease thee.\n\n20:16. And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand\npieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to\nall that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember\nthou wast taken.\n\n20:17. And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and\nhis handmaids, and they bore children:\n\n20:18. For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech,\non account of Sara, Abraham\u2019s wife.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 21\n\nIsaac is born. Agar and Ismael are cast forth.\n\n21:1. And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what\nhe had spoken.\n\n21:2. And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that\nGod had foretold her.\n\n21:3. And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him,\nIsaac.\n\nIsaac.... This word signifies laughter.\n\n21:4. And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,\n\n21:5. When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father,\nwas Isaac born.\n\n21:6. And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall\nhear of it will laugh with me.\n\n21:7. And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear\nthat Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?\n\n21:8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great\nfeast on the day of his weaning.\n\n21:9. And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing\nwith Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham:\n\n21:10. Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the\nbondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.\n\n21:11. Abraham took this grievously for his son.\n\n21:12. And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the\nboy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken\nto her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.\n\n21:13. But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation,\nbecause he is thy seed.\n\n21:14. So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle\nof water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her\naway. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.\n\n21:15. And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy\nunder one of the trees that were there.\n\n21:16. And she went her way, and sat over against him a great way off,\nas far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die:\nand sitting over against, she lifted up her voice and wept.\n\n21:17. And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called\nto Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for\nGod hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is.\n\n21:18. Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will\nmake him a great nation.\n\n21:19. And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went\nand filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.\n\n21:20. And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness,\nand became a young man, an archer.\n\n21:21. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a\nwife for him out of the land of Egypt.\n\n21:22. At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army,\nsaid to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.\n\n21:23. Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my\nposterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done\nto thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a\nstranger.\n\n21:24. And Abraham said: I will swear.\n\n21:25. And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his\nservants had taken away by force.\n\n21:26. And Abimelech answered: I knew not who did this thing: and thou\ndidst not tell me, and I heard not of it till today.\n\n21:27. Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech:\nand both of them made a league.\n\n21:28. And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock.\n\n21:29. And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which\nthou hast set apart?\n\n21:30. But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that\nthey may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.\n\n21:31. Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of\nthem did swear.\n\nBersabee.... That is, the well of oath.\n\n21:32. And they made a league for the well of oath.\n\n21:33. And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and\nreturned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in\nBersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.\n\n21:34. And he was a sojourner in the land of the Palestines many days.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 22\n\nThe faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in his readiness to\nsacrifice his son Isaac. He is stayed from the act by an angel. Former\npromises are renewed to him. His brother Nachor\u2019s issue.\n\n22:1. After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him:\nAbraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.\n\nGod tempted, etc.... God tempteth no man to evil, James 1.13; but by\ntrial and experiment maketh known to the world, and to ourselves, what\nwe are, as here by this trial the singular faith and obedience of\nAbraham was made manifest.\n\n22:2. He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou\nlovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him\nfor an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.\n\n22:3. So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with\nhim two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the\nholocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.\n\n22:4. And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar\noff.\n\n22:5. And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and\nthe boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have\nworshipped, will return to you.\n\n22:6. And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac\nhis son; and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as\nthey two went on together,\n\n22:7. Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt\nthou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the\nholocaust?\n\n22:8. And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an\nholocaust, my son. So they went on together.\n\n22:9. And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he\nbuilt an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had\nbound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.\n\n22:10. And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his\nson.\n\n22:11. And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him,\nsaying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.\n\n22:12. And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do\nthou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not\nspared thy only begotten son for my sake.\n\n22:13. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram,\namongst the briers, sticking fast by the horns, which he took and\noffered for a holocaust instead of his son.\n\n22:14. And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon,\neven to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.\n\n22:15. And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from\nheaven, saying:\n\n22:16. By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast\ndone this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:\n\n22:17. I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of\nheaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall\npossess the gates of their enemies.\n\n22:18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,\nbecause thou hast obeyed my voice.\n\n22:19. Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee\ntogether, and he dwelt there.\n\n22:20. After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had\nborne children to Nachor his brother.\n\n22:21. Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father\nof the Syrians,\n\n22:22. And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,\n\n22:23. And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha\nbear to Nachor, Abraham\u2019s brother.\n\n22:24. And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas,\nand Maacha.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 23\n\nSara\u2019s death and burial in the field bought of Ephron.\n\n23:1. And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.\n\n23:2. And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of\nChanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.\n\n23:3. And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the\nchildren of Heth, saying:\n\n23:4. I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a\nburying place with you, that I may bury my dead.\n\n23:5. The children of Heth answered, saying:\n\n23:6. My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy\ndead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder\nthee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.\n\n23:7. Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to\nwit, the children of Heth:\n\nBowed down to the people.... Adoravit, literally adored. But this word\nhere, as well as in many other places in the Latin scriptures, is used\nto signify only an inferior honour and reverence paid to men, expressed\nby a bowing down of the body.\n\n23:8. And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my\ndead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.\n\n23:9. That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of\nhis field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before\nyou, for a possession of a burying place.\n\n23:10. Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And\nEphron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the\ngate of the city, saying:\n\n23:11. Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I\nsay: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the\npresence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.\n\n23:12. Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.\n\n23:13. And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech\nthee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will\nI bury my dead in it.\n\n23:14. And Ephron answered:\n\n23:15. My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four\nhundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but\nwhat is this? bury thy dead.\n\n23:16. And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that\nEphron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred\nsicles of silver, of common current money.\n\n23:17. And the field that before was Ephron\u2019s, wherein was the double\ncave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees\nthereof, in all its limits round about,\n\n23:18. Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the\nchildren of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.\n\n23:19. And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the\nfield, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of\nChanaan.\n\n23:20. And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in\nit, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 24\n\nAbraham\u2019s servant, sent by him into Mesopotamia, bringeth from thence\nRebecca, who is married to Isaac.\n\n24:1. Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and the Lord had\nblessed him in all things.\n\n24:2. And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over\nall he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,\n\n24:3. That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and\nearth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the\nChanaanites, among whom I dwell:\n\n24:4. But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife\nfrom thence for my son Isaac.\n\n24:5. The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into\nthis land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence\nthou camest out?\n\n24:6. And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again\nthither.\n\n24:7. The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father\u2019s house, and\nout of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To\nthy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and\nthou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.\n\nHe will send his angel before thee.... This shows that the Hebrews\nbelieved that God gave them guardian angels for their protection.\n\n24:8. But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by\nthe oath: only bring not my son back thither again.\n\n24:9. The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham,\nhis lord, and swore to him upon his word.\n\n24:10. And he took ten camels of his master\u2019s herd, and departed,\ncarrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and\nwent on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.\n\n24:11. And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near\na well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to\ncome out to draw water, he said:\n\n24:12. O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech\nthee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham.\n\n24:13. Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of\nthe inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water:\n\n24:14. Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy\npitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give\nthy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for\nthy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn\nkindness to my master.\n\n24:15. He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold\nRebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to\nNachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:\n\n24:16. An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not\nknown to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher,\nand was coming back.\n\n24:17. And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little\nwater to drink of thy pitcher.\n\n24:18. And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the\npitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.\n\n24:19. And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy\ncamels also, till they all drink.\n\n24:20. And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to\nthe well to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.\n\n24:21. But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether\nthe Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.\n\n24:22. And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden\nearrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles\nweight.\n\n24:23. And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there\nany place in thy father\u2019s house to lodge?\n\n24:24. And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of\nMelcha, whom she bore to Nachor.\n\n24:25. And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw\nand hay, and a large place to lodge in.\n\n24:26. The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,\n\n24:27. Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath\nnot taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me\nthe straight way into the house of my master\u2019s brother.\n\n24:28. Then the maid ran, and told in her mother\u2019s house all that she\nhad heard.\n\n24:29. And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to\nthe man, to the well.\n\n24:30. And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister\u2019s\nhands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the\nman spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near\nto the spring of water,\n\n24:31. And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest\nthou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.\n\n24:32. And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the\ncamels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the\nfeet of the men that were come with him.\n\n24:33. And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till\nI tell my message. He answered him: Speak.\n\n24:34. And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:\n\n24:35. And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is\nbecome great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold,\nmen servants and women servants, camels and asses.\n\n24:36. And Sara, my master\u2019s wife, hath borne my master a son in her\nold age, and he hath given him all that he had.\n\n24:37. And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife\nfor my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:\n\n24:38. But thou shalt go to my father\u2019s house, and shalt take a wife of\nmy own kindred for my son:\n\n24:39. But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with\nme?\n\n24:40. The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel\nwith thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my\nson of my own kindred, and of my father\u2019s house.\n\n24:41. But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to\nmy kindred, if they will not give thee one.\n\n24:42. And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of\nmy master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,\n\n24:43. Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall\ncome out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water\nto drink of thy pitcher:\n\n24:44. And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for\nthy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for\nmy master\u2019s son.\n\n24:45. And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca\nappeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and\nshe went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a\nlittle to drink.\n\n24:46. And she speedily let down the pitcher from her shoulder, and\nsaid to me: Both drink thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I\ndrank, and she watered the camels.\n\n24:47. And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she\nanswered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha\nbore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put\nbracelets on her hands.\n\n24:48. And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my\nmaster, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the\ndaughter of my master\u2019s brother for his son.\n\n24:49. Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my\nmaster, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also,\nthat I may go to the right hand, or to the left.\n\n24:50. And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the\nLord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.\n\n24:51. Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let\nher be the wife of thy master\u2019s son, as the Lord hath spoken.\n\n24:52. Which when Abraham\u2019s servant heard, falling down to the ground,\nhe adored the Lord.\n\n24:53. And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he\ngave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her\nbrothers, and to her mother.\n\n24:54. And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and\nlodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me\ndepart, that I may go to my master.\n\n24:55. And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at\nleast, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.\n\n24:56. Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way:\nsend me away, that I may go to my master.\n\n24:57. And they said: Let us call the maid, and ask her will.\n\nLet us call the maid, and ask her will.... Not as to her marriage, as\nshe had already consented, but of her quitting her parents and going to\nher husband.\n\n24:58. And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt\nthou go with this man? She said: I will go.\n\n24:59. So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham\u2019s servant, and\nhis company.\n\n24:60. Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our\nsister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed\npossess the gates of their enemies.\n\n24:61. So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the\nman: who with speed returned to his master.\n\n24:62. At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well\nwhich is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south\ncountry:\n\n24:63. And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being\nnow well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels\ncoming afar off.\n\n24:64. Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,\n\n24:65. And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us\nalong the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she\nquickly took her cloak, and covered herself.\n\n24:66. And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.\n\n24:67. Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her\nto wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which\nwas occasioned by his mother\u2019s death.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 25\n\nAbraham\u2019s children by Cetura; his death and that of Ismael. Isaac hath\nEsau and Jacob twins. Esau selleth his first birthright to Jacob.\n\n25:1. And Abraham married another wife named Cetura:\n\n25:2. Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and\nJesboc, and Sue.\n\n25:3. Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The children of Dadan were\nAssurim, and Latusim, and Loomim.\n\n25:4. But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida,\nand Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.\n\n25:5. And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac:\n\n25:6. And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and\nseparated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east\ncountry.\n\nConcubines.... Agar and Cetura are here called concubines, (though they\nwere lawful wives, and in other places are so called,) because they\nwere of an inferior degree, and such in scripture are usually called\nconcubines.\n\n25:7. And the days of Abraham\u2019s life were a hundred and seventy-five\nyears.\n\n25:8. And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long\ntime, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.\n\n25:9. And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave,\nwhich was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite,\nover against Mambre,\n\n25:10. Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he\nburied, and Sara his wife.\n\n25:11. And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the\nwell named Of the living and seeing.\n\n25:12. These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom\nAgar the Egyptian, Sara\u2019s servant, bore unto him:\n\n25:13. And these are the names of his children according to their\ncalling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then\nCedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,\n\n25:14. And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,\n\n25:15. Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.\n\n25:16. These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their\ncastles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.\n\n25:17. And the years of Ismael\u2019s life were a hundred and thirty-seven,\nand decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.\n\n25:18. And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards\nEgypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence\nof all his brethren.\n\n25:19. These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham:\nAbraham begot Isaac:\n\n25:20. Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the\ndaughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.\n\n25:21. And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was\nbarren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.\n\n25:22. But the children struggled in her womb, and she said: If it were\nto be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to\nconsult the Lord.\n\n25:23. And he answering, said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two\npeoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome\nthe other, and the elder shall serve the younger.\n\n25:24. And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were\nfound in her womb.\n\n25:25. He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his\nname was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his\nbrother\u2019s foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Jacob.\n\n25:26. Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto\nhim.\n\n25:27. And when they were grown up, Esau became a skilful hunter, and a\nhusbandman: but Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.\n\n25:28. Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca\nloved Jacob.\n\n25:29. And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the\nfield,\n\n25:30. Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For\nwhich reason his name was called Edom.\n\n25:31. And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.\n\n25:32. He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?\n\n25:33. Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold\nhis first birthright.\n\n25:34. And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and\ndrank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his\nfirst birthright.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 26\n\nIsaac sojourneth in Gerara, where God reneweth to him the promise made\nto Abraham. King Abimelech maketh league with him.\n\n26:1. And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which\nhad happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of\nthe Palestines, to Gerara.\n\n26:2. And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt,\nbut stay in the land that I shall tell thee.\n\n26:3. And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee:\nfor to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil\nthe oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.\n\n26:4. And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will\ngive to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all\nthe nations of the earth be blessed.\n\n26:5. Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and\ncommandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.\n\n26:6. So Isaac abode in Gerara.\n\n26:7. And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his\nwife, he answered: She is my sister: for he was afraid to confess that\nshe was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would kill him because of\nher beauty.\n\n26:8. And when very many days were passed, and he abode there,\nAbimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw\nhim playing with Rebecca, his wife.\n\n26:9. And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why\ndidst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I\nshould die for her sake.\n\n26:10. And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the\npeople might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a\ngreat sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:\n\n26:11. He that shall touch this man\u2019s wife, shall surely be put to\ndeath.\n\n26:12. And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a\nhundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.\n\n26:13. And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and\nincreasing, till he became exceeding great.\n\n26:14. And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great\nfamily. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,\n\n26:15. Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his\nfather, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:\n\n26:16. Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us,\nfor thou art become much mightier than we.\n\n26:17. So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell\nthere:\n\n26:18. And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his\nfather, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the\nPhilistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same\nnames, by which his father before had called them.\n\n26:19. And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:\n\nTorrent.... That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent or violent\nstream had run.\n\n26:20. But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the\nherdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the\nname of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.\n\n26:21. And they digged also another; and for that they quarrelled\nlikewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.\n\n26:22. Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which\nthey contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude,\nsaying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon\nthe earth.\n\nLatitude.... That is, wideness, or room.\n\n26:23. And he went up from that place to Bersabee,\n\n26:24. Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the\nGod of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will\nbless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham\u2019s sake.\n\n26:25. And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the\nLord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.\n\n26:26. To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and\nPhicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,\n\n26:27. Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate,\nand have thrust out from you?\n\n26:28. And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and\ntherefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a\ncovenant,\n\n26:29. That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing\nof thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have\nsent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.\n\n26:30. And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:\n\n26:31. Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac\nsent them away peaceably to their own home.\n\n26:32. And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him\nof a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.\n\n26:33. Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was\ncalled Bersabee, even to this day.\n\n26:34. And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the\ndaughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of\nthe same place.\n\n26:35. And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 27\n\nJacob, by him mother\u2019s counsel, obtaineth his father\u2019s blessing instead\nof Esau. And by her is advised to fly to his uncle Laban.\n\n27:1. Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see:\nand he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n27:2. And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know\nnot the day of my death.\n\n27:3. Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou\nhast taken something by hunting,\n\n27:4. Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring\nit that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.\n\n27:5. And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field\nto fulfil his father\u2019s commandment,\n\n27:6. She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau,\nthy brother, and saying to him:\n\n27:7. Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and\nbless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.\n\n27:8. Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:\n\n27:9. And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that\nI may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.\n\n27:10. Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless\nthee before he die.\n\n27:11. And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a\nhairy man, and I am smooth:\n\n27:12. If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he\nwill think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse\ninstead of a blessing.\n\n27:13. And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only\nhear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.\n\n27:14. He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed\nmeats, such as she knew his father liked.\n\n27:15. And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at\nhome with her:\n\n27:16. And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and\ncovered the bare of his neck.\n\n27:17. And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that\nshe had baked.\n\n27:18. Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he\nanswered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?\n\n27:19. And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy firstborn: I have done as thou\ndidst command me: arise, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may\nbless me.\n\nI am Esau thy firstborn.... St. Augustine (L. Contra mendacium, c. 10),\ntreating at large upon this place, excuseth Jacob from a lie, because\nthis whole passage was mysterious, as relating to the preference which\nwas afterwards to be given to the Gentiles before the carnal Jews,\nwhich Jacob by prophetic light might understand. So far is certain,\nthat the first birthright, both by divine election and by Esau\u2019s free\ncession belonged to Jacob: so that if there were any lie in the case,\nit could be no more than an officious and venial one.\n\n27:20. And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly,\nmy son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came\nquickly in my way:\n\n27:21. And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and\nmay prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.\n\n27:22. He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac\nsaid: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the\nhands of Esau.\n\n27:23. And he knew him not, because his hairy hands made him like to\nthe elder. Then blessing him,\n\n27:24. He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.\n\n27:25. Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my\nsoul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he\noffered him wine also, which after he had drunk,\n\n27:26. He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.\n\n27:27. He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the\nfragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the\nsmell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord\nhath blessed.\n\n27:28. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the\nearth, abundance of corn and wine.\n\n27:29. And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou\nlord of thy brethren, and let thy mother\u2019s children bow down before\nthee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be\nfilled with blessings.\n\n27:30. Isaac had scarce ended his words, when, Jacob being now gone out\nabroad, Esau came,\n\n27:31. And brought in to his father meats, made of what he had taken in\nhunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son\u2019s venison; that\nthy soul may bless me.\n\n27:32. And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy\nfirstborn son, Esau.\n\n27:33. Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly; and\nwondering beyond what can be believed, said: Who is he then that even\nnow brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou\ncamest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.\n\n27:34. Esau having heard his father\u2019s words, roared out with a great\ncry; and, being in a consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.\n\n27:35. And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.\n\n27:36. But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath\nsupplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before,\nand now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he\nsaid to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?\n\nJacob.... That is, a supplanter.\n\n27:37. Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all\nhis brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine,\nand after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?\n\n27:38. And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I\nbeseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,\n\n27:39. Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in\nthe dew of heaven from above,\n\n27:40. Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt\nserve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off\nand loose his yoke from thy neck.\n\n27:41. Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith\nhis father had blessed him; and he said in his heart: The days will\ncome of the mourning for my father, and I will kill my brother Jacob.\n\n27:42. These things were told to Rebecca: and she sent and called\nJacob, her son, and said to him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth\nto kill thee.\n\n27:43. Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise and flee to Laban,\nmy brother, to Haran:\n\n27:44. And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy\nbrother be assuaged,\n\n27:45. And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast\ndone to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither.\nWhy shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day?\n\n27:46. And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the\ndaughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I\nchoose not to live.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 28\n\nJacob\u2019s journey to Mesopotamia: his vision and vow.\n\n28:1. And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying:\nTake not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:\n\n28:2. But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house\nof Bathuel, thy mother\u2019s father, and take thee a wife thence of the\ndaughters of Laban, thy uncle.\n\n28:3. And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and\nmultiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.\n\n28:4. And give the blessings of Araham to thee, and to thy seed after\nthee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he\npromised to thy grandfather.\n\n28:5. And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to\nMesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother\nto Rebecca, his mother.\n\n28:6. And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent\nhim into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after\nthe blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of\nthe daughters of Chanaan:\n\n28:7. And that Jacob obeying his parents, was gone into Syria:\n\n28:8. Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the\ndaughters of Chanaan:\n\n28:9. He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides them he had before,\nMaheleth, the daughter of Ismael, Abraham\u2019s son, the sister of\nNabajoth.\n\n28:10. But Jacob being departed from Bersabee, went on to Haran.\n\n28:11. And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it\nafter sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under\nhis head, slept in the same place.\n\n28:12. And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and\nthe top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and\ndescending by it.\n\n28:13. And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the\nLord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein\nthou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.\n\n28:14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt\nspread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to\nthe south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL\nBE BLESSED.\n\n28:15. And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will\nbring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall\nhave accomplished all that I have said.\n\n28:16. And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he said: Indeed the Lord is\nin this place, and I knew it not.\n\n28:17. And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no\nother but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.\n\n28:18. And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had\nlaid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the\ntop of it.\n\n28:19. And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was\ncalled Luza.\n\nBethel.... This name signifies the house of God.\n\n28:20. And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall\nkeep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat,\nand raiment to put on,\n\n28:21. And I shall return prosperously to my father\u2019s house: the Lord\nshall be my God:\n\n28:22. And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called\nthe house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will\noffer tithes to thee.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 29\n\nJacob serveth Laban seven years for Rachel: but is deceived with Lia:\nhe afterwards marrieth Rachel. Lia bears him four sons.\n\n29:1. Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east\ncountry.\n\n29:2. And he saw a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lying\nby it: for the beasts were watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was\nclosed with a great stone.\n\n29:3. And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to\nroll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the\nmouth of the well again.\n\n29:4. And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They\nanswered: Of Haran.\n\n29:5. And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban, the son of Nachor?\nThey said: We know him.\n\n29:6. He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say they: and behold,\nRachel, his daughter, cometh with his flock.\n\n29:7. And Jacob said: There is yet much day remaining, neither is it\ntime to bring the flocks into the folds again: first give the sheep\ndrink, and so lead them back to feed.\n\n29:8. They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle be gathered\ntogether, and we remove the stone from the well\u2019s mouth, that we may\nwater the flocks.\n\n29:9. They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father\u2019s\nsheep; for she fed the flock.\n\n29:10. And when Jacob saw her, and knew her to be his cousin german,\nand that they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone\nwherewith the well was closed.\n\n29:11. And having watered the flock, he kissed her: and lifting up his\nvoice wept.\n\n29:12. And he told her that he was her father\u2019s brother, and the son of\nRebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.\n\n29:13. Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister\u2019s son was come, ran\nforth to meet him: and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought\nhim into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,\n\n29:14. He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days\nof one month were expired,\n\n29:15. He said to him: Because thou art my brother, shalt thou serve me\nwithout wages? Tell me what wages thou wilt have.\n\n29:16. Now he had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lia; and the\nyounger was called Rachel.\n\n29:17. But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a\nbeautiful countenance.\n\n29:18. And Jacob being in love with her, said: I will serve thee seven\nyears for Rachel, thy younger daughter.\n\n29:19. Laban answered: It is better that I give her to thee than to\nanother man; stay with me.\n\n29:20. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a\nfew days, because of the greatness of his love.\n\n29:21. And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is\nfulfilled, that I may go in unto her.\n\n29:22. And he, having invited a great number of his friends to the\nfeast, made the marriage.\n\n29:23. And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him,\n\n29:24. Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had\ngone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was\nLia.\n\n29:25. And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst\nmean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?\n\n29:26. Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the\nyounger in marriage first.\n\n29:27. Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her\nalso, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years.\n\n29:28. He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he\nmarried Rachel:\n\n29:29. To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.\n\n29:30. And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he\npreferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him\nother seven years.\n\n29:31. And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but\nher sister remained barren.\n\n29:32. And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben,\nsaying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.\n\n29:33. And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the\nLord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she\ncalled his name Simeon.\n\n29:34. And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and\nsaid: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne\nhim three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.\n\n29:35. The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will\nI praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left\nbearing.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 30\n\nRachel, being barren, delivereth her handmaid to Jacob; she beareth two\nsons. Lia ceasing to bear, giveth also her handmaid, and she beareth\ntwo more. Then Lia beareth other two sons and one daughter. Rachel\nbeareth Joseph. Jacob, desirous to return home, is hired to stay for a\ncertain part of the flock\u2019s increase, whereby he becometh exceeding\nrich.\n\n30:1. And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister,\nand said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.\n\n30:2. And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath\ndeprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?\n\n30:3. But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that\nshe may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.\n\n30:4. And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,\n\n30:5. When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.\n\n30:6. And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my\nvoice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.\n\n30:7. And again Bala conceived, and bore another,\n\n30:8. For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I\nhave prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.\n\n30:9. Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her\nhandmaid, to her husband.\n\n30:10. And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son,\n\n30:11. She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad.\n\n30:12. Zelpha also bore another.\n\n30:13. And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me\nblessed. Therefore she called him Aser.\n\n30:14. And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the\nfield, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel\nsaid: Give me part of thy son\u2019s mandrakes.\n\n30:15. She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast\ntaken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son\u2019s mandrakes?\nRachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son\u2019s\nmandrakes.\n\n30:16. And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to\nmeet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired\nthee for my son\u2019s mandrakes. And he slept with her that night.\n\n30:17. And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth\nson:\n\n30:18. And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid\nto my husband. And she called his name Issachar.\n\n30:19. And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son,\n\n30:20. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also\nmy husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and\ntherefore she called his name Zabulon.\n\n30:21. After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina.\n\n30:22. The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her\nwomb.\n\n30:23. And she conceived, and bore a son, saying: God hath taken away\nmy reproach.\n\n30:24. And she called his name Joseph: saying: The Lord give me also\nanother son.\n\n30:25. And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send\nme away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.\n\n30:26. Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee,\nthat I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.\n\n30:27. Laban said to him: Let me find favour in thy sight: I have\nlearned, by experience, that God hath blessed me for thy sake.\n\n30:28. Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.\n\n30:29. But he answered: Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how\ngreat thy possession hath been in my hands.\n\n30:30. Thou hadst but little before I came to thee, and now thou art\nbecome rich: and the Lord hath blessed thee at my coming. It is\nreasonable, therefore, that I should now provide also for my own house.\n\n30:31. And Laban said: What shall I give thee? But he said: I require\nnothing; but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy\nsheep again.\n\n30:32. Go round through all thy flocks, and separate all the sheep of\ndivers colours, and speckled; and all that is brown and spotted, and of\ndivers colours, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall be my\nwages.\n\n30:33. And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when\nthe time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers\ncolours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the\ngoats, shall accuse me of theft.\n\n30:34. And Laban said: I like well what thou demandest.\n\n30:35. And he separated the same day the she-goats, and the sheep, and\nthe he-goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the\nflock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered\ninto the hands of his sons.\n\n30:36. And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and\nhis son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.\n\n30:37. And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and of almond, and of\nplane-trees, and pilled them in part: so when the bark was taken off,\nin the parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness: but the parts\nthat were whole, remained green: and by this means the colour was\ndivers.\n\n30:38. And he put them in the troughs, where the water was poured out;\nthat when the flocks should come to drink, they might have the rods\nbefore their eyes, and in the sight of them might conceive.\n\n30:39. And it came to pass, that in the very heat of coition, the sheep\nbeheld the rods, and brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and\nspeckled.\n\n30:40. And Jacob separated the flock, and put the rods in the troughs\nbefore the eyes of the rams; and all the white and the black were\nLaban\u2019s, and the rest were Jacob\u2019s, when the flocks were separated one\nfrom the other.\n\n30:41. So when the ewes went first to ram, Jacob put the rods in the\ntroughs of water before the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that\nthey might conceive while they were looking upon them.\n\n30:42. But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did\nnot put them. And those that were lateward, became Laban\u2019s; and they of\nthe first time, Jacob\u2019s.\n\n30:43. And the man was enriched exceedingly, and he had many flocks,\nmaid-servants and men-servants, camels and asses.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 31\n\nJacob\u2019s departure: he is pursued and overtaken by Laban. They make a\ncovenant.\n\n31:1. But after that he had heard the words of the sons of Laban,\nsaying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father\u2019s, and being\nenriched by his substance is become great.\n\n31:2. And perceiving also, that Laban\u2019s countenance was not towards him\nas yesterday and the other day.\n\n31:3. Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy\nfathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.\n\n31:4. He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed\nthe flocks,\n\n31:5. And said to them: I see your father\u2019s countenance is not towards\nme as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been\nwith me.\n\n31:6. And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of\nmy power.\n\n31:7. Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my\nwages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.\n\n31:8. If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the\nsheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou\nshalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought\nforth white ones.\n\n31:9. And God hath taken your father\u2019s substance, and given it to me.\n\n31:10. For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my\neyes, and saw in my sleep, that the males which leaped upon the females\nwere of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.\n\n31:11. And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n31:12. And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males\nleaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted and speckled.\nFor I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.\n\n31:13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and\nmake a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and\nreturn into thy native country.\n\n31:14. And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the\ngoods and inheritance of our father\u2019s house?\n\n31:15. Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up\nthe price of us?\n\n31:16. But God hath taken our father\u2019s riches, and delivered them to\nus, and to our children: wherefore, do all that God hath commanded\nthee.\n\n31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon\ncamels, went his way.\n\n31:18. And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had\ngotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the\nland of Chanaan.\n\n31:19. At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole\naway her father\u2019s idols.\n\nHer father\u2019s idols.... By this it appears that Laban was an idolater;\nand some of the fathers are of opinion that Rachel stole away these\nidols to withdraw him from idolatry, removing the occasion of his sin.\n\n31:20. And Jacob would not confess to his father-in-law that he was\nflying away.\n\n31:21. And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him,\nand having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,\n\n31:22. It was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob fled.\n\n31:23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven\ndays; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.\n\n31:24. And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak\nnot any thing harshly against Jacob.\n\n31:25. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he,\nwith his brethren, had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same\nmount of Galaad.\n\n31:26. And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away,\nwithout my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword?\n\n31:27. Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I\nmight have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with\ntimbrels, and with harps?\n\n31:28. Thou hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and daughters; thou\nhast done foolishly; and now indeed,\n\n31:29. It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your\nfather said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly\nagainst Jacob.\n\n31:30. Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a\nlonging after thy father\u2019s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?\n\n31:31. Jacob answered: That I departed unknown to thee, it was for fear\nlest thou wouldst take away thy daughters by force.\n\n31:32. But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou\nshalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and\nif thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he\nsaid this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.\n\n31:33. So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both\nthe handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into\nRachel\u2019s tent,\n\n31:34. She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel\u2019s furniture, and\nsat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found\nnothing,\n\n31:35. She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before\nthee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of\nwomen. So his careful search was in vain.\n\n31:36. And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault\nof mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,\n\n31:37. And searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all\nthe substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy\nbrethren, and let them judge between me and thee.\n\n31:38. Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and\ngoats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat:\n\n31:39. Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made\ngood all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it\nof me:\n\n31:40. Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep\ndeparted from my eyes.\n\n31:41. And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years,\nfourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed\nalso my wages ten times.\n\n31:42. Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had\nstood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld\nmy affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.\n\n31:43. Laban answered him: The daughters are mine, and the children,\nand thy flocks, and all things that thou seest are mine: what can I do\nto my children, and grandchildren?\n\n31:44. Come, therefore, let us enter into a league; that it may be for\na testimony between me and thee.\n\n31:45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.\n\n31:46. And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they,\ngathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.\n\n31:47. And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of\ntestimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.\n\n31:48. And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee\nthis day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is,\nThe witness heap.\n\n31:49. The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one\nfrom the other.\n\n31:50. If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives\nover them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and\nbeholdeth.\n\n31:51. And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone\nwhich I have set up between me and thee,\n\n31:52. Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for\na testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or\nthou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.\n\n31:53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their\nfather, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father\nIsaac:\n\n31:54. And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called\nhis brethren to eat bread. And when they had eaten, they lodged there:\n\n31:55. But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters,\nand blessed them: and returned to his place.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 32\n\nJacob\u2019s vision of angels; his message and presents to Esau; his\nwrestling with an angel.\n\n32:1. Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of\nGod met him.\n\n32:2. And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God, and he\ncalled the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.\n\n32:3. And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the\nland of Seir, to the country of Edom:\n\n32:4. And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord\nEsau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and\nhave been with him until this day:\n\n32:5. I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and\nwomenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find\nfavour in thy sight.\n\n32:6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau,\nthy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four\nhundred men.\n\n32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his fear divided the people\nthat was with him, and the flocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the\ncamels, into two companies,\n\n32:8. Saying: If Esau come to one company, and destroy it, the other\ncompany that is left, shall escape.\n\n32:9. And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father\nIsaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of\nthy birth, and I will do well for thee.\n\n32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy\ntruth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed\nover this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.\n\n32:11. Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly\nafraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the\nchildren.\n\n32:12. Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my\nseed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.\n\n32:13. And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the\nthings which he had, presents for his brother Esau,\n\n32:14. Two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and\ntwenty rams,\n\n32:15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty\nbulls, twenty she-asses, and ten of their foals.\n\n32:16. And he sent them by the hands of his servants, every drove by\nitself, and he said to his servants: Go before me, and let there be a\nspace between drove and drove.\n\n32:17. And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother\nEsau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose\nare these before thee?\n\n32:18. Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob\u2019s: he hath sent them as a\npresent to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.\n\n32:19. In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all\nthat followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when\nye find him.\n\n32:20. And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after\nus; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before,\nand afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.\n\n32:21. So the presents went before him, but himself lodged that night\nin the camp.\n\n32:22. And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids,\nwith his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.\n\n32:23. And when all things were brought over that belonged to him,\n\n32:24. He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till\nmorning.\n\nA man, etc.... This was an angel in human shape, as we learn from Osee\n12.4. He is called God, ver. 28 and 30, because he represented the\nperson of the Son of God. This wrestling, in which Jacob, assisted by\nGod, was a match for an angel, was so ordered (ver. 28,) that he might\nlearn by this experiment of the divine assistance, that neither Esau,\nnor any other man, should have power to hurt him.\u2014It was also\nspiritual, as appeareth by his earnest prayer, urging and at last\nobtaining the angel\u2019s blessing.\n\n32:25. And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the\nsinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.\n\n32:26. And he said to him: Let me go, for it is break of day. He\nanswered: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.\n\n32:27. And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.\n\n32:28. But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for\nif thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail\nagainst men?\n\n32:29. Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He\nanswered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same\nplace.\n\n32:30. And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have\nseen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.\n\nPhanuel.... This word signifies the face of God, or the sight, or\nseeing of God.\n\n32:31. And immediately the sun rose upon him, after he was past\nPhanuel; but he halted on his foot.\n\n32:32. Therefore the children of Israel, unto this day, eat not the\nsinew, that shrank in Jacob\u2019s thigh: because he touched the sinew of\nhis thigh and it shrank.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 33\n\nJacob and Esau meet: Jacob goeth to Salem, where he raiseth an altar.\n\n33:1. And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four\nhundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of\nthe two handmaids.\n\n33:2. And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and\nLia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.\n\n33:3. And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground\nseven times, until his brother came near.\n\n33:4. Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping\nhim fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.\n\n33:5. And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and\nsaid: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They\nare the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.\n\n33:6. Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed\nthemselves.\n\n33:7. Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like\nmanner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.\n\n33:8. And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That\nI might find favour before my lord.\n\n33:9. But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for\nthyself.\n\n33:10. And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found\nfavour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have\nseen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be\ngracious to me,\n\n33:11. And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God\nhath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his\nbrother\u2019s earnest pressing him,\n\n33:12. And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in\nthy journey.\n\n33:13. And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender\nchildren, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be\noverdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.\n\n33:14. May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will\nfollow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I\ncome to my lord in Seir.\n\n33:15. Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at\nleast, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he\nsaid: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find\nfavour, my lord, in thy sight.\n\n33:16. So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.\n\n33:17. And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and\npitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.\n\n33:18. And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is\nin the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria:\nand he dwelt by the town.\n\n33:19. And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his\ntents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred\nlambs.\n\n33:20. And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty\nGod of Israel.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 34\n\nDina is ravished, for which the Sichemites are destroyed.\n\n34:1. And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that\ncountry.\n\n34:2. And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that\nland, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with\nher, ravishing the virgin.\n\n34:3. And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he\ncomforted her with sweet words.\n\n34:4. And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get me this damsel to\nwife.\n\n34:5. But when Jacob had heard this, his sons being absent, and\nemployed in feeding the cattle, he held his peace till they came back.\n\n34:6. And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to\nJacob,\n\n34:7. Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed,\nthey were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel,\nand committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob\u2019s daughter.\n\n34:8. And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my son Sichem has a longing\nfor your daughter: give her him to wife:\n\n34:9. And let us contract marriages one with another: give us your\ndaughters, and take you our daughters.\n\n34:10. And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and\npossess it.\n\n34:11. Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find\nfavour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:\n\n34:12. Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you\nshall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.\n\n34:13. The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully,\nbeing enraged at the deflowering of their sister:\n\nDeceitfully.... The sons of Jacob, on this occasion, were guilty of a\ngrievous sin, as well by falsely pretending religion, as by excess of\nrevenge: though otherwise their zeal against so foul a crime was\ncommendable.\n\n34:14. We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is\nuncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable.\n\n34:15. But in this we may be allied with you, if you will be like us,\nand all the male sex among you be circumcised:\n\n34:16. Then will we mutually give and take your daughters, and ours;\nand we will dwell with you, and will be one people:\n\n34:17. But if you will not be circumcised, we will take our daughter\nand depart.\n\n34:18. Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son:\n\n34:19. And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what\nwas required: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the\ngreatest man in all his father\u2019s house.\n\n34:20. And going into the gate of the city, they spoke to the people:\n\n34:21. These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let\nthem trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth\nmen to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will\ngive them ours.\n\n34:22. One thing there is for which so great a good is deferred: We\nmust circumcise every male among us, following the manner of the\nnation.\n\n34:23. And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess,\nshall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling\ntogether, we shall make one people.\n\n34:24. And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.\n\n34:25. And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was\ngreatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of\nDina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all\nthe men.\n\n34:26. And they killed also Hemor and Sichem, and took away their\nsister Dina out of Sichem\u2019s house.\n\n34:27. And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon\nthe slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.\n\n34:28. And they took their sheep, and their herds, and their asses,\nwasting all they had in their houses and in their fields.\n\n34:29. And their children and wives they took captive.\n\n34:30. And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to\nSimeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the\nChanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few:\nthey will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my\nhouse shall be destroyed.\n\n34:31. They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 35\n\nJacob purgeth his family from idols: goeth by God\u2019s commandment to\nBethel, and there buildeth an altar. God appearing again to Jacob\nblesseth him, and changeth his name into Israel. Rachel dieth in\nchildbirth. Isaac also dieth.\n\n35:1. In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and go up to Bethel,\nand dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee\nwhen thou didst flee from Esau, thy brother.\n\n35:2. And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast\naway the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change\nyour garments.\n\n35:3. Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an\naltar to God; who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompained\nme in my journey.\n\n35:4. So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings\nwhich were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree,\nthat is behind the city of Sichem.\n\n35:5. And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the\ncities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went\naway.\n\n35:6. And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, surnamed\nBethel: he and all the people that were with him.\n\n35:7. And he built there an altar, and called the name of that place,\nThe house of God: for there God appeared to him when he fled from his\nbrother.\n\n35:8. At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was\nburied at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place\nwas called, The oak of weeping.\n\n35:9. And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from\nMesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,\n\n35:10. Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel\nshall be thy name. And he called him Israel.\n\nIsrael.... This name signifieth one that prevaileth with God.\n\n35:11. And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be\nmultiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and\nkings shall come out of thy loins.\n\n35:12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to\nthee, and to thy seed after thee.\n\n35:13. And he departed from him.\n\n35:14. But he set up a monument of stone, in the place where God had\nspoken to him: pouring drink-offerings upon it, and pouring oil\nthereon:\n\n35:15. And calling the name of that place Bethel.\n\n35:16. And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the\nland which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,\n\n35:17. By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the\nmidwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.\n\n35:18. And when her soul was departing for pain, and death was now at\nhand, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my\npain: but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right\nhand.\n\n35:19. So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to\nEphrata, this is Bethlehem.\n\n35:20. And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: this is the\npillar of Rachel\u2019s monument, to this day.\n\n35:21. Departing thence, he pitched his tent beyond the Flock tower.\n\n35:22. And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben went, and slept with\nBala the concubine of his father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the\nsons of Jacob were twelve.\n\nThe concubine.... She was his lawful wife; but, according to the style\nof the Hebrews, is called concubine, because of her servile extraction.\n\n35:23. The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and\nJuda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.\n\n35:24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.\n\n35:25. The sons of Bala, Rachel\u2019s handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.\n\n35:26. The sons of Zelpha, Lia\u2019s handmaid: Gad and Aser: these are the\nsons of Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.\n\n35:27. And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee,\nthis is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.\n\n35:28. And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.\n\n35:29. And being spent with age he died, and was gathered to his\npeople, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried\nhim.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 36\n\nEsau with his wives and children parteth from Jacob. An account of his\ndescendants, and of the first kings of Edom.\n\n36:1. And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.\n\n36:2. Esau took wives of the daughters of Chanaan: Ada the daughter of\nElon the Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of\nSebeon the Hevite:\n\nAda.... These wives of Esau are called by other names, Gen. 26. But it\nwas very common amongst the ancients for the same persons to have two\nnames, as Esau himself was also called Edom.\n\n36:3. And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabajoth.\n\n36:4. And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel.\n\n36:5. Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core. These are the sons of\nEsau, that were born to him in the land of Chanaan.\n\n36:6. And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every\nsoul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was\nable to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country,\nand departed from his brother Jacob.\n\n36:7. For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together:\nneither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the\nmultitude of their flocks.\n\n36:8. And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.\n\n36:9. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in\nmount Seir.\n\n36:10. And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz the son of Ada, the\nwife of Esau: and Rahuel, the son of Basemath, his wife.\n\n36:11. And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.\n\n36:12. And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and\nshe bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:13. And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza.\nThese were the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:14. And these were the sons of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the\ndaughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and\nIhelon, and Core.\n\n36:15. These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, the\nfirstborn of Esau: duke Theman, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,\n\n36:16. Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech: these are the sons of\nEliphaz, in the land of Edom, and these the sons of Ada.\n\n36:17. And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son of Esau: duke Nahath,\nduke Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel, in\nthe land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.\n\n36:18. And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife of Esau: duke Jehus,\nduke Ihelon, duke Core. These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter\nof Ana, and wife of Esau.\n\n36:19. These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the\nsame is Edom.\n\n36:20. These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the\nland: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,\n\n36:21. And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These are dukes of the Horrites,\nthe sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.\n\n36:22. And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman. And the sister of Lotan was\nThamna.\n\n36:23. And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and Manahat, and Ebal, and\nSepho, and Onam.\n\n36:24. And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and Ana. This is Ana that\nfound the hot waters in the wilderness, when he fed the asses of\nSebeon, his father:\n\n36:25. And he had a son Dison, and a daughter Oolibama.\n\n36:26. And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan, and Eseban, and\nJethram, and Charan.\n\n36:27. These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.\n\n36:28. And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.\n\n36:29. These were dukes of the Horrites: duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke\nSebeon, duke Ana,\n\n36:30. Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the\nHorrites that ruled in the land of Seir.\n\n36:31. And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the\nchildren of Israel had a king, were these:\n\n36:32. Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city Denaba.\n\n36:33. And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara, of Bosra, reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n36:34. And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the land of the Themanites,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n36:35. And after his death, Adad, the son of Badad, reigned in his\nstead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Moab; and the name\nof his city was Avith.\n\n36:36. And when Adad was dead, there reigned in his stead, Semla, of\nMasreca.\n\n36:37. And he being dead, Saul, of the river Rohoboth, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n36:38. And when he also was dead, Balanan, the son of Achobor,\nsucceeded to the kingdom.\n\n36:39. This man also being dead, Adar reigned in his place; and the\nname of his city was Phau: and his wife was called Meetabel, the\ndaughter of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.\n\n36:40. And these are the names of the dukes of Esau in their kindreds,\nand places, and callings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,\n\n36:41. Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,\n\n36:42. Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,\n\n36:43. Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling\nin the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the\nEdomites.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 37\n\nJoseph\u2019s dreams: he is sold by his brethren, and carried into Egypt.\n\n37:1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father\nsojourned.\n\n37:2. And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years\nold, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he\nwas with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father\u2019s wives: and he\naccused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.\n\n37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in\nhis old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.\n\n37:4. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more\nthan all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.\n\n37:5. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he\nhad dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.\n\nA dream.... These dreams of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God;\nas were also those which he interpreted, Gen. 40. and 41.; otherwise\ngenerally speaking, the observing of dreams is condemned in the\nScripture, as superstitious and sinful. See Deut. 18.10; Eccli. 34.2,3.\n\n37:6. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.\n\n37:7. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf\narose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down\nbefore my sheaf.\n\n37:8. His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be\nsubject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words\nministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.\n\n37:9. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren,\nsaying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven\nstars worshipping me.\n\n37:10. And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his\nfather rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast\ndreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the\nearth?\n\nWorship.... This word is not used here to signify divine worship, but\nan inferior veneration, expressed by the bowing of the body, and that,\naccording to the manner of the eastern nations, down to the ground.\n\n37:11. His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the\nthing with himself.\n\n37:12. And when his brethren abode in Sechem, feeding their father\u2019s\nflocks,\n\n37:13. Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come,\nI will send thee to them. And when he answered:\n\n37:14. I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well\nwith thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is\ndoing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:\n\n37:15. And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what\nhe sought.\n\n37:16. But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the\nflocks.\n\n37:17. And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for\nI heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after\nhis brethren, and found them in Dothain.\n\n37:18. And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they\nthought to kill him:\n\n37:19. And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.\n\n37:20. Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we\nwill say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear\nwhat his dreams avail him:\n\n37:21. And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their\nhands, and said:\n\n37:22. Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into\nthis pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now\nhe said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to\nrestore him to his father.\n\n37:23. And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript\nhim of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:\n\n37:24. And cast him into an old pit where there was not water.\n\n37:25. And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their\nway coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm,\nand myrrh to Egypt.\n\n37:26. And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill\nour brother, and conceal his blood?\n\n37:27. It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our\nhands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren\nagreed to his words.\n\n37:28. And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of\nthe pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver:\nand they led him into Egypt.\n\n37:29. And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:\n\n37:30. And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The\nboy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?\n\n37:31. And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid,\nwhich they had killed:\n\n37:32. Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we\nhave found: see whether it be thy son\u2019s coat, or not.\n\n37:33. And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son\u2019s coat, an\nevil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.\n\n37:34. And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his\nson a long time.\n\n37:35. And all his children being gathered together to comfort their\nfather in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go\ndown to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,\n\nInto hell.... That is, into limbo, the place where the souls of the\njust were received before the death of our Redeemer. For allowing that\nthe word hell sometimes is taken for the grave, it cannot be so taken\nin this place; since Jacob did not believe his son to be in the grave,\n(whom he supposed to be devoured by a wild beast,) and therefore could\nnot mean to go down to him thither: but certainly meant the place of\nrest where he believed his soul to be.\n\n37:36. The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of\nPharao, captain of the soldiers.\n\nAn eunuch.... This word sometimes signifies a chamberlain, courtier, or\nofficer of the king: and so it is taken in this place.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 38\n\nThe sons of Juda: the death of Her and Onan: the birth of Phares and\nZara.\n\n38:1. At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a\ncertain Odollamite, named Hiras.\n\n38:2. And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue:\nand taking her to wife, he went in unto her.\n\n38:3. And she conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Her.\n\n38:4. And conceiving again, she bore a son, and called him Onan.\n\n38:5. She bore also a third: whom she called Sela. After whose birth,\nshe ceased to bear any more.\n\n38:6. And Juda took a wife for Her, his first born, whose name was\nThamar.\n\n38:7. And Her, the first born of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the\nLord: and was slain by him.\n\n38:8. Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother\u2019s\nwife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.\n\n38:9. He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in\nto his brother\u2019s wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest\nchildren should be born in his brother\u2019s name.\n\n38:10. And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable\nthing:\n\n38:11. Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a\nwidow in thy father\u2019s house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was\nafraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way,\nand dwelt in her father\u2019s house.\n\n38:12. And after many days were past: the daughter of Sue the wife of\nJuda died: and when he had taken comfort after his mourning, he went up\nto Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras the Odollamite,\nthe shepherd of his flock.\n\n38:13. And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to\nThamnas to shear his sheep.\n\n38:14. And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil:\nand changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas:\nbecause Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.\n\n38:15. When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had\ncovered her face, lest she should be known.\n\n38:16. And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he\nknew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt\nthou give me to enjoy my company?\n\n38:17. He said: I will send thee a kid out of the flock. And when she\nsaid again: I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge,\ntill thou send what thou promisest.\n\n38:18. Juda said: What wilt thou have for a pledge? She answered: Thy\nring and bracelet, and the staff which thou holdest in thy hand. The\nwoman therefore at one copulation conceived.\n\n38:19. And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel\nwhich she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.\n\n38:20. And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the Odollamite, that he\nmight receive the pledge again, which he had given to the woman: but\nhe, not finding her,\n\n38:21. Asked the men of that place: Where is the woman that sat in the\ncross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this\nplace,\n\n38:22. He returned to Juda, and said to him: I have not found her;\nmoreover, the men of that place said to me, that there never sat a\nharlot there.\n\n38:23. Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely she cannot charge\nus with a lie, I sent the kid which I promised: and thou didst not find\nher.\n\n38:24. And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar,\nthy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have\na big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.\n\n38:25. But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in\nlaw, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child.\nSee whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.\n\n38:26. But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I:\nbecause I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no\nmore.\n\n38:27. And when she was ready to be brought to bed, there appeared\ntwins in her womb: and in the very delivery of the infants, one put\nforth a hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread, saying:\n\n38:28. This shall come forth the first.\n\n38:29. But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the\nwoman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called\nhis name Phares.\n\nPhares.... That is, a breach or division.\n\n38:30. Afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet\nthread: and she called his name Zara.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 39\n\nJoseph hath charge of his master\u2019s house: rejecteth his mistress\u2019s\nsolicitations: is falsely accused by her, and cast into prison, where\nhe hath the charge of all the prisoners.\n\n39:1. And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of\nPharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the\nIsmaelites, by whom he was brought.\n\n39:2. And the Lord was with him, and he was a prosperous man in all\nthings: and he dwelt in his master\u2019s house:\n\n39:3. Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that\nhe did to prosper in his hand.\n\n39:4. And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and\nministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house\ncommitted to him, and all things that were delivered to him:\n\n39:5. And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph\u2019s sake,\nand multiplied all his substance, both at home and in the fields.\n\n39:6. Neither knew he any other thing, but the bread which he ate. And\nJoseph was of a beautiful countenance, and comely to behold.\n\n39:7. And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and\nsaid: Lie with me.\n\n39:8. But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her:\nBehold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what\nhe hath in his own house:\n\n39:9. Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he\nhath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do\nthis wicked thing, and sin against my God?\n\n39:10. With such words as these day by day, both the woman was\nimportunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery.\n\n39:11. Now it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the\nhouse, and was doing some business, without any man with him:\n\n39:12. And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me.\nBut he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out.\n\n39:13. And when the woman saw the garment in her hands, and herself\ndisregarded,\n\n39:14. She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See,\nhe hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with\nme; and when I cried out,\n\n39:15. And he heard my voice, he left the garment that I held, and got\nhim out.\n\n39:16. For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and\nshewed it to her husband when he returned home:\n\nA proof of her fidelity.... or an argument to gain credit, argumentum\nfidei.\n\n39:17. And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me\nto abuse me.\n\n39:18. And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and\nfled out.\n\n39:19. His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to\nhis wife\u2019s words, was very angry,\n\n39:20. And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king\u2019s prisoners were\nkept, and he was there shut up.\n\n39:21. But the Lord was with Joseph, and having mercy upon him gave him\nfavour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison:\n\n39:22. Who delivered into his hand all the prisoners that were kept in\ncustody: and whatsoever was done, was under him.\n\n39:23. Neither did he himself know any thing, having committed all\nthings to him: for the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to\nprosper.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 40\n\nJoseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Pharao\u2019s servants in prison:\nthe event declareth the interpretations to be true, but Joseph is\nforgotten.\n\n40:1. After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the\nbaker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.\n\n40:2. And Pharao being angry with them, (now the one was chief butler,\nthe other chief baker,)\n\n40:3. He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in\nwhich Joseph also was prisoner.\n\n40:4. But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he\nserved them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.\n\n40:5. And they both dreamed a dream the same night, according to the\ninterpretation agreeing to themselves:\n\n40:6. And when Joseph was come into them in the morning, and saw them\nsad,\n\n40:7. He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than\nusual?\n\n40:8. They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to\ninterpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation\nbelong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:\n\nDoth not interpretation belong to God?.... When dreams are from God, as\nthese were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God. But the\ngenerality of dreams are not of this sort; but either proceed from the\nnatural complexions and dispositions of persons, or the roving of their\nimaginations in the day on such objects as they are much affected with,\nor from their mind being disturbed with cares and troubles, and\noppressed with bodily infirmities: or they are suggested by evil\nspirits, to flatter, or to terrify weak minds, in order to gain belief,\nand so draw them into error or superstition; or at least to trouble\nthem in their sleep, whom they cannot move when they are awake: so that\nthe general rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe them, nor to\ngive any credit to them.\n\n40:9. The chief butler first told his dream: I saw before me a vine,\n\n40:10. On which were three branches, which by little and little sent\nout buds, and after the blossoms brought forth ripe grapes:\n\n40:11. And the cup of Pharao was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and\npressed them into the cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.\n\n40:12. Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The\nthree branches, are yet three days:\n\n40:13. After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore\nthee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according\nto thy office, as before thou was wont to do.\n\n40:14. Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this\nkindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:\n\n40:15. For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here\nwithout any fault was cast into the dungeon.\n\n40:16. The chief baker seeing that he had wisely interpreted the dream,\nsaid: I also dreamed a dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon my\nhead:\n\n40:17. And that in one basket which was uppermost, I carried all meats\nthat are made by the art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.\n\n40:18. Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The\nthree baskets, are yet three days:\n\n40:19. After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee\non a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.\n\n40:20. The third day after this was the birthday of Pharao: and he made\na great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief\nbutler, and the chief baker.\n\n40:21. And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup:\n\n40:22. The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the\ninterpreter might be shewn.\n\n40:23. But the chief butler, when things prospered with him, forgot his\ninterpreter.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 41\n\nJoseph interpreteth the two dreams of Pharao: he is made ruler over all\nEgypt.\n\n41:1. After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the\nriver,\n\n41:2. Out of which came up seven kine, very beautiful and fat: and they\nfed in marshy places.\n\n41:3. Other seven also came up out of the river, ill-favoured, and lean\nfleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:\n\n41:4. And they devoured them, whose bodies were very beautiful and well\nconditioned. So Pharao awoke.\n\n41:5. He slept again, and dreamed another dream: Seven ears of corn\ncame up upon one stalk full and fair:\n\n41:6. Then seven other ears sprung up thin and blasted,\n\n41:7. And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after\nhis rest:\n\n41:8. And when morning was come, being struck with fear, he sent to all\nthe interpreters of Egypt, and to all the wise men: and they being\ncalled for, he told them his dream, and there was not any one that\ncould interpret it.\n\n41:9. Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my\nsin:\n\n41:10. The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the\nchief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.\n\n41:11. Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things\nto come.\n\n41:12. There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same\ncaptain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,\n\n41:13. And we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be\nso. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.\n\n41:14. Forthwith at the king\u2019s command Joseph was brought out of the\nprison, and they shaved him: and changing his apparel brought him in to\nhim.\n\n41:15. And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one\nthat can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at\ninterpreting them:\n\n41:16. Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous\nanswer.\n\n41:17. So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the\nbank of the river,\n\n41:18. And seven kine came up out of the river, exceeding beautiful and\nfull of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.\n\n41:19. And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very\nill-favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:\n\n41:20. And they devoured and consumed the former,\n\n41:21. And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and\nill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,\n\n41:22. And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk,\nfull and very fair.\n\n41:23. Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk:\n\n41:24. And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to\nthe conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.\n\n41:25. Joseph answered: The king\u2019s dream is one: God hath shewn to\nPharao what he is about to do.\n\n41:26. The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven\nyears of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.\n\n41:27. And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and\nthe seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven\nyears of famine to come:\n\n41:28. Which shall be fulfilled in this order.\n\n41:29. Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the\nwhole land of Egypt:\n\n41:30. After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity,\nthat all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall\nconsume all the land,\n\n41:31. And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of\nthe plenty.\n\n41:32. And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining\nto the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of\nGod cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.\n\n41:33. Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man,\nand make him ruler over the land of Egypt:\n\n41:34. That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather\ninto barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful\nyears,\n\n41:35. That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up,\nunder Pharao\u2019s hands, and be reserved in the cities.\n\n41:36. And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to\ncome, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed\nwith scarcity.\n\n41:37. The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his servants.\n\n41:38. And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full\nof the spirit of God?\n\n41:39. He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that\nthou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?\n\n41:40. Thou shalt be over my house, and at the commandment of thy mouth\nall the people shall obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above\nthee.\n\n41:41. And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold, I have appointed thee\nover the whole land of Egypt.\n\n41:42. And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his\nhand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about\nhis neck.\n\n41:43. And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier\nproclaiming that all should bow their knee before him, and that they\nshould know he was made governor over the whole land of Egypt.\n\n41:44. And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy\ncommandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.\n\n41:45. And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue\nthe saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter\nof Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of\nEgypt.\n\nThe saviour of the world.... Zaphnah paaneah.\n\n41:46. (Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao),\nand he went round all the countries of Egypt.\n\n41:47. And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being\nbound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.\n\n41:48. And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.\n\n41:49. And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to\nthe sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.\n\n41:50. And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom\nAseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto\nhim.\n\n41:51. And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God\nhath made me to forget all my labours, and my father\u2019s house.\n\nManasses.... That is, oblivion, or forgetting.\n\n41:52. And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to\ngrow in the land of my poverty.\n\nEphraim.... That is, fruitful, or growing.\n\n41:53. Now when the seven years of plenty that had been in Egypt were\npassed:\n\n41:54. The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to\ncome: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread\nin all the land of Egypt.\n\n41:55. And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried\nto Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that\nhe shall say to you.\n\n41:56. And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph\nopened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had\noppressed them also.\n\n41:57. And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some\nrelief of their want.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 42\n\nJacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt. Their treatment by\nJoseph.\n\n42:1. And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons:\nWhy are ye careless?\n\n42:2. I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us\nnecessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.\n\n42:3. So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:\n\n42:4. Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his\nbrethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.\n\n42:5. And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to\nbuy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.\n\n42:6. And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold\nby his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to\nhim,\n\n42:7. And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat\nroughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of\nChanaan, to buy necessaries of life.\n\n42:8. And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.\n\n42:9. And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he\nsaid to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of\nthe land.\n\nYou are spies.... This he said by way of examining them, to see what\nthey would answer.\n\n42:10. But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come\nto buy food.\n\n42:11. We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men,\nneither do thy servants go about any evil.\n\n42:12. And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider\nthe unfenced parts of this land.\n\n42:13. But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of\none man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the\nother is not living.\n\n42:14. He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.\n\n42:15. I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao,\nyou shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.\n\n42:16. Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till\nwhat you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by\nthe health of Pharao you are spies.\n\nOr else by the health of Pharao you are spies.... That is, if these\nthings you say be proved false, you are to be held for spies for your\nlying, and shall be treated as such. Joseph dealt in this manner with\nhis brethren, to bring them by the means of affliction to a sense of\ntheir former sin, and a sincere repentance for it.\n\n42:17. So he put them in prison three days.\n\n42:18. And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as\nI have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.\n\n42:19. If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in\nprison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought,\nunto your houses.\n\n42:20. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your\nwords to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.\n\n42:21. And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these\nthings, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish\nof his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is\nthis affliction come upon us.\n\n42:22. And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin\nagainst the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is\nrequired.\n\n42:23. And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to\nthem by an interpreter.\n\n42:24. And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and\nreturning, he spoke to them.\n\n42:25. And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he\ncommanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every\nman\u2019s money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions\nfor the way: and they did so.\n\n42:26. But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.\n\n42:27. And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in\nthe inn, saw the money in the sack\u2019s mouth,\n\n42:28. And said to his brethren: My money is given me again; behold it\nis in the sack. And they were astonished, and troubled, and said to one\nanother: What is this that God hath done unto us?\n\n42:29. And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Chanaan, and\nthey told him all things that had befallen them, saying:\n\n42:30. The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be\nspies of the country.\n\n42:31. And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.\n\n42:32. We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living,\nthe youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.\n\n42:33. And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable\nmen: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary\nprovision for your houses, and go your ways,\n\n42:34. And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are\nnot spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison:\nand afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.\n\n42:35. When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every\nman found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being\nastonished together,\n\n42:36. Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without\nchildren: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin\nyou will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.\n\n42:37. And Ruben answered him: Kill my two sons, if I bring him not\nagain to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will restore him to\nthee.\n\n42:38. But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is\ndead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to\nwhich you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.\n\nTo hell.... That is, to that place, where the souls then remained, as\nabove, chapter 37. ver. 35.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 43\n\nThe sons of Jacob go again into Egypt with Benjamin. They are\nentertained by Joseph.\n\n43:1. In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.\n\n43:2. And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought\nout of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little\nfood.\n\n43:3. Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of\nan oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your\nyoungest brother with you.\n\n43:4. If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out\ntogether, and will buy necessaries for thee.\n\n43:5. But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have\noften said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without\nyour youngest brother.\n\n43:6. Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that\nyou told him you had also another brother.\n\n43:7. But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our\nkindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him\nregularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would\nsay: Bring hither your brother with you?\n\n43:8. And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may\nset forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.\n\n43:9. I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring\nhim again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against\nthee for ever.\n\n43:10. If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second\ntime.\n\n43:11. Then Israel said to them: If it must needs be so, do what you\nwill: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry\ndown presents to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax, myrrh,\nturpentine, and almonds.\n\nBalm.... Literally rosin, resinae; but here by that name is meant balm.\n\n43:12. And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in\nyour sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.\n\n43:13. And take also your brother, and go to the man.\n\n43:14. And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send\nback with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as\nfor me I shall be desolate without children.\n\n43:15. So the men took the presents, and double money, and Benjamin:\nand went down into Egypt, and stood before Joseph.\n\n43:16. And when he had seen them, and Benjamin with them, he commanded\nthe steward of his house, saying: Bring in the men into the house, and\nkill victims, and prepare a feast: because they shall eat with me at\nnoon.\n\n43:17. He did as he was commanded, and brought the men into the house.\n\n43:18. And they being much afraid, said there one to another: Because\nof the money, which we carried back the first time in our sacks, we are\nbrought in: that he may bring upon us a false accusation, and by\nviolence make slaves of us and our asses.\n\n43:19. Wherefore, going up to the steward of the house, at the door,\n\n43:20. They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us. We came down once\nbefore to buy food:\n\n43:21. And when we had bought, and were come to the inn, we opened our\nsacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have\nnow brought again in the same weight.\n\n43:22. And we have brought other money besides, to buy what we want: we\ncannot tell who put it in our bags.\n\n43:23. But he answered: Peace be with you, fear not: your God, and the\nGod of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks. For the\nmoney, which you gave me, I have for good. And he brought Simeon out to\nthem.\n\n43:24. And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and\nthey washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.\n\n43:25. But they made ready the presents, against Joseph came at noon:\nfor they had heard that they should eat bread there.\n\n43:26. Then Joseph came in to his house, and they offered him the\npresents, holding them in their hands; and they bowed down with their\nface to the ground.\n\n43:27. But he courteously saluting them again, asked them, saying: Is\nthe old man your father in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet\nliving?\n\n43:28. And they answered: Thy servant our father, is in health; he is\nyet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.\n\n43:29. And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the\nsame mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me?\nAnd he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.\n\n43:30. And he made haste, because his heart was moved upon his brother,\nand tears gushed out: and going into his chamber, he wept.\n\n43:31. And when he had washed his face, coming out again, he refrained\nhimself, and said: Set bread on the table.\n\n43:32. And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren\napart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is\nunlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such\na feast profane):\n\n43:33. They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,\nand the youngest according to his age. And they wondered very much;\n\n43:34. Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater\nmess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they\ndrank, and were merry with him.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 44\n\nJoseph\u2019s contrivance to stop his brethren. The humble supplication of\nJuda.\n\n44:1. And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their\nsacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every\none in the top of his sack.\n\n44:2. And in the mouth of the younger\u2019s sack put my silver cup, and the\nprice which he gave for the wheat. And it was so done.\n\n44:3. And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.\n\n44:4. And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone\nforward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house,\nsaid: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken\nthem, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?\n\n44:5. The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh,\nand in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.\n\n44:6. He did as he had commanded him. And having overtaken them, he\nspoke to them the same words.\n\n44:7. And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy\nservants had committed so heinous a fact?\n\n44:8. The money, that we found in the top of our sacks, we brought back\nto thee from the land of Chanaan: how then should it be that we should\nsteal out of thy lord\u2019s house, gold or silver?\n\n44:9. With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou\nseekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.\n\n44:10. And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with\nwhomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be\nblameless.\n\n44:11. Then they speedily took down their sacks to the ground, and\nevery man opened his sack.\n\n44:12. Which when he had searched, beginning at the eldest, and ending\nat the youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin\u2019s sack.\n\n44:13. Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again,\nreturned into the town.\n\n44:14. And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he\nwas not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down\nbefore him on the ground.\n\n44:15. And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that\nthere is no one like me in the science of divining.\n\nThe science of divining.... He speaks of himself according to what he\nwas esteemed in that kingdom. And indeed, he being truly a prophet,\nknew more without comparison than any of the Egyptian sorcerers.\n\n44:16. And Juda said to him: What shall we answer my lord? or what\nshall we say, or be able justly to allege? God hath found out the\niniquity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen to my lord, both\nwe, and he with whom the cup was found.\n\n44:17. Joseph answered: God forbid that I should do so: he that stole\nthe cup, he shall be my bondman: and go you away free to your father.\n\n44:18. Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord,\nlet thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy\nservant: for after Pharao thou art.\n\n44:19. My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a\nfather or a brother.\n\n44:20. And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and\na young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother\nis dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him\ntenderly.\n\n44:21. And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I\nwill set my eyes on him.\n\n44:22. We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if\nhe leave him, he will die.\n\n44:23. And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother\ncome with you, you shall see my face no more.\n\n44:24. Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we\ntold him all that my lord had said.\n\n44:25. And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.\n\n44:26. And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go\ndown with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare\nnot see the man\u2019s face.\n\n44:27. Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.\n\n44:28. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto\nhe appeareth not.\n\n44:29. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you\nwill bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.\n\n44:30. Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy\nbe wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,)\n\n44:31. And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy\nservants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.\n\nHis gray hairs.... That is, his person, now far advanced in years.\u2014With\nsorrow unto hell.... The Hebrew word for hell is here sheol, the Greek\nhades: it is not taken for the hell of the damned; but for that place\nof souls below where the servants of God were kept before the coming of\nChrist. Which place, both in the Scripture and in the creed, is named\nhell.\n\n44:32. Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and\npromised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin\nagainst my father for ever.\n\n44:33. Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead of the boy in the\nservice of my lord, and let the boy go up with his brethren.\n\n44:34. For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I be a\nwitness of the calamity that will oppress my father.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 45\n\nJoseph maketh himself known to his brethren: and sendeth for his\nfather.\n\n45:1. Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by:\nwhereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be\npresent at their knowing one another.\n\n45:2. And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians, and\nall the house of Pharao heard.\n\n45:3. And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph: Is my father yet\nliving? His brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding\ngreat fear.\n\n45:4. And he said mildly to them: Come nearer to me. And when they were\ncome near him, he said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into\nEgypt.\n\n45:5. Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you\nsold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for\nyour preservation.\n\n45:6. For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land,\nand five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor\nreaping.\n\n45:7. And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth,\nand may have food to live.\n\n45:8. Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God:\nwho hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole\nhouse, and governor in all the land of Egypt.\n\n45:9. Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and say to him: Thus saith\nthy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come\ndown to me, linger not.\n\n45:10. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen: and thou shalt be\nnear me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons\u2019 sons, thy sheep, and thy\nherds, and all things that thou hast.\n\n45:11. And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of\nfamine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things\nthat thou hast.\n\n45:12. Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, see that\nit is my mouth that speaketh to you.\n\n45:13. You shall tell my father of all my glory, and all things that\nyou have seen in Egypt: make haste and bring him to me.\n\n45:14. And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced\nhim and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.\n\n45:15. And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and wept upon every one of\nthem: after which they were emboldened to speak to him.\n\n45:16. And it was heard, and the fame was spread abroad in the king\u2019s\ncourt: The brethren of Joseph are come; and Pharao with all his family\nwas glad.\n\n45:17. And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his\nbrethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan,\n\n45:18. And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to\nme; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat\nthe marrow of the land.\n\n45:19. Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt,\nfor the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up\nyour father, and make haste to come with all speed:\n\n45:20. And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of\nEgypt shall be yours.\n\n45:21. And the sons of Israel did as they were bid. And Joseph gave\nthem wagons according to Pharao\u2019s commandment: and provisions for the\nway.\n\n45:22. He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two\nrobes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with\nfive robes of the best:\n\n45:23. Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides,\nten he-asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many\nshe-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.\n\n45:24. So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to\nthem: Be not angry in the way.\n\n45:25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of\nChanaan, to their father Jacob.\n\n45:26. And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is\nruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it\nwere out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.\n\n45:27. They, on the other side, told the whole order of the thing. And\nwhen he saw the wagons, and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,\n\n45:28. And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet\nliving: I will go and see him before I die.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 46\n\nIsrael, warranted by a vision from God, goeth down into Egypt with all\nhis family.\n\n46:1. And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the\nwell of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father\nIsaac,\n\nThe well of the oath.... Bersabee.\n\n46:2. He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying\nto him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am.\n\n46:3. God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear\nnot, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.\n\n46:4. I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again\nfrom thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.\n\n46:5. And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath: and his sons took\nhim up, with their children and wives in the wagons, which Pharao had\nsent to carry the old man,\n\n46:6. And all that he had in the land of Chanaan: and he came into\nEgypt with all his seed;\n\n46:7. His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all his offspring\ntogether.\n\n46:8. And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered\ninto Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben,\n\n46:9. The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.\n\n46:10. The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and\nSohar, and Saul, the son of a woman of Chanaan.\n\n46:11. The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.\n\n46:12. The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara.\nAnd Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to\nPhares: Hesron and Hamul.\n\n46:13. The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and Job and Semron.\n\n46:14. The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and Jahelel.\n\n46:15. These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in Mesopotamia of\nSyria, with Dina, his daughter. All the souls of her sons and\ndaughters, thirty-three.\n\n46:16. The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and Suni and Esebon, and\nHeri and Arodi, and Areli.\n\n46:17. The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and Jessuri and Beria, and\nSara their sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.\n\n46:18. These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban gave to Lia, his\ndaughter. And these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.\n\n46:19. The sons of Rachel, Jacob\u2019s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.\n\n46:20. And sons were born to Joseph, in the land of Egypt, whom\nAseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him:\nManasses and Ephraim.\n\n46:21. The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor, and Asbel and Gera, and\nNaaman and Echi, and Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared.\n\n46:22. These are the sons of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob: all the\nsouls, fourteen.\n\n46:23. The sons of Dan: Husim.\n\n46:24. The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem.\n\n46:25. These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his\ndaughter: and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls, seven.\n\n46:26. All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out\nof his thigh, besides his sons\u2019 wives, sixty-six.\n\n46:27. And the sons of Joseph, that were born to him in the land of\nEgypt, two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, that entered\ninto Egypt, were seventy.\n\n46:28. And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to tell him; and that he\nshould meet him in Gessen.\n\n46:29. And when he was come thither, Joseph made ready his chariot, and\nwent up to meet his father in the same place: and seeing him, he fell\nupon his neck, and embracing him, wept.\n\n46:30. And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because\nI have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.\n\n46:31. And Joseph said to his brethren, and to all his father\u2019s house:\nI will go up, and will tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren,\nand my father\u2019s house, that were in the land of Chanaan, are come to\nme:\n\n46:32. And the men are shepherds, and their occupation is to feed\ncattle; their flocks, and herds, and all they have, they have brought\nwith them.\n\n46:33. And when he shall call you, and shall say: What is your\noccupation?\n\n46:34. You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our\ninfancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say,\nthat you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have\nall shepherds in abomination.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 47\n\nJacob and his sons are presented before Pharao: he giveth them the land\nof Gessen. The famine forceth the Egyptians to sell all their\npossessions to the king.\n\n47:1. Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and\nbrethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are\ncome out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of\nGessen.\n\n47:2. Five men also, the last of his brethren, he presented before the\nking:\n\nThe last ... xtremos. Some interpret this word of the chiefest, and\nmost rightly: but Joseph seems rather to have chosen out such as had\nthe meanest appearance, that Pharao might not think of employing them\nat court, with danger of their morals and religion.\n\n47:3. And he asked them: What is your occupation? They answered: We,\nthy servants, are shepherds, both we and our fathers.\n\n47:4. We are come to sojourn in thy land, because there is no grass for\nthe flocks of thy servants, the famine being very grievous in the land\nof Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that we thy servants may be\nin the land of Gessen.\n\n47:5. The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren\nare come to thee.\n\n47:6. The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best\nplace, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there\nare industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.\n\n47:7. After this Joseph brought in his father to the king, and\npresented him before him: and he blessed him.\n\n47:8. And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy\nlife?\n\n47:9. He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty\nyears, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the\npilgrimage of my fathers.\n\n47:10. And blessing the king, he went out.\n\n47:11. But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in\nEgypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had\ncommanded.\n\n47:12. And he nourished them, and all his father\u2019s house, allowing food\nto every one.\n\n47:13. For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had\noppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;\n\n47:14. Out of which he gathered up all the money for the corn which\nthey bought, and brought it in to the king\u2019s treasure.\n\n47:15. And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph,\nsaying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no\nmoney?\n\n47:16. And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will\ngive you food, if you have no money.\n\n47:17. And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange\nfor their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained\nthem that year for the exchange of their cattle.\n\n47:18. And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide\nfrom our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are\ngone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our\nbodies and our lands.\n\n47:19. Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine,\nboth we and our lands: buy us to be the king\u2019s servants, and give us\nseed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.\n\n47:20. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, every man selling his\npossessions, because of the greatness of the famine. And he brought it\ninto Pharao\u2019s hands:\n\n47:21. And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to\nthe other end thereof,\n\n47:22. Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the\nking: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the\npublic stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their\npossessions.\n\n47:23. Then Joseph said to the people: Behold, as you see, both you and\nyour lands belong to Pharao; take seed and sow the fields,\n\n47:24. That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the\nking; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your\nfamilies and children.\n\n47:25. And they answered: our life is in thy hand; only let my lord\nlook favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.\n\n47:26. From that time unto this day, in the whole land of Egypt, the\nfifth part is paid to the kings, and it is become as a law, except the\nland of the priests, which was free from this covenant.\n\n47:27. So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and\npossessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.\n\n47:28. And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life\ncame to a hundred and forty-seven years.\n\n47:29. And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called\nhis son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight,\nput thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and\ntruth, not to bury me in Egypt.\n\n47:30. But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt take me away\nout of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And\nJoseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.\n\n47:31. And he said: Swear then to me. And as he was swearing, Israel\nadored God, turning to the bed\u2019s head.\n\nTo the bed\u2019s head.... St. Paul, Heb. 11.21, following the Greek\ntranslation of the Septuagint, reads adored the top of his rod. Where\nnote, that the same word in the Hebrew, according to the different\npointing of it, signifies both a bed and a rod. And to verify both\nthese sentences, we must understand that Jacob leaning on Joseph\u2019s rod\nadored, turning towards the head of his bed: which adoration, inasmuch\nas it was referred to God, was an absolute and sovereign worship: but\ninasmuch as it was referred to the rod of Joseph, as a figure of the\nsceptre, that is, of the royal dignity of Christ, was only an inferior\nand relative honour.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 48\n\nJoseph visiteth his father in his sickness, who adopteth his two sons\nManasses and Ephraim, and blesseth them, preferring the younger before\nthe elder.\n\n48:1. After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick;\nand he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.\n\n48:2. And it was told the old man: Behold thy son Joseph cometh to\nthee. And being strengthened, he sat on his bed.\n\n48:3. And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty\nappeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed\nme,\n\n48:4. And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will\nmake of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee,\nand to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.\n\n48:5. So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt\nbefore I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall\nbe reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.\n\n48:6. But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and\nshall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.\n\n48:7. For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the\nland of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was\ngoing to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by\nanother name is called Bethlehem.\n\n48:8. Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these?\n\n48:9. He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this\nplace. And he said: Bring them to me, that I may bless them.\n\n48:10. For Israel\u2019s eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he\ncould not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and\nembraced them,\n\n48:11. And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover\nGod hath shewn me thy seed.\n\n48:12. And when Joseph had taken them from his father\u2019s lap, he bowed\ndown with his face to the ground.\n\n48:13. And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that is, towards the left\nhand of Israel; but Manasses on his left hand, to wit, towards his\nfather\u2019s right hand, and brought them near to him.\n\n48:14. But he, stretching forth his right hand, put it upon the head of\nEphraim, the younger brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses,\nwho was the elder, changing his hands.\n\n48:15. And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose\nsight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my\nyouth until this day:\n\n48:16. The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys:\nand let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers\nAbraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.\n\n48:17. And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon\nthe head of Ephraim, was much displeased: and taking his father\u2019s hand,\nhe tried to lift it from Ephraim\u2019s head, and to remove it to the head\nof Manasses.\n\n48:18. And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father; for\nthis is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.\n\n48:19. But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also\nshall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother\nshall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.\n\n48:20. And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel\nbe blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as\nto Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.\n\n48:21. And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be\nwith you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.\n\n48:22. I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of\nthe hand of the Amorrhite with my sword and bow.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 49\n\nJacob\u2019s prophetical blessings of his twelve sons: his death.\n\n49:1. And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves\ntogether, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the\nlast days.\n\n49:2. Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye sons of Jacob, hearken\nto Israel, your father:\n\n49:3. Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of\nmy sorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.\n\nMy strength, etc.... He calls him his strength, as being born whilst\nhis father was in his full strength and vigour: he calls him the\nbeginning of his sorrow, because cares and sorrows usually come on with\nthe birth of children. Excelling in gifts, etc., because the firstborn\nhad a title to a double portion, and to have the command over his\nbrethren, which Ruben forfeited by his sin; being poured out as water,\nthat is, spilt and lost.\n\n49:4. Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest\nup to thy father\u2019s bed, and didst defile his couch.\n\nGrow thou not.... This was not meant by way of a curse or imprecation;\nbut by way of a prophecy foretelling that the tribe of Ruben should not\ninherit the pre-eminences usually annexed to the first birthright,\nviz., the double portion, the being prince or lord over the other\nbrethren, and the priesthood: of which the double portion was given to\nJoseph, the princely office to Juda, and the priesthood to Levi.\n\n49:5. Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.\n\n49:6. Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their\nassembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will\nthey undermined a wall.\n\nSlew a man, ... viz., Sichem the son of Hemor, with all his people,\nGen. 34.; mystically and prophetically it alludes to Christ, whom their\nposterity, viz., the priests and the scribes, put to death.\n\n49:7. Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath,\nbecause it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter\nthem in Israel.\n\n49:8. Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the\nnecks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.\n\n49:9. Juda is a lion\u2019s whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up:\nresting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse\nhim?\n\nA lion\u2019s whelp, etc.... This blessing of Juda foretelleth the strength\nof his tribe, the fertility of his inheritance; and principally that\nthe sceptre and legislative power should not be utterly taken away from\nhis race till about the time of the coming of Christ: as in effect it\nnever was: which is a demonstration against the modern Jews, that the\nMessiah is long since come; for the sceptre has long since been utterly\ntaken away from Juda.\n\n49:10. The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from\nhis thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the\nexpectation of nations.\n\n49:11. Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass, O my son, to the\nvine. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of\nthe grape.\n\n49:12. His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and his teeth whiter than\nmilk.\n\n49:13. Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships,\nreaching as far as Sidon.\n\n49:14. Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.\n\n49:15. He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was\nexcellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant\nunder tribute.\n\n49:16. Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.\n\nDan shall judge, etc.... This was verified in Samson, who was of the\ntribe of Dan, and began to deliver Israel. Judges 13.5. But as this\ndeliverance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy patriarch\n(ver. 18) aspires after another kind of deliverer, saying: I will look\nfor thy salvation, O Lord.\n\n49:17. Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that\nbiteth the horse\u2019s heels, that his rider may fall backward.\n\n49:18. I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.\n\n49:19. Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall\nbe girded backward.\n\nGad being girded, etc.... It seems to allude to the tribe of Gad; when\nafter they had received for their lot the land of Galaad, they marched\nin arms before the rest of the Israelites, to the conquest of the land\nof Chanaan: from whence they afterwards returned loaded with spoils.\nSee Jos. 4. and 12.\n\n49:20. Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to\nkings.\n\n49:21. Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.\n\n49:22. Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the\ndaughters run to and fro upon the wall;\n\nRun to and fro, etc.... To behold his beauty; whilst his envious\nbrethren turned their darts against him, etc.\n\n49:23. But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him,\nand envied him.\n\n49:24. His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and\nhis hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence\nhe came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.\n\nHis bow rested upon the strong, etc.... That is, upon God, who was his\nstrength: who also loosed his bands, and brought him out of prison to\nbe the pastor, that is, the feeder and ruler of Egypt, and the stone,\nthat is, the rock and support of Israel.\n\n49:25. The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty\nshall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings\nof the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and\nof the womb.\n\n49:26. The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings\nof his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come:\nmay they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite\namong his brethren.\n\nThe blessings of thy father, etc.... That is, thy father\u2019s blessings\nare made more prevalent and effectual in thy regard, by the additional\nstrength they receive from his inheriting the blessings of his\nprogenitors Abraham and Isaac. The desire of the everlasting hills,\netc.... These blessings all looked forward towards Christ, called the\ndesire of the everlasting hills, as being longed for, as it were, by\nthe whole creation. Mystically, the patriarchs and prophets are called\nthe everlasting hills, by reason of the eminence of their wisdom and\nholiness. The Nazarite.... This word signifies one separated; and\nagrees to Joseph, as being separated from, and more eminent than, his\nbrethren. As the ancient Nazarites were so called from their being set\naside for God, and vowed to him.\n\n49:27. Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning shall eat the prey, and\nin the evening shall divide the spoil.\n\n49:28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their\nfather spoke to them, and he blessed every one with their proper\nblessings.\n\n49:29. And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my\npeople: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the\nfield of Ephron the Hethite,\n\nTo be gathered to my people.... That is, I am going to die, and so to\nfollow my ancestors that are gone before me, and to join their company\nin another world.\n\n49:30. Over against Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham\nbought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession\nto bury in.\n\n49:31. There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried\nwith Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.\n\n49:32. And when he had ended the commandments, wherewith he instructed\nhis sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was\ngathered to his people.\n\n\nGenesis Chapter 50\n\nThe mourning for Jacob, and his interment. Joseph\u2019s kindness towards\nhis brethren. His death.\n\n50:1. And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father\u2019s face, weeping\nand kissing him.\n\n50:2. And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his\nfather.\n\n50:3. And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty\ndays: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt\nmourned for him seventy days.\n\n50:4. And the time of the mourning being expired, Joseph spoke to the\nfamily of Pharao: If I have found favour in your sight, speak in the\nears of Pharao:\n\n50:5. For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou\nshalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the\nland of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return.\n\n50:6. And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury thy father according as he\nmade thee swear.\n\n50:7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of\nPharao\u2019s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.\n\n50:8. And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children,\nand their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.\n\n50:9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a\ngreat company.\n\n50:10. And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated\nbeyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and\nvehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.\n\n50:11. And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw this, they said: This is\na great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place\nwas called, The mourning of Egypt.\n\n50:12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.\n\n50:13. And carrying him into the land of Chanaan, they buried him in\nthe double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a\npossession of a burying place, of Ephron, the Hethite, over against\nMambre.\n\n50:14. And Joseph returned into Egypt with his brethren, and all that\nwere in his company, after he had buried his father.\n\n50:15. Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with\nanother: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and\nrequite us all the evil that we did to him.\n\n50:16. And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us\nbefore he died,\n\n50:17. That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to\nforget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they\npractised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of\nthe God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he\nwept.\n\n50:18. And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the\nground, they said: We are thy servants.\n\n50:19. And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?\n\n50:20. You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that\nhe might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.\n\n50:21. Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted\nthem, and spoke gently and mildly.\n\n50:22. And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father\u2019s house; and lived a\nhundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third\ngeneration. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were\nborn on Joseph\u2019s knees.\n\n50:23. After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my\ndeath, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he\nswore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n50:24. And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry\nmy bones with you out of this place:\n\n50:25. And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being\nembalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF EXODUS\n\n\nThe Second Book of Moses is called EXODUS, from the Greek word EXODOS,\nwhich signifies going out: because it contains the history of the going\nout of the children of Israel out of Egypt. The Hebrews, from the words\nwith which it begins, call it VEELLE SEMOTH: These are the names. It\ncontains transactions for 145 years; that is, from the death of Joseph\nto the erecting of the tabernacle.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 1\n\nThe Israelites are multiplied in Egypt. They are oppressed by a new\nking, who commandeth all their male children to be killed.\n\n1:1. These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into\nEgypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:\n\n1:2. Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,\n\n1:3. Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,\n\n1:4. Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.\n\n1:5. And all the souls that came out of Jacob\u2019s thigh, were seventy:\nbut Joseph was in Egypt.\n\n1:6. After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,\n\n1:7. The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes,\nand growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.\n\n1:8. In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not\nJoseph:\n\n1:9. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of\nIsrael are numerous and stronger than we.\n\n1:10. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any\nwar shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome\nus, depart out of the land.\n\n1:11. Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them\nwith burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom,\nand Ramesses.\n\nOf tabernacles.... Or, of storehouses.\n\n1:12. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied\nand increased.\n\n1:13. And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted\nthem and mocked them:\n\n1:14. And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and\nbrick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged\nin the works of the earth.\n\n1:15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of\nwhom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,\n\n1:16. Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the\nHebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child,\nkill it: if a woman, keep it alive.\n\n1:17. But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt\nhad commanded, but saved the men children.\n\n1:18. And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant\nto do, that you would save the men children?\n\n1:19. They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women:\nfor they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they\nare delivered before we come to them.\n\n1:20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people\nmultiplied and grew exceedingly strong.\n\n1:21. And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.\n\nBecause the midwives feared God, etc.... The midwives were rewarded,\nnot for their lie, which was a venial sin; but for their fear of God,\nand their humanity: but this reward was only temporal, in building them\nhouses, that is, in establishing and enriching their families.\n\n1:22. Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall\nbe born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of\nthe female, ye shall save alive.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 2\n\nMoses is born and exposed on the bank of the river; where he is taken\nup by the daughter of Pharao, and adopted for her son. He killeth an\nEgyptian, and fleeth into Madian; where he marrieth a wife.\n\n2:1. After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife\nof his own kindred.\n\n2:2. And she conceived, and bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child,\nhid him three months.\n\n2:3. And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of\nbulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe\ntherein, and laid him in the sedges by the river\u2019s brink,\n\n2:4. His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be\ndone.\n\n2:5. And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the\nriver: and her maids walked by the river\u2019s brink. And when she saw the\nbasket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was\nbrought,\n\n2:6. She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having\ncompassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.\n\n2:7. And the child\u2019s sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to thee a\nHebrew woman, to nurse the babe?\n\n2:8. She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.\n\n2:9. And Pharao\u2019s daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him\nfor me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed the\nchild: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao\u2019s\ndaughter.\n\n2:10. And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying:\nBecause I took him out of the water.\n\nMoses.... Or Moyses, in the Egyptian tongue, signifies one taken or\nsaved out of the water.\n\n2:11. In those days, after Moses was grown up, he went out to his\nbrethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the\nHebrews, his brethren.\n\n2:12. And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no\none there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.\n\nHe slew the Egyptian.... This he did by a particular inspiration of\nGod; as a prelude to his delivering the people from their oppression\nand bondage. He thought, says St. Stephen, Acts 7.25, that his brethren\nunderstood that God by his hand would save them. But such particular\nand extraordinary examples are not to be imitated.\n\n2:13. And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and\nhe said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?\n\n2:14. But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over\nus? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses\nfeared, and said: How is this come to be known?\n\n2:15. And Pharao heard of this word, and sought to kill Moses: but he\nfled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down\nby a well.\n\nMadian.... A city and country of Arabia, which took its name from\nMadian the son of Abraham, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity.\n\n2:16. And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw\nwater: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their\nfather\u2019s flocks.\n\n2:17. And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and\ndefending the maids, watered their sheep.\n\n2:18. And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them:\nWhy are ye come sooner than usual?\n\nRaguel.... He had two names, being also called Jethro, as appears from\nthe first verse of the following chapter.\n\n2:19. They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the\nshepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.\n\n2:20. But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him\nthat he may eat bread.\n\n2:21. And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora\nhis daughter to wife:\n\n2:22. And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have\nbeen a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he\ncalled Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath\ndelivered me out of the hand of Pharao.\n\nGersam.... Or Gershom. This name signifies a stranger there: as Eliezer\nsignifies the help of God.\n\n2:23. Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of\nIsrael groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up\nunto God from the works.\n\n2:24. And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he\nmade with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n2:25. And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew\nthem.\n\nKnew them.... That is, he had respect to them, he cast a merciful eye\nupon them.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 3\n\nGod appeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel.\n\n3:1. Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest\nof Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and\ncame to the mountain of God, Horeb.\n\n3:2. And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst\nof a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt.\n\nThe Lord appeared.... That is, an angel representing God, and speaking\nin his name.\n\n3:3. And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush\nis not burnt.\n\n3:4. And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to\nhim out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he\nanswered: Here I am.\n\n3:5. And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy\nfeet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.\n\n3:6. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the\nGod of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst\nnot look at God.\n\n3:7. And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people\nin Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that\nare over the works;\n\n3:8. And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of\nthe hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a\ngood and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey,\nto the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and\nPherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.\n\n3:9. For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have\nseen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.\n\n3:10. But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring\nforth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.\n\n3:11. And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and\nshould bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?\n\n3:12. And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have\nfor a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my\npeople out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this\nmountain.\n\n3:13. Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and\nsay to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall\nsay to me: What is his name? What shall I say to them?\n\n3:14. God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to\nthe children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.\n\nI am who am.... That is, I am being itself, eternal, self-existent,\nindependent, infinite; without beginning, end, or change; and the\nsource of all other beings.\n\n3:15. And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children\nof Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of\nIsaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for\never, and this is my memorial unto all generations.\n\n3:16. Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say\nto them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of\nIsaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I\nhave visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.\n\n3:17. And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction\nof Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite,\nand Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with\nmilk and honey.\n\n3:18. And they shall hear thy voice; and thou shalt go in, thou and the\nancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him:\nThe Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us; we will go three days\u2019\njourney into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.\n\n3:19. But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a\nmighty hand.\n\n3:20. For I will stretch forth my hand, and will strike Egypt with all\nmy wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will\nlet you go.\n\n3:21. And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the\nEgyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:\n\n3:22. But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is in\nher house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall\nput them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil Egypt.\n\nShall spoil, etc.... That is, you shall strip, and take away the goods\nof the Egyptians. This was not authorizing theft or injustice; but was\na just disposal made by Him, who is the great lord and master of all\nthings, in order to pay the children of Israel some part of what was\ndue to them from the Egyptians for their labours.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 4\n\nMoses is empowered to confirm his mission with miracles: his brother\nAaron is appointed to assist him.\n\n4:1. Moses answered, and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my\nvoice, but they will say: The Lord hath not appeared to thee.\n\n4:2. Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He\nanswered: A rod.\n\n4:3. And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down,\nand it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it.\n\n4:4. And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and take it by the tail. He\nput forth his hand, and took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.\n\n4:5. That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God of their\nfathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,\nhath appeared to thee.\n\n4:6. And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he\nhad put it into his bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.\n\n4:7. And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and\nbrought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.\n\n4:8. If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the\nformer sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign.\n\n4:9. But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy\nvoice: take of the river water, and pour it out upon the dry land, and\nwhatsoever thou drawest out of the river, shall be turned into blood.\n\n4:10. Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from\nyesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy\nservant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue.\n\n4:11. The Lord said to him: Who made man\u2019s mouth? or who made the dumb\nand the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?\n\n4:12. Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee\nwhat thou shalt speak.\n\n4:13. But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send whom thou wilt send.\n\n4:14. The Lord being angry at Moses, said: Aaron the Levite is thy\nbrother, I know that he is eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet\nthee, and seeing thee, shall be glad at heart.\n\n4:15. Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy\nmouth, and in his mouth, and will shew you what you must do.\n\n4:16. He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy\nmouth: but thou shalt be to him in those things that pertain to God.\n\n4:17. And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.\n\n4:18. Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and\nsaid to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may\nsee if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.\n\n4:19. And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt;\nfor they are all dead that sought thy life.\n\n4:20. Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an\nass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.\n\n4:21. And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that\nthou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I\nshall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.\n\nI shall harden, etc.... Not by being the efficient cause of his sin;\nbut by withdrawing from him, for his just punishment, the dew of grace\nthat might have softened his heart; and so suffering him to grow harder\nand harder.\n\n4:22. And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son,\nmy firstborn.\n\n4:23. I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and\nthou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.\n\n4:24. And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and\nwould have killed him.\n\nThe Lord met him, and would have killed him.... This was an angel\nrepresenting the Lord, who treated Moses in this manner, for having\nneglected the circumcision of his younger son; which his wife\nunderstanding, circumcised her child upon the spot, upon which the\nangel let Moses go.\n\n4:25. Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the\nforeskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse\nart thou to me.\n\n4:26. And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to\nme, because of the circumcision.\n\n4:27. And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And\nhe went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.\n\n4:28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had\nsent him, and the signs that he had commanded.\n\n4:29. And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of\nthe children of Israel.\n\n4:30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses:\nand he wrought the signs before the people.\n\n4:31. And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited\nthe children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction:\nand falling down they adored.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 5\n\nPharao refuseth to let the people go. They are more oppressed.\n\n5:1. After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao:\nThus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may\nsacrifice to me in the desert.\n\n5:2. But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice,\nand let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.\n\n5:3. And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three\ndays\u2019 journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our\nGod; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.\n\n5:4. The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw\noff the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens.\n\n5:5. And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that\nthe multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from\ntheir works?\n\n5:6. Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works,\nand the task-masters of the people, saying:\n\n5:7. You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as\nbefore; but let them go and gather straw.\n\n5:8. And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did\nbefore; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are\nidle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our\nGod.\n\n5:9. Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that\nthey may not regard lying words.\n\n5:10. And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and\nsaid to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;\n\n5:11. Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing\nof your work be diminished.\n\n5:12. And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to\ngather straw.\n\n5:13. And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your\nwork every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.\n\n5:14. And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were\nscourged by Pharao\u2019s taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the\ntask of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?\n\n5:15. And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to\nPharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?\n\n5:16. Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before;\nbehold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is\nunjustly dealt withal.\n\n5:17. And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and\nsacrifice to the Lord.\n\n5:18. Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you\nshall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.\n\n5:19. And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in\nevil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be\ndiminished of the bricks for every day.\n\n5:20. And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they\ncame out from Pharao:\n\n5:21. And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have,\nmade our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have\ngiven him a sword, to kill us.\n\n5:22. And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou\nafflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me?\n\n5:23. For since the time that I went in to Pharao to speak in thy name,\nhe hath afflicted thy people: and thou hast not delivered them.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 6\n\nGod reneweth his promise. The genealogies of Ruben, Simon and Levi,\ndown to Moses and Aaron.\n\n6:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to\nPharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong\nhand shall he cast them out of his land.\n\n6:2. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord\n\n6:3. That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of\nGod Almighty: and my name ADONAI I did not shew them.\n\nMy name Adonai.... The name, which is in the Hebrew text, is that most\nproper name of God, which signifieth his eternal, self-existent being,\nEx. 3.14, which the Jews out of reverence never pronounce; but, instead\nof it, whenever it occurs in the Bible, they read Adonai, which\nsignifies the Lord; and, therefore, they put the points or vowels,\nwhich belong to the name Adonai, to the four letters of that other\nineffable name Jod, He, Vau, He. Hence some moderns have framed the\nname Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whether Jews or Christians;\nfor the true pronunciation of the name, which is in the Hebrew text, by\nlong disuse, is now quite lost.\n\n6:4. And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan,\nthe land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.\n\n6:5. I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, wherewith the\nEgyptians have oppressed them: and I have remembered my covenant.\n\n6:6. Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will\nbring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver\nyou from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.\n\n6:7. And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God:\nand you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out\nfrom the work-prison of the Egyptians:\n\n6:8. And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my\nhand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to\npossess: I am the Lord.\n\n6:9. And Moses told all this to the children of Israel: but they did\nnot hearken to him, for anguish of spirit, and most painful work.\n\n6:10. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:11. Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the\nchildren of Israel go out of his land.\n\n6:12. Moses answered before the Lord: Behold the children of Israel do\nnot hearken to me: and how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of\nuncircumcised lips?\n\nUncircumcised lips.... So he calls the defect he had in his words, or\nutterance.\n\n6:13. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and he gave them a charge\nunto the children of Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Egypt, that\nthey should bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of\nEgypt.\n\n6:14. These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons\nof Ruben the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi.\n\n6:15. These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons of Simeon, Jamuel and\nJamin, and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a\nChanaanitess: these are the families of Simeon.\n\n6:16. And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds:\nGerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a\nhundred and thirty-seven.\n\n6:17. The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by their kindreds.\n\n6:18. The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron and Oziel. And\nthe years of Caath\u2019s life, were a hundred and thirty-three.\n\n6:19. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of\nLevi by their families.\n\n6:20. And Amram took to wife Jochabed his aunt by the father\u2019s side:\nand she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram\u2019s life, were a\nhundred and thirty-seven.\n\n6:21. The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg, and Zechri.\n\n6:22. The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Elizaphan, and Sethri.\n\n6:23. And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister\nof Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n6:24. The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana, and Abiasaph. These are\nthe kindreds of the Corites.\n\n6:25. But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of\nPhutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical\nfamilies by their kindreds.\n\n6:26. These are Aaron and Moses, whom the Lord commanded to bring forth\nthe children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.\n\n6:27. These are they that speak to Pharao, king of Egypt, in order to\nbring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and\nAaron,\n\n6:28. In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt.\n\n6:29. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord; speak thou to\nPharao, king of Egypt, all that I say to thee.\n\n6:30. And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am of uncircumcised lips,\nhow will Pharao hear me?\n\n\nExodus Chapter 7\n\nMoses and Aaron go into Pharao: they turn the rod into a serpent; and\nthe waters of Egypt into blood, which was the first plague. The\nmagicians do the like, and Pharao\u2019s heart is hardened.\n\n7:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have appointed thee the god\nof Pharao; and Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet.\n\nThe god of Pharao.... Viz., to be his judge; and to exercise a divine\npower, as God\u2019s instrument, over him and his people.\n\n7:2. Thou shalt speak to him all that I command thee; and he shall\nspeak to Pharao, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.\n\n7:3. But I shall harden his heart, and shall multiply my signs and\nwonders in the land of Egypt.\n\nI shall harden, etc.... not by being the efficient cause of his\nhardness of heart, but by permitting it; and by withdrawing grace from\nhim, in punishment of his malice; which alone was the proper cause of\nhis being hardened.\n\n7:4. And he will not hear you: and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and\nwill bring forth my army and my people, the children of Israel, out of\nthe land of Egypt, by very great judgments.\n\n7:5. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have\nstretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children\nof Israel out of the midst of them.\n\n7:6. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded; so did they.\n\n7:7. And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they\nspoke to Pharao.\n\n7:8. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:\n\n7:9. When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron:\nTake thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned\ninto a serpent.\n\n7:10. So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and did as the Lord had\ncommanded. And Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his servants, and\nit was turned into a serpent.\n\n7:11. And Pharao called the wise men and the magicians; and they also\nby Egyptian enchantments and certain secrets, did in like manner.\n\nMagicians.... Jannes, and Mambres, or Jambres, 2 Tim. 3.8.\n\n7:12. And they every one cast down their rods, and they were turned\ninto serpents: but Aaron\u2019s rod devoured their rods.\n\n7:13. And Pharao\u2019s heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them,\nas the Lord had commanded.\n\n7:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao\u2019s heart is hardened, he will\nnot let the people go.\n\n7:15. Go to him in the morning, behold he will go out to the waters:\nand thou shalt stand to meet him on the bank of the river: and thou\nshalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.\n\n7:16. And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to\nthee, saying: Let my people go to sacrifice to me in the desert: and\nhitherto thou wouldst not hear.\n\n7:17. Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am\nthe Lord: behold I will strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the\nwater of the river, and it shall be turned into blood.\n\n7:18. And the fishes that are in the river, shall die, and the waters\nshall be corrupted, and the Egyptians shall be afflicted when they\ndrink the water of the river.\n\n7:19. The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Take thy rod; and\nstretch forth thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers,\nand streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters, that they may be\nturned into blood: and let blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in\nvessels of wood and of stone.\n\n7:20. And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had commanded: and lifting up\nthe rod, he struck the water of the river before Pharao and his\nservants: and it was turned into blood.\n\n7:21. And the fishes that were in the river died; and the river\ncorrupted, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river,\nand there was blood in all the land of Egypt.\n\n7:22. And the magicians of the Egyptians with their enchantments did in\nlike manner; and Pharao\u2019s heart was hardened, neither did he hear them,\nas the Lord had commanded.\n\n7:23. And he turned himself away, and went into his house, neither did\nhe set his heart to it this time also.\n\n7:24. And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to\ndrink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.\n\n7:25. And seven days were fully ended, after that the Lord struck the\nriver.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 8\n\nThe second plague is of frogs: Pharao promiseth to let the Israelites\ngo, but breaketh his promise. The third plague is of sciniphs. The\nfourth is of flies. Pharao again promiseth to dismiss the people, but\ndoth it not.\n\n8:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to\nhim: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.\n\n8:2. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will strike all thy\ncoasts with frogs.\n\n8:3. And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs; which shall\ncome up and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,\nand into the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy\novens, and into the remains of thy meats:\n\n8:4. And the frogs shall come in to thee, and to thy people, and to all\nthy servants.\n\n8:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand\nupon the streams, and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth\nfrogs upon the land of Egypt.\n\n8:6. And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and\nthe frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.\n\n8:7. And the magicians also, by their enchantments, did in like manner,\nand they brought forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.\n\n8:8. But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Pray ye to\nthe Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will\nlet the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.\n\nPray ye to the Lord, etc.... By this it appears, that though the\nmagicians, by the help of the devil, could bring frogs, yet they could\nnot take them away: God being pleased to abridge in this the power of\nSatan. So we see they could not afterwards produce the lesser insects;\nand in this restraint of the power of the devil, were forced to\nacknowledge the finger of God.\n\n8:9. And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time when I shall pray for\nthee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs may be\ndriven away from thee and from thy house, and from thy servants, and\nfrom thy people; and may remain only in the river.\n\n8:10. And he answered: To morrow. But he said: I will do according to\nthy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like to the Lord our\nGod.\n\n8:11. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy house, and\nfrom thy servants, and from thy people; and shall remain only in the\nriver.\n\n8:12. And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao: and Moses cried to\nthe Lord for the promise, which he had made to Pharao concerning the\nfrogs.\n\n8:13. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs\ndied out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields:\n\n8:14. And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land\nwas corrupted.\n\n8:15. And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart,\nand did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.\n\nPharao hardened his own heart.... By this we see that Pharao was\nhimself the efficient cause of his heart being hardened, and not\nGod.\u2014See the same repeated in ver. 32. Pharao hardened his heart at\nthis time also: likewise chap. 9.7, 35, and chap. 13.15.\n\n8:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron: Stretch forth thy rod,\nand strike the dust of the earth; and may there be sciniphs in all the\nland of Egypt.\n\nSciniphs.... Or Cinifs, Hebrew Chinnim, small flying insects, very\ntroublesome both to men and beast.\n\n8:17. And they did so. And Aaron stretched forth his hand, holding the\nrod; and he struck the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs on\nmen and on beasts: all the dust of the earth was turned into sciniphs\nthrough all the land of Egypt.\n\n8:18. And the magicians with their enchantments practised in like\nmanner, to bring forth sciniphs, and they could not: and there were\nsciniphs as well on men as on beasts.\n\n8:19. And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And\nPharao\u2019s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the\nLord had commanded.\n\n8:20. The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early, and stand before\nPharao; for he will go forth to the waters: and thou shalt say to him:\nThus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.\n\n8:21. But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I will send in upon\nthee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy houses, all kind of flies:\nand the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with flies of divers\nkinds, and the whole land wherein they shall be.\n\n8:22. And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is,\nwonderful in that day, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt\nknow that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.\n\n8:23. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to\nmorrow shall this sign be.\n\n8:24. And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of\nflies into the houses of Pharao and of his servants, and into all the\nland of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies.\n\n8:25. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go and\nsacrifice to your God in this land.\n\n8:26. And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we shall sacrifice the\nabominations of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: now if we kill those\nthings which the Egyptians worship, in their presence, they will stone\nus.\n\nThe abominations, etc.... That is, the things they worship for Gods:\noxen, rams, etc. It is the usual style of the scriptures to call all\nidols and false gods, abominations, to signify how much the people of\nGod ought to detest and abhor them.\n\n8:27. We will go three days\u2019 journey into the wilderness; and we will\nsacrifice to the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.\n\n8:28. And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your\nGod in the wilderness, but go no farther: pray for me.\n\n8:29. And Moses said: I will go out from thee, and will pray to the\nLord: and the flies shall depart from Pharao, and from his servants,\nand from his people to morrow: but do not deceive any more, in not\nletting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n8:30. So Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to the Lord.\n\n8:31. And he did according to his word: and he took away the flies from\nPharao, and from his servants, and from his people: there was not left\nso much as one.\n\n8:32. And Pharao\u2019s heart was hardened, so that neither this time would\nhe let the people go.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 9\n\nThe fifth plague is a murrain among the cattle. The sixth, of boils in\nmen and beasts. The seventh, of hail. Pharao promiseth again to let the\npeople go, and breaketh his word.\n\n9:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him:\nThus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice\nto me.\n\n9:2. But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:\n\n9:3. Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields; and a very grievous\nmurrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.\n\n9:4. And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the\npossessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that\nnothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of\nIsrael.\n\n9:5. And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do\nthis thing in the land.\n\n9:6. The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts\nof the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel\nthere died not one.\n\nAll the beasts.... That is, many of all kinds.\n\n9:7. And Pharao sent to see; and there was not any thing dead of that\nwhich Israel possessed. And Pharao\u2019s heart was hardened, and he did not\nlet the people go.\n\n9:8. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of\nashes out of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the\npresence of Pharao.\n\n9:9. And be there dust upon all the land of Egypt: for there shall be\nboils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of\nEgypt.\n\n9:10. And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharao,\nand Moses sprinkled it in the air; and there came boils with swelling\nblains in men and beasts.\n\n9:11. Neither could the magicians stand before Moses, for the boils\nthat were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt.\n\n9:12. And the Lord hardened Pharao\u2019s heart, and he hearkened not unto\nthem, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.\n\nHardened, etc.... See the annotations above, chap. 4.21, chap. 7.3, and\nchap. 8.15.\n\n9:13. And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand\nbefore Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God\nof the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.\n\n9:14. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and\nupon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there\nis none like me in all the earth.\n\n9:15. For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy\npeople, with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.\n\n9:16. And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in\nthee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.\n\n9:17. Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?\n\n9:18. Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an\nexceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that\nit was founded, until this present time.\n\n9:19. Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and\nall that thou hast in the field; for men and beasts, and all things\nthat shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields\nwhich the hail shall fall upon, shall die.\n\n9:20. He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao\u2019s servants, made\nhis servants and his cattle flee into houses:\n\n9:21. But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants,\nand his cattle in the fields.\n\n9:22. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards\nheaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and\nupon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.\n\n9:23. And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord\nsent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the\nLord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.\n\n9:24. And the hail and fire mixt with it drove on together: and it was\nof so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of\nEgypt since that nation was founded.\n\n9:25. And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things\nthat were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every\nherb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.\n\n9:26. Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were,\nthe hail fell not.\n\n9:27. And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I\nhave sinned this time also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are\nwicked.\n\n9:28. Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may\ncease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.\n\n9:29. Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch\nforth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail\nshall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord\u2019s:\n\n9:30. But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the\nLord God.\n\n9:31. The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley\nwas green, and the flax was now bolled;\n\n9:32. But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they\nwere lateward.\n\n9:33. And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched\nforth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased,\nneither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.\n\n9:34. And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders\nwere ceased, increased his sin:\n\n9:35. And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it\nwas made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go,\nas the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 10\n\nThe eighth plague of the locusts. The ninth, of darkness: Pharao is\nstill hardened.\n\n10:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened\nhis heart, and the heart of his servants: that I may work these my\nsigns in him,\n\n10:2. And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy\ngrandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs\namongst them: and you may know that I am the Lord.\n\n10:3. Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him:\nThus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to\nsubmit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.\n\n10:4. But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold I will bring\nin to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts;\n\n10:5. To cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear,\nbut that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed\nupon all the trees that spring in the fields.\n\n10:6. And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants,\nand of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen,\nnor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth,\nuntil this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from\nPharao.\n\n10:7. And Pharao\u2019s servants said to him: How long shall we endure this\nscandal? Iet the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou\nnot see that Egypt is undone?\n\n10:8. And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to Pharao; and he said to\nthem: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are they that shall go?\n\n10:9. Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and\ndaughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the\nLord our God.\n\n10:10. And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you\nand your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great\nevil?\n\n10:11. It shall not be so, but go ye men only, and sacrifice to the\nLord: for this yourselves also desired. And immediately they were cast\nout from Pharao\u2019s presence.\n\n10:12. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land\nof Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb\nthat is left after the hail.\n\n10:13. And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and\nthe Lord brought a burning wind all that day, and night; and when it\nwas morning, the burning wind raised the locusts.\n\n10:14. And they came up over the whole land of Egypt; and rested in all\nthe coasts of the Egyptians, innumerable, the like as had not been\nbefore that time, nor shall be hereafter.\n\n10:15. And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all\nthings. And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever\nwere on the trees, which the hail had left; and there remained not any\nthing that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all\nEgypt.\n\n10:16. Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to\nthem: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.\n\n10:17. But now forgive me my sin this time also, and pray to the Lord\nyour God, that he take away from me this death.\n\n10:18. And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the\nLord:\n\n10:19. And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west, and it\ntook the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so\nmuch as one in all the coasts of Egypt.\n\n10:20. And the Lord hardened Pharao\u2019s heart, neither did he let the\nchildren of Israel go.\n\n10:21. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven:\nand may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may\nbe felt.\n\nDarkness upon the land of Egypt, so thick that it may be felt.... By\nmeans of the gross exhalations, which were to cause and accompany the\ndarkness.\n\n10:22. And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there\ncame horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.\n\n10:23. No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where\nhe was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.\n\n10:24. And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go,\nsacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your\nchildren go with you.\n\n10:25. Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and\nburnt-offerings, to the Lord our God.\n\n10:26. All the flocks shall go with us; there shall not a hoof remain\nof them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God:\nespecially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the\nvery place.\n\n10:27. And the Lord hardened Pharao\u2019s heart, and he would not let them\ngo.\n\n10:28. And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see\nnot my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight,\nthou shalt die.\n\n10:29. Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken, I will not\nsee thy face anymore.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 11\n\nPharao and his people are threatened with the death of their firstborn.\n\n11:1. And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring upon\nPharao and Egypt, and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you\nout.\n\n11:2. Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that every man ask of\nhis friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of\ngold.\n\n11:3. And the Lord will give favour to his people in the sight of the\nEgyptians. And Moses was a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the\nsight of Pharao\u2019s servants, and of all the people.\n\n11:4. And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into\nEgypt:\n\n11:5. And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from\nthe firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the\nfirstborn of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of\nbeasts.\n\n11:6. And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as\nneither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.\n\n11:7. But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make\nthe least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how\nwonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and\nIsrael.\n\n11:8. And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall\nworship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under\nthee: after that we will go out.\n\n11:9. And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to\nMoses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the\nland of Egypt.\n\n11:10. And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before\nPharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao\u2019s heart, neither did he let the\nchildren of Israel go out of his land.\n\nThe Lord hardened, etc.... See the annotations above, chap. 4.21, and\nchap. 7.3.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 12\n\nThe manner of preparing, and eating the paschal lamb: the firstborn of\nEgypt are all slain: the Israelites depart.\n\n12:1. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:\n\n12:2. This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be\nthe first in the months of the year.\n\n12:3. Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say\nto them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by\ntheir families and houses.\n\n12:4. But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he\nshall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according\nto the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.\n\n12:5. And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year;\naccording to which rite also you shall take a kid.\n\nA kid.... The phase might be performed, either with a lamb or with a\nkid: and all the same rites and ceremonies were to be used with the one\nas with the other.\n\n12:6. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and\nthe whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the\nevening.\n\n12:7. And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both\nthe side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they\nshall eat it.\n\n12:8. And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and\nunleavened bread with wild lettuce.\n\n12:9. You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but\nonly roasted at the fire; you shall eat the head with the feet and\nentrails thereof.\n\n12:10. Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If\nthere be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.\n\n12:11. And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you\nshall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you\nshall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the\nLord.\n\n12:12. And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will\nkill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and\nagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.\n\n12:13. And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where\nyou shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and\nthe plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike\nthe land of Egypt.\n\n12:14. And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep\nit a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting\nobservance.\n\n12:15. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day\nthere shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing\nleavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall\nperish out of Israel.\n\n12:16. The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day\nshall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them,\nexcept those things that belong to eating.\n\n12:17. And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in\nthis same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt,\nand you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual\nobservance.\n\n12:18. The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, in the\nevening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth\nday of the same month, in the evening.\n\nUnleavened bread.... By this it appears, that our Saviour made use of\nunleavened bread, in the institution of the blessed sacrament, which\nwas on the evening of the paschal solemnity, at which time there was no\nleavened bread to be found in Israel.\n\n12:19. Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses:\nhe that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the\nassembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.\n\n12:20. You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations\nyou shall eat unleavened bread.\n\n12:21. And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and\nsaid to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.\n\n12:22. And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and\nsprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks:\nlet none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.\n\nSprinkle, etc.... This sprinkling the doors of the Israelites with the\nblood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the\nsword of the destroying angel, was a lively figure of our redemption by\nthe blood of Christ.\n\n12:23. For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when\nhe shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will\npass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come\ninto your houses and to hurt you.\n\n12:24. Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children\nfor ever.\n\n12:25. And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give\nyou, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.\n\n12:26. And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of\nthis service?\n\n12:27. You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the\nLord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in\nEgypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people\nbowing themselves, adored.\n\n12:28. And the children of Israel going forth, did as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses and Aaron.\n\n12:29. And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn\nin the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his\nthrone, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison,\nand all the firstborn of cattle.\n\n12:30. And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all\nEgypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house\nwherein there lay not one dead.\n\n12:31. And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise\nand go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go,\nsacrifice to the Lord as you say.\n\n12:32. Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and\ndeparting bless me.\n\n12:33. And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land\nspeedily, saying: We shall all die.\n\n12:34. The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and\ntying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.\n\n12:35. And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they\nasked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much\nraiment.\n\n12:36. And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the\nEgyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the\nEgyptians.\n\n12:37. And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth,\nbeing about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.\n\n12:38. And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them,\nsheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.\n\n12:39. And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought\nout of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it\ncould not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not\nsuffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing\nany meat.\n\n12:40. And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt,\nwas four hundred and thirty years.\n\n12:41. Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went\nforth out of the land of Egypt.\n\n12:42. This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them\nforth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel\nmust observe in their generations.\n\n12:43. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the\nPhase; no foreigner shall eat of it.\n\n12:44. But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.\n\n12:45. The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.\n\n12:46. In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of\nthe flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone\nthereof.\n\n12:47. All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.\n\n12:48. And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep\nthe Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and\nthen shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as\nhe that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall\nnot eat thereof.\n\n12:49. The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to\nthe proselyte that sojourneth with you.\n\n12:50. And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded\nMoses and Aaron.\n\n12:51. And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel\nout of the land of Egypt by their companies.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 13\n\nThe paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the firstborn are to be\nconsecrated to God. The people are conducted through the desert by a\npillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day.\n\n13:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n13:2. Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the\nchildren of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.\n\nSanctify unto me every firstborn.... Sanctification in this place means\nthat the firstborn males of the Hebrews should be deputed to the\nministry in the divine worship; and the firstborn of beasts to be given\nfor a sacrifice.\n\n13:3. And Moses said to the people: Remember this day in which you came\nforth out of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, for with a strong\nhand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place: that you eat no\nleavened bread.\n\n13:4. This day you go forth in the month of new corn.\n\n13:5. And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the\nChanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the\nJebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land\nthat floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of\nsacred rites in this month.\n\n13:6. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh\nday shall be the solemnity of the Lord.\n\n13:7. Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be\nseen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.\n\n13:8. And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the\nLord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.\n\n13:9. And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before\nthy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with\na strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n13:10. Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to\ndays.\n\n13:11. And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the\nChanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it\nthee:\n\n13:12. Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and\nall that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt\nhave of the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.\n\n13:13. The firstborn of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if\nthou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every firstborn of men\nthou shalt redeem with a price.\n\n13:14. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this?\nthou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth\nout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.\n\n13:15. For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord\nslew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to\nthe firstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that\nopeneth the womb of the male sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I\nredeem.\n\n13:16. And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung\nbetween thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us\nforth out of Egypt by a strong hand.\n\n13:17. And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not\nby the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest\nperhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them,\nand would return into Egypt.\n\n13:18. But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the\nRed Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of\nEgypt.\n\n13:19. And Moses took Joseph\u2019s bones with him: because he had adjured\nthe children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones\nfrom hence with you.\n\n13:20. And marching from Socoth, they encamped in Etham, in the utmost\ncoasts of the wilderness.\n\n13:21. And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a\npillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be\nthe guide of their journey at both times.\n\n13:22. There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the\npillar of fire by night, before the people.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 14\n\nPharao pursueth the children of Israel. They murmur against Moses, but\nare encouraged by him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao and his\narmy following them are drowned.\n\n14:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n14:2. Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over\nagainst Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against\nBeelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.\n\n14:3. And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are\nstraitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.\n\n14:4. And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall\nbe glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall\nknow that I am the Lord. And they did so.\n\n14:5. And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was\nfled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with\nregard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let\nIsrael go from serving us?\n\n14:6. So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.\n\n14:7. And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots\nthat were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.\n\n14:8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he\npursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty\nhand.\n\n14:9. And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone\nbefore, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao\u2019s horse\nand chariots and the whole army were in Phihahiroth, before Beelsephon.\n\n14:10. And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up\ntheir eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly,\nand cried to the Lord.\n\n14:11. And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt,\ntherefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst\nthou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?\n\n14:12. Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying:\nDepart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better\nto serve them, than to die in the wilderness.\n\n14:13. And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great\nwonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom\nyou see now, you shall see no more for ever.\n\n14:14. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.\n\n14:15. And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the\nchildren of Israel to go forward.\n\n14:16. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the\nsea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the\nmidst of the sea on dry ground.\n\n14:17. And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and\nI will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots\nand in his horsemen.\n\n14:18. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall be\nglorified in Pharao, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.\n\n14:19. And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel,\nremoving, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the\ncloud, leaving the forepart,\n\n14:20. Stood behind, between the Egyptians\u2019 camp and the camp of\nIsrael: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that\nthey could not come at one another all the night.\n\nA dark cloud, and enlightening the night.... It was a dark cloud to the\nEgyptians; but enlightened the night to the Israelites by giving them a\ngreat light.\n\n14:21. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the\nLord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night,\nand turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.\n\n14:22. And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea\ndried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their\nleft.\n\n14:23. And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao\u2019s\nhorses, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea.\n\n14:24. And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking\nupon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,\nslew their host.\n\n14:25. And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried\ninto the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel; for the\nLord fighteth for them against us.\n\n14:26. And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea,\nthat the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots\nand horsemen.\n\n14:27. And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it\nreturned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the\nEgyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord\nshut them up in the middle of the waves.\n\n14:28. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the\nhorsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after\nthem, neither did there so much as one of them remain.\n\n14:29. But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea\nupon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand\nand on the left:\n\n14:30. And the Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hands of\nthe Egyptians.\n\n14:31. And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the\nmighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared\nthe Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 15\n\nThe canticle of Moses. The bitter waters of Mara are made sweet.\n\n15:1. Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the\nLord, and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously\nmagnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.\n\n15:2. The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation\nto me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and\nI will exalt him.\n\n15:3. The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.\n\n15:4. Pharao\u2019s chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his\nchosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.\n\n15:5. The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a\nstone.\n\n15:6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand,\nO Lord, hath slain the enemy.\n\n15:7. And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy\nadversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like\nstubble.\n\n15:8. And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered\ntogether: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in\nthe midst of the sea.\n\n15:9. The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the\nspoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand\nshall slay them.\n\n15:10. Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the\nmighty waters.\n\n15:11. Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to\nthee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?\n\n15:12. Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.\n\n15:13. In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou\nhast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy\nhabitation.\n\n15:14. Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the\ninhabitants of Philisthiim.\n\n15:15. Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the\nstout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.\n\n15:16. Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm:\nlet them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass\nby: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.\n\n15:17. Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy\ninheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord;\nthy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.\n\n15:18. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.\n\n15:19. For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen\ninto the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the\nsea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst\nthereof.\n\n15:20. So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in\nher hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with\ndances.\n\n15:21. And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord,\nfor he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown\ninto the sea.\n\n15:22. And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth\ninto the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the\nwilderness, and found no water.\n\n15:23. And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of\nMara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable\nto the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.\n\n15:24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we\ndrink?\n\n15:25. But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when\nhe had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he\nappointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,\n\n15:26. Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do\nwhat is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his\nprecepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon\nthee: for I am the Lord thy healer.\n\n15:27. And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were\ntwelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by\nthe waters.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 16\n\nThe people murmur for want of meat: God giveth them quails and manna.\n\n16:1. And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the\nchildren of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim\nand Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out\nof the land of Egypt.\n\n16:2. And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured\nagainst Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.\n\n16:3. And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died\nby the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the\nfleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this\ndesert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?\n\n16:4. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven\nfor you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for\nevery day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or\nnot.\n\n16:5. But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be\ndouble to that they were wont to gather every day.\n\n16:6. And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel In the evening\nyou shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of\nEgypt:\n\n16:7. And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he\nhath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we,\nthat you mutter against us?\n\n16:8. And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to\neat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your\nmurmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we?\nyour murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.\n\n16:9. Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the\nchildren of Israel: Come before the Lord; for he hath heard your\nmurmuring.\n\n16:10. And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of\nIsrael, they looked towards the wilderness; and behold the glory of the\nLord appeared in a cloud.\n\n16:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n16:12. I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to\nthem: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall\nhave your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your\nGod.\n\n16:13. So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up,\ncovered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.\n\n16:14. And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in\nthe wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto\nthe hoar frost on the ground.\n\n16:15. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to\nanother: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what\nit was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath\ngiven you to eat.\n\n16:16. This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one\ngather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man,\naccording to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall\nyou take of it.\n\n16:17. And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more,\nanother less.\n\n16:18. And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more\nthat had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less:\nbut every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.\n\n16:19. And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the\nmorning.\n\n16:20. And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the\nmorning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrified, and Moses\nwas angry with them.\n\n16:21. Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might\nsuffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.\n\n16:22. But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two\ngomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told\nMoses.\n\n16:23. And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To\nmorrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever\nwork is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress\nthem; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.\n\n16:24. And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrify,\nneither was there worm found in it.\n\n16:25. And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the\nLord: to day it shall not be found in the field.\n\n16:26. Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the\nLord, therefore it shall not be found.\n\n16:27. And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to\ngather, found none.\n\n16:28. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my\ncommandments, and my law?\n\n16:29. See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this\nreason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man\nstay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.\n\n16:30. And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.\n\n16:31. And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it\nwas like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour\nwith honey.\n\n16:32. And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded:\nFill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come\nhereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the\nwilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.\n\n16:33. And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it,\nas much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep\nunto your generations,\n\n16:34. As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle\nto be kept.\n\n16:35. And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came\nto a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached\nthe borders of the land of Chanaan.\n\n16:36. Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 17\n\nThe people murmur again for want of drink; the Lord giveth them water\nout of a rock. Moses lifting up his hand in prayer, Amalec is overcome.\n\n17:1. Then all the multitude of the children of Israel setting forward\nfrom the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the\nLord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to\ndrink.\n\n17:2. And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may\ndrink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you\ntempt the Lord?\n\n17:3. So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured\nagainst Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to\nkill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?\n\n17:4. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this\npeople? Yet a little more and they will stone me.\n\n17:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with\nthee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith\nthou didst strike the river, and go.\n\n17:6. Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb, and\nthou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the\npeople may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:\n\n17:7. And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the\nchiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord,\nsaying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?\n\n17:8. And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.\n\n17:9. And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight\nagainst Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having\nthe rod of God in my hand.\n\n17:10. Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but\nMoses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill.\n\n17:11. And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he\nlet them down a little, Amalec overcame.\n\n17:12. And Moses\u2019s hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put\nunder him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on\nboth sides. And it came to pass, that his hands were not weary until\nsunset.\n\n17:13. And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of\nthe sword.\n\n17:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book,\nand deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of\nAmalec from under heaven.\n\n17:15. And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord,\nmy exaltation, saying:\n\n17:16. Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the\nLord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 18\n\nJethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His counsel.\n\n18:1. And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had\nheard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his\npeople, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt:\n\n18:2. He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:\n\n18:3. And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father\nsaying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country.\n\n18:4. And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my\nhelper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao.\n\n18:5. And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his\nwife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of\nGod.\n\n18:6. And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to\nthee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.\n\n18:7. And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed\nhim: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was\ncome into the tent,\n\n18:8. Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and\nthe Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had\nbefallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.\n\n18:9. And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had\ndone to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the\nEgyptians.\n\n18:10. And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered you out of\nthe hand of Pharao, and out of the hand of Egypt.\n\n18:11. Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because he\nhath delivered his people out of the hand of the Egyptians, who\ndealt proudly against them.\n\n18:12. So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and\nsacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to\neat bread with him before God.\n\n18:13. And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by\nMoses from morning until night.\n\n18:14. And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the\npeople, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why\nsittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?\n\n18:15. And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the\njudgment of God?\n\n18:16. And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me\nto judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.\n\n18:17. But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.\n\n18:18. Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people\nthat is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst\nnot bear it.\n\n18:19. But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be\nthou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their\nwords to him:\n\n18:20. And to shew the people the ceremonies, and the manner of\nworshipping; and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that\nthey ought to do.\n\n18:21. And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in\nwhom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers\nof thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,\n\n18:22. Who may judge the people at all times: and when any great matter\nsoever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, and let them judge\nthe lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for thee, the burden\nbeing shared out unto others.\n\n18:23. If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and\nshalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to\ntheir places with peace.\n\n18:24. And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had\nsuggested unto him.\n\n18:25. And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them\nrulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and\nover fifties, and over tens.\n\n18:26. And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of\ngreater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier\ncases only.\n\n18:27. And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his\nown country.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 19\n\nThey come to Sinai: the people are commanded to be sanctified. The\nLord, coming in thunder and lightning, speaketh with Moses.\n\n19:1. In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of\nEgypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:\n\n19:2. For departing out of Raphidim, and coming to the desert of Sinai,\nthey camped in the same place, and there Israel pitched their tents\nover against the mountain.\n\n19:3. And Moses went up to God; and the Lord called unto him from the\nmountain, and said: Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell\nthe children of Israel:\n\nAnd Moses went up to God.... Moses went up to mount Sinai, where God\nspoke to him.\n\n19:4. You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have\ncarried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.\n\n19:5. If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you\nshall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is\nmine.\n\n19:6. And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation.\nThese are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.\n\n19:7. Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he\ndeclared all the words which the Lord had commanded.\n\n19:8. And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath\nspoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people\u2019s words to\nthe Lord,\n\n19:9. The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to thee in the darkness\nof a cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee, and may\nbelieve thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the\nLord.\n\n19:10. And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day,\nand to morrow, and let them wash their garments.\n\n19:11. And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third\nday the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount\nSinai.\n\n19:12. And thou shalt appoint certain limits to the people round about,\nand thou shalt say to them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount, and\nthat ye touch not the borders thereof: every one that toucheth the\nmount, dying he shall die.\n\n19:13. No hands shall touch him, but he shall be stoned to death, or he\nshall be shot through with arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he\nshall not live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound, then let them go\nup into the mount.\n\n19:14. And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified\nthem. And when they had washed their garments,\n\n19:15. He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not\nnear your wives.\n\n19:16. And now the third day was come, and the morning appeared: and\nbehold thunders began to be heard, and lightning to flash, and a very\nthick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise of the trumpet sounded\nexceeding loud; and the people that was in the camp, feared.\n\n19:17. And when Moses had brought them forth to meet God, from the\nplace of the camp, they stood at the bottom of the mount.\n\n19:18. And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come\ndown upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace:\nand all the mount was terrible.\n\n19:19. And the sound of the trumpet grew by degrees louder and louder,\nand was drawn out to a greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered\nhim.\n\n19:20. And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, in the very top of the\nmount, and he called Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was gone\nup thither,\n\n19:21. He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people; lest they\nshould have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great\nmultitude of them should perish.\n\n19:22. The priests also that come to the Lord, let them be sanctified,\nlest he strike them.\n\n19:23. And Moses said to the Lord: The people cannot come up to Mount\nSinai: for thou didst charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the\nmount, and sanctify it.\n\n19:24. And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come\nup, thou and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people\npass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.\n\n19:25. And Moses went down to the people and told them all.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 20\n\nThe ten commandments.\n\n20:1. And the Lord spoke all these words:\n\n20:2. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage.\n\n20:3. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.\n\n20:4. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness\nof any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of\nthose things that are in the waters under the earth.\n\nA graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing, etc.... All such images,\nor likenesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be\nadored and served; according to that which immediately follows, thou\nshalt not adore them, nor serve them. That is, all such as are designed\nfor idols or image-gods, or are worshipped with divine honour. But\notherwise images, pictures, or representations, even in the house of\nGod, and in the very sanctuary so far from being forbidden, are\nexpressly authorized by the word of God. See Ex. 25.15, and etc.; chap.\n38.7; Num. 21.8, 9; 1 Chron. or Paralip. 28.18, 19; 2 Chron. or\nParalip. 3.10.\n\n20:5. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God,\nmighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the\nchildren, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:\n\n20:6. And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep\nmy commandments.\n\n20:7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the\nLord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord\nhis God in vain.\n\n20:8. Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.\n\n20:9. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.\n\n20:10. But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou\nshalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy\nmanservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that\nis within thy gates.\n\n20:11. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and\nall things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore\nthe Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.\n\n20:12. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived\nupon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.\n\n20:13. Thou shalt not kill.\n\n20:14. Thou shalt not commit adultery.\n\n20:15. Thou shalt not steal.\n\n20:16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.\n\n20:17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour\u2019s house; neither shalt thou\ndesire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his\nass, nor any thing that is his.\n\n20:18. And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound\nof the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck\nwith fear, they stood afar off,\n\n20:19. Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the\nLord speak to us, lest we die.\n\n20:20. And Moses said to the people: Fear not; for God is come to prove\nyou, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not sin.\n\n20:21. And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud\nwherein God was.\n\n20:22. And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children\nof Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.\n\n20:23. You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to\nyourselves gods of gold.\n\n20:24. You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer\nupon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in\nevery place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee,\nand will bless thee.\n\n20:25. And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build\nit of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be\ndefiled.\n\n20:26. Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my altar, lest thy nakedness\nbe discovered.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 21\n\nLaws relating to Justice.\n\n21:1. These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.\n\n21:2. If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in\nthe seventh he shall go out free for nothing.\n\n21:3. With what raiment he came in, with the like let him go out: if\nhaving a wife, his wife also shall go out with him.\n\n21:4. But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and\ndaughters; the woman and her children shall be her master\u2019s: but he\nhimself shall go out with his raiment.\n\n21:5. And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and\nchildren, I will not go out free:\n\n21:6. His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to\nthe door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl:\nand he shall be his servant for ever.\n\nTo the gods.... Elohim. That is, to the judges, or magistrates,\nauthorized by God.\n\n21:7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go\nout as bondwomen are wont to go out.\n\n21:8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was\ndelivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her\nto a foreign nation, if he despise her.\n\n21:9. But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her\nafter the manner of daughters.\n\n21:10. And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a\nmarriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her\nchastity.\n\n21:11. If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without\nmoney.\n\n21:12. He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to\ndeath.\n\n21:13. But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him\ninto his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.\n\n21:14. If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait\nfor him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.\n\n21:15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.\n\n21:16. He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the\nguilt, shall be put to death.\n\n21:17. He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.\n\n21:18. If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone,\nor with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:\n\n21:19. If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck\nhim shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and\nfor his expenses upon the physicians.\n\n21:20. He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they\ndie under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.\n\n21:21. But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be\nsubject to the punishment, because it is his money.\n\n21:22. If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she\nmiscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much\ndamage as the woman\u2019s husband shall require, and as arbiters shall\naward.\n\n21:23. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life,\n\n21:24. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,\n\n21:25. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.\n\n21:26. If any man strike the eye of his manservant or maidservant, and\nleave them but one eye, he shall let them go free for the eye which he\nput out.\n\n21:27. Also if he strike out a tooth of his manservant or maidservant,\nhe shall in like manner make them free.\n\n21:28. If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be\nstoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall\nbe quit.\n\n21:29. But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the\nday before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and\nhe shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his\nowner also shall be put to death.\n\n21:30. And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life\nwhatsoever is laid upon him.\n\n21:31. If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the\nlike sentence.\n\n21:32. If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty\nsicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.\n\n21:33. If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or\nan ass fall into it,\n\n21:34. The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that\nwhich is dead shall be his own.\n\n21:35. If one man\u2019s ox gore another man\u2019s ox, and he die: they shall\nsell the live ox, and shall divide the price, and the carcass of that\nwhich died they shall part between them:\n\n21:36. But if he knew that his ox was wont to push yesterday, and the\nday before, and his master did not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox,\nand shall take the whole carcass.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 22\n\nThe punishment of theft, and other trespasses. The law of lending\nwithout usury, of taking pledges of reverences to superiors, and of\npaying tithes.\n\n22:1. If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall\nrestore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.\n\n22:2. If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and\nbe wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.\n\n22:3. But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed\nmurder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution\nfor the theft, he shall be sold.\n\n22:4. If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or\nass, or sheep: he shall restore double.\n\n22:5. If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to\nfeed upon that which is other men\u2019s: he shall restore the best of\nwhatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to\nthe estimation of the damage.\n\n22:6. If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of\ncorn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall\nmake good the loss.\n\n22:7. If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep,\nand they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be\nfound, he shall restore double:\n\n22:8. If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be\nbrought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon\nhis neighbour\u2019s goods,\n\n22:9. To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment,\nor any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall\ncome to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to\nhis neighbour.\n\n22:10. If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his\nneighbour\u2019s custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies,\nand no man saw it:\n\n22:11. There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth\nhis hand to his neighbour\u2019s goods: and the owner shall accept of the\noath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.\n\n22:12. But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss\ngood to the owner.\n\n22:13. If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was\nslain, and he shall not make restitution.\n\n22:14. If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be\nhurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make\nrestitution.\n\n22:15. But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution,\nespecially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.\n\n22:16. If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he\nshall endow her, and have her to wife.\n\n22:17. If the maid\u2019s father will not give her to him, he shall give\nmoney according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.\n\n22:18. Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.\n\n22:19. Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death.\n\n22:20. He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to\nthe Lord.\n\n22:21. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for\nyourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n22:22. You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.\n\n22:23. If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their\ncry:\n\n22:24. And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the\nsword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.\n\n22:25. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that\ndwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner,\nnor oppress them with usuries.\n\n22:26. If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt\ngive it him again before sunset.\n\n22:27. For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the\nclothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry\nto me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.\n\n22:28. Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and the prince of thy\npeople thou shalt not curse.\n\n22:29. Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy firstfruits: thou\nshalt give the firstborn of thy sons to me.\n\n22:30. Thou shalt do the same with the firstborn of thy oxen also and\nsheep: seven days let it be with its dam: the eighth day thou shalt\ngive it to me.\n\n22:31. You shall be holy men to me: the flesh that beasts have tasted\nof before, you shall not eat, but shall cast it to the dogs.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 23\n\nLaws for judges; the rest of the seventh year, and day: three principal\nfeasts to be solemnized every year; the promise of an angel, to conduct\nand protect them: idols are to be destroyed.\n\n23:1. Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou\njoin thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.\n\n23:2. Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt\nthou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from\nthe truth.\n\n23:3. Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.\n\n23:4. If thou meet thy enemy\u2019s ox or ass going astray, bring it back to\nhim.\n\n23:5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his\nburden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.\n\n23:6. Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man\u2019s judgment.\n\n23:7. Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not\nput to death: because I abhor the wicked.\n\n23:8. Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and\npervert the words of the just.\n\n23:9. Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of\nstrangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n23:10. Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn\nthereof.\n\n23:11. But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to\nrest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be\nleft, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy\nvineyard and thy oliveyard.\n\n23:12. Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that\nthy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the\nstranger may be refreshed.\n\n23:13. Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of\nstrange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your\nmouth.\n\n23:14. Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.\n\n23:15. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt\nthou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the\nmonth of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt\nnot appear empty before me.\n\n23:16. And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work,\nwhatsoever thou hast sown in the field. The feast also in the end of\nthe year, when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of the field.\n\n23:17. Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy\nGod.\n\n23:18. Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven,\nneither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.\n\n23:19. Thou shalt carry the first-fruits of the corn of thy ground to\nthe house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of\nhis dam.\n\n23:20. Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep\nthee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have\nprepared.\n\n23:21. Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one\nto be contemned: for he will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my\nname is in him.\n\n23:22. But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will\nbe an enemy to thy enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee.\n\n23:23. And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto\nthe Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite,\nand the Hevite, and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.\n\n23:24. Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not\ndo their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.\n\n23:25. And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your\nbread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of\nthee.\n\n23:26. There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will\nfill the number of thy days.\n\n23:27. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people\nto whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies\nbefore thee:\n\n23:28. Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite,\nand the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.\n\n23:29. I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the\nland be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against\nthee.\n\n23:30. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,\ntill thou be increased, and dost possess the land.\n\n23:31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the\nPalestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the\ninhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from\nbefore you.\n\n23:32. Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.\n\n23:33. Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin\nagainst me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a\nscandal to thee.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 24\n\nMoses writeth his law; and after offering sacrifices, sprinkleth the\nblood of the testament upon the people: then goeth up the mountain\nwhich God covereth with a fiery cloud.\n\n24:1. And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab\nand Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore\nafar off.\n\n24:2. And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not\ncome nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.\n\n24:3. So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and\nall the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will\ndo all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.\n\n24:4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the\nmorning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles\naccording to the twelve tribes of Israel.\n\nTitles.... That is, pillars.\n\n24:5. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered\nholocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.\n\nHolocausts.... Whole burnt offerings, in which the whole sacrifice was\nconsumed with fire upon the altar.\n\n24:6. Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the\nrest he poured upon the altar.\n\n24:7. And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of\nthe people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we\nwill do, we will be obedient.\n\n24:8. And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he\nsaid: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with\nyou concerning all these words.\n\n24:9. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients\nof Israel went up:\n\n24:10. And they saw the God of Israel: and under his feet as it were a\nwork of sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when clear.\n\n24:11. Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of\nIsrael, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and\ndrink.\n\n24:12. And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be\nthere; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the\ncommandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.\n\n24:13. Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into\nthe mount of God,\n\n24:14. Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You\nhave Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall\nrefer it to them.\n\n24:15. And when Moses was gone up, a cloud covered the mount.\n\n24:16. And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai, covering it with a\ncloud six days: and the seventh day he called him out of the midst of\nthe cloud.\n\n24:17. And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was like a burning fire\nupon the top of the mount, in the eyes of the children of Israel.\n\n24:18. And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the\nmountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 25\n\nOfferings prescribed for making the tabernacle, the ark, the\ncandlestick, etc.\n\n25:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n25:2. Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to\nme: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.\n\nFirstfruits.... Offerings of some of the best and choicest of their\ngoods.\n\n25:3. And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and\nbrass,\n\n25:4. Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and\ngoats\u2019 hair,\n\n25:5. And rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:\n\nSetim wood.... The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which\nis said to be incorruptible.\n\n25:6. Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and for sweetsmelling\nincense:\n\n25:7. Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the\nrational.\n\nThe ephod and the rational.... The ephod was the high priest\u2019s upper\nvestment; and the rational his breastplate, in which were twelve gems,\netc.\n\n25:8. And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst\nof them:\n\n25:9. According to all the likeness of the tabernacle which I will shew\nthee, and of all the vessels for the service thereof: and thus you\nshall make it:\n\n25:10. Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two\ncubits and a half; the breadth, a cubit and a half; the height,\nlikewise, a cubit and a half.\n\n25:11. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, within and\nwithout; and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:\n\n25:12. And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners\nof the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.\n\n25:13. Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them\nwith gold.\n\n25:14. And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the\nsides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:\n\n25:15. And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any\ntime be drawn out of them.\n\n25:16. And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give\nthee.\n\n25:17. Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the\nlength thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit\nand a half.\n\nA propitiatory.... a covering for the ark: called a propitiatory, or\nmercy seat, because the Lord, who was supposed to sit there upon the\nwings of the cherubims, with the ark for his footstool, from thence\nshewed mercy. It is also called the oracle, ver. 18 and 20; because\nfrom thence God gave his orders and his answers.\n\n25:18. Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two\nsides of the oracle.\n\n25:19. Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.\n\n25:20. Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their\nwings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the\nother, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the\nark is to be covered.\n\n25:21. In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.\n\n25:22. Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the\npropitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be\nupon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the\nchildren of Israel by thee.\n\n25:23. Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in\nlength, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.\n\nA table.... On which were to be placed the twelve loaves of\nproposition: or, as they are called in the Hebrew, the face bread,\nbecause they were always to stand before the face of the Lord in his\ntemple: as a figure of the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, in the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n25:24. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt\nmake to it a golden ledge round about.\n\n25:25. And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and\nover the same another little golden crown.\n\n25:26. Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in\nthe four corners of the same table, over each foot.\n\n25:27. Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be\nput through them, and the table may be carried.\n\n25:28. The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and\nshalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.\n\n25:29. Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups,\nwherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.\n\nLibations.... That is, drink offerings.\n\n25:30. And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my\nsight always.\n\n25:31. Thou shalt make also a candlestick of beaten work, of the finest\ngold, the shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and\nthe lilies going forth from it.\n\nA candlestick.... This candlestick, with its seven lamps, which was\nalways to give light in the house of God, was a figure of the light of\nthe Holy Ghost, and his sevenfold grace, in the sanctuary of the church\nof Christ.\n\n25:32. Six branches shall come out of the sides, three out of one side,\nand three out of the other.\n\n25:33. Three cups as it were nuts to every branch, and a bowl withal,\nand a lily: and three cups likewise of the fashion of nuts in the other\nbranch, and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the work of the\nsix branches, that are to come out from the shaft:\n\n25:34. And in the candlestick itself shall be four cups in the manner\nof a nut, and at every one bowls and lilies.\n\n25:35. Bowls under two branches in three places, which together make\nsix, coming forth out of one shaft.\n\n25:36. And both the bowls and the branches shall be of the same beaten\nwork of the purest gold.\n\n25:37. Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the\ncandlestick, to give light over against.\n\n25:38. The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out,\nshall be made of the purest gold.\n\n25:39. The whole weight of the candlestick, with all the furniture\nthereof, shall be a talent of the purest gold.\n\n25:40. Look, and make it according to the pattern that was shewn thee\nin the mount.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 26\n\nThe form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances.\n\n26:1. And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt\nmake ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and\nscarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery.\n\n26:2. The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits; the\nbreadth shall be four cubits. All the curtains shall be of one measure.\n\n26:3. Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five\nshall be coupled together in like manner.\n\n26:4. Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides and tops of the\ncurtains, that they may be joined one to another.\n\n26:5. Every curtain shall have fifty loops on both sides, so set on,\nthat one loop may be against another loop, and one may be fitted to the\nother.\n\n26:6. Thou shalt make also fifty rings of gold, wherewith the veils of\nthe curtains are to be joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.\n\n26:7. Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of goats\u2019 hair, to cover the\ntop of the tabernacle.\n\n26:8. The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty cubits; and the\nbreadth, four: the measure of all the curtains shall be equal.\n\n26:9. Five of which thou shalt couple by themselves, and the six others\nthou shalt couple one to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in\nthe front of the roof.\n\n26:10. Thou shalt make also fifty loops in the edge of one curtain,\nthat it may be joined with the other: and fifty loops in the edge of\nthe other curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow.\n\n26:11. Thou shalt make also fifty buckles of brass, wherewith the loops\nmay be joined, that of all there may be made one covering.\n\n26:12. And that which shall remain of the curtains, that are prepared\nfor the roof, to wit, one curtain that is over and above, with the half\nthereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the tabernacle.\n\n26:13. And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another\non the other side, which is over and above in the length of the\ncurtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle.\n\n26:14. Thou shalt make also another cover to the roof of rams\u2019 skins\ndyed red: and over that again another cover of violet coloured skins.\n\n26:15. Thou shalt make also the boards of the tabernacle standing\nupright of setim wood.\n\n26:16. Let every one of them be ten cubits in length, and in breadth\none cubit and a half.\n\n26:17. In the sides of the boards shall be made two mortises, whereby\none board may be joined to another board: and after this manner shall\nall the boards be prepared.\n\n26:18. Of which twenty shall be in the south side southward.\n\n26:19. For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under\nevery board may be put two sockets at the two corners.\n\n26:20. In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the\nnorth, there shall be twenty boards,\n\n26:21. Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets shall be put under\neach board.\n\n26:22. But on the west side of the tabernacle thou shalt make six\nboards.\n\n26:23. And again other two which shall be erected in the corners at the\nback of the tabernacle.\n\n26:24. And they shall be joined together from beneath unto the top, and\none joint shall hold them all. The like joining shall be observed for\nthe two boards also that are to be put in the corners.\n\n26:25. And they shall be in all eight boards, and their silver sockets\nsixteen, reckoning two sockets for each board.\n\n26:26. Thou shalt make also five bars of setim wood, to hold together\nthe boards on one side of the tabernacle.\n\n26:27. And five others on the other side, and as many at the west side:\n\n26:28. And they shall be put along by the midst of the boards, from one\nend to the other.\n\n26:29. The boards also themselves thou shalt overlay with gold, and\nshalt cast rings of gold to be set upon them, for places for the bars\nto hold together the boardwork: which bars thou shalt cover with plates\nof gold.\n\n26:30. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern\nthat was shewn thee in the mount.\n\n26:31. Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and\ngoodly variety:\n\n26:32. And thou shalt hang it up before four pillars of setim wood,\nwhich themselves also shall be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads\nof gold, but sockets of silver.\n\n26:33. And the veil shall be hanged on with rings, and within it thou\nshalt put the ark of the testimony, and the sanctuary and the holy of\nthe holies shall be divided with it.\n\nThe sanctuary, etc.... That part of the tabernacle, which was without\nthe veil, into which the priests daily entered, is here called the\nsanctuary, or holy place; that part which was within the veil, into\nwhich no one but the high priest ever went, and he but once a year, is\ncalled the holy of holies, (literally, the sanctuary of the\nsanctuaries,) as being the most holy of all holy places.\n\n26:34. And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon the ark of the\ntestimony, in the holy of holies.\n\n26:35. And the table without the veil, and over against the table the\ncandlestick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall\nstand in the north side.\n\n26:36. Thou shalt make also a hanging in the entrance of the tabernacle\nof violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen\nwith embroidered work.\n\n26:37. And thou shalt overlay with gold five pillars of setim wood,\nbefore which the hanging shall be drawn: their heads shall be of gold,\nand the sockets of brass.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 27\n\nThe altar; and the court of the tabernacle with its hangings and\npillars. Provision of oil for lamps.\n\n27:1. Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five\ncubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits\nhigh.\n\n27:2. And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and\nthou shalt cover it with brass.\n\n27:3. And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the\nashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou\nshalt make of brass.\n\n27:4. And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at the four corners of\nwhich, shall be four rings of brass,\n\n27:5. Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the altar: and the grate\nshall be even to the midst of the altar.\n\n27:6. Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar, of setim wood, which\nthou shalt cover with plates of brass:\n\n27:7. And thou shalt draw them through rings, and they shall be on both\nsides of the altar to carry it.\n\n27:8. Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and hollow in the inside,\nas it was shewn thee in the mount.\n\n27:9. Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south\nside whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of\na hundred cubits long for one side.\n\n27:10. And twenty pillars with as many sockets of brass, the heads of\nwhich, with their engraving, shall be of silver.\n\n27:11. In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of\na hundred cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass,\nand their heads with their engraving of silver.\n\n27:12. But in the breadth of the court, that looketh to the west, there\nshall be hangings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many\nsockets.\n\n27:13. In that breadth also of the court, which looketh to the east,\nthere shall be fifty cubits.\n\n27:14. In which there shall be for one side, hangings of fifteen\ncubits, and three pillars, and as many sockets.\n\n27:15. And in the other side, there shall be hangings of fifteen\ncubits, with three pillars, and as many sockets.\n\n27:16. And in the entrance of the court there shall be made a hanging\nof twenty cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine\ntwisted linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four pillars, with\nas many sockets.\n\n27:17. All the pillars of the court round about shall be garnished with\nplates of silver, silver heads, and sockets of brass.\n\n27:18. In length the court shall take up a hundred cubits, in breadth\nfifty, the height shall be of five cubits, and it shall be made of fine\ntwisted linen, and shall have sockets of brass.\n\n27:19. All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses and ceremonies,\nand the pins both of it and of the court, thou shalt make of brass.\n\n27:20. Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest\noil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn\nalways,\n\n27:21. In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs\nbefore the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it\nmay give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a\nperpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of\nIsrael.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 28\n\nThe holy vestments for Aaron and his sons.\n\n28:1. Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among\nthe children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest\u2019s\noffice: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n28:2. And thou shalt make a holy vesture for Aaron, thy brother, for\nglory and for beauty.\n\n28:3. And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled\nwith the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron\u2019s vestments, in\nwhich he being consecrated, may minister to me.\n\n28:4. And these shall be the vestments that they shall make: A rational\nand an ephod, a tunic and a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle.\nThey shall make the holy vestments for thy brother Aaron and his sons,\nthat they may do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n28:5. And they shall take gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine linen.\n\n28:6. And they shall make the ephod of gold, and violet, and purple,\nand scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, embroidered with divers\ncolours.\n\n28:7. It shall have the two edges joined in the top on both sides, that\nthey may be closed together.\n\n28:8. The very workmanship also, and all the variety of the work, shall\nbe of gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine\ntwisted linen.\n\n28:9. And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and shalt grave on them the\nnames of the children of Israel:\n\n28:10. Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other,\naccording to the order of their birth.\n\n28:11. With the work of an engraver, and the graving of a jeweller,\nthou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set\nin gold and compassed about:\n\n28:12. And thou shalt put them in both sides of the ephod, a memorial\nfor the children of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the\nLord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.\n\n28:13. Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.\n\n28:14. And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another,\nwhich thou shalt put into the hooks.\n\n28:15. And thou shalt make the rational of judgment with embroidered\nwork of divers colours, according to the workmanship of the ephod, of\ngold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted\nlinen.\n\nThe rational of judgment.... This part of the priest\u2019s attire, which he\nwore at his breast, was called the rational of judgment; partly because\nit admonished both priest and people of their duty to God, by carrying\nthe names of all their tribes in his presence; and by the Urim and the\nThummim, that is, doctrine and truth, which were written upon it; and\npartly because it gave divine answers and oracles, as if it were\nrational and endowed with judgment.\n\n28:16. It shall be four square and doubled: it shall be the measure of\na span both in length and in breadth.\n\n28:17. And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones . In the first row\nshall be a sardius stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:\n\n28:18. In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper:\n\n28:19. In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst:\n\n28:20. In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be\nset in gold by their rows.\n\n28:21. And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with\ntwelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one\naccording to the twelve tribes.\n\n28:22. And thou shalt make on the rational chains, linked one to\nanother, of the purest gold:\n\n28:23. And two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the two ends at\nthe top of the rational.\n\n28:24. And the golden chains thou shalt join to the rings, that are in\nthe ends thereof.\n\n28:25. And the ends of the chains themselves, thou shalt join together\nwith two hooks, on both sides of the ephod, which is towards the\nrational.\n\n28:26. Thou shalt make also two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in\nthe top parts of the rational, in the borders that are over against the\nephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.\n\n28:27. Moreover also other two rings of gold, which are to be set on\neach side of the ephod beneath, that looketh towards the nether\njoining, that the rational may be fitted with the ephod,\n\n28:28. And may be fastened by the rings thereof unto the rings of the\nephod with a violet fillet, that the joining artificially wrought may\ncontinue, and the rational and the ephod may not be loosed one from the\nother.\n\n28:29. And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the\nrational of judgment upon his breast, when he shall enter into the\nsanctuary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.\n\n28:30. And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and\ntruth, which shall be on Aaron\u2019s breast, when he shall go in before the\nLord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his\nbreast, in the sight of the Lord always.\n\nDoctrine and Truth.... Hebrew, Urim and Thummim: illuminations and\nperfections. These words, written on the rational, seem to signify the\nlight of doctrine and the integrity of life, with which the priests of\nGod ought to approach him.\n\n28:31. And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod all of violet,\n\n28:32. In the midst whereof above shall be a hole for the head, and a\nborder round about it woven, as is wont to be made in the outmost parts\nof garments, that it may not easily be broken.\n\n28:33. And beneath at the feet of the same tunic, round about, thou\nshalt make as it were pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, with little bells set between:\n\n28:34. So that there shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, and\nagain another golden bell and a pomegranate.\n\n28:35. And Aaron shall be vested with it in the office of his ministry,\nthat the sound may be heard, when he goeth in and cometh out of the\nsanctuary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may not die.\n\n28:36. Thou shalt make also a plate of the purest gold: wherein thou\nshalt grave with engraver\u2019s work, Holy to the Lord.\n\n28:37. And thou shalt tie it with a violet fillet, and it shall be upon\nthe mitre,\n\n28:38. Hanging over the forehead of the high priest. And Aaron shall\nbear the iniquities of those things, which the children of Israel have\noffered and sanctified, in all their gifts and offerings. And the plate\nshall be always on his forehead, that the Lord may be well pleased with\nthem.\n\n28:39. And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt\nmake a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work.\n\n28:40. Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics,\nand girdles and mitres for glory and beauty:\n\n28:41. And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and\nhis sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and\nshalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n28:42. Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to cover the flesh of their\nnakedness, from the reins to the thighs:\n\n28:43. And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into\nthe tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to\nminister in the sanctuary, lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It\nshall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 29\n\nThe manner of consecrating Aaron and other priests; the institution of\nthe daily sacrifice of two lambs, one in the morning, the other at\nevening.\n\n29:1. And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me\nin priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish,\n\n29:2. And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with\noil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them\nall of wheaten flour.\n\n29:3. And thou shalt put them in a basket, and offer them: and the calf\nand the two rams.\n\n29:4. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the\ntabernacle of the testimony. And when thou hast washed the father and\nhis sons with water,\n\n29:5. Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the\nlinen garment and the tunic, and the ephod and the rational, which thou\nshalt gird with the girdle.\n\n29:6. And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate\nupon the mitre,\n\n29:7. And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this\nrite shall he be consecrated.\n\n29:8. Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen\ntunics, and gird them with a girdle:\n\n29:9. To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon\nthem; and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After\nthou shalt have consecrated their hands,\n\n29:10. Thou shalt present also the calf before the tabernacle of the\ntestimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon his head,\n\n29:11. And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the Lord, beside the\ndoor of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n29:12. And taking some of the blood of the calf, thou shalt put it upon\nthe horns of the altar with thy finger, and the rest of the blood thou\nshalt pour at the bottom thereof.\n\n29:13. Thou shalt take also all the fat that covereth the entrails, and\nthe caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon\nthem, and shalt offer a burnt offering upon the altar:\n\n29:14. But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt\nburn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin.\n\n29:15. Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the head whereof Aaron and\nhis sons shall lay their hands.\n\n29:16. And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the blood\nthereof, and pour round about the altar.\n\n29:17. And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and having washed his\nentrails and feet, thou shalt put them upon the flesh that is cut in\npieces, and upon his head.\n\n29:18. And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the\naltar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim\nof the Lord.\n\n29:19. Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon whose head Aaron and\nhis sons shall lay their hands.\n\n29:20. And when thou hast sacrificed him, thou shalt take of his blood,\nand put upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and\nupon the thumbs and great toes of their right hand and foot, and thou\nshalt pour the blood upon the altar round about.\n\n29:21. And when thou hast taken of the blood that is upon the altar,\nand of the oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture,\nhis sons and their vestments. And after they and their vestments are\nconsecrated,\n\n29:22. Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat\nthat covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two\nkidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because\nit is the ram of consecration:\n\n29:23. And one roll of bread, a cake tempered with oil, a wafer out of\nthe basket of unleavened bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord:\n\n29:24. And thou shalt put all upon the hands of Aaron and of his sons,\nand shalt sanctify them elevating before the Lord.\n\n29:25. And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them\nupon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the\nLord, because it is his oblation.\n\n29:26. Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram, wherewith Aaron was\nconsecrated, and elevating it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord,\nand it shall fall to thy share.\n\n29:27. And thou shalt sanctify both the consecrated breast, and the\nshoulder that thou didst separate of the ram,\n\n29:28. Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his sons, and they shall\nfall to Aaron\u2019s share, and his sons\u2019, by a perpetual right from the\nchildren of Israel: because they are the choicest and the beginnings of\ntheir peace victims which they offer to the Lord.\n\n29:29. And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall use, his sons shall have\nafter him, that they may be anointed, and their hands consecrated in\nit.\n\n29:30. He of his sons that shall be appointed high priest in his stead,\nand that shall enter into the tabernacle of the testimony to minister\nin the sanctuary, shall wear it seven days.\n\n29:31. And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and shalt boil\nthe flesh thereof in the holy place:\n\n29:32. And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The loaves also, that are\nin the basket, they shall eat in the entry of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony,\n\n29:33. That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the\nofferers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because\nthey are holy.\n\n29:34. And if there remain of the consecrated flesh, or of the bread,\ntill the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: they shall\nnot be eaten, because they are sanctified.\n\n29:35. All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt do unto Aaron and his\nsons. Seven days shalt thou consecrate their hands:\n\n29:36. And thou shalt offer a calf for sin every day for expiation. And\nthou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast offered the victim of\nexpiation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.\n\n29:37. Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and sanctify it, and it\nshall be most holy. Every one, that shall touch it, shall be holy.\n\n29:38. This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon the altar: Two lambs of a\nyear old every day continually,\n\n29:39. One lamb in the morning, and another in the evening.\n\n29:40. With one lamb a tenth part of flour tempered with beaten oil, of\nthe fourth part of a hin, and wine for libation of the same measure.\n\n29:41. And the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening, according to\nthe rite of the morning oblation, and according to what we have said,\nfor a savour of sweetness:\n\n29:42. It is a sacrifice to the Lord, by perpetual oblation unto your\ngenerations, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the\nLord, where I will appoint to speak unto thee.\n\n29:43. And there will I command the children of Israel, and the altar\nshall be sanctified by my glory.\n\n29:44. I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the testimony with the\naltar, and Aaron with his sons, to do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n29:45. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and\nwill be their God:\n\n29:46. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who have\nbrought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might abide among them, I\nthe Lord their God.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 30\n\nThe altar of incense: money to be gathered for the use of the\ntabernacle: the brazen laver: the holy oil of unction, and the\ncomposition of the perfume.\n\n30:1. Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.\n\nAn altar to burn incense.... This burning of incense was an emblem of\nprayer, ascending to God from an inflamed heart. See Ps. 140.2; Apoc.\n5.8, and 8.4.\n\n30:2. It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is,\nfour square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.\n\n30:3. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate\nthereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make\nto it a crown of gold round about,\n\n30:4. And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the\nbars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.\n\n30:5. And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt\noverlay them with gold.\n\n30:6. And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth\nbefore the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the\ntestimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.\n\n30:7. And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the\nmorning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:\n\n30:8. And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an\neverlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.\n\n30:9. You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor\noblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.\n\n30:10. And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with\nthe blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement\nupon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.\n\n30:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n30:12. When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel,\naccording to their number, every one of them shall give a price for\ntheir souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when\nthey shall be reckoned.\n\n30:13. And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a\nsicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty\nobols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.\n\nHalf a sicle.... A sicle or shekel of silver, (which was also called a\nstater,) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which\nwas the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, that is,\nabout half a crown of English money. The obol, or gerah, was about\nthree halfpence.\n\n30:14. He that is counted in the number from twenty years and upwards,\nshall give the price.\n\n30:15. The rich man shall not add to half a sicle, and the poor man\nshall diminish nothing.\n\n30:16. And the money received, which was contributed by the children of\nIsrael, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he\nmay be merciful to their souls.\n\n30:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n30:18. Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in:\nand thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the\naltar. And water being put into it:\n\n30:19. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:\n\n30:20. When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and\nwhen they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,\n\n30:21. Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him,\nand to his seed by successions.\n\n30:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses,\n\n30:23. Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred\nsicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty\nsicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,\n\n30:24. And of cassia five hundred sicles by the weight of the\nsanctuary, of oil of olives the measure hin:\n\n30:25. And thou shalt make the holy oil of unction, an ointment\ncompounded after the art of the perfumer,\n\n30:26. And therewith thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the testimony,\nand the ark of the testament,\n\n30:27. And the table with the vessels thereof, the candlestick and\nfurniture thereof, the altars of incense,\n\n30:28. And of holocaust, and all the furniture that belongeth to the\nservice of them.\n\n30:29. And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall be most holy: he\nthat shall touch them shall be sanctified.\n\n30:30. Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them,\nthat they may do the office of priesthood unto me.\n\n30:31. And thou shalt say to the children of Israel: This oil of\nunction shall be holy unto me throughout your generations.\n\n30:32. The flesh of man shall not be anointed therewith, and you shall\nmake none other of the same composition, because it is sanctified, and\nshall be holy unto you.\n\n30:33. What man soever shall compound such, and shall give thereof to a\nstranger, he shall be cut off from his people.\n\n30:34. And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and\nonycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all\nshall be of equal weight.\n\n30:35. And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the\nperfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of\nsanctification.\n\n30:36. And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt\nset of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I\nwill appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you.\n\n30:37. You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because\nit is holy to the Lord.\n\n30:38. What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof,\nhe shall perish out of his people.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 31\n\nBeseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to make the tabernacle,\nand the things belonging thereto. The observation of the sabbath day is\nagain commanded. And the Lord delivereth to Moses two tables written\nwith the finger of God.\n\n31:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n31:2. Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the son of Uri, the son of\nHur, of the tribe of Juda,\n\n31:3. And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and\nunderstanding, and knowledge in all manner of work,\n\n31:4. To devise whatsoever may be artificially made of gold, and\nsilver, and brass,\n\n31:5. Of marble, and precious stones, and variety of wood.\n\n31:6. And I have given him for his companion Ooliab, the son of\nAchisamech, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of\nevery skilful man, that they may make all things which I have commanded\nthee,\n\n31:7. The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark of the testimony, and\nthe propitiatory, that is over it, and all the vessels of the\ntabernacle,\n\n31:8. And the table and the vessels thereof, the most pure candlestick\nwith the vessels thereof, and the altars of incense,\n\n31:9. And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the laver with its foot,\n\n31:10. The holy vestments in the ministry for Aaron the priest, and for\nhis sons, that they may execute their office, about the sacred things:\n\n31:11. The oil of unction, and the incense of spices in the sanctuary,\nall things which I have commanded thee, shall they make.\n\n31:12. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n31:13. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See\nthat you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in\nyour generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify\nyou.\n\n31:14. keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall\nprofane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his\nsoul shall perish out of the midst of his people.\n\n31:15. Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath,\nthe rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this\nday, shall die.\n\n31:16. Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in\ntheir generations.\n\n31:17. It is an everlasting covenant, and a perpetual sign between me\nand the children of Israel. For in six days the Lord made heaven and\nearth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.\n\n31:18. And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave\nto Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 32\n\nThe people fall into idolatry. Moses prayeth for them. He breaketh the\ntables: destroyeth the idol: blameth Aaron, and causeth many of the\nidolaters to be slain.\n\n32:1. And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the\nmount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods,\nthat may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us\nout of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.\n\n32:2. And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of\nyour wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.\n\n32:3. And the people did what he had commanded, bringing the earrings\nto Aaron.\n\n32:4. And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders\u2019\nwork, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy\ngods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n32:5. And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and made\nproclamation by a crier\u2019s voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of\nthe Lord.\n\n32:6. And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace\nvictims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to\nplay.\n\n32:7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy\npeople, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.\n\n32:8. They have quickly strayed from the way which thou didst shew\nthem: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have adored\nit, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O\nIsrael, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n32:9. And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is\nstiffnecked:\n\n32:10. Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and\nthat I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation.\n\n32:11. But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy\nindignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of\nthe land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?\n\n32:12. Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee: He craftily brought\nthem out, that he might kill them in the mountains, and destroy them\nfrom the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased upon the\nwickedness of thy people.\n\n32:13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou\nsworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars\nof heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to\nyour seed, and you shall possess it for ever:\n\n32:14. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which he had\nspoken against his people.\n\n32:15. And Moses returned from the mount, carrying the two tables of\nthe testimony in his hand, written on both sides,\n\n32:16. And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven\nin the tables.\n\n32:17. And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to\nMoses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp.\n\n32:18. But he answered: It is not the cry of men encouraging to fight,\nnor the shout of men compelling to flee: but I hear the voice of\nsingers.\n\n32:19. And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the\ndances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and\nbroke them at the foot of the mount:\n\n32:20. And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it,\nand beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to\nthe children of Israel to drink.\n\n32:21. And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that\nthou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?\n\n32:22. And he answered him: Let not my lord be offended; for thou\nknowest this people, that they are prone to evil.\n\n32:23. They said to me: make us gods, that may go before us; for as to\nthis Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not\nwhat is befallen him.\n\n32:24. And I said to them: Which of you hath any gold? and they took\nand brought it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came\nout.\n\n32:25. And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had\nstripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them\nnaked among their enemies)\n\nNaked.... Having lost not only their gold, and their honour, but what\nwas worst of all, being stripped also of the grace of God, and having\nlost him.\u2014The shame of the filth.... That is, of the idol, which they\nhad taken for their god. It is the usual phrase of the scripture to\ncall idols filth and abominations.\n\n32:26. Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on\nthe Lord\u2019s side, let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi\ngathered themselves together unto him:\n\n32:27. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put\nevery man his sword upon his thigh: go, and return from gate to gate\nthrough the midst of the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and\nfriend, and neighbour.\n\n32:28. And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and\nthere were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.\n\n32:29. And Moses said: You have consecrated your hands this day to the\nLord, every man in his son and in his brother, that a blessing may be\ngiven to you.\n\n32:30. And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You\nhave sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means\nI may be able to entreat him for your crime.\n\n32:31. And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people\nhath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of\ngold: either forgive them this trespass,\n\n32:32. Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast\nwritten.\n\n32:33. And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him\nwill I strike out of my book:\n\n32:34. But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my\nangel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this\nsin also of theirs.\n\n32:35. The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion\nof the calf which Aaron had made.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 33\n\nThe people mourn for their sin. Moses pitcheth the tabernacle without\nthe camp. He converseth familiarly with God. Desireth to see his glory.\n\n33:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this\nplace, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of\nEgypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and\nJacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it:\n\n33:2. And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the\nChanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and\nthe Hevite, and the Jebusite,\n\n33:3. That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and\nhoney. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked\npeople; lest I destroy thee in the way.\n\n33:4. And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no\nman put on his ornaments according to custom.\n\n33:5. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou\nart a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee,\nand shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I\nmay know what to do to thee.\n\n33:6. So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount\nHoreb.\n\n33:7. Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp\nafar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant.\nAnd all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle\nof the covenant, without the camp.\n\n33:8. And when Moses went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose\nup, and every one stood in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld\nthe back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle.\n\n33:9. And when he was gone into the tabernacle of the covenant, the\npillar of the cloud came down, and stood at the door, and he spoke with\nMoses.\n\n33:10. And all saw that the pillar of the cloud stood at the door of\nthe tabernacle. And they stood and worshipped at the doors of their\ntent.\n\n33:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to\nspeak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant\nJosue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.\n\nFace to face.... That is, in a most familiar manner. Though as we learn\nfrom this very chapter, Moses could not see the face of the Lord.\n\n33:12. And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth\nthis people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me,\nespecially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast\nfound favour in my sight.\n\nI know thee by name.... In the language of the scriptures, God is said\nto know such as he approves and loves: and to know by name, those whom\nhe favours in a most singular manner, as he did his servant Moses.\n\n33:13. If therefore I have found favour in thy sight, shew me thy face,\nthat I may know thee, and may find grace before thy eyes: look upon thy\npeople this nation.\n\n33:14. And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give\nthee rest.\n\n33:15. And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not go before, bring us not\nout of this place.\n\n33:16. For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have\nfound grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be\nglorified by all people that dwell upon the earth?\n\n33:17. And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast\nspoken, will I do; for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have\nknown by name.\n\n33:18. And he said: Shew me thy glory.\n\n33:19. He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in\nthe name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will,\nand I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.\n\n33:20. And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not\nsee me, and live.\n\n33:21. And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou\nshalt stand upon the rock.\n\n33:22. And when my glory shall pass, I will set thee in a hole of the\nrock, and protect thee with my right hand till I pass:\n\n33:23. And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts:\nbut my face thou canst not see.\n\nSee my back parts.... The Lord by his angel, usually spoke to Moses in\nthe pillar of the cloud; so that he could not see the glory of him that\nspoke familiarly with him. In the vision here mentioned he was allowed\nto see something of him, in an assumed corporeal form: not in the face,\nthe rays of which were too bright for mortal eye to bear, but to view\nhim as it were behind, when his face was turned from him.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 34\n\nThe tables are renewed: all society with the Chanaanites is forbid:\nsome precepts concerning the firstborn, the sabbath, and other feasts:\nafter forty days\u2019 fast, Moses returneth to the people with the\ncommandments, and his face appearing horned with rays of light, he\ncovereth it, whensoever he speaketh to the people.\n\n34:1. And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto\nthe former, and I will write upon them the words, which were in the\ntables, which thou brokest.\n\n34:2. Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst forthwith go up into\nMount Sinai, and thou shalt stand with me upon the top of the mount.\n\n34:3. Let no man go up with thee, and let not any man be seen\nthroughout all the mount; neither let the oxen nor the sheep feed over\nagainst it.\n\n34:4. Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and\nrising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had\ncommanded him, carrying with him the tables.\n\n34:5. And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him,\ncalling upon the name of the Lord.\n\n34:6. And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God,\nmerciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,\n\n34:7. Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and\nwickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who\nrenderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the\ngrandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.\n\n34:8. And Moses making haste, bowed down prostrate unto the earth, and\nadoring,\n\n34:9. Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee\nthat thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people) and take\naway our iniquities and sin, and possess us.\n\n34:10. The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I\nwill do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any\nnations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the\nterrible work of the Lord which I will do.\n\n34:11. Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will\ndrive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the\nHethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.\n\n34:12. Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of\nthat land, which may be thy ruin:\n\n34:13. But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their\ngroves:\n\n34:14. Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a\njealous God.\n\n34:15. Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when\nthey have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their\nidols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.\n\n34:16. Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son,\nlest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy\nsons also to commit fornication with their gods.\n\n34:17. Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.\n\n34:18. Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days\nshalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the\nmonth of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest\nout from Egypt.\n\n34:19. All of the male kind that openeth the womb, shall be mine. Of\nall beasts; both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be mine.\n\n34:20. The firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep: but if\nthou wilt not give a price for it, it shall be slain. The firstborn of\nthy sons thou shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear before me empty.\n\n34:21. Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to\nplough and to reap.\n\n34:22. Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the\ncorn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year\nreturneth that all things are laid in.\n\n34:23. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight\nof the almighty Lord the God of Israel.\n\n34:24. For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and\nshall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy\nland when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God\nthrice in a year.\n\n34:25. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven;\nneither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of\nthe solemnity of the Phase.\n\n34:26. The first of the fruits of thy ground thou shalt offer in the\nhouse of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his\ndam.\n\n34:27. And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee these words, by which I\nhave made a covenant both with thee and with Israel.\n\n34:28. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he\nneither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten\nwords of the covenant.\n\n34:29. And when Moses came down from the Mount Sinai, he held the two\ntables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from\nthe conversation of the Lord.\n\nHorned.... That is, shining, and sending forth rays of light like\nhorns.\n\n34:30. And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses\nhorned, were afraid to come near.\n\n34:31. And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the\nrulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them,\n\n34:32. And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in\ncommandment all that he had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai.\n\n34:33. And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.\n\n34:34. But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it\naway until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel\nall things that had been commanded him.\n\n34:35. And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned,\nbut he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 35\n\nThe sabbath. Offerings for making the tabernacle. Beseleel and Ooliab\nare called to the work.\n\n35:1. And all the multitude of the children of Israel being gathered\ntogether, he said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath\ncommanded to be done:\n\n35:2. Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto\nyou, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on\nit, shall be put to death.\n\n35:3. You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the\nsabbath day.\n\n35:4. And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel:\nThis is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:\n\n35:5. Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is\nwilling and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and\nsilver, and brass,\n\n35:6. Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats\u2019\nhair,\n\n35:7. And rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins, setim wood,\n\n35:8. And oil to maintain lights, and to make ointment, and most sweet\nincense,\n\n35:9. Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the adorning of the ephod\nand the rational.\n\n35:10. Whosoever of you is wise, let him come, and make that which the\nLord hath commanded:\n\n35:11. To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof thereof, and the cover, the\nrings, and the board-work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:\n\n35:12. The ark and the staves, the propitiatory, and the veil that is\ndrawn before it:\n\n35:13. The table with the bars and the vessels, and the loaves of\nproposition:\n\n35:14. The candlestick to bear up the lights, the vessels thereof and\nthe lamps, and the oil for the nourishing of fires:\n\n35:15. The altar of incense, and the bars, and the oil of unction, and\nthe incense of spices: the hanging at the door of the tabernacle:\n\n35:16. The altar of holocaust, and its grate of brass, with the bars\nand vessels thereof: the laver and its foot:\n\n35:17. The curtains of the court, with the pillars and the sockets, the\nhanging in the doors of the entry.\n\n35:18. The pins of the tabernacle, and of the court, with their little\ncords:\n\n35:19. The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the\nsanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do\nthe office of priesthood to me.\n\n35:20. And all the multitude of the children of Israel going out from\nthe presence of Moses,\n\n35:21. Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout\nmind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was\nnecessary to the service and to the holy vestments,\n\n35:22. Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and\ntablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.\n\n35:23. If any man had violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, fine\nlinen and goats\u2019 hair, ramskins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,\n\n35:24. Metal of silver and brass, they offered it to the Lord, and\nsetim wood for divers uses.\n\n35:25. The skilful women also gave such things as they had spun,\nviolet, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,\n\n35:26. And goats\u2019 hair, giving all of their own accord.\n\n35:27. But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for\nthe ephod and the rational,\n\n35:28. And spices and oil for the lights, and for the preparing of\nointment, and to make the incense of most sweet savour.\n\n35:29. All, both men and women, with devout mind offered gifts, that\nthe works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of\nMoses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the\nLord.\n\n35:30. And Moses said to the children of Israel: Behold, the Lord hath\ncalled by name Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe\nof Juda,\n\n35:31. And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and\nunderstanding, and knowledge, and all learning,\n\n35:32. To devise and to work in gold and silver and brass,\n\n35:33. And in engraving stones, and in carpenters\u2019 work. Whatsoever can\nbe devised artificially,\n\n35:34. He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the son of Achisamech,\nof the tribe of Dan:\n\n35:35. Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to do carpenters\u2019\nwork, and tapestry, and embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine linen, and to weave all things, and to invent all\nnew things.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 36\n\nThe offerings are delivered to the workmen, the curtains, coverings,\nboards, bars, veil, pillars, and hanging are made.\n\n36:1. Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise man, to whom the\nLord gave wisdom and understanding, to know how to work artificially,\nmade the things that are necessary for the uses of the sanctuary, and\nwhich the Lord commanded.\n\n36:2. And when Moses had called them, and every skilful man, to whom\nthe Lord had given wisdom, and such as of their own accord had offered\nthemselves to the making of the work,\n\n36:3. He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto\nthem. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in\nthe morning offered their vows.\n\n36:4. Whereupon the workmen being constrained to come,\n\n36:5. Said to Moses: The people offereth more than is necessary.\n\n36:6. Moses therefore commanded proclamation to be made by the crier\u2019s\nvoice: Let neither man nor woman offer any more for the work of the\nsanctuary. And so they ceased from offering gifts,\n\n36:7. Because the things that were offered did suffice, and were too\nmuch.\n\n36:8. And all the men that were wise of heart, to accomplish the work\nof the tabernacle, made ten curtains of twisted fine linen, and violet,\nand purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work, and the art of\nembroidering:\n\n36:9. The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the\nbreadth four: all the curtains were of the same size.\n\n36:10. And he joined five curtains, one to another, and the other five\nhe coupled one to another.\n\n36:11. He made also loops of violet in the edge of one curtain on both\nsides, and in the edge of the other curtain in like manner,\n\n36:12. That the loops might meet one against another, and might be\njoined each with the other.\n\n36:13. Whereupon also he cast fifty rings of gold, that might catch the\nloops of the curtains, and they might be made one tabernacle.\n\n36:14. He made also eleven curtains of goats\u2019 hair, to cover the roof\nof the tabernacle:\n\n36:15. One curtain was thirty cubits long, and four cubits broad: all\nthe curtains were of one measure.\n\n36:16. Five of which he joined apart, and the other six apart.\n\n36:17. And he made fifty loops in the edge of one curtain, and fifty in\nthe edge of another curtain, that they might be joined one to another.\n\n36:18. And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit\ntogether, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.\n\n36:19. He made also a cover for the tabernacle of rams\u2019 skins dyed red;\nand another cover over that of violet skins.\n\n36:20. He made also the boards of the tabernacle of setim wood\nstanding.\n\n36:21. The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one\ncubit and a half.\n\n36:22. There were two mortises throughout every board, that one might\nbe joined to the other. And in this manner he made for all the boards\nof the tabernacle.\n\n36:23. Of which twenty were at the south side southward,\n\n36:24. With forty sockets of silver, two sockets were put under one\nboard on the two sides of the corners, where the mortises of the sides\nend in the corners.\n\n36:25. At that side also of the tabernacle, that looketh towards the\nnorth, he made twenty boards,\n\n36:26. With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for every board.\n\n36:27. But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle,\nwhich looketh to the sea, he made six boards,\n\n36:28. And two others at each corner of the tabernacle behind:\n\n36:29. Which were also joined from beneath unto the top, and went\ntogether into one joint. Thus he did on both sides at the corners:\n\n36:30. So there were in all eight boards, and they had sixteen sockets\nof silver, to wit, two sockets under every board.\n\n36:31. He made also bars of setim wood, five to hold together the\nboards of one side of the tabernacle,\n\n36:32. And five others to join together the boards of the other side;\nand besides these, five other bars at the west side of the tabernacle\ntowards the sea.\n\n36:33. He made also another bar, that might come by the midst of the\nboards from corner to corner.\n\n36:34. And the boards themselves he overlaid with gold casting for them\nsockets of silver. And their rings he made of gold, through which the\nbars might be drawn: and he covered the bars themselves with plates of\ngold.\n\n36:35. He made also a veil of violet, and purple, scarlet and fine\ntwisted linen, varied and distinguished with embroidery:\n\n36:36. And four pillars of setim wood, which with their heads he\noverlaid with gold, casting for them sockets of silver.\n\n36:37. He made also a hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of violet,\npurple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, with the work of an\nembroiderer.\n\n36:38. And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold,\nand their sockets he cast of brass.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 37\n\nBeseleel maketh the ark: the propitiatory, and cherubims, the table,\nthe candlestick, the lamps, and the altar of incense, and compoundeth\nthe incense.\n\n37:1. And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits\nand a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height\nwas of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold\nwithin and without.\n\n37:2. And he made to it a crown of gold round about,\n\n37:3. Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings\nin one side, and two in the other.\n\n37:4. And he made bars of setim wood, which he overlaid with gold,\n\n37:5. And he put them into the rings that were at the sides of the ark\nto carry it.\n\n37:6. He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest\ngold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in\nbreadth.\n\n37:7. Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which he set on the two sides\nof the propitiatory:\n\n37:8. One cherub in the top of one side, and the other cherub in the\ntop of the other side: two cherubims at the two ends of the\npropitiatory,\n\n37:9. Spreading their wings, and covering the propitiatory, and looking\none towards the other, and towards it.\n\n37:10. He made also the table of setim wood, in length two cubits, and\nin breadth one cubit, and in height it was a cubit and a half.\n\n37:11. And he overlaid it with the finest gold, and he made to it a\ngolden ledge round about,\n\n37:12. And to the ledge itself he made a polished crown of gold, of\nfour fingers breadth, and upon the same another golden crown.\n\n37:13. And he cast four rings of gold, which he put in the four corners\nat each foot of the table,\n\n37:14. Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the\ntable might be carried.\n\n37:15. The bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid\nthem with gold.\n\n37:16. And the vessels for the divers uses of the table, dishes, bowls,\nand cups, and censers of pure gold, wherein the libations are to be\noffered.\n\n37:17. He made also the candlestick of beaten work of the finest gold.\nFrom the shaft whereof its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies\ncame out:\n\n37:18. Six on the two sides: three branches on one side, and three on\nthe other.\n\n37:19. Three cups in manner of a nut on each branch, and bowls withal\nand lilies: and three cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch,\nand bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six branches, that went\nout from the shaft of the candlestick was equal.\n\n37:20. And in the shaft itself were four cups after the manner of a\nnut, and bowls withal at every one, and lilies:\n\n37:21. And bowls under two branches in three places, which together\nmade six branches going out from one shaft.\n\n37:22. So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten\nwork of the purest gold.\n\n37:23. He made also the seven lamps with their snuffers, and the\nvessels where the snuffings were to be put out, of the purest gold.\n\n37:24. The candlestick with all the vessels thereof weighed a talent of\ngold.\n\n37:25. He made also the altar of incense of setim wood, being a cubit\non every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of\nwhich went out horns.\n\n37:26. And he overlaid it with the purest gold, with its grate, and the\nsides, and the horns.\n\n37:27. And he made to it a crown of gold round about, and two golden\nrings under the crown at each side, that the bars might be put into\nthem, and the altar be carried.\n\n37:28. And the bars themselves he made also of setim wood, and overlaid\nthem with plates of gold.\n\n37:29. He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification,\nand incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 38\n\nHe maketh the altar of holocaust. The brazen laver. The court with its\npillars and hangings. The sum of what the people offered.\n\n38:1. He made also the altar of holocaust of setim wood, five cubits\nsquare, and three in height:\n\n38:2. The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it\nwith plates of brass.\n\n38:3. And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass,\ncauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks and firepans.\n\n38:4. And he made the grate thereof of brass, in manner of a net, and\nunder it in the midst of the altar a hearth,\n\n38:5. Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top, to put\nin bars to carry it:\n\n38:6. And he made the bars of setim wood, and overlaid them with plates\nof brass:\n\n38:7. And he drew them through the rings that stood out in the sides of\nthe altar. And the altar itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards,\nand empty within.\n\n38:8. He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the\nmirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle.\n\n38:9. He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings\nof fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits.\n\n38:10. Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets, the heads of the\npillars, and the whole graving of the work, of silver.\n\n38:11. In like manner at the north side the hangings, the pillars, and\nthe sockets and heads of the pillars were of the same measure, and work\nand metal.\n\n38:12. But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings\nof fifty cubits, ten pillars of brass with their sockets, and the heads\nof the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver.\n\n38:13. Moreover, towards the east he prepared hangings of fifty cubits:\n\n38:14. Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side with three pillars,\nand their sockets:\n\n38:15. And on the other side (for between the two he made the entry of\nthe tabernacle) there were hangings equally of fifteen cubits, and\nthree pillars, and as many sockets.\n\n38:16. All the hangings of the court were woven with twisted linen.\n\n38:17. The sockets of the pillars were of brass, and their heads with\nall their gravings of silver: and he overlaid the pillars of the court\nalso with silver.\n\n38:18. And he made in the entry thereof an embroidered hanging of\nviolet, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, that was twenty cubits\nlong, and five cubits high, according to the measure of all the\nhangings of the court.\n\n38:19. And the pillars in the entry were four, with sockets of brass,\nand their heads and gravings of silver.\n\n38:20. The pins also of the tabernacle and of the court round about he\nmade of brass.\n\n38:21. These are the instruments of the tabernacle of the testimony,\nwhich were counted according to the commandment of Moses, in the\nceremonies of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the\npriest:\n\n38:22. Which Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of\nJuda, had made, as the Lord commanded by Moses.\n\n38:23. Having for his companion Ooliab, the son of Achisamech, of the\ntribe of Dan: who also was an excellent artificer in wood, and worker\nin tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.\n\n38:24. All the gold that was spent in the work of the sanctuary, and\nthat was offered in gifts, was nine and twenty talents, and seven\nhundred and thirty sicles according to the standard of the sanctuary.\n\n38:25. And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty\nyears old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred\nand fifty men able to bear arms.\n\n38:26. There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were\ncast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil\nhangeth.\n\n38:27. A hundred sockets were made of a hundred talents, one talent\nbeing reckoned for every socket.\n\n38:28. And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the\nheads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver.\n\n38:29. And there were offered of brass also seventy-two thousand\ntalents, and four hundred sicles besides,\n\n38:30. Of which were cast the sockets in the entry of the tabernacle of\nthe testimony, and the altar of brass with the grate thereof, and also\nthe vessels that belong to the use thereof.\n\n38:31. And the sockets of the court as well round about as in the entry\nthereof, and the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 39\n\nAll the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are made. And the whole work of\nthe tabernacle is finished.\n\n39:1. And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the\nvestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as\nthe Lord commanded Moses.\n\n39:2. So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and fine twisted linen,\n\n39:3. With embroidered work, and he cut thin plates of gold, and drew\nthem small into threads, that they might be twisted with the woof of\nthe foresaid colours,\n\n39:4. And two borders coupled one to the other in the top on either\nside,\n\n39:5. And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord had commanded\nMoses.\n\n39:6. He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold,\nand graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of\nIsrael:\n\n39:7. And he set them in the sides of the ephod, for a memorial of the\nchildren of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:8. He made also a rational with embroidered work, according to the\nwork of the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and\nfine twisted linen:\n\n39:9. Foursquare, double, of the measure of a span.\n\n39:10. And he set four rows of precious stones in it. In the first row\nwas a sardius, a topaz, an emerald.\n\n39:11. In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.\n\n39:12. In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an amethyst.\n\n39:13. In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and\nenclosed in gold by their rows.\n\n39:14. And the twelve stones, were engraved with the names of the\ntwelve tribes of Israel, each one with its several name.\n\n39:15. They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to\nanother, of the purest gold,\n\n39:16. And two hooks, and as many rings of gold. And they set the rings\non either side of the rational,\n\n39:17. On which rings the two golden chains should hang, which they put\ninto the hooks that stood out in the corners of the ephod.\n\n39:18. These both before and behind so answered one another, that the\nephod and the rational were bound together,\n\n39:19. Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings,\nwhich a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved\none from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n39:20. They made also the tunic of the ephod all of violet,\n\n39:21. And a hole for the head in the upper part at the middle, and a\nwoven border round about the hole:\n\n39:22. And beneath at the feet pomegranates of violet, purple, scarlet,\nand fine twisted linen:\n\n39:23. And little bells of the purest gold, which they put between the\npomegranates at the bottom of the tunic round about:\n\n39:24. To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate, wherewith the high\npriest went adorned, when he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses.\n\n39:25. They made also fine linen tunics with woven work for Aaron and\nhis sons:\n\n39:26. And mitres with their little crowns of fine linen:\n\n39:27. And linen breeches of fine linen:\n\n39:28. And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:29. They made also the plate of sacred veneration of the purest\ngold, and they wrote on it with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy\nof the Lord:\n\n39:30. And they fastened it to the mitre with a violet fillet, as the\nLord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:31. So all the work of the tabernacle and of the roof of the\ntestimony was finished: and the children of Israel did all things which\nthe Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n39:32. And they offered the tabernacle, and the roof, and the whole\nfurniture, the rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars and their\nsockets,\n\n39:33. The cover of rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and the other cover of violet\nskins,\n\n39:34. The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,\n\n39:35. The table, with the vessels thereof, and the loaves of\nproposition:\n\n39:36. The candlestick, the lamps, and the furniture of them, with the\noil:\n\n39:37. The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:\n\n39:38. And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:\n\n39:39. The altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and all the vessels\nthereof: the laver, with the foot thereof: the hangings of the court,\nand the pillars, with their sockets:\n\n39:40. The hanging in the entry of the court, and the little cords, and\nthe pins thereof. Nothing was wanting of the vessels, that were\ncommanded to be made for the ministry of the tabernacle, and for the\nroof of the covenant.\n\n39:41. The vestments also, which the priests, to wit, Aaron and his\nsons, use in the sanctuary,\n\n39:42. The children of Israel offered, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n39:43. And when Moses saw all things finished, he blessed them.\n\n\nExodus Chapter 40\n\nThe tabernacle is commanded to be set up and anointed. God filleth it\nwith his majesty.\n\n40:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n40:2. The first month, the first day of the month, thou shalt set up\nthe tabernacle of the testimony,\n\n40:3. And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before\nit:\n\n40:4. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set upon it the things\nthat are commanded according to the rite. The candlestick shall stand\nwith its lamps,\n\n40:5. And the altar of gold, whereon the incense is burnt before the\nark of the testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging in the entry of the\ntabernacle,\n\n40:6. And before it the altar of holocaust.\n\n40:7. The laver between the altar and the tabernacle, and thou shalt\nfill it with water.\n\n40:8. And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry\nthereof.\n\n40:9. And thou shalt take the oil of unction and anoint the tabernacle\nwith its vessels, that they may be sanctified:\n\n40:10. The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:\n\n40:11. The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil\nof unction, that they may be most holy.\n\n40:12. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the\ntabernacle of the testimony, and having washed them with water,\n\n40:13. Thou shalt put on them the holy vestments, that they may\nminister to me, and that the unction of them may prosper to an\neverlasting priesthood.\n\n40:14. And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.\n\n40:15. So in the first month of the second year, the first day of the\nmonth, the tabernacle was set up.\n\n40:16. And Moses reared it up, and placed the boards and the sockets\nand the bars, and set up the pillars,\n\n40:17. And spread the roof over the tabernacle, putting over it a\ncover, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n40:18. And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath,\nand the oracle above.\n\n40:19. And when he had brought the ark into the tabernacle, he drew the\nveil before it to fulfil the commandment of the Lord.\n\n40:20. And he set the table in the tabernacle of the testimony, at the\nnorth side, without the veil,\n\n40:21. Setting there in order the loaves of proposition, as the Lord\nhad commanded Moses.\n\n40:22. He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony,\nover against the table on the south side,\n\n40:23. Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the\nLord.\n\n40:24. He set also the altar of gold under the roof of the testimony,\nover against the veil,\n\n40:25. And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses.\n\n40:26. And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of\nthe testimony,\n\n40:27. And the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony,\noffering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had\ncommanded.\n\n40:28. And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and\nthe altar, filling it with water.\n\n40:29. And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,\n\n40:30. When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to\nthe altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n40:31. He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the\naltar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were\nperfected,\n\n40:32. The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory\nof the Lord filled it.\n\n40:33. Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle of the covenant, the\ncloud covering all things, and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the\ncloud had covered all.\n\n40:34. If at any time the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the\nchildren of Israel went forward by their troops:\n\n40:35. If it hung over, they remained in the same place.\n\n40:36. For the cloud of the Lord hung over the tabernacle by day, and a\nfire by night, in the sight of all the children of Israel throughout\nall their mansions.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF LEVITICUS\n\n\nThis Book is called LEVITICUS, because it treats of the Offices,\nMinistries, Rites and Ceremonies of the Priests and Levites. The\nHebrews call it VAICRA, from the word with which it begins.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 1\n\nOf holocausts or burnt offerings.\n\n1:1. And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of\nthe testimony, saying:\n\n1:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The\nman among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle,\nthat is, offering victims of oxen and sheep:\n\n1:3. If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a\nmale without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord\nfavourable to him.\n\nA holocaust.... That is, a whole burnt offering (olokauston), so\ncalled, because the whole victim was consumed with fire; and given in\nsuch manner to God as wholly to evaporate, as it were, for his honour\nand glory; without having any part of it reserved for the use of man.\nThe other sacrifices in the Old Testament were either offerings for\nsin, or peace offerings: and these latter again were either offered in\nthanksgiving for blessings received; or by way of prayer for new\nfavours or graces. So that sacrifices were then offered to God for four\ndifferent ends or intentions, answerable to the different obligations\nwhich man has to God: 1. By way of adoration, homage, praise, and glory\ndue to his divine majesty. 2. By way of thanksgiving for all benefits\nreceived from him. 3. By way of confessing and craving pardon for sins.\n4. By way of prayer and petition for grace and relief in all\nnecessities. In the New Law we have but one sacrifice, viz., that of\nthe body and blood of Christ: but this one sacrifice of the New\nTestament perfectly answers all these four ends; and both priest and\npeople, as often as it is celebrated, ought to join in offering it up\nfor these four ends.\n\n1:4. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim: and it\nshall be acceptable, and help to its expiation.\n\n1:5. And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests\nthe sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about\nthe altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.\n\n1:6. And when they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the joints\ninto pieces:\n\n1:7. And shall put fire on the altar, having before laid in order a\npile of wood.\n\n1:8. And they shall lay the parts that are cut out in order thereupon:\nto wit, the head, and all things that cleave to the liver;\n\n1:9. The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest\nshall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to\nthe Lord.\n\n1:10. And if the offering be of the flocks, a holocaust of sheep or of\ngoats, he shall offer a male without blemish.\n\n1:11. And he shall immolate it at the side of the altar that looketh to\nthe north, before the Lord: but the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood\nthereof upon the altar round about.\n\n1:12. And they shall divide the joints, the head, and all that cleave\nto the liver: and shall lay them upon the wood, under which the fire is\nto be put.\n\n1:13. But the entrails and the feet they shall wash with water. And the\npriest shall offer it all and burn it all upon the altar for a\nholocaust, and most sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n1:14. But if the oblation of a holocaust to the Lord be of birds, of\nturtles, or of young pigeons:\n\n1:15. The priest shall offer it at the altar: and twisting back the\nneck, and breaking the place of the wound, he shall make the blood run\ndown upon the brim of the altar.\n\n1:16. But the crop of the throat, and the feathers he shall cast beside\nthe altar at the east side, in the place where the ashes are wont to be\npoured out.\n\n1:17. And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor\ndivide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire\nunder the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to\nthe Lord.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 2\n\nOf offerings of flour, and firstfruits.\n\n2:1. When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his\noffering shall be of fine flour: and he shall pour oil upon it, and put\nfrankincense,\n\n2:2. And shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the priests. And one of\nthem shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and all the\nfrankincense; and shall put it a memorial upon the altar for a most\nsweet savour to the Lord.\n\n2:3. And the remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron\u2019s, and his sons\u2019,\nholy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.\n\nHoly of holies.... That is, most holy, as being dedicated to God, and\nset aside by his ordinance for the use of his priests.\n\n2:4. But when thou offerest a sacrifice baked in the oven of flour, to\nwit, loaves without leaven, tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers,\nanointed with oil:\n\n2:5. If thy oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil,\nand without leaven:\n\n2:6. Thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and shalt pour oil upon\nit.\n\n2:7. And if the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the\nflour shall be tempered with oil.\n\n2:8. And when thou offerest it to the Lord, thou shalt deliver it to\nthe hands of the priest.\n\n2:9. And when he hath offered it, he shall take a memorial out of the\nsacrifice, and burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n2:10. And whatsoever is left, shall be Aaron\u2019s, and his sons\u2019: holy of\nholies of the offerings of the Lord.\n\n2:11. Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without\nleaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to\nthe Lord.\n\nWithout leaven or honey.... No leaven nor honey was to be used in the\nsacrifice offered to God; to signify that we are to exclude from the\npure worship of the gospel, all double dealing and affection to carnal\npleasures.\n\n2:12. You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they\nshall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.\n\n2:13. Whatsoever sacrifice thou offerest, thou shalt season it with\nsalt: neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God\nfrom thy sacrifice. In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt.\n\nSalt.... In every sacrifice salt was to be used, which is an emblem of\nwisdom and discretion, without which none of our performances are\nagreeable to God.\n\n2:14. But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the\nLord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break\nit small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the\nLord:\n\n2:15. Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is\nthe oblation of the Lord.\n\n2:16. Whereof the priest shall burn for a memorial of the gift, part of\nthe corn broken small and of the oil, and all the frankincense.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 3\n\nOf peace offerings.\n\n3:1. And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings, and he will\noffer of the herd, whether male or female: he shall offer them without\nblemish before the Lord.\n\nPeace offerings.... Peace, in the scripture language, signifies\nhappiness, welfare or prosperity; in a word, all kind of\nblessings.\u2014Such sacrifices, therefore, as were offered either on\noccasion of blessings received, or to obtain new favours, were called\npacific or peace offerings. In these, some part of the victim was\nconsumed with fire on the altar of God; other parts were eaten by the\npriests and by the persons for whom the sacrifice was offered.\n\n3:2. And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his victim, which shall\nbe slain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons\nof Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round about upon the altar.\n\n3:3. And they shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings, for an\noblation to the Lord: the fat that covereth the entrails, and all the\nfat that is within,\n\n3:4. The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the flanks are covered, and\nthe caul of the liver with the two little kidneys.\n\n3:5. And they shall burn them upon the altar, for a holocaust, putting\nfire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n3:6. But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the\nflock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.\n\n3:7. If he offer a lamb before the Lord:\n\n3:8. He shall put his hand upon the head of the victim. And it shall be\nslain in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of\nAaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.\n\n3:9. And they shall offer of the victim of peace offerings, a sacrifice\nto the Lord: the fat and the whole rump,\n\n3:10. With the kidneys, and the fat that covereth the belly and all the\nvitals and both the little kidneys, with the fat that is about the\nflanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.\n\n3:11. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of\nthe fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.\n\n3:12. If his offering be a goat, and he offer it to the Lord:\n\n3:13. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and shall immolate\nit in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of\nAaron shall pour the blood thereof round about upon the altar.\n\n3:14. And they shall take of it for the food of the Lord\u2019s fire, the\nfat that covereth the belly, and that covereth all the vital parts:\n\n3:15. The two little kidneys with the caul that is upon them which is\nby the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys.\n\n3:16. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of\nthe fire, and of a most sweet savour. All the fat shall be the Lord\u2019s.\n\n3:17. By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your\nhabitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.\n\nFat.... It is meant of the fat, which by the prescription of the law\nwas to be offered on God\u2019s altar; not of the fat of meat, such as we\ncommonly eat.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 4\n\nOf offerings for sins of ignorance.\n\n4:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n4:2. Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through\nignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the\nLord, which he commanded not to be done:\n\nIgnorance.... To be ignorant of what we are bound to know is sinful;\nand for such culpable ignorance, these sacrifices, prescribed in this\nand the following chapter, were appointed.\n\n4:3. If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to\noffend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.\n\n4:4. And he shall bring it to the door of the testimony before the\nLord: and shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall sacrifice\nit to the Lord.\n\n4:5. He shall take also of the blood of the calf: and carry it into the\ntabernacle of the testimony.\n\nThe blood.... As the figure of the blood of Christ shed for the\nremission of our sins, and carried by him into the sanctuary of heaven.\n\n4:6. And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with\nit seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.\n\n4:7. And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the\naltar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the\ntabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the\nblood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the\ntabernacle.\n\n4:8. And he shall take off the fat of the calf for the sin offering, as\nwell that which covereth the entrails, as all the inwards:\n\n4:9. The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is\nby the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys:\n\n4:10. As it is taken off from the calf of the sacrifice of peace\nofferings. And he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.\n\n4:11. But the skin and all the flesh with the head and the feet and the\nbowels and the dung:\n\n4:12. And the rest of the body, he shall carry forth without the camp\ninto a clean place where the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he\nshall burn them upon a pile of wood. They shall be burnt in the place\nwhere the ashes are poured out.\n\n4:13. And if all the multitude of Israel shall be ignorant, and through\nignorance shall do that which is against the commandment of the Lord,\n\n4:14. And afterwards shall understand their sin: they shall offer for\ntheir sin a calf, and shall bring it to the door of the tabernacle.\n\n4:15. And the ancients of the people shall put their hands upon the\nhead thereof before the Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight\nof the Lord:\n\n4:16. The priest that is anointed shall carry of the blood into the\ntabernacle of the testimony.\n\n4:17. And shall dip his finger in it and sprinkle it seven times before\nthe veil.\n\n4:18. And he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that\nis before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And the rest of\nthe blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is\nat the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n4:19. And all the fat thereof he shall take off, and shall burn it upon\nthe altar:\n\n4:20. Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the\npriest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them.\n\n4:21. But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and\nshall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of\nthe multitude.\n\n4:22. If a prince shall sin, and through ignorance do any one of the\nthings that the law of the Lord forbiddeth,\n\n4:23. And afterwards shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a buck\ngoat without blemish, a sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n4:24. And he shall put his hand upon the head thereof: and when he hath\nimmolated it in the place where the holocaust is wont to be slain\nbefore the Lord, because it is for sin,\n\n4:25. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood of the victim for\nsin, touching therewith the horns of the altar of holocaust, and\npouring out the rest at the foot thereof.\n\n4:26. But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont to be done with the\nvictims of peace offerings. And the priest shall pray for him, and for\nhis sin: and it shall be forgiven him.\n\n4:27. And if any one of the people of the land shall sin through\nignorance, doing any of those things that by the law of the Lord are\nforbidden, and offending,\n\n4:28. And shall come to know his sin: he shall offer a she goat without\nblemish.\n\n4:29. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the victim that is for\nsin: and shall immolate it in the place of the holocaust.\n\n4:30. And the priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and shall\ntouch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and shall pour out the rest\nat the foot thereof.\n\n4:31. But taking off all the fat, as is wont to be taken away of the\nvictims of peace offerings, he shall burn it upon the altar, for a\nsweet savour to the Lord: and he shall pray for him, and it shall be\nforgiven him.\n\n4:32. But if he offer of the flock a victim for his sin, to wit, an ewe\nwithout blemish:\n\n4:33. He shall put his hand upon the head thereof, and shall immolate\nit in the place where the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.\n\n4:34. And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger,\nand shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust: and the rest he\nshall pour out at the foot thereof.\n\n4:35. All the fat also he shall take off, as the fat of the ram that is\noffered for peace offerings is wont to be taken away: and shall burn it\nupon the altar, for a burnt sacrifice of the Lord. And he shall pray\nfor him and his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 5\n\nOf other sacrifices for sins.\n\n5:1. If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a\nwitness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he\ndo not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.\n\n5:2. Whosoever toucheth any unclean thing, either that which hath been\nkilled by a beast, or died of itself, or any other creeping thing: and\nforgetteth his uncleanness, he is guilty, and hath offended.\n\n5:3. And if he touch any thing of the uncleanness of man, according to\nany uncleanness wherewith he is wont to be defiled: and having\nforgotten it, come afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty of an\noffence.\n\n5:4. The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he\nwould do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and\nhis word: and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence,\n\n5:5. Let him do penance for his sin:\n\n5:6. And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb, or a she goat, and the priest\nshall pray for him and for his sin.\n\n5:7. But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles,\nor two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a\nholocaust,\n\n5:8. And he shall give them to the priest: who shall offer the first\nfor sin, and twist back the head of it to the little pinions, so that\nit stick to the neck, and be not altogether broken off.\n\n5:9. And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side of the altar: and\nwhatever is left, he shall let it drop at the bottom thereof, because\nit is for sin.\n\n5:10. And the other he shall burn for a holocaust, as is wont to be\ndone. And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, and it shall\nbe forgiven him.\n\n5:11. And if his hand be not able to offer two turtles, or two young\npigeons, he shall offer for his sin the tenth part of an ephi of flour.\nHe shall not put oil upon it, nor put any frankincense thereon, because\nit is for sin.\n\n5:12. And he shall deliver it to the priest, who shall take a handful\nthereof, and shall burn it upon the altar for a memorial of him that\noffered it:\n\n5:13. Praying for him and making atonement. But the part that is left,\nhe himself shall have for a gift.\n\n5:14. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:15. If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the\nceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall\noffer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may\nbe bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary.\n\n5:16. And he shall make good the damage itself which he hath done, and\nshall add the fifth part besides, delivering it to the priest, who\nshall pray for him, offering the ram: and it shall be forgiven him.\n\n5:17. If any one sin through ignorance, and do one of those things\nwhich by the law of the Lord are forbidden, and being guilty of sin,\nunderstand his iniquity:\n\n5:18. He shall offer of the flocks a ram without blemish to the priest,\naccording to the measure and estimation of the sin. And the priest\nshall pray for him, because he did it ignorantly: And it shall be\nforgiven him,\n\n5:19. Because by mistake he trespassed against the Lord.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 6\n\nOblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concerning the holocausts\nand the perpetual fire: the sacrifices of the priests, and the sin\nofferings.\n\n6:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:2. Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his\nneighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to\nhis trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;\n\n6:3. Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear\nfalsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont\nto sin:\n\n6:4. Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore\n\n6:5. All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the\nfifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.\n\n6:6. Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of\nthe flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation\nand measure of the offence.\n\n6:7. And he shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have\nforgiveness for every thing in doing of which he bath sinned.\n\n6:8. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:9. Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of a holocaust. It\nshall be burnt upon the altar, all night until morning: the fire shall\nbe of the same altar.\n\n6:10. The priest shall be vested with the tunick and the linen\nbreeches; and he shall take up the ashes of that which the devouring\nfire hath burnt: and putting them beside the altar,\n\n6:11. Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with\nothers, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them\nto be consumed to dust in a very clean place.\n\n6:12. And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall\nfeed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the\nholocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.\n\n6:13. This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.\n\nThe perpetual fire.... This fire came from heaven, (infra. chap. 9.24,)\nand was always kept burning on the altar, as a figure of the heavenly\nfire of divine love, which ought to be always burning in the heart of a\nChristian.\n\n6:14. This is the law of the sacrifice and libations, which the\nchildren of Aaron shall offer before the Lord, and before the altar.\n\n6:15. The priest shall take a handful of the flour that is tempered\nwith oil, and all the frankincense that is put upon the flour: and he\nshall burn on the altar for a memorial of most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n6:16. And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall\neat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court\nof the tabernacle.\n\n6:17. And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is\noffered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as\nthat which is offered for sin and for trespass.\n\n6:18. The males only of the race of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be an\nordinance everlasting in your generations concerning the sacrifices of\nthe Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.\n\n6:19. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:20. This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his sons, which they must\noffer to the Lord, in the day of their anointing. They shall offer the\ntenth part of an ephi of flour for a perpetual sacrifice, half of it in\nthe morning, and half of it in the evening.\n\n6:21. It shall be tempered with oil, and shall be fried in a fryingpan.\n\n6:22. And the priest that rightfully succeedeth his father, shall offer\nit hot, for a most sweet odour to the Lord: and it shall be wholly\nburnt on the altar.\n\n6:23. For every sacrifice of the priest shall be consumed with fire:\nneither shall any man eat thereof.\n\n6:24. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:25. Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the victim for sin.\nIn the place where the holocaust is offered, it shall be immolated\nbefore the Lord. It is holy of holies.\n\n6:26. The priest that offereth it, shall eat it in a holy place, in the\ncourt of the tabernacle.\n\n6:27. Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof, shall be sanctified. If\na garment be sprinkled with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a\nholy place.\n\n6:28. And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sodden, shall be broken:\nbut if the vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and washed with\nwater.\n\n6:29. Every male of the priestly race shall eat of the flesh thereof,\nbecause it is holy of holies.\n\n6:30. For the victim that is slain for sin, the blood of which is\ncarried into the tabernacle of the testimony to make atonement in the\nsanctuary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 7\n\nOf sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings. No fat nor blood is\nto be eaten.\n\n7:1. This also is the law of the sacrifice for a trespass: it is most\nholy.\n\nTrespass.... Trespasses, for which these offerings were to be made,\nwere lesser offences than those for which the sin offerings were\nappointed.\n\n7:2. Therefore where the holocaust is immolated, the victim also for a\ntrespass shall be slain: the blood thereof shall be poured round about\nthe altar.\n\n7:3. They shall offer thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the\nentrails:\n\n7:4. The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and\nthe caul of the liver with the little kidneys.\n\n7:5. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt\nsacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.\n\n7:6. Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this flesh in a holy\nplace, because it is most holy.\n\n7:7. As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a\ntrespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices. It shall\nbelong to the priest that offereth it.\n\n7:8. The priest that offereth the victim of holocaust, shall have the\nskin thereof.\n\n7:9. And every sacrifice of flour that is baked in the oven, and\nwhatsoever is dressed on the gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be\nthe priest\u2019s that offereth it.\n\n7:10. Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry, all the sons of Aaron\nshall have one as much as another.\n\n7:11. This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that is\noffered to the Lord.\n\n7:12. If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer loaves\nwithout leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with\noil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil.\n\n7:13. Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanks,\nwhich is offered for peace offerings:\n\n7:14. Of which one shall be offered to the Lord for firstfruits, and\nshall be the priest\u2019s that shall pour out the blood of the victim.\n\n7:15. And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day: neither shall\nany of it remain until the morning.\n\n7:16. If any man by vow, or of his own accord offer a sacrifice, it\nshall in like manner be eaten the same day. And if any of it remain\nuntil the morrow, it is lawful to eat it.\n\n7:17. But whatsoever shall be found on the third day shall be consumed\nwith fire.\n\n7:18. If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on\nthe third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it\nprofit the offerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall defile itself\nwith such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.\n\n7:19. The flesh that hath touched any unclean thing, shall not be\neaten: but shall be burnt with fire. He that is clean shall eat of it.\n\n7:20. If any one that is defiled shall eat of the flesh of the\nsacrifice of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord, he shall be\ncut off from his people.\n\n7:21. And he that hath touched the uncleanness of man, or of beast, or\nof any thing that can defile, and shall eat of such kind of flesh:\nshall be cut off from his people.\n\n7:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n7:23. Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a sheep, and of an ox,\nand of a goat you shall not eat.\n\n7:24. The fat of a carcass that hath died of itself, and of a beast\nthat was caught by another beast, you shall have for divers uses.\n\n7:25. If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt\nsacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.\n\n7:26. Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever,\nwhether of birds or beasts.\n\n7:27. Every one that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people.\n\n7:28. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n7:29. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth a\nvictim of peace offerings to the Lord, let him offer therewith a\nsacrifice also, that is, the libations thereof.\n\n7:30. He shall hold in his hands the fat of the victim, and the breast.\nAnd when he hath offered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall\ndeliver them to the priest,\n\n7:31. Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But the breast shall be\nAaron\u2019s and his sons\u2019.\n\n7:32. The right shoulder also of the victim, of peace offerings shall\nfall to the priest for firstfruits.\n\n7:33. He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood, and the fat:\nhe shall have the right shoulder also for his portion.\n\n7:34. For the breast that is elevated and the shoulder that is\nseparated I have taken of the children of Israel, from off their\nvictims of peace offerings: and have given them to Aaron the priest,\nand to his sons, by a law for ever, from all the people of Israel.\n\n7:35. This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons, in the ceremonies of\nthe Lord, in the day when Moses offered them, that they might do the\noffice of priesthood,\n\n7:36. And the things that the Lord commanded to be given them by the\nchildren of Israel, by a perpetual observance in their generations.\n\n7:37. This is the law of holocaust, and of the sacrifice for sin, and\nfor trespass, and for consecration, and the victims of peace offerings:\n\n7:38. Which the Lord appointed to Moses in mount Sinai, when he\ncommanded the children of Israel, that they should offer their\noblations to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 8\n\nMoses consecrateth Aaron and his sons.\n\n8:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:2. Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction:\na calf for sin, two rams, a basket with unleavened bread.\n\n8:3. And thou shalt gather together all the congregation to the door of\nthe tabernacle.\n\n8:4. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And all the multitude\nbeing gathered together before the door of the tabernacle:\n\n8:5. He said: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded to be done.\n\n8:6. And immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had\nwashed them,\n\n8:7. He vested the high priest with the strait linen garment, girding\nhim with the girdle, and putting on him the violet tunick: and over it\nhe put the ephod.\n\n8:8. And binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on\nwhich was Doctrine and Truth.\n\n8:9. He put also the mitre upon his head: and upon the mitre over the\nforehead, he put the plate of gold, consecrated with sanctification, as\nthe Lord had commanded him.\n\n8:10. He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the\ntabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.\n\n8:11. And when he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times,\nhe anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with the\nfoot thereof, he sanctified with the oil.\n\n8:12. And he poured it upon Aaron\u2019s head: and he anointed and\nconsecrated him.\n\n8:13. And after he had offered his sons, he vested them with linen\ntunicks, and girded them with girdles: and put mitres on them as the\nLord had commanded.\n\n8:14. He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had\nput their hands upon the head thereof,\n\n8:15. He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in\nit, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being\nexpiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom\nthereof.\n\n8:16. But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the\nliver, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, he burnt upon the\naltar.\n\n8:17. And the calf with the skin, and the flesh and the dung, he burnt\nwithout the camp, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n8:18. He offered also a ram for holocaust. And when Aaron and his sons\nhad put their hands upon its head:\n\n8:19. He immolated it, and poured the blood thereof round about the\naltar.\n\n8:20. And cutting the ram into pieces, the head thereof, and the\njoints, and the fat he burnt in the fire.\n\n8:21. Having first washed the entrails, and the feet, and the whole ram\ntogether he burnt upon the altar: because it was a holocaust of most\nsweet odour to the Lord, as he had commanded him.\n\n8:22. He offered also the second ram, in the consecration of priests:\nand Aaron, and his sons put their hands upon the head thereof.\n\n8:23. And when Moses had immolated it, he took of the blood thereof,\nand touched the tip of Aaron\u2019s right ear, and the thumb of his right\nhand, and in like manner also the great toe of his right foot.\n\n8:24. He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when with the blood of the\nram that was immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of\nevery one of them, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great\ntoes of their right feet, the rest he poured on the altar round about.\n\n8:25. But the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that covereth the\nentrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their\nfat, and with the right shoulder, he separated.\n\n8:26. And taking out of the basket of unleavened bread, which was\nbefore the Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a cake tempered with oil\nand a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder:\n\n8:27. Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons. Who having lifted them\nup before the Lord,\n\n8:28. He took them again from their hands, and burnt them upon the\naltar of holocaust: because it was the oblation of consecration, for a\nsweet odour of sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n8:29. And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his\nportion, elevating it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.\n\n8:30. And taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar,\nhe sprinkled Aaron, and his vestments, and his sons, and their\nvestments with it.\n\n8:31. And when he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded\nthem, saying: Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and\nthere eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of consecration, that are laid in\nthe basket, as the Lord commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall\neat them.\n\n8:32. And whatsoever shall be left of the flesh and the loaves, shall\nbe consumed with fire.\n\n8:33. And you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle for seven\ndays, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be\nexpired. For in seven days the consecration is finished:\n\n8:34. As at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the\nsacrifice might be accomplished.\n\n8:35. Day and night shall you remain in the tabernacle observing the\nwatches of the Lord, lest you die. For so it hath been commanded me.\n\n8:36. And Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord spoke by the\nhand of Moses.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 9\n\nAaron offereth sacrifice for himself and the people. Fire cometh from\nthe Lord upon the altar.\n\n9:1. And when the eighth day was come, Moses called Aaron and his sons,\nand the ancients of Israel, and said to Aaron:\n\n9:2. Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust, both\nwithout blemish, and offer them before the Lord.\n\n9:3. And to the children of Israel thou shalt say: Take ye a he goat\nfor sin, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, and without\nblemish for a holocaust.\n\n9:4. Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings. And immolate them\nbefore the Lord, offering for the sacrifice of every one of them flour\ntempered with oil: for to day the Lord will appear to you.\n\n9:5. They brought therefore all things that Moses had commanded before\nthe door of the tabernacle: where when all the multitude stood,\n\n9:6. Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded. Do\nit, and his glory will appear to you.\n\n9:7. And he said to Aaron: Approach to the altar, and offer sacrifice\nfor thy sin. Offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself and for the\npeople: and when thou hast slain the people\u2019s victim, pray for them, as\nthe Lord hath commanded.\n\n9:8. And forthwith Aaron, approaching to the altar, immolated the calf\nfor his sin.\n\n9:9. And his sons brought him the blood of it: and he dipped his finger\ntherein, and touched the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at the\nfoot thereof.\n\n9:10. And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the caul of the liver,\nwhich are for sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord had commanded\nMoses.\n\n9:11. But the flesh and skins thereof he burnt with fire without the\ncamp.\n\n9:12. He immolated also the victim of holocaust: and his sons brought\nhim the blood thereof, which he poured round about on the altar.\n\n9:13. And the victim being cut into pieces, they brought to him the\nhead and all the members: all which he burnt with fire upon the altar.\n\n9:14. Having first washed the entrails and the feet with water.\n\n9:15. Then offering for the sin of the people, he slew the he goat: and\nexpiating the altar,\n\n9:16. He offered the holocaust.\n\n9:17. Adding in the sacrifice the libations, which are offered withal,\nand burning them upon the altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning\nholocaust.\n\n9:18. He immolated also the bullock and the ram, and peace offerings of\nthe people: and his sons brought him the blood, which he poured upon\nthe altar round about.\n\n9:19. The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two\nlittle kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver,\n\n9:20. They put upon the breasts. And after the fat was burnt upon the\naltar,\n\n9:21. Aaron separated their breasts, and the right shoulders, elevating\nthem before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.\n\n9:22. And stretching forth his hands to the people, he blessed them.\nAnd so the victims for sin, and the holocausts, and the peace offerings\nbeing finished, he came down.\n\n9:23. And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the testimony,\nand afterwards came forth and blessed the people. And the glory of the\nLord appeared to all the multitude.\n\n9:24. And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the\nholocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the\nmultitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 10\n\nNadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. Priests\nare forbidden to drink wine, when they enter into the tabernacle. The\nlaw of eating the holy things.\n\n10:1. And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put\nfire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire:\nwhich was not commanded them.\n\n10:2. And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died\nbefore the Lord.\n\n10:3. And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I\nwill be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified\nin the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his\npeace.\n\n10:4. And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, the sons of Oziel, the\nuncle of Aaron, and said to them: Go and take away your brethren from\nbefore the sanctuary, and carry them without the camp.\n\n10:5. And they went forthwith and took them as they lay, vested with\nlinen tunicks, and cast them forth, as had been commanded them.\n\n10:6. And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons:\nUncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you\ndie, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren,\nand all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has\nkindled.\n\n10:7. But you shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle: otherwise\nyou shall perish, for the oil of the holy unction is on you. And they\ndid all things according to the precept of Moses.\n\n10:8. The Lord also said to Aaron:\n\n10:9. You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou\nnor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest\nyou die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your\ngenerations:\n\n10:10. And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and\nunholy, between unclean and clean:\n\n10:11. And may teach the children of Israel all my ordinances which the\nLord hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses.\n\n10:12. And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons\nthat were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of\nthe Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is\nholy of holies.\n\n10:13. And you shall eat it in a holy place: which is given to thee and\nthy sons of the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.\n\n10:14. The breast also that is offered, and the shoulder that is\nseparated, you shall eat in a most clean place, thou and thy sons, and\nthy daughters with thee. For they are set aside for thee and thy\nchildren, of the victims of peace offerings of the children of Israel.\n\n10:15. Because they have elevated before the Lord the shoulder and the\nbreast, and the fat that is burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee\nand to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded.\n\n10:16. While these things were a doing, when Moses sought for the buck\ngoat, that had been offered for sin, he found it burnt. And being angry\nwith Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, he said:\n\n10:17. Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin,\nwhich is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of\nthe people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord.\n\n10:18. Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried\nwithin the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the\nsanctuary, as was commanded me?\n\n10:19. Aaron answered: This day hath been offered the victim for sin,\nand the holocaust before the Lord: and to me what thou seest has\nhappened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in the ceremonies,\nhaving a sorrowful heart?\n\n10:20. Which when Moses had heard he was satisfied.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 11\n\nThe distinction of clean and unclean animals.\n\n11:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n11:2. Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you\nare to eat of all the living things of the earth.\n\nAnimals which you are to eat, etc.... The prohibition of so many kinds\nof beasts, birds, and fishes, in the law, was ordered, 1st, to exercise\nthe people in obedience, and temperance; 2ndly, to restrain them from\nthe vices of which these animals were symbols; 3rdly, because the\nthings here forbidden were for the most part unwholesome, and not\nproper to be eaten; 4thly, that the people of God, by being obliged to\nabstain from things corporally unclean, might be trained up to seek a\nspiritual cleanness.\n\n11:3. Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and cheweth the cud among the\nbeasts, you shall eat.\n\nHoof divided, and cheweth the cud.... The dividing of the hoof and\nchewing of the cud, signify discretion between good and evil, and\nmeditating on the law of God; and where either of these is wanting a\nman is unclean. In like manner fishes were reputed unclean that had not\nfins and scales: that is, souls that did not raise themselves up by\nprayer and cover themselves with the scales of virtue.\n\n11:4. But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and hath a hoof, but\ndivideth it not, as the camel, and others: that you shall not eat, but\nshall reckon it among the unclean.\n\n11:5. The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but divideth not the\nhoof, is unclean.\n\nThe cherogrillus.... Some suppose it to be the rabbit, others the\nhedgehog. St. Jerome intimates that it is another kind of animal common\nin Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the earth. We\nchoose here, as also in the names of several other creatures that\nfollow (which are little known in this part of the world,) to keep the\nGreek or Latin names.\n\n11:6. The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the\nhoof.\n\n11:7. And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not\nthe cud.\n\n11:8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their\ncarcasses, because they are unclean to you.\n\n11:9. These are the things that breed in the waters, and which it is\nlawful to eat. All that hath fins, and scales, as well in the sea, as\nin the rivers, and the pools, you shall eat.\n\n11:10. But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that\nmove and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,\n\n11:11. And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their\ncarcasses you shall avoid.\n\n11:12. All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be\nunclean.\n\n11:13. Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to\nbe avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey.\n\nThe griffon.... Not the monster which the painter represent, which hath\nno being upon earth; but a bird of the eagle kind, larger than the\ncommon.\n\n11:14. And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind.\n\n11:15. And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness.\n\n11:16. The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according\nto its kind.\n\n11:17. The screech owl, and the cormorant, and the ibis.\n\n11:18. And the swan, and the bittern, and the porphyrion.\n\n11:19. The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp\nalso, and the bat.\n\n11:20. Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth upon four feet, shall be\nabominable to you.\n\n11:21. But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but hath the legs behind\nlonger, wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,\n\n11:22. That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its kind, the attacus, and\nophimachus, and the locust, every one according to their kind.\n\n11:23. But of flying things whatsoever hath four feet only, shall be an\nabomination to you.\n\n11:24. And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of them, shall be\ndefiled: and shall be unclean until the evening:\n\n11:25. And if it be necessary that he carry any of these things when\nthey are dead: he shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until\nthe sun set.\n\n11:26. Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth it not, nor cheweth\nthe cud shall be unclean: and he that toucheth it, shall be defiled.\n\n11:27. That which walketh upon hands of all animals which go on all\nfour, shall be unclean: he that shall touch their carcasses shall be\ndefiled until evening.\n\n11:28. And he that shall carry such carcasses, shall wash his clothes,\nand shall be unclean until evening: because all these things are\nunclean to you.\n\n11:29. These also shall be reckoned among unclean things, of all that\nmove upon the earth. The weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile,\nevery one according to their kind:\n\n11:30. The shrew, and the chameleon, and the stellio, and the lizard,\nand the mole.\n\n11:31. All these are unclean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be\nunclean until the evening.\n\n11:32. And upon what thing soever any of their carcasses shall fall, it\nshall be defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or\nskins or haircloths: or any thing in which work is done. They shall be\ndipped in water, and shall be unclean until the evening, and so\nafterwards shall be clean.\n\n11:33. But an earthen vessel, into which any of these shall fall, shall\nbe defiled: and therefore is to be broken.\n\n11:34. Any meat which you eat, if water from such a vessel be poured\nupon it, shall be unclean; and every liquor that is drunk out of any\nsuch vessel, shall be unclean.\n\n11:35. And upon whatsoever thing any of these dead beasts shall fall,\nit shall be unclean. Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall\nbe destroyed, and shall be unclean.\n\n11:36. But fountains and cisterns, and all gatherings together of\nwaters shall be clean. He that toucheth their carcasses shall be\ndefiled.\n\n11:37. If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not defile it.\n\n11:38. But if any man pour water upon the seed, and afterwards it be\ntouched by the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.\n\n11:39. If any beast die, of which it is lawful for you to eat, he that\ntoucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n11:40. And he that eateth or carrieth any thing thereof, shall wash his\nclothes, and shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n11:41. All that creepeth upon the earth shall be abominable: neither\nshall it be taken for meat.\n\n11:42. Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many\nfeet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is\nabominable.\n\n11:43. Do not defile your souls, nor touch aught thereof, lest you be\nunclean,\n\n11:44. For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile\nnot your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.\n\n11:45. For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,\nthat I might be your God.\n\n11:46. You shall be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of beasts\nand fowls, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and\ncreepeth on the earth:\n\n11:47. That you may know the differences of the clean, and unclean, and\nknow what you ought to eat, and what to refuse.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 12\n\nThe purification of women after childbirth.\n\n12:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n12:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a\nwoman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean\nseven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.\n\n12:3. And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:\n\n12:4. But she shall remain three and thirty days in the blood of her\npurification. She shall touch no holy thing: neither shall she enter\ninto the sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be fulfilled.\n\n12:5. But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two\nweeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses. And she shall\nremain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days.\n\n12:6. And when the days of her purification are expired, for a son, or\nfor a daughter, she shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon or\na turtle for sin: and shall deliver them to the priest.\n\n12:7. Who shall offer them before the Lord, and shall pray for her: and\nso she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law\nfor her that beareth a man child or a maid child.\n\n12:8. And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to\noffer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for\na holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her,\nand so she shall be cleansed.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 13\n\nThe law concerning leprosy in men, and in garments.\n\n13:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n13:2. The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a different colour or\na blister, or as it were something shining, that is the stroke of the\nleprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any one of his sons.\n\n13:3. And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and the hair turned white\nand the place where the leprosy appears lower than the skin and the\nrest of the flesh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and upon his\njudgment he shall be separated.\n\n13:4. But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower\nthan the other flesh, and the hair be of the former colour, the priest\nshall shut him up seven days.\n\n13:5. And the seventh day he shall look on him: and if the leprosy be\ngrown no farther, and hath not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut\nhim up again other seven days.\n\n13:6. And on the seventh day, he shall look on him. If the leprosy be\nsomewhat obscure, and not spread in the skin, he shall declare him\nclean, because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash his clothes,\nand shall be clean.\n\n13:7. But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was seen by the priest\nand restored to cleanness, he shall be brought to him:\n\n13:8. And shall be condemned of uncleanness.\n\n13:9. If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to\nthe priest:\n\n13:10. And he shall view him. And when there shall be a white colour in\nthe skin, and it shall have changed the look of the hair, and the\nliving flesh itself shall appear:\n\n13:11. It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and grown into the\nskin. The priest therefore shall declare him unclean: and shall not\nshut him up, because he is evidently unclean.\n\n13:12. But if the leprosy spring out running about in the skin, and\ncover all the skin from the head to the feet, whatsoever falleth under\nthe sight of the eyes:\n\n13:13. The priest shall view him, and shall judge that the leprosy\nwhich he has is very clean: because it is all turned into whiteness,\nand therefore the man shall be clean.\n\n13:14. But when the live flesh shall appear in him:\n\n13:15. Then by the judgment of the priest he shall be defiled, and\nshall be reckoned among the unclean. For live flesh, if it be spotted\nwith leprosy, is unclean.\n\n13:16. And if again it be turned into whiteness, and cover all the man:\n\n13:17. The priest shall view him, and shall judge him to be clean.\n\n13:18. When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and\nit has been healed:\n\n13:19. And in the place of the ulcer, there appeareth a white scar, or\nsomewhat red, the man shall be brought to the priest.\n\n13:20. And when he shall see the place of the leprosy lower than the\nother flesh, and the hair turned white: he shall declare him unclean,\nfor the plague of leprosy is broken out in the ulcer.\n\n13:21. But if the hair be of the former colour, and the scar somewhat\nobscure, and be not lower than the flesh that is near it: he shall shut\nhim up seven days.\n\n13:22. And if it spread, he shall judge him to have the leprosy:\n\n13:23. But if it stay in its place, it is but the scar of an ulcer: and\nthe man shall be clean.\n\n13:24. The flesh also and skin that hath been burnt, and after it is\nhealed hath a white or a red scar:\n\n13:25. The priest shall view it, and if he see it turned white, and the\nplace thereof is lower than the other skin: he shall declare him\nunclean, because the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar.\n\n13:26. But if the colour of the hair be not changed, nor the blemish\nlower than the other flesh, and the appearance of the leprosy be\nsomewhat obscure: he shall shut him up seven days,\n\n13:27. And on the seventh day he shall view him. If the leprosy be\ngrown farther in the skin, he shall declare him unclean.\n\n13:28. But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear,\nit is the sore of a burning: and therefore he shall be cleansed,\nbecause it is only the scar of a burning.\n\n13:29. If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or\nwoman, the priest shall see them,\n\n13:30. And if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair\nyellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because\nit is the leprosy of the head and the beard;\n\n13:31. But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh\nthat is near it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,\n\n13:32. And on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not\ngrown, and the hair keep its colour, and the place of the blemish be\neven with the other flesh:\n\n13:33. The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot: and he\nshall be shut up other seven days.\n\n13:34. If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place,\nand not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him: and his\nclothes being washed he shall be clean.\n\n13:35. But if after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin:\n\n13:36. He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because\nhe is evidently unclean.\n\n13:37. But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be black, let him know\nthat the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.\n\n13:38. If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman,\n\n13:39. The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness\nshineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a\nwhite blemish, and that the man is clean.\n\n13:40. The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and\nclean:\n\n13:41. And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and\nclean.\n\n13:42. But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a\nwhite or reddish colour:\n\n13:43. And the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly\nof leprosy which is risen in the bald part.\n\n13:44. Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is\nseparated by the judgment of the priest:\n\n13:45. Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth\ncovered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and\nunclean.\n\n13:46. All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone\nwithout the camp.\n\n13:47. A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy\n\n13:48. In the warp, and the woof: or skin, or whatsoever is made of a\nskin:\n\n13:49. If it be infected with a white or red spot, it shall be\naccounted the leprosy, and shall be shewn to the priest.\n\n13:50. And he shall look upon it and shall shut it up seven days.\n\n13:51. And on the seventh day when he looketh on it again, if he find\nthat it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy. He shall judge the garment\nunclean, and every thing wherein it shall be found.\n\n13:52. And therefore it shall be burnt with fire.\n\n13:53. But if he see that it is not grown,\n\n13:54. He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the\nleprosy is: and he shall shut it up other seven days.\n\n13:55. And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned,\nnor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn\nit with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the\ngarment, or through the whole.\n\n13:56. But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat dark, after the\ngarment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which\nis sound.\n\n13:57. And if after this there appear in those places that before were\nwithout spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with\nfire.\n\n13:58. If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure,\nthe second time: and they shall be clean.\n\n13:59. This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen\ngarment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it\nought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 14\n\nThe rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses.\n\n14:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n14:2. This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall\nbe brought to the priest:\n\n14:3. Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is\ncleansed,\n\n14:4. Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself\ntwo living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and\nscarlet, and hyssop.\n\n14:5. And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an\nearthen vessel over living waters.\n\nLiving waters.... That is, waters taken from a spring, brook, or river.\n\n14:6. But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood,\nand the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is\nimmolated:\n\n14:7. Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven\ntimes, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living\nsparrow, that it may fly into the field.\n\n14:8. And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the\nhair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he\nshall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent\nseven days.\n\n14:9. And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and\nhis beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having\nwashed again his clothes, and his body,\n\n14:10. On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and\nan ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour\ntempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.\n\nA sextary.... Heb. log: a measure of liquids, which was the twelfth\npart of a hin; and held about as much as six eggs.\n\n14:11. And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him,\nand all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of\nthe testimony:\n\n14:12. He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with\nthe sextary of oil. And having offered all before the Lord,\n\n14:13. He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to\nbe immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as\nthat which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering\npertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.\n\n14:14. And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was\nimmolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of\nhim that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the\ngreat toe of his right foot.\n\nTaking of the blood, etc.... These ceremonies used in the cleansing of\na leper, were mysterious and very significative. The sprinkling seven\ntimes with the blood of the little bird, the washing himself and his\nclothes, the shaving his hair and his beard, signify the means which\nare to be used in the reconciliation of a sinner, and the steps by\nwhich he is to return to God, viz., by the repeated application of the\nblood of Christ: the washing his conscience with the waters of\ncompunction: and retrenching all vanities and superfluities, by\nemploying all that is over and above what is necessary in alms deeds.\nThe sin offering, and the holocaust or burnt offering, which he was to\noffer at his cleansing, signify the sacrifice of a contrite and humble\nheart, and that of adoration in spirit and truth, with gratitude and\nthankfulness, for the forgiveness of sins, with which we are ever to\nappear before the Almighty. The touching the right ear, the thumb of\nthe right hand, and the great toe of the right foot, first with the\nblood of the victim, and then with the remainder of the oil, which had\nbeen sprinkled seven times before the Lord, signify the application of\nthe blood of Christ, and the unction of the sevenfold grace of the Holy\nGhost; to the sinner\u2019s right ear, that he may duly hearken to and obey\nthe law of God; and to his right hand and foot, that the works of his\nhands, and all the steps or affections of his soul, signified by the\nfeet, may be rightly directed to God.\n\n14:15. And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,\n\n14:16. And shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the\nLord seven times.\n\n14:17. And the rest of the oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the\ntip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his\nright hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that\nwas shed for trespass:\n\n14:18. And upon his head.\n\n14:19. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the\nsacrifice for sin. Then shall he immolate the holocaust.\n\n14:20. And put it on the altar with the libations thereof: and the man\nshall be rightly cleansed.\n\n14:21. But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things\naforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the\npriest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil\nfor a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:\n\n14:22. And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for\nsin, and the other for a holocaust.\n\n14:23. And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to\nthe priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the\nLord.\n\n14:24. And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary\nof oil, shall elevate them together.\n\n14:25. And the lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof\nupon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the\nthumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot.\n\n14:26. But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,\n\n14:27. And dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall\nsprinkle it seven times before the Lord.\n\n14:28. And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is\ncleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his\nright foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.\n\n14:29. And the other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall\npour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord\nfor him.\n\n14:30. And he shall offer a turtle, or young pigeon:\n\n14:31. One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their\nlibations.\n\n14:32. This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all\nthings that appertain to his cleansing.\n\n14:33. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n14:34. When you shall come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give\nyou for a possession, if there be the plague of leprosy in a house:\n\n14:35. He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It\nseemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,\n\n14:36. And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of\nthe house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy,\nlet all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he\nshall go in to view the leprosy of the house.\n\n14:37. And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints,\ndisfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:\n\n14:38. He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it\nup seven days,\n\n14:39. And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he\nfind that the leprosy is spread,\n\n14:40. He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be\ntaken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:\n\n14:41. And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the\ndust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean\nplace:\n\n14:42. And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were\ntaken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.\n\n14:43. But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off,\nand it be plastered with other earth.\n\n14:44. The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and\nthe walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is\nunclean.\n\n14:45. And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones\nand timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean\nplace.\n\n14:46. He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be\nunclean until evening,\n\n14:47. And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his\nclothes.\n\n14:48. But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not\nspread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it,\nit being cured.\n\n14:49. And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and\ncedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.\n\n14:50. And having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel, over\nliving waters,\n\n14:51. He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet,\nand the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow\nthat is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the\nhouse seven times.\n\n14:52. And shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as\nwith the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar\nwood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.\n\n14:53. And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the\nfield, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.\n\n14:54. This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.\n\n14:55. Of the leprosy of garments and houses,\n\n14:56. Of a scar and of blisters breaking out of a shining spot, and\nwhen the colours are diversely changed:\n\n14:57. That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 15\n\nOther legal uncleannesses.\n\n15:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n15:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that\nhath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.\n\nIssue of seed shall be unclean.... These legal uncleannesses were\ninstituted in order to give the people a horror of carnal impurities.\n\n15:3. And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy\nhumour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.\n\n15:4. Every bed on which he sleepeth, shall be unclean, and every place\non which he sitteth.\n\n15:5. If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being\nwashed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:6. If a man sit where that man hath sitten, he also shall wash his\nclothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the\nevening.\n\n15:7. He that toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes: and being\nhimself washed with water shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:8. If such a man cast his spittle upon him that is clean, he shall\nwash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean\nuntil the evening.\n\n15:9. The saddle on which he hath sitten shall be unclean.\n\n15:10. And whatsoever has been under him that hath the issue of seed,\nshall be unclean until the evening. He that carrieth any of these\nthings, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall\nbe unclean until the evening.\n\n15:11. Every person whom such a one shall touch, not having washed his\nhands before, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water,\nshall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:12. If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: but if a\nvessel of wood, it shall be washed with water.\n\n15:13. If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number\nseven days after his cleansing: and having washed his clothes, and all\nhis body in living water, he shall be clean.\n\n15:14. And on the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young\npigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the\ntabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.\n\n15:15. Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and\nhe shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the\nissue of his seed.\n\n15:16. The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash\nall his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:17. The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water:\nand it shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:18. The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water:\nand shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:19. The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of\nblood, shall be separated seven days.\n\n15:20. Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:21. And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in\nthe days of her separation, shall be defiled.\n\n15:22. He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being\nhimself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:23. Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall\nwash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled\nuntil the evening.\n\n15:24. If a man copulateth with her in the time of her flowers, he\nshall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep,\nshall be defiled.\n\n15:25. The woman that hath still issue of blood many days out of her\nordinary time, or that ceaseth not to flow after the monthly courses,\nas long as she is subject to this disease, shall be unclean, in the\nsame manner as if she were in her flowers.\n\n15:26. Every bed on which she sleepeth, and every vessel on which she\nsitteth, shall be defiled.\n\n15:27. Whosoever toucheth them shall wash his clothes: and himself\nbeing washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n15:28. If the blood stop and cease to run, she shall count seven days\nof her purification:\n\n15:29. And on the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the priest,\ntwo turtles, or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony:\n\n15:30. And he shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,\nand he shall pray for her before the Lord, and for the issue of her\nuncleanness.\n\n15:31. You shall teach therefore the children of Israel to take heed of\nuncleanness, that they may not die in their filth, when they shall have\ndefiled my tabernacle that is among them.\n\n15:32. This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is\ndefiled by copulation.\n\n15:33. And of the woman that is separated in her monthly times, or that\nhath a continual issue of blood, and of the man that sleepeth with her.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 16\n\nWhen and how the high priest must enter into the sanctuary. The feast\nof expiation.\n\n16:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of\nAaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire:\n\n16:2. And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he\nenter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before\nthe propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I\nwill appear in a cloud over the oracle),\n\nEnter not.... No one but the high priest, and he but once a year, could\nenter into the sanctuary; to signify that no one could enter into the\nsanctuary of heaven, till Christ our high priest opened it by his\npassion. Heb. 10.8.\n\n16:3. Unless he first do these things. He shall offer a calf for sin,\nand a ram for a holocaust.\n\n16:4. He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his\nnakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle,\nand he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy\nvestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.\n\n16:5. And he shall receive from the whole multitude of the children of\nIsrael two buck goats for sin, and one ram for a holocaust.\n\n16:6. And when he hath offered the cattle and prayed for himself and\nfor his own house:\n\n16:7. He shall make the two buck goats to stand before the Lord in the\ndoor of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n16:8. And casting lots upon them both, one to be offered to the Lord,\nand the other to be the emissary goat:\n\n16:9. That whose lot fell to be offered to the Lord, he shall offer for\nsin.\n\n16:10. But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present\nbefore the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into\nthe wilderness.\n\n16:11. After these things are duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf:\nand praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it.\n\n16:12. And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning\ncoals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume\nfor incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:\n\n16:13. That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and\nvapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and\nhe may not die.\n\n16:14. He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with\nhis finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.\n\n16:15. And when he hath killed the buck goat for the sin of the people,\nhe shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as he was\ncommanded to do with the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it\nover against the oracle:\n\n16:16. And may expiate the sanctuary from the uncleanness of the\nchildren of Israel, and from their transgressions, and all their sins.\nAccording to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of the testimony,\nwhich is fixed among them in the midst of the filth of their\nhabitation.\n\n16:17. Let no man be in the tabernacle when the high priest goeth into\nthe sanctuary, to pray for himself and his house, and for the whole\ncongregation of Israel, until he come out.\n\n16:18. And when he is come out to the altar that is before the Lord,\nlet him pray for himself: and taking the blood of the calf, and of the\nbuck goat, let him pour it upon the horns thereof round about.\n\n16:19. And sprinkling with his finger seven times, let him expiate, and\nsanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.\n\n16:20. After he hath cleaned the sanctuary, and the tabernacle, and the\naltar, then let him offer the living goat.\n\n16:21. And putting both hands upon his head, let him confess all the\niniquities of the children of Israel, and all their offences and sins.\nAnd praying that they may light on its head, he shall turn him out by a\nman ready for it, into the desert.\n\n16:22. And when the goat hath carried all their iniquities into an\nuninhabited land, and shall be let go into the desert:\n\n16:23. Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of the testimony, and\nputting off the vestments, which he had on him before when he entered\ninto the sanctuary, and leaving them there,\n\n16:24. He shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and shall put on his\nown garments. And after that he is come out and hath offered his own\nholocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray both for himself, and\nfor the people.\n\n16:25. And the fat that is offered for sins, he shall burn on the\naltar.\n\n16:26. But he that hath let go the emissary goat, shall wash his\nclothes, and his body with water, and so shall enter into the camp.\n\n16:27. But the calf and the buck goat, that were sacrificed for sin,\nand whose blood was carried into the sanctuary, to accomplish the\natonement, they shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn with\nfire: their skins and their flesh, and their dung.\n\n16:28. And whosoever burneth them shall wash his clothes, and flesh\nwith water: and so shall enter into the camp.\n\n16:29. And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. The seventh\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and\nshall do no work, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger\nthat sojourneth among you.\n\n16:30. Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing\nfrom all your sins. You shall be cleansed before the Lord.\n\n16:31. For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by\na perpetual religion.\n\n16:32. And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated\nto do the office of the priesthood in his father\u2019s stead, shall make\natonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy\nvestments.\n\n16:33. And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the\ntestimony and the altar: the priest also and all the people.\n\n16:34. And this shall be an ordinance for ever, that you pray for the\nchildren of Israel, and for all their sins once a year. He did\ntherefore as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 17\n\nNo sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the tabernacle: a\nprohibition of blood.\n\n17:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n17:2. Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel,\nsaying to them: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded,\nsaying:\n\n17:3. Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, if he kill an ox, or a\nsheep, or a goat in the camp, or without the camp,\n\nIf he kill, etc.... That is, in order to sacrifice. The law of God\nforbids sacrifices to be offered in any other place but at the\ntabernacle or temple of the Lord; to signify that no sacrifice would be\nacceptable to God, out of his true temple, the one holy, catholic,\napostolic church.\n\n17:4. And offer it not at the door of the tabernacle an oblation to the\nLord, shall be guilty of blood. As if he had shed blood, so shall he\nperish from the midst of his people.\n\n17:5. Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their\nvictims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to\nthe Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and they\nmay sacrifice them for peace offerings to the Lord.\n\n17:6. And the priest shall pour the blood upon the altar of the Lord,\nat the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and shall burn the fat\nfor a sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n17:7. And they shall no more sacrifice their victims to devils, with\nwhom they have committed fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever\nto them and to their posterity.\n\n17:8. And thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and\nof the strangers who sojourn among you, that offereth a holocaust or a\nvictim,\n\n17:9. And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, that it may be offered to the Lord, shall perish from among\nhis people.\n\n17:10. If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the\nstrangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face\nagainst his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.\n\nEat blood.... To eat blood was forbidden in the law; partly, because\nGod reserved it to himself, to be offered in sacrifices on the altar,\nas to the Lord of life and death; and as a figure of the blood of\nChrist; and partly, to give men a horror of shedding blood. Gen. 9.4,\n5, 6.\n\n17:11. Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given\nit to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your\nsouls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.\n\n17:12. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel: No soul of you,\nnor of the strangers that sojourn among you, shall eat blood.\n\n17:13. Any man whosoever of the children of Israel, and of the\nstrangers that sojourn among you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a\nwild beast or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out its\nblood, and cover it with earth.\n\n17:14. For the life of all flesh is in the blood. Therefore I said to\nthe children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of any flesh at\nall, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever\neateth it, shall be cut off.\n\n17:15. The soul that eateth that which died of itself, or has been\ncaught by a beast, whether he be one of your own country or a stranger,\nshall wash his clothes and himself with water, and shall be defiled\nuntil the evening: and in this manner he shall be made clean.\n\n17:16. But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear\nhis iniquity.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 18\n\nMarriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred: Anda all\nunnatural lusts.\n\n18:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n18:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am\nthe Lord your God.\n\n18:3. You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in\nwhich you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the\ncountry of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in\ntheir ordinances.\n\n18:4. You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and\nshall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.\n\n18:5. Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live\nin them, I am the Lord.\n\n18:6. No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to\nuncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.\n\n18:7. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the\nnakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her\nnakedness.\n\n18:8. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father\u2019s wife: for it\nis the nakedness of thy father.\n\n18:9. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or\nby mother: whether born at home or abroad.\n\n18:10. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son\u2019s daughter, or\nthy daughter\u2019s daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.\n\n18:11. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father\u2019s wife\u2019s\ndaughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.\n\n18:12. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father\u2019s sister:\nbecause she is the flesh of thy father.\n\n18:13. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother\u2019s sister:\nbecause she is thy mother\u2019s flesh.\n\n18:14. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father\u2019s brother:\nneither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by\naffinity.\n\n18:15. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law:\nbecause she is thy son\u2019s wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.\n\n18:16. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother\u2019s wife:\nbecause it is the nakedness of thy brother.\n\n18:17. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her\ndaughter. Thou shalt not take her son\u2019s daughter or her daughter\u2019s\ndaughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such\ncopulation is incest.\n\n18:18. Thou shalt not take thy wife\u2019s sister for a harlot, to rival\nher: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet\nliving.\n\n18:19. Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither\nshalt thou uncover her nakedness.\n\n18:20. Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour\u2019s wife: nor be defiled\nwith mingling of seed.\n\n18:21. Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the\nidol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.\n\n18:22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is\nan abomination.\n\n18:23. Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be\ndefiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate\nwith it: because it is a heinous crime.\n\nBecause it is a heinous crime.... In Hebrew, this word heinous crime is\nexpressed by the word confusion, signifying the shamefulness and\nbaseness of this abominable sin.\n\n18:24. Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all\nthe nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,\n\n18:25. And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I\nwill visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.\n\n18:26. Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these\nabominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that\nsojourneth among you.\n\n18:27. For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have\ndone, that were before you, and have defiled it.\n\n18:28. Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you\ndo the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.\n\n18:29. Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall\nperish from the midst of his people.\n\n18:30. Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done,\nthat have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord\nyour God.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 19\n\nDivers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremonial or judicial.\n\n19:1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n19:2. Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou\nshalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.\n\n19:3. Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths.\nI am the Lord your God.\n\n19:4. Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am\nthe Lord your God.\n\n19:5. If ye offer in sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, that he\nmay be favourable:\n\n19:6. You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next\nday. And whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn\nwith fire.\n\n19:7. If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane and\nguilty of impiety:\n\n19:8. And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy\nthing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people.\n\n19:9. When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down\nall that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou\ngather the ears that remain.\n\n19:10. Neither shalt thou gather the bunches and grapes that fall down\nin thy vineyard: but shalt leave them to the poor and the strangers to\ntake. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:11. You shall not steal. You shall not lie: neither shall any man\ndeceive his neighbour.\n\n19:12. Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of\nthy God. I am the Lord.\n\n19:13. Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by\nviolence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide\nwith thee until the morning.\n\n19:14. Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block\nbefore the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am\nthe Lord.\n\n19:15. Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly.\nRespect not the person of the poor: nor honour the countenance of the\nmighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice.\n\n19:16. Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people.\nThou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.\n\n19:17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him\nopenly, lest thou incur sin through him.\n\n19:18. Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens.\nThou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.\n\n19:19. Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with\nbeasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different\nseeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.\n\nDifferent seeds, etc.... This law tends to recommend simplicity and\nplain dealing in all things, and to teach the people not to join any\nfalse worship or heresy with the worship of the true God.\n\n19:20. If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and\nmarriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they\nboth shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she\nwas not a free woman.\n\n19:21. And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the\ndoor of the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n19:22. And the priest shall pray for him: and for his sin before the\nLord: and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.\n\n19:23. When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in\nit fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them. The fruit\nthat comes forth shall be unclean to you: neither shall you eat of\nthem.\n\nFirstfruits.... Proeputia, literally, their foreskins; it alludes to\ncircumcision, and signifies that for the first three years the trees\nwere to be as uncircumcised, and their fruit unclean: till in the\nfourth year their increase was sanctified and given to the Lord, that\nis, to the priests.\n\n19:24. But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to\nthe praise of the Lord.\n\n19:25. And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof,\ngathering the increase thereof. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:26. You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe\ndreams.\n\n19:27. Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.\n\n19:28. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead:\nneither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the\nLord.\n\n19:29. Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be\ndefiled, and filled with wickedness.\n\n19:30. Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.\n\n19:31. Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of\nsoothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:32. Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged\nman: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.\n\n19:33. If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not\nupbraid him:\n\n19:34. But let him be among you as one of the same country. And you\nshall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of\nEgypt. I am the Lord your God.\n\n19:35. Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in\nmeasure.\n\n19:36. Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just,\nand the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of\nthe land of Egypt.\n\n19:37. Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am\nthe Lord.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 20\n\nDivers crimes to be punished with death.\n\n20:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n20:2. Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the\nchildren Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his\nseed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people of the land\nshall stone him.\n\n20:3. And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from\nthe midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch,\nand hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.\n\n20:4. And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little\nregarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed\nto Moloch, and will not kill him:\n\n20:5. I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will\ncut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication\nwith Moloch, out of the midst of their people.\n\n20:6. The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers,\nand shall commit fornication with them: I will set my face against that\nsoul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.\n\n20:7. Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your\nGod.\n\n20:8. Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.\n\n20:9. He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath\ncursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.\n\n20:10. If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile\nhis neighbour\u2019s wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and\nthe adulteress.\n\n20:11. If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of\nhis father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.\n\n20:12. If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because\nthey have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.\n\n20:13. If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed\nan abomination: let them be put to death. Their blood be upon them.\n\n20:14. If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he\nhath done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither\nshall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.\n\n20:15. He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him\ndie: the beast also ye shall kill.\n\nThe beast also ye shall kill.... The killing of the beast was for the\ngreater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such\nabomination.\n\n20:16. The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed\ntogether with the same. Their blood be upon them.\n\n20:17. If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the\ndaughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her\nbrother\u2019s shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in\nthe sight of their people, because they have discovered one another\u2019s\nnakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.\n\n20:18. If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her\nnakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be\ndestroyed out of the midst of their people.\n\n20:19. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother,\nand of thy aunt by thy father. He that doth this, hath uncovered the\nshame of his own flesh: both shall bear their iniquity.\n\n20:20. If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of\nhis uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both\nshall bear their sin. They shall die without children.\n\n20:21. He that marrieth his brother\u2019s wife, doth an unlawful thing: he\nhath uncovered his brother\u2019s nakedness. They shall be without children.\n\n20:22. Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into\nwhich you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.\n\n20:23. Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out\nbefore you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I\nabhorred them.\n\n20:24. But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for\nan inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your\nGod, who have separated you from other people.\n\n20:25. Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean,\nand the clean fowl from the unclean. Defile not your souls with beasts,\nor birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn\nyou to be unclean:\n\n20:26. You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I\nhave separated you from other people, that you should be mine.\n\n20:27. A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining\nspirit, dying let them die. They shall stone them. Their blood be upon\nthem.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 21\n\nOrdinances relating to the priests.\n\n21:1. The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of\nAaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest incur an\nuncleanness at the death of his citizens.\n\nAn uncleanness.... Viz., such as was contracted in laying out the dead\nbody, or touching it; or in going into the house, or assisting at the\nfuneral, etc.\n\n21:2. But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say,\nfor his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his\ndaughter, for his brother also:\n\n21:3. And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband.\n\n21:4. But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing\nthat may make him unclean.\n\n21:5. Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make\nincisions in their flesh.\n\n21:6. They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name.\nFor they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their\nGod: and therefore they shall be holy.\n\n21:7. They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor\none that has been put away from her husband: because they are\nconsecrated to their God,\n\n21:8. And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy\nbecause I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.\n\n21:9. If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour\nthe name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.\n\n21:10. The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest\namong his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been\npoured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and\nwho hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his\nhead: he shall not rend his garments.\n\n21:11. Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his\nfather, or his mother, shall he be defiled.\n\n21:12. Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the\nsanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God\nis upon him. I am the Lord.\n\n21:13. He shall take a virgin unto his wife.\n\n21:14. But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he\nshall not take: but a maid of his own people.\n\n21:15. He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common\npeople of this nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.\n\n21:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n21:17. Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families,\nhath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.\n\n21:18. Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if\nhe be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;\n\n21:19. If his foot, or if his hand be broken;\n\n21:20. If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye,\nor a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.\n\n21:21. Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he\nshall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his\nGod.\n\n21:22. He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that are offered in the\nsanctuary.\n\n21:23. Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the\naltar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary.\nI am the Lord who sanctify them.\n\n21:24. Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all\nIsrael, all the things that had been commanded him.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 22\n\nWho may eat the holy things: and what things may be offered.\n\n22:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying:\n\n22:2. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things\nthat are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name\nof the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.\n\n22:3. Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that\napproacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the\nchildren of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is\nuncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.\n\nApproacheth, etc.... This is to give us to understand, with what purity\nof soul we are to approach to the blessed sacrament of which these\nmeats that had been offered in sacrifice were a figure.\n\n22:4. The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth\na running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are\nsanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing\nunclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in\ngeneration:\n\n22:5. And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or any unclean thing, the\ntouching of which is defiling:\n\n22:6. Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat those\nthings that are sanctified. But when he hath washed his flesh with\nwater,\n\n22:7. And the sun is down, then being purified, he shall eat of the\nsanctified things, because it is his meat.\n\n22:8. That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast,\nthey shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord.\n\n22:9. Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and\ndie in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord\nwho sanctify them.\n\n22:10. No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of\nthe priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.\n\n22:11. But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant,\nborn in his house, these shall eat of them.\n\n22:12. If the daughter of a priest be married to any of the people, she\nshall not eat of those things that are sanctified nor of the\nfirstfruits.\n\n22:13. But if she be a widow, or divorced, and having no children\nreturn to her father\u2019s house, she shall eat of her father\u2019s meats, as\nshe was wont to do when she was a maid. No stranger hath leave to eat\nof them.\n\n22:14. He that eateth of the sanctified things through ignorance, shall\nadd the fifth part with that which he ate, and shall give it to the\npriest into the sanctuary.\n\n22:15. And they shall not profane the sanctified things of the children\nof Israel, which they offer to the Lord:\n\n22:16. Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they\nshall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify\nthem.\n\n22:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n22:18. Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of\nIsrael, and thou shalt say to them: The man of the house of Israel, and\nof the strangers who dwell with you, that offereth his oblation, either\npaying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whatsoever it be which\nhe presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,\n\n22:19. To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the\nbeeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.\n\n22:20. If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be\nacceptable.\n\n22:21. The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord,\neither paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of\nbeeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be\nacceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.\n\n22:22. If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a\nscab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn\nany thing of them upon the Lord\u2019s altar.\n\n22:23. An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the tail cut off, thou\nmayst offer voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid with them.\n\n22:24. you shall not offer to the Lord any beast that hath the\ntesticles bruised, or crushed, or cut and taken away: neither shall you\ndo any such things in your land.\n\n22:25. you shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a\nstranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all\ncorrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them.\n\n22:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n22:27. When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, they\nshall be seven days under the udder of their dam: but the eighth day,\nand thenceforth, they may be offered to the Lord.\n\n22:28. Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall not be sacrificed\nthe same day with their young ones.\n\n22:29. If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving to the Lord, that he\nmay be favourable,\n\n22:30. You shall eat it the same day. There shall not any of it remain\nuntil the morning of the next day. I am the Lord.\n\n22:31. Keep my commandments, and do them. I am the Lord.\n\n22:32. Profane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst\nof the children of Israel. I am the Lord who sanctify you:\n\n22:33. And who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be\nyour God. I am the Lord.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 23\n\nHoly days to be kept.\n\n23:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\nThese are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.\n\n23:3. Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the\nrest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that\nday: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.\n\n23:4. These also are the holy days of the Lord, which you must\ncelebrate in their seasons.\n\n23:5. The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is\nthe phase of the Lord.\n\n23:6. And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the\nunleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened\nbread.\n\n23:7. The first day shall be most solemn unto you, and holy: you shall\ndo no servile work therein.\n\n23:8. But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to the Lord seven days. And\nthe seventh day shall be more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do\nno servile work therein.\n\n23:9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:10. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\nWhen you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, and\nshall reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits\nof your harvest to the priest.\n\n23:11. Who shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, the next day after\nthe sabbath, that it may be acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.\n\n23:12. And on the same day that the sheaf is consecrated, a lamb\nwithout blemish of the first year shall be killed for a holocaust of\nthe Lord.\n\n23:13. And the libations shall be offered with it: two tenths of flour\ntempered with oil, for a burnt offering of the Lord, and a most sweet\nodour. Libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin.\n\n23:14. You shall not eat either bread, or parched corn, or frumenty or\nthe harvest, until the day that you shall offer thereof to your God. It\nis a precept for ever throughout your generations, and all your\ndwellings.\n\n23:15. You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath,\nwherein you offered the sheaf of firstfruits, seven full weeks.\n\n23:16. Even unto the morrow after the seventh week be expired, that is\nto say, fifty days: and so you shall offer a new sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n23:17. Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the firstfruits, of two\ntenths of flour leavened, which you shall bake for the firstfruits of\nthe Lord.\n\n23:18. And you shall offer with the loaves seven lambs without blemish\nof the first year, and one calf from the herd, and two rams, and they\nshall be for a holocaust with their libations for a most sweet odour to\nthe Lord.\n\n23:19. You shall offer also a buck goat for sin, and two lambs of the\nfirst year for sacrifices of peace offerings.\n\n23:20. And when the priest hath lifted them up with the loaves of the\nfirstfruits before the Lord, they shall fall to his use.\n\n23:21. And you shall call this day most solemn, and most holy. You\nshall do no servile work therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance\nin all your dwellings and generations.\n\n23:22. And when you reap the corn of your land, you shall not cut it to\nthe very ground: neither shall you gather the ears that remain. But you\nshall leave them for the poor and for the strangers. I am the Lord your\nGod.\n\n23:23. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:24. Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first\nday of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound\nof trumpets, and it shall be called holy.\n\n23:25. You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a\nholocaust to the Lord.\n\n23:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:27. Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of\natonement. It shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you\nshall afflict your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to\nthe Lord.\n\n23:28. You shall do no servile work in the time of this day: because it\nis a day of propitiation, that the Lord your God may be merciful unto\nyou.\n\n23:29. Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from\namong his people.\n\n23:30. And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy\nfrom among his people.\n\n23:31. You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an\neverlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.\n\n23:32. It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls\nbeginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you\nshall celebrate your sabbaths.\n\n23:33. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n23:34. Say to the children of Israel: From the fifteenth day of this\nsame seventh month, shall be kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days\nto the Lord.\n\n23:35. The first day shall be called most solemn and most holy: you\nshall do no servile work therein. And seven days you shall offer\nholocausts to the Lord.\n\n23:36. The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you\nshall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and\ncongregation. You shall do no servile work therein.\n\n23:37. These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall call most\nsolemn and most holy, and shall offer on them oblations to the Lord:\nholocausts and libations according to the rite of every day.\n\n23:38. Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your gifts, and those\nthings that you offer by vow, or which you shall give to the Lord\nvoluntarily.\n\n23:39. So from the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you shall\nhave gathered in all the fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the\nfeast of the Lord seven days. On the first day and the eighth shall be\na sabbath: that is a day of rest.\n\n23:40. And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the\nfairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees,\nand willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your\nGod.\n\n23:41. And you shall keep the solemnity thereof seven days in the year.\nIt shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. In the\nseventh month shall you celebrate this feast.\n\n23:42. And you shall dwell in bowers seven days. Every one that is of\nthe race of Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles:\n\n23:43. That your posterity may know, that I made the children of Israel\nto dwell in tabernacles, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.\nI am the Lord your God.\n\n23:44. And Moses spoke concerning the feasts of the Lord to the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 24\n\nThe oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition. The punishment of\nblasphemy.\n\n24:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n24:2. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee the\nfinest and clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps continually,\n\n24:3. Without the veil of the testimony in the tabernacle of the\ncovenant. And Aaron shall set them from evening until morning before\nthe Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your generations.\n\n24:4. They shall be set upon the most pure candlestick before the Lord\ncontinually.\n\n24:5. Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves\nthereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.\n\n24:6. And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon\nthe most clean table before the Lord.\n\n24:7. And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the\nbread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.\n\n24:8. Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being\nreceived of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.\n\n24:9. And they shall be Aaron\u2019s and his sons\u2019, that they may eat them\nin the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the\nLord by a perpetual right.\n\n24:10. And behold there went out the son of a woman of Israel, whom she\nhad of an Egyptian, among the children of Israel: and fell at words in\nthe camp with a man of Israel.\n\n24:11. And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was\nbrought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of\nDabri, of the tribe of Dan.)\n\n24:12. And they put him into prison, till they might know what the Lord\nwould command.\n\n24:13. And the Lord spoke to Moses,\n\n24:14. Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer without the camp: and let\nthem that heard him, put their hands upon his head: and let all the\npeople stone him.\n\n24:15. And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that\ncurseth his God, shall bear his sin:\n\n24:16. And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.\nAll the multitude shall stone him, whether he be a native or a\nstranger. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dying let him die.\n\n24:17. He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.\n\n24:18. He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say,\nshall give beast for beast.\n\n24:19. He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath\ndone, so shall it be done to him:\n\n24:20. Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, shall he\nrestore. What blemish he gave, the like shall he be compelled to\nsuffer.\n\n24:21. He that striketh a beast, shall render another. He that striketh\na man shall be punished.\n\n24:22. Let there be equal judgment among you, whether he be a stranger,\nor a native that offends: because I am the Lord your God.\n\n24:23. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel. And they brought\nforth him that had blasphemed, without the camp: and they stoned him.\nAnd the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 25\n\nThe law of the seventh and of the fiftieth year of jubilee.\n\n25:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:\n\n25:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When\nyou shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the\nrest of the sabbath of the Lord.\n\n25:3. Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune\nthy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.\n\n25:4. But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of\nthe resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy\nvineyard.\n\n25:5. What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap:\nneither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage.\nFor it is a year of rest to the land.\n\n25:6. But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy\nmanservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers\nthat sojourn with thee.\n\n25:7. All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy\ncattle.\n\n25:8. Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years: that is to\nsay, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years.\n\n25:9. And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth\nday of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.\n\n25:10. And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim\nremission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of\njubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall\ngo back to his former family:\n\nRemission.... That is, a general release and discharge from debts and\nbondage, and a reinstating of every man in his former possessions.\n\n25:11. Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not\nsow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord,\nneither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,\n\n25:12. Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow\nyou shall presently eat them.\n\n25:13. In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their\npossessions.\n\n25:14. When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of\nhim: grieve not thy brother. But thou shalt buy of him according to the\nnumber of years from the jubilee.\n\n25:15. And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the\nfruits.\n\n25:16. The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the\nprice increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall\nthe purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.\n\n25:17. Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God.\nBecause I am the Lord your God.\n\n25:18. Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you\nmay dwell in the land without any fear.\n\n25:19. And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat\nyour fill, fearing no man\u2019s invasion.\n\n25:20. But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow\nnot, nor gather our fruits?\n\n25:21. I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield\nthe fruits of three years.\n\n25:22. And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old\nfruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old\nstore.\n\n25:23. The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine,\nand you are strangers and sojourners with me.\n\n25:24. For which cause all the country of your possession shall be\nunder the condition of redemption.\n\n25:25. If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession,\nand his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.\n\n25:26. But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to\nredeem it:\n\n25:27. The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he\nsold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall\nreceive his possession again.\n\n25:28. But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the\nbuyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in\nthat year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the\nancient possessor.\n\n25:29. He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have\nthe liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.\n\n25:30. If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer\nshall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be\nredeemed, not even in the jubilee.\n\n25:31. But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall\nbe sold according to the same law as the fields. If it be not redeemed\nbefore, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.\n\n25:32. The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be\nredeemed.\n\n25:33. If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to\nthe owners: because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for\ntheir possessions among the children of Israel.\n\n25:34. But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual\npossession.\n\n25:35. If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou\nreceive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee:\n\n25:36. Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God,\nthat thy brother may live with thee.\n\n25:37. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him\nany increase of fruits.\n\n25:38. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of\nEgypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your\nGod.\n\n25:39. If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee:\nthou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.\n\n25:40. But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work\nwith thee until the year of the jubilee.\n\n25:41. And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall\nreturn to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.\n\n25:42. For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of\nEgypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.\n\n25:43. Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.\n\n25:44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are\nround about you:\n\n25:45. And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born\nof them in your land. These you shall have for servants:\n\n25:46. And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity,\nand shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the\nchildren of Israel by might.\n\n25:47. If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you,\nand thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of\nhis race:\n\n25:48. After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren\nshall redeem him:\n\n25:49. Either his uncle, or his uncle\u2019s son, or his kinsman, by blood,\nor by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem\nhimself:\n\n25:50. Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the\nyear of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for,\naccording to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired\nservant.\n\n25:51. If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according\nto them shall he also repay the price.\n\n25:52. If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the\nnumber of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of\nthe years.\n\n25:53. His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not\nafflict him violently in thy sight.\n\n25:54. And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the\njubilee he shall go out with his children.\n\n25:55. For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth\nout of the land of Egypt.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 26\n\nGod\u2019s promises to them that keep his commandments. And the many\npunishments with which he threatens transgressors.\n\n26:1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol\nor graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a\nremarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.\n\n26:2. Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.\n\n26:3. If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do\nthem, I will give you rain in due seasons.\n\n26:4. And the ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees\nshall be filled with fruit.\n\n26:5. The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and\nthe vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your\nbread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.\n\n26:6. I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there\nshall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the\nsword shall not pass through your quarters.\n\n26:7. You shall pursue your enemies: and they shall fall before you.\n\n26:8. Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you\nten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.\n\n26:9. I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be\nmultiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.\n\n26:10. You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on,\nyou shall cast away the old.\n\n26:11. I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall\nnot cast you off.\n\n26:12. I will walk among you, and will be your God: and you shall be my\npeople.\n\n26:13. I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of\nthe Egyptians, that you should not serve them: and who have broken the\nchains of your necks, that you might go upright.\n\n26:14. But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments:\n\n26:15. If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do\nthose things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:\n\n26:16. I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you\nwith poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and\nconsume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be\ndevoured by your enemies.\n\n26:17. I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before\nyour enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You\nshall flee when no man pursueth you.\n\n26:18. But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise\nyou seven times more for your sins.\n\n26:19. And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make\nto you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.\n\n26:20. Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring\nforth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.\n\n26:21. If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will\nbring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.\n\n26:22. And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy\nyou and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways\nmay be desolate.\n\n26:23. And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:\n\n26:24. I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven\ntimes for your sins.\n\n26:25. And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my\ncovenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the\npestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the\nhands of your enemies,\n\n26:26. After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten\nwomen shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and\nyou shall eat, and shall not be filled,\n\n26:27. But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk\nagainst me,\n\n26:28. I will also go against you with opposite fury: and I will\nchastise you with seven plagues for your sins,\n\n26:29. So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your\ndaughters.\n\n26:30. I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall\nfall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.\n\n26:31. Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I\nwill make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your\nsweet odours.\n\n26:32. And I will destroy your land: and your enemies shall be\nastonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.\n\n26:33. And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out\nthe sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities\ndestroyed.\n\n26:34. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her\ndesolation. When you shall be\n\n26:35. In the enemy\u2019s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the\nsabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths,\nwhen you dwelt therein.\n\n26:36. And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in\ntheir hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying\nleaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword.\nThey shall fall, when no man pursueth them.\n\n26:37. And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing\nfrom wars: none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.\n\n26:38. You shall perish among the Gentiles: and an enemy\u2019s land shall\nconsume you.\n\n26:39. And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their\niniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted\nfor the sins of their fathers, and their own.\n\n26:40. Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their\nancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked\ncontrary unto me.\n\n26:41. Therefore I also will walk against them, and bring them into\ntheir enemies\u2019 land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then\nshall they pray for their sins.\n\n26:42. And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and\nIsaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:\n\n26:43. Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths,\nbeing desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because\nthey rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.\n\n26:44. And yet for all that when they were in the land of their\nenemies, I did not cast them off altogether. Neither did I so despise\nthem that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my\ncovenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.\n\n26:45. And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out\nof the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I\nam the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the\nLord gave between him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by\nthe hand of Moses.\n\n\nLeviticus Chapter 27\n\nOf vows and tithes.\n\n27:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n27:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The\nman that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall\ngive the price according to estimation.\n\n27:3. If it be a man from twenty years old unto sixty years old, he\nshall give fifty sicles of silver, after the weight of the sanctuary:\n\n27:4. If a woman, thirty.\n\n27:5. But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give\ntwenty sicles: a woman ten.\n\n27:6. From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given\nfive sicles: for a female three.\n\n27:7. A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen\nsicles: a woman ten.\n\n27:8. If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand\nbefore the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him\nable to pay, so much shall he give.\n\n27:9. But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall\nvow, shall be holy,\n\n27:10. And cannot be changed: that is to say, neither a better for a\nworse, nor a worse for a better. And if he shall change it: both that\nwhich was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be\nconsecrated to the Lord.\n\n27:11. An unclean beast, which cannot be sacrificed to the Lord, if any\nman shall vow, shall be brought before the priest:\n\n27:12. Who judging whether it be good or bad, shall set the price.\n\n27:13. Which, if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the\nestimation the fifth part.\n\n27:14. If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the\npriest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad: and it shall be\nsold according to the price, which he shall appoint.\n\n27:15. But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he shall give the fifth\npart of the estimation over and above: and shall have the house.\n\n27:16. And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to\nthe Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the\nseed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be\nsold for fifty sicles of silver.\n\n27:17. If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is\nbeginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.\n\n27:18. But if some time after, the priest shall reckon the money\naccording to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the\nprice shall be abated.\n\n27:19. And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add\nthe fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.\n\n27:20. And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man,\nhe that vowed it, may not redeem it any more.\n\n27:21. For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to\nthe Lord, and as a possession consecrated, pertaineth to the right of\nthe priest.\n\n27:22. If a field that was bought, and not of a man\u2019s ancestors\u2019\npossession, be sanctified to the Lord:\n\n27:23. The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of\nyears, unto the jubilee. And he that had vowed, shall give that to the\nLord.\n\n27:24. But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had\nsold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.\n\n27:25. All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the\nsanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.\n\n27:26. The firstborn, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and\nvow: whether it be bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord\u2019s.\n\n27:27. And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem\nit, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the\nprice. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how\nmuch soever it was estimated by thee.\n\n27:28. Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or\nbeast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed.\nWhatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord.\n\n27:29. And any consecration that is offered by man, shall not be\nredeemed, but dying shall die.\n\n27:30. All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of\ntrees, are the Lord\u2019s, and are sanctified to him.\n\n27:31. And if any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth\npart of them.\n\n27:32. Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under\nthe shepherd\u2019s rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the\nLord.\n\n27:33. It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be\nchanged for another. If any man change it: both that which was changed,\nand that for which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and\nshall not be redeemed.\n\n27:34. These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the\nchildren of Israel in mount Sinai.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF NUMBERS\n\n\nThis fourth Book of Moses is called NUMBERS, because it begins with the\nnumbering of the people. The Hebrews, from its first words, call it\nVAIEDABBER. It contains the transactions of the Israelites from the\nsecond month of the second year after their going out of Egypt, until\nthe beginning of the eleventh month of the fortieth year; that is, a\nhistory almost of thirty-nine years.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 1\n\nThe children of Israel are numbered: the Levites are designed to serve\nthe tabernacle.\n\n1:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the\ntabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the\nsecond year of their going out of Egypt, saying:\n\n1:2. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by\ntheir families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are\nof the male sex,\n\n1:3. From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit\nfor war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.\n\n1:4. And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the\nhouses in their kindreds,\n\n1:5. Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.\n\n1:6. Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.\n\n1:7. Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.\n\n1:8. Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.\n\n1:9. Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.\n\n1:10. And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud:\nof Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.\n\n1:11. Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon.\n\n1:12. Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.\n\n1:13. Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.\n\n1:14. Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel.\n\n1:15. Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan.\n\n1:16. These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes\nand kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel:\n\n1:17. Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common\npeople:\n\n1:18. And assembled them on the first day of the second month,\nreckoning them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads,\nand names of every one from twenty years old and upward,\n\n1:19. As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the\ndesert of Sinai.\n\n1:20. Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and\nfamilies and houses and names of every head, all that were of the male\nsex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to\nwar,\n\n1:21. Were forty-six thousand five hundred.\n\n1:22. Of the sons of Simeon by their generations and families, and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of\nevery one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and\nupward, that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:23. Fifty-nine thousand three hundred.\n\n1:24. Of the sons of Gad, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds were reckoned up by the names of every one from\ntwenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:25. Forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.\n\n1:26. Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and\nupward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:27. Were reckoned up seventy-four thousand six hundred.\n\n1:28. Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years\nold and upward, all that could go forth to war,\n\n1:29. Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred.\n\n1:30. Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one\nfrom twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to\nwar,\n\n1:31. Fifty-seven thousand four hundred.\n\n1:32. Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the\ngenerations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up\nby the names of every one, from twenty years old and upward, all that\nwere able to go forth to war,\n\n1:33. Forty thousand five hundred.\n\n1:34. Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families\nand houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every\none from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war,\n\n1:35. Thirty-two thousand two hundred.\n\n1:36. Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one\nfrom twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to\nwar,\n\n1:37. Thirty-five thousand four hundred.\n\n1:38. Of the sons of Dan, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from\ntwenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:39. Sixty-two thousand seven hundred.\n\n1:40. Of the sons of Aser, by their generations and families and houses\nof their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from\ntwenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:41. Forty-one thousand and five hundred.\n\n1:42. Of the sons of Nephtali, by their generations and families and\nhouses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one\nfrom twenty years old and upward, were able to go forth to war,\n\n1:43. Fifty-three thousand four hundred.\n\n1:44. These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the\ntwelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.\n\n1:45. And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses\nand families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to\nwar,\n\n1:46. Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.\n\n1:47. But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered\nwith them.\n\n1:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n1:49. Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum\nof them with the children of Israel:\n\n1:50. But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all\nthe vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They\nshall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they\nshall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.\n\n1:51. When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the\ntabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger\nsoever cometh to it, shall be slain.\n\n1:52. And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and\nbands and army.\n\n1:53. But the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the\ntabernacle, lest there come indignation upon the multitude of the\nchildren of Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the tabernacle\nof the testimony.\n\n1:54. And the children of Israel did according to all things which the\nLord had commanded Moses.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 2\n\nThe order of the tribes in their camp.\n\n2:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n2:2. All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns,\nand standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the\ntabernacle of the covenant.\n\n2:3. On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army:\nand the prince of his sons; shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.\n\n2:4. And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were\nseventy-four thousand six hundred.\n\n2:5. Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar encamped, whose prince\nwas Nathanael, the son of Suar.\n\n2:6. And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand\nfour hundred.\n\n2:7. In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.\n\n2:8. And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty-seven\nthousand four hundred.\n\n2:9. All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and\neighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march\nfirst.\n\n2:10. In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince\nshall be Elisur the son of Sedeur:\n\n2:11. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nforty-six thousand five hundred.\n\n2:12. Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose prince was\nSalamiel the son of Surisaddai.\n\n2:13. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nfifty-nine thousand three hundred.\n\n2:14. In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph the son of Duel.\n\n2:15. And the whole army of his fighting men that were numbered, were\nforty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.\n\n2:16. All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred\nand fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they\nshall march in the second place.\n\n2:17. And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the\nofficers of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up, so\nshall it be taken down. Every one shall march according to their\nplaces, and ranks.\n\n2:18. On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose\nprince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.\n\n2:19. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nforty thousand five hundred.\n\n2:20. And with them the tribe of the sons of Manasses, whose prince was\nGamaliel the son of Phadassur.\n\n2:21. And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nthirty-two thousand two hundred.\n\n2:22. In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the prince was Abidan the\nson of Gedeon.\n\n2:23. And the whole army of fighting men, that were reckoned up, were\nthirty-five thousand four hundred.\n\n2:24. All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and\neight-thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march in the\nthird place.\n\n2:25. On the north side camped the sons of Dan: whose prince was\nAhiezar the son of Ammisaddai.\n\n2:26. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nsixty-two thousand seven hundred.\n\n2:27. Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched their tents: whose\nprince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.\n\n2:28. The whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were\nforty-one thousand five hundred.\n\n2:29. Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son\nof Enan.\n\n2:30. The whole army of his fighting men, were fifty-three thousand\nfour hundred.\n\n2:31. All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and\nfifty-seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last.\n\n2:32. This is the number of the children of Israel, of their army\ndivided according to the houses of their kindreds and their troops, six\nhundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.\n\n2:33. And the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel:\nfor so the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n2:34. And the children of Israel did according to all things that the\nLord had commanded. They camped by their troops, and marched by the\nfamilies and houses of their fathers.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 3\n\nThe Levites are numbered and their offices distinguished. They are\ntaken in the place of the firstborn of the children of Israel.\n\n3:1. These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the\nLord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.\n\n3:2. And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab,\nthen Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n3:3. These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were\nanointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the\nfunctions of priesthood.\n\n3:4. Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered\nstrange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and\nIthamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their\nfather.\n\n3:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n3:6. Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron\nthe priest to minister to him, and let them watch,\n\n3:7. And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the service of the\nmultitude before the tabernacle of the testimony,\n\n3:8. And let them keep the vessels of the tabernacle, serving in the\nministry thereof.\n\n3:9. And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,\n\n3:10. To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the\nchildren of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the\nservice of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall\nbe put to death.\n\n3:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n3:12. I have taken the Levites from the children of Israel, for every\nfirstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, and the\nLevites shall be mine.\n\n3:13. For every firstborn is mine: since I struck the firstborn in the\nland of Egypt: I have sanctified to myself whatsoever is firstborn in\nIsrael both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the Lord.\n\n3:14. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying:\n\n3:15. Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their\nfamilies, every male from one month and upward.\n\n3:16. Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.\n\n3:17. And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and\nCaath Merari.\n\n3:18. The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei.\n\n3:19. The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel:\n\n3:20. The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi.\n\n3:21. Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites:\n\n3:22. Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and\nupward, seven thousand five hundred.\n\n3:23. These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,\n\n3:24. Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.\n\n3:25. And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n3:26. The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is\ndrawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the\ncurtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of\nthe court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of\nthe altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.\n\n3:27. Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and\nJesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the\nCaathites reckoned up by their names:\n\n3:28. All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six\nhundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,\n\n3:29. And shall camp on the south side.\n\n3:30. And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:\n\n3:31. And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick,\nthe altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister,\nand the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.\n\n3:32. And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of\nAaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the\nsanctuary.\n\n3:33. And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites,\nreckoned up by their names:\n\n3:34. All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two\nhundred.\n\n3:35. Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: their shall camp on the\nnorth side.\n\n3:36. Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and\nthe bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that\npertain to this kind of service:\n\n3:37. And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and\nthe pins with their cords.\n\n3:38. Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east\nside shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of\nthe sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger\nsoever cometh unto it, shall be put to death.\n\n3:39. All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the\nprecept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one\nmonth and upward, were twenty-two thousand.\n\n3:40. And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex\nof the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt\ntake the sum of them.\n\n3:41. And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of\nthe children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the\nfirstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:\n\n3:42. Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of\nthe children of Israel:\n\n3:43. And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were\ntwenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.\n\n3:44. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n3:45. Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and\nthe cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be\nmine. I am the Lord.\n\n3:46. But for the price of the two hundred and seventy-three, of the\nfirstborn of the children of Israel, that exceed the number of the\nLevites,\n\n3:47. Thou shalt take five sicles for every head, according to the\nweight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.\n\n3:48. And thou shalt give the money to Aaron and his sons, the price of\nthem that are above.\n\n3:49. Moses therefore took the money of them that were above, and whom\nthey had redeemed from the Levites,\n\n3:50. For the firstborn of the children of Israel, one thousand three\nhundred and sixty-five sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary,\n\n3:51. And gave it to Aaron and his sons according to the word that the\nLord had commanded him.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 4\n\nThe age and time of the Levites\u2019 service: their offices and burdens.\n\n4:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:\n\n4:2. Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites,\nby their houses and families.\n\n4:3. From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that\ngo in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n4:4. This is the service of the sons of Caath:\n\n4:5. When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into\nthe tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take\ndown the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark\nof the testimony in it,\n\n4:6. And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall\nspread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.\n\n4:7. They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of\nviolet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups\nand bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:\n\n4:8. And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they\nshall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.\n\n4:9. They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover\nthe candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and\nall the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:\n\n4:10. And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in\nthe bars.\n\n4:11. And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of\nviolet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in\nthe bars.\n\n4:12. All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they\nshall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of\nviolet skins, and put in the bars.\n\n4:13. They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap\nit up in a purple cloth,\n\n4:14. And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the\nministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks,\npothooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar\ntogether with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.\n\n4:15. And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the\nvessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of\nCaath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch\nthe vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of\nthe sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:16. And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to\nwhose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet\nincense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of\nunction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle,\nand of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary.\n\n4:17. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n4:18. Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:\n\n4:19. But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching\nthe holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall\nappoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man\nis to carry.\n\n4:20. Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the\nsanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.\n\n4:21. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n4:22. Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by their houses and\nfamilies and kindreds.\n\n4:23. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number\nthem all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n4:24. This is the office of the family of the Gersonites:\n\n4:25. To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof of the\ncovenant, the other covering, and the violet covering over all, and the\nhanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the covenant,\n\n4:26. The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry that is\nbefore tabernacle. All things that pertain to the altar, the cords and\nthe vessels of the ministry,\n\n4:27. The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the commandment of Aaron and\nhis sons: and each man shall know to what burden he must be assigned.\n\n4:28. This is the service of the family of the Gersonites in the\ntabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar\nthe son of Aaron the priest.\n\n4:29. Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and\nhouses of their fathers,\n\n4:30. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to the office of their ministry, and to the service of the\ncovenant of the testimony.\n\n4:31. These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards of the\ntabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets,\n\n4:32. The pillars also of the court round about, with their sockets and\npins and cords. They shall receive by account all the vessels and\nfurniture, and so shall carry them.\n\n4:33. This is the office of the family of the Merarites, and their\nministry in the tabernacle of the covenant: and they shall be under the\nhand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.\n\n4:34. So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up\nthe sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers,\n\n4:35. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to the ministry of the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:36. And they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty.\n\n4:37. This is the number of the people of Caath that go in to the\ntabernacle of the covenant: these did Moses and Aaron number according\nto the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.\n\n4:38. The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds and houses\nof their fathers,\n\n4:39. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:40. And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty.\n\n4:41. This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and Aaron\nnumbered according to the word of the Lord.\n\n4:42. The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds and houses\nof their fathers,\n\n4:43. From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old, all that\ngo in to fulfil the rites of the tabernacle of the covenant:\n\n4:44. And they were found three thousand two hundred.\n\n4:45. This is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron\nreckoned up according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of\nMoses.\n\n4:46. All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and\nAaron and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and\nhouses of their fathers,\n\n4:47. From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, that go\ninto the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burdens,\n\n4:48. Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.\n\n4:49. Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every\none according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded\nhim.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 5\n\nThe unclean are removed out of the camp: confession of sins, and\nsatisfaction: firstfruits and oblations belonging to the priests: trial\nof jealousy.\n\n5:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:2. Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp\nevery leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the\ndead:\n\n5:3. Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest\nthey defile it when I shall dwell with you,\n\n5:4. And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth\nwithout the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.\n\n5:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:6. Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have\ncommitted any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by\nnegligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and\noffended,\n\n5:7. They shall confess their sin, and restore the principal itself,\nand the fifth part over and above, to him against whom they have\nsinned.\n\nShall confess.... This confession and satisfaction, ordained in the Old\nLaw, was a figure of the sacrament of penance.\n\n5:8. But if there be no one to receive it, they shall give it to the\nLord, and it shall be the priest\u2019s, besides the ram that is offered for\nexpiation, to be an atoning sacrifice.\n\n5:9. All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer,\nbelong to the priest:\n\n5:10. And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is\ndelivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.\n\n5:11. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n5:12. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The\nman whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,\n\n5:13. Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot\ndiscover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by\nwitnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:\n\n5:14. If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife,\nwho either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,\n\nThe spirit of jealousy, etc.... This ordinance was designed to clear\nthe innocent, and to prevent jealous husbands from doing mischief to\ntheir wives: as likewise to give all a horror of adultery, by punishing\nit in so remarkable a manner.\n\n5:15. He shall bring her to the priest, and shall offer an oblation for\nher, the tenth part of a measure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil\nthereon, nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sacrifice of\njealousy, and an oblation searching out adultery.\n\n5:16. The priest therefore shall offer it, and set it before the Lord.\n\n5:17. And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall\ncast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it.\n\n5:18. And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover\nher head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and\nthe oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter\nwaters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration.\n\n5:19. And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not\nslept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband\u2019s\nbed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not\nhurt thee.\n\n5:20. But if thou hast gone aside from thy husband, and art defiled,\nand hast lain with another man:\n\n5:21. These curses shall light upon thee: The Lord make thee a curse,\nand an example for all among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot,\nand may thy belly swell and burst asunder.\n\n5:22. Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly, and may thy womb\nswell and thy thigh rot. And the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.\n\n5:23. And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash\nthem out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the\ncurses,\n\n5:24. And he shall give them her to drink. And when she hath drunk them\nup,\n\n5:25. The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy,\nand shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar:\nyet so as first,\n\n5:26. To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and\nburn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman\nto drink.\n\n5:27. And when she hath drunk them, if she be defiled, and having\ndespised her husband be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go\nthrough her, and her belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and the woman\nshall be a curse, and an example to all the people.\n\n5:28. But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear\nchildren.\n\n5:29. This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her\nhusband, and be defiled,\n\n5:30. And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her\nbefore the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that\nare here written:\n\n5:31. The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 6\n\nThe law of the Nazarites: the form of blessing the people.\n\n6:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When\na man, or woman, shall make a vow to be sanctified, and will consecrate\nthemselves to the Lord:\n\n6:3. They shall abstain from wine, and from every thing that may make a\nman drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other drink,\nnor any thing that is pressed out of the grape: nor shall they eat\ngrapes either fresh or dried.\n\n6:4. All the days that they are consecrated to the Lord by vow: they\nshall eat nothing that cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to\nthe kernel.\n\n6:5. All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head,\nuntil the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be\nholy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.\n\n6:6. All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead,\n\n6:7. Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for\nhis mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die,\nbecause the consecration of his God is upon his head.\n\n6:8. All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.\n\n6:9. But if any man die suddenly before him: the head of his\nconsecration shall be defiled: and he shall shave it forthwith on the\nsame day of his purification, and again on the seventh day.\n\n6:10. And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young\npigeons to the priest in the entry of the covenant of the testimony.\n\n6:11. And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a\nholocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead:\nand he shall sanctify his head that day:\n\n6:12. And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation,\noffering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be\nmade void, because his sanctification was profaned.\n\n6:13. This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had\ndetermined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of\nthe tabernacle of the covenant,\n\n6:14. And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year\nold without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old\nwithout blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a\nvictim of peace offering,\n\n6:15. A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers\nwithout leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:\n\n6:16. And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall\noffer both the sin offering and the holocaust.\n\n6:17. But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering\nto the Lord, offering at the same time the basket of unleavened bread,\nand the libations that are due by custom.\n\n6:18. Then shall the hair of the consecration of the Nazarite, be\nshaved off before the door of the tabernacle of the covenant: and he\nshall take his hair, and lay it upon the fire, which is under the\nsacrifice of the peace offerings.\n\n6:19. And shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened\ncake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver\nthem into the hands of the Nazarite, after his head is shaven.\n\n6:20. And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the\nsight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the\npriest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the\nshoulder. After this the Nazarite may drink wine.\n\n6:21. This is the law of the Nazarite, when he hath vowed his oblation\nto the Lord in the time of his consecration, besides those things which\nhis hand shall find, according to that which he had vowed in his mind,\nso shall he do for the fulfilling of his sanctification.\n\n6:22. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n6:23. Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of\nIsrael, and you shall say to them:\n\n6:24. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.\n\n6:25. The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.\n\n6:26. The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.\n\n6:27. And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I\nwill bless them.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 7\n\nThe offerings of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle. God\nspeaketh to Moses from the propitiatory.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the\ntabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all\nits vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,\n\n7:2. The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every\ntribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered\n\n7:3. Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen.\nTwo princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered\nthem before the tabernacle.\n\n7:4. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n7:5. Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle,\nand thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of\ntheir ministry.\n\n7:6. Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them\nto the Levites.\n\n7:7. Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according\nto their necessity.\n\n7:8. The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of\nMerari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of\nIthamar the son of Aaron the priest.\n\n7:9. But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they\nserve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own\nshoulders.\n\n7:10. And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the\nday when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.\n\n7:11. And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after\nanother offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar.\n\n7:12. The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda\noffered his offering:\n\n7:13. And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and\nthirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight\nof the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:14. A little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of incense:\n\n7:15. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:16. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:17. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,\nfive he goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of\nNahasson the son of Aminadab.\n\n7:18. The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of\nIssachar, made his offering,\n\n7:19. A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver\nbowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both\nfull of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:20. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:21. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:22. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:23. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,\nfive buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of\nNathanael the son of Suar.\n\n7:24. The third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of\nHelon,\n\n7:25. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full\nof flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:26. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:27. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:28. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:29. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,\nfive buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of\nEliab the son of Helon.\n\n7:30. The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of\nSedeur,\n\n7:31. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary,\nboth full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:32. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:33. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:34. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:35. And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck\ngoats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the\nson of Sedeur.\n\n7:36. The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son\nof Surisaddai,\n\n7:37. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles after the weight of the sanctuary, both\nfull of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:38. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:39. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:40. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:41. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel\nthe son of Surisaddai.\n\n7:42. The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of\nDuel,\n\n7:43. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full\nof flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:44. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:45. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:46. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:47. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph\nthe son of Duel.\n\n7:48. The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the\nson of Ammiud,\n\n7:49. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary,\nboth full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:50. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:51. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:52. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:53. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisama\nthe son of Ammiud.\n\n7:54. The eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the\nson of Phadassur,\n\n7:55. Offered a silver dish, weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:56. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:57. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:58. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:59. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel\nthe son of Phadassur.\n\n7:60. The ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son\nof Gedeon,\n\n7:61. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full\nof flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:62. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:63. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:64. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:65. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Abidan\nthe son of Gedeon.\n\n7:66. The tenth day the princes of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of\nAmmisaddai,\n\n7:67. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:68. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:69. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:70. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:71. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer\nthe son of Ammisaddai.\n\n7:72. The eleventh day the prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son\nof Ochran,\n\n7:73. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:74. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:75. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:76. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:77. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Phegiel\nthe son of Ochran.\n\n7:78. The twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephtali, Ahira the son\nof Enan,\n\n7:79. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a\nsilver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the\nsanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:\n\n7:80. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:\n\n7:81. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a\nholocaust:\n\n7:82. And a buck goat for sin:\n\n7:83. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five\nbuck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahira\nthe son of Enan.\n\n7:84. These were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the\ndedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve\ndishes of silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold:\n\n7:85. Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and\neach bowl seventy sicles: that is, putting all the vessels of silver\ntogether, two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the\nsanctuary.\n\n7:86. Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten\nsicles apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a\nhundred and twenty sicles of gold.\n\n7:87. Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust, twelve rams, twelve\nlambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve buck goats for sin.\n\n7:88. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, oxen twenty-four, rams\nsixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were\noffered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.\n\n7:89. And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to\nconsult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the\npropitiatory, that is over the ark between the two cherubims, and from\nthis place he spoke to him.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 8\n\nThe seven lamps are placed on the golden candlestick, to shine towards\nthe loaves of proposition: the ordination of the Levites: and to what\nage they shall serve in the tabernacle.\n\n8:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:2. Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him: When thou shalt place\nthe seven lamps, let the candlestick be set up on the south side. Give\norders therefore that the lamps look over against the north, towards\nthe table of the loaves of proposition, over against that part shall\nthey give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.\n\n8:3. And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps upon the candlestick, as\nthe Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n8:4. Now this was the work of the candlestick, it was of beaten gold,\nboth the shaft in the middle, and all that came out of both sides of\nthe branches: according to the pattern which the Lord had shewn to\nMoses, so he made the candlestick.\n\n8:5. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:6. Take the Levites out of the midst of the children of Israel, and\nthou shalt purify them,\n\n8:7. According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled with the water of\npurification, and let them shave all the hairs of their flesh. And when\nthey shall have washed their garments, and are cleansed,\n\nLet them be sprinkled with the water of purification.... This was the\nholy water mixed with the ashes of the red cow, Num. 19., appointed for\npurifying all that were unclean. It was a figure of the blood of\nChrist, applied to our souls by his holy sacraments.\n\n8:8. They shall take an ox of the herd, and for the offering thereof\nfine flour tempered with oil: and thou shalt take another ox of the\nherd for a sin offering:\n\n8:9. And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, calling together all the multitude of the children of Israel:\n\n8:10. And when the Levites are before the Lord, the children of Israel\nshall put their hands upon them:\n\n8:11. And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as a gift in the sight of the\nLord from the children of Israel, that they may serve in his ministry.\n\n8:12. The Levites also shall put their hands upon the heads of the\noxen, of which thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the other for a\nholocaust to the Lord, to pray for them.\n\n8:13. And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight of Aaron and of his,\nand shalt consecrate them being offered to the Lord,\n\n8:14. And shalt separate them from the midst of the children of Israel,\nto be mine.\n\n8:15. And afterwards they shall enter into the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, to serve me. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them\nfor an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n8:16. I have taken them instead of the firstborn that open every womb\nin Israel,\n\n8:17. For all the firstborn of the children of Israel, both of men and\nof beasts, are mine. From the day that I slew every firstborn in the\nland of Egypt, have I sanctified them to myself:\n\n8:18. And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n8:19. And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron and his sons out of\nthe midst of the people, to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of\nthe covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should be a plague among\nthe people, if they should presume to approach unto my sanctuary.\n\n8:20. And Moses and Aaron and all the multitude of the children of\nIsrael did with the Levites all that the Lord had commanded Moses:\n\n8:21. And they were purified, and washed their garments. And Aaron\nlifted them up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed for them,\n\n8:22. That being purified they might go into the tabernacle of the\ncovenant to do their services before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord\nhad commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was it done.\n\n8:23. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n8:24. This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and\nupwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the\ncovenant.\n\n8:25. And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their\nage, they shall cease to serve:\n\n8:26. And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the\ntabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that are committed to\ntheir care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites\ntouching their charge.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 9\n\nThe precept of the pasch is renewed: the unclean and travellers are to\nobserve it the second month: the camp is guided by the pillar of the\ncloud.\n\n9:1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year\nafter they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month,\nsaying:\n\n9:2. Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,\n\nMake the phase.... That is, keep the paschal solemnity, and eat the\npaschal lamb.\n\n9:3. The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all\nthe ceremonies and justifications thereof.\n\n9:4. And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make\nthe phase.\n\n9:5. And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the\nmonth at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according\nto all things that the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n9:6. But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man,\nwho could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,\n\nBehold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, etc....\nThat is, by having touched or come near a dead body, out of which the\nsoul was departed.\n\n9:7. Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why\nare we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to\nthe Lord among the children of Israel?\n\n9:8. And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he\nwill ordain concerning you.\n\n9:9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n9:10. Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by\noccasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your\nnation, let him make the phase to the Lord.\n\n9:11. In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the\nevening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:\n\n9:12. They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, nor break a\nbone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase.\n\n9:13. But if any man is clean, and was not on a journey, and did not\nmake the phase, that soul shall be cut off from among his people,\nbecause he offered not sacrifice to the Lord in due season: he shall\nbear his sin.\n\n9:14. The sojourner also and the stranger if they be among you, shall\nmake the phase to the Lord according to the ceremonies and\njustifications thereof. The same ordinances shall be with you both for\nthe stranger, and for him that was born in the land.\n\n9:15. Now on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, a cloud covered\nit. But from the evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were, the\nappearance of fire until the morning.\n\n9:16. So it was always: by day the cloud covered it, and by night as it\nwere the appearance of fire.\n\n9:17. And when the cloud that covered the tabernacle was taken up, then\nthe children of Israel marched forward: and in the place where the\ncloud stood still, there they camped.\n\n9:18. At the commandment of the Lord they marched, and at his\ncommandment they pitched the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud\nabode over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place:\n\n9:19. And if it was so that it continued over it a long time, the\nchildren of Israel kept the watches of the Lord, and marched not,\n\n9:20. For as many days soever as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle.\nAt the commandment of the Lord they pitched their tents, and at his\ncommandment they took them down.\n\n9:21. If the cloud tarried from evening until morning, and immediately\nat break of day left the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it\ndeparted after a day and a night, they took down their tents.\n\n9:22. But if it remained over the tabernacle for two days or a month or\na longer time, the children of Israel remained in the same place, and\nmarched not: but immediately as soon as it departed, they removed the\ncamp.\n\n9:23. By the word of the Lord they pitched their tents, and by his word\nthey marched: and kept the watches of the Lord according to his\ncommandment by the hand of Moses.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 10\n\nThe silver trumpets and their use. They march from Sinai.\n\n10:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n10:2. Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest\ncall together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.\n\n10:3. And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall\ngather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n10:4. If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the\nmultitude of Israel shall come to thee.\n\n10:5. But if the sound of the trumpets be longer, and with\ninterruptions, they that are on the east side, shall first go forward.\n\n10:6. And at the second sounding and like noise of the trumpet, they\nwho lie on the south side shall take up their tents. And after this\nmanner shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound for a march.\n\n10:7. But when the people is to be gathered together, the sound of the\ntrumpets shall be plain, and they shall not make a broken sound.\n\n10:8. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and\nthis shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.\n\n10:9. If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that\nfight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there\nshall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be\ndelivered out of the hands of your enemies.\n\n10:10. If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival\ndays, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the\ntrumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings,\nthat they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord\nyour God.\n\n10:11. The second year, in the second month, the twentieth day of the\nmonth, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the covenant.\n\n10:12. And the children of Israel marched by their troops from the\ndesert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.\n\n10:13. And the first went forward according to the commandment of the\nLord by the hand of Moses.\n\n10:14. The sons of Juda by their troops: whose prince was Nahasson the\nson of Aminadab.\n\n10:15. In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Nathanael\nthe son of Suar.\n\n10:16. In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Eliab the son of Helon.\n\n10:17. And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and\nMerari set forward, bearing it.\n\n10:18. And the sons of Ruben also marched, by their troops and ranks,\nwhose prince was Helisur the son of Sedeur.\n\n10:19. And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was Salamiel the son of\nSurisaddai.\n\n10:20. And in the tribe of Gad, the prince was Eliasaph the son of\nDuel.\n\n10:21. Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long\nwas the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it\nup.\n\n10:22. The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in\nwhose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.\n\n10:23. And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses, the prince was\nGamaliel the son of Phadassur.\n\n10:24. And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince was Abidan the son of\nGedeon.\n\n10:25. The last of all the camp marched the sons of Dan by their\ntroops, in whose army the prince was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.\n\n10:26. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the prince was Phegiel the\nson of Ochran.\n\n10:27. And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali, the prince was Ahira\nthe son of Enan.\n\n10:28. This was the order of the camps, and marches of the children of\nIsrael by their troops, when they set forward.\n\n10:29. And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his\nkinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us:\ncome with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good\nthings to Israel.\n\n10:30. But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return\nto my country, wherein I was born.\n\n10:31. And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we\nshould encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.\n\n10:32. And if thou comest with us, we will give thee what is the best\nof the riches which the Lord shall deliver to us.\n\n10:33. So they marched from the mount of the Lord three days\u2019 journey,\nand the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them, for three\ndays providing a place for the camp.\n\n10:34. The cloud also of the Lord was over them by day when they\nmarched.\n\n10:35. And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and\nlet thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from\nbefore thy face.\n\n10:36. And when it was set down, he said: Return, O Lord, to the\nmultitude of the host of Israel.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 11\n\nThe people murmur and are punished with fire. God appointeth seventy\nancients for assistants to Moses. They prophesy. The people have their\nfill of flesh, but forthwith many die of the plague.\n\n11:1. In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against\nthe Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard\nit he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them,\ndevoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.\n\n11:2. And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and\nthe fire was swallowed up.\n\n11:3. And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the\nfire of the Lord had been kindled against them.\n\nThe burning.... Hebrew, Taberah.\n\n11:4. For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned\nwith desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being\njoined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?\n\nA mixt multitude.... These were people that came with them out of\nEgypt, who were not of the race of Israel; who, by their murmuring,\ndrew also the children of Israel to murmur: this should teach us the\ndanger of associating ourselves with the children of Egypt, that is,\nwith the lovers and admirers of this wicked world.\n\n11:5. We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost: the\ncucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the\nonions, and the garlic.\n\n11:6. Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.\n\n11:7. Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.\n\nBdellium.... Bdellium, according to Pliny, 1.21, c. 9. was of the\ncolour of a man\u2019s nail, white and bright.\n\n11:8. And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill,\nor beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof\nof the taste of bread tempered with oil.\n\n11:9. And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also\nfell with it.\n\n11:10. Now Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one\nat the door of his tent. And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly\nenkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable.\n\n11:11. And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant?\nWherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the\nweight of all this people upon me?\n\n11:12. Have I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou\nshouldst say to me: Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to\ncarry the little infant, and bear them into the land, for which thou\nhast sworn to their fathers?\n\n11:13. Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They\nweep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.\n\n11:14. I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too\nheavy for me.\n\n11:15. But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me,\nand let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so\ngreat evils.\n\n11:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the\nancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the\npeople: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee,\n\nSeventy men.... This was the first institution of the council or\nsenate, called the Sanhedrin, consisting of seventy or seventy-two\nsenators or counsellors.\n\n11:17. That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy\nspirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden\nof the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.\n\n11:18. And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye sanctified: to morrow\nyou shall eat flesh: for I have heard you say: Who will give us flesh\nto eat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the Lord may give you flesh,\nand you may eat:\n\n11:19. Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty.\n\n11:20. But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils,\nand become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is\nin the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out\nof Egypt?\n\n11:21. And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this\npeople, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month?\n\n11:22. Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen be killed, that it may\nsuffice for their food? or shall the fishes of the sea be gathered\ntogether to fill them?\n\n11:23. And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou\nshalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.\n\n11:24. Moses therefore came, and told the people the words of the Lord,\nand assembled seventy men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to\nstand about the tabernacle.\n\n11:25. And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away\nof the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And\nwhen the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease\nafterwards.\n\n11:26. Now there remained in the camp two of the men, of whom one was\ncalled Eldad, and the other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for\nthey also had been enrolled, but were not gone forth to the tabernacle.\n\n11:27. And when they prophesied in the camp, there ran a young man, and\ntold Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.\n\n11:28. Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and\nchosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.\n\n11:29. But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the\npeople might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!\n\n11:30. And Moses returned, with the ancients of Israel, into the camp.\n\n11:31. And a wind going out from the Lord, taking quails up beyond the\nsea brought them, and cast them into the camp for the space of one\nday\u2019s journey, on every side of the camp round about, and they flew in\nthe air two cubits high above the ground.\n\n11:32. The people therefore rising up all that day, and night, and the\nnext day, gathered together of quails, he that did least, ten cores:\nand they dried them round about the camp.\n\n11:33. As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind\nof meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked\nagainst the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.\n\n11:34. And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they\nburied the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of\nlust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.\n\nThe graves of lust.... Or, the sepulchres of concupiscence: so called\nfrom their irregular desire of flesh. In Hebrew, Kibroth. Hattaavah.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 12\n\nMary and Aaron murmur against Moses, whom God praiseth above other\nprophets. Mary being struck with leprosy, Aaron confesseth his fault.\nMoses prayeth for her, and after seven days\u2019 separation from the camp,\nshe is restored.\n\n12:1. And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the\nEthiopian,\n\nEthiopian.... Sephora the wife of Moses was of Madian, which bordered\nupon the land of Chus or Ethiopia: where note, that the Ethiopia here\nspoken of is not that of Africa but that of Arabia.\n\n12:2. And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? Hath he not\nalso spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,\n\n12:3. (For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon\nearth)\n\nExceeding meek.... Moses being the meekest of men, would not contend\nfor himself; therefore, God inspired him to write here his own defence:\nand the Holy Spirit, whose dictate he wrote, obliged him to declare the\ntruth, though it was so much to his own praise.\n\n12:4. Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you\nthree only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come\nout,\n\n12:5. The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the\nentry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were\ncome,\n\n12:6. He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet\nof the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him\nin a dream.\n\n12:7. But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in\nall my house:\n\n12:8. For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by\nriddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid\nto speak ill of my servant Moses?\n\n12:9. And being angry with them he went away:\n\n12:10. The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold\nMary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked\non her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,\n\n12:11. He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this\nsin, which we have foolishly committed:\n\n12:12. Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast\nforth from the mother\u2019s womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed\nwith the leprosy.\n\n12:13. And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal\nher.\n\n12:14. And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her\nface, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let\nher be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall\nbe called again.\n\n12:15. Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days: and the\npeople moved not from that place until Mary was called again.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 13\n\nThe twelve spies are sent to view the land. The relation they make of\nit.\n\n13:1. And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in\nthe desert of Pharan.\n\n13:2. And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.\n\n13:3. Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.\n\n13:4. Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of\nPharan, principal men, whose names are these:\n\n13:5. Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.\n\n13:6. Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Huri.\n\n13:7. Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.\n\n13:8. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.\n\n13:9. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun.\n\n13:10. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of Raphu.\n\n13:11. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of Sodi.\n\n13:12. Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of Manasses, Gaddi the\nson of Susi.\n\n13:13. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.\n\n13:14. Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of Michael.\n\n13:15. Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of Vapsi.\n\n13:16. Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.\n\n13:17. These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the\nland: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.\n\n13:18. And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to\nthem: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the\nmountains,\n\n13:19. View the land, of what sort it is, and the people that are the\ninhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or\nmany:\n\n13:20. The land itself, whether it be good or bad: what manner of\ncities, walled or without walls:\n\n13:21. The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good\ncourage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time\nwhen the firstripe grapes are fit to be eaten.\n\n13:22. And when they were gone up, they viewed the land from the desert\nof Sin, unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.\n\n13:23. And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where\nwere Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was\nbuilt seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.\n\n13:24. And going forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of\ngrapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men\ncarried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the\nfigs of that place:\n\n13:25. Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the\ncluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had\ncarried a cluster of grapes.\n\n13:26. And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty\ndays, having gone round all the country,\n\n13:27. And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the\nchildren of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And\nspeaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits\nof the land:\n\n13:28. And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou\nsentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be\nknown by these fruits:\n\n13:29. But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great\nand walled. We saw there the race of Enac.\n\n13:30. Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and\nthe Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea\nand near the streams of the Jordan.\n\n13:31. In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people\nthat rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for\nwe shall be able to conquer it.\n\n13:32. But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not\nable to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.\n\n13:33. And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before\nthe children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed,\ndevoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall\nstature.\n\nSpoke ill, etc.... These men, who by their misrepresentations of the\nland of promise, discouraged the Israelites from attempting the\nconquest of it, were a figure of worldlings, who, by decrying or\nmisrepresenting true devotion, discourage Christians from seeking in\nearnest and acquiring so great a good, and thereby securing to\nthemselves a happy eternity.\n\n13:34. There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant\nkind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 14\n\nThe people murmur. God threateneth to destroy them. He is appeased by\nMoses, yet so as to exclude the murmurers from entering the promised\nland. The authors of the sedition are struck dead. The rest going to\nfight against the will of God are beaten.\n\n14:1. Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.\n\n14:2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron,\nsaying:\n\n14:3. Would God that we had died in Egypt: and would God we may die in\nthis vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this\nland, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away\ncaptives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?\n\n14:4. And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let\nus return into Egypt.\n\n14:5. And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the\nground before the multitude of the children of Israel.\n\n14:6. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who\nthemselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,\n\n14:7. And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land\nwhich we have gone round is very good:\n\n14:8. If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us\na land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n14:9. Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of\nthis land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone\nfrom them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.\n\n14:10. And when all the multitude cried out, and would have stoned\nthem, the glory of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle of the\ncovenant to all the children of Israel.\n\n14:11. And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract\nme? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have\nwrought before them?\n\n14:12. I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume\nthem: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier\nthan this is.\n\n14:13. And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst\nof whom thou hast brought forth this people,\n\n14:14. And the inhabitants of this land, (who have heard that thou, O\nLord, art among this people, and art seen face to face, and thy cloud\nprotecteth them, and thou goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by\nday, and in a pillar of fire by night,)\n\n14:15. May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were\none man and may say:\n\n14:16. He could not bring the people into the land for which he had\nsworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.\n\n14:17. Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast\nsworn, saying:\n\n14:18. The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity\nand wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the\nfathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.\n\nClear.... i. e., who deserves punishment.\n\n14:19. Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to\nthe greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from\ntheir going out of Egypt unto this place.\n\n14:20. And the Lord said: I have forgiven according to thy word.\n\n14:21. As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of\nthe Lord.\n\n14:22. But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs\nthat I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me\nnow ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,\n\n14:23. Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers,\nneither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.\n\n14:24. My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed\nme, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed\nshall possess it.\n\n14:25. For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite dwell in the valleys. To\nmorrow remove the camp, and return into the wilderness by the way of\nthe Red Sea.\n\n14:26. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n14:27. How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have\nheard the murmurings of the children of Israel.\n\n14:28. Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as\nyou have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.\n\n14:29. In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were\nnumbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against\nme,\n\n14:30. Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to\nmake you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the\nson of Nun.\n\n14:31. But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey\nto the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you\nhave despised.\n\n14:32. Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.\n\n14:33. Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall\nbear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed\nin the desert,\n\nShall bear your fornication.... That is, shall bear the punishment of\nyour disloyalty to God, which in the scripture language is here called\na fornication, in a spiritual sense.\n\n14:34. According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed\nthe land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall\nreceive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:\n\n14:35. For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude,\nthat hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it\nfaint away and die.\n\n14:36. Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and\nwho at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him,\nspeaking ill of the land that it was naught,\n\n14:37. Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.\n\n14:38. But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone lived, of\nall them that had gone to view the land.\n\n14:39. And Moses spoke all these words to all the children of Israel,\nand the people mourned exceedingly.\n\n14:40. And behold rising up very early in the morning, they went up to\nthe top of the mountain, and said: We are ready to go up to the place,\nof which the Lord hath spoken: for we have sinned.\n\n14:41. And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord,\nwhich shall not succeed prosperously with you?\n\n14:42. Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before\nyour enemies.\n\n14:43. The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are before you, and by their\nsword you shall fall, because you would not consent to the Lord,\nneither will the Lord be with you.\n\n14:44. But they being blinded went up to the top of the mountain. But\nthe ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses departed not from the\ncamp.\n\n14:45. And the Amalecite came down, and the Chanaanite that dwelt in\nthe mountain: and smiting and slaying them pursued them as far as\nHorma.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 15\n\nCertain laws concerning sacrifices. Sabbath breaking is punished with\ndeath. The law of fringes on their garments.\n\n15:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n15:2. Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them: When\nyou shall be come unto the land of your habitation, which I will give\nyou,\n\n15:3. And shall make an offering to the Lord, for a holocaust, or a\nvictim, paying your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts, or in your\nsolemnities burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of sheep:\n\n15:4. Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine\nflour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a\nhin of oil:\n\n15:5. And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in\nlibations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,\n\n15:6. And for every ram there shall be a sacrifice of flour of two\ntenths, which shall be tempered with the third part of a hin of oil:\n\n15:7. And he shall offer the third part the same measure of wine for\nthe libation, for a sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n15:8. But when thou offerest a holocaust or sacrifice of oxen, to\nfulfil thy vow or for victims of peace offerings,\n\n15:9. Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with\nhalf a hin of oil,\n\n15:10. And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of\nmost sweet savour to the Lord.\n\n15:11. Thus shalt thou do\n\n15:12. For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.\n\n15:13. Both they that are born in the land, and the strangers\n\n15:14. Shall offer sacrifices after the same rite.\n\n15:15. There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for\nthem who are strangers in the land.\n\n15:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n15:17. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\n\n15:18. When you are come into the land which I will give you,\n\n15:19. And shall eat of the bread of that country, you shall separate\nfirstfruits to the Lord,\n\n15:20. Of the things you eat. As you separate firstfruits of your\nbarnfloors:\n\n15:21. So also shall you give firstfruits of your dough to the Lord.\n\n15:22. And if through ignorance you omit any of these things, which the\nLord hath spoken to Moses,\n\n15:23. And by him hath commanded you from the day that he began to\ncommand and thenceforward,\n\n15:24. And the multitude have forgotten to do it: they shall offer a\ncalf out of the herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour to the Lord,\nand the sacrifice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies require, and\na buck goat for sin:\n\n15:25. And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children\nof Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned\nignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for\nthemselves and for their sin and their Ignorance:\n\n15:26. And it shall be forgiven all the people of the children of\nIsrael: and the strangers that sojourn among them: because it is the\nfault of all the people through ignorance.\n\n15:27. But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall offer a she goat\nof a year old for his sin.\n\n15:28. And the priest shall pray for him, because he sinned ignorantly\nbefore the Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be\nforgiven him.\n\n15:29. The same law shall be for all that sin by ignorance, whether\nthey be natives or strangers.\n\n15:30. But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he\nbe born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious\nagainst the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people:\n\n15:31. For he hath contemned the word of the Lord, and made void his\nprecept: therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.\n\n15:32. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the\nwilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,\n\n15:33. That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole\nmultitude.\n\n15:34. And they put him into prison, not knowing what they should do\nwith him.\n\n15:35. And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the\nmultitude stone him without the camp.\n\n15:36. And when they had brought him out, they stoned him, and he died\nas the Lord had commanded.\n\n15:37. The Lord also said to Moses:\n\n15:38. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to\nmake to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in\nthem ribands of blue:\n\nFringes.... The Pharisees enlarged these fringes through hypocrisy,\nMatt. 23.5, to appear more zealous than other men for the law of God.\n\n15:39. That when they shall see them, they may remember all the\ncommandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes\ngoing astray after divers things,\n\n15:40. But rather being mindful of the precepts of the Lord, may do\nthem and be holy to their God.\n\n15:41. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of\nEgypt, that I might be your God.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 16\n\nThe schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment.\n\n16:1. And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of\nLevi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of\nPheleth of the children of Ruben,\n\n16:2. Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others\nof the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the\ntime of assembly were called by name.\n\nRose up.... The crime of these men, which was punished in so remarkable\na manner, was that of schism, and of rebellion against the authority\nestablished by God in the church; and their pretending to the\npriesthood without being lawfully called and sent: the same is the case\nof all modern sectaries.\n\n16:3. And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said:\nLet it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy\nones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the\npeople of the Lord?\n\n16:4. When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:\n\n16:5. And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the\nmorning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he\nwill join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to\nhim.\n\n16:6. Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core,\nand all thy company.\n\n16:7. And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon it before\nthe Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you\ntake too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.\n\n16:8. And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.\n\n16:9. Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared\nyou from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should\nserve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the\ncongregation of the people, and should minister to him?\n\n16:10. Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi\nto approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the\npriesthood also,\n\n16:11. And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what\nis Aaron that you murmur against him?\n\n16:12. Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But\nthey answered: We will not come.\n\n16:13. Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a\nland that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except\nthou rule also like a lord over us?\n\n16:14. Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers\nof milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and\nvineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.\n\n16:15. Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not\ntheir sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as\na young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.\n\nVery angry.... This anger was a zeal against sin; and an indignation at\nthe affront offered to God; like that which the same holy prophet\nconceived upon the sight of the golden calf, Ex. 32.19.\n\n16:16. And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart\nbefore the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.\n\n16:17. Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them,\noffering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold\nhis censer.\n\n16:18. When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,\n\n16:19. And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of\nthe tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.\n\n16:20. And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:\n\n16:21. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may\npresently destroy them.\n\n16:22. They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God\nof the spirits of all flesh, for one man\u2019s sin shall thy wrath rage\nagainst all?\n\n16:23. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n16:24. Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents\nof Core and Dathan and Abiron.\n\n16:25. And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients\nof Israel following him,\n\n16:26. He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked\nmen, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.\n\n16:27. And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan\nand Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their\nwives and children, and all the people.\n\n16:28. And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent\nme to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my\nown head:\n\n16:29. If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited\nwith a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord\ndid not send me.\n\n16:30. But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth\nswallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down\nalive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.\n\n16:31. And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth\nbroke asunder under their feet:\n\n16:32. And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all\ntheir substance.\n\n16:33. And they went down alive into hell, the ground closing upon\nthem, and they perished from among the people.\n\n16:34. But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry\nof them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us\nup also.\n\n16:35. And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred\nand fifty men that offered the incense.\n\n16:36. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n16:37. Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the\ncensers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side\nand the other: because they are sanctified\n\n16:38. In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates,\nand fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them\nto the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may\nsee them for a sign and a memorial.\n\n16:39. Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they\nhad offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into\nplates, fastening them to the altar:\n\n16:40. That the children of Israel might have for the time to come\nwherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that\nis not of the seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the\nLord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation,\naccording as the Lord spoke to Moses.\n\n16:41. The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel\nmurmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of\nthe Lord.\n\n16:42. And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,\n\n16:43. Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when\nthey were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord\nappeared.\n\n16:44. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n16:45. Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I\ndestroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,\n\n16:46. Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it\nfrom the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to\npray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the\nplague rageth.\n\n16:47. When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the\nmultitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the\nincense:\n\n16:48. And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the\npeople, and the plague ceased.\n\n16:49. And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and\nseven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of\nCore.\n\n16:50. And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the\ncovenant after the destruction was over.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 17\n\nThe priesthood is confirmed to Aaron by the miracle of the blooming of\nhis rod, which is kept for a monument in the tabernacle.\n\n17:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n17:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a\nrod by their kindreds, of all the princes of the tribes, twelve rods,\nand write the name of every man upon his rod.\n\n17:3. And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod\nshall contain all their families:\n\n17:4. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the covenant\nbefore the testimony, where I will speak to thee.\n\n17:5. Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod shall blossom: and I\nwill make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel,\nwherewith they murmur against you.\n\n17:6. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel: and all the princes\ngave him rods one for every tribe: and there were twelve rods besides\nthe rod of Aaron.\n\n17:7. And when Moses had Laid them up before the Lord in the tabernacle\nof the testimony:\n\n17:8. He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron\nfor the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it had\nbloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.\n\nThe rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded, etc.... This rod of\nAaron which thus miraculously brought forth fruit, was a figure of the\nblessed Virgin conceiving and bringing forth her Son without any\nprejudice to her virginity.\n\n17:9. Moses therefore brought out all the rods from before the Lord to\nall the children of Israel: and they saw, and every one received their\nrods.\n\n17:10. And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the\ntabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of\nthe rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease\nfrom me lest they die.\n\n17:11. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded.\n\n17:12. And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are\nconsumed, we all perish.\n\n17:13. Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle of the Lord, he dieth.\nAre we all to a man to be utterly destroyed?\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 18\n\nThe charge of the priests and of the Levites, and their portion.\n\n18:1. And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons, and thy father\u2019s\nhouse with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and\nthy sons with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.\n\nThou, and thy father\u2019s house with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the\nsanctuary.... That is, you shall be punished if, through negligence or\nwant of due attention, you err in the discharge of the sacred functions\nfor which you were ordained.\n\n18:2. And take with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and\nthe sceptre of thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister\nto thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the\ntestimony.\n\n18:3. And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the\nworks of the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of\nthe sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die, and you also perish\nwith them.\n\n18:4. But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of the\ntabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not\njoin himself with you.\n\n18:5. Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of\nthe altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel.\n\n18:6. I have given you your brethren the Levites from among the\nchildren of Israel, and have delivered them for a gift to the Lord, to\nserve in the ministries of the tabernacle.\n\n18:7. But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things\nthat pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil,\nshall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he\nshall be slain.\n\n18:8. And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge\nof my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of\nIsrael, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly\noffice, by everlasting ordinances.\n\n18:9. These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are\nsanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice,\nand whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh\nholy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons.\n\n18:10. Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the males only shall eat\nthereof, because it is a consecrated thing to thee.\n\n18:11. But the firstfruits, which the children of Israel shall vow and\noffer, I have given to thee, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by\na perpetual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.\n\n18:12. All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn,\nwhatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to\nthee.\n\n18:13. All the firstripe of the fruits, that the ground bringeth forth,\nand which are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is\nclean in thy house, shall eat them.\n\n18:14. Every thing that the children of Israel shall give by vow, shall\nbe thine.\n\n18:15. Whatsoever is firstborn of all flesh, which they offer to the\nLord, whether it be of men, or of beasts, shall belong to thee: only\nfor the firstborn of man thou shalt take a price, and every beast that\nis unclean thou shalt cause to be redeemed,\n\n18:16. And the redemption of it shall be after one month, for five\nsicles of silver, by the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty\nobols.\n\n18:17. But the firstling of a cow, and of a sheep and of a goat thou\nshalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the\nLord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat\nthou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n18:18. But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as the consecrated breast,\nand the right shoulder shall be thine.\n\n18:19. All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of\nIsrael offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and\ndaughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever\nbefore the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.\n\nA covenant of salt.... It is a proverbial expression, signifying a\ncovenant not to be altered or corrupted; as salt is used to keep things\nfrom corruption; a covenant perpetual, like that by which it was\nappointed, that salt should be used in every sacrifice. Lev. 2.\n\n18:20. And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their\nland, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and\ninheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.\n\n18:21. And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel\nfor a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the\ntabernacle of the covenant:\n\n18:22. That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the\ntabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,\n\nDeadly sin.... That is, sin which will bring death after it.\n\n18:23. But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and\nbear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in\nyour generations. They shall not possess any other thing,\n\n18:24. But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have\nseparated for their uses and necessities.\n\n18:25. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n18:26. Command the Levites, and declare unto them: When you shall\nreceive of the children of Israel the tithes, which I have given you,\noffer the firstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say, the tenth\npart of the tenth:\n\n18:27. That it may be reckoned to you as an oblation of firstfruits, as\nwell of the barnfloors as of the winepresses:\n\n18:28. And of all the things of which you receive tithes, offer the\nfirstfruits to the Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.\n\n18:29. All the things that you shall offer of the tithes, and shall\nseparate for the gifts of the Lord, shall be the best and choicest\nthings.\n\n18:30. And thou shalt say to them: If you offer all the goodly and the\nbetter things of the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you as if you had\ngiven the firstfruits of the barnfloor and the winepress:\n\n18:31. And you shall eat them in all your places, both you and your\nfamilies: because it is your reward for the ministry, wherewith you\nserve in the tabernacle of the testimony.\n\n18:32. And you shall not sin in this point, by reserving the choicest\nand fat things to yourselves, lest you profane the oblations of the\nchildren of Israel, and die.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 19\n\nThe law of the sacrifice of the red cow, and the water of expiation.\n\n19:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:\n\n19:2. This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord hath\nordained. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a\nred cow of full age, in which there is no blemish, and which hath not\ncarried the yoke:\n\nA red cow, etc.... This red cow, offered in sacrifice for sin, and\nconsumed with fire without the camp, with the ashes of which, mingled\nwith water, the unclean were to be expiated and purified; was a figure\nof the passion of Christ, by whose precious blood applied to our souls\nin the holy sacraments, we are cleansed from our sins.\n\n19:3. And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the priest, who shall bring\nher forth without the camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all:\n\n19:4. And dipping his finger in her blood, shall sprinkle it over\nagainst the door of the tabernacle seven times,\n\n19:5. And shall burn her in the sight of all delivering up to the fire\nher skin, and her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.\n\n19:6. The priest shall also take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet\ntwice dyed, and cast it into the flame, with which the cow is consumed.\n\n19:7. And then after washing his garments, and body, he shall enter\ninto the camp, and shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n19:8. He also that hath burned her, shall wash his garments, and his\nbody, and shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n19:9. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the cow, and\nshall pour them forth without the camp in a most clean place, that they\nmay be reserved for the multitude of the children of Israel, and for a\nwater of aspersion: because the cow was burnt for sin.\n\n19:10. And when he that carried the ashes of the cow, hath washed his\ngarments, he shall be unclean until the evening. The children of\nIsrael, and the strangers that dwell among them, shall observe this for\na holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.\n\n19:11. He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean\nseven days,\n\n19:12. Shall be sprinkled with this water on the third day, and on the\nseventh, and so shall be cleansed. If he were not sprinkled on the\nthird day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh.\n\n19:13. Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not\nsprinkled with this mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord,\nand shall perish out of Israel: because he was not sprinkled with the\nwater of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall\nremain upon him.\n\n19:14. This is the law of a man that dieth in a tent: All that go into\nhis tent and all the vessels that are there, shall be unclean seven\ndays.\n\n19:15. The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding over it, shall be\nunclean.\n\n19:16. If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was\nslain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be\nunclean seven days.\n\n19:17. And they shall take of the ashes of the burning and of the sin\noffering, and shall pour living waters upon them into a vessel.\n\n19:18. And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall\nsprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men\nthat are defiled with touching any such thing:\n\n19:19. And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the unclean on\nthe third and on the seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day,\nhe shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until the\nevening.\n\n19:20. If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall\nperish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the\nsanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of\npurification.\n\n19:21. This precept shall be an ordinance for ever. He also that\nsprinkled the water, shall wash his garments. Every one that shall\ntouch the waters of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.\n\n19:22. Whatsoever a person toucheth who is unclean, he shall make it\nunclean: and the person that toucheth any of these things, shall be\nunclean until the evening.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 20\n\nThe death of Mary the sister of Moses. The people murmur for want of\nwater: God giveth it them from the rock. The death of Aaron.\n\n20:1. And the children of Israel, and all the multitude came into the\ndesert of Sin, in the first month: and the people abode in Cades. And\nMary died there, and was buried in the same place.\n\n20:2. And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and\nAaron:\n\n20:3. And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among\nour brethren before the Lord.\n\n20:4. Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the\nwilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?\n\n20:5. Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us\ninto this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth\nfigs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?\n\n20:6. And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude, went into the\ntabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat upon the ground, and cried to\nthe Lord, and said. O Lord God, hear the cry of this people, and open\nto them thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that being satisfied,\nthey may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared over them.\n\n20:7. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n20:8. Take the rod, and assemble the people together, thou and Aaron\nthy brother, and speak to the rock before them, and it shall yield\nwaters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rock, all the\nmultitude and their cattle shall drink.\n\n20:9. Moses therefore took the rod, which was before the Lord, as he\nhad commanded him,\n\n20:10. And having gathered together the multitude before the rock, he\nsaid to them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you\nforth water out of this rock?\n\n20:11. And when Moses had lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice\nwith the rod, there came forth water in great abundance, so that the\npeople and their cattle drank,\n\nThe rock.... This rock was a figure of Christ, and the water that\nissued out from the rock, of his precious blood, the source of all our\ngood.\n\n20:12. And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not\nbelieved me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall\nnot bring these people into the land, which I will give them.\n\nYou have not believed, etc.... The fault of Moses and Aaron, on this\noccasion, was a certain diffidence and weakness of faith; not doubting\nof God\u2019s power or veracity; but apprehending the unworthiness of that\nrebellious and incredulous people, and therefore speaking with some\nambiguity.\n\n20:13. This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel\nstrove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.\n\nThe Water of contradiction.... Or strife. Hebrew, Meribah.\n\n20:14. In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of\nEdom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the\nlabour that hath come upon us:\n\n20:15. In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we\ndwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.\n\n20:16. And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an\nangel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of\nCades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,\n\n20:17. And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy\ncountry. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards,\nwe will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common\nhighway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till\nwe are past thy borders.\n\n20:18. And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost\nI will come out armed against thee.\n\n20:19. And the children of Israel said: We will go by the beaten way:\nand if we and our cattle drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is\njust: there shall be no difficulty in the price, only let us pass\nspeedily.\n\n20:20. But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came\nforth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,\n\n20:21. Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them\npassage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from\nhim.\n\n20:22. And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to\nmount Hor, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:\n\n20:23. Where the Lord spoke to Moses:\n\n20:24. Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into\nthe land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was\nincredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.\n\n20:25. Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount\nHor:\n\n20:26. And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou\nshalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his\npeople, and die there.\n\n20:27. Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount\nHor before all the multitude.\n\n20:28. And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested\nEleazar his son with them.\n\n20:29. And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down\nwith Eleazar.\n\n20:30. And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for\nhim thirty days throughout all their families.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 21\n\nKing Arad is overcome. The people murmur and are punished with fiery\nserpents: they are healed by the brazen serpent. They conquer the kings\nSehon and Og.\n\n21:1. And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south,\nhad heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies,\nhe fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils.\n\n21:2. But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt\ndeliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.\n\n21:3. And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the\nChanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they\ncalled the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.\n\nAnathema.... That is, a thing devoted to utter destruction.\n\n21:4. And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the\nRed Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary\nof their journey and labour:\n\n21:5. And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou\nbring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor\nhave we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.\n\nVery light food.... So they call the heavenly manna: thus worldlings\nloathe the things of heaven, for which they have no relish.\n\n21:6. Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which\nbit them and killed many of them.\n\nFiery serpents.... They are so called, because they that were bitten by\nthem were burnt with a violent heat.\n\n21:7. Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because\nwe have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away\nthese serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.\n\n21:8. And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up\nfor a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.\n\n21:9. Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign:\nwhich when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.\n\nA brazen serpent.... This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the\nefficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish\nserpent. John 3.14.\n\n21:10. And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.\n\n21:11. And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in\nthe wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.\n\n21:12. And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:\n\n21:13. Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the\ndesert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is\nthe border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.\n\n21:14. Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he\ndid in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.\n\nThe book of the wars, etc.... An ancient book, which, like several\nothers quoted in scripture, has been lost.\n\n21:15. The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest\nin Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.\n\n21:16. When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the\nLord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them\nwater.\n\n21:17. Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung\nthereto:\n\n21:18. The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people\nprepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And\nthey marched from the wilderness to Mathana.\n\n21:19. From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.\n\n21:20. From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of\nPhasga, which looked towards the desert.\n\n21:21. And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites,\nsaying:\n\n21:22. I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land:\nwe will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not\ndrink waters of the wells, we will go the king\u2019s highway, till we be\npast thy borders.\n\n21:23. And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders:\nbut rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert,\nand came to Jasa and fought against them.\n\n21:24. And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they\npossessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines\nof the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept\nwith a strong garrison.\n\n21:25. So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the\nAmorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.\n\n21:26. Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who\nfought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been\nof his dominion, as far as the Arnon.\n\n21:27. Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the\ncity of Sehon be built and set up:\n\n21:28. A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon,\nand hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high\nplaces of the Arnon.\n\n21:29. Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath\ngiven his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the\nking of the Amorrhites.\n\n21:30. Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary\nto Nophe, and unto Medaba.\n\n21:31. So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.\n\n21:32. And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the\nvillages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.\n\n21:33. And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and\nOg the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in\nEdrai.\n\n21:34. And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered\nhim and all his people, and his country into thy hand: and thou shalt\ndo to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the\ninhabitant of Hesebon.\n\n21:35. So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not\nletting any one escape, and they possessed his land.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 22\n\nBalac, king of Moab, sendeth twice for Balaam to curse Israel. In his\nway Balaam is rebuked by an angel.\n\n22:1. And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over\nagainst where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan.\n\n22:2. And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to\nthe Amorrhite,\n\n22:3. And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not\nable to sustain his assault,\n\n22:4. He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all\nthat dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the\nvery roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab.\n\n22:5. He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, a\nsoothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of\nAmmon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt,\nthat hath covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me.\n\n22:6. Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier\nthan I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land:\nfor I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou\nshalt curse is cursed.\n\n22:7. And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the\nprice of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam,\nand had told him all the words of Balac:\n\n22:8. He answered: Tarry here this night and I will answer whatsoever\nthe Lord shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came\nand said to him:\n\n22:9. What mean these men that are with thee?\n\n22:10. He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath\nsent to me,\n\n22:11. Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered\nthe face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight\nwith them and drive them away.\n\n22:12. And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt\nthou curse the people: because it is blessed.\n\n22:13. And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your\ncountry, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you.\n\n22:14. The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with\nus.\n\n22:15. Then he sent many more and more noble than he had sent before:\n\n22:16. Who, when they were come to Balaam, said: Thus saith Balac the\nson of Sephor, Delay not to come to me:\n\n22:17. For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever\nthou wilt: come and curse this people.\n\n22:18. Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver\nand gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either\nmore or less.\n\n22:19. I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what\nthe Lord will answer me once more.\n\nTo stay.... His desiring them to stay, after he had been fully informed\nalready that it was not God\u2019s will he should go, came from the\ninclination he had to gratify Balac, for the sake of worldly gain. And\nthis perverse disposition God punished by permitting him to go (though\nnot to curse the people as he would willingly have done), and suffering\nhim to fall still deeper and deeper into sin, till he came at last to\ngive that abominable counsel against the people of God, which ended in\nhis own destruction. So sad a thing it is to indulge a passion for\nmoney.\n\n22:20. God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If\nthese men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that\nthou do what I shall command thee.\n\n22:21. Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with\nthem.\n\n22:22. And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way\nagainst Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him.\n\n22:23. The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn\nsword, turned herself out of the way, and went into the field. And when\nBalaam beat her, and had a mind to bring her again to the way,\n\n22:24. The angel stood in a narrow place between two walls, wherewith\nthe vineyards were enclosed.\n\n22:25. And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close to the wall, and\nbruised the foot of the rider. But he beat her again:\n\n22:26. And nevertheless the angel going on to a narrow place, where\nthere was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left,\nstood to meet him.\n\n22:27. And when the ass saw the angel standing, she fell under the feet\nof the rider: who being angry beat her sides more vehemently with a\nstaff.\n\n22:28. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What\nhave I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time?\n\nOpened the mouth, etc.... The angel moved the tongue of the ass, to\nutter these speeches, to rebuke, by the mouth of a brute beast, the\nbrutal fury and folly of Balaam.\n\n22:29. Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served\nme ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.\n\n22:30. The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always\naccustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the\nlike thing to thee. But he said: Never.\n\n22:31. Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the\nangel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him\nfalling flat on the ground.\n\n22:32. And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three\ntimes? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and\ncontrary to me:\n\nPerverse.... Because thy inclinations are wicked in being willing for\nthe sake of gain to curse the people of whom I am the guardian.\n\n22:33. And unless the ass had turned out of the way, giving place to me\nwho stood against thee, I had slain thee, and she should have lived.\n\n22:34. Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing that thou didst stand\nagainst me: and now if it displease thee that I go, I will return.\n\n22:35. The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other\nthing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the\nprinces.\n\n22:36. And when Balac heard it he came forth to meet him in a town of\nthe Moabites, that is situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon.\n\n22:37. And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst\nthou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward\nthy coming?\n\n22:38. He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any\nother thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?\n\n22:39. So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the\nuttermost borders of his kingdom.\n\n22:40. And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to\nBalaam, and to the princes that were with him.\n\n22:41. And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of\nBaal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 23\n\nBalaam, instead of cursing Israel, is obliged to bless them, and\nprophesy good things of them.\n\n23:1. And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare\nas many calves, and the same number of rams.\n\n23:2. And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid\ntogether a calf and a ram upon every altar.\n\n23:3. And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering,\nuntil I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he\nshall command, I will speak to thee.\n\n23:4. And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking\nto him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a\ncalf and a ram.\n\n23:5. And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to\nBalac, and thus shalt thou speak.\n\n23:6. Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all\nthe princes of the Moabites:\n\n23:7. And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites\nhath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said\nhe, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.\n\n23:8. How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means\nshould I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?\n\n23:9. I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider\nhim from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be\nreckoned among the nations.\n\n23:10. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the\nstock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end\nbe like to them.\n\n23:11. And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent\nfor thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.\n\n23:12. He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord\ncommandeth?\n\n23:13. Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence\nthou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them\nfrom thence.\n\n23:14. And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of\nmount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf\nand a ram,\n\n23:15. He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to\nmeet him.\n\n23:16. And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his\nmouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.\n\n23:17. Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the\nprinces of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the\nLord spoken?\n\n23:18. But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give\near: hear, thou son of Sephor:\n\n23:19. God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man,\nthat he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath\nhe spoken, and will he not fulfil?\n\n23:20. I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.\n\n23:21. There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be\nseen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the\nvictory of the king in him.\n\n23:22. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the\nrhinoceros.\n\n23:23. There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In\ntheir times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath\nwrought.\n\n23:24. Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift\nitself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and\ndrink the blood of the slain.\n\n23:25. And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.\n\n23:26. And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should\ncommand me, that I would do?\n\n23:27. And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another\nplace; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from\nthence.\n\n23:28. And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which\nlooketh towards the wilderness,\n\n23:29. Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as\nmany calves, and the same number of rams.\n\n23:30. Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf\nand a ram.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 24\n\nBalaam still continues to prophesy good things in favour of Israel.\n\n24:1. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless\nIsrael, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but\nsetting his face towards the desert,\n\n24:2. And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by\ntheir tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him,\n\n24:3. He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath\nsaid: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up:\n\n24:4. The hearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the\nvision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:\n\n24:5. How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O\nIsrael!\n\n24:6. As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as\ntabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.\n\n24:7. Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many\nwaters. For Agag his king shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be\ntaken away.\n\n24:8. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the\nrhinoceros. They shall devour the nations that are his enemies, and\nbreak their bones, and pierce them with arrows.\n\n24:9. Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none\nshall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be\nblessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.\n\n24:10. And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together\nand said: I called thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary\nhast blessed them three times.\n\n24:11. Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour\nthee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.\n\n24:12. Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers,\nwhom thou sentest to me:\n\n24:13. If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I\ncannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my\nown head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I\nwill speak?\n\n24:14. But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this\npeople shall do to thy people in the latter days.\n\n24:15. Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son\nof Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath said:\n\n24:16. The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the\ndoctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who\nfalling hath his eyes opened:\n\n24:17. I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near.\nA STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from\nIsrael: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the\nchildren of Seth\n\n24:18. And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come\nto their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.\n\n24:19. Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy\nthe remains of the city.\n\n24:20. And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec\nthe beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.\n\n24:21. He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy\nhabitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,\n\n24:22. And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be\nable to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.\n\n24:23. And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live\nwhen God shall do these things?\n\n24:24. They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the\nAssyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves\nalso shall perish.\n\n24:25. And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned\nthe way that he came.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 25\n\nThe people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four\nthousand are slain. The zeal of Phinees.\n\n25:1. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed\nfornication with the daughters of Moab,\n\n25:2. Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and\nadored their gods.\n\n25:3. And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being\nangry,\n\nInitiated to Beelphegor.... That is, they took to the worship of\nBeelphegor, an obscene idol of the Moabites, and were consecrated, as\nit were, to him.\n\n25:4. Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them\nup on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from\nIsrael.\n\n25:5. And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his\nneighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.\n\n25:6. And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his\nbrethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the\nchildren of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.\n\n25:7. And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest\nsaw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a\ndagger,\n\n25:8. Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust\nboth of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the\ngenital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.\n\n25:9. And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.\n\n25:10. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n25:11. Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath\nturned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved\nwith my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children\nof Israel in my zeal.\n\n25:12. Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my\ncovenant,\n\n25:13. And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him\nand his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made\natonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.\n\n25:14. And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of\nMadian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe\nof Simeon.\n\n25:15. And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called\nCozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.\n\n25:16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n25:17. Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:\n\n25:18. Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have\nguilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a\ndaughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague\nfor the sacrilege of Phogor.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 26\n\nThe people are again numbered by their tribes and families.\n\n26:1. After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses\nand to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:\n\n26:2. Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years\nold and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go\nforth to war.\n\n26:3. Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of\nMoab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were\n\n26:4. From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and\nthis is the number of them:\n\n26:5. Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is\nthe family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the\nPhalluites:\n\n26:6. And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi,\nof whom is the family of the Charmites.\n\n26:7. These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was\nfound to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.\n\n26:8. The son of Phallu was Eliab.\n\n26:9. His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and\nAbiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in\nthe sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:\n\n26:10. And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others\ndying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a\ngreat miracle wrought,\n\n26:11. That when Core perished, his sons did not perish.\n\n26:12. The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the\nfamily of the Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites:\nJachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites:\n\n26:13. Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites: Saul, of him is the\nfamily of the Saulites.\n\n26:14. These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the\nwhole number was twenty-two thousand two hundred.\n\n26:15. The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family\nof the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of\nhim is the family of the Sunites:\n\n26:16. Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites: Her, of him is the\nfamily of the Herites:\n\n26:17. Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites: Ariel, of him is the\nfamily of the Arielites.\n\n26:18. These are the families of Gad, of which the whole number was\nforty thousand five hundred.\n\n26:19. The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of\nChanaan.\n\n26:20. And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is\nthe family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the\nPharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites.\n\n26:21. Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron, of whom is the family\nof the Hesronites: and Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites.\n\n26:22. These are the families of Juda, of which the whole number was\nseventy-six thousand five hundred.\n\n26:23. The sons of Issachar, by their kindreds: Thola of whom is the\nfamily of the Tholaites: Phua, of whom is the family of the Phuaites:\n\n26:24. Jasub, of whom is the family of the Jasubites: Semran, of whom\nis the family of the Semranites.\n\n26:25. These are the kindreds of Issachar, whose number was sixty-four\nthousand three hundred.\n\n26:26. The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds: Sared, of whom is the\nfamily of the Saredites: Elon, of whom is the family of the Elonites:\nJalel, of whom is the family of the Jalelites.\n\n26:27. These are the kindreds of Zabulon, whose number was sixty\nthousand five hundred.\n\n26:28. The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim.\n\n26:29. Of Manasses was born Machir, of whom is the family of the\nMachirites. Machir begot Galaad, of whom is the family of the\nGalaadites.\n\n26:30. Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the family of the Jezerites:\nand Helec, of whom is the family of the Helecites:\n\n26:31. And Asriel, of whom is the family of the Asrielites: and Sechem,\nof whom is the family of the Sechemites:\n\n26:32. And Semida, of whom is the family of the Semidaites: and Hepher,\nof whom is the family of the Hepherites.\n\n26:33. And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only\ndaughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and\nMelcha, and Thersa.\n\n26:34. These are the families of Manasses, and the number of them\nfifty-two thousand seven hundred.\n\n26:35. And the sons of Ephraim by their kindreds were these: Suthala,\nof whom is the family of the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family\nof the Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family of the Thehenites.\n\n26:36. Now the son of Suthala was Heran, of whom is the family of the\nHeranites.\n\n26:37. These are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose number was\nthirty-two thousand five hundred.\n\n26:38. These are the sons of Joseph by their families. The sons of\nBenjamin in their kindreds: Bela, of whom is the family of the\nBelaites: Asbel, of whom is the family of the Asbelites: Ahiram, of\nwhom is the family of the Ahiramites:\n\n26:39. Supham, of whom is the family of the Suphamites: Hupham, of whom\nis the family of the Huphamites.\n\n26:40. The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of Hered, is the family of\nthe Heredites: of Noeman, the family of the Noemanites.\n\n26:41. These are the sons of Benjamin by their kindreds, whose number\nwas forty-five thousand six hundred.\n\n26:42. The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family\nof the Suhamites: These are the kindreds of Dan by their families.\n\n26:43. All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty-four thousand four\nhundred.\n\n26:44. The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family\nof the Jemnaites: Jessui, of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie,\nof whom is the family of the Brieites.\n\n26:45. The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of the Heberites:\nand Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites.\n\n26:46. And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara.\n\n26:47. These are the kindreds of the sons of Aser, and their number\nfifty-three thousand four hundred.\n\n26:48. The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of whom is the\nfamily of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of the Gunites:\n\n26:49. Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites: Sellem, of whom\nis the family of the Sellemites.\n\n26:50. These are the kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their\nfamilies: whose number was forty-five thousand four hundred.\n\n26:51. This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned\nup, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.\n\n26:52. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n26:53. To these shall the land be divided for their possessions\naccording to the number of names.\n\n26:54. To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to\nthe fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up,\nshall a possession be delivered:\n\n26:55. Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and\nfamilies.\n\n26:56. Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more,\nor the fewer.\n\n26:57. This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families:\nGerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the\nfamily of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the\nMerarites.\n\n26:58. These are the families of Levi: The family of Lobni, the family\nof Hebroni, the family of Moholi, the family of Musi, the family of\nCore. Now Caath begot Amram:\n\n26:59. Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to\nhim in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and\nMary their sister.\n\n26:60. Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar:\n\n26:61. Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange\nfire before the Lord.\n\n26:62. And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males\nfrom one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the\nchildren of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the\nrest.\n\n26:63. This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled\nby Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan,\nover against Jericho.\n\n26:64. Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before\nby Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.\n\n26:65. For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the\nwilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone,\nand Josue the son of Nun.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 27\n\nThe law of inheritance. Josue is appointed to succeed Moses.\n\n27:1. Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son of Hepher, the son\nof Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, who was the son of\nJoseph: and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and\nThersa.\n\n27:2. And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the\nprinces of the people at the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,\nand said:\n\n27:3. Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that\nwas raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and\nhe had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family,\nbecause he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our\nfather.\n\n27:4. And Moses referred their cause to the judgment of the Lord.\n\n27:5. And the Lord said to him:\n\n27:6. The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a\npossession among their father\u2019s kindred, and let them succeed him in\nhis inheritance.\n\n27:7. And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:\n\n27:8. When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his\ndaughter.\n\n27:9. If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.\n\n27:10. And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to\nhis father\u2019s brethren.\n\n27:11. But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be\ngiven to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children\nof Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.\n\n27:12. The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim,\nand view from thence the land which I will give to the children of\nIsrael.\n\n27:13. And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy\npeople, as thy brother Aaron is gone:\n\n27:14. Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the\ncontradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before\nthem at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of\nthe desert of Sin.\n\n27:15. And Moses answered him:\n\n27:16. May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man,\nthat may be over this multitude:\n\n27:17. And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or\nbring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a\nshepherd.\n\n27:18. And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in\nwhom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.\n\n27:19. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the\nmultitude:\n\n27:20. And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part\nof thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may\nhear him.\n\n27:21. If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the\nLord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest\nof the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.\n\n27:22. Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And, when he had taken\nJosue, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of\nthe people,\n\n27:23. And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that\nthe Lord had commanded.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 28\n\nSacrifices are appointed as well for every day as for sabbaths, and\nother festivals.\n\n28:1. The Lord also said to Moses:\n\n28:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer\nye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour,\nin their due seasons.\n\n28:3. These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a\nyear old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust:\n\n28:4. One you shall offer in the mornings, and the other in the\nevening:\n\n28:5. And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered\nwith the purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin.\n\n28:6. It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai\nfor a most sweet odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.\n\n28:7. And for a libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a\nhin for every lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord.\n\n28:8. And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner in the evening\naccording to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the\nlibations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n28:9. And on the sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old\nwithout blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in\nsacrifice, and the libations,\n\n28:10. Which regularly are poured out every sabbath for the perpetual\nholocaust.\n\n28:11. And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to\nthe Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year\nold, without blemish,\n\n28:12. And three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for\nevery calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil for every ram:\n\n28:13. And the tenth of a tenth of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice\nfor every lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet odour and an offering\nby fire to the Lord.\n\n28:14. And these shall be the libations of wine that are to be poured\nout for every victim: Half a hin for every calf, a third for a ram, and\na fourth for a lamb. This shall be the holocaust for every month, as\nthey succeed one another in the course of the year.\n\n28:15. A buck goat also shall be offered to the Lord for a sin offering\nover and above the perpetual holocaust with its libations.\n\n28:16. And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month,\nshall be the phase of the Lord,\n\n28:17. And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they\neat unleavened bread.\n\n28:18. And the first day of them shall be venerable and holy: you shall\nnot do any servile work therein.\n\n28:19. And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord,\ntwo calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without\nblemish:\n\n28:20. And for the sacrifice of every one three tenths of flour which\nshall be tempered with oil to every calf, and two tenths to every ram,\n\n28:21. And the tenth of a tenth, to every lamb, that is to say, to all\nthe seven lambs:\n\n28:22. And one buck goat for sin, to make atonement for you,\n\n28:23. Besides the morning holocaust which you shall always offer.\n\n28:24. So shall you do every day of the seven days for the food of the\nfire, and for a most sweet odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the\nholocaust, and from the libations of each.\n\n28:25. The seventh day also shall be most solemn and holy unto you, you\nshall do no servile work therein.\n\n28:26. The day also of firstfruits, when after the weeks are\naccomplished, you shall offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be\nvenerable and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.\n\n28:27. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old,\nwithout blemish:\n\n28:28. And in the sacrifices of them three tenths of flour tempered\nwith oil to every calf, two to every ram,\n\n28:29. The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which in all are seven\nlambs: a buck goat also,\n\n28:30. Which is slain for expiation: besides the perpetual holocaust\nand the libations thereof.\n\n28:31. You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 29\n\nSacrifices for the festivals of the seventh month.\n\n29:1. The first day also of the seventh month shall be venerable and\nholy unto you; you shall do no servile work therein, because it is the\nday of the sounding and of trumpets.\n\n29:2. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, one calf of the herd, one ram and seven lambs of a year old,\nwithout blemish.\n\n29:3. And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil\nto every calf, two tenths to a ram,\n\n29:4. One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven lambs:\n\n29:5. And a buck goat for sin, which is offered for the expiation of\nthe people,\n\n29:6. Besides the holocaust of the first day of the month with the\nsacrifices thereof, and the perpetual holocaust with the accustomed\nlibations. With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice\nfor a most sweet odour to the Lord.\n\n29:7. The tenth day also of this seventh month shall be holy and\nvenerable unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; you shall do no\nservile work therein.\n\n29:8. And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet\nodour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old,\nwithout blemish:\n\n29:9. And for their sacrifices, three tenths of flour tempered with oil\nto every calf, two tenths to a ram,\n\n29:10. The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which are in all seven\nlambs:\n\n29:11. And a buck goat for sin, besides the things that are wont to be\noffered for sin, for expiation, and for the perpetual holocaust with\ntheir sacrifice and libations.\n\n29:12. And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which shall be\nunto you holy and venerable, you shall do no servile work, but shall\ncelebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days.\n\n29:13. And you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a\nyear old, without blemish:\n\n29:14. And for their libations three tenths of flour tempered with oil\nto every calf, being in all thirteen calves: and two tenths to each\nram, being two rams,\n\n29:15. And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb, being in all fourteen\nlambs:\n\n29:16. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:17. On the second day you shall offer twelve calves of the herd, two\nrams and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:18. And the sacrifices and the libations for every one, for the\ncalves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall duly celebrate:\n\n29:19. And a buck goat for a sin offering besides the perpetual\nholocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:20. The third day you shall offer eleven calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:21. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the\nrite:\n\n29:22. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice, and the libation thereof.\n\n29:23. The fourth day you shall offer ten calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:24. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate in right manner:\n\n29:25. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:26. The fifth day you shall offer nine calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:27. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:28. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:29. The sixth day you shall offer eight calves, two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:30. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:31. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:32. The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and\nfourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:\n\n29:33. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:34. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:35. On the eighth day, which is most solemn, you shall do no servile\nwork:\n\n29:36. But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the\nLord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without\nblemish:\n\n29:37. And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves\nand for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the\nrite:\n\n29:38. And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and\nthe sacrifice and the libation thereof.\n\n29:39. These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities:\nbesides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice,\nfor libation, and for victims of peace offerings.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 30\n\nOf vows and oaths: and their obligation.\n\n30:1. And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had\ncommanded him:\n\n30:2. And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of\nIsrael: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:\n\n30:3. If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he\nshall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.\n\n30:4. If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in\nher father\u2019s house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the\nvow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her\nsoul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:\n\n30:5. Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.\n\n30:6. But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid\nit, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be\nbound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it.\n\n30:7. If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once\ngoing out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,\n\n30:8. The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she\nshall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.\n\n30:9. But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises\nand the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord\nwill forgive her.\n\n30:10. The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever\nthey vow.\n\n30:11. If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by\nvow and by oath,\n\n30:12. If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow\nthe promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.\n\n30:13. But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the\npromise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful\nto her.\n\n30:14. If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by\nfasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will\nof her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it.\n\n30:15. But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the\ndeclaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and\npromised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held\nhis peace.\n\n30:16. But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her\niniquity.\n\n30:17. These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the\nhusband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as\nyet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father\u2019s house.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 31\n\nThe Madianites are slain for having drawn the people of Israel into\nsin. The dividing of the booty.\n\n31:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n31:2. Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so\nthou shalt be gathered to thy people.\n\n31:3. And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take\nthe revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.\n\n31:4. Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be\nsent to the war.\n\n31:5. And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve\nthousand men well appointed for battle.\n\n31:6. And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest,\nand he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound.\n\n31:7. And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome\nthem, they slew all the men.\n\n31:8. And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five\nprinces of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the\nsword.\n\n31:9. And they took their women, and their children captives, and all\ntheir cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions they\nplundered:\n\n31:10. And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they\nburned.\n\n31:11. And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken\nboth of men and of beasts.\n\n31:12. And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to\nall the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the things\nfor use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the\nJordan over against Jericho.\n\n31:13. And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the\nsynagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.\n\n31:14. And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the\ntribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,\n\n31:15. Said: Why have you saved the women?\n\n31:16. Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the\ncounsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin\nof Phogor, for which also the people was punished?\n\nThe sin of Phogor.... The sin committed in the worship of Beelphegor.\n\n31:17. Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the\nchildren: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.\n\nOf children.... Women and children, ordinarily speaking, were not to be\nkilled in war, Deut. 20.14. But the great Lord of life and death was\npleased to order it otherwise in the present case, in detestation of\nthe wickedness of this people, who by the counsel of Balaam, had sent\ntheir women among the Israelites on purpose to draw them from God.\n\n31:18. But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for\nyourselves:\n\n31:19. And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man,\nor touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the\nseventh day.\n\n31:20. And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing\nmade for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be\npurified.\n\n31:21. Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had\nfought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the\nLord hath commanded Moses:\n\n31:22. Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,\n\n31:23. And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by\nfire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified with\nthe water of expiation:\n\n31:24. And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being\npurified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp.\n\n31:25. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n31:26. Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and\nbeast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude:\n\n31:27. And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that\nfought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.\n\n31:28. And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that\nfought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of\npersons as of oxen and asses and sheep.\n\n31:29. And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are\nthe firstfruits of the Lord.\n\n31:30. Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take\nthe fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of\nall beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the\ncharge of the tabernacle of the Lord.\n\n31:31. And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.\n\n31:32. And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred\nseventy-five thousand sheep,\n\n31:33. Seventy-two thousand oxen,\n\n31:34. Sixty-one thousand asses:\n\n31:35. And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not\nknown men.\n\n31:36. And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to\nwit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:\n\n31:37. Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six\nhundred seventy five sheep.\n\n31:38. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:\n\n31:39. Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:\n\n31:40. Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion\nof the Lord, thirty-two souls.\n\n31:41. And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to\nEleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,\n\n31:42. Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had\nseparated for them that had been in the battle.\n\n31:43. But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that\nis to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred\nsheep,\n\n31:44. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,\n\n31:45. And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,\n\n31:46. And out of the sixteen thousand persons,\n\n31:47. Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that\nwatched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.\n\n31:48. And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and\ncenturions were come to Moses, they said:\n\n31:49. We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men,\nwhom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.\n\n31:50. Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of\nus could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and\nbracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.\n\n31:51. And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers\nkinds,\n\n31:52. In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from\nthe tribunes and from the centurions.\n\n31:53. For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.\n\n31:54. And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of\nthe testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the\nLord.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 32\n\nThe tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasses, receive\ntheir inheritance on the east side of Jordan, upon conditions approved\nof by Moses.\n\n32:1. And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and\ntheir substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of\nJazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle,\n\n32:2. They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the\nmultitude, and said:\n\n32:3. Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale,\nand Saban, and Nebo, and Beon,\n\n32:4. The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the\nchildren of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts:\nand we thy servants have very much cattle:\n\n32:5. And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou\ngive it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the\nJordan.\n\n32:6. And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight,\nand will you sit here?\n\n32:7. Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they\nmay not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?\n\n32:8. Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to\nview the land?\n\n32:9. And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster,\nhaving viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the\nchildren of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which\nthe Lord gave them.\n\n32:10. And he swore in his anger, saying:\n\n32:11. If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old\nand upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,\n\n32:12. Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son\nof Nun: these have fulfilled my will.\n\n32:13. And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through\nthe desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil\nin his sight, was consumed.\n\n32:14. And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers,\nthe increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the\nLord against Israel.\n\n32:15. For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the\nwilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.\n\n32:16. But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls\nfor our cattle, and strong cities for our children:\n\n32:17. And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the\nchildren of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our\nlittle ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of\nthe ambushes of the inhabitants.\n\n32:18. We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel\npossess their inheritance:\n\n32:19. Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we\nhave already our possession on the east side thereof,\n\n32:20. And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well\nappointed for war before the Lord:\n\n32:21. And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord\noverthrow his enemies:\n\n32:22. And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be\nblameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the\ncountries that you desire, before the Lord.\n\n32:23. But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin\nagainst God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.\n\n32:24. Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls\nfor your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.\n\n32:25. And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy\nservants, we will do what my lord commandeth.\n\n32:26. We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle,\nin the cities of Galaad:\n\n32:27. And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war,\nas thou, my lord, speakest.\n\n32:28. Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son\nof Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Israel,\nand said to them:\n\n32:29. If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you\nover the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be\nmade subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.\n\n32:30. But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of\nChanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you.\n\n32:31. And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As\nthe Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:\n\n32:32. We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and\nwe confess that we have already received our possession beyond the\nJordan.\n\n32:33. Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to\nthe half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king\nof the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land\nand the cities thereof round about.\n\n32:34. And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,\n\n32:35. And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,\n\n32:36. And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their\ncattle.\n\n32:37. But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and\nCariathaim,\n\n32:38. And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama:\ngiving names to the cities which they had built.\n\n32:39. Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into\nGalaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants\nthereof.\n\n32:40. And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses,\nand he dwelt in it.\n\n32:41. And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages\nthereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages\nof Jair.\n\n32:42. Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and\nhe called it by his own name, Nobe.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 33\n\nThe mansions or journeys of the children of Israel towards the land of\npromise.\n\n33:1. These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of\nEgypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron,\n\nThe mansions.... These mansions, or journeys of the children of Israel\nfrom Egypt to the land of promise, were figures, according to the\nfathers, of the steps and degrees by which Christians leaving sin are\nto advance from virtue to virtue, till they come to the heavenly\nmansions, after this life, to see and enjoy God.\n\n33:2. Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their\nencamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.\n\n33:3. Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first\nmonth, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the\nphase, with a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians,\n\n33:4. Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon\ntheir gods also he had executed vengeance,)\n\n33:5. And they camped in Soccoth.\n\n33:6. And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost\nborders of the wilderness.\n\n33:7. Departing from thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which\nlooketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum.\n\n33:8. And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of\nthe sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the\ndesert of Etham, they camped in Mara.\n\n33:9. And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were\ntwelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they\ncamped.\n\n33:10. But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the\nRed Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,\n\n33:11. They camped in the desert of Sin.\n\n33:12. And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca.\n\n33:13. And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.\n\n33:14. And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim,\nwhere the people wanted water to drink.\n\n33:15. And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.\n\n33:16. But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the\ngraves of lust.\n\n33:17. And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth.\n\n33:18. And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.\n\n33:19. And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares.\n\n33:20. And they departed from thence and came to Lebna.\n\n33:21. Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa.\n\n33:22. And departing from Ressa, they came to Ceelatha.\n\n33:23. And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher.\n\n33:24. Departing from the mountain Sepher, they came to Arada,\n\n33:25. From thence they went and camped in Maceloth.\n\n33:26. And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath.\n\n33:27. Removing from Thahath they camped in Thare.\n\n33:28. And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in\nMethca.\n\n33:29. And removing from Methca, they camped in Hesmona.\n\n33:30. And departing from Hesmona, they came to Moseroth.\n\n33:31. And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan.\n\n33:32. And departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad.\n\n33:33. From thence they went and camped in Jetebatha.\n\n33:34. And from Jetebatha they came to Hebrona.\n\n33:35. And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.\n\n33:36. They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which\nis Cades.\n\n33:37. And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Hor, in the\nuttermost borders of the land of Edom.\n\n33:38. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment\nof the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth\nof the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month, the first day\nof the month,\n\n33:39. When he was a hundred and twenty-three years old.\n\n33:40. And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard\nthat the children of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan.\n\n33:41. And they departed from mount Hor, and camped in Salmona.\n\n33:42. From whence they removed and came to Phunon.\n\n33:43. And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth.\n\n33:44. And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim, which is in the borders\nof the Moabites.\n\n33:45. And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched their tents in\nDibongab.\n\n33:46. From thence they went and camped in Helmondeblathaim.\n\n33:47. And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains\nof Abarim over against Nabo.\n\n33:48. And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the\nplains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.\n\n33:49. And there they camped from Bethsimoth even to Ablesatim in the\nplains of the Moabites,\n\n33:50. Where the Lord said to Moses:\n\n33:51. Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall\nhave passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,\n\n33:52. Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their\npillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high\nplaces,\n\n33:53. Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you\nfor a possession.\n\n33:54. And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall\ngive a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot\nshall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be\ndivided by the tribes and the families.\n\n33:55. But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that\nremain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your\nsides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your\nhabitation.\n\n33:56. And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 34\n\nThe limits of Chanaan; with the names of the men that make the division\nof it.\n\n34:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:\n\n34:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When\nyou are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into\nyour possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:\n\n34:3. The south side shall begin from the wilderness of Sin, which is\nby Edom: and shall have the most salt sea for its furthest limits\neastward:\n\nThe most salt sea.... The lake of Sodom, otherwise called the Dead Sea.\n\n34:4. Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of\nthe Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as\nCadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called\nAdar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.\n\nThe Scorpion.... A mountain so called from having a great number of\nscorpions.\n\n34:5. And the limits shall fetch a compass from Asemona to the torrent\nof Egypt, and shall end in the shore of the great sea.\n\nThe great sea.... The Mediterranean.\n\n34:6. And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same\nshall be the end thereof.\n\n34:7. But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great\nsea, reaching to the most high mountain,\n\nThe most high mountain.... Libanus.\n\n34:8. From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of\nSedada:\n\n34:9. And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona, and the village of\nEnan. These shall be the borders on the north side.\n\n34:10. From thence they shall mark out the bounds towards the east side\nfrom the village of Enan unto Sephama.\n\n34:11. And from Sephama the bounds shall go down to Rebla over against\nthe fountain of Daphnis: from thence they shall come eastward to the\nsea of Cenereth,\n\nSea of Cenereth.... This is the sea of Galilee, illustrated by the\nmiracles of our Lord.\n\n34:12. And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and at the last shall be\nclosed in by the most salt sea. This shall be your land with its\nborders round about.\n\n34:13. And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall\nbe the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath\ncommanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.\n\n34:14. For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and\nthe tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their\nkindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses,\n\n34:15. That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion\nbeyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side.\n\n34:16. And the Lord said to Moses:\n\n34:17. These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto\nyou: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun,\n\n34:18. And one prince of every tribe,\n\n34:19. Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of\nJephone.\n\n34:20. Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammiud.\n\n34:21. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chaselon.\n\n34:22. Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli.\n\n34:23. Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the\nson of Ephod.\n\n34:24. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son of Sephtan.\n\n34:25. Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son of Pharnach.\n\n34:26. Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince, the son of Ozan.\n\n34:27. Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Salomi.\n\n34:28. Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son of Ammiud.\n\n34:29. These are they Whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land\nof Chanaan to the children of Israel.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 35\n\nCities are appointed for the Levites. Of which six are to be the cities\nof refuge.\n\n35:1. And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of\nMoab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:\n\n35:2. Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out\nof their possessions,\n\n35:3. Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may\nabide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and beasts:\n\n35:4. Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a\nthousand paces on every side:\n\n35:5. Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the\nsouth in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also,\nwhich looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side\nshall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the\nmidst, and the suburbs without.\n\n35:6. And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six\nshall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood\nmay flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two\ncities,\n\n35:7. That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.\n\n35:8. And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions\nof the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be\ntaken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to\nthe Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.\n\n35:9. The Lord said to Moses:\n\n35:10. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them:\nWhen you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,\n\n35:11. Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who\nhave shed blood against their will.\n\n35:12. And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that\nis slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the\nmultitude, and his cause be judged.\n\n35:13. And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of\nfugitives,\n\n35:14. Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of\nChanaan,\n\n35:15. As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and\nsojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his\nwill.\n\n35:16. If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he\nshall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.\n\n35:17. If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be\npunished in the same manner.\n\n35:18. If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the\nblood of him that struck him.\n\n35:19. The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as\nsoon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.\n\n35:20. If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him\nwith ill design:\n\n35:21. Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the\nstriker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as\nsoon as he findeth him, shall kill him.\n\n35:22. But if by chance medley, and without hatred,\n\n35:23. And enmity, he do any of these things,\n\n35:24. And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause\nbe debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:\n\n35:25. The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger,\nand shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had\nfled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that\nis anointed with the holy oil.\n\nUntil the death, etc.... This mystically signified that our deliverance\nwas to be effected by the death of Christ, the high priest and the\nanointed of God.\n\n35:26. If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that\nare appointed for the banished,\n\n35:27. And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not\nbe guilty that killed him.\n\n35:28. For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the\ndeath of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the\nmanslayer return to his own country.\n\n35:29. These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all\nyour dwellings.\n\n35:30. The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be\ncondemned upon the evidence of one man.\n\n35:31. You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he\nshall die forthwith.\n\n35:32. The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest\nmay by no means return into their own cities.\n\n35:33. Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with\nthe blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by\nhis blood that hath shed the blood of another.\n\n35:34. And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with\nyou. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.\n\n\nNumbers Chapter 36\n\nThat the inheritances may not be alienated from one tribe to another,\nall are to marry within their own tribes.\n\n36:1. And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the\nson of Manasses, of the stock of the children of Joseph, came and spoke\nto Moses before the princes of Israel, and said:\n\n36:2. The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord, that thou shouldst divide\nthe land by lot to the children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give\nto the daughters of Salphaad our brother the possession due to their\nfather:\n\n36:3. Now if men of another tribe take them to wives, their possession\nwill follow them, and being transferred to another tribe, will be a\ndiminishing of our inheritance.\n\n36:4. And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee, that is, the\nfiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots\nshall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the\nothers.\n\n36:5. Moses answered the children of Israel, and said by the command of\nthe Lord: The tribe of the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly.\n\n36:6. And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the\ndaughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that\nit be to men of their own tribe.\n\n36:7. Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from\ntribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and\nkindred:\n\n36:8. And all women shall take husbands of the same tribe: that the\ninheritance may remain in the families.\n\n36:9. And that the tribes be not mingled one with another, but remain\nso\n\n36:10. As they were separated by the Lord. And the daughters of\nSalphaad did as was commanded:\n\n36:11. And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Noa were\nmarried to the sons of their uncle by their father\n\n36:12. Of the family of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph: and the\npossession that had been allotted to them, remained in the tribe and\nfamily of their father.\n\n36:13. These are the commandments and judgment, which the Lord\ncommanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains\nof Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY\n\n\nThis Book is called DEUTERONOMY, which signifies a SECOND LAW, because\nit repeats and inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai,\nwith other precepts not expressed before. The Hebrews, from the first\nwords in the book, call it ELLE HADDEBARIM.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 1\n\nA repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cadesbarne: and of the\npeople\u2019s murmuring and their punishment.\n\n1:1. These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the\nJordan, in the plain wilderness, over against the Red Sea, between\nPharan and Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there is very much\ngold.\n\n1:2. Eleven days\u2019 journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to\nCadesbarne.\n\n1:3. In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the\nmonth, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had\ncommanded him to say to them:\n\n1:4. After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in\nHesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,\n\n1:5. Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to expound\nthe law, and to say:\n\n1:6. The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have stayed\nlong enough in this mountain:\n\n1:7. Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the\nother places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the\nvales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the\nChanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.\n\n1:8. Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it,\nconcerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and\nJacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.\n\n1:9. And I said to you at that time:\n\n1:10. I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath\nmultiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for\nmultitude.\n\n1:11. (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands,\nand bless you as he hath spoken.)\n\n1:12. I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you\nand your differences.\n\n1:13. Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such\nwhose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint\nthem your rulers.\n\n1:14. Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.\n\n1:15. And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and\nappointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over\nfifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.\n\n1:16. And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is\njust: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.\n\n1:17. There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the\nlittle as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man\u2019s\nperson, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard\nto you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.\n\n1:18. And I commanded you all things that you were to do.\n\n1:19. And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast\nwilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite,\nas the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into\nCadesbarne,\n\n1:20. I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite,\nwhich the Lord our God will give to us.\n\n1:21. See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and\npossess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not,\nnor be any way discouraged.\n\n1:22. And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view\nthe land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities\nwe shall go.\n\n1:23. And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one\nof every tribe:\n\n1:24. Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains,\ncame as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,\n\n1:25. Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought\nthem to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will\ngive us.\n\n1:26. And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the\nLord our God,\n\n1:27. You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us, and\ntherefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, that he might\ndeliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.\n\n1:28. Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts,\nsaying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are\ngreat, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims\nthere.\n\nWalled up to the sky.... A figurative expression, signifying the walls\nto be very high.\n\n1:29. And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:\n\n1:30. The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as\nhe did in Egypt in the sight of all.\n\n1:31. And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath\ncarried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way\nthat you have come, until you came to this place.\n\n1:32. And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,\n\n1:33. Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein\nyou should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire,\nand in the day by the pillar of a cloud.\n\n1:34. And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he was angry\nand swore, and said:\n\n1:35. Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good\nland, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:\n\n1:36. Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him\nI will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,\nbecause he hath followed the Lord.\n\n1:37. Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at,\nsince the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said:\nNeither shalt thou go in thither.\n\n1:38. But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee:\nexhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to\nIsrael.\n\n1:39. Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away\ncaptives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good\nand evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they\nshall possess it.\n\n1:40. But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red\nSea.\n\n1:41. And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go\nup and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went\nready armed unto the mountain,\n\n1:42. The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I\nam not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.\n\n1:43. I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of\nthe Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.\n\n1:44. And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and\nmeeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from\nSeir as far as Horma.\n\n1:45. And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not,\nneither would he yield to your voice.\n\n1:46. So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 2\n\nThey are forbid to fight against the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites.\nTheir victory over Sehon king of Hesebon.\n\n2:1. And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth\nto the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount\nSeir a long time.\n\n2:2. And the Lord said to me:\n\n2:3. You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:\n\n2:4. And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders\nof your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will\nbe afraid of you.\n\n2:5. Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will\nnot give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread\nupon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.\n\n2:6. You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall\ndraw waters for money, and shall drink.\n\n2:7. The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the\nLord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast\npassed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast\nwanted nothing.\n\n2:8. And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that\ndwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber,\nwe came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.\n\n2:9. And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither\ngo to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land,\nbecause I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.\n\n2:10. The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and\nstrong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,\n\n2:11. They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the\nEnacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.\n\n2:12. The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out\nand destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the\nland of his possession, which the Lord gave him.\n\n2:13. Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.\n\n2:14. And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed\nover the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the\ngeneration of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the\ncamp, as the Lord had sworn:\n\n2:15. For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the\nmidst of the camp.\n\n2:16. And after all the fighting men were dead,\n\n2:17. The Lord spoke to me, saying:\n\n2:18. Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:\n\n2:19. And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon,\ntake heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I\nwill not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have\ngiven it to the children of Lot for a possession.\n\n2:20. It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in\nit, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,\n\n2:21. A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims\nwhom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in\ntheir stead,\n\n2:22. As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in\nSeir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them,\nwhich they possess to this day.\n\n2:23. The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were\nexpelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed\nthem and dwelt in their stead.\n\n2:24. Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered\ninto thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to\npossess his land and make war against him.\n\n2:25. This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the\nnations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name\nthey may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.\n\n2:26. So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the\nking of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:\n\n2:27. We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway:\nwe will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.\n\n2:28. Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money\nand so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,\n\n2:29. As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the\nMoabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to\nthe land which the Lord our God will give us.\n\n2:30. And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the\nLord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he\nmight be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.\n\nHardened, etc.... That is, in punishment of his past sins he left him\nto his own stubborn and perverse disposition, which drew him to his\nruin. See the note on Ex. 7.3.\n\n2:31. And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee\nSehon and his land, begin to possess it.\n\n2:32. And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at\nJasa.\n\n2:33. And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with\nhis sons and all his people.\n\n2:34. And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants\nof them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:\n\n2:35. Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them:\nand the spoils of the cities, which we took:\n\n2:36. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town\nthat is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village\nor city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto\nus:\n\n2:37. Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached\nnot: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the\nmountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 3\n\nThe victory over Og king of Basan. Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of\nManasses receive their possession on the other side of Jordan.\n\n3:1. Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of\nBasan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.\n\n3:2. And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered\ninto thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to\nhim as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in\nHesebon.\n\n3:3. So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of\nBasan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,\n\n3:4. Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that\nescaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in\nBasan.\n\n3:5. All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates\nand bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.\n\n3:6. And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of\nHesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:\n\n3:7. But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.\n\n3:8. And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings\nof the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon\nunto the mount Hermon,\n\n3:9. Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:\n\n3:10. All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of\nGalaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of\nOg in Basan.\n\n3:11. For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His\nbed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon,\nbeing nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit\nof a man\u2019s hand.\n\n3:12. And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon\nthe bank of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I\ngave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.\n\n3:13. And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the\nkingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob:\nand all Basan is called the Land of giants.\n\n3:14. Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto\nthe borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own\nname, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this\npresent day.\n\n3:15. To Machir also I gave Galaad.\n\n3:16. And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gave of the land of Galaad\nas far as the torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the confines even\nunto the torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:\n\n3:17. And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders\nof Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to\nthe foot of mount Phasga eastward.\n\n3:18. And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God\ngiveth you this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before\nyour brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.\n\n3:19. Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have\nmuch cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered\nto you.\n\n3:20. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to\nyou: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the\nJordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have\ngiven you.\n\n3:21. I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen\nwhat the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to\nall the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.\n\n3:22. Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.\n\n3:23. And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:\n\n3:24. Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness,\nand most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or\nearth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength.\n\n3:25. I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land\nbeyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.\n\n3:26. And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not,\nbut said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.\n\n3:27. Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the\nwest, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold\nit, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.\n\n3:28. Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go\nbefore this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou\nshalt see.\n\n3:29. And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 4\n\nMoses exhorteth the people to keep God\u2019s commandments: particularly to\nfly idolatry. Appointeth three cities of refuge, on that side of the\nJordan.\n\n4:1. And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I\nteach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst\npossess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.\n\n4:2. You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall\nyou take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which\nI command you.\n\n4:3. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against\nBeelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.\n\n4:4. But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this\npresent day.\n\n4:5. You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord\nmy God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you\nshall possess:\n\n4:6. And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is\nyour wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing\nall these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding\npeople, a great nation.\n\n4:7. Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh\nthem, as our God is present to all our petitions.\n\n4:8. For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies,\nand just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day\nbefore our eyes?\n\n4:9. Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the\nwords that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all\nthe days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy\ngrandsons,\n\n4:10. From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in\nHoreb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto\nme, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time\nthat they live on the earth, and may teach their children.\n\n4:11. And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto\nheaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.\n\n4:12. And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard\nthe voice of his words, but you saw not any form at all.\n\n4:13. And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and\nthe ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.\n\n4:14. And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the\nceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall\npossess.\n\n4:15. Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude\nin the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of\nthe fire:\n\n4:16. Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven\nsimilitude, or image of male or female,\n\n4:17. The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of\nbirds, that fly under heaven,\n\n4:18. Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that\nabide in the waters under the earth:\n\n4:19. Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and\nthe moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou\nadore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of\nall the nations, that are under heaven.\n\n4:20. But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron\nfurnaces of Egypt, to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this\npresent day.\n\n4:21. And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that\nI should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land,\nwhich he will give you.\n\n4:22. Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you\nshall pass, and possess the goodly land.\n\n4:23. Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God,\nwhich he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of\nthose things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:\n\n4:24. Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.\n\n4:25. If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and\nbeing deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil\nbefore the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:\n\n4:26. I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall\nquickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the\nJordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the\nLord will destroy you,\n\n4:27. And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few\namong the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.\n\n4:28. And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men\u2019s\nhands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.\n\n4:29. And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find\nhim: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the\naffliction of thy soul.\n\n4:30. After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter\ntime thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.\n\n4:31. Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not leave\nthee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he\nswore to thy fathers.\n\n4:32. Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the\nday that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the\nother end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath\nbeen known at any time,\n\n4:33. That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the\nmidst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:\n\n4:34. If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation out of\nthe midst of nations by temptations, signs, and wonders, by fight, and\na strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible visions according to\nall the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy\neyes.\n\n4:35. That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no\nother besides him.\n\n4:36. From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach\nthee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou\ndidst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,\n\n4:37. Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them.\nAnd he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great\npower,\n\n4:38. To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than\nthou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a\npossession, as thou seest at this present day.\n\n4:39. Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he\nis God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no\nother.\n\n4:40. Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it\nmay be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst\nremain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give\nthee.\n\n4:41. Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east\nside,\n\n4:42. That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour\nunwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he\nmight escape to some one of these cities:\n\n4:43. Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the\ntribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and\nGolan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.\n\n4:44. This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,\n\n4:45. And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments, which\nhe spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,\n\n4:46. Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of\nPhogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in\nHesebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of Israel coming out of\nEgypt,\n\n4:47. Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of the two\nkings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising\nof the sun:\n\n4:48. From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Arnon,\nunto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,\n\n4:49. All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the sea of\nthe wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 5\n\nThe ten commandments are repeated and explained.\n\n5:1. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the\nceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn\nthem, and fulfil them in work.\n\n5:2. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.\n\n5:3. He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us, who are\nnow present and living.\n\n5:4. He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.\n\n5:5. I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at that\ntime, to shew you his words, for you feared the fire, and went not up\ninto the mountain, and he said:\n\n5:6. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage.\n\n5:7. Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.\n\n5:8. Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven thing, nor the likeness\nof any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth\nbeneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth.\n\n5:9. Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am\nthe Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers\nupon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that\nhate me,\n\n5:10. And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and\nkeep my commandments.\n\n5:11. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he\nshall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.\n\n5:12. Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy\nGod hath commanded thee.\n\n5:13. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.\n\n5:14. The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the\nLord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor\nthy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor\nthy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy\ngates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as\nthyself.\n\n5:15. Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy\nGod brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched\nout arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe\nthe sabbath day.\n\n5:16. Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded\nthee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in\nthe land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.\n\n5:17. Thou shalt not kill.\n\n5:18. Neither shalt thou commit adultery.\n\n5:19. And thou shalt not steal.\n\n5:20. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.\n\n5:21. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour\u2019s wife: nor his house, nor his\nfield, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his\nass, nor any thing that is his.\n\n5:22. These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the\nmountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness,\nwith a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables\nof stone, which he delivered unto me.\n\n5:23. But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the\ndarkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the princes of the\ntribes and the elders, and you said:\n\n5:24. Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his\ngreatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire, and\nhave proved this day that God speaking with man, man hath lived.\n\n5:25. Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great\nfire comsume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more,\nwe shall die.\n\n5:26. What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the living\nGod, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and\nbe able to live?\n\n5:27. Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God\nshall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and\nwill do them.\n\n5:28. And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have heard the\nvoice of the words of this people, which they spoke to thee: they have\nspoken all things well.\n\n5:29. Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and to keep\nall my commandments at all times, that it may be well with them and\nwith their children for ever?\n\n5:30. Go and say to them: Return into your tents.\n\n5:31. But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my\ncommandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach\nthem, that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a\npossession.\n\n5:32. Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath\ncommanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to\nthe left.\n\n5:33. But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath\ncommanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your\ndays may be long in the land of your possession.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 6\n\nAn exhortation to the love of God, and obedience to his law.\n\n6:1. These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the\nLord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do\nthem in the land into which you pass over to possess it:\n\n6:2. That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his\ncommandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy\ngrandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.\n\n6:3. Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath\ncommanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be\ngreatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised\nthee a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n6:4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.\n\n6:5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with\nthy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.\n\n6:6. And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy\nheart:\n\n6:7. And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate\nupon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping\nand rising.\n\n6:8. And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be\nand shall move between thy eyes.\n\n6:9. And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy\nhouse.\n\n6:10. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,\nfor which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall\nhave given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build,\n\n6:11. Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns\nwhich thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst\nnot plant,\n\n6:12. And thou shalt have eaten and be full:\n\n6:13. Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee\nout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear\nthe Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his\nname.\n\n6:14. You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that\nare round about you:\n\n6:15. Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of thee:\nlest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee,\nand take thee away from the face of the earth.\n\n6:16. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in\nthe place of temptation.\n\n6:17. Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and\nceremonies which he hath commanded thee.\n\n6:18. And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord,\nthat it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the\ngoodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers,\n\n6:19. That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath\nspoken.\n\n6:20. And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What mean\nthese testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our God\nhath commanded us?\n\n6:21. Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and\nthe Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.\n\n6:22. And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt\nagainst Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,\n\n6:23. And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in and\ngive us the land, concerning which he swore to our fathers.\n\n6:24. And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances,\nand should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the\ndays of our life, as it is at this day.\n\n6:25. And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts\nbefore the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 7\n\nNo league nor fellowship to be made with the Chanaanites: God promiseth\nhis people his blessing and assistance, if they keep his commandments.\n\n7:1. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which\nthou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations\nbefore thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the\nChanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven\nnations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:\n\n7:2. And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt\nutterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew\nmercy to them:\n\n7:3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give\nthy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:\n\n7:4. For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may\nrather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled,\nand will quickly destroy thee.\n\n7:5. But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars,\nand break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their\ngraven things.\n\n7:6. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy\nGod hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are\nupon the earth.\n\n7:7. Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined\nunto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:\n\n7:8. But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which\nhe swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand,\nand redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao\nthe king of Egypt.\n\n7:9. And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and\nfaithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and\nto them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:\n\n7:10. And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them,\nwithout further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.\n\n7:11. Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I\ncommand thee this day to do.\n\n7:12. If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them,\nthe Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy\nwhich he swore to thy fathers:\n\n7:13. And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit\nof thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy\noil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for\nwhich he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.\n\n7:14. Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren\namong you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.\n\n7:15. The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous\ninfirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee,\nbut upon thy enemies.\n\n7:16. Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will\ndeliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve\ntheir gods, lest they be thy ruin.\n\n7:17. If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how\nshall I be able to destroy them?\n\n7:18. Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to\nall the Egyptians,\n\n7:19. The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs\nand wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which\nthe Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people,\nwhom thou fearest.\n\n7:20. Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them,\nuntil he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide\nthemselves.\n\n7:21. Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the\nmidst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:\n\n7:22. He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little\nand by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest\nperhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.\n\n7:23. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall\nslay them until they be utterly destroyed.\n\n7:24. And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt\ndestroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist\nthee, until thou destroy them.\n\n7:25. Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not\ncovet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou\ntake to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an\nabomination to the Lord thy God.\n\nGraven things.... Idols, so called by contempt.\n\n7:26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house,\nlest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung,\nand shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an\nanathema.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 8\n\nThe people is put in mind of God\u2019s dealings with them, to the end that\nthey may love him and serve him.\n\n8:1. All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great\ncare to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may\npossess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.\n\n8:2. And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God\nhath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee\nand to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be\nmade known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.\n\n8:3. He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food,\nwhich neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread\nalone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth\nof God.\n\nNot in bread alone, etc.... That is, that God is able to make food of\nwhat he pleases for the support of man.\n\n8:4. Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for\nage, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,\n\n8:5. That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up\nhis son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.\n\n8:6. That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and\nwalk in his ways, and fear him.\n\n8:7. For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks\nand of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills\ndeep rivers break out:\n\n8:8. A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and\npomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.\n\n8:9. Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy\nabundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its\nhills are dug mines of brass:\n\n8:10. That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the\nLord thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.\n\n8:11. Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy\nGod, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I\ncommand thee this day:\n\n8:12. Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly\nhouses, and dwelt in them,\n\n8:13. And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of\ngold and of silver, and of all things,\n\n8:14. Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy God,\nwho brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:\n\n8:15. And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein\nthere was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the\ndipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the\nhardest rock,\n\nThe Dipsas.... A serpent whose bite causeth a violent thirst; from\nwhence it has its name, for in Greek dipsa signifies thirst.\n\n8:16. And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew\nnot. And after he had afflicted and proved thee, at the last he had\nmercy on thee,\n\n8:17. Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the\nstrength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.\n\n8:18. But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength,\nthat he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy\nfathers, as this present day sheweth.\n\n8:19. But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and\nserve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt\nutterly perish.\n\n8:20. As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so\nshall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord\nyour God.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 9\n\nLest they should impute their victories to their own merits, they are\nput in mind of their manifold rebellions and other sins, for which they\nshould have been destroyed, but God spared them for his promise made to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n9:1. Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess\nnations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled\nup to the sky,\n\n9:2. A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast\nseen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.\n\n9:3. Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself\nwill pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy\nand extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he\nhath spoken to thee.\n\n9:4. Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed\nthem in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to\npossess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their\nwickedness.\n\n9:5. For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart\nthat thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have\ndone wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord\nmight accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\n\n9:6. Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this\nexcellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very\nstiffnecked people.\n\n9:7. Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to\nwrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt\nunto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.\n\n9:8. For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and\nwould have destroyed thee,\n\n9:9. When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the\ntables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in\nthe mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking\nwater.\n\n9:10. And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger\nof God, and containing all the words that he spoke to you in the mount\nfrom the midst of the fire, when the people were assembled together.\n\n9:11. And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord\ngave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,\n\n9:12. And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy\npeople, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the\nway that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten\nidol.\n\n9:13. And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is\nstiffnecked:\n\n9:14. Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from\nunder heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger\nthan this.\n\n9:15. And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two\ntables of the covenant with both hands,\n\n9:16. And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had\nmade to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way,\nwhich he had shewn you:\n\n9:17. I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.\n\n9:18. And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights\nneither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you\nhad committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:\n\n9:19. For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved\nagainst you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this\ntime also.\n\n9:20. And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have\ndestroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.\n\n9:21. And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took,\nand burned it with fire, and breaking it into pieces, until it was as\nsmall as dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh down from the\nmountain.\n\n9:22. At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the\ngraves of lust you provoked the Lord:\n\n9:23. And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess\nthe land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the\nLord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to\nhis voice:\n\n9:24. But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.\n\n9:25. And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in\nwhich I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had\nthreatened:\n\n9:26. And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy\ninheritance, which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast\nbrought out of Egypt with a strong hand.\n\n9:27. Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the\nstubbornness of this people, nor on their wickedness and sin:\n\n9:28. Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast\nbrought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he\npromised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that\nhe might kill them in the wilderness,\n\n9:29. Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought\nout by thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 10\n\nGod giveth the second tables of the law: a further exhortation to fear\nand serve the Lord.\n\n10:1. At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone\nlike the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make\nan ark of wood,\n\n10:2. And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which\nthou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.\n\n10:3. And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables\nof stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my\nhands.\n\n10:4. And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written before,\nthe ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst\nof the fire, when the people were assembled: and he gave them to me.\n\n10:5. And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables\ninto the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as\nthe Lord commanded me.\n\n10:6. And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth, of the\nchildren of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and\nEleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly office.\n\nMosera.... By mount Hor, for there Aaron died, Num. 20. This and the\nfollowing verses seem to be inserted by way of parenthesis.\n\n10:7. From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they departed,\nand camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and torrents.\n\n10:8. At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of\nthe covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and\nto bless in his name until this present day.\n\n10:9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his brethren:\nbecause the Lord himself is his possession, as the Lord thy God\npromised him.\n\n10:10. And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and\nthe Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.\n\n10:11. And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may\nenter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I\nwould give them.\n\n10:12. And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but\nthat thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him,\nand serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:\n\n10:13. And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which\nI command thee this day, that it may be well with thee?\n\n10:14. Behold heaven is the Lord\u2019s thy God, and the heaven of heaven,\nthe earth and all things that are therein.\n\n10:15. And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and\nloved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of\nall nations, as this day it is proved.\n\n10:16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen\nyour neck no more.\n\n10:17. Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of\nlords, a great God and mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor\ntaketh bribes.\n\n10:18. He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the\nstranger, and giveth him food and raiment.\n\n10:19. And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were\nstrangers in the land of Egypt.\n\n10:20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him\nthou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.\n\n10:21. He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these\ngreat and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.\n\n10:22. In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold\nnow the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 11\n\nThe love and service of God are still inculcated, with a blessing to\nthem that serve him, and threats of punishment if they forsake his law.\n\n11:1. Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and\nceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.\n\n11:2. Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not\nthe chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong\nhand, and stretched out arm,\n\n11:3. The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king\nPharao, and to all his land,\n\n11:4. And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and\nchariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued\nyou, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:\n\n11:5. And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, til you came to\nthis place:\n\n11:6. And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of\nRuben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their\nhouseholds and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the\nmidst of Israel.\n\n11:7. Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, that he hath\ndone,\n\n11:8. That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this\nday, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,\n\n11:9. And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath\nto your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and\nhoney.\n\n11:10. For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land\nof Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown,\nwaters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.\n\n11:11. But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from\nheaven.\n\n11:12. And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on\nit from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.\n\n11:13. If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day,\nthat you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and\nwith all your soul:\n\n11:14. He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain,\nthat you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,\n\n11:15. And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you\nmay eat and be filled.\n\n11:16. Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from\nthe Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:\n\n11:17. And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not\ndown, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the\nexcellent land, which the Lord will give you.\n\n11:18. Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a\nsign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.\n\n11:19. Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou\nsittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou\nliest down and risest up.\n\n11:20. Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:\n\n11:21. That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in\nthe land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them\nas long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.\n\n11:22. For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do\nthem, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving\nunto him,\n\n11:23. The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and\nyou shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.\n\n11:24. Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours.\nFrom the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto\nthe western sea shall be your borders.\n\n11:25. None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the\ndread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as\nhe hath spoken to you.\n\n11:26. Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a\ncurse:\n\n11:27. A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,\nwhich I command you this day:\n\n11:28. A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God,\nbut revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange\ngods which you know not.\n\n11:29. And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land,\nwhither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount\nGarizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:\n\nPut the blessing, et.... See Deut. 27.12, etc. and Josue 8.33, etc.\n\n11:30. Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the\nsetting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the\nplain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that\nreacheth and entereth far.\n\n11:31. For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which\nthe Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.\n\n11:32. See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments,\nwhich I shall set this day before you.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 12\n\nAll idolatry must be extirpated: sacrifices, tithes, and firstfruits\nmust be offered in one only place: all eating of blood is prohibited.\n\n12:1. These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the\nland, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess\nit all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.\n\n12:2. Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall\npossess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and\nunder every shady tree:\n\n12:3. Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their\ngroves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names\nout of those places.\n\n12:4. You shall not do so to the Lord your God:\n\n12:5. But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall\nchoose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in\nit:\n\n12:6. And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims,\nthe tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the\nfirstborn of your herds and your sheep.\n\n12:7. And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and\nyou shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you\nand your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.\n\n12:8. You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man\nthat which seemeth good to himself.\n\n12:9. For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the\npossession, which the Lord your God will give you.\n\n12:10. You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land\nwhich the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all\nenemies round about: and may dwell without any fear,\n\n12:11. In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his\nname may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I\ncommand you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits\nof your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you\nshall vow to the Lord.\n\n12:12. There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your\nsons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the\nLevite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and\npossession among you.\n\n12:13. Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou\nshalt see:\n\n12:14. But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy\ntribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command\nthee.\n\n12:15. But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight\nthee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God,\nwhich he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is\nto say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and\nwithout blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart,\nshalt thou eat it:\n\n12:16. Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out\nupon the earth as water.\n\n12:17. Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy\nwine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any\nthing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the\nfirstfruits of thy hands:\n\n12:18. But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place\nwhich the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter,\nand thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in\nthy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy\nGod in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.\n\n12:19. Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou\nlivest in the land.\n\n12:20. When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he\nhath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul\ndesireth:\n\n12:21. And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of\nthy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it\npleaseth thee.\n\n12:22. Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them:\nboth the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.\n\n12:23. Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood\nis for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the\nflesh:\n\n12:24. But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,\n\n12:25. That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when\nthou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.\n\n12:26. But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord,\nthou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall\nchoose:\n\n12:27. And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the\naltar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on\nthe altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.\n\n12:28. Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may\nbe well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt\ndo what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.\n\n12:29. When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the\nnations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess\nthem, and dwell in their land:\n\n12:30. Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy\ncoming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these\nnations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.\n\n12:31. Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they\nhave done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth,\noffering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.\n\n12:32. What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add\nany thing, nor diminish.\n\nThat only do thou, etc.... They are forbid here to follow the\nceremonies of the heathens; or to make any alterations in the divine\nordinances.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 13\n\nFalse prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities destroyed.\n\n13:1. If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he\nhath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder,\n\n13:2. And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us\ngo and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve\nthem:\n\n13:3. Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the\nLord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with\nall your heart, and with all your soul, or not.\n\n13:4. Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his\ncommandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you\nshall cleave.\n\n13:5. And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he\nspoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of\nthe land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make\nthee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou\nshalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.\n\n13:6. If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or\nthy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy\nown soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve\nstrange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,\n\n13:7. Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from\none end of the earth to the other,\n\n13:8. Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him\nto pity and conceal him,\n\n13:9. But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first\nupon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.\n\nPresently put him to death.... Not by killing him by private authority,\nbut by informing the magistrate, and proceeding by order of justice.\n\n13:10. With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have\nwithdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land\nof Egypt, from the house of bondage:\n\n13:11. That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing\nlike this.\n\n13:12. If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee\nto dwell in, thou hear some say:\n\n13:13. Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have\nwithdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and\nserve strange gods which you know not:\n\nBelial.... That is, without yoke. Hence the wicked, who refuse to be\nsubject to the divine law, are called in scripture the children of\nBelial.\n\n13:14. Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by\nlooking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be\ncertain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,\n\n13:15. Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the\nedge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it,\neven the cattle.\n\n13:16. And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather\ntogether in the midst of the streets thereof, and shall burn them with\nthe city itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God, and that it\nbe a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.\n\n13:17. And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that\nthe Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on\nthee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,\n\n13:18. When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all\nhis precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is\npleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 14\n\nIn mourning for the dead they are not to follow the ways of the\nGentiles: the distinction of clean and unclean meats: ordinances\nconcerning tithes, and firstfruits.\n\n14:1. Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut\nyourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;\n\n14:2. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose\nthee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.\n\n14:3. Eat not the things that are unclean.\n\nUnclean.... See the annotations on Lev. 11.\n\n14:4. These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep,\nand the goat,\n\n14:5. The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the\nwild goat, the camelopardalus.\n\n14:6. Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the\ncud, you shall eat.\n\n14:7. But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall\nnot eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they\nchew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.\n\n14:8. The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the\ncud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their\ncarcasses you shall not touch.\n\n14:9. These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that\nhave fins and scales, you shall eat.\n\n14:10. Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because\nthey are unclean.\n\n14:11. All birds that are clean you shall eat.\n\n14:12. The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the\nosprey,\n\n14:13. The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their\nkind:\n\n14:14. And all of the raven\u2019s kind:\n\n14:15. And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk\naccording to its kind:\n\n14:16. The heron, and the swan, and the stork,\n\n14:17. And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,\n\n14:18. The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the\nhoup also and the bat.\n\n14:19. Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be\nunclean, and shall not be eaten.\n\n14:20. All that is clean, you shall eat.\n\n14:21. But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to\nthe stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him:\nbecause thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not\nboil a kid in the milk of his dam.\n\n14:22. Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits\nthat the earth bringeth forth,\n\n14:23. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he\nshall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of\nthy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and\nthy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.\n\n14:24. But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall\nchoose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry\nall these things thither,\n\n14:25. Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt\ncarry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall\nchoose:\n\n14:26. And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee,\neither of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all\nthat thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and\nshalt feast, thou and thy house:\n\n14:27. And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him\nnot, because he hath no other part in thy possession.\n\n14:28. The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things\nthat grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.\n\n14:29. And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee,\nand the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy\ngates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God\nmay bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 15\n\nThe law of the seventh year of remission. The firstlings of cattle are\nto be sanctified to the Lord.\n\n15:1. In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,\n\n15:2. Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is\nowing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again,\nbecause it is the year of remission of the Lord.\n\n15:3. Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy\ncountryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.\n\n15:4. And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord\nthy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in\npossession.\n\nThere shall be no poor, etc.... It is not to be understood as a\npromise, that there should be no poor in Israel, as appears from ver.\n11, where we learn that God\u2019s people would never be at a loss to find\nobjects for their charity: but it is an ordinance that all should do\ntheir best endeavours to prevent any of their brethren from suffering\nthe hardships of poverty and want.\n\n15:5. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all\nthings that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he\nwill bless thee, as he hath promised.\n\n15:6. Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man.\nThou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have\ndominion over thee.\n\n15:7. If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city\nin the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty:\nthou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,\n\n15:8. But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that\nwhich thou perceivest he hath need of.\n\n15:9. Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou\nsay in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou\nturn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that\nwhich he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a\nsin unto thee.\n\n15:10. But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing\ncraftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless\nthee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.\n\n15:11. There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation:\ntherefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor\nbrother, that liveth in the land.\n\n15:12. When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee,\nand hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him\ngo free:\n\n15:13. And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go\naway empty:\n\n15:14. But shall give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy\nbarnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless\nthee.\n\n15:15. Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt,\nand the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee\nthis.\n\n15:16. But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and\nthy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:\n\n15:17. Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of\nthy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like\nmanner to thy womanservant also.\n\n15:18. Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free:\nbecause he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a\nhireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that\nthou dost.\n\n15:19. Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou\nshalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou\nshalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not\nshear the firstlings of thy sheep.\n\n15:20. In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year,\nin the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.\n\n15:21. But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part\ndisfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.\n\n15:22. But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean\nand the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.\n\n15:23. Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it\nout on the earth as water.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 16\n\nThe three principal solemnities to be observed: just judges to be\nappointed in every city: all occasions of idolatry to be avoided.\n\n16:1. Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring,\nthat thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in\nthis month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.\n\n16:2. And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep,\nand of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname may dwell there.\n\n16:3. Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou\neat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of\nEgypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of\nEgypt, all the days of thy life.\n\n16:4. No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither\nshall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in\nthe evening remain until morning.\n\n16:5. Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which\nthe Lord thy God will give thee:\n\n16:6. But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his\nname may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at\nthe going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.\n\n16:7. And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the Lord thy\nGod shall choose, and in the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy\ndwellings.\n\n16:8. Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day,\nbecause it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.\n\n16:9. Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein\nthou didst put the sickle to the corn.\n\n16:10. And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy\nGod, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according\nto the blessing of the Lord thy God.\n\n16:11. And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son,\nand thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the\nLevite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless,\nand the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God\nshall choose, that his name may dwell there:\n\n16:12. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and\nthou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.\n\n16:13. Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven\ndays, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the\nwinepress.\n\n16:14. And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy son,\nand thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite also\nand the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy\ngates.\n\n16:15. Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in\nthe place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will bless\nthee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt\nbe in joy.\n\n16:16. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord\nthy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened\nbread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one\nshall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:\n\n16:17. But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according\nto the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.\n\n16:18. Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates,\nwhich the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they\nmay judge the people with just judgment,\n\n16:19. And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person\nnor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words\nof the just.\n\n16:20. Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou\nmayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give\nthee.\n\n16:21. Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the\nLord thy God:\n\n16:22. Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which\nthings the Lord thy God hateth.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 17\n\nVictims must be without blemish. Idolaters are to be slain.\nControversies are to be decided by the high priest and council, whose\nsentence must be obeyed under pain of death. The duty of a king, who is\nto receive the law of God at the priest\u2019s hands.\n\n17:1. Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox,\nwherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to\nthe Lord thy God.\n\n17:2. When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates,\nwhich the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in\nthe sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,\n\n17:3. So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and\nthe moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:\n\nThe host of heaven.... That is, the stars.\n\n17:4. And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired\ndiligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is\ncommitted in Israel:\n\n17:5. Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have committed\nthat most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be\nstoned.\n\n17:6. By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be\nslain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness\nagainst him.\n\n17:7. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him,\nand afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst\ntake away the evil out of the midst of thee.\n\n17:8. If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful\nmatter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy\nand leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates\ndo vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall\nchoose.\n\nIf thou perceive, etc.... Here we see what authority God was pleased to\ngive to the church guides of the Old Testament, in deciding, without\nappeal, all controversies relating to the law; promising that they\nshould not err therein; and surely he has not done less for the church\nguides of the New Testament.\n\n17:9. And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to\nthe judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and\nthey shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.\n\n17:10. And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the\nplace, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,\n\n17:11. According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence:\nneither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand.\n\n17:12. But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of\nthe priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the\ndecree of the judge, that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the\nevil from Israel:\n\n17:13. And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one afterwards\nswell with pride.\n\n17:14. When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me,\nas all nations have that are round about:\n\n17:15. Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the\nnumber of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation\nking, that is not thy brother.\n\n17:16. And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to\nhimself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the\nnumber of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to\nreturn no more the same way.\n\n17:17. He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor\nimmense sums of silver and gold.\n\n17:18. But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall\ncopy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the\ncopy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,\n\n17:19. And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of\nhis life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep his\nwords and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;\n\n17:20. And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his\nbrethren, nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons\nmay reign a long time over Israel.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 18\n\nThe Lord is the inheritance of the priests and Levites. Heathenish\nabominations are to be avoided. The great PROPHET CHRIST is promised.\nFalse prophets must be slain.\n\n18:1. The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe,\nshall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because\nthey shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations,\n\n18:2. And they shall receive nothing else of the possession of their\nbrethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he hath said to\nthem.\n\n18:3. This shall be the priest\u2019s due from the people, and from them\nthat offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a sheep, they\nshall give to the priest the shoulder and the breast:\n\n18:4. The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a part of\nthe wool from the shearing of their sheep.\n\n18:5. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to stand\nand to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.\n\n18:6. If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all\nIsrael, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to come to the\nplace which the Lord shall choose,\n\n18:7. He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his\nbrethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time before the Lord.\n\n18:8. He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do:\nbesides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from\nhis fathers.\n\n18:9. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall\ngive thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of\nthose nations.\n\n18:10. Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate\nhis son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire: or that\nconsulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and omens, neither let\nthere be any wizard,\n\n18:11. Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or\nfortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead.\n\n18:12. For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these\nabominations he will destroy them at thy coming.\n\n18:13. Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.\n\n18:14. These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to\nsoothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord\nthy God.\n\n18:15. The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy nation\nand of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt hear:\n\n18:16. As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the\nassembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not hear any more\nthe voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see any more this\nexceeding great fire, lest I die.\n\n18:17. And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.\n\n18:18. I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their\nbrethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he\nshall speak to them all that I shall command him.\n\n18:19. And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my\nname, I will be the revenger.\n\n18:20. But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in\nmy name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of\nstrange gods, shall be slain.\n\n18:21. And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word\nthat the Lord hath not spoken?\n\n18:22. Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet\nforetelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that\nthing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the\npride of his mind: and therefore thou shalt not fear him.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 19\n\nThe cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false witnesses must be\npunished.\n\n19:1. When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he\nwill deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the\ncities and houses thereof:\n\n19:2. Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the\nland, which the Lord will give thee in possession,\n\n19:3. Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole\nprovince of thy land equally into three parts: that he who is forced to\nflee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape.\n\n19:4. This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to\nbe saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to\nhave had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:\n\n19:5. But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting\ndown the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping\nfrom the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one\nof the cities aforesaid, and live:\n\n19:6. Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed\non by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too\nlong, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because\nhe is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.\n\n19:7. Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at\nequal distance one from another.\n\n19:8. And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he\nswore to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised\nthem,\n\n19:9. (Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things which I\ncommand thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his\nways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt\ndouble the number of the three cities aforesaid:\n\n19:10. That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land\nwhich the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty\nof blood.\n\n19:11. But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life,\nand rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities\naforesaid,\n\n19:12. The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the\nplace of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of\nhim whose blood was shed, and he shall die.\n\n19:13. Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of\ninnocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.\n\n19:14. Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour\u2019s landmark, which\nthy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God\nwill give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.\n\n19:15. One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the\nsin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every\nword shall stand.\n\n19:16. If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of\ntransgression,\n\n19:17. Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand\nbefore the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall\nbe in those days.\n\n19:18. And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that\nthe false witness hath told a lie against his brother:\n\n19:19. They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and\nthou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:\n\n19:20. That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such\nthings.\n\n19:21. Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life, eye\nfor eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 20\n\nLaws relating to war.\n\n20:1. If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and\nchariots, and the numbers of the enemy\u2019s army greater than thine, thou\nshalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought\nthee out of the land of Egypt.\n\n20:2. And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before\nthe army, and shall speak to the people in this manner:\n\n20:3. Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies,\nlet not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear\nye them not:\n\n20:4. Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight\nfor you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.\n\n20:5. And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the hearing\nof the army: What man is there, that hath built a new house, and hath\nnot dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in\nthe battle, and another man dedicate it.\n\n20:6. What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not as\nyet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat? let him go, and\nreturn to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man execute\nhis office.\n\n20:7. What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her?\nlet him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and\nanother man take her.\n\n20:8. After these things are declared they shall add the rest, and\nshall speak to the people: What man is there that is fearful, and faint\nhearted? let him go, and return to his house, lest he make the hearts\nof his brethren to fear, as he himself is possessed with fear.\n\n20:9. And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace, and\nhave made an end of speaking, every man shall prepare their bands to\nfight.\n\n20:10. If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt\nfirst offer it peace.\n\n20:11. If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people\nthat are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.\n\n20:12. But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against\nthee, thou shalt besiege it.\n\n20:13. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou\nshalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the\nsword,\n\n20:14. Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are\nin the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou\nshalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give\nthee.\n\n20:15. So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from\nthee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in\npossession.\n\n20:16. But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer\nnone at all to live:\n\n20:17. But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the\nHethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the\nHevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:\n\n20:18. Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have\ndone to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.\n\n20:19. When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed\nit with bulwarks, to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that\nmay be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with\naxes: for it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the\nnumber of them that fight against thee.\n\n20:20. But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and\nfit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take\nthe city, which fighteth against thee.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 21\n\nThe expiation of a secret murder. The marrying a captive. The eldest\nson must not be deprived of his birthright for hatred of his mother. A\nstubborn son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged on a gibbet,\nhe must be taken down the same day and buried.\n\n21:1. When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God\nwill give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is\nguilty of the murder,\n\n21:2. Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the\nplace where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:\n\n21:3. And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be\nnearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not\ndrawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,\n\n21:4. And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that\nnever was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall strike off the head\nof the heifer:\n\n21:5. And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy\nGod hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that\nby their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean\nor unclean should be judged.\n\n21:6. And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and\nshall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,\n\n21:7. And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our\neyes see it.\n\n21:8. Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O\nLord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy\npeople Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:\n\n21:9. And thou shalt be free from the innocent\u2019s blood, that was shed,\nwhen thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.\n\n21:10. If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord thy\nGod deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,\n\n21:11. And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman, and\nlovest her, and wilt have her to wife,\n\n21:12. Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave her\nhair, and pare her nails,\n\n21:13. And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall\nremain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and\nafter that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she\nshall be thy wife.\n\n21:14. But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go\nfree, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might\nbecause thou hast humbled her.\n\n21:15. If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and\nthey have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the\nfirstborn,\n\n21:16. And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may\nnot make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before\nthe son of the hated.\n\n21:17. But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,\nand shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the\nfirst of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.\n\n21:18. If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the\ncommandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth\nobedience:\n\n21:19. They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city,\nand to the gate of judgment,\n\n21:20. And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn,\nhe slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling,\nand to debauchery and banquetings:\n\n21:21. The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that\nyou may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel\nhearing it may be afraid.\n\n21:22. When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished\nwith death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:\n\n21:23. His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the\nsame day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou\nshalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in\npossession.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 22\n\nHumanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the\nother. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof\nof a house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed. The punishment of\nhim that slandereth his wife, as also of adultery and rape.\n\n22:1. Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother\u2019s ox, or his\nsheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.\n\n22:2. And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt\nbring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother\nseek them, and receive them.\n\n22:3. Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment,\nand with every thing that is thy brother\u2019s, which is lost: if thou find\nit, neglect it not as pertaining to another.\n\n22:4. If thou see thy brother\u2019s ass or his ox to be fallen down in the\nway, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up with him.\n\n22:5. A woman shall not be clothed with man\u2019s apparel, neither shall a\nman use woman\u2019s apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable\nbefore God.\n\n22:6. If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird\u2019s nest in a tree,\nor on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs:\nthou shalt not take her with her young:\n\nThou shalt not take, etc. This was to shew them to exercise a certain\nmercy even to irrational creatures; and by that means to train them up\nto a horror of cruelty; and to the exercise of humanity and mutual\ncharity one to another.\n\n22:7. But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught:\nthat it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.\n\n22:8. When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to\nthe roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be\nguilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.\n\nBattlement.... This precaution was necessary, because all their houses\nhad flat tops, and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon\nthem.\n\n22:9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the\nseed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified\ntogether.\n\n22:10. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.\n\n22:11. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen\ntogether.\n\n22:12. Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy\ncloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.\n\n22:13. If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,\n\n22:14. And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very\nill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I\nfound her not a virgin:\n\n22:15. Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them\nthe tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the\ngate:\n\n22:16. And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to\nwife: and because he hateth her,\n\n22:17. He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found\nnot thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my\ndaughter\u2019s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the\nancients of the city:\n\n22:18. And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,\n\n22:19. Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he\nshall give to the damsel\u2019s father, because he hath defamed by a very\nill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not\nput her away all the days of his life.\n\n22:20. But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not\nfound in the damsel:\n\n22:21. They shall cast her out of the doors of her father\u2019s house, and\nthe men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die:\nbecause she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in\nher father\u2019s house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst\nof thee.\n\n22:22. If a man lie with another man\u2019s wife, they shall both die, that\nis to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away\nthe evil out of Israel.\n\n22:23. If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one\nfind her in the city, and lie with her,\n\n22:24. Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and\nthey shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in\nthe city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour\u2019s wife. And\nthou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.\n\n22:25. But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the field, and\ntaking hold of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:\n\n22:26. The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death:\nfor as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life,\nso also did the damsel suffer:\n\n22:27. She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to\nhelp her.\n\n22:28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused,\nand taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:\n\n22:29. He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty\nsicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled\nher: he may not put her away all the days of his life.\n\n22:30. No man shall take his father\u2019s wife, nor remove his covering.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 23\n\nWho may and who may not enter into the church: uncleanness to be\navoided: other precepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury, vows,\nand eating other men\u2019s grapes and corn.\n\n23:1. An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard cut\noff, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.\n\nEunuch.... By these are meant, in the spiritual sense, such as are\nbarren in good works. Ibid. Into the church.... That is, into the\nassembly or congregation of Israel, so as to have the privilege of an\nIsraelite, or to be capable of any place or office among the people of\nGod.\n\n23:2. A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not\nenter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.\n\n23:3. The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation\nshall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:\n\n23:4. Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way,\nwhen you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam,\nthe son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.\n\n23:5. And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his\ncursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.\n\n23:6. Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek\ntheir prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.\n\n23:7. Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor\nthe Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.\n\n23:8. They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter\ninto the church of the Lord.\n\n23:9. When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep\nthyself from every evil thing.\n\n23:10. If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by\nnight, he shall go forth out of the camp,\n\n23:11. And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the\nevening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.\n\n23:12. Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go\nfor the necessities of nature,\n\n23:13. Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest down,\nthou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that is dug up thou\nshalt cover\n\n23:14. That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in\nthe midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to\nthee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein,\nlest he go away from thee.\n\nNo uncleanness.... This caution against suffering any filth in the\ncamp, was to teach them to fly the filth of sin, which driveth God away\nfrom the soul.\n\n23:15. Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is fled to\nthee.\n\n23:16. He shall dwell with thee in the place that shall please him, and\nshall rest in one of thy cities: give him no trouble.\n\n23:17. There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor\nwhoremonger among the sons of Israel.\n\n23:18. Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a\ndog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast\nvowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.\n\n23:19. Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor\nany other thing:\n\n23:20. But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which\nhe wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all\nthy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\nTo the stranger.... This was a dispensation granted by God to his\npeople, who being the Lord of all things, can give a right and title to\none upon the goods of another. Otherwise the scripture everywhere\ncondemns usury, as contrary to the law of God, and a crying sin. See\nEx. 22.25; Lev. 25.36, 37; 2 Esd. 5.7; Ps. 14.5; Ezech. 18.8, 13, etc.\n\n23:21. When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not\ndelay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou\ndelay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.\n\n23:22. If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.\n\n23:23. But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe,\nand shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken\nwith thy own will and with thy own mouth.\n\n23:24. Going into thy neighbour\u2019s vineyard, thou mayst eat as many\ngrapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:\n\n23:25. If thou go into thy friend\u2019s corn, thou mayst break the ears,\nand rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 24\n\nDivorce permitted to avoid greater evil: the newly married must not go\nto war: of men stealers, of leprosy, of pledges, of labourers\u2019 hire, of\njustice, and of charity to the poor.\n\n24:1. If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in\nhis eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and\nshall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.\n\n24:2. And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,\n\n24:3. And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and\nhath sent her out of his house or is dead:\n\n24:4. The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is\ndefiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy\nland to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.\n\n24:5. When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war,\nneither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free\nat home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.\n\n24:6. Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to\npledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.\n\n24:7. If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of\nIsrael, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death,\nand thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.\n\n24:8. Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy,\nbut thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall\nteach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it\ncarefully.\n\n24:9. Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you\ncame out of Egypt.\n\n24:10. When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth\nthee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:\n\n24:11. But thou shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to thee\nwhat he hath.\n\n24:12. But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that\nnight,\n\n24:13. But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down\nof the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and\nthou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.\n\n24:14. Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor,\nwhether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the\nland, and is within thy gates:\n\n24:15. But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day,\nbefore the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it\nmaintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be\nreputed to thee for a sin.\n\n24:16. The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the\nchildren for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,\n\n24:17. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the\nfatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow\u2019s raiment for a\npledge.\n\n24:18. Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy God\ndelivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.\n\n24:19. When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast forgot and\nleft a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it away: but thou shalt\nsuffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to take it away:\nthat the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.\n\n24:20. If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt\nnot return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave\nit for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.\n\n24:21. If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather\nthe clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the\nfatherless, and the widow.\n\n24:22. Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I\ncommand thee to do this thing.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 25\n\nStripes must not exceed forty. The ox is not to be muzzled. Of raising\nseed to the brother. Of the immodest woman. Of unjust weight. Of\ndestroying the Amalecites.\n\n25:1. If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the\njudges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive\nto be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of\nwickedness.\n\n25:2. And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they\nshall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them.\nAccording to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the\nstripes be:\n\n25:3. Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy\nbrother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.\n\n25:4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the\nfloor.\n\nNot muzzle, etc.... St. Paul understands this of the spiritual labourer\nin the church of God, who is not to be denied his maintenance. 1 Cor.\n9.8, 9, 10.\n\n25:5. When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without\nchildren, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his\nbrother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:\n\n25:6. And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name,\nthat his name be not abolished out of Israel.\n\n25:7. But if he will not take his brother\u2019s wife, who by law belongeth\nto him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the\nancients, and say: My husband\u2019s brother refuseth to raise up his\nbrother\u2019s name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.\n\n25:8. And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask\nhim. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:\n\n25:9. The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take\noff his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it\nbe done to the man that will not build up his brother\u2019s house:\n\n25:10. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.\n\n25:11. If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against\nthe other, and the other\u2019s wife willing to deliver her husband out of\nthe hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the\nsecrets,\n\n25:12. Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with\nany pity in her regard.\n\n25:13. Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a\nless:\n\n25:14. Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.\n\n25:15. Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall\nbe equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land\nwhich the Lord thy God shall give thee.\n\n25:16. For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and\nhe hateth all injustice.\n\n25:17. Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out\nof Egypt:\n\nAmalec.... This order for destroying the Amalecites, in the mystical\nsense, sheweth how hateful they are to God, and what punishments they\nare to look for from his justice, who attack and discourage his\nservants when they are but just come out, as it were, of the Egypt of\nthis wicked world and being yet weak and fainthearted, are but\nbeginning their journey to the land of promise.\n\n25:18. How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat\ndown, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he\nfeared not God.\n\n25:19. Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall\nhave subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath\npromised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou\nforget it not.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 26\n\nThe form of words with which the firstfruits and tithes are to be\noffered. God\u2019s covenant.\n\n26:1. And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it:\n\n26:2. Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put them in a\nbasket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,\nthat his name may be invocated there:\n\n26:3. And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and\nsay to him: I profess this day before the Lord thy God, that I am come\ninto the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that he would give it\nus.\n\n26:4. And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before\nthe altar of the Lord thy God:\n\n26:5. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The\nSyrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there\nin a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of\nan infinite multitude.\n\nThe Syrian.... Laban. See Gen. 27.\n\n26:6. And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us\nmost grievous burdens:\n\n26:7. And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and\nlooked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:\n\n26:8. And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched\nout arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:\n\n26:9. And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing\nwith milk and honey.\n\n26:10. And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land which the\nLord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord\nthy God, adoring the Lord thy God.\n\n26:11. And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord thy\nGod hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the Levite, and the\nstranger that is with thee.\n\n26:12. When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the\nthird year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the\nstranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat\nwithin thy gates, and be filled:\n\n26:13. And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I\nhave taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given\nit to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to\nthe widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy\ncommandments nor forgotten thy precepts.\n\n26:14. I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them for\nany uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed\nthe voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast\ncommanded me.\n\n26:15. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of heaven, and\nbless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou\ndidst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n26:16. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these\ncommandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy\nheart, and with all thy soul.\n\n26:17. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in\nhis ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey\nhis command.\n\n26:18. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar\npeople, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments:\n\n26:19. And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created,\nto his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy\npeople of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 27\n\nThe commandments must be written on stones: and an altar erected, and\nsacrifices offered. The observers of the commandments are to be\nblessed, and the transgressors cursed.\n\n27:1. And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people,\nsaying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.\n\n27:2. And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the\nLord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt\nplaster them over with plaster,\n\n27:3. That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when\nthou art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land\nwhich the Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and\nhoney, as he swore to thy fathers.\n\n27:4. Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones\nwhich I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster\nthem with plaster:\n\n27:5. And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of\nstones which iron hath not touched,\n\n27:6. And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer\nupon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:\n\n27:7. And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast before\nthe Lord thy God.\n\n27:8. And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law\nplainly and clearly.\n\n27:9. And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel:\nAttend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the\nLord thy God:\n\n27:10. Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices\nwhich I command thee.\n\n27:11. And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:\n\n27:12. These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when\nyou are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and\nBenjamin.\n\n27:13. And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse:\nRuben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.\n\n27:14. And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of\nIsrael with a loud voice:\n\n27:15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the\nabomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall\nput it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say:\nAmen.\n\n27:16. Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all\nthe people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:17. Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour\u2019s landmarks: and all\nthe people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:18. Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and\nall the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of\nthe fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:20. Cursed be he that lieth with his father\u2019s wife, and uncovereth\nhis bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:21. Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall\nsay: Amen.\n\n27:22. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his\nfather, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:24. Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the\npeople shall say: Amen.\n\n27:25. Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and\nall the people shall say: Amen.\n\n27:26. Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and\nfulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 28\n\nMany blessings are promised to observers of God\u2019s commandments: and\ncurses threatened to transgressors.\n\n28:1. Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and\nkeep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy\nGod will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.\n\n28:2. And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee:\nyet so if thou hear his precepts.\n\nAll these blessings, etc.... In the Old Testament, God promised\ntemporal blessings to the keepers of his law, heaven not being opened\nas yet; and that gross and sensual people being more moved with present\nand sensible things. But in the New Testament the goods that are\npromised us are spiritual and eternal; and temporal evils are turned\ninto blessings.\n\n28:3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.\n\n28:4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy\nground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the\nfolds of thy sheep.\n\n28:5. Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.\n\n28:6. Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.\n\n28:7. The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to\nfall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee,\nand seven ways shall they flee before thee.\n\n28:8. The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and\nupon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that\nthou shalt receive.\n\n28:9. The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to himself, as he\nswore to thee: if thou keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and\nwalk in his ways.\n\n28:10. And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the\nLord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.\n\n28:11. The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the fruit of\nthy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land,\nwhich the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give thee.\n\n28:12. The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it\nmay give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy\nhands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any\none.\n\n28:13. And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail: and thou\nshalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the\ncommandments of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day, and\nkeep and do them,\n\n28:14. And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to\nthe left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.\n\n28:15. But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep\nand to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee\nthis day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.\n\nAll these curses, etc.... Thus God dealt with the transgressors of his\nlaw in the Old Testament: but now he often suffers sinners to prosper\nin this world, rewarding them for some little good they have done, and\nreserving their punishment for the other world.\n\n28:16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.\n\n28:17. Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.\n\n28:18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy\nground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.\n\n28:19. Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.\n\n28:20. The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a rebuke\nupon all the works which thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy\nthee quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which thou hast\nforsaken me.\n\n28:21. May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee\nout of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.\n\n28:22. May the Lord afflict thee with miserable want, with the fever\nand with cold, with burning and with heat, and with corrupted air and\nwith blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.\n\n28:23. Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou\ntreadest on, of iron.\n\n28:24. The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes\ncome down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.\n\n28:25. The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way\nmayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered\nthroughout all the kingdoms of the earth.\n\n28:26. And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls of the air, and the\nbeasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them away.\n\n28:27. The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of\nthy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the\nitch: so that thou canst not be healed.\n\n28:28. The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury of\nmind.\n\n28:29. And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in\nthe dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times\nsuffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no\none to deliver thee.\n\n28:30. Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou\nbuild a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and\nnot gather the vintage thereof.\n\n28:31. May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof. May\nthy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy\nsheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be none to help thee.\n\n28:32. May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy\neyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and\nmay there be no strength in thy hand.\n\n28:33. May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land,\nand all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be\ncrushed at all times.\n\n28:34. And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy eyes\nshall see:\n\n28:35. May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and\nin the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top\nof the head.\n\n28:36. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have\nappointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not:\nand there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.\n\n28:37. And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people,\namong whom the Lord shall bring thee in.\n\n28:38. Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little:\nbecause the locusts shall consume all.\n\n28:39. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the\nwine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with\nworms.\n\n28:40. Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be\nanointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.\n\n28:41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy them:\nbecause they shall be led into captivity.\n\n28:42. The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of thy\nground.\n\n28:43. The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up\nover thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.\n\n28:44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall\nbe as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.\n\n28:45. And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue and\novertake thee, till thou perish: because thou heardst not the voice of\nthe Lord thy God, and didst not keep his commandments and ceremonies\nwhich he commanded thee.\n\n28:46. And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy seed\nfor ever.\n\n28:47. Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and\ngladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:\n\n28:48. Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee,\nin hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he\nshall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.\n\n28:49. The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the\nuttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose\ntongue thou canst not understand,\n\n28:50. A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the\nancients, nor have pity on the infant,\n\n28:51. And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy\nland: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine,\nnor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.\n\n28:52. And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall\nbe brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be\nbesieged within thy gates in all thy land which the Lord thy God will\ngive thee:\n\n28:53. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy\nsons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in\nthe distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.\n\n28:54. The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy\nhis own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,\n\n28:55. So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children,\nwhich he shall eat: because he hath nothing else in the siege and the\nwant, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates.\n\n28:56. The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the\nground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness,\nwill envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and\nof her daughter,\n\n28:57. And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from between\nher thighs, and the children that are born the same hour. For they\nshall eat them secretly for the want of all things, in the siege and\ndistress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.\n\n28:58. If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this law,\nthat are written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible\nname: that is, The Lord thy God:\n\n28:59. The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy\nseed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.\n\n28:60. And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt,\nwhich thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee.\n\n28:61. Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases, and\nplagues, that are not written in the volume of this law till he consume\nthee:\n\n28:62. And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars\nof heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord\nthy God.\n\n28:63. And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and\nmultiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to\nnought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt\ngo in to possess.\n\n28:64. The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest\nparts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve\nstrange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and\nstone.\n\n28:65. Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall\nthere be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee\na fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with\npensiveness:\n\n28:66. And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt\nfear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy life.\n\n28:67. In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at\nevening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart,\nwherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou\nshalt see with thy eyes.\n\n28:68. The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the\nway whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There\nshalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and\nno man shall buy you.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 29\n\nThe covenant is solemnly confirmed between God and his people. Threats\nagainst those that shall break it.\n\n29:1. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded\nMoses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside\nthat covenant which he made with them in Horeb.\n\n29:2. And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all\nthe things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao,\nand to all his servants, and to his whole land.\n\n29:3. The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty\nsigns and wonders,\n\n29:4. And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes\nto see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.\n\nHath not given you, etc.... Through your own fault and because you\nresisted his grace.\n\n29:5. He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments\nare not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.\n\n29:6. You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong\ndrink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.\n\n29:7. And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og\nking of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.\n\n29:8. And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben\nand Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n29:9. Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that\nyou may understand all that you do.\n\n29:10. You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes,\nand tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,\n\n29:11. Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with\nthee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring\nwater:\n\n29:12. That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in\nthe oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.\n\n29:13. That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy\nGod as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham,\nIsaac, and Jacob.\n\n29:14. Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these\noaths,\n\n29:15. But with all that are present and that are absent.\n\n29:16. For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have\npassed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,\n\n29:17. You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say,\ntheir idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.\n\n29:18. Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a\nfamily or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord\nour God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be\namong you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.\n\n29:19. And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless\nhimself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in\nthe naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,\n\nThe drunken, etc., absumat ebria sitientem.... It is a proverbial\nexpression, which may either be understood, as spoken by the sinner,\nblessing, that is, flattering himself in his sins with the imagination\nof peace, and so great an abundance as may satisfy, and as it were,\nconsume all thirst and want: or it may be referred to the root of\nbitterness, spoken of before, which being drunken with sin may attract,\nand by that means consume, such as thirst after the like evils.\n\n29:20. And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy\nagainst that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all\nthe curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and\nthe Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,\n\n29:21. And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel,\naccording to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and\ncovenant:\n\n29:22. And the following generation shall say, and the children that\nshall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar,\nseeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath\nafflicted it,\n\n29:23. Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it\ncannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the\nexample of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim,\nwhich the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:\n\n29:24. And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to\nthis land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?\n\n29:25. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the\nLord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the\nland of Egypt:\n\n29:26. And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they\nknew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:\n\n29:27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land,\nto bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:\n\n29:28. And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath,\nand in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange\nland, as it is seen this day.\n\n29:29. Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to\nus and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this\nlaw.\n\nSecret things, etc.... As much as to say, secret things belong to, and\nare known to, God alone; our business must be to observe what he has\nrevealed and manifested to us, and to direct our lives accordingly.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 30\n\nGreat mercies are promised to the penitent: God\u2019s commandment is\nfeasible. Life and death are set before them.\n\n30:1. Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing\nor the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be\ntouched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which\nthe Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,\n\n30:2. And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command\nthee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all\nthy soul:\n\n30:3. The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will\nhave mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into\nwhich he scattered thee before.\n\n30:4. If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God\nwill fetch thee back from hence,\n\n30:5. And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which\nthy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he\nwill make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.\n\n30:6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy\nseed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with\nall thy soul, that thou mayst live.\n\n30:7. And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them\nthat hate and persecute thee.\n\n30:8. But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God,\nand shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:\n\n30:9. And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of\nthy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in\nthe fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the\nLord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he\nrejoiced in thy fathers:\n\n30:10. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his\nprecepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to\nthe Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.\n\n30:11. This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above\nthee, nor far off from thee:\n\n30:12. Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go\nup to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in\nwork?\n\n30:13. Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and\nsay: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may\nhear, and do that which is commanded?\n\n30:14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy\nheart, that thou mayst do it.\n\n30:15. Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and\non the other hand death and evil:\n\n30:16. That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and\nkeep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst\nlive, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou\nshalt go in to possess.\n\n30:17. But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and\nbeing deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:\n\n30:18. I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt\nremain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the\nJordan, and shalt go in to possess it.\n\n30:19. I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set\nbefore you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life,\nthat both thou and thy seed may live:\n\n30:20. And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice,\nand adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,)\nthat thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy\nfathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 31\n\nMoses encourageth the people, and Josue, who is appointed to succeed\nhim. He delivereth the law to the priests. God foretelleth that the\npeople will often forsake him, and that he will punish them. He\ncommandeth Moses to write a canticle, as a constant remembrancer of the\nlaw.\n\n31:1. And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,\n\n31:2. And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years\nold, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also\nhath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.\n\n31:3. The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy\nall these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this\nJosue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.\n\n31:4. And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings\nof the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.\n\n31:5. Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you,\nyou shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you.\n\n31:6. Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at\ntheir sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will\nnot leave thee nor forsake thee.\n\n31:7. And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take\ncourage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land\nwhich the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt\ndivide it by lot.\n\n31:8. And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with thee: he\nwill not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.\n\n31:9. And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the\nsons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to\nall the ancients of Israel.\n\n31:10. And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the year of\nremission, in the feast of tabernacles,\n\n31:11. When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of the\nLord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read\nthe words of this law before all Israel, in their hearing.\n\n31:12. And the people being all assembled together, both men and women,\nchildren and strangers, that are within thy gates: that hearing they\nmay learn, and fear the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil all the\nwords of this law:\n\n31:13. That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and\nfear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land\nwhither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.\n\n31:14. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are\nnigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that\nI may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the\ntabernacle of the testimony:\n\n31:15. And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which\nstood in the entry of the tabernacle.\n\n31:16. And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy\nfathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange\ngods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they\nforsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with\nthem,\n\n31:17. And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I\nwill forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be\ndevoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall\nsay in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these\nevils have found me.\n\n31:18. But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the\nevils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.\n\n31:19. Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of\nIsrael: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this\nsong may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.\n\n31:20. For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their\nfathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten,\nand are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will\nserve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.\n\n31:21. And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them,\nthis canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion\nshall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their\nthoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring\nthem into the land which I have promised them.\n\n31:22. Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n31:23. And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take\ncourage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel\ninto the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.\n\n31:24. Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a\nvolume, and finished it:\n\n31:25. He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord, saying:\n\n31:26. Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony\nagainst thee.\n\n31:27. For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am\nyet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious\nagainst the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?\n\n31:28. Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your\ndoctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and will call\nheaven and earth to witness against them.\n\n31:29. For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will\nquickly turn aside from the way that I have commanded you: and evils\nshall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the\nsight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.\n\n31:30. Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole assembly of\nIsrael, the words of this canticle, and finished it even to the end.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 32\n\nA canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses is commanded to go up\ninto a mountain, from whence he shall see the promised land but not\nenter into it.\n\n32:1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to\nthe words of my mouth.\n\n32:2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the\ndew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.\n\n32:3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence\nto our God.\n\n32:4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God\nis faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.\n\n32:5. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in\ntheir filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.\n\n32:6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and\nsenseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and\nmade thee, and created thee?\n\n32:7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy\nfather, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell\nthee.\n\n32:8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the\nsons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number\nof the children of Israel.\n\n32:9. But the Lord\u2019s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his\ninheritance.\n\n32:10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast\nwilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the\napple of his eye.\n\n32:11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them,\nhe spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his\nshoulders.\n\n32:12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with\nhim.\n\n32:13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the\nfields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the\nhardest stone,\n\n32:14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs,\nand of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of\nwheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.\n\n32:15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and\ngross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.\n\n32:16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger,\nwith their abominations.\n\n32:17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew\nnot: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.\n\n32:18. Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten\nthe Lord that created thee.\n\n32:19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and\ndaughters provoked him.\n\n32:20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider\nwhat their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and\nunfaithful children.\n\n32:21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have\nangered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which\nis no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.\n\n32:22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest\nhell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the\nfoundations of the mountains.\n\n32:23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among\nthem.\n\n32:24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them\nwith a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them,\nwith the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.\n\n32:25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both\nthe young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.\n\n32:26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease\nfrom among men.\n\n32:27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest\nperhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand,\nand not the Lord, hath done all these things.\n\n32:28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.\n\n32:29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would\nprovide for their last end.\n\n32:30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten\nthousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had\nshut them up?\n\n32:31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are\njudges.\n\n32:32. Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of\nGomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most\nbitter.\n\n32:33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which\nis incurable.\n\n32:34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my\ntreasures?\n\n32:35. Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their\nfoot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes\nhaste to come.\n\n32:36. The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his\nservants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who\nwere shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.\n\n32:37. And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?\n\n32:38. Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their\ndrink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your\ndistress.\n\n32:39. See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I\nwill kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and\nthere is none that can deliver out of my hand.\n\n32:40. I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for\never.\n\n32:41. If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold\non judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that\nhate me.\n\n32:42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall\ndevour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the\nbare head of the enemies.\n\n32:43. Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of\nhis servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will\nbe merciful to the land of his people.\n\n32:44. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the\nears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.\n\n32:45. And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.\n\n32:46. And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I\ntestify to you this day: which you shall command your children to\nobserve and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:\n\n32:47. For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one\nshould live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time\nin the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.\n\n32:48. And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:\n\n32:49. Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,)\nunto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and\nsee the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel\nto possess, and die thou in the mountain.\n\n32:50. When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy\npeople, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his\npeople:\n\n32:51. Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children\nof Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of\nSin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.\n\n32:52. Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 33\n\nMoses before his death blesseth the tribes of Israel.\n\n33:1. This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed\nthe children of Israel, before his death.\n\n33:2. And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he rose up\nto us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of\nsaints. In his right hand a fiery law.\n\n33:3. He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and\nthey that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.\n\n33:4. Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of\nJacob.\n\n33:5. He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people,\nbeing assembled with the tribes of Israel.\n\n33:6. Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.\n\n33:7. This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of Juda,\nand bring him in unto his people: his hands shall fight for him, and he\nshall be his helper against his enemies.\n\n33:8. To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy\nholy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the\nwaters of contradiction:\n\nHoly man.... Aaron and his successors in the priesthood.\n\n33:9. Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know\nyou; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they\nhave not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,\n\nWho hath said, etc.... It is the duty of the priestly tribe to prefer\nGod\u2019s honour and service before all considerations of flesh and blood:\nin such manner as to behave as strangers to their nearest akin, when\nthese would withdraw them from the business of their calling.\n\n33:10. Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put\nincense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.\n\n33:11. Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his hands.\nStrike the backs of his enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.\n\n33:12. And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall\ndwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the\nday long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.\n\nShall dwell, etc.... This seems to allude to the temple being built in\nthe confines of the tribe of Benjamin.\n\n33:13. To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land,\nof the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth\nbeneath.\n\n33:14. Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.\n\n33:15. Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the\neverlasting hills:\n\n33:16. And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness thereof. The\nblessing of him that appeared in the bush, come upon the head of\nJoseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.\n\nThe Nazarite.... See the note on Gen. 49.26.\n\n33:17. His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the\nhorns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the\nends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the\nthousands of Manasses.\n\n33:18. And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going out;\nand Issachar in thy tabernacles.\n\n33:19. They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they\nsacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance\nof the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.\n\n33:20. And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath\nrested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.\n\n33:21. And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was\nlaid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices\nof the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.\n\nHe saw, etc.... The pre-eminence of the tribe of Gad, to which this\nalludeth, was their having the lawgiver Moses buried in their borders;\nthough the particular place was not known.\n\n33:22. To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow\nplentifully from Basan.\n\n33:23. And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and\nshall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea\nand the south.\n\nThe sea.... The lake of Genesareth.\n\n33:24. To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him\nbe acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.\n\n33:25. His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so\nalso shall thy old age be.\n\n33:26. There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is\nmounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds\nrun hither and thither.\n\n33:27. His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms:\nhe shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou\nbrought to nought.\n\nUnderneath are the everlasting arms.... Though the dwelling of God be\nabove in heaven, his arms are always stretched out to help us here\nbelow.\n\n33:28. Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a\nland of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.\n\n33:29. Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that\nart saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy\nglory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their\nnecks.\n\n\nDeuteronomy Chapter 34\n\nMoses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to go into it. He\ndieth at the age of 120 years. God burieth his body secretly, and all\nIsrael mourn for him thirty days. Josue, replenished (by imposition of\nMoses\u2019s hands) with the spirit of God, succeedeth. But Moses, for his\nspecial familiarity with God, and for most wonderful miracles, is\ncommended above all other prophets.\n\n34:1. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to\nthe top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the\nland of Galaad as far as Dan.\n\n34:2. And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses, and all\nthe land of Juda unto the furthermost sea,\n\n34:3. And the south part, and the breadth of the plain of Jericho the\ncity of palm trees as far as Segor.\n\n34:4. And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I swore to\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou\nhast seen it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.\n\n34:5. And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of\nMoab, by the commandment of the Lord:\n\nDied there.... This last chapter of Deuteronomy, in which the death of\nMoses is related, was written by Josue, or by some of the prophets.\n\n34:6. And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over against\nPhogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.\n\nHe buried him, viz.... by the ministry of angels, and would have the\nplace of his burial to be unknown, lest the Israelites, who were so\nprone to idolatry, might worship him with divine honours.\n\n34:7. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye\nwas not dim, neither were his teeth moved.\n\n34:8. And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains of Moab\nthirty days: and the days of their mourning in which they mourned Moses\nwere ended.\n\n34:9. And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom,\nbecause Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel\nobeyed him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n34:10. And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto Moses,\nwhom the Lord knew face to face,\n\n34:11. In all the signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do in the\nland of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole\nland,\n\n34:12. And all the mighty hand, and great miracles, which Moses did\nbefore all Israel.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JOSUE\n\n\nThis Book is called JOSUE, because it contains the history of what\npassed under him, and according to the common opinion was written by\nhim. The Greeks call him Jesus: for Josue and Jesus in the Hebrew, are\nthe same name, and have the same signification, viz., A SAVIOUR. And it\nwas not without a mystery that he who was to bring the people into the\nland of promise should have his name changed from OSEE (for so he was\ncalled before, Num. 13.17,) to JOSUE or JESUS, to give us to\nunderstand, that Moses by his law could only bring the people within\nsight of the promised inheritance, but that our Saviour JESUS was to\nbring us into it.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 1\n\nJosue, encouraged by the Lord, admonisheth the people to prepare\nthemselves to pass over the Jordan.\n\n1:1. Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the\nLord, that the Lord spoke to Josue, the son of Nun, the minister of\nMoses, and said to him:\n\n1:2. Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thou\nand thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n1:3. I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall\ntread upon, as I have said to Moses.\n\n1:4. From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates,\nall the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going down\nof the sun, shall be your border.\n\n1:5. No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I\nhave been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee,\nnor forsake thee.\n\n1:6. Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this\npeople the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would\ndeliver it to them.\n\n1:7. Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst\nobserve and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee:\nturn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst\nunderstand all things which thou dost.\n\n1:8. Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt\nmeditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things\nthat are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand\nit.\n\n1:9. Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and\nbe not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things\nwhatsoever thou shalt go to.\n\n1:10. And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Pass\nthrough the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:\n\n1:11. Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass\nover the Jordan, and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord\nyour God will give you.\n\n1:12. And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe\nof Manasses:\n\n1:13. Remember the word, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded\nyou, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this land.\n\n1:14. Your wives, and children; and cattle, shall remain in the land\nwhich Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over\narmed before your brethren all of you that are strong of hand, and\nfight for them,\n\n1:15. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you,\nand they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them:\nand so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall\ndwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the\nJordan, toward the rising of the sun.\n\n1:16. And they made answer to Josue, and said: All that thou hast\ncommanded us, we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we\nwill go.\n\n1:17. As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only\nbe the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.\n\n1:18. He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words, that\nthou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do\nmanfully.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 2\n\nTwo spies are sent to Jericho, who are received and concealed by Rahab.\n\n2:1. And Josue, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy\nsecretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of\nJericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a\nharlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.\n\n2:2. And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said: Behold there\nare men come in hither, by night, of the children of Israel, to spy the\nland.\n\n2:3. And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men\nthat came to thee, and are entered into thy house: for they are spies,\nand are come to view all the land.\n\n2:4. And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they\ncame to me, but I knew not whence they were:\n\n2:5. And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went\nout together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them\nquickly, and you will overtake them.\n\n2:6. But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered\nthem with the stalks of flax, which was there.\n\n2:7. Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that\nleadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out,\nthe gate was presently shut.\n\n2:8. The men that were hid were not yet asleep, when behold the woman\nwent up to them, and said:\n\n2:9. I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of\nyou is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost\nall strength.\n\n2:10. We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at\nyour going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to\nthe two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and\nOg whom you slew.\n\n2:11. And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our\nheart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your\ncoming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the\nearth beneath.\n\n2:12. Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed\nmercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father\u2019s house: and\ngive me a true token.\n\n2:13. That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters,\nand all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.\n\n2:14. They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou\nbetray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we\nwill shew thee mercy and truth.\n\n2:15. Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house\njoined close to the wall.\n\n2:16. And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps\nthey meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till\nthey come back, and so you shall go on your way.\n\n2:17. And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which\nthou hast made us swear,\n\n2:18. If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and\nthou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather\ntogether thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into\nthy house.\n\n2:19. Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall\nbe upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that\nshall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man\ntouch them.\n\n2:20. But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall\nbe quit of this oath, which thou hast made us swear.\n\n2:21. And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending\nthem on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.\n\n2:22. But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three\ndays, till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them\nthrough all the way, they found them not.\n\n2:23. And when they were gone back into the city, the spies returned,\nand came down from the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they came\nto Josue, the son of Nun, and told him all that befel them,\n\n2:24. And said: the Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands,\nand all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 3\n\nThe river Jordan is miraculously dried up for the passage of the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n3:1. And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they\ndeparted from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children\nof Israel, and they abode there for three days.\n\n3:2. After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,\n\n3:3. And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant\nof the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it,\nrise you up also, and follow them as they go before:\n\n3:4. And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand\ncubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go:\nfor you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near\nthe ark.\n\n3:5. And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the\nLord will do wonders among you.\n\n3:6. And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and\ngo before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and\nwalked before them.\n\n3:7. And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee\nbefore Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am\nwith thee also.\n\n3:8. And do thou command the priests, that carry the ark of the\ncovenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the\nwater of the Jordan, stand in it.\n\n3:9. And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear\nthe word of the Lord your God.\n\n3:10. And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the\nliving God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before\nyour sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the\nPherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.\n\n3:11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth\nshall go before you into the Jordan.\n\n3:12. Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every\ntribe.\n\n3:13. And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of\nthe whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the\nJordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and\nthose that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.\n\n3:14. So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan:\nand the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before\nthem.\n\n3:15. And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were\ndipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time,\nhad filled the banks of its channel,)\n\n3:16. The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and\nswelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is\ncalled Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran\ndown into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea)\nuntil they wholly failed.\n\n3:17. And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that\ncarried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry\nground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over,\nthrough the channel that was dried up.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 4\n\nTwelve stones are taken out of the river to be set up for a monument of\nthe miracle; and other twelve are placed in the midst of the river.\n\n4:1. And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:\n\n4:2. Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:\n\n4:3. And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the\nfeet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set\nin the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.\n\n4:4. And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the\nchildren of Israel, one out of every tribe,\n\n4:5. And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the\nmidst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your\nshoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,\n\n4:6. That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask\nyou tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?\n\n4:7. You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the\nark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore\nwere these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.\n\n4:8. The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them,\ncarrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord\nhad commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel\nunto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.\n\n4:9. And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of\nthe Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the\ncovenant: and they are there until this present day.\n\n4:10. Now the priests that carried the ark, stood in the midst of the\nJordan, till all things were accomplished, which the Lord had commanded\nJosue to speak to the people, and Moses had said to him. And the people\nmade haste, and passed over.\n\n4:11. And when they had all passed over, the ark also of the Lord\npassed over, and the priests went before the people.\n\n4:12. The children of Ruben also, and Gad, and half the tribe of\nManasses, went armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had\ncommanded them.\n\n4:13. And forty thousand fighting men by their troops and bands,\nmarched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho.\n\n4:14. In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all Israel,\nthat they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he lived.\n\n4:15. And he said to him:\n\n4:16. Command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, to come\nup out of the Jordan.\n\n4:17. And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.\n\n4:18. And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord,\nwere come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned\ninto their channel, and ran as they were wont before.\n\n4:19. And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day of the\nfirst month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the\ncity of Jericho.\n\n4:20. And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of\nthe Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,\n\n4:21. And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask\ntheir fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?\n\n4:22. You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan\nthrough the dry channel,\n\n4:23. The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight,\nuntil you passed over:\n\n4:24. As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we\npassed through:\n\n4:25. That all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand\nof the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 5\n\nThe people are circumcised: they keep the pasch. The manna ceaseth. An\nangel appeareth to Josue.\n\n5:1. Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the\nJordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the\nplaces near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the\nwaters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed\nover, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them,\nfearing the coming in of the children of Israel.\n\n5:2. At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of stone,\nand circumcise the second time the children of Israel.\n\nThe second time.... Not that such as had been circumcised before were\nto be circumcised again; but that they were now to renew, and take up\nagain the practice of circumcision; which had been omitted during their\nforty years\u2019 sojourning in the wilderness; by reason of their being\nalways uncertain when they should be obliged to march.\n\n5:3. He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the\nchildren of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.\n\n5:4. Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people\nthat came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died\nin the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:\n\n5:5. Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in\nthe desert,\n\n5:6. During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were\nuncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice\nof the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew\nthem the land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n5:7. The children of these succeeded in the place of their fathers, and\nwere circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as they\nwere born, and no one had circumcised them in the way.\n\n5:8. Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in the same\nplace of the camp, until they were healed.\n\n5:9. And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away from you\nthe reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called Galgal,\nuntil this present day.\n\n5:10. And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the\nphase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of\nJericho:\n\n5:11. And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the\nland, and frumenty of the same year.\n\n5:12. And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land,\nneither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate\nof the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.\n\n5:13. And when Josue was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted\nup his eyes, and saw a man standing over against him, holding a drawn\nsword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou one of ours, or of our\nadversaries?\n\n5:14. And he answered: No: but I am prince of the host of the Lord, and\nnow I am come.\n\nPrince of the host of the Lord, etc.... St. Michael, who is called\nprince of the people of Israel, Dan. 10.21.\n\n5:15. Josue fell on his face to the ground. And worshipping, said: What\nsaith my lord to his servant?\n\nWorshipping.... Not with divine honour, but with a religious veneration\nof an inferior kind, suitable to the dignity of his person.\n\n5:16. Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place\nwhereon thou standest is holy. And Josue did as was commanded him.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 6\n\nAfter seven days\u2019 processions, the priests sounding the trumpets, the\nwalls of Jericho fall down: and the city is taken and destroyed.\n\n6:1. Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children\nof Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.\n\n6:2. And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I have given into thy hands\nJericho, and the king thereof, and all the valiant men.\n\n6:3. Go round about the city all ye fighting men once a day: so shall\nye do for six days.\n\n6:4. And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets,\nwhich are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the\ncovenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests\nshall sound the trumpets.\n\n6:5. And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken\ntune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together\nwith a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the\nground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which\nthey shall stand.\n\n6:6. Then Josue, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them:\nTake the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the\nseven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.\n\n6:7. And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed,\nmarching before the ark of the Lord.\n\n6:8. And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven priests blew the\nseven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,\n\n6:9. And all the armed men went before, the rest of the common people\nfollowed the ark, and the sound of the trumpets was heard on all sides.\n\n6:10. But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not shout,\nnor shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your mouth: until\nthe day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and shout.\n\n6:11. So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day, and\nreturning into the camp, abode there.\n\n6:12. And Josue rising before day, the priests took the ark of the\nLord,\n\n6:13. And seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee:\nand they went before the ark of the Lord, walking and sounding the\ntrumpets: and the armed men went before them, and the rest of the\ncommon people followed the ark, and they blew the trumpets.\n\n6:14. And they went round about the city the second day once, and\nreturned into the camp. So they did six days.\n\n6:15. But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city,\nas it was ordered, seven times.\n\n6:16. And when in the seventh going about the priests sounded with the\ntrumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered\nthe city to you:\n\n6:17. And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it,\nto the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with\nher in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.\n\n6:18. But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are\nforbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of\nIsrael be under sin, and be troubled.\n\n6:19. But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, or vessels of brass\nand iron, let it be consecrated to the Lord, laid up in his treasures.\n\n6:20. So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when\nthe voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the\nwalls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was\nover against him: and they took the city,\n\n6:21. And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The\noxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the\nsword.\n\n6:22. But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go\ninto the harlot\u2019s house, and bring her out, and all things that are\nhers, as you assured her by oath.\n\n6:23. And the young men went in, and brought out Rahab, and her\nparents, her brethren also, and all her goods, and her kindred, and\nmade them to stay without the camp.\n\n6:24. But they burned the city, and all things that were therein;\nexcept the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they\nconsecrated unto the treasury of the Lord.\n\n6:25. But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father\u2019s house, and all\nshe had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day:\nbecause she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At\nthat time, Josue made an imprecation, saying:\n\n6:26. Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build\nthe city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation\nthereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.\n\nCursed, etc.... Jericho, in the mystical sense, signifies iniquity: the\nsounding of the trumpets by the priests, the preaching of the word of\nGod; by which the walls of Jericho are thrown down, when sinners are\nconverted; and a dreadful curse will light on them who build them up\nagain.\n\n6:27. And the Lord was with Josue, and his name was noised throughout\nall the land.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 7\n\nFor the sins of Achan, the Israelites are defeated at Hai. The offender\nis found out; and stoned to death, and God\u2019s wrath is turned from them.\n\n7:1. But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took\nto their own use of that which was accursed. For Achan, the son of\nCharmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda, took\nsomething of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children\nof Israel.\n\n7:2. And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside\nBethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go\nup, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed\nHai.\n\n7:3. And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but\nlet two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all\nthe people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?\n\n7:4. There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who\nimmediately turned their backs,\n\n7:5. And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of\nthem six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as\nfar as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the\nheart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.\n\n7:6. But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before\nthe ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of\nIsrael: and they put dust upon their heads.\n\n7:7. And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this\npeople over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the\nAmorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the\nJordan, as we began.\n\n7:8. My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs\nto their enemies?\n\n7:9. The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of\nit, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name\nfrom the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?\n\n7:10. And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the\nground?\n\n7:11. Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have\ntaken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among\ntheir goods.\n\n7:12. Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee\nfrom them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more\nwith you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.\n\n7:13. Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified\nagainst tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is\nin the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy\nenemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this\nwickedness.\n\n7:14. And you shall come in the morning, every one by your tribes: and\nwhat tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds,\nand the kindred by its houses and the house by the men.\n\n7:15. And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he\nshall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath\ntransgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in\nIsrael.\n\n7:16. Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to\ncome by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found.\n\n7:17. Which being brought by in families, it was found to be the family\nof Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi:\n\n7:18. And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan, the son of\nCharmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda.\n\n7:19. And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of\nIsrael, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.\n\n7:20. And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned\nagainst the Lord, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.\n\n7:21. For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and\ntwo hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I\ncoveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the\nmidst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug\nup.\n\n7:22. Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found\nall hid in the same place, together with the silver.\n\n7:23. And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Josue,\nand to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.\n\n7:24. Then Josue, and all Israel with him, took Achan, the son of Zare,\nand the silver, and the garment, and the golden rule, his sons also,\nand his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the tent also, and\nall the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:\n\nHis sons, etc.... Probably conscious to, or accomplices of, the crime\nof their father.\n\n7:25. Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble\nthee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his,\nwere consumed with fire.\n\n7:26. And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which\nremaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned\naway from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of\nAchor, until this day.\n\nAchor.... That is, trouble.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 8\n\nHai is taken and burnt, and all the inhabitants slain. An altar is\nbuilt, and sacrifices offered. The law is written on stones, and the\nblessings and cursings are read before all the people.\n\n8:1. And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be thou dismayed: take\nwith thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise, and go up to the\ntown of Hai: Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof,\nand the people, and the city, and the land.\n\n8:2. And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as\nthou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and\nall the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush\nfor the city behind it.\n\n8:3. And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men with him, to\ngo up against Hai: and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in\nthe night,\n\n8:4. And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go\nnot very far from it: and be ye all ready.\n\n8:5. But I, and the rest of the multitude which is with me, will\napproach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall\ncome out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did\nbefore:\n\n8:6. Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they\nwill think that we flee as before.\n\n8:7. And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out\nof the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will\ndeliver it into your hands.\n\n8:8. And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do\nall things so as I have commanded.\n\n8:9. And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the\nambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city\nof Hai. But Josue staid that night in the midst of the people,\n\n8:10. And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and\nwent up with the ancients in the front of the army, environed with the\naid of the fighting men.\n\n8:11. And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city,\nthey stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there\nwas a valley in the midst.\n\n8:12. And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in\nambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:\n\nFive thousand.... These were part of the thirty thousand mentioned\nabove, ver. 3.\n\n8:13. But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north\nside, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of\nthe city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the\nvalley.\n\n8:14. And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning,\nand went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array,\ntoward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his\nback.\n\n8:15. But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were\nafraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.\n\n8:16. But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued\nthem. And when they were come from the city,\n\n8:17. And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did\nnot pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,\n\n8:18. The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand,\ntowards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.\n\n8:19. And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the\nambush, that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took\nit, and set it on fire.\n\n8:20. And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back,\nand seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power\nto flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited\nflight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most\nvaliantly against them that pursued.\n\n8:21. So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city was taken, and\nthat the smoke of the city rose up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.\n\n8:22. And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing\nout of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who\nwere surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both\nsides, not one of so great a multitude was saved.\n\n8:23. And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him\nto Josue.\n\n8:24. So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight\nto the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the\nchildren of Israel returned and laid waste the city.\n\n8:25. And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women,\nwas twelve thousand persons, all of the city of Hai.\n\n8:26. But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on\nhigh, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.\n\n8:27. And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the\nprey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.\n\n8:28. And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:\n\n8:29. And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and\nthe going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his\ncarcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city,\nheaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this\npresent day.\n\n8:30. Then Josue built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in\nMount Hebal,\n\n8:31. As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of\nIsrael, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of\nunhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it\nholocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.\n\n8:32. And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses,\nwhich he had ordered before the children of Israel.\n\n8:33. And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes, and\njudges, stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried\nthe ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was\nborn among them, half of them by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount\nHebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded. And first he\nblessed the people of Israel.\n\n8:34. After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the\ncursing, and all things that were written in the book of the law.\n\n8:35. He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded,\nbut he repeated all before all the people of Israel, with the women and\nchildren, and strangers, that dwelt among them.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 9\n\nJosue is deceived by the Gabaonites: who being detected are condemned\nto be perpetual servants.\n\n9:1. Now when these things were heard of, all the kings beyond the\nJordan, that dwelt in the mountains, and in the plains, in the places\nnear the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they also that dwell\nby Libanus, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the\nPherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,\n\n9:2. Gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel\nwith one mind, and one resolution.\n\n9:3. But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Josue had done to\nJericho and Hai:\n\n9:4. Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old\nsacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,\n\n9:5. And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted with\npatches, and old garments upon them: the loaves also, which they\ncarried for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into pieces:\n\n9:6. And they went to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and\nsaid to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come from a far\ncountry, desiring to make peace with you. And the children of Israel\nanswered them, and said:\n\n9:7. Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we\ncan make no league with you.\n\n9:8. But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said to them:\nWho are you? and whence came you?\n\n9:9. They answered: From a very far country thy servants are come in\nthe name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his power,\nall the things that he did in Egypt.\n\n9:10. And to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the\nJordan, Sehon, king of Hesebon, and Og, king of Basan, that was in\nAstaroth:\n\n9:11. And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country, said to\nus: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet them, and say:\nWe are your servants, make ye a league with us.\n\n9:12. Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses\nto come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being\nexceeding old.\n\n9:13. These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are\nrent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our\nfeet, by reason of the very long journey, are worn out, and almost\nconsumed.\n\n9:14. They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the\nmouth of the Lord.\n\n9:15. And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league,\npromised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the\nmultitude swore to them.\n\n9:16. Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they\ndwelt nigh, and they should be among them.\n\n9:17. And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their\ncities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira,\nand Beroth, and Cariathiarim.\n\n9:18. And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had\nsworn in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the common\npeople murmured against the princes.\n\n9:19. And they answered them: We have sworn to them in the name of the\nLord, the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them.\n\n9:20. But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the\nwrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:\n\n9:21. But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing\nwood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,\n\n9:22. Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you\nimpose upon us, saying: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are\nin the midst of us?\n\n9:23. Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always\nbe hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.\n\n9:24. They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy\nGod had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to\ndestroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly\nand provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and\nwe took this counsel.\n\n9:25. And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and\nright unto thee.\n\n9:26. So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of\nthe children of Israel, that they should not be slain.\n\n9:27. And he gave orders in that day, that they should be in the\nservice of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood,\nand carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the\nLord hath chosen.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 10\n\nFive kings war against Gabaon. Josue defeateth them: many are slain\nwith hailstones. At the prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still\nthe space of one day. The five kings are hanged. Divers cities are\ntaken.\n\n10:1. When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to\nwit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had\ndone to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king)\nand that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their\nconfederates,\n\n10:2. He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one\nof the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its\nfighting men were most valiant.\n\n10:3. Therefore Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, sent to Oham, king of\nHebron, and to Pharam, king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia, king of Lachis,\nand to Dabir, king of Eglon, saying:\n\n10:4. Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because\nit hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.\n\n10:5. So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together,\nwent up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of\nJerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies,\nand camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.\n\n10:6. But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon, which was besieged,\nsent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him:\nWithdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly, and\nsave us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who\ndwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.\n\n10:7. And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the army of the warriors\nwith him, most valiant men.\n\n10:8. But the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have delivered\nthem into thy hands: none of them shall be able to stand against thee.\n\n10:9. So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them\nsuddenly.\n\n10:10. And the Lord troubled them, at the sight of Israel: and he slew\nthem with a great slaughter, in Gabaon, and pursued them by the way of\nthe ascent to Bethoron, and cut them off all the way to Azeca and\nMaceda.\n\n10:11. And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were\nin the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones\nfrom heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the\nhailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,\n\n10:12. Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the\nAmorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before\nthem: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the\nvalley of Ajalon.\n\n10:13. And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged\nthemselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the\njust? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to\ngo down the space of one day.\n\nThe book of the just.... In Hebrew Jasher: an ancient book long since\nlost.\n\n10:14. There was not before, nor after, so long a day, the Lord obeying\nthe voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.\n\n10:15. And Josue returned, with all Israel, into the camp of Galgal.\n\n10:16. For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave\nof the city of Maceda.\n\n10:17. And it was told Josue, that the five kings were found hid in a\ncave of the city of Maceda.\n\n10:18. And he commanded them that were with him, saying: Roll great\nstones to the mouth of the cave, and set careful men to keep them shut\nup:\n\n10:19. And stay you not, but pursue after the enemies, and kill all the\nhindermost of them as they flee, and do not suffer them whom the Lord\nGod hath delivered into your hands, to shelter themselves in their\ncities.\n\n10:20. So the enemies being slain with a great slaughter, and almost\nutterly consumed, they that were able to escape from Israel, entered\ninto fenced cities.\n\n10:21. And all the army returned to Josue, in Maceda, where the camp\nthen was, in good health, and without the loss of any one: and no man\ndurst move his tongue against the children of Israel.\n\n10:22. And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, and\nbring forth to me the five kings that lie hid therein.\n\n10:23. And the ministers did as they were commanded: and they brought\nout to him the five kings out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the\nking of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of\nEglon.\n\n10:24. And when they were brought out to him, he called all the men of\nIsrael, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and\nset your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and\nput their feet upon the necks of them lying under them,\n\n10:25. He said again to them: Fear not, neither be ye dismayed, take\ncourage, and be strong: for so will the Lord do to all your enemies,\nagainst whom you fight.\n\n10:26. And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five\ngibbets; and they hung until the evening.\n\n10:27. And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take\nthem down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down, they cast\nthem into the cave, where they had lain hid, and put great stones at\nthe mouth thereof, which remain until this day.\n\n10:28. The same day Josue took Maceda, and destroyed it with the edge\nof the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he\nleft not in it the least remains. And he did to the king of Maceda, as\nhe had done to the king of Jericho.\n\n10:29. And he passed from Maceda with all Israel to Lebna, and fought\nagainst it:\n\n10:30. And the Lord delivered it with the king thereof into the hands\nof Israel: and they destroyed the city with the edge of the sword, and\nall the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it any remains. And they\ndid to the king of Lebna, as they had done to the king of Jericho.\n\n10:31. From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and investing\nit with his army, besieged it.\n\n10:32. And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he\ntook it the following day, and put it to the sword, and every soul that\nwas in it, as he had done to Lebna.\n\n10:33. At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis:\nand Josue slew him with all his people so as to leave none alive.\n\n10:34. And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded it,\n\n10:35. And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the souls\nthat were in it, according to all that he had done to Lachis.\n\n10:36. He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and fought\nagainst it:\n\n10:37. Took it, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword: the king\nalso thereof, and all the towns of that country, and all the souls that\ndwelt in it: he left not therein any remains: as he had done to Eglon,\nso did he also to Hebron, putting to the sword all that he found in it.\n\nThe king.... Viz., the new king, who succeeded him that was slain, ver.\n26.\n\n10:38. Returning from thence to Dabir,\n\n10:39. He took it, and destroyed it: the king also thereof, and all the\ntowns round about, he destroyed with the edge of the sword: he left not\nin it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and Lebna, and to their\nkings, so did he to Dabir, and to the king thereof.\n\n10:40. So Josue conquered all the country of the hills, and of the\nsouth, and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he left not\nany remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the Lord, the God\nof Israel, had commanded him.\n\nAny remains therein, but slew, etc.... God ordered these people to be\nutterly destroyed, in punishment of their manifold abomination; and\nthat they might not draw the Israelites into the like sins.\n\n10:41. From Cadesbarne even to Gaza. All the land of Gosen even to\nGabaon,\n\n10:42. And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one\nonset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.\n\n10:43. And he returned with all Israel to the place of the camp in\nGalgal.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 11\n\nThe kings of the north are overthrown: the whole country is taken.\n\n11:1. And when Jabin king of Asor had heard these things, he sent to\nJobab king of Madon, and to the king of Semeron, and to the king of\nAchsaph:\n\n11:2. And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in the mountains and in\nthe plains over against the south side of Ceneroth, and in the levels\nand the countries of Dor by the sea side:\n\n11:3. To the Chanaanites also on the east and on the west, and the\nAmorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Jebusite in the\nmountains: to the Hevite also who dwelt at the foot of Hermon in the\nland of Maspha.\n\n11:4. And they all came out with their troops, a people exceeding\nnumerous as the sand that is on the sea shore, their horses also and\nchariots a very great multitude,\n\n11:5. And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to\nfight against Israel.\n\n11:6. And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for to morrow at this\nsame hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel:\nthou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots\nwith fire.\n\nHamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire, etc.... God\nso ordained, that his people might not trust in chariots and horses,\nbut in him.\n\n11:7. And Josue came, and all the army with him, against them to the\nwaters of Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.\n\n11:8. And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they\ndefeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters\nof Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof.\nHe slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them:\n\n11:9. And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their\nhorses and burned their chariots.\n\n11:10. And presently turning back he took Asor: and slew the king\nthereof with the sword. Now Asor of old was the head of all these\nkingdoms.\n\n11:11. And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it\nany remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with\nfire.\n\n11:12. And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the cities\nround about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God had commanded\nhim.\n\n11:13. Except the cities that were on hills and high places, the rest\nIsrael burned: only Asor that was very strong he consumed with fire.\n\n11:14. And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the\nspoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.\n\n11:15. As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses\ncommand Josue, and he accomplished all: he left not one thing undone of\nall the commandments which the Lord had commanded Moses.\n\n11:16. So Josue took all the country of the hills, and of the south,\nand the land of Gosen, and the plains and the west country, and the\nmountain of Israel, and the plains thereof:\n\n11:17. And part of the mountain that goeth up to Seir as far as\nBaalgad, by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their kings he\ntook, smote and slew.\n\n11:18. Josue made war a long time against these kings.\n\nA long time.... Seven years, as appears from chap. 14.10.\n\n11:19. There was not a city that delivered itself to the children of\nIsrael, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by\nfight.\n\n11:20. For it was the sentence of the Lord, that their hearts should be\nhardened, and they should fight against Israel, and fall, and should\nnot deserve any clemency, and should be destroyed as the Lord had\ncommanded Moses.\n\nHardened.... This hardening of their hearts, was their having no\nthought of yielding or submitting: which was a sentence or judgment of\nGod upon them in punishment of their enormous crimes.\n\n11:21. At that time Josue came and cut off the Enacims from the\nmountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain\nof Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities.\n\n11:22. He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the\nchildren of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in\nwhich alone they were left.\n\n11:23. So Josue took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and\ndelivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to\ntheir divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 12\n\nA list of the kings slain by Moses and Josue,\n\n12:1. These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and\npossessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun,\nfrom the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that\nlooketh towards the wilderness.\n\n12:2. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had\ndominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent\nArnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far\nas the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.\n\n12:3. And from the wilderness, to the sea of Ceneroth towards the east,\nand to the sea of the wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the\neast side by the way that leadeth to Bethsimoth: and on the south side\nthat lieth under Asedoth, Phasga.\n\n12:4. The border of Og the king of Basan, of the remnant of the\nRaphaims who dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount\nHermon, and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the borders\n\n12:5. Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad: the borders of Sehon\nthe king of Hesebon.\n\n12:6. Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel slew\nthem, and Moses delivered their land in possession to the Rubenites,\nand Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n12:7. These are the kings of the land, whom Josue and the children of\nIsrael slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the\nfield of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and\nJosue delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one\ntheir divisions,\n\n12:8. As well in the mountains as in the plains and the champaign\ncountries. In Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in the south was the\nHethite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite and the Pherezite, the Hevite\nand the Jebusite.\n\n12:9. The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai, which is on the side of\nBethel, one:\n\n12:10. The king of Jerusalem one, the king of Hebron one,\n\n12:11. The king of Jerimoth one, the king of Lachis one,\n\n12:12. The king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer one,\n\n12:13. The king of Dabir one, the king of Gader one,\n\n12:14. The king of Herma one, the king of Hered one,\n\n12:15. The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam one,\n\n12:16. The king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel one,\n\n12:17. The king of Taphua one, the king of Opher one,\n\n12:18. The king of Aphec one, the king of Saron one,\n\n12:19. The king of Madon one, the king of Asor one,\n\n12:20. The king of Semeron one, the king of Achsaph one,\n\n12:21. The king of Thenac one, the king of Mageddo one,\n\n12:22. The king of Cades one, the king of Jachanan of Carmel one,\n\n12:23. The king of Dor, and of the province of Dor one, the king of the\nnations of Galgal one,\n\n12:24. The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 13\n\nGod commandeth Josue to divide the land: the possessions of Ruben, Gad,\nand half the tribe of Manasses, beyond the Jordan.\n\n13:1. Josue was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to\nhim: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large\ncountry left, which is not yet divided by lot:\n\nJosue was old, and far advanced in years.... He was then about one\nhundred and one years old.\u2014And there is a very large country left,\nwhich is not yet divided by lot.... Not yet possessed by the children\nof Israel.\n\n13:2. To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.\n\n13:3. From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of\nAccaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the\nlords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites,\nthe Gethites, and the Accronites.\n\n13:4. And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan,\nand Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the\nAmorrhite,\n\n13:5. And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east\nfrom Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.\n\n13:6. Of all that dwell in the mountains from Libanus, to the waters of\nMaserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from\nbefore the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as\na part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.\n\n13:7. And now divide the land in possession to the nine tribes, and to\nthe half tribe of Manasses,\n\n13:8. With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the\nservant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the\neast side.\n\nWith whom.... That is, with the other half of that same tribe.\n\n13:9. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in\nthe midst of the valley and all the plains of Medaba, as far as Dibon:\n\n13:10. And all the cities of Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who reigned\nin Hesebon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon.\n\n13:11. And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all\nmount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,\n\n13:12. All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and\nEdrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and\ndestroyed them.\n\n13:13. And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati\nand they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.\n\n13:14. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the\nsacrifices and victims of the Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance,\nas he spoke to him.\n\n13:15. And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according\nto their kindreds.\n\n13:16. And their border was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the\ntorrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all\nthe plain, that leadeth to Medaba,\n\n13:17. And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains.\nDibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,\n\n13:18. And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,\n\n13:19. And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of\nthe valley.\n\n13:20. Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,\n\n13:21. And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sehon\nking of the Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with\nthe princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and Hur, and Rebe,\ndukes of Sehon inhabitants of the land.\n\nThe princes of Madian.... It appears from hence that these were\nsubjects of king Sehon: they are said to have been slain with him, that\nis, about the same time, but not in the same battle.\n\n13:22. Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of\nIsrael slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.\n\n13:23. And the river Jordan was the border of the children of Ruben.\nThis is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities\nand villages.\n\n13:24. And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and to his children by their\nkindreds a possession, of which this is the division.\n\n13:25. The border of Jaser, and all the cities of Galaad, and half the\nland of the children of Ammon: as far as Aroer which is over against\nRabba:\n\n13:26. And from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe and Betonim: and from\nManaim unto the borders of Dabir.\n\n13:27. And in the valley Betharan and Bethnemra, and Socoth, and Saphon\nthe other part of the kingdom of Sehon king of Hesebon: the limit of\nthis also is the Jordan, as far as the uttermost part of the sea of\nCenereth beyond the Jordan on the east side,\n\n13:28. This is the possession of the children of Gad by their families,\ntheir cities, and villages.\n\n13:29. He gave also to the half tribe of Manasses and his children\npossession according to their kindreds,\n\n13:30. The beginning whereof is this: from Manaim all Basan, and all\nthe kingdoms of Og king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which\nare in Basan, threescore towns.\n\n13:31. And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the kingdom\nof Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one\nhalf of the children of Machir according to their kindreds.\n\n13:32. This possession Moses divided in the plains of Moab, beyond the\nJordan, over against Jericho on the east side,\n\n13:33. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because the Lord\nthe God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spoke to them.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 14\n\nCaleb\u2019s petition; Hebron is given to him and to his seed.\n\n14:1. This is what the children of Israel possessed in the land of\nChanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the\nprinces of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.\n\n14:2. Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of\nMoses, to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.\n\n14:3. For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession beyond\nthe Jordan: besides the Levites, who received no land among their\nbrethren:\n\n14:4. But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into\ntwo tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive\nother portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to\nfeed their beasts and flocks.\n\nHebron belonged, etc.... All the country thereabouts, depending on\nHebron, was given to Caleb; but the city itself with the suburbs, was\none of those that were given to the priests to dwell in.\n\n14:5. As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel,\nand they divided the land.\n\n14:6. Then the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and Caleb the\nson of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the Lord\nspoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.\n\n14:7. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me\nfrom Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to\nme seemed true,\n\n14:8. But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart\nof the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.\n\n14:9. And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath\ntrodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children\u2019s for ever,\nbecause thou hast followed the Lord my God.\n\n14:10. The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until\nthis present day, It is forty and five years since the Lord spoke this\nword to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the wilderness: this day I\nam eighty-five years old,\n\n14:11. As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the\nland: the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as\nwell to fight as to march.\n\n14:12. Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy\nhearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if\nso be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as\nhe promised me.\n\n14:13. And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.\n\n14:14. And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone\nthe Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the\nGod of Israel.\n\n14:15. The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the\ngreatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from\nwars.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 15\n\nThe borders of the lot of Juda. Caleb\u2019s portion and conquest. The\ncities of Juda.\n\n15:1. Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this:\nFrom the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the\nuttermost part of the south coast.\n\n15:2. Its beginning was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the\nbay thereof, that looketh to the south.\n\n15:3. And it goeth out towards the ascent of the Scorpion, and passeth\non to Sina: and ascendeth into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron,\ngoing up to Addar, and compassing Carcaa.\n\n15:4. And from thence passing along into Asemona, and reaching the\ntorrent of Egypt: and the bounds thereof shall be the great sea, this\nshall be the limit of the south coast.\n\n15:5. But on the east side the beginning shall be the most salt sea\neven to the end of the Jordan: and towards the north from the bay of\nthe sea unto the same river Jordan.\n\n15:6. And the border goeth up into Beth-Hagla, and passeth by the north\ninto Beth-Araba: going up to the stone of Boen the son of Ruben.\n\n15:7. And reaching as far as the borders of Debara from the valley of\nAchor, and so northward looking towards Galgal, which is opposite to\nthe ascent of Adommin, on the south side of the torrent, and the border\npasseth the waters that are called the fountain of the sun: and the\ngoings out thereof shall be at the fountain Rogel.\n\n15:8. And it goeth up by the valley of the son of Ennom on the side of\nthe Jebusite towards the south, the same is Jerusalem: and thence\nascending to the top of the mountain, which is over against Geennom to\nthe west in the end of the valley of Raphaim, northward.\n\n15:9. And it passeth on from the top of the mountain to the fountain of\nthe water of Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it\nbendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, the city\nof the woods.\n\n15:10. And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and\npasseth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth\ndown into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.\n\n15:11. And reacheth northward to a part of Accaron at the side: and\nbendeth to Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Jebneel,\nand is bounded westward with the great sea.\n\n15:12. These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in\ntheir kindreds.\n\n15:13. But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst\nof the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe\nthe father of Enac, which is Hebron.\n\n15:14. And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and\nAhiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.\n\n15:15. And going up from thence he came to the inhabitants of Dabir,\nwhich before was called Cariath-Sepher, that is to say, the city of\nletters.\n\n15:16. And Caleb said: He that shall smite Cariath-Sepher, and take it,\nI will give him Axa my daughter to wife.\n\n15:17. And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb,\ntook it: and he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.\n\n15:18. And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to\nask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And\nCaleb said to her: What aileth thee?\n\n15:19. But she answered: Give me a blessing: thou hast given me a\nsouthern and dry land, give me also a land that is watered. And Caleb\ngave her the upper and the nether watery ground.\n\n15:20. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Juda by\ntheir kindreds.\n\n15:21. And the cities from the uttermost parts of the children of Juda\nby the borders of Edom to the south, were Cabseel and Eder and Jagur,\n\n15:22. And Cina and Dimona and Adada,\n\n15:23. And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,\n\n15:24. Ziph and Telem and Baloth,\n\n15:25. New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which is Asor.\n\n15:26. Amam, Sama and Molada,\n\n15:27. And Asergadda and Hassemon and Bethphelet,\n\n15:28. And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,\n\n15:29. And Baala and Jim and Esem,\n\n15:30. And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,\n\n15:31. And Siceleg and Medemena and Sensenna,\n\n15:32. Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities\ntwenty-nine, and their villages.\n\n15:33. But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,\n\n15:34. And Zanoe and Engannim and Taphua and Enaim,\n\n15:35. And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,\n\n15:36. And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen\ncities, and their villages.\n\n15:37. Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,\n\n15:38. Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,\n\n15:39. Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,\n\n15:40. Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,\n\n15:41. And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities,\nand their villages.\n\n15:42. Labana and Ether and Asan,\n\n15:43. Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,\n\n15:44. And Ceila and Achzib and Maresa: nine cities, and their\nvillages.\n\n15:45. Accaron with the towns and villages thereof.\n\n15:46. From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus\nand the villages thereof.\n\n15:47. Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and\nvillages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the\nborder thereof.\n\n15:48. And in the mountain Samir and Jether and Socoth,\n\n15:49. And Danna and Cariath-senna, this is Dabir:\n\n15:50. Anab and Istemo and Anim,\n\n15:51. Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.\n\n15:52. Arab and Ruma and Esaan,\n\n15:53. And Janum and Beththaphua and Apheca,\n\n15:54. Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is Hebron and Sior: nine cities\nand their villages.\n\n15:55. Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,\n\n15:56. Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,\n\n15:57. Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and their villages.\n\n15:58. Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,\n\n15:59. Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon: six cities and their\nvillages.\n\n15:60. Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim the city of woods, and\nArebba: two cities and their villages.\n\n15:61. In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and Sachacha,\n\n15:62. And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities and\ntheir villages.\n\n15:63. But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that\ndwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in\nJerusalem until this present day.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 16\n\nThe lot of the sons of Joseph. The borders of the tribe of Ephraim.\n\n16:1. And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan over\nagainst Jericho and the waters thereof, on the east: the wilderness\nwhich goeth up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:\n\n16:2. And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of\nArchi, to Ataroth,\n\n16:3. And goeth down westward, by the border of Jephleti, unto the\nborders of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer: and the countries of it\nare ended by the great sea:\n\n16:4. And Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it.\n\n16:5. And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their\nkindreds: and their possession towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto\nBeth-horon the upper.\n\n16:6. And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to\nthe north, and it goeth round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo:\nand passeth along on the east side to Janoe.\n\nLooketh to the north, etc.... The meaning is, that the border went\ntowards the north, by Machmethath; and then turned eastward to\nThanath-selo.\n\n16:7. And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it\ncometh to Jericho, and goeth out to the Jordan.\n\n16:8. From Taphua it passeth on towards the sea into the valley of\nreeds, and the goings out thereof are at the most salt sea. This is the\npossession of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.\n\n16:9. And there were cities with their villages separated for the\nchildren of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of\nManasses.\n\n16:10. And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt\nin Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this\nday, paying tribute.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 17\n\nThe lot of the half tribe of Manasses.\n\n17:1. And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he is the\nfirstborn of Joseph to Machir the firstborn of Manasses the father of\nGalaad, who was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan.\n\n17:2. And to the rest of the children of Manasses according to their\nfamilies: to the children of Abiezer, and to the children of Helec, and\nto the children of Esriel, and to the children of Sechem, and to the\nchildren of Hepher, and to the children of Semida: these are the male\nchildren of Manasses the son of Joseph, by their kindreds.\n\n17:3. But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of Galaad the son of\nMachir the son of Manasses had no sons, but only daughters: whose names\nare these, Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa.\n\n17:4. And they came in the presence of Eleazar the priest and of Josue\nthe son of Nun, and of the princes, saying: The Lord commanded by the\nhand of Moses, that a possession should be given us in the midst of our\nbrethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of the Lord a\npossession amongst the brethren of their father.\n\n17:5. And there fell ten portions to Manasses, beside the land of\nGalaad and Basan beyond the Jordan.\n\n17:6. For the daughters of Manasses possessed inheritance in the midst\nof his sons. And the land of Galaad fell to the lot of the rest of the\nchildren of Manasses.\n\n17:7. And the border of Manasses was from Aser, Machmethath which\nlooketh towards Sichem: and it goeth out on the right hand by the\ninhabitants of the fountain of Taphua.\n\n17:8. For the lot of Manasses took in the land of Taphua, which is on\nthe borders of Manasses, and belongs to the children of Ephraim.\n\n17:9. And the border goeth down to the valley of the reeds, to the\nsouth of the torrent of the cities of Ephraim, which are in the midst\nof the cities of Manasses: the border of Manasses is on the north side\nof the torrent, and the outgoings of it are at the sea:\n\n17:10. So that the possession of Ephraim is on the south, and on the\nnorth that of Manasses, and the sea is the border of both, and they are\njoined together in the tribe of Aser on the north, and in the tribe of\nIssachar on the east.\n\n17:11. And the inheritance of Manasses in Issachar and in Aser, was\nBethsan and its villages, and Jeblaam with its villages, and the\ninhabitants of Dor, with the towns thereof: the inhabitants also of\nEndor with the villages thereof: and in like manner the inhabitants of\nThenac with the villages thereof: and the inhabitants of Mageddo with\ntheir villages, and the third part of the city of Nopheth.\n\n17:12. Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities,\nbut the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.\n\n17:13. But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they\nsubdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did\nnot kill them.\n\n17:14. And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast\nthou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of\nso great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?\n\n17:15. And Josue said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into\nthe woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the\nPherezite and the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is\ntoo narrow for thee.\n\n17:16. And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the\nmountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are\nsituate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley,\nhave chariots of iron.\n\n17:17. And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses:\nThou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one\nlot only:\n\n17:18. But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the\nwood, and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther,\nwhen thou hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron\nchariots, and are very strong.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 18\n\nSurveyors are sent to divide the rest of the land into seven tribes.\nThe lot of Benjamin.\n\n18:1. And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and\nthere they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was\nsubdued before them.\n\n18:2. But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which\nas yet had not received their possessions.\n\n18:3. And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and\ngo not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers\nhath given you?\n\n18:4. Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they\nmay go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of\neach multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.\n\n18:5. Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in\nhis bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.\n\n18:6. The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts;\nand you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before\nthe Lord your God.\n\nThe land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven\nparts.... That is to say, the rest of the land, which is not already\nassigned to Juda or Joseph.\n\n18:7. For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the\nLord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of\nManasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan\neastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.\n\n18:8. And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue\ncommanded them saying: Go round the land and mark it out, and return to\nme: that I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Silo.\n\n18:9. So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts,\nwriting them down in a book. And they returned to Josue, to the camp in\nSilo.\n\n18:10. And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land\nto the children of Israel into seven parts.\n\n18:11. And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their\nfamilies, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the\nchildren of Joseph.\n\n18:12. And their border northward was from the Jordan: going along by\nthe side of Jericho on the north side, and thence going up westward to\nthe mountains, and reaching to the wilderness of Bethaven,\n\n18:13. And passing along southward by Luza, the same is Bethel, and it\ngoeth down into Ataroth-addar to the mountain, that is on the south of\nthe nether Beth-horon.\n\n18:14. And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the\nmountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the south-west: and the\noutgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is called also\nCariathiarim, a city of the children of Juda This is their coast\ntowards the sea, westward.\n\n18:15. But on the south side the border goeth out from part of\nCariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters\nof Nephtoa.\n\n18:16. And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that looketh on\nthe valley of the children of Ennom: and is over against the north\nquarter in the furthermost part of the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth\ndown into Geennom (that is the valley of Ennom) by the side of the\nJebusite to the south: and cometh to the fountain of Rogel,\n\n18:17. Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes, that is\nto say, the fountain of the sun:\n\n18:18. And it passeth along to the hills that are over against the\nascent of Adommim: and it goeth down to Abenboen, that is, the stone of\nBoen the son of Ruben: and it passeth on the north side to the\nchampaign countries; and goeth down into the plain,\n\n18:19. And it passeth by Bethhagla northward: and the outgoings thereof\nare towards the north of the most salt sea at the south end of the\nJordan.\n\n18:20. Which is the border of it on the east side. This is the\npossession of the children of Benjamin by their borders round about,\nand their families.\n\n18:21. And their cities were, Jericho and Bethhagla and Vale-Casis,\n\n18:22. Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,\n\n18:23. And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,\n\n18:24. The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their\nvillages.\n\n18:25. Gabam and Rama and Beroth,\n\n18:26. And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,\n\n18:27. And Recem, Jarephel, and Tharela,\n\n18:28. And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and\nCariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This is the possession of\nthe children of Benjamin by their families.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 19\n\nThe lots of the tribes of Simeon, Zabulon, Issachar, Aser, Nephtali and\nDan. A city is given to Josue.\n\n19:1. And the second lot came forth for the children of Simeon by their\nkindreds: and their inheritance was\n\n19:2. In the midst of the possession of the children of Juda: Bersabee\nand Sabee and Molada,\n\n19:3. And Hasersual, Bala and Asem,\n\n19:4. And Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,\n\n19:5. And Siceleg and Bethmarchaboth and Hasersusa,\n\n19:6. And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their villages.\n\n19:7. And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their villages.\n\n19:8. And all the villages round about these cities to Baalath Beer\nRamath to the south quarter. This is the inheritance of the children of\nSimeon according to their kindreds,\n\n19:9. In the possession and lot of the children of Juda: because it was\ntoo great, and therefore the children of Simeon had their possession in\nthe midst of their inheritance.\n\n19:10. And the third lot fell to the children of Zabulon by their\nkindreds: and the border of their possession was unto Sarid.\n\n19:11. And it went up from the sea and from Merala, and came to\nDebbaseth: as far as the torrent, which is over against Jeconam.\n\n19:12. And it returneth from Sarid eastward to the borders of\nCeseleththabor: and it goeth out to Dabereth and ascendeth towards\nJaphie.\n\n19:13. And it passeth along from thence to the east side of Gethhepher\nand Thacasin: and goeth out to Remmon, Amthar and Noa.\n\n19:14. And it turneth about to the north of Hanathon: and the outgoings\nthereof are the valley of Jephtahel,\n\n19:15. And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem:\ntwelve cities and their villages.\n\n19:16. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Zabulon\nby their kindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:17. The fourth lot came out to Issachar by their kindreds.\n\n19:18. And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,\n\n19:19. And Hapharaim and Seon and Anaharath,\n\n19:20. And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,\n\n19:21. And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda and Bethpheses.\n\n19:22. And the border thereof cometh to Thabor and Sehesima and\nBethsames: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the Jordan: sixteen\ncities, and their villages.\n\n19:23. This is the possession of the sons of Issachar by their\nkindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:24. And the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the children of Aser by\ntheir kindreds:\n\n19:25. And their border was Halcath and Chali and Beten and Axaph,\n\n19:26. And Elmelech and Amaad and Messal: and it reacheth to Carmel by\nthe sea and Sihor and Labanath,\n\n19:27. And it returneth towards the east to Bethdagon: and passeth\nalong to Zabulon and to the valley of Jephthael towards the north to\nBethemec and Nehiel. And it goeth out to the left side of Cabul,\n\n19:28. And to Abaran and Rohob and Hamon and Cana, as far as the great\nSidon.\n\n19:29. And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to\nHosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of\nAchziba:\n\n19:30. And Amma and Aphec and Rohob: twenty-two cities, and their\nvillages.\n\n19:31. This is the possession of the children of Aser by their\nkindreds, and the cities and their villages.\n\n19:32. The sixth lot came out to the sons of Nephtali by their\nfamilies:\n\n19:33. And the border began from Heleph and Elon to Saananim, and\nAdami, which is Neceb, and Jebnael even to Lecum: and their outgoings\nunto the Jordan:\n\n19:34. And the border returneth westward to Azanotthabor, and goeth out\nfrom thence to Hucuca, and passeth along to Zabulon southward, and to\nAser westward, and to Juda upon the Jordan towards the rising of the\nsun.\n\n19:35. And the strong cities are Assedim, Ser, and Emath, and Reccath\nand Cenereth,\n\n19:36. And Edema and Arama, Asor,\n\n19:37. And Cedes and Edri, Enhasor,\n\n19:38. And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem, and Bethanath and Bethsames:\nnineteen cities, and their villages.\n\n19:39. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Nephtali\nby their kindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:40. The seventh lot came out to the tribe of the children of Dan by\ntheir families:\n\n19:41. And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and\nHirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,\n\n19:42. Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,\n\n19:43. Elon and Themna and Acron,\n\n19:44. Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,\n\n19:45. And Juda and Bane and Barach and Gethremmon:\n\n19:46. And Mejarcon and Arecon, with the border that looketh towards\nJoppe,\n\n19:47. And is terminated there. And the children of Dan went up and\nfought against Lesem, and took it: and they put it to the sword, and\npossessed it, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem Dan, by the\nname of Dan their father.\n\n19:48. This is the possession of the tribe of the sons of Dan, by their\nkindreds, the cities and their villages.\n\n19:49. And when he had made an end of dividing the land by lot to each\none by their tribes, the children of Israel gave a possession to Josue\nthe son of Nun in the midst of them,\n\n19:50. According to the commandment of the Lord, the city which he\nasked for, Thamnath Saraa, in mount Ephraim: and he built up the city,\nand dwelt in it.\n\n19:51. These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest, and Josue\nthe son of Nun, and the princes of the families, and of the tribes of\nthe children of Israel, distributed by lot in Silo, before the Lord at\nthe door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they divided the land.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 20\n\nThe cities of refuge are appointed for casual manslaughter.\n\n20:1. And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to the children of\nIsrael and say to them:\n\n20:2. Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of\nMoses:\n\n20:3. That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and\nmay escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.\n\n20:4. And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand\nbefore the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that\ncity, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him,\nand give him a place to dwell in.\n\n20:5. And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not\ndeliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and\nis not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before,\n\n20:6. And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to\ngive an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who\nshall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his\nown city and house from whence he fled.\n\n20:7. And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of mount Nephtali, and Sichem\nin mount Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the mountain\nof Juda.\n\n20:8. And beyond the Jordan to the east of Jericho, they appointed\nBosor, which is upon the plain of the wilderness of the tribe of Ruben,\nand Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basan of the\ntribe of Manasses.\n\n20:9. These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and\nfor the strangers, that dwelt among them, that whosoever had killed a\nperson unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the\nkinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should\nstand before the people to lay open his cause.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 21\n\nCities with their suburbs are assigned for the priests and Levites.\n\n21:1. Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the\npriest, and to Josue the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds\nof all the tribes of the children of Israel.\n\n21:2. And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said:\nThe Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us\nto dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.\n\n21:3. And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions\naccording to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.\n\n21:4. And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of\nAaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of\nBenjamin, thirteen cities.\n\n21:5. And to the rest of the children of Caath, that is, to the\nLevites, who remained, out of the tribes of Ephraim, and of Dan, and\nthe half tribe of Manasses, ten cities.\n\n21:6. And the lot came out to the children of Gerson, that they should\ntake of the tribes of Issachar and of Aser and of Nephtali, and of the\nhalf tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.\n\n21:7. And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribes of\nRuben and of Gad and of Zabulon, twelve cities.\n\n21:8. And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and\ntheir suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, giving to\nevery one by lot.\n\n21:9. Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Josue gave\ncities: whose names are these,\n\n21:10. To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of\nLevi (for the first lot came out for them)\n\n21:11. The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in\nthe mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.\n\n21:12. But the fields and the villages thereof he had given to Caleb\nthe son of Jephone for his possession.\n\n21:13. He gave therefore to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron a\ncity of refuge, and the suburbs thereof, and Lebna with the suburbs\nthereof,\n\n21:14. And Jether and Estemo,\n\n21:15. And Holon, and Dabir,\n\n21:16. And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine\ncities out of the two tribes, as hath been said.\n\n21:17. And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and\nGabae,\n\n21:18. And Anathoth and Almon, with, their suburbs: four cities.\n\n21:19. All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest,\nwere thirteen, with their suburbs,\n\n21:20. And to the rest of the families of the children of Caath of the\nrace of Levi was given this possession.\n\n21:21. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of the cities of refuge,\nwith the suburbs thereof in mount Ephraim, and Gazer,\n\n21:22. And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:23. And of he tribe of Dan, Eltheco and Gabathon,\n\n21:24. And Aialon and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:25. And of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac and Gethremmon, with\ntheir suburbs, two cities.\n\n21:26. All the cities were ten, with their suburbs, which were given to\nthe children of Caath, of the inferior degree.\n\n21:27. To the children of Gerson also of the race of Levi out of the\nhalf tribe of Manasses, Gaulon in Basan, one of the cities of refuge,\nand Bosra, with their suburbs, two cities.\n\n21:28. And of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion, and Dabereth,\n\n21:29. And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:30. And of the tribe of Aser, Masal and Abdon,\n\n21:31. And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.\n\n21:32. Of the tribe also of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee, one of the\ncities of refuge: and Hammoth Dor, and Carthan, with their suburbs,\nthree cities.\n\n21:33. All the cities of the families of Gerson, were thirteen, with\ntheir suburbs.\n\n21:34. And to the children of Merari, Levites of the inferior degree,\nby their families were given of the tribe of Zabulon, Jecnam and\nCartha,\n\n21:35. And Damna and Naalol, four cities with their suburbs.\n\n21:36. Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the Jordan over against Jericho,\nBosor in the wilderness, one of the cities of refuge, Misor and Jaser\nand Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.\n\nFour cities.... There are no more, though there be five names: for\nMisor is the same city as Bosor, which is to be observed in some other\nplaces, where the number of names exceeds the number of cities.\n\n21:37. Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad, one of the cities of\nrefuge, and Manaim and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities with their\nsuburbs,\n\n21:38. All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and\nkindreds, were twelve.\n\n21:39. So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the\nchildren of Israel were forty-eight,\n\n21:40. With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.\n\n21:41. And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn\nto give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.\n\n21:42. And he gave them peace from all nations round about: and none of\ntheir enemies durst stand against them, but were brought under their\ndominion.\n\n21:43. Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto\nthem, was made void, but all came to pass.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 22\n\nThe tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses return to\ntheir possessions. They build an altar by the side of the Jordan, which\nalarms the other tribes. An embassage is sent to them, to which they\ngive a satisfactory answer.\n\n22:1. At the same time Josue called the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and\nthe half tribe of Manasses,\n\n22:2. And said to them: You have done all that Moses the servant of the\nLord commanded you: you have also obeyed me in all things,\n\n22:3. Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this\npresent day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.\n\n22:4. Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and\npeace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the\nland of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you\nbeyond the Jordan:\n\n22:5. Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the\ncommandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded\nyou: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and\nkeep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all\nyour heart, and with all your soul.\n\n22:6. And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to\ntheir dwellings.\n\n22:7. Now to half the tribe of Manasses, Moses had given a possession\nin Basan: and therefore to the half that remained, Josue gave a lot\namong the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to the west. And\nwhen he sent them away to their dwellings and had blessed them,\n\n22:8. He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to\nyour settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of\nraiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.\n\n22:9. So the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half\ntribe of Manasses returned, and parted from the children of Israel in\nSilo, which is in Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land of their\npossession, which they had obtained according to the commandment of the\nLord by the hand of Moses.\n\n22:10. And when they were come to the banks of the Jordan, in the land\nof Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.\n\n22:11. And when the children of Israel had heard of it, and certain\nmessengers brought them an account that the children of Ruben, and of\nGad, and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar in the land of\nChanaan, upon the banks of the Jordan, over against the children of\nIsrael:\n\n22:12. They all assembled in Silo, to go up and fight against them.\n\n22:13. And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad,\nPhinees the son of Eleazar the priest,\n\n22:14. And ten princes with him, one of every tribe.\n\n22:15. Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half\ntribe of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, and said to them:\n\n22:16. Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this\ntransgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel,\nbuilding a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?\n\n22:17. Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and\nthe stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the\npeople perished.\n\n22:18. And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath\nwill rage against all Israel.\n\n22:19. But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass\nover to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among\nus: only depart not from the Lord, and from our society, by building an\naltar beside the altar of the Lord our God.\n\n22:20. Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the\nLord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but\none man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.\n\n22:21. And the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of\nManasses answered the princes of the embassage of Israel:\n\n22:22. The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he\nknoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of\ntransgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but\npunish us immediately:\n\n22:23. And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it\nholocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him\nrequire and judge:\n\n22:24. And not rather with this thought and design, that we should say:\nTo morrow your children will say to our children: What have you to do\nwith the Lord the God of Israel?\n\n22:25. The Lord hath put the river Jordan for a border between us and\nyou, O ye children of Ruben, and ye children of Gad: and therefore you\nhave no part in the Lord. And by this occasion your children shall turn\naway our children from the fear of the Lord. We therefore thought it\nbest,\n\n22:26. And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to\noffer victims,\n\n22:27. But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and\nyours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to\noffer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings:\nand that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have\nno part in the Lord.\n\n22:28. And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the\naltar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for\nsacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.\n\n22:29. God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from\nthe Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to\noffer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the\nLord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.\n\n22:30. And when Phinees the priest, and the princes of the embassage,\nwho were with him, had heard this, they were satisfied: and they\nadmitted most willingly the words of the children of Ruben, and Gad,\nand of the half tribe of Manasses,\n\n22:31. And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we\nknow that the Lord is with us, because you are not guilty of this\nrevolt, and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of\nthe Lord.\n\n22:32. And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and\nGad, out of the land of Galaad, into the land of Chanaan, to the\nchildren of Israel, and brought them word again.\n\n22:33. And the saying pleased all that heard it. And the children of\nIsrael praised God, and they no longer said that they would go up\nagainst them, and fight, and destroy the land of their possession.\n\n22:34. And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad called the\naltar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 23\n\nJosue being old admonisheth the people to keep God\u2019s commandments: and\nto avoid marriages and all society with the Gentiles for fear of being\nbrought to idolatry.\n\n23:1. And when a long time was passed, after that the Lord had given\npeace to Israel, all the nations round about being subdued, and Josue\nbeing now old, and far advanced in years:\n\n23:2. Josue called for all Israel, and for the elders, and for the\nprinces, and for the judges, and for the masters, and said to them: I\nam old, and far advanced in years,\n\n23:3. And you see all that the Lord your God hath done to all the\nnations round about, how he himself hath fought for you:\n\n23:4. And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from\nthe east of the Jordan unto the great sea, and many nations yet remain:\n\n23:5. The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from\nbefore your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised\nyou.\n\n23:6. Only take courage, and be careful to observe all things that are\nwritten in the book of the law of Moses: and turn not aside from them\nneither to the right hand nor to the left:\n\n23:7. Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will\nremain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve\nthem, and adore them:\n\n23:8. But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this\nday.\n\n23:9. And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations\nthat are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.\n\n23:10. One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because\nthe Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.\n\n23:11. This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the\nLord your God.\n\n23:12. But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell\namong you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:\n\n23:13. Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy\nthem before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way,\nand a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he\ntake you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he\nhath given you.\n\n23:14. Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth, and\nyou shall know with all your mind that of all the words which the Lord\npromised to perform for you, not one hath failed,\n\n23:15. Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and\nall things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the\nevils he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from\noff this excellent land, which he hath given you,\n\n23:16. When you shall have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your\nGod, which he hath made with you, and shall have served strange gods,\nand adored them: then shall the indignation of the Lord rise up quickly\nand speedily against you, and you shall be taken away from this\nexcellent land, which he hath delivered to you.\n\n\nJosue Chapter 24\n\nJosue assembleth the people, and reneweth the covenant between them and\nGod. His death and burial.\n\n24:1. And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem,\nand called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the\nmasters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord:\n\n24:2. And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of\nIsrael: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare\nthe father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.\n\nOf the river.... The Euphrates.\n\n24:3. And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia:\nand brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,\n\n24:4. And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I\ngave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children\nwent down into Egypt.\n\n24:5. And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with many signs\nand wonders.\n\n24:6. And I brought you and your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to\nthe sea: and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and\nhorsemen, as far as the Red Sea.\n\n24:7. And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he put darkness\nbetween you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and\ncovered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in\nthe wilderness a long time.\n\n24:8. And I brought you into the land of the Amorrhite, who dwelt\nbeyond the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them\ninto your hands, and you possessed their land, and slew them.\n\n24:9. And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose and fought against\nIsrael. And he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:\n\n24:10. And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by\nhim, and I delivered you out of his hand.\n\n24:11. And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the\nmen of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite,\nand the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite,\nand the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.\n\n24:12. And I sent before you hornets: and I drove them out from their\nplaces, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with\nthy bow,\n\n24:13. And I gave you a land, in which you had not laboured, and cities\nto dwell in which you built not, vineyards and oliveyards, which you\nplanted not.\n\n24:14. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and\nmost sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in\nMesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.\n\n24:15. But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your\nchoice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather\nserve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or\nthe gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and\nmy house we will serve the Lord,\n\n24:16. And the people answered, and said, God forbid we should leave\nthe Lord, and serve strange gods.\n\n24:17. The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land\nof Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our\nsight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among\nall the people through whom we passed.\n\n24:18. And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the\ninhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve\nthe Lord, for he is our God.\n\n24:19. And Josue said to the people: You will not be able to serve the\nLord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not\nforgive your wickedness and sins.\n\nYou will not be able to serve the Lord, etc.... This was not said by\nway of discouraging them; but rather to make them more earnest and\nresolute, by setting before them the greatness of the undertaking, and\nthe courage and constancy necessary to go through with it.\n\n24:20. If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and\nwill afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done\nyou.\n\n24:21. And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so as thou\nsayest, but we will serve the Lord.\n\n24:22. And Josue said to the people, You are witnesses, that you\nyourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We\nare witnesses.\n\n24:23. Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you,\nand incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n24:24. And the people said to Josue: We will serve the Lord our God,\nand we will be obedient to his commandments.\n\n24:25. Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the\npeople commandments and judgments in Sichem.\n\n24:26. And he wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the\nLord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was in\nthe sanctuary of the Lord.\n\n24:27. And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a\ntestimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which\nhe hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie\nto the Lord your God.\n\nIt hath heard.... This is a figure of speech, by which sensation is\nattributed to inanimate things; and they are called upon, as it were,\nto bear witness in favour of the great Creator, whom they on their part\nconstantly obey.\n\n24:28. And he sent the people away every one to their own possession,\n\n24:29. And after these things Josue the son of Nun the servant of the\nLord died, being a hundred and ten years old:\n\nAnd after, etc.... If Josue wrote this book, as is commonly believed,\nthese last verses were added by Samuel, or some other prophet.\n\n24:30. And they buried him in the border of his possession in\nThamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of\nmount Gaas.\n\n24:31. And Israel served the Lord all the days of Josue, and of the\nancients that lived a long time after Josue, and that had known all the\nworks of the Lord which he had done in Israel.\n\n24:32. And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel had taken\nout of Egypt, they buried in Sichem, in that part of the field which\nJacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a\nhundred young ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph.\n\n24:33. Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried him in\nGabaath that belongeth to Phinees his son, which was given him in mount\nEphraim.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JUDGES\n\n\nThis Book is called JUDGES, because it contains the history of what\npassed under the government of the judges, who ruled Israel before they\nhad kings. The writer of it, according to the more general opinion, was\nthe prophet Samuel.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 1\n\nThe expedition and victory of Juda against the Chanaanites: who are\ntolerated in many places.\n\n1:1. After the death of Josue, the children of Israel consulted the\nLord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and\nshall be the leader of the war?\n\n1:2. And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the\nland into his hands.\n\n1:3. And Juda said to Simeon, his brother: Come up with me into my lot,\nand fight against the Chanaanite, that I also may go along with thee\ninto thy lot. And Simeon went with him.\n\n1:4. And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the\nPherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousand\nmen.\n\n1:5. And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and\nthey defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.\n\n1:6. And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, and\ncut off his fingers and toes.\n\n1:7. And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes\ncut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have\ndone, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and\nhe died there.\n\n1:8. And the children of Juda besieging Jerusalem, took it, and put it\nto the sword, and set the whole city on fire.\n\nJerusalem.... This city was divided into two; one part was called\nJebus, the other Salem: the one was in the tribe of Juda, the other in\nthe tribe of Benjamin. After it was taken and burnt by the men of Juda,\nit was quickly rebuilt again by the Jebusites, as we may gather from\nver. 21; and continued in their possession till it was taken by king\nDavid.\n\n1:9. And afterwards they went down and fought against the Chanaanite,\nwho dwelt in the mountains, and in the south, and in the plains.\n\n1:10. And Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that dwelt in\nHebron, (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai,\nand Ahiman, and Tholmai:\n\nHebron.... This expedition against Hebron, etc. is the same as is\nrelated, Jos. 15.24. It is here repeated, to give the reader at once a\nshort sketch of all the achievements of the tribe of Juda against the\nChanaanites.\n\n1:11. And departing from thence, he went to the inhabitants of Dabir,\nthe ancient name of which was Cariath-Sepher, that is, the city of\nletters.\n\nThe city of letters.... Perhaps so called from some famous school, or\nlibrary, kept there.\n\n1:12. And Caleb said: He that shall take Cariath-Sepher, and lay it\nwaste, to him will I give my daughter Axa to wife.\n\n1:13. And Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb,\nhaving taken it, he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.\n\n1:14. And as she was going on her way, her husband admonished her to\nask a field of her father. And as she sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb\nsaid to her: What aileth thee?\n\n1:15. But she answered: Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a\ndry land: give me also a watery land So Caleb gave her the upper and\nthe nether watery ground.\n\n1:16. And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman of Moses, went up\nfrom the city of palms, with the children of Juda, into the wilderness\nof his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they dwelt with\nhim.\n\nThe Cinite.... Jethro the father in law of Moses was called Cinoeus, or\nthe Cinite; and his children who came along with the children of Israel\nsettled themselves among them in the land of Chanaan, embracing their\nworship and religion. From these the Rechabites sprung, of whom see\nJer. 35.\u2014Ibid. The city of palms.... Jericho, so called from the\nabundance of palm trees.\n\n1:17. And Juda went with Simeon, his brother, and they together\ndefeated the Chanaanites that dwelt in Sephaath, and slew them. And the\nname of the city was called Horma, that is, Anathema.\n\n1:18. And Juda took Gaza, with its confines, and Ascalon, and Accaron,\nwith their confines.\n\nGaza, etc.... These were three of the principal cities of the\nPhilistines, famous both in sacred and profane history. They were taken\nat this time by the Israelites: but as they took no care to put\ngarrisons in them, the Philistines soon recovered them.\n\n1:19. And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the hill country:\nbut was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they\nhad many chariots armed with scythes.\n\nWas not able, etc.... Through a cowardly fear of their chariots armed\nwith hooks and scythes, and for want of confidence in God.\n\n1:20. And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, who destroyed\nout of it the three sons of Enac.\n\n1:21. But the sons of Benjamin did not destroy the Jebusites that\ninhabited Jerusalem: and the Jebusite hath dwelt with the sons of\nBenjamin in Jerusalem until this present day.\n\n1:22. The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was\nwith them.\n\n1:23. For when they were besieging the city, which before was called\nLuza,\n\n1:24. They saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him: Shew\nus the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.\n\n1:25. And when he had shewed them, they smote the city with the edge of\nthe sword: but that man, and all his kindred, they let go:\n\n1:26. Who being sent away, went into the land of Hetthim, and built\nthere a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.\n\n1:27. Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their\nvillages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with\ntheir villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.\n\n1:28. But after Israel was grown strong, he made them tributaries, and\nwould not destroy them.\n\n1:29. Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite that dwelt in Gazer, but\ndwelt with him.\n\n1:30. Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but\nthe Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributary.\n\n1:31. Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho, and of Sidon,\nof Ahalab, and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of Rohob:\n\n1:32. And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of\nthat land, and did not slay them.\n\n1:33. Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of\nBethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the\ninhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were\ntributaries to him.\n\n1:34. And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain,\nand gave them not a place to go down to the plain:\n\n1:35. And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that is, of potsherds, in\nAialon and Salebim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon\nhim, and he became tributary to him.\n\nHe dwelt.... That is, the Amorrhite.\n\n1:36. And the border of the Amorrhite was from the ascent of the\nscorpion, the rock, and the higher places.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 2\n\nAn angel reproveth Israel. They weep for their sins. After the death of\nJosue, they often fall, and repenting are delivered from their\nafflictions, but still fall worse and worse.\n\n2:1. And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of\nweepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you\ninto the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I\nwould not make void my covenant with you for ever:\n\nAn angel.... Taking the shape of a man.\n\n2:2. On condition that you should not make a league with the\ninhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you\nwould not hear my voice: why have you done this?\n\n2:3. Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you\nmay have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.\n\n2:4. And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the\nchildren of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.\n\n2:5. And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of\ntears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.\n\n2:6. And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went\nevery one to his own possession to hold it:\n\nAnd Josue, etc.... This is here inserted out of Jos. 24, by way of\nrecapitulation of what had happened before, and by way of an\nintroduction to that which follows.\n\n2:7. And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the\nancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works\nof the Lord, which he had done for Israel.\n\n2:8. And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a\nhundred and ten years old;\n\n2:9. And they buried him in the borders of his possession in\nThamnathsare, in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaas.\n\n2:10. And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there\narose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for\nIsrael.\n\n2:11. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and\nthey served Baalim,\n\n2:12. And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought\nthem out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the\ngods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them:\nand they provoked the Lord to anger,\n\nThey followed strange gods.... What is here said of the children of\nIsrael, as to their falling so often into idolatry, is to be understood\nof a great part of them; but not so universally, as if the true worship\nof God was ever quite abolished among them: for the succession of the\ntrue church and religion was kept up all this time by the priests and\nLevites, at least in the house of God in Silo.\n\n2:13. Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth\n\n2:14. And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the\nhands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that\ndwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:\n\n2:15. But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon\nthem, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were\ngreatly distressed.\n\n2:16. And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from the hands of\nthose that oppressed them: but they would not hearken to them,\n\n2:17. Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring them. They\nquickly forsook the way, in which their fathers had walked: and hearing\nthe commandments of the Lord, they did all things contrary.\n\n2:18. And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days, he was\nmoved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered\nthem from the slaughter of the oppressors.\n\n2:19. But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse\nthings than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving\nthem, and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the\nstubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.\n\n2:20. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he\nsaid: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant, which I had made\nwith their fathers, and hath despised to hearken to my voice:\n\n2:21. I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he\ndied:\n\n2:22. That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the\nway of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.\n\n2:23. The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would not quickly\ndestroy them, neither did he deliver them into the hands of Josue.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 3\n\nThe people falling into idolatry are oppressed by their enemies; but\nrepenting are delivered by Othoniel, Aod, and Samgar.\n\n3:1. These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might\ninstruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the\nChanaanites:\n\n3:2. That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their\nenemies, and to be trained up to war:\n\n3:3. The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and\nthe Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount\nBaal Hermon to the entering into Emath.\n\n3:4. And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they\nwould hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their\nfathers, by the hand of Moses, or not.\n\n3:5. So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite,\nand the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite,\nand the Jebusite:\n\n3:6. And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own\ndaughters to their sons, and they served their gods.\n\n3:7. And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their\nGod, and served Baalim and Astaroth.\n\n3:8. And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the\nhands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him\neight years.\n\nMesopotamia.... In Hebrew Aramnaharim. Syria of the two rivers: so\ncalled because it lies between the Euphrates and the Tigris. It is\nabsolutely called Syria, ver. 10.\n\n3:9. And they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, and\ndelivered them; to wit, Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother\nof Caleb:\n\n3:10. And the spirit of the Lord was in him, and he judged Israel. And\nhe went out to fight, and the Lord delivered into his hands Chusan\nRasathaim, king of Syria, and he overthrew him:\n\n3:11. And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel, the son of Cenez,\ndied.\n\n3:12. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the\nLord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they\ndid evil in his sight.\n\n3:13. And he joined to him the children of Ammon, and Amalec: and he\nwent and overthrew Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.\n\n3:14. And the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, eighteen\nyears.\n\n3:15. And afterwards they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a\nsaviour, called Aod, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, who used the\nleft hand as well as the right. And the children of Israel sent\npresents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.\n\n3:16. And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst\nof the length of the palm of the hand, and was girded therewith, under\nhis garment, on the right thigh.\n\n3:17. And he presented the gifts to Eglon, king of Moab Now Eglon was\nexceeding fat.\n\n3:18. And when he had presented the gifts unto him he followed his\ncompanions that came along with him.\n\n3:19. Then returning from Galgal, where the idols were, he said to the\nking: I have a secret message to thee, O king. And he commanded\nsilence: and all being gone out that were about him,\n\n3:20. Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone,\nand he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up\nfrom his throne.\n\nA word from God, etc.... What Aod, who was judge and chief magistrate\nof Israel, did on this occasion, was by a special inspiration of God:\nbut such things are not to be imitated by private men.\n\n3:21. And Aod put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his\nright thigh, and thrust it into his belly,\n\n3:22. With such force that the haft went in after the blade into the\nwound, and was closed up with the abundance of fat. So that he did not\ndraw out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had struck it in:\nand forthwith, by the secret parts of nature, the excrements of the\nbelly came out.\n\n3:23. And Aod carefully shutting the doors of the parlour, and locking\nthem,\n\n3:24. Went out by a postern door. And the king\u2019s servants going in, saw\nthe doors of the parlour shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing\nnature in his summer parlour.\n\n3:25. And waiting a long time, till they were ashamed, and seeing that\nno man opened the door, they took a key: and opening, they found their\nlord lying dead on the ground.\n\n3:26. But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the\nplace of the idols from whence he had returned. And he came to Seirath:\n\n3:27. And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in Mount Ephraim: and the\nchildren of Israel went down with him, he himself going in the front.\n\n3:28. And he said to them: Follow me: for the Lord hath delivered our\nenemies, the Moabites, into our hands. And they went down after him,\nand seized upon the fords of the Jordan, which are in the way to Moab:\nand they suffered no man to pass over:\n\n3:29. But they slew of the Moabites at that time, about ten thousand,\nall strong and valiant men: none of them could escape.\n\n3:30. And Moab was humbled that day under the hand of Israel: and the\nland rested eighty years.\n\n3:31. After him was Samgar, the son of Anath, who slew of the\nPhilistines six hundred men with a ploughshare: and he also defended\nIsrael.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 4\n\nDebbora and Barac deliver Israel from Jabin and Sisara, Jahal killeth\nSisara.\n\n4:1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord\nafter the death of Aod:\n\n4:2. And the Lord delivered them up into the hands of Jabin, king of\nChanaan, who reigned in Asor: and he had a general of his army named\nSisara, and he dwelt in Haroseth of the Gentiles.\n\n4:3. And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine\nhundred chariots set with scythes and for twenty years had grievously\noppressed them.\n\n4:4. And there was at that time Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of\nLapidoth, who judged the people.\n\n4:5. And she sat under a palm tree, which was called by her name,\nbetween Rama and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel\ncame up to her for all judgment.\n\n4:6. And she sent and called Barac, the Son of Abinoem, out of Cedes,\nin Nephthali: and she said to him: The Lord God of Israel hath\ncommanded thee: Go, and lead an army to Mount Thabor, and thou shalt\ntake with thee ten thousand fighting men of the children of Nephthali,\nand of the children of Zabulon:\n\n4:7. And I will bring unto thee in the place of the torrent Cison,\nSisara, the general of Jabin\u2019s army, and his chariots, and all his\nmultitude, and will deliver them into thy hand.\n\n4:8. And Barac said to her: If thou wilt come with me, I will go: if\nthou wilt not come with me, I will not go.\n\n4:9. She said to him: I will go, indeed, with thee, but at this time\nthe victory shall not be attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be\ndelivered into the hand of a woman. Debbora therefore arose, and went\nwith Barac to Cedes.\n\n4:10. And he called unto him Zabulon and Nephthali, and went up with\nten thousand fighting men, having Debbora in his company.\n\n4:11. Now Haber, the Cinite, had some time before departed from the\nrest of the Cinites, his brethren, the sons of Hobab, the kinsman of\nMoses: and had pitched his tents unto the valley, which is called\nSennim, and was near Cedes.\n\n4:12. And it was told Sisara, that Barac, the son of Abinoem, was gone\nup to Mount Thabor:\n\n4:13. And he gathered together his nine hundred chariots armed with\nscythes, and all his army, from Haroseth of the Gentiles, to the\ntorrent Cison.\n\n4:14. And Debbora said to Barac: Arise, for this is the day wherein the\nLord hath delivered Sisara into thy hands: behold, he is thy leader.\nAnd Barac went down from Mount Thabor, and ten thousand fighting men\nwith him.\n\n4:15. And the Lord struck a terror into Sisara, and all his chariots,\nand all his multitude, with the edge of the sword, at the sight of\nBarac; insomuch, that Sisara leaping down from off his chariot, fled\naway on foot,\n\n4:16. And Barac pursued after the fleeing chariots, and the army, unto\nHaroseth of the Gentiles; and all the multitude of the enemies was\nutterly destroyed.\n\n4:17. But Sisara fleeing, came to the tent of Jahel, the wife of Haber,\nthe Cinite, for there was peace between Jabin, the king of Asor, and\nthe house of Haber, the Cinite.\n\n4:18. And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, and said to him: Come in to\nme, my lord; come in, fear not. He went into her tent, and being\ncovered by her with a cloak,\n\n4:19. Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little water, for I am\nvery thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and\ncovered him.\n\n4:20. And Sisara said to her: Stand before the door of the tent, and\nwhen any shall come and inquire of thee, saying: Is there any man here?\nthou shalt say: There is none.\n\n4:21. So Jahel, Haber\u2019s wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also\na hammer: and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon\nthe temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it\nthrough his brain fast into the ground: and so passing from deep sleep\nto death, he fainted away and died.\n\n4:22. And behold, Barac came pursuing after Sisara: and Jahel went out\nto meet him, and said to him: Come, and I will shew thee the man whom\nthou seekest. And when he came into her tent, he saw Sisara lying dead,\nand the nail fastened in his temples.\n\n4:23. So God that day humbled Jabin, the king of Chanaan, before the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n4:24. Who grew daily stronger, and with a mighty hand overpowered\nJabin, king of Chanaan, till they quite destroyed him.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 5\n\nThe canticle of Debbora and Barac after their victory.\n\n5:1. In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said:\n\n5:2. O you of Israel, that have willingly offered your lives to danger,\nbless the Lord.\n\n5:3. Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes: It is I, it is I, that\nwill sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord, the God of Israel.\n\n5:4. O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and passedst by the regions\nof Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water.\n\n5:5. The mountains melted before the face of the Lord, and Sinai before\nthe face of the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n5:6. In the days of Samgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel, the\npaths rested: and they that went by them, walked through bye-ways.\n\nThe paths rested.... The ways to the sanctuary of God were\nunfrequented: and men walked in the by-ways of error and sin.\n\n5:7. The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel: until Debbora arose,\na mother arose in Israel.\n\n5:8. The Lord chose new wars, and he himself overthrew the gates of the\nenemies: a shield and spear was not seen among forty thousand of\nIsrael.\n\n5:9. My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own\ngood will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.\n\n5:10. Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in\njudgment, and walk in the way.\n\n5:11. Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the\nenemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed,\nand his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of\nthe Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty.\n\n5:12. Arise, arise, O Debbora, arise, arise, and utter a canticle.\nArise, Barac, and take hold of thy captives, O son of Abinoem.\n\n5:13. The remnants of the people are saved, the Lord hath fought among\nthe valiant ones.\n\n5:14. Out of Ephraim he destroyed them into Amalec, and after him out\nof Benjamin into thy people, O Amalec: Out of Machir there came down\nprinces, and out of Zabulon they that led the army to fight.\n\nOut of Ephraim, etc.... The enemies straggling in their flight were\ndestroyed, as they were running through the land of Ephraim, and of\nBenjamin, which lies after, that is beyond Ephraim: and so on to the\nvery confines of Amalec. Or, it alludes to former victories of the\npeople of God, particularly that which was freshest in memory, when the\nmen of Ephraim and Benjamin, with Aod at their head, overthrew their\nenemies the Moabites with the Amalecites their allies. See chap.\n3.\u2014Ibid. Machir.... The tribe of Manasses, whose eldest son was Machir.\n\n5:15. The captains of Issachar were with Debbora, and followed the\nsteps of Barac, who exposed himself to danger, as one going headlong,\nand into a pit. Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a\nstrife of courageous men.\n\nDivided against himself, etc.... By this it seems that the valient men\nof the tribe of Ruben were divided in their sentiments, with relation\nto this war; which division kept them at home within their own borders,\nto hear the bleating of their flocks.\n\n5:16. Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the\nbleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was\nfound a strife of courageous men.\n\n5:17. Galaad rested beyond the Jordan, and Dan applied himself to\nships: Aser dwelt on the sea shore, and abode in the havens.\n\n5:18. But Zabulon and Nephthali offered their lives to death in the\nregion of Merome.\n\n5:19. The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanac,\nby the waters of Mageddo and yet they took no spoils.\n\n5:20. There was war made against them from heaven: the stars, remaining\nin their order and courses, fought against Sisara.\n\n5:21. The torrent of Cison dragged their carcasses, the torrent of\nCadumim, the torrent of Cison: tread thou, my soul, upon the strong\nones.\n\n5:22. The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the\nenemies fled amain, and fell headlong down.\n\n5:23. Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the\ninhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to\nhelp his most valiant men.\n\nMeroz.... Where this land of Meroz was, which is here laid under a\ncurse, we cannot find: nor is there mention of it anywhere else in holy\nwrit. In the spiritual sense, they are cursed who refuse to assist the\npeople of God in their warfare against their spiritual enemies.\n\n5:24. Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife of Haber the Cinite, and\nblessed be she in her tent.\n\n5:25. He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter\nin a dish fit for princes.\n\n5:26. She put her left hand to the nail, and her right hand to the\nworkman\u2019s hammer, and she struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place\nfor the wound, and strongly piercing through his temples.\n\n5:27. Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he died: he rolled\nbefore her feet, and there he lay lifeless and wretched.\n\n5:28. His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from\nthe dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the\nfeet of his horses so slow?\n\n5:29. One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this\nanswer to her mother in law:\n\n5:30. Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the\nwomen is chosen out for him: garments of divers colours are given to\nSisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped\ntogether to adorn necks.\n\n5:31. So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love\nthee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising.\n\n5:32. And the land rested for forty years.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 6\n\nThe people for their sins, are oppressed by the Madianites. Gedeon is\ncalled to deliver them.\n\n6:1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the\nLord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years,\n\n6:2. And they were grievously oppressed by them. And they made\nthemselves dens and caves in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.\n\n6:3. And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the\neastern nations, came up:\n\n6:4. And pitching their tents among them, wasted all things as they\nwere in the blade, even to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing\nat all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen, nor\nasses.\n\n6:5. For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like\nlocusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of\ncamels, wasting whatsoever they touched.\n\n6:6. And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the sight of Madian.\n\n6:7. And he cried to the Lord, desiring help against the Madianites.\n\n6:8. And he sent unto them a prophet, and he spoke: Thus saith the\nLord, the God of Israel: I made you to come up out of Egypt, and\nbrought you out of the house of bondage,\n\n6:9. And delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians, and of all\nthe enemies that afflicted you: and I cast them out at your coming in,\nand gave you their land.\n\n6:10. And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear not the gods of the\nAmorrhites, in whose land you dwell. And you would not hear my voice.\n\n6:11. And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in\nEphra, and belonged to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And when\nGedeon, his son, was threshing and cleansing wheat by the winepress, to\nflee from Madian,\n\n6:12. The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with\nthee, O most valiant of men.\n\n6:13. And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be\nwith us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles,\nwhich our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of\nEgypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand\nof Madian.\n\n6:14. And the Lord looked upon him, and said: Go, in this thy strength,\nand thou shalt deliver Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I\nhave sent thee.\n\n6:15. He answered, and said: I beseech thee, my lord wherewith shall I\ndeliver Israel? Behold, my family is the meanest in Manasses, and I am\nthe least in my father\u2019s house.\n\nThe meanest in Manasses, etc.... Mark how the Lord chooseth the humble\n(who are mean and little in their own eyes) for the greatest\nenterprises.\n\n6:16. And the Lord said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut\noff Madian as one man.\n\n6:17. And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign\nthat it is thou that speakest to me:\n\n6:18. And depart not hence, till I return to thee, and bring a\nsacrifice, and offer it to thee. And he answered: I will wait thy\ncoming.\n\n6:19. So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves\nof a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth\nof the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to\nhim.\n\n6:20. And the angel of the Lord said to him: Take the flesh and the\nunleavened loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth\nthereon. And when he had done so,\n\n6:21. The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod, which he held\nin his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there\narose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened\nloaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight.\n\n6:22. And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of the Lord, said: Alas,\nmy Lord God: for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.\n\n6:23. And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear not, thou\nshalt not die.\n\n6:24. And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the\nLord\u2019s peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra,\nwhich is of the family of Ezri,\n\n6:25. That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father\u2019s,\nand another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of\nBaal, which is thy father\u2019s: and cut down the grove that is about the\naltar:\n\n6:26. And thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God, in the top of\nthis rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou\nshalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile\nof the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.\n\n6:27. Then Gedeon, taking ten men of his servants, did as the Lord had\ncommanded him. But fearing his father\u2019s house, and the men of that\ncity, he would not do it by day, but did all by night.\n\n6:28. And when the men of that town were risen in the morning, they saw\nthe altar of Baal destroyed, and the grove cut down, and the second\nbullock laid upon the altar, which then was built.\n\n6:29. And they said one to another: Who hath done this? And when they\ninquired for the author of the fact, it was said: Gedeon, the son of\nJoas, did all this.\n\n6:30. And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son hither, that he may die:\nbecause he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down his\ngrove.\n\n6:31. He answered them: Are you the avengers of Baal, that you fight\nfor him? he that is his adversary, let him die before to morrow light\nappear: if he be a god, let him revenge himself on him that hath cast\ndown his altar.\n\n6:32. From that day Gedeon was called Jerobaal, because Joas had said:\nLet Baal revenge himself on him that hath cast down his altar.\n\n6:33. Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the eastern people, were gathered\ntogether, and passing over the Jordan, camped in the valley of Jezrael.\n\n6:34. But the spirit of the Lord came upon Gedeon, and he sounded the\ntrumpet, and called together the house of Abiezer, to follow him.\n\n6:35. And he sent messengers into all Manasses, and they also followed\nhim: and other messengers into Aser and Zabulon, and Nephthali, and\nthey came to meet him.\n\n6:36. And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as\nthou hast said,\n\n6:37. I will put this fleece of wool on the floor: if there be dew on\nthe fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground beside, I shall know\nthat by my hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.\n\n6:38. And it was so. And rising before day, wringing the fleece, he\nfilled a vessel with the dew.\n\n6:39. And he said again to God: Let not thy wrath be kindled against\nme, if I try once more, seeking a sign in the fleece. I pray that the\nfleece only may be dry, and all the ground wet with dew.\n\n6:40. And God did that night as he had requested: and it was dry on the\nfleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 7\n\nGedeon, with three hundred men, by stratagem defeateth the Madianites.\n\n7:1. Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising up early, and all\nthe people with him, came to the fountain that is called Harad. Now the\ncamp of Madian was in the valley, on the north side of the high hill.\n\n7:2. And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are\nmany, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel\nshould glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.\n\nLest Israel, etc.... By this we see that God will not choose for his\ninstruments in great achievements, which depend purely on his grace,\nsuch as, through pride and self conceit, will take the glory to\nthemselves.\n\n7:3. Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all: Whosoever\nis fearful and timorous, let him return. So two and twenty thousand men\nwent away from Mount Galaad and returned home, and only ten thousand\nremained.\n\n7:4. And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring\nthem to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say\nto thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to\ngo, let him return.\n\n7:5. And when the people were come down to the waters, the Lord said to\nGedeon: They that shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs are\nwont to lap, thou shalt set apart by themselves: but they that shall\ndrink bowing down their knees, shall be on the other side.\n\n7:6. And the number of them that had lapped water; casting it with the\nhand to their mouth, was three hundred men: and all the rest of the\nmultitude had drunk kneeling.\n\n7:7. And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped\nwater, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all\nthe rest of the people return to their place.\n\nThat lapped water.... These were preferred that took the water up in\ntheir hands, and so lapped it, before them who laid themselves quite\ndown to the waters to drink: which argued a more eager and sensual\ndisposition.\n\n7:8. So taking victuals and trumpets according to their number, he\nordered all the rest of the multitude to depart to their tents: and he\nwith the three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now the camp of\nMadia was beneath him in the valley.\n\n7:9. The same night the Lord said to him: Arise, and go down into the\ncamp: because I have delivered them into thy hand.\n\n7:10. But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara, thy servant, go\ndown with thee.\n\n7:11. And when thou shalt hear what they are saying, then shall thy\nhands be strengthened, and thou shalt go down more secure to the\nenemies\u2019 camp. And he went down with Phara his servant, into part of\nthe camp, where was the watch of men in arms.\n\n7:12. But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered\nin the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were\ninnumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.\n\n7:13. And when Gedeon was come, one told his neighbour a dream: and in\nthis manner related what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it seemed\nto me as if a hearth cake of barley bread rolled and came down into the\ncamp of Madian: and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and beat\nit down flat to the ground.\n\nA dream.... Observation of dreams is commonly superstitious, and as\nsuch is condemned in the word of God: but in some extraordinary cases,\nas we here see, God is pleased by dreams to foretell what he is about\nto do.\n\n7:14. He to whom he spoke, answered: This is nothing else but the sword\nof Gedeon, the son of Joas, a man of Israel. For the Lord hath\ndelivered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.\n\n7:15. And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation\nthereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said:\nArise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.\n\n7:16. And he divided the three hundred men into three parts, and gave\nthem trumpets in their hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the\npitchers.\n\n7:17. And he said to them: What you shall see me do, do you the same: I\nwill go into one part of the camp, and do you as I shall do.\n\n7:18. When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the\ntrumpets on every side of the camp, and shout together to the Lord and\nto Gedeon.\n\n7:19. And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went\ninto part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the\nwatchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap\nthe pitchers one against another.\n\nTheir trumpets, etc.... In a mystical sense, the preachers of the\ngospel, in order to spiritual conquests, must not only sound with the\ntrumpet of the word of God, but must also break their earthen pitchers,\nby the mortification of the flesh and its passions, and carry lamps in\ntheir hands by the light of their virtues.\n\n7:20. And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about\nthe camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their\nleft hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew,\nand they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon:\n\n7:21. Standing every man in his place round about the enemies\u2019 camp. So\nall the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:\n\n7:22. And the three hundred men nevertheless persisted sounding the\ntrumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into all the camp, and they\nkilled one another,\n\n7:23. Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the border of Abelmahula, in\nTebbath. But the men of Israel, shouting from Nephthali, and Aser, and\nfrom all Manasses, pursued after Madian.\n\n7:24. And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come\ndown to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and\nthe Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them\nand the Jordan as far as Bethbera.\n\n7:25. And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew\nin the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued\nMadian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters\nof the Jordan.\n\nTwo men.... That is, two of their chiefs.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 8\n\nGedeon appeaseth the Ephraimites. Taketh Zebee and Salmana. Destroyeth\nSoccoth and Phanuel. Refuseth to be king. Maketh an ephod of the gold\nof the prey, and dieth in a good old age. The people return to\nidolatry.\n\n8:1. And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest\nto do, that thou wouldst not call us, when thou wentest to fight\nagainst Madian? And they chid him sharply, and almost offered violence.\n\n8:2. And he answered them: What could I have done like to that which\nyou have done? Is not one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the\nvintages of Abiezer?\n\nWhat could I, etc.... A meek and humble answer appeased them; who\notherwise might have come to extremities. So great is the power of\nhumility both with God and man.\n\n8:3. The Lord hath delivered into your hands the princes of Madian,\nOreb and Zeb: what could I have done like to what you have done? And\nwhen he had said this, their spirit was appeased, with which they\nswelled against him.\n\n8:4. And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the\nthree hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could\nnot pursue after them that fled.\n\n8:5. And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to\nthe people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue\nZebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.\n\n8:6. The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the\nhands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou\ndemandest that we should give bread to thy army.\n\n8:7. And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered\nZebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the\nthorns and briers of the desert.\n\n8:8. And going up from thence, he came to Phanuel: and he spoke the\nlike things to the men of that place. And they also answered him, as\nthe men of Soccoth had answered.\n\n8:9. He said, therefore, to them also: When I shall return a conqueror\nin peace, I will destroy this tower.\n\n8:10. But Zebee and Salmana were resting with all their army. For\nfifteen thousand men were left of all the troops of the eastern people,\nand one hundred and twenty thousand warriors that drew the sword were\nslain.\n\n8:11. And Gedeon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents, on the\neast of Nobe and Jegbaa, and smote the camp of the enemies, who were\nsecure, and suspected no hurt.\n\n8:12. And Zebee and Salmana fled, and Gedeon pursued and took them, all\ntheir host being put in confusion.\n\n8:13. And returning from the battle before the sun rising,\n\n8:14. He took a boy of the men of Soccoth: and he asked him the names\nof the princes and ancients of Soccoth, and he described unto him\nseventy-seven men.\n\n8:15. And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and\nSalmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the\nhands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou\ndemandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and\nfaint.\n\n8:16. So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the\ndesert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of\nSoccoth.\n\n8:17. And he demolished the tower of Phanuel, and slew the men of the\ncity.\n\n8:18. And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What manner of men were they,\nwhom you slew in Thabor? They answered: They were like thee, and one of\nthem as the son of a king.\n\n8:19. He answered them: They were my brethren, the sons of my mother.\nAs the Lord liveth, if you had saved them, I would not kill you.\n\n8:20. And he said to Jether, his eldest son: Arise, and slay them. But\nhe drew not his sword: for he was afraid, being but yet a boy.\n\n8:21. And Zebee and Salmana said: Do thou rise and run upon us: because\nthe strength of a man is according to his age: Gedeon rose up, and slew\nZebee and Salmana: and he took the ornaments and bosses, with which the\nnecks of the camels of kings are wont to be adorned.\n\n8:22. And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and\nthy son, and thy son\u2019s son: because thou hast delivered us from the\nhand of Madian.\n\n8:23. And he said to them: I will not rule over you, neither shall my\nson rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.\n\n8:24. And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the\nearlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear\ngolden earlets.\n\n8:25. They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a\nmantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.\n\n8:26. And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand\nseven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and\npurple raiment, which the kings of Madian were wont to use, and besides\nthe golden chains that were about the camels necks.\n\n8:27. And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra.\nAnd all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to\nGedeon, and to all his house.\n\nAn ephod.... A priestly garment which Gedeon made with a good design;\nbut the Israelites, after his death, abused it by making it an\ninstrument of their idolatrous worship.\n\n8:28. But Madian was humbled before the children of Israel, neither\ncould they any more lift up their heads: but the land rested for forty\nyears, while Gedeon presided.\n\n8:29. So Jerobaal, the son of Joas, went and dwelt in his own house:\n\n8:30. And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had\nmany wives.\n\n8:31. And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose\nname was Abimelech.\n\nHis concubine.... She was his servant, but not his harlot: and is\ncalled his concubine, as wives of an inferior degree are commonly\ncalled in the Old Testament, though otherwise lawfully married.\n\n8:32. And Gedeon, the son of Joas died in a good old age, and was\nburied in the sepulchre of his father, in Ephra, of the family of Ezri.\n\n8:33. But after Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned again,\nand committed fornication with Baalim. And they made a covenant with\nBaal, that he should be their god:\n\n8:34. And they remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them\nout of the hands of all their enemies round about:\n\n8:35. Neither did they shew mercy to the house of Jerobaal Gedeon,\naccording to all the good things he had done to Israel.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 9\n\nAbimelech killeth his brethren. Joatham\u2019s parable. Gaal conspireth with\nthe Sichemites against Abimelech, but is overcome. Abimelech destroyeth\nSichem: but is killed at Thebes.\n\n9:1. And Abimelech, the son of Jerobaal, went to Sichem, to his\nmother\u2019s brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the kindred of his\nmother\u2019s father, saying:\n\n9:2. Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that\nseventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that\none man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone,\nand your flesh.\n\n9:3. And his mother\u2019s brethren spoke of him to all the men of Sichem,\nall these words, and they inclined their hearts after Abimelech,\nsaying: He is our brother:\n\n9:4. And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of\nBaalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and\nvagabonds, and they followed him.\n\nBaalberith.... That is, Baal of the covenant, so called from the\ncovenant they had made with Baal, chap. 8.33.\n\n9:5. And he came to his father\u2019s house in Ephra, and slew his brethren,\nthe sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained\nonly Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.\n\n9:6. And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the\nfamilies of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king,\nby the oak that stood in Sichem.\n\n9:7. This being told to Joatham, he went, and stood on the top of Mount\nGarizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men\nof Sichem, so may God hear you.\n\n9:8. The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the\nolive tree: Reign thou over us.\n\n9:9. And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men\nmake use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?\n\nBoth gods and men make use of.... The olive tree is introduced,\nspeaking in this manner, because oil was used both in the worship of\nthe true God, and in that of the false gods, whom the Sichemites\nserved.\n\n9:10. And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.\n\n9:11. And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious\nfruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?\n\n9:12. And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.\n\n9:13. And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God\nand men, and be promoted among the other trees?\n\nCheereth God and men.... Wine is here represented as agreeable to God,\nbecause he had appointed it to be offered up with his sacrifices. But\nwe are not obliged to take these words, spoken by the trees, in\nJoatham\u2019s parable, according to the strict literal sense: but only in a\nsense accomodated to the design of the parable expressed in the\nconclusion of it.\n\n9:14. And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over\nus.\n\n9:15. And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come\nye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out\nfrom the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.\n\n9:16. Now, therefore, if you have done well, and without sin, in\nappointing Abimelech king over you, and have dealt well with Jerobaal,\nand with his house, and have made a suitable return for the benefits of\nhim who fought for you,\n\n9:17. And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hand of\nMadian,\n\n9:18. And you are now risen up against my father\u2019s house, and have\nkilled his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech,\nthe son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because\nhe is your brother:\n\n9:19. If therefore you have dealt well, and without fault, with\nJerobaal and his house, rejoice ye, this day, in Abimelech, and may he\nrejoice in you.\n\n9:20. But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the\ninhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out\nfrom the men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and devour\nAbimelech.\n\n9:21. And when he had said thus, he fled, and went into Bera: and dwelt\nthere for fear of Abimelech, his brother.\n\n9:22. So Abimelech reigned over Israel three years.\n\n9:23. And the Lord sent a very evil spirit between Abimelech and the\ninhabitants of Sichem; who began to detest him,\n\n9:24. And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of\nJerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their\nbrother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided\nhim.\n\n9:25. And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains:\nand while they waited for his coming, they committed robberies, taking\nspoils of all that passed by: and it was told Abimelech.\n\n9:26. And Gaal, the son of Obed, came with his brethren, and went over\nto Sichem. And the inhabitants of Sichem, taking courage at his coming,\n\n9:27. Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading\ndown the grapes: and singing and dancing, they went into the temple of\ntheir god, and in their banquets and cups they cursed Abimelech.\n\n9:28. And Gaal, the son of Obed, cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is\nSichem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and\nhath made Zebul, his servant, ruler over the men of Emor, the father of\nSichem? Why then shall we serve him?\n\n9:29. Would to God that some man would put this people under my hand,\nthat I might remove Abimelech out of the way. And it was said to\nAbimelech: Gather together the multitude of an army, and come.\n\n9:30. For Zebul, the ruler of the city, hearing the words of Gaal, the\nson of Obed, was very angry,\n\n9:31. And sent messengers privately to Abimelech, saying: Behold, Gaal,\nthe son of Obed, is come into Sichem with his brethren, and\nendeavoureth to set the city against thee.\n\n9:32. Arise, therefore, in the night, with the people that is with\nthee, and lie hid in the field:\n\n9:33. And betimes in the morning, at sun rising, set upon the city, and\nwhen he shall come out against thee, with his people, do to him what\nthou shalt be able.\n\n9:34. Abimelech, therefore, arose with all his army, by night, and laid\nambushes near Sichem in four places.\n\n9:35. And Gaal, the son of Obed, went out, and stood in the entrance of\nthe gate of the city. And Abimelech rose up, and all his army with him,\nfrom the places of the ambushes.\n\n9:36. And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: Behold, a\nmultitude cometh down from the mountains. And he answered him: Thou\nseest the shadows of the mountains as if they were the heads of men,\nand this is thy mistake.\n\n9:37. Again Gaal said: Behold, there cometh people down from the midst\nof the land, and one troop cometh by the way that looketh towards the\noak.\n\n9:38. And Zebul said to him: Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou\nsaidst: Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the\npeople which thou didst despise? Go out, and fight against him.\n\n9:39. So Gaal went out, in the sight of the people of Sichem, and\nfought against Abimelech,\n\n9:40. Who chased and put him to flight, and drove him to the city: and\nmany were slain of his people, even to the gate of the city:\n\n9:41. And Abimelech sat down in Ruma: but Zebul drove Gaal, and his\ncompanions, out of the city, and would not suffer them to abide in it.\n\n9:42. So the day following the people went out into the field. And it\nwas told to Abimelech,\n\n9:43. And he took his army, and divided it into three companies, and\nlaid ambushes in the fields. And seeing that the people came out of the\ncity, he arose, and set upon them,\n\n9:44. With his own company, assaulting and besieging the city: whilst\nthe two other companies chased the enemies that were scattered about\nthe field.\n\n9:45. And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and\nkilled the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed\nsalt in it.\n\nSowed salt.... To make the ground barren, and fit for nothing.\n\n9:46. And when they who dwelt in the tower of Sichem, had heard this,\nthey went into the temple of their god Berith, where they had made a\ncovenant with him, and from thence the place had taken its name, and it\nwas exceeding strong.\n\n9:47. Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were\ngathered together,\n\n9:48. Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and\ntaking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his\nshoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me\ndo, do ye out of hand.\n\n9:49. So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he\ncould, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it\non fire: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke and with the fire\na thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the\ninhabitants of the town of Sichem.\n\n9:50. Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of\nThebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army.\n\n9:51. And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which\nboth the men and the women were fled together, and all the princes of\nthe city, and having shut and strongly barred the gate, they stood upon\nthe battlements of the tower to defend themselves.\n\n9:52. And Abimelech, coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and,\napproaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:\n\n9:53. And behold, a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from\nabove, dashed it against the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.\n\n9:54. And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw\nthy sword, and kill me: lest it should be said that I was slain by a\nwoman. He did as he was commanded, and slew him.\n\n9:55. And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him,\nreturned to their homes.\n\n9:56. And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his\nfather, killing his seventy brethren.\n\n9:57. The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the\ncurse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 10\n\nThola ruleth Israel twenty-three years; and Jair twenty-two. The people\nfall again into idolatry, and are afflicted again by the Philistines\nand Ammonites. They cry to God for help, who upon their repentance hath\ncompassion on them.\n\n10:1. After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola, son of\nPhua, the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of\nmount Ephraim:\n\nUncle of Abimelech.... i. e., half brother to Gedeon, as being born of\nthe same mother, but by a different father, and of a different tribe.\n\n10:2. And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died, and was\nburied in Samir.\n\n10:3. To him succeeded Jair, the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two\nand twenty years,\n\n10:4. Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were\nprinces of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair,\nthat is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of\nGalaad.\n\nHavoth Jair.... This name was now confirmed to these towns, which they\nhad formerly received from another Jair. Num. 32.41.\n\n10:5. And Jair died, and was buried in the place which is called Camon.\n\n10:6. But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones,\ndid evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and\nAstaroth, and the gods of Syria, and of Sidon, and of Moab, and of the\nchildren of Ammon, and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and\ndid not serve him.\n\n10:7. And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands\nof the Philistines, and of the children of Ammon.\n\n10:8. And they were afflicted, and grievously oppressed for eighteen\nyears, all they that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the land of the\nAmorrhite, who is in Galaad:\n\n10:9. Insomuch that the children of Ammon, passing over the Jordan,\nwasted Juda, and Benjamin, and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed\nexceedingly.\n\n10:10. And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against\nthee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served\nBaalim.\n\n10:11. And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians, and the\nAmorrhites, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines,\n\n10:12. The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and\nyou cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?\n\n10:13. And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods:\ntherefore I will deliver you no more:\n\n10:14. Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them\ndeliver you in the time of distress.\n\n10:15. And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do\nthou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.\n\n10:16. And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all\nthe idols of strange gods, and served the Lord their God: and he was\ntouched with their miseries.\n\n10:17. And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents\nin Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves\ntogether, and camped in Maspha.\n\n10:18. And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us\nshall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be\nthe leader of the people of Galaad.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 11\n\nJephte is made ruler of the people of Galaad: he first pleads their\ncause against the Ammonites; then making a vow obtains a signal\nvictory; he performs his vow.\n\n11:1. There was at that time Jephte, the Galaadite, a most valiant man,\nand a warrior, the son of a woman that was a harlot, and his father was\nGalaad.\n\n11:2. Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who, after they were\ngrown up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the\nhouse of our father, because thou art born of another mother.\n\n11:3. Then he fled and avoided them, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and\nthere were gathered to him needy men and robbers, and they followed him\nas their prince.\n\n11:4. In those days the children of Ammon made war against Israel.\n\n11:5. And as they pressed hard upon them, the ancients of Galaad went\nto fetch Jephte out of the land of Tob to help them:\n\n11:6. And they said to him: Come thou, and be our prince, and fight\nagainst the children of Ammon.\n\n11:7. And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast\nme out of my father\u2019s house, and now you are come to me, constrained by\nnecessity?\n\n11:8. And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte: For this cause we are\nnow come to thee, that thou mayst go with us, and fight against the\nchildren of Ammon, and be head over all the inhabitants of Galaad.\n\n11:9. Jephte also said to them: If you be come to me sincerely, that I\nshould fight for you against the children of Ammon, and the Lord shall\ndeliver them into my hand, shall I be your prince?\n\n11:10. They answered him: The Lord, who heareth these things, he\nhimself is mediator and witness that we will do as we have promised.\n\n11:11. Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the\npeople made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the\nLord in Maspha.\n\n11:12. And he sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, to\nsay in his name: What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come\nagainst me, to waste my land?\n\n11:13. And he answered them: Because Israel took away my land, when he\ncame up out of Egypt, from the confines of the Arnon unto the Jaboc and\nthe Jordan: now, therefore, restore the same peaceably to me.\n\n11:14. And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to\nthe king of Ammon:\n\n11:15. Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away the land of Moab,\nnor the land of the children of Ammon:\n\n11:16. But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert\nto the Red Sea, and came into Cades.\n\n11:17. And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: Suffer me to\npass through thy land. But he would not condescend to his request. He\nsent also to the king of Moab, who, likewise, refused to give him\npassage. He abode, therefore, in Cades,\n\n11:18. And went round the land of Edom at the side, and the land of\nMoab: and came over against the east coast of the land of Moab, and\ncamped on the other side of the Arnon: and he would not enter the\nbounds of Moab.\n\n11:19. So Israel sent messengers to Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who\ndwelt in Hesebon, and they said to him: Suffer me to pass through thy\nland to the river.\n\n11:20. But he, also despising the words of Israel, suffered him not to\npass through his borders: but gathering an infinite multitude, went out\nagainst him to Jasa, and made strong opposition.\n\n11:21. And the Lord delivered him, with all his army, into the hands of\nIsrael, and he slew him, and possessed all the land of the Amorrhite,\nthe inhabitant of that country,\n\n11:22. And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from\nthe wilderness to the Jordan.\n\n11:23. So the Lord, the God of Israel, destroyed the Amorrhite, his\npeople of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess his\nland?\n\n11:24. Are not those things which thy god Chamos possesseth, due to\nthee by right? But what the Lord our God hath obtained by conquest,\nshall be our possession:\n\nChamos.... The idol of the Moabites and Ammonites. He argues from their\nopinion, who thought they had a just title to the countries which they\nimagined they had conquered by the help of their gods: how much more\nthen had Israel in indisputable title to the countries which God, by\nvisible miracles, had conquered for them.\n\n11:25. Unless, perhaps, thou art better than Balac, the son of Sephor,\nking of Moab: or canst shew that he strove against Israel, and fought\nagainst him,\n\n11:26. Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and\nin Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for\nthree hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing\nabout this claim?\n\n11:27. Therefore I do not trespass against thee, but thou wrongest me\nby declaring an unjust war against me. The Lord be judge, and decide\nthis day, between Israel and the children of Ammon.\n\n11:28. And the king of the children of Ammon would not hearken to the\nwords of Jephte, which he sent him by the messengers.\n\n11:29. Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephte, and going\nround Galaad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from\nthence to the children of Ammon,\n\n11:30. He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the\nchildren of Ammon into my hands,\n\n11:31. Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house,\nand shall meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon,\nthe same will I offer a holocaust to the Lord.\n\nWhosoever, etc.... Some are of opinion, that the meaning of this vow of\nJephte, was to consecrate to God whatsoever should first meet him,\naccording to the condition of the thing; so as to offer it up as a\nholocaust, if it were such a thing as might be offered by the law; or\nto devote it otherwise to God, if it were not such as the law allowed\nto be offered in sacrifice. And therefore they think the daughter of\nJephte was not slain by her father, but only consecrated to perpetual\nvirginity. But the common opinion followed by the generality of the\nholy fathers and divines is, that she was offered as a holocaust, in\nconsequence of her father\u2019s vow: and that Jephte did not sin, at least\nnot mortally, neither in making, nor in keeping, his vow: since he is\nno ways blamed for it in scripture; and was even inspired by God\nhimself to make the vow (as appears from ver. 29, 30) in consequence of\nwhich he obtained the victory; and therefore he reasonably concluded\nthat God, who is the master of life and death, was pleased on this\noccasion to dispense with his own law; and that it was the divine will\nhe should fulfil his vow.\n\n11:32. And Jephte passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against\nthem: and the Lord delivered them into his hands.\n\n11:33. And he smote them from Aroer till you come to Mennith, twenty\ncities, and as far as Abel, which is set with vineyards, with a very\ngreat slaughter: and the children of Ammon were humbled by the children\nof Israel.\n\n11:34. And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only\ndaughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other\nchildren.\n\n11:35. And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my\ndaughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I\nhave opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.\n\n11:36. And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth\nto the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the\nvictory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies.\n\n11:37. And she said to her father: Grant me only this, which I desire:\nLet me go, that I may go about the mountains for two months, and may\nbewail my virginity with my companions.\n\nBewail my virginity.... The bearing of children was much coveted under\nthe Old Testament, when women might hope that from some child of\ntheirs, the Saviour of the world might one day spring. But under the\nNew Testament virginity is preferred. 1 Cor. 7.35.\n\n11:38. And he answered her: Go. And he sent her away for two months.\nAnd when she was gone with her comrades and companions, she mourned her\nvirginity in the mountains.\n\n11:39. And the two months being expired, she returned to her father,\nand he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence\ncame a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:\n\n11:40. That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble\ntogether, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four\ndays.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 12\n\nThe Ephraimites quarrel with Jephte: forty-two thousand of them are\nslain: Abeson, Ahialon, and Abdon, are judges.\n\n12:1. But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards\nthe north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the\nchildren of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with\nthee? Therefore we will burn thy house.\n\n12:2. And he answered them: I and my people were at great strife with\nthe children of Ammon: and I called you to assist me, and you would not\ndo it.\n\n12:3. And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed\nover against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my\nhands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against\nme?\n\n12:4. Then calling to him all the men of Galaad, he fought against\nEphraim: and the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said:\nGalaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim\nand Manasses.\n\n12:5. And the Galaadites secured the fords of the Jordan, by which\nEphraim was to return. And when any one of the number of Ephraim came\nthither in the flight, and said: I beseech you let me pass: the\nGalaadites said to him: Art thou not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am\nnot:\n\n12:6. They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth, which is interpreted, An\near of corn. But he answered, Sibboleth, not being able to express an\near of corn by the same letter. Then presently they took him and killed\nhim in the very passage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of\nEphraim, two and forty thousand.\n\n12:7. And Jephte, the Galaadite, judged Israel six years: and he died,\nand was buried in his city of Galaad.\n\n12:8. After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:\n\n12:9. He had thirty sons, and as many daughters, whom he sent abroad,\nand gave to husbands, and took wives for his sons, of the same number,\nbringing them into his house. And he judged Israel seven years:\n\n12:10. And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.\n\n12:11. To him succeeded Ahialon, a Zabulonite: and he judged Israel ten\nyears:\n\n12:12. And he died, and was buried in Zabulon.\n\n12:13. After him, Abdon, the son of Illel, a Pharathonite, judged\nIsrael:\n\n12:14. And he had forty sons, and of them thirty grandsons, mounted\nupon seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years:\n\n12:15. And he died, and was buried in Pharathon, in the land of\nEphraim, in the mount of Amalech.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 13\n\nThe people fall again into idolatry and are afflicted by the\nPhilistines. An angel foretelleth the birth of Samson.\n\n13:1. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the\nLord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty\nyears.\n\n13:2. Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan,\nwhose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.\n\n13:3. And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art\nbarren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.\n\n13:4. Now therefore beware, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat\nnot any unclean thing.\n\n13:5. Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall\ntouch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy,\nand from his mother\u2019s womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from\nthe hands of the Philistines.\n\n13:6. And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of\nGod came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And\nwhen I asked him who he was, and whence he came, and by what name he\nwas called, he would not tell me:\n\n13:7. But he answered thus: Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son:\nbeware thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing:\nfor the child shall be a Nazarite of God from his infancy, from his\nmother\u2019s womb until the day of his death.\n\n13:8. Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord,\nthat the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come again, and teach us\nwhat we ought to do concerning the child, that shall be born.\n\n13:9. And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue, and the angel of the Lord\nappeared again to his wife, as she was sitting in the field. But Manue\nher husband was not with her. And when she saw the angel,\n\n13:10. She made haste, and ran to her husband: and told him, saying:\nBehold the man hath appeared to me, whom I saw before.\n\n13:11. He rose up, and followed his wife: and coming to the man, said\nto him: Art thou he that spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.\n\n13:12. And Manue said to him: When thy word shall come to pass, what\nwilt thou that the child should do? or from what shall he keep himself?\n\n13:13. And the angel of the Lord said to Manue: From all the things I\nhave spoken of to thy wife, let her refrain herself:\n\nLet her refrain, etc.... By the Latin text it is not clear whether this\nabstinence was prescribed to the mother, or to the child; but the\nHebrew (in which the verbs relating thereto are of the feminine gender)\ndetermineth it to the mother. But then the child also was to refrain\nfrom the like things, because he was to be from his infancy a Nazarite\nof God, ver. 5, that is, one set aside, in a particular manner, and\nconsecrated to God: now the Nazarites by the law were to abstain from\nall these things.\n\n13:14. And let her eat nothing that cometh of the vine, neither let her\ndrink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatsoever I\nhave commanded her, let her fulfil and observe.\n\n13:15. And Manue said to the angel of the Lord: I beseech thee to\nconsent to my request, and let us dress a kid for thee.\n\n13:16. And the angel answered him: If thou press me I will not eat of\nthy bread: but if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord.\nAnd Manue knew not it was the angel of the Lord.\n\n13:17. And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall\ncome to pass, we may honour thee?\n\n13:18. And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is\nwonderful?\n\n13:19. Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put\nthem upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and\nhe and his wife looked on.\n\n13:20. And when the flame from the altar went up towards heaven, the\nangel of the Lord ascended also in the flame. And when Manue and his\nwife saw this, they fell flat on the ground;\n\n13:21. And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And\nforthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord,\n\n13:22. And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have\nseen God.\n\nSeen God.... Not in his own person, but in the person of his messenger.\nThe Israelites, in those days, imagined they should die if they saw an\nangel, taking occasion perhaps from those words spoken by the Lord to\nMoses, Ex. 33.20, No man shall see me and live. But the event\ndemonstrated that it was but a groundless imagination.\n\n13:23. And his wife answered him: If the Lord had a mind to kill us, he\nwould not have received a holocaust and libations at our hands; neither\nwould he have shewed us all these things, nor have told us the things\nthat are to come.\n\n13:24. And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child\ngrew, and the Lord blessed him.\n\n13:25. And the Spirit of the Lord began to be with him in the camp of\nDan, between Saraa and Esthaol.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 14\n\nSamson desireth a wife of the Philistines. He killeth a lion: in whose\nmouth he afterwards findeth honey. His marriage feast, and riddle,\nwhich is discovered by his wife. He killeth, and strippeth thirty\nPhilistines. His wife taketh another man.\n\n14:1. Then Samson went down to Thamnatha, and seeing there a woman of\nthe daughters of the Philistines,\n\n14:2. He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a\nwoman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you,\ntake her for me to wife.\n\n14:3. And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among\nthe daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt\ntake a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said\nto his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes.\n\nIs there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren.... This shews\nhis parents were at first against his marriage with a Gentile, it being\nprohibited, Deut. 7.3; but afterwards they consented, knowing it to be\nby the dispensation of God; which otherwise would have been sinful in\nacting contrary to the law.\n\n14:4. Now his parents knew not that the thing was done by the Lord, and\nthat he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time\nthe Philistines had dominion over Israel.\n\n14:5. Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Thamnatha.\nAnd when they were come to the vineyards of the town, behold a young\nlion met him, raging and roaring.\n\n14:6. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he tore the lion\nas he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his\nhand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother.\n\n14:7. And he went down, and spoke to the woman that had pleased his\neyes.\n\n14:8. And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see\nthe carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the\nmouth of the lion, and a honey-comb.\n\n14:9. And when he had taken it in his hands, he went on eating: and\ncoming to his father and mother, he gave them of it, and they ate: but\nhe would not tell them that he had taken the honey from the body of the\nlion.\n\n14:10. So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his\nson Samson: for so the young men used to do.\n\n14:11. And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him\nthirty companions to be with him.\n\n14:12. And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which\nif you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give\nyou thirty shirts, and as many coats:\n\n14:13. But if you shall not be able to declare it, you shall give me\nthirty shirts and the same number of coats. They answered him: Put\nforth the riddle, that we may hear it.\n\n14:14. And he said to them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out\nof the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not for three days\nexpound the riddle.\n\n14:15. And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife of Samson:\nSooth thy husband, and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle\nmeaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn thee, and thy\nfather\u2019s house. Have you called us to the wedding on purpose to strip\nus?\n\n14:16. So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest\nme, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the\nriddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he\nanswered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I\ntell it to thee?\n\n14:17. So she wept before him the seven days of the feast: and, at\nlength, on the seventh day, as she was troublesome to him, he expounded\nit. And she immediately told her countrymen.\n\n14:18. And they, on the seventh day before the sun went down, said to\nhim: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And\nhe said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not\nfound out my riddle.\n\n14:19. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to\nAscalon, and slew there thirty men whose garments he took away, and\ngave to them that had declared the riddle. And being exceeding angry,\nhe went up to his father\u2019s house:\n\n14:20. But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for\nher husband.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 15\n\nSamson is denied his wife. He burns the corn of the Philistines, and\nkills many of them.\n\n15:1. And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at\nhand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid\nof the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber, as usual,\nher father would not suffer him, saying:\n\n15:2. I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy\nfriend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take\nher to wife instead of her.\n\n15:3. And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in\nwhat I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.\n\n15:4. And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail\nto tail, and fastened torches between the tails:\n\nFoxes.... Being judge of the people he might have many to assist him to\ncatch with nets or otherwise a number of these animals; of which there\nwere great numbers in that country.\n\n15:5. And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run\nabout hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing\ncorn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that\nwas already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all\nburnt, insomuch that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the\noliveyards.\n\n15:6. Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was\nanswered: Samson, the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took\naway his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the\nPhilistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.\n\n15:7. But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I\nbe revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.\n\n15:8. And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment\nthey laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt\nin a cavern of the rock Etam.\n\n15:9. Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in\nthe place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone,\nwhere their army was spread abroad.\n\n15:10. And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come\nup against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay\nhim for what he hath done against us.\n\n15:11. Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of\nthe rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the\nPhilistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to\nthem: As they did to me, so have I done to them.\n\n15:12. And they said to him: We are come to bind thee, and to deliver\nthee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear\nto me, and promise me that you will not kill me.\n\n15:13. They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up\nbound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the\nrock Etam.\n\n15:14. Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the\nPhilistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came\nstrongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach\nof fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.\n\n15:15. And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay\nthere, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.\n\n15:16. And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the\ncolt of asses, I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.\n\n15:17. And when he had ended these words, singing, he threw the jawbone\nout of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which\nis interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.\n\n15:18. And being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou\nhast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy\nservant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of\nthe uncircumcised.\n\n15:19. Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and\nwaters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his\nspirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place\nwas called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this\npresent day.\n\n15:20. And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty\nyears.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 16\n\nSamson is deluded by Dalila: and falls into the hands of the\nPhilistines. His death.\n\n16:1. He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went\nin unto her.\n\n16:2. And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about\namong them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him,\nsetting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the\nnight in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went\nout.\n\n16:3. But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the\ndoors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them\non his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh\ntowards Hebron.\n\n16:4. After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec,\nand she was called Dalila.\n\nDalila.... Some are of opinion she was married to Samson; others that\nshe was his harlot. If the latter opinion be true, we cannot wonder\nthat, in punishment of his lust, the Lord delivered him up, by her\nmeans, into the hands of his enemies. However if he was guilty, it is\nnot to be doubted but that under his afflictions he heartily repented\nand returned to God, and so obtained forgiveness of his sins.\n\n16:5. And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive\nhim, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may\nbe able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt\ndo, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.\n\n16:6. And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy\ngreatest strength lieth, and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound,\nthou couldst not break loose.\n\n16:7. And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords,\nmade of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other\nmen.\n\n16:8. And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords,\nsuch as he spoke of, with which she bound him;\n\n16:9. Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber,\nexpecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The\nPhilistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man\nwould break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the\nfire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay.\n\n16:10. And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast\ntold me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest\nbe bound.\n\n16:11. And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that\nwere never in work, I shall be weak and like other men.\n\n16:12. Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The\nPhilistines are upon thee, Samson, there being an ambush prepared for\nhim in the chamber. But he broke the bands like threads of webs.\n\n16:13. And Dalila said to him again: How long dost thou deceive me, and\ntell me lies? Shew me wherewith thou mayest be bound. And Samson\nanswered her: If thou plattest the seven locks of my head with a lace,\nand tying them round about a nail, fastenest it in the ground, I shall\nbe weak.\n\n16:14. And when Dalila had done this, she said to him: The Philistines\nare upon thee, Samson. And awaking out of his sleep, he drew out the\nnail with the hairs and the lace.\n\n16:15. And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when\nthy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and\nwouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.\n\n16:16. And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for\nmany days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was\nwearied even unto death.\n\n16:17. Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor\nhath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say,\nconsecrated to God from my mother\u2019s womb: If my head be shaven, my\nstrength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be\nlike other men.\n\n16:18. Then seeing that he had discovered to her all his mind, she sent\nto the princes of the Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for\nnow he hath opened his heart to me. And they went up, taking with them\nthe money which they had promised.\n\n16:19. But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her\nbosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to\ndrive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength\ndeparted from him.\n\n16:20. And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking\nfrom sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and\nshake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him.\n\n16:21. Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out\nhis eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in\nprison made him grind.\n\n16:22. And now his hair began to grow again,\n\n16:23. And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer\ngreat sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god\nhath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.\n\n16:24. And the people also seeing this, praised their god, and said the\nsame: Our god hath delivered our adversary into our hands, him that\ndestroyed our country, and killed very many.\n\n16:25. And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their\ngood cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should\nplay before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before\nthem; and they made him stand between two pillars.\n\n16:26. And he said to the lad that guided his steps: Suffer me to touch\nthe pillars which support the whole house, and let me lean upon them,\nand rest a little.\n\n16:27. Now the house was full of men and women, and all the princes of\nthe Philistines were there. Moreover about three thousand persons of\nboth sexes, from the roof and the higher part of the house, were\nbeholding Samson\u2019s play.\n\n16:28. But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God remember me, and\nrestore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge\nmyself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one\nrevenge.\n\nRevenge myself.... This desire of revenge was out of zeal for justice\nagainst the enemies of God and his people; and not out of private\nrancour and malice of heart.\n\n16:29. And laying hold on both the pillars on which the house rested,\nand holding the one with his right hand, and the other with his left,\n\n16:30. He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had\nstrongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and\nthe rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at\nhis death, than he had killed before in his life.\n\nLet me die.... Literally, let my soul die. Samson did not sin on this\noccasion, though he was indirectly the cause of his own death. Because\nhe was moved to what he did, by a particular inspiration of God, who\nalso concurred with him by a miracle, in restoring his strength upon\nthe spot, in consequence of his prayer. Samson, by dying in this\nmanner, was a figure of Christ, who by his death overcame all his\nenemies.\n\n16:31. And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body,\nand buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his\nfather Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 17\n\nThe history of the idol of Michas, and the young Levite.\n\n17:1. There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was\nMichas.\n\n17:2. Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver,\nwhich thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst\nswear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said\nto him. Blessed be my son by the Lord.\n\n17:3. So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have\nconsecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive\nit at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it\nto thee.\n\n17:4. And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred\npieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a\ngraven and a molten god, which was in the house of Michas.\n\n17:5. And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and\nmade an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and\nidols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his\npriest.\n\nFilled the hand.... That is, appointed and consecrated him to the\npriestly office.\n\n17:6. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that\nwhich seemed right to himself.\n\n17:7. There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the\nkindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.\n\n17:8. Now he went out from the city of Bethlehem, and desired to\nsojourn wheresoever he should find it convenient for him. And when he\nwas come to mount Ephraim, as he was on his journey, and had turned\naside a little into the house of Michas,\n\n17:9. He was asked by him whence he came. And he answered: I am a\nLevite of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to dwell where I can, and\nwhere I shall find a place to my advantage.\n\n17:10. And Michas said: Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a\npriest, and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a\ndouble suit of apparel, and thy victuals.\n\n17:11. He was content, and abode with the man, and was unto him as one\nof his sons.\n\n17:12. And Michas filled his hand, and had the young man with him for\nhis priest, saying:\n\n17:13. Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the\nrace of the Levites.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 18\n\nThe expedition of the men of Dan against Lais: in their way they rob\nMichas of his priest and his gods.\n\n18:1. In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of Dan\nsought them an inheritance to dwell in: for unto that day they had not\nreceived their lot among the other tribes.\n\nNot received, etc.... They had their portions assigned them, Jos.\n19.40. But, through their own sloth, possessed as yet but a small part\nof it. See Judges 1.34.\n\n18:2. So the children of Dan sent five most valiant men, of their stock\nand family, from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it\ndiligently: and they said to them: Go, and view the land. They went on\ntheir way, and when they came to mount Ephraim, they went into the\nhouse of Michas, and rested there:\n\n18:3. And knowing the voice of the young man the Levite, and lodging\nwith him, they said to him: Who brought thee hither? what dost thou\nhere? why wouldst thou come hither?\n\n18:4. He answered them: Michas hath done such and such things for me,\nand hath hired me to be his priest.\n\n18:5. Then they desired him to consult the Lord, that they might know\nwhether their journey should be prosperous, and the thing should have\neffect.\n\n18:6. He answered them: Go in peace: the Lord looketh on your way, and\nthe journey that you go.\n\n18:7. So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the\npeople dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the\nSidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being\nvery rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all\nmen.\n\n18:8. And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who\nasked them what they had done: to whom they answered:\n\n18:9. Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which\nis exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go\nand possess it, there will be no difficulty.\n\n18:10. We shall come to a people that is secure, into a spacious\ncountry, and the Lord will deliver the place to us, in which there is\nno want of any thing that groweth on the earth.\n\n18:11. There went therefore of the kindred of Dan, to wit, from Saraa\nand Esthaol, six hundred men, furnished with arms for war.\n\n18:12. And going up they lodged in Cariathiarim of Juda: which place\nfrom that time is called the camp of Dan, and is behind Cariathiarim.\n\n18:13. From thence they passed into mount Ephraim. And when they were\ncome to the house of Michas,\n\n18:14. The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of\nLais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses\nthere is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see\nwhat you are pleased to do.\n\n18:15. And when they had turned a little aside, they went into the\nhouse of the young man the Levite, who was in the house of Michas: and\nthey saluted him with words of peace.\n\n18:16. And the six hundred men stood before the door, appointed with\ntheir arms.\n\n18:17. But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went\nabout to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim,\nand the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six\nhundred valiant men waiting not far off.\n\n18:18. So they that were gone in took away the graven thing, the ephod,\nand the idols, and the molten god, And the priest said to them: What\nare you doing?\n\n18:19. And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy\nmouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a\npriest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one\nman, or in a tribe and family in Israel?\n\n18:20. When he heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the\nephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them.\n\n18:21. And when they were going forward, and had put before them the\nchildren and the cattle, and all that was valuable,\n\n18:22. And were now at a distance from the house of Michas, the men\nthat dwelt in the houses of Michas gathering together followed them,\n\n18:23. And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to\nMichas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?\n\n18:24. And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made\nme, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth\nthee?\n\n18:25. And the children of Dan said to him: See thou say no more to us,\nlest men enraged come upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house.\n\n18:26. And so they went on the journey they had begun. But Michas\nseeing that they were stronger than he, returned to his house.\n\n18:27. And the six hundred men took the priest, and the things we spoke\nof before, and came to Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, and\nsmote them with the edge of the sword: and the city they burnt with\nfire,\n\n18:28. There being no man at all who brought them any succour, because\nthey dwelt far from Sidon, and had no society or business with any man.\nAnd the city was in the land of Rohob: and they rebuilt it, and dwelt\ntherein,\n\n18:29. Calling the name of the city Dan, after the name of their\nfather, who was the son of Israel, which before was called Lais.\n\n18:30. And they set up to themselves the graven idol, and Jonathan the\nson of Gersam, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests in the\ntribe of Dan, until the day of their captivity.\n\n18:31. And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the\nhouse of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 19\n\nA Levite bringing home his wife, is lodged by an old man at Gabaa in\nthe tribe of Benjamin. His wife is there abused by wicked men, and in\nthe morning found dead. Her husband cutteth her body in pieces, and\nsendeth to every tribe of Israel, requiring them to revenge the wicked\nfact.\n\n19:1. There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount\nEphraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:\n\n19:2. And she left him, and returned to her father\u2019s house in\nBethlehem, and abode with him four months.\n\n19:3. And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her,\nand to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with\nhim a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into\nher father\u2019s house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had\nseen him, he met him with joy,\n\n19:4. And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of\nhis father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.\n\n19:5. But on the fourth day, arising early in the morning, he desired\nto depart. But his father in law kept him, and said to him: Taste first\na little bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou shalt depart.\n\n19:6. And they sat down together, and ate and drank. And the father of\nthe young woman said to his son in law: I beseech thee to stay here to\nday, and let us make merry together.\n\n19:7. But he rising up, began to be for departing. And nevertheless his\nfather in law earnestly pressed him, and made him stay with him.\n\n19:8. But when morning was come, the Levite prepared to go on his\njourney. And his father in law said to him again: I beseech thee to\ntake a little meat, and strengthening thyself, till the day be farther\nadvanced, afterwards thou mayest depart. And they ate together.\n\n19:9. And the young man arose to set forward with his wife and servant.\nAnd his father in law spoke to him again: Consider that the day is\ndeclining, and draweth toward evening: tarry with me to day also, and\nspend the day in mirth, and to morrow thou shalt depart, that thou\nmayest go into thy house.\n\n19:10. His son in law would not consent to his words: but forthwith\nwent forward, and came over against Jebus, which by another name is\ncalled Jerusalem, leading with him two asses laden, and his concubine.\n\nConcubine. She was his lawful wife, but even lawful wives are\nfrequently in scripture called concubines. See above, chap. 8. ver.\n31.\u2014Ver. 16. Jemini.... That is, Benjamin.\n\n19:11. And now they were come near Jebus, and the day was far spent:\nand the servant said to his master: Come, I beseech thee, let us turn\ninto the city of the Jebusites, and lodge there.\n\n19:12. His master answered him: I will not go into the town of another\nnation, who are not of the children of Israel, but I will pass over to\nGabaa:\n\n19:13. And when I shall come thither, we will lodge there, or at least\nin the city of Rama.\n\n19:14. So they passed by Jebus, and went on their journey, and the sun\nwent down upon them when they were by Gabaa, which is in the tribe of\nBenjamin:\n\n19:15. And they turned into it to lodge there. And when they were come\nin, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them\nto lodge.\n\n19:16. And behold they saw an old man, returning out of the field and\nfrom his work in the evening, and he also was of mount Ephraim, and\ndwelt as a stranger in Gabaa; but the men of that country were the\nchildren of Jemini.\n\n19:17. And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw the man sitting with\nhis bundles in the street of the city, and said to him: Whence comest\nthou? and whither goest thou?\n\n19:18. He answered him: We came out from Bethlehem Juda, and we are\ngoing to our home, which is on the side of mount Ephraim, from whence\nwe went to Bethlehem: and now we go to the house of God, and none will\nreceive us under his roof:\n\n19:19. We have straw and hay for provender of the asses, and bread and\nwine for the use of myself and of thy handmaid, and of the servant that\nis with me: we want nothing but lodging.\n\n19:20. And the old man answered him: Peace be with thee: I will furnish\nall things that are necessary: only I beseech thee, stay not in the\nstreet.\n\n19:21. And he brought him into his house, and gave provender to his\nasses: and after they had washed their feet, he entertained them with a\nfeast.\n\n19:22. While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with\nmeat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city,\nsons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man\u2019s\nhouse, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the\nhouse, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that\nwe may abuse him:\n\n19:23. And the old man went out to them, and said: Do not so, my\nbrethren, do not so wickedly: because this man is come into my lodging,\nand cease I pray you from this folly.\n\n19:24. I have a maiden daughter, and this man hath a concubine, I will\nbring them out to you, and you may humble them, and satisfy your lust:\nonly, I beseech you, commit not this crime against nature on the man.\n\n19:25. They would not be satisfied with his words; which the man\nseeing, brought out his concubine to them, and abandoned her to their\nwickedness: and when they had abused her all the night, they let her go\nin the morning.\n\n19:26. But the woman, at the dawning of the day, came to the door of\nthe house, where her lord lodged, and there fell down.\n\n19:27. And in the morning the man arose, and opened the door, that he\nmight end the journey he had begun: and behold his concubine lay before\nthe door with her hands spread on the threshold.\n\n19:28. He thinking she was taking her rest, said to her: Arise, and let\nus be going. But as she made no answer, perceiving she was dead, he\ntook her up, and laid her upon his ass, and returned to his house.\n\n19:29. And when he was come home, he took a sword, and divided the dead\nbody of his wife with her bones into twelve parts, and sent the pieces\ninto all the borders of Israel.\n\n19:30. And when every one had seen this, they all cried out: There was\nnever such a thing done in Israel, from the day that our fathers came\nup out of Egypt, until this day: give sentence, and decree in common\nwhat ought to be done.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 20\n\nThe Israelites warring against Benjamin are twice defeated; but in the\nthird battle the Benjamites are all slain, saving six hundred men.\n\n20:1. Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together\nas one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord\nin Maspha:\n\n20:2. And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel,\nmet together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred\nthousand footmen fit for war.\n\n20:3. (Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of\nIsrael were come up to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the\nwoman that was killed being asked, how so great a wickedness had been\ncommitted,\n\n20:4. Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there\nI lodged:\n\n20:5. And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house\nwherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an\nincredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.\n\n20:6. And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the parts into all\nthe borders of your possession: because there never was so heinous a\ncrime, and so great an abomination committed in Israel.\n\n20:7. You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought\nto do.\n\n20:8. And all the people standing, answered as by the voice of one man:\nWe will not return to our tents, neither shall any one of us go into\nhis own house:\n\n20:9. But this we will do in common against Gabaa:\n\n20:10. We will take ten men of a hundred out of all the tribes of\nIsrael, and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten\nthousand, to bring victuals for the army, that we may fight against\nGabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for its wickedness, what it\ndeserveth.\n\n20:11. And all Israel were gathered together against the city, as one\nman, with one mind, and one counsel:\n\n20:12. And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin, to say to\nthem: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you?\n\n20:13. Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have committed this heinous\ncrime, that they may die, and the evil may be taken away out of Israel.\nBut they would not hearken to the proposition of their brethren the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n20:14. But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered\nthemselves together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to fight against the\nwhole people of Israel.\n\n20:15. And there were found of Benjamin five and twenty thousand men\nthat drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa,\n\n20:16. Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left\nhand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they\ncould hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone\u2019s going on either\nside.\n\n20:17. Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were\nfound four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to\nfight.\n\n20:18. And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo:\nand they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to\ngo to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord\nanswered them: Let Juda be your leader.\n\n20:19. And forthwith the children of Israel rising in the morning,\ncamped by Gabaa:\n\n20:20. And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to\nassault the city.\n\n20:21. And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the\nchildren of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.\n\n20:22. Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set\ntheir army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:\n\nTrusting in their strength.... The Lord suffered them to be overthrown\nand many of them to be slain, though their cause was just; partly in\npunishment of the idolatry which they exercised or tolerated in the\ntribe of Dan, and elsewhere; and partly because they trusted in their\nown strength; and therefore, though he bid them fight, he would not\ngive them the victory, till they were thoroughly humbled and had\nlearned to trust in him alone.\n\n20:23. Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until\nnight: and consulted him and said: Shall I go out any more to fight\nagainst the children of Benjamin my brethren or not? And he answered\nthem: Go up against them, and join battle.\n\n20:24. And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight\nagainst the children of Benjamin,\n\n20:25. The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of\nGabaa: and meeting them, made so great a slaughter of them, as to kill\neighteen thousand men that drew the sword.\n\n20:26. Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God,\nand sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the\nevening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,\n\n20:27. And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark\nof the covenant of the Lord was there,\n\n20:28. And Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was over the\nhouse. So they consulted the Lord, and said: Shall we go out any more\nto fight against the children of Benjamin, our brethren, or shall we\ncease? And the Lord said to them: Go up, for to morrow I will deliver\nthem into your hands.\n\n20:29. And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of\nGabaa:\n\n20:30. And they drew up their army against Benjamin the third time, as\nthey had done the first and second.\n\n20:31. And the children of Benjamin boldly issued out of the city, and\nseeing their enemies flee, pursued them a long way, so as to wound and\nkill some of them, as they had done the first and second day, whilst\nthey fled by two highways, whereof one goeth up to Bethel and the other\nto Gabaa, and they slew about thirty men:\n\n20:32. For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they\nartfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city,\nand by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.\n\n20:33. Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places\nwhere they were, set their army in battle array, in the place which is\ncalled Baalthamar. The ambushes also, which were about the city, began\nby little and little to come forth,\n\n20:34. And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten\nthousand men chosen out of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the\ncity. And the battle grew hot against the children of Benjamin: and\nthey understood not that present death threatened them on every side.\n\n20:35. And the Lord defeated them before the children of Israel, and\nthey slew of them in that day five and twenty thousand, and one\nhundred, all fighting men, and that drew the sword.\n\n20:36. But the children of Benjamin, when they saw themselves to be too\nweak, began to flee. Which the children of Israel seeing, gave them\nplace to flee, that they might come to the ambushes that were prepared,\nwhich they had set near the city.\n\n20:37. And they that were in ambush arose on a sudden out of their\ncoverts, and whilst Benjamin turned their backs to the slayers, went\ninto the city, and smote it with the edge of the sword.\n\n20:38. Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they\nhad laid in ambushes, that after they had taken the city, they should\nmake a fire: that by the smoke rising on high, they might shew that the\ncity was taken.\n\n20:39. And when the children of Israel saw this in the battle, (for the\nchildren of Benjamin thought they fled, and pursued them vigorously,\nkilling thirty men of their army)\n\n20:40. And perceived, as it were, a pillar of smoke rise up from the\ncity; and Benjamin looking back, saw that the city was taken, and that\nthe flames ascended on high:\n\n20:41. They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces,\nstood bravely against them. Which the children of Benjamin seeing,\nturned their backs,\n\n20:42. And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy\npursuing them thither also. And they that fired the city came also out\nto meet them.\n\n20:43. And so it was, that they were slain on both sides by the\nenemies, and there was no rest of their men dying. They fell and were\nbeaten down on the east side of the city of Gabaa.\n\n20:44. And they that were slain in the same place, were eighteen\nthousand men, all most valiant soldiers.\n\n20:45. And when they that remained of Benjamin saw this, they fled into\nthe wilderness, and made towards the rock that is called Remmon. In\nthat flight also, as they were straggling, and going different ways;\nthey slew of them five thousand men. And as they went farther, they\nstill pursued them, and slew also other two thousand.\n\n20:46. And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin, in\ndivers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant\nfor war.\n\n20:47. And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six\nhundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and\nthey abode in the rock Remmon four months.\n\n20:48. But the children of Israel returning, put all the remains of the\ncity to the sword, both men and beasts, and all the cities and villages\nof Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.\n\n\nJudges Chapter 21\n\nThe tribe of Benjamin is saved from being utterly extinct, by providing\nwives for the six hundred that remained.\n\n21:1. Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Maspha, saying: None\nof us shall give of his daughters to the children of Benjamin to wife.\n\n21:2. And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and sitting before\nhim till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and\nweep, saying:\n\n21:3. O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy\npeople, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?\n\n21:4. And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered\nthere holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:\n\n21:5. Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with\nthe army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath,\nwhen they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.\n\n21:6. And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their\nbrother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.\n\n21:7. Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn,\nnot to give our daughters to them.\n\n21:8. Therefore they said: Who is there of all the tribes of Israel,\nthat came not up to the Lord to Maspha? And, behold, the inhabitants of\nJabes Galaad were found not to have been in that army.\n\n21:9. (At that time also when they were in Silo, no one of them was\nfound there,)\n\n21:10. So they sent ten thousand of the most valiant men, and commanded\nthem, saying: Go and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the sword,\nwith their wives and their children.\n\n21:11. And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women\nthat have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.\n\n21:12. And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that\nhad not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in\nSilo, into the land of Chanaan.\n\n21:13. And they sent messengers to the children of Benjamin, that were\nin the rock Remmon, and commanded them to receive them in peace.\n\n21:14. And the children of Benjamin came at that time, and wives were\ngiven them of the daughters of Jabes Galaad: but they found no others,\nwhom they might give in like manner.\n\n21:15. And all Israel was very sorry, and repented for the destroying\nof one tribe out of Israel.\n\n21:16. And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have\nnot received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.\n\n21:17. And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that\none tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.\n\n21:18. For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound\nwith an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give\nBenjamin any of his daughters to wife.\n\n21:19. So they took counsel, and said: Behold, there is a yearly\nsolemnity of the Lord in Silo, which is situate on the north of the\ncity of Bethel, and on the east side of the way, that goeth from Bethel\nto Sichem, and on the south of the town of Lebona.\n\n21:20. And they commanded the children of Benjamin and said: Go, and\nlie hid in the vineyards,\n\n21:21. And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the\ncustom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and\ncatch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of\nBenjamin.\n\n21:22. And when their fathers and their brethren shall come, and shall\nbegin to complain against you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have\npity on them: for they took them not away as by the right of war or\nconquest, but when they asked to have them, you gave them not, and the\nfault was committed on your part.\n\n21:23. And the children of Benjamin did as they had been commanded:\nand, according to their number, they carried off for themselves every\nman his wife of them that were dancing: and they went into their\npossession, and built up their cities, and dwelt in them.\n\n21:24. The children of Israel also returned by their tribes, and\nfamilies, to their dwellings. In those days there was no king in\nIsrael: but every one did that which seemed right to himself.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF RUTH\n\n\nThis Book is called RUTH, from the name of the person whose history is\nhere recorded: who, being a Gentile, became a convert to the true\nfaith, and marrying Booz, the great-grandfather of David, was one of\nthose from whom Christ sprung according to the flesh, and an\nillustrious figure of the Gentile church. It is thought this book was\nwritten by the prophet Samuel.\n\n\nRuth Chapter 1\n\nElimelech of Bethlehem going with his wife Noemi, and two sons, into\nthe land of Moab, dieth there. His sons marry wives of that country and\ndie without issue. Noemi returneth home with her daughter in law Ruth,\nwho refuseth to part with her.\n\n1:1. In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there\ncame a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to\nsojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.\n\n1:2. He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the\none Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And\nentering into the country of Moab, they abode there.\n\n1:3. And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her\nsons.\n\n1:4. And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called\nOrpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years,\n\n1:5. And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was\nleft alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.\n\n1:6. And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with\nboth her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked\nupon his people, and had given them food.\n\n1:7. Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with\nboth her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the\nland of Juda,\n\n1:8. She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal\nmercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.\n\n1:9. May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom\nyou shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice,\nand began to weep,\n\n1:10. And to say: We will go on with thee to thy people.\n\n1:11. But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me?\nhave I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?\n\n1:12. Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent\nwith age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this\nnight, and bear children,\n\n1:13. If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man\u2019s\nestate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my\ndaughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress,\nand the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.\n\n1:14. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha\nkissed her mother in law, and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother\nin law.\n\n1:15. And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her\npeople, and to her gods, go thou with her.\n\nTo her gods, etc.... Noemi did not mean to persuade Ruth to return to\nthe false gods she had formerly worshipped: but by this manner of\nspeech, insinuated to her, that if she would go with her, she must\nrenounce her false gods and return to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n1:16. She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave\nthee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where\nthou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and\nthy God my God.\n\n1:17. The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die:\nand there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more\nalso, if aught but death part me and thee.\n\nThe Lord do so and so, etc.... A form of swearing usual in the history\nof the Old Testament, by which the person wished such and such evils to\nfall upon them, if they did not do what they said.\n\n1:18. Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with\nher, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to\nher friends:\n\n1:19. So they went together, and came to Bethlehem. And when they were\ncome into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the\nwomen said: This is that Noemi.\n\n1:20. But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but\ncall me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me\nwith bitterness.\n\n1:21. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then\ndo you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty hath\nafflicted?\n\n1:22. So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from\nthe land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the\nbeginning of the barley harvest.\n\n\nRuth Chapter 2\n\nRuth gleaneth in the field of Booz, who sheweth her favour.\n\n2:1. Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a powerful man, and very\nrich, whose name was Booz.\n\n2:2. And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother in law: If thou wilt,\nI will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the\nhands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a\nhouseholder, that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go,\nmy daughter.\n\n2:3. She went, therefore, and gleaned the ears of corn after the\nreapers. And it happened that the owner of that field was Booz, who was\nof the kindred of Elimelech.\n\n2:4. And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and said to the reapers: The\nLord be with you. And they answered him: The Lord bless thee.\n\n2:5. And Booz said to the young man that was set over the reapers:\nWhose maid is this?\n\n2:6. And he answered him: This is the Moabitess, who came with Noemi,\nfrom the land of Moab,\n\n2:7. And she desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain,\nfollowing the steps of the reapers: and she hath been in the field from\nmorning till now, and hath not gone home for one moment.\n\n2:8. And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter, do not go to glean in\nany other field, and do not depart from this place: but keep with my\nmaids,\n\n2:9. And follow where they reap. For I have charged my young men, not\nto molest thee: and if thou art thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink\nof the waters whereof the servants drink.\n\n2:10. She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to\nhim: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy\neyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of\nanother country?\n\n2:11. And he answered her: All hath been told me, that thou hast done\nto thy mother in law after the death of thy husband: and how thou hast\nleft thy parents, and the land wherein thou wast born, and art come to\na people which thou knewest not heretofore.\n\n2:12. The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a\nfull reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and\nunder whose wings thou art fled.\n\n2:13. And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast\ncomforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not\nlike to one of thy maids.\n\n2:14. And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of\nthe bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of\nthe reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was\nfilled, and took the leavings.\n\n2:15. And she arose from thence, to glean the ears of corn as before.\nAnd Booz commanded his servants, saying: If she would even reap with\nyou, hinder her not:\n\n2:16. And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them,\nthat she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when\nshe gathereth them.\n\n2:17. She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out\nwith a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the\nmeasure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:\n\n2:18. Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to\nher mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the\nremains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.\n\n2:19. And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today,\nand where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on thee.\nAnd she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man\u2019s\nname, that he was called Booz.\n\n2:20. And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the\nsame kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the\ndead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.\n\n2:21. And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to\nhis reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.\n\n2:22. And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my\ndaughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man\u2019s field\nsome one may resist thee.\n\n2:23. So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean\nwith them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.\n\n\nRuth Chapter 3\n\nRuth instructed by her mother in law lieth at Booz\u2019s feet, claiming him\nfor her husband by the law of affinity: she receiveth a good answer,\nand six measures of barley.\n\n3:1. After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My\ndaughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be\nwell with thee.\n\n3:2. This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our\nnear kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the\nthreshingfloor.\n\n3:3. Wash thyself therefore and anoint thee, and put on thy best\ngarments, and go down to the barnfloor: but let not the man see thee,\ntill he shall have done eating and drinking.\n\n3:4. And when he shall go to sleep, mark the place wherein he sleepeth:\nand thou shalt go in, and lift up the clothes wherewith he is covered\ntowards his feet, and shalt lay thyself down there: and he will tell\nthee what thou must do.\n\n3:5. She answered: Whatsoever thou shalt command, I will do.\n\n3:6. And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in\nlaw had bid her.\n\n3:7. And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and was merry, he went to\nsleep by the heap of sheaves, and she came softly, and uncovering his\nfeet, laid herself down.\n\n3:8. And behold, when it was now midnight the man was afraid, and\ntroubled: and he saw a woman lying at his feet,\n\n3:9. And he said to her: Who art thou? And she answered: I am Ruth,\nthy handmaid: spread thy coverlet over thy servant, for thou art a near\nkinsman.\n\n3:10. And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy\nlatter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not\nfollowed young men either poor or rich.\n\nThy latter kindness, viz.... to thy husband deceased in seeking to keep\nup his name and family by marrying his relation according to the law,\nand not following after young men. For Booz, it seems, was then in\nyears.\n\n3:11. Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do\nto thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city,\nknow that thou art a virtuous woman.\n\n3:12. Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another\nnearer than I.\n\n3:13. Rest thou this night: and when morning is come, if he will take\nthee by the right of kindred, all is well: but if he will not, I will\nundoubtedly take thee, as the Lord liveth: sleep till the morning.\n\n3:14. So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she\narose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any\nman know that thou camest hither.\n\n3:15. And again he said: Spread thy mantle, wherewith thou art covered,\nand hold it with both hands. And when she spread it and held it, he\nmeasured six measures of barley, and laid it upon her. And she carried\nit, and went into the city,\n\n3:16. And came to her mother in law; who said to her: What hast thou\ndone, daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.\n\n3:17. And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for\nhe said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.\n\n3:18. And Noemi said: Wait, my daughter, till we see what end the thing\nwill have. For the man will not rest until he have accomplished what he\nhath said.\n\n\nRuth Chapter 4\n\nUpon the refusal of the nearer kinsman, Booz marrieth Ruth, who\nbringeth forth Obed, the grandfather of David.\n\n4:1. Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen\nthe kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him,\ncalling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down\nhere. He turned aside, and sat down.\n\n4:2. And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to\nthem: Sit ye down here.\n\n4:3. They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned\nfrom the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to\nour brother Elimelech.\n\n4:4. I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before\nall that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt\ntake possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it:\nbut if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to\ndo. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me,\nwho am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.\n\n4:5. And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman\u2019s\nhand, thou must take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of the\ndeceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.\n\n4:6. He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut\noff the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege,\nwhich I profess I do willingly forego.\n\n4:7. Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen,\nthat if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant\nmight be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour;\nthis was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.\n\n4:8. So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he\ntook it off from his foot.\n\n4:9. And he said to the ancients, and to all the people: You are\nwitnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech\u2019s, and\nChelion\u2019s, and Mahalon\u2019s, of the hand of Noemi:\n\n4:10. And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon,\nto raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name\nbe cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You,\nI say, are witnesses of this thing.\n\n4:11. Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients,\nanswered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into\nthy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that\nshe may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name\nin Bethlehem:\n\nEphrata.... Another name of Bethlehem.\n\n4:12. And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar\nbore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this\nyoung woman.\n\n4:13. Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her,\nand the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.\n\n4:14. And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not\nsuffered thy family to want a successor: that his name should be\npreserved in Israel.\n\n4:15. And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy\nold age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is\nmuch better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.\n\n4:16. And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her bosom, and she carried\nit, and was a nurse unto it.\n\n4:17. And the women, her neighbours, congratulating with her, and\nsaying, There is a son born to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the\nfather of Isai, the father of David.\n\n4:18. These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron,\n\n4:19. Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,\n\n4:20. Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon,\n\n4:21. Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,\n\n4:22. Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\nThis and the following Book are called by the Hebrews the books of\nSamuel, because they contain the history of Samuel, and of the two\nkings, Saul and David, whom he anointed. They are more commonly named\nby the Fathers, the first and second book of kings. As to the writer of\nthem, it is the common opinion that Samuel composed the first book, as\nfar as the twenty-fifth chapter; and that the prophets Nathan and Gad\nfinished the first, and wrote the second book. See 1 Paralipomenon,\nalias 1 Chronicles, 29.29.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 1\n\nAnna the wife of Elcana being barren, by vow and prayer obtaineth a\nson: whom she calleth Samuel: and presenteth him to the service of God\nin Silo, according to her vow.\n\n1:1. There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of Mount Ephraim, and his name\nwas Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the\nson of Suph, an Ephraimite:\n\nAn Ephraimite.... He was of the tribe of Levi, 1. Par. 6.34, but is\ncalled an Ephraimite from dwelling in mount Ephraim.\n\n1:2. And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of\nthe other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children.\n\n1:3. And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to\nadore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two\nsons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.\n\n1:4. Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to\nPhenenna, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions:\n\n1:5. But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved\nAnna. And the Lord had shut up her womb.\n\n1:6. Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly,\ninsomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb:\n\n1:7. And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they\nwent up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna\nwept, and did not eat.\n\n1:8. Then Elcana, her husband, said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and\nwhy dost thou not eat? and why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I\nbetter to thee than ten children?\n\n1:9. So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo: And Heli, the\npriest, sitting upon a stool before the door of the temple of the Lord;\n\n1:10. As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord,\nshedding many tears,\n\n1:11. And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look\ndown on the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be mindful of me, and\nnot forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I\nwill give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall\ncome upon his head.\n\n1:12. And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord,\nthat Heli observed her mouth.\n\n1:13. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her\nvoice was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,\n\n1:14. And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the\nwine, of which thou hast taken too much.\n\n1:15. Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding\nunhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I\nhave poured out my soul before the Lord.\n\n1:16. Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for\nout of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.\n\n1:17. Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant\nthee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.\n\n1:18. And she said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in thy\neyes. So the woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no\nmore changed.\n\n1:19. And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and\nthey returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew\nAnna his wife: And the Lord remembered her.\n\n1:20. And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived\nand bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him\nof the Lord.\n\nSamuel.... This name imports, asked of God.\n\n1:21. And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to\nthe Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.\n\n1:22. But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go\ntill the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear\nbefore the Lord, and may abide always there.\n\n1:23. And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seemeth good to\nthee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil\nhis word. So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she\nweaned him.\n\n1:24. And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with\nthree calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she\nbrought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet\nvery young:\n\n1:25. And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli.\n\n1:26. And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my\nlord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.\n\n1:27. For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my\npetition, which I asked of him.\n\n1:28. Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his\nlife, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And\nAnna prayed, and said:\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 2\n\nThe canticle of Anna. The wickedness of the sons of Heli: for which\nthey are not duly corrected by their father. A prophecy against the\nhouse of Heli.\n\n2:1. My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my\nGod: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy\nsalvation.\n\nMy horn.... The horn in the scriptures signifies strength, power, the\nhorn is said to be exalted, when a person receives an increase of\nstrength or glory.\n\n2:2. There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside\nthee, and there is none strong like our God.\n\n2:3. Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters\ndepart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to\nhim are thoughts prepared.\n\n2:4. The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with\nstrength.\n\n2:5. They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread:\nand the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she\nthat had many children is weakened.\n\n2:6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and\nbringeth back again.\n\n2:7. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:\n\n2:8. He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor\nfrom the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of\nglory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord\u2019s, and upon them he hath\nset the world.\n\n2:9. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be\nsilent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.\n\n2:10. The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall\nhe thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth,\nand he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his\nChrist.\n\n2:11. And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child\nministered in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest.\n\n2:12. Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the\nLord,\n\n2:13. Nor the office of the priests to the people: but whosoever had\noffered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came, while the flesh\nwas in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand,\n\n2:14. And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the\npot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest\ntook to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo.\n\n2:15. Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came,\nand said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the\npriest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.\n\n2:16. And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to\nday, according to the custom, and then take to thee as much as thy soul\ndesireth. But he answered, and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give\nit me now, or else I will take it by force.\n\n2:17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the\nLord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.\n\n2:18. But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child\ngirded with a linen ephod.\n\n2:19. And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him\non the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the\nsolemn sacrifice.\n\n2:20. And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The\nLord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the\nLord. And they went to their own home.\n\n2:21. And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three\nsons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the\nLord.\n\n2:22. Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all\nIsrael: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the\ntabernacle:\n\n2:23. And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I\nhear, very wicked things, from all the people?\n\n2:24. Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that\nyou make the people of the Lord to transgress.\n\n2:25. If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his\nbehalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for\nhim? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the\nLord would slay them.\n\nWho shall pray for him.... By this word Heli would have his sons\nunderstand, that by their wicked abuse of sacred things, and of the\nvery sacrifices which were appointed to appease the Lord, they deprived\nthemselves of the ordinary means of reconciliation with God; which was\nby sacrifices. The more, because they were the chief priests whose\nbusiness it was to intercede for all others, they had no other to offer\nsacrifices and to make atonement for them. Ibid. Because the Lord would\nslay them.... In consequence of their manifold sacrileges, he would not\nsoften their hearts with his efficacious grace, but was determined to\ndestroy them.\n\n2:26. But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the\nLord and men.\n\n2:27. And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith\nthe Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father\u2019s house, when they\nwere in Egypt in the house of Pharao?\n\n2:28. And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest,\nto go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod\nbefore me: and I gave to thy father\u2019s house of all the sacrifices of\nthe children of Israel.\n\n2:29. Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I\ncommanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured\nthy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my\npeople Israel?\n\n2:30. Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed\nthat thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my\nsight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but\nwhosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise\nme, shall be despised.\n\n2:31. Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of\nthy father\u2019s house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.\n\n2:32. And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity\nof Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.\n\nThy rival.... A priest of another race. This was partly fulfilled, when\nAbiathar, of the race of Heli, was removed from the priesthood, and\nSadoc, who was of another line, was substituted in his place. But it\nwas more fully accomplished in the New Testament, when the priesthood\nof Aaron gave place to that of Christ.\n\n2:33. However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my\naltar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great\npart of thy house shall die, when they come to man\u2019s estate.\n\n2:34. And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two\nsons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die.\n\n2:35. And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according\nto my heart, and my soul and I will build him a faithful house, and he\nshall walk all days before my anointed.\n\n2:36. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy\nhouse shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of\nsilver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to\nsomewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 3\n\nSamuel is four times called by the Lord: who revealeth to him the evil\nthat shall fall on Heli, and his house.\n\n3:1. Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the\nword of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest\nvision.\n\nPrecious.... That is, rare.\n\n3:2. And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his\neyes were grown dim, that he could not see:\n\n3:3. Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the\nLord, where the ark of God was.\n\n3:4. And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I.\n\n3:5. And he ran to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou didst call me.\nHe said: I did not call: go back and sleep. And he went and slept.\n\n3:6. And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to\nHeli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did not\ncall thee, my son: return and sleep.\n\n3:7. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the word of the\nLord been revealed to him.\n\n3:8. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose up\nand went to Heli,\n\n3:9. And said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. Then Heli understood\nthat the Lord called the child, and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep:\nand if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for\nthy servant heareth. So Samuel went, and slept in his place.\n\n3:10. And the Lord came, and stood, and he called, as he had called the\nother times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy\nservant heareth.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do a thing in Israel: and\nwhosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall tingle.\n\n3:12. In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have\nspoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.\n\n3:13. For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for\never, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did\nnot chastise them.\n\n3:14. Therefore have I sworn to the house of Heli, that the iniquity of\nhis house shall not be expiated with victims nor offerings for ever.\n\n3:15. And Samuel slept till morning, and opened the doors of the house\nof the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision to Heli.\n\n3:16. Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son. And he\nanswered: Here am I.\n\n3:17. And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to\nthee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee,\nand add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said\nto thee.\n\n3:18. So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him.\nAnd he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.\n\n3:19. And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his\nwords fell to the ground.\n\n3:20. And all Israel, from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a\nfaithful prophet of the Lord.\n\n3:21. And the Lord again appeared in Silo, for the Lord revealed\nhimself to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of the Lord. And the\nword of Samuel came to pass to all Israel.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 4\n\nThe Israelites being overcome by the Philistines, send for the ark of\nGod: but they are beaten again, the sons of Heli are killed, and the\nark taken: upon the hearing of the news Heli falleth backward and\ndieth.\n\n4:1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered\nthemselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the\nPhilistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came\nto Aphec,\n\nThe Stone of help.... In Hebrew Eben-ezer; so called from the help\nwhich the Lord was pleased afterwards to give to his people Israel in\nthat place, by the prayers of Samuel, chap. 7.12.\n\n4:2. And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had\njoined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there\nwere slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four\nthousand men.\n\n4:3. And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel\nsaid: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let\nus fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let\nit come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our\nenemies.\n\n4:4. So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence the ark\nof the covenant of the Lord of hosts, sitting upon the cherubims: and\nthe two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of the\ncovenant of God.\n\n4:5. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the\ncamp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again.\n\n4:6. And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said:\nWhat is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And\nthey understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.\n\n4:7. And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the\ncamp. And sighing, they said:\n\n4:8. Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day\nbefore: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high\nGods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the\ndesert.\n\n4:9. Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come\nto be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage\nand fight.\n\n4:10. So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every\nman fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great\nslaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.\n\n4:11. And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and\nPhinees, were slain.\n\n4:12. And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Silo\nthe same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust.\n\n4:13. And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way,\nwatching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the\nman was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out.\n\n4:14. And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth\nthe noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.\n\n4:15. Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim,\nand he could not see.\n\n4:16. And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and have\nfled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What is there done,\nmy son?\n\n4:17. And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled\nbefore the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the\npeople: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark\nof God is taken.\n\n4:18. And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his stool\nbackwards by the door, and broke his neck and died. For he was an old\nman, and far advanced in years: And he judged Israel forty years.\n\nNamed the ark, etc.... There is great reason, by all these\ncircumstances, to hope that Heli died in a state of grace; and by his\ntemporal punishments escaped the eternal.\n\n4:19. And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child,\nand near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken,\nand her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself\nand fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden.\n\n4:20. And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about\nher said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them\nnot, nor gave heed to them.\n\n4:21. And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from\nIsrael, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law,\nand for her husband:\n\nIchabod.... That is, Where is the glory? or, there is no glory. We see\nhow much the Israelites lamented the loss of the ark, which was but the\nsymbol of God\u2019s presence among them. How much more ought Christians to\nlament the loss of God himself, when by sin they have driven him out of\ntheir souls.\n\n4:22. And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark\nof God was taken.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 5\n\nDagon twice falleth down before the ark. The Philistines are grievously\nafflicted, wherever the ark cometh.\n\n5:1. And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the\nStone of help into Azotus.\n\n5:2. And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the\ntemple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.\n\n5:3. And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay\nupon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took\nDagon, and set him again in his place.\n\n5:4. And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found\nDagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and\nthe head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon\nthe threshold:\n\n5:5. And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For this cause\nneither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread on\nthe threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this day.\n\n5:6. And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he\ndestroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with\nemerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country,\nthere came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a\ngreat mortality in the city.\n\n5:7. And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of plague, said: The ark of\nthe God of Israel shall not stay with us: for his hand is heavy upon\nus, and upon Dagon, our god.\n\n5:8. And sending, they gathered together all the lords of the\nPhilistines to them, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the God\nof Israel? And the Gethites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel\nbe carried about. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about.\n\n5:9. And while they were carrying it about, the hand of the Lord came\nupon every city with an exceeding great slaughter: and he smote the men\nof every city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their\nsecret parts. And the Gethites consulted together, and made themselves\nseats of skins.\n\n5:10. Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark\nof God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They\nhave brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our\npeople.\n\n5:11. They sent therefore, and gathered together all the lords of the\nPhilistines: and they said: Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and\nlet it return into its own place, and not kill us and our people.\n\n5:12. For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of\nGod was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted\nwith the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 6\n\nThe ark is sent back to Bethsames: where many are slain for looking\nthrough curiosity into it.\n\n6:1. Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven\nmonths.\n\n6:2. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,\nsaying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are\nto send it back to its place. And they said:\n\n6:3. If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away\nempty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be\nhealed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you.\n\n6:4. They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and\nthey answered:\n\n6:5. According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you\nshall make five golden emerods, and five golden mice: for the same\nplague hath been upon you all, and upon your lords. And you shall make\nthe likeness of your emerods, and the likeness of the mice, that have\ndestroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: to\nsee if he will take off his hand from you, and from your gods, and from\nyour land.\n\n6:6. Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their\nhearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they\ndeparted?\n\n6:7. Now, therefore, take and make a new cart: and two kine that have\ncalved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up\ntheir calves at home.\n\n6:8. And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart,\nand the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put\ninto a little box at the side thereof: and send it away, that it may\ngo.\n\n6:9. And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts,\ntowards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we\nshall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath\nhappened by chance.\n\n6:10. They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had\nsucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves\nat home.\n\n6:11. And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box\nthat had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.\n\n6:12. And the kine took the straight way, that leadeth to Bethsames,\nand they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside\nneither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the\nPhilistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames.\n\n6:13. Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and lifting\nup their eyes, they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.\n\n6:14. And the cart came into the field of Josue, a Bethsamite, and\nstood there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in pieces the\nwood of the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the Lord.\n\n6:15. And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that\nwas at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put\nthem upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered\nholocausts, and sacrificed victims that day to the Lord.\n\n6:16. And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to\nAccaron the same day.\n\n6:17. And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned\nfor sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for\nGeth one, for Accaron one:\n\n6:18. And the golden mice, according to the number of the cities of the\nPhilistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to the village\nthat was without wall, and to the great Abel (the stone) whereon they\nset down the ark of the Lord, which was till that day in the field of\nJosue the Bethsamite.\n\n6:19. But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the\nark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty\nthousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the\nLord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.\n\nSeen.... And curiously looked into. It is likely this plague reached to\nall the neighbouring country, as well as the city of Bethsames.\n\n6:20. And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before\nthe Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?\n\n6:21. And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim,\nsaying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye\ndown and fetch it up to you.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 7\n\nThe ark is brought to Cariathiarim. By Samuel\u2019s exhortation the people\ncast away their idols and serve God alone. The Lord defeateth the\nPhilistines, while Samuel offereth sacrifice.\n\n7:1. And the men of Cariathiarim came, and fetched up the ark of the\nLord, and carried it into the house of Abinadab, in Gabaa: and they\nsanctified Eleazar, his son, to keep the ark of the Lord.\n\nIn Gabaa.... That is, on the hill, for Gabaa signifieth a hill.\n\n7:2. And it came to pass, that from the day the ark of the Lord abode\nin Cariathiarim, days were multiplied (for it was now the twentieth\nyear) and all the house of Israel rested, following the Lord.\n\n7:3. And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn\nto the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among\nyou, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and\nserve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the\nPhilistines.\n\n7:4. Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and\nserved the Lord only.\n\n7:5. And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to\nthe Lord for you.\n\n7:6. And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and\npoured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they\nsaid there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the\nchildren of Israel in Masphath.\n\n7:7. And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were\ngathered together to Masphath, and the lords of the Philistines went up\nagainst Israel. And when the children of Israel heard this, they were\nafraid of the Philistines.\n\n7:8. And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our God for\nus, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines.\n\n7:9. And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a\nholocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the\nLord heard him.\n\n7:10. And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the holocaust, the\nPhilistines began the battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered\nwith a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified\nthem, and they were overthrown before the face of Israel.\n\n7:11. And the men of Israel going out of Masphath, pursued after the\nPhilistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar.\n\n7:12. And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen:\nand he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the\nLord hath helped us.\n\n7:13. And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more\ninto the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the\nPhilistines, all the days of Samuel.\n\n7:14. And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were\nrestored to Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their borders: and he\ndelivered Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and there was peace\nbetween Israel and the Amorrhites.\n\n7:15. And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life:\n\n7:16. And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to\nMasphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places.\n\n7:17. And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he\njudged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 8\n\nSamuel growing old, and his sons not walking in his ways, the people\ndesire a king.\n\n8:1. And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his\nsons to be judges over Israel.\n\n8:2. Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the\nsecond was Abia, judges in Bersabee.\n\n8:3. And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after\nlucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.\n\n8:4. Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to\nRamatha.\n\n8:5. And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not\nin thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have.\n\n8:6. And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they\nshould say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.\n\n8:7. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in\nall that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me,\nthat I should not reign over them.\n\nRejected, etc.... The government of Israel hitherto had been a\ntheocracy, in which God himself immediately ruled, by laws which he had\nenacted, and by judges extraordinarily raised up by himself; and\ntherefore he complains that his people rejected him, in desiring a\nchange of government.\n\n8:8. According to all their works, they have done from the day that I\nbrought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and\nserved strange gods, so do they also unto thee.\n\n8:9. Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them,\nand foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them.\n\nThe right.... That is, the manner (misphat) after which he shall\nproceed, having no one to control him, when he has the power in his\nhand.\n\n8:10. Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had\ndesired a king of him,\n\n8:11. And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign\nover you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and\nwill make them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his\nchariots,\n\n8:12. And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his\ncenturions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make\nhim arms and chariots.\n\n8:13. Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be\nhis cooks, and bakers.\n\n8:14. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best\noliveyards, and give them to his servants.\n\n8:15. Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues\nof your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.\n\n8:16. Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men,\nand your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.\n\n8:17. Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.\n\n8:18. And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom\nyou have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that\nday, because you desired unto yourselves a king.\n\n8:19. But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said,\nNay: but there shall be a king over us,\n\n8:20. And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge\nus, and go out before us, and fight our battles for us.\n\n8:21. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them\nin the ears of the Lord.\n\n8:22. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make\nthem a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to\nhis city.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 9\n\nSaul seeking his father\u2019s asses, cometh to Samuel, by whom he is\nentertained.\n\n9:1. Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Cis, the son of\nAbiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the\nson of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong.\n\n9:2. And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and\nthere was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he:\nfrom his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people.\n\n9:3. And the asses of Cis, Saul\u2019s father, were lost: and Cis said to\nhis son Saul: Take one of the servants with thee, and arise, go, and\nseek the asses. And when they had passed through Mount Ephraim,\n\n9:4. And through the land of Salisa, and had not found them, they\npassed also through the land of Salim, and they were not there: and\nthrough the land of Jemini, and found them not.\n\n9:5. And when they were come to the land of Suph, Saul said to the\nservant that was with him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my father\nforget the asses, and be concerned for us.\n\n9:6. And he said to him: Behold there is a man of God in this city, a\nfamous man: all that he saith, cometh certainly to pass. Now,\ntherefore, let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of our way, for\nwhich we are come.\n\n9:7. And Saul said to his servant: Behold we will go: but what shall we\ncarry to the man of God? the bread is spent in our bags: and we have no\npresent to make to the man of God, nor any thing at all.\n\n9:8. The servant answered Saul again, and said: Behold there is found\nin my hand the fourth part of a sicle of silver, let us give it to the\nman of God, that he may tell us our way.\n\n9:9. Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he\nspoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a\nprophet, in time past was called a seer.\n\nSeer.... Because of his seeing by divine light hidden things and things\nto come.\n\n9:10. And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good, come let us\ngo. And they went into the city, where the man of God was.\n\n9:11. And when they went up the ascent to the city, they found maids\ncoming out to draw water, and they said to them: Is the seer here?\n\n9:12. They answered and said to them: He is: behold he is before you,\nmake haste now: for he came to day into the city, for there is a\nsacrifice of the people to day in the high place.\n\nA sacrifice.... The law did not allow of sacrifices in any other place,\nbut at the tabernacle, or temple, in which the ark of the covenant was\nkept; but Samuel, by divine dispensation, offered sacrifices in other\nplaces. For which dispensation this reason may be alleged, that the\nhouse of God in Silo, having lost the ark, was now cast off; as a\nfigure of the reprobation of the Jews, Ps. 77.60, 67. And in\nCariathiarim where the ark was, there was neither tabernacle, nor\naltar.\u2014Ibid. The high place.... Excelsum. The excelsa, or high places,\nso often mentioned in scripture, were places of worship, in which were\naltars for sacrifice. These were sometimes employed in the service of\nthe true God, as in the present case: but more frequently in the\nservice of idols; and were called excelsa, which is commonly (though\nperhaps not so accurately) rendered high places; not because they were\nalways upon hills, for the very worst of all, which was that of\nTopheth, or Geennom, (Jer. 19.) was in a valley; but because of the\nhigh altars, and pillars, or monuments, erected there, on which were\nset up the idols, or images of their deities.\n\n9:13. As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately find\nhim, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not\neat till he come; because he blesseth the victim, and afterwards they\neat that are invited. Now, therefore, go up, for to day you shall find\nhim.\n\n9:14. And they went up into the city. And when they were walking in the\nmidst of the city, behold Samuel was coming out over against them, to\ngo up to the high place.\n\n9:15. Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of Samuel the day before\nSaul came, saying:\n\n9:16. To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land\nof Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people\nIsrael: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines:\nfor I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.\n\n9:17. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold the man,\nof whom I spoke to thee, this man shall reign over my people.\n\n9:18. And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and said: Tell\nme, I pray thee, where is the house of the seer?\n\n9:19. And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer; go up before me\nto the high place, that you may eat with me to day, and I will let thee\ngo in the morning: and tell thee all that is in thy heart.\n\n9:20. And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be not\nsolicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all the best\nthings of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all thy father\u2019s\nhouse?\n\n9:21. And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least\ntribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the\ntribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me?\n\n9:22. Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant, brought them into the\nparlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited.\nFor there were about thirty men.\n\n9:23. And Samuel said to the cook: Bring the portion which I gave thee,\nand commanded thee to set it apart by thee.\n\n9:24. And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And\nSamuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because\nit was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the people. And Saul\nate with Samuel that day.\n\n9:25. And they went down from the high place into the town, and he\nspoke with Saul upon the top of the house: and he prepared a bed for\nSaul on the top of the house and he slept.\n\n9:26. And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be\nlight, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that\nI may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out both of them: to\nwit, he and Samuel.\n\n9:27. And as they were going down in the end of the city, Samuel said\nto Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand\nthou still a while, that I may tell thee the word of the Lord.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 10\n\nSaul is anointed. He prophesieth, and is changed into another man.\nSamuel calleth the people together, to make a king: the lot falleth on\nSaul.\n\n10:1. And Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it upon his\nhead, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to\nbe prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out\nof the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this\nshall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.\n\n10:2. When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men\nby the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and\nthey shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek:\nand thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you,\nand saith: What shall I do for my son?\n\n10:3. And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and\nshalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going\nup to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves\nof bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.\n\nBethel.... Where there was at that time an altar of God; it being one\nof the places where Samuel judged Israel.\n\n10:4. And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves, and\nthou shalt take them at their hand.\n\n10:5. After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison\nof the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city,\nthou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place,\nwith a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and\nthey shall be prophesying.\n\nThe hill of God.... Gabaa, in which there was also at that time, a high\nplace or altar.\u2014Prophets.... These were men whose office it was to sing\nhymns and praises to God; for such in holy writ are called prophets,\nand their singing praises to God is called prophesying. See 1 Par.\nalias 1 Chr. 15.22, and 25.1. Now there were in those days colleges, or\nschools for training up these prophets; and it seems there was one of\nthese schools at this hill of God; and another at Najoth in Ramatha.\nSee 1 Kings 19.20, 21, etc.\n\n10:6. And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt\nprophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.\n\n10:7. When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever\nthy hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee.\n\n10:8. And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down\nto thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of\npeace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew\nthee what thou art to do.\n\nGalgal.... Here also by dispensation was an altar of God.\n\n10:9. So when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave unto\nhim another heart, and all these things came to pass that day.\n\n10:10. And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of\nprophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he\nprophesied in the midst of them.\n\n10:11. And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing\nthat he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What\nis this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the\nprophets?\n\n10:12. And one answered another, saying: And who is their father?\ntherefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?\n\nTheir father.... That is, their teacher, or superior. As much as to\nsay, Who could bring about such a wonderful change as to make Saul a\nprophet?\n\n10:13. And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high\nplace.\n\n10:14. And Saul\u2019s uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither went\nyou? They answered: To seek the asses: and not finding them, we went to\nSamuel.\n\n10:15. And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee.\n\n10:16. And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses were\nfound. But of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel had spoken to\nhim, he told him not.\n\n10:17. And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:\n\n10:18. And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the\nGod of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from\nthe hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who\nafflicted you.\n\n10:19. But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you\nout of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay:\nbut set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your\ntribes, and by your families.\n\n10:20. And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and the lot\nfell on the tribe of Benjamin.\n\n10:21. And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof,\nand the lot fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the\nson of Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not found.\n\n10:22. And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come\nthither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home.\n\n10:23. And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst\nof the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the\nshoulders and upward.\n\n10:24. And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the\nLord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And\nall the people cried and said: God save the king.\n\n10:25. And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it\nin a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the\npeople, every one to his own house.\n\n10:26. Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went\nwith him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.\n\n10:27. But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to\nsave us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he\ndissembled as though he heard not.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 11\n\nSaul defeateth the Ammonites, and delivereth Jabes Galaad.\n\n11:1. And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the\nAmmonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the\nmen of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve\nthee.\n\n11:2. And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them: On this condition will I\nmake a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and\nmake you a reproach in all Israel.\n\n11:3. And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven days, that\nwe may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no\none to defend us, we will come out to thee.\n\n11:4. The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke\nthese words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up\ntheir voices, and wept.\n\n11:5. And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he\nsaid: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the\nwords of the men of Jabes.\n\n11:6. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, when he had heard\nthese words, and his anger was exceedingly kindled.\n\n11:7. And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them\ninto all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall\nnot come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his\noxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out\nas one man.\n\n11:8. And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of\nIsrael three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.\n\n11:9. And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to\nthe men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you\nshall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of\nJabes, and they were glad.\n\n11:10. And they said: In the morning we will come out to you: and you\nshall do what you please with us.\n\n11:11. And it came to pass, when the morrow was come, that Saul put the\npeople in three companies: and he came into the midst of the camp in\nthe morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites until the day grew hot,\nand the rest were scattered, so that two of them were not left\ntogether.\n\n11:12. And the people said to Samuel: Who is he that said: Shall Saul\nreign over us? Bring the men, and we will kill them.\n\n11:13. And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord\nthis day hath wrought salvation in Israel:\n\n11:14. And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal,\nand let us renew the kingdom there.\n\n11:15. And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul\nking, before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of\npeace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel\nrejoiced exceedingly.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 12\n\nSamuel\u2019s integrity is acknowledged. God sheweth by a sign from heaven\nthat they had done ill in asking for a king.\n\n12:1. And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have hearkened to your\nvoice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.\n\n12:2. And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded:\nand my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth\nuntil this day, behold here I am.\n\n12:3. Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I\nhave taken any man\u2019s ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have\noppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man\u2019s hand: and I\nwill despise it this day, and will restore it to you.\n\n12:4. And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor\ntaken ought at any man\u2019s hand.\n\n12:5. And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his\nanointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing in my\nhand. And they said: He is witness.\n\n12:6. And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord who made Moses and\nAaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt.\n\n12:7. Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead in judgment against\nyou before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he\nhath shewn to you, and to your fathers:\n\n12:8. How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord:\nand the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of\nEgypt, and made them dwell in this place.\n\n12:9. And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into\nthe hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands\nof the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they\nfought against them.\n\n12:10. But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned,\nbecause we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Astaroth:\nbut now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve\nthee.\n\n12:11. And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan, and Jephte, and Samuel,\nand delivered you from the hand of your enemies round about, and you\ndwelt securely.\n\nJerobaal and Badan.... That is, Gedeon and Samson called here Badan or\nBedan, because he was of Dan.\n\n12:12. But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come\nagainst you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us:\nwhereas the Lord your God was your king.\n\n12:13. Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and\ndesired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.\n\n12:14. If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his\nvoice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and\nthe king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.\n\n12:15. But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will\nrebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and\nupon your fathers.\n\n12:16. Now then stand, and see this great thing which the Lord will do\nin your sight.\n\n12:17. Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and\nhe shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you\nyourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring\na king over you.\n\nWheat harvest.... At which time of the year, it never thunders or rains\nin those countries.\n\n12:18. And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and\nrain that day.\n\n12:19. And all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all\nthe people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God,\nthat we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to\nask for a king.\n\n12:20. And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done all this\nevil: but yet depart not from following the Lord, but serve the Lord\nwith all your heart.\n\n12:21. And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit\nyou, nor deliver you, because they are vain.\n\n12:22. And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name\u2019s\nsake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.\n\n12:23. And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should\ncease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.\n\n12:24. Therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in truth, and with your\nwhole heart, for you have seen the great works which he hath done among\nyou.\n\n12:25. But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall\nperish together.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 13\n\nThe war between Saul and the Philistines. The distress of the\nIsraelites. Saul offereth sacrifice before the coming of Samuel: for\nwhich he is reproved.\n\n13:1. Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years over Israel.\n\nOf one year.... That is, he was good and like an innocent child, and\nfor two years continued in that innocency.\n\n13:2. And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand\nwere with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with\nJonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back\nevery man to their dwellings.\n\n13:3. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in\nGabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the\ntrumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.\n\n13:4. And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the garrison\nof the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the Philistines.\nAnd the people were called together after Saul to Galgal.\n\n13:5. The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel,\nthirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of\npeople besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up\nthey camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.\n\n13:6. And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the\npeople were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets,\nand in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.\n\n13:7. And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan into the land of\nGad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people that\nfollowed him were greatly afraid.\n\n13:8. And he waited seven days, according to the appointment of Samuel,\nand Samuel came not to Galgal, and the people slipt away from him.\n\n13:9. Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace offerings.\nAnd he offered the holocaust.\n\n13:10. And when he had made an end of offering the holocaust, behold\nSamuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him and salute him.\n\n13:11. And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered:\nBecause I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come\naccording to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered\ntogether in Machmas,\n\n13:12. I said: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Galgal,\nand I have not appeased the face of the Lord. Forced by necessity, I\noffered the holocaust.\n\n13:13. And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and hast not\nkept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. And\nif thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would now have established thy\nkingdom over Israel for ever:\n\n13:14. But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a\nman according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to be\nprince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the\nLord commanded.\n\n13:15. And Samuel arose and went up from Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin.\nAnd the rest of the people went up after Saul, to meet the people who\nfought against them, going from Galgal to Gabaa, in the hill of\nBenjamin. And Saul numbered the people, that were found with him, about\nsix hundred men.\n\n13:16. And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present\nwith them, were in Gabaa of Benjamin: But the Philistines encamped in\nMachmas.\n\n13:17. And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three\ncompanies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the\nland of Sual;\n\n13:18. And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to\nthe way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.\n\n13:19. Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel,\nfor the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should\nmake them swords or spears.\n\n13:20. So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man\nhis ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.\n\n13:21. So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and\ntheir axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.\n\n13:22. And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor\nspear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and\nJonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.\n\n13:23. And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance\nfurther in Machmas.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 14\n\nJonathan attacketh the Philistines. A miraculous victory. Saul\u2019s\nunadvised oath, by which Jonathan is put in danger of his life, but is\ndelivered by the people.\n\n14:1. Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said\nto the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the\ngarrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder\nplace. But he told not this to his father.\n\n14:2. And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gabaa, under the\npomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him were\nabout six hundred men.\n\n14:3. And Achias, the son of Achitob, brother of Ichabod the son of\nPhinees, the son of Heli, the priest of the Lord in Silo, wore the\nephod. And the people knew not whither Jonathan was gone.\n\n14:4. Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to\ngo over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both\nsides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other,\nthe name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:\n\n14:5. One rock stood out toward the north, over against Machmas, and\nthe other to the south, over against Gabaa.\n\n14:6. And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come,\nlet us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the\nLord will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by\nmany, or by few.\n\n14:7. And his armourbearer said to him: Do all that pleaseth thy mind:\ngo whither thou wilt, and I will be with thee wheresoever thou hast a\nmind.\n\n14:8. And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over to these men. And when\nwe shall be seen by them,\n\n14:9. If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we come to you: let us\nstand still in our place, and not go up to them.\n\n14:10. But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the\nLord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.\n\nThis shall be a sign.... It is likely Jonathan was instructed by divine\ninspiration to make a choice of this sign: otherwise the observation of\nomens is superstitious and sinful.\n\n14:11. So both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the\nPhilistines: and the Philistines said: Behold the Hebrews come forth\nout of the holes wherein they were hid.\n\n14:12. And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan, and to his\narmourbearer, and said: Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.\nAnd Jonathan said to his armourbearer: Let us go up, follow me: for the\nLord hath delivered them into the hands of Israel.\n\n14:13. And Jonathan went up creeping on his hands and feet, and his\narmourbearer after him. And some fell before Jonathan, others his\narmourbearer slew as he followed him.\n\n14:14. And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armourbearer\nmade, was of about twenty men, within half an acre of land, which a\nyoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day.\n\n14:15. And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the\npeople of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and\nthe earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.\n\n14:16. And the watchmen of Saul, who were in Gabaa of Benjamin looked,\nand behold a multitude overthrown, and fleeing this way and that.\n\n14:17. And Saul said to the people that were with him: Look, and see\nwho is gone from us. And when they had sought, it was found that\nJonathan and his armourbearer were not there.\n\n14:18. And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of the Lord. (For the ark\nof God was there that day with the children of Israel.)\n\n14:19. And while Saul spoke to the priest, there arose a great uproar\nin the camp of the Philistines: and it increased by degrees, and was\nheard more clearly. And Saul said to the priest: Draw in thy hand.\n\n14:20. Then Saul, and all the people that were with him, shouted\ntogether, and they came to the place of the fight: and behold every\nman\u2019s sword was turned upon his neighbour, and there was a very great\nslaughter.\n\n14:21. Moreover, the Hebrews that had been with the Philistines\nyesterday and the day before, and went up with them into the camp,\nreturned to be with the Israelites, who were with Saul and Jonathan.\n\n14:22. And all the Israelites that had hid themselves in mount Ephraim,\nhearing that the Philistines fled, joined themselves with their\ncountrymen in the fight. And there were with Saul about ten thousand\nmen.\n\n14:23. And the Lord saved Israel that day. And the fight went on as far\nas Bethaven.\n\n14:24. And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul\nadjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till\nevening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted\nany food.\n\n14:25. And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was\nhoney upon the ground.\n\n14:26. And when the people came into the forest, behold the honey\ndropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth. For the people feared\nthe oath.\n\n14:27. But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people:\nand he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt\nit in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes\nwere enlightened.\n\n14:28. And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the\npeople with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food\nthis day. (And the people were faint.)\n\n14:29. And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have\nseen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little\nof this honey:\n\n14:30. How much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their\nenemies, which they found? had there not been made a greater slaughter\namong the Philistines?\n\n14:31. So they smote that day the Philistines, from Machmas to Aialon.\nAnd the people were wearied exceedingly.\n\n14:32. And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and\ncalves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the\nblood.\n\n14:33. And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord,\neating with the blood. And he said: You have transgressed: roll here to\nme now a great stone.\n\n14:34. And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell\nthem to bring me every man his ox and his ram and slay them upon this\nstone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the Lord, in eating with\nthe blood. So all the people brought every man his ox with him till the\nnight: and slew them there.\n\n14:35. And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to\nbuild an altar to the Lord.\n\n14:36. And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philistines by night, and\ndestroy them till the morning light, and let us not leave a man of\nthem. And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thy eyes. And\nthe priest said: Let us draw near hither unto God.\n\n14:37. And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the\nPhilistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he\nanswered him not that day.\n\n14:38. And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and\nknow, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.\n\n14:39. As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Israel, if it was done\nby Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die. In this none of the people\ngainsayed him.\n\n14:40. And he said to all Israel: Be you on one side and I, with\nJonathan, my son, will be on the other side. And the people answered\nSaul: Do what seemeth good in thy eyes.\n\n14:41. And Saul said to the Lord: O Lord God of Israel, give a sign, by\nwhich we may know, what the meaning is, that thou answerest not thy\nservant to day: If this iniquity be in me, or in my son Jonathan, give\na proof: or if this iniquity be in thy people, give holiness. And\nJonathan and Saul were taken, and the people escaped.\n\n14:42. And Saul said: Cast lots between me, and Jonathan, my son. And\nJonathan was taken.\n\nJonathan was taken.... Though Jonathan was excused from sin, through\nignorance of the prohibition, yet God was pleased on this occasion to\nlet the lot fall upon him, to shew unto all the great obligation of\nobedience to princes and parents.\n\n14:43. And Saul said to Jonathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And\nJonathan told him, and said: I did but taste a little honey with the\nend of the rod, which was in my hand, and behold I must die.\n\n14:44. And Saul said: May God do so and so to me, and add still more:\nfor dying thou shalt die, O Jonathan.\n\n14:45. And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath\nwrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord\nliveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he\nhath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that\nhe should not die.\n\n14:46. And Saul went back, and did not pursue after the Philistines:\nand the Philistines went to their own places.\n\n14:47. And Saul having his kingdom established over Israel, fought\nagainst all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the\nchildren of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the\nPhilistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he overcame.\n\n14:48. And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and\ndelivered Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them.\n\n14:49. And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua:\nand the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn was\nMerob, and the name of the younger Michol.\n\n14:50. And the name of Saul\u2019s wife was Achinoam, the daughter of\nAchimaas; and the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of\nNer, the cousin german of Saul.\n\n14:51. For Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner,\nwas son of Abiel.\n\n14:52. And there was a great war against the Philistines all the days\nof Saul. For whomsoever Saul saw to be a valiant man, and fit for war,\nhe took him to himself.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 15\n\nSaul is sent to destroy Amalec: he spareth their king and the best of\ntheir cattle: for which disobedience he is cast off by the Lord.\n\n15:1. And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king\nover his people Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of\nthe Lord:\n\n15:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec\nhath done to Israel: how he opposed them in the way when they came up\nout of Egypt.\n\n15:3. Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that\nhe hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both\nman and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.\n\nChild.... The great Master of life and death (who cuts off one half of\nall mankind whilst they are children) has been pleased sometimes to\nordain that children should be put to the sword, in detestation of the\ncrimes of their parents, and that they might not live to follow the\nsame wicked ways. But without such ordinance of God it is not\nallowable, in any wars, how just soever, to kill children.\n\n15:4. So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two\nhundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.\n\n15:5. And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in\nthe torrent.\n\n15:6. And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from\nAmalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to\nall the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the\nCinite departed from the midst of Amalec.\n\n15:7. And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur,\nwhich is over against Egypt.\n\n15:8. And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common\npeople he slew with the edge of the sword.\n\n15:9. And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks\nof sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that\nwas beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was\nvile, and good for nothing, that they destroyed.\n\n15:10. And the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying:\n\n15:11. It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken\nme, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and\nhe cried unto the Lord all night.\n\n15:12. And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was\ntold Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a\ntriumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal.\nAnd Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord,\nout of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec.\n\n15:13. And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be\nthou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.\n\n15:14. And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks,\nwhich soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?\n\n15:15. And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the\npeople spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might\nbe sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.\n\n15:16. And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what\nthe Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.\n\n15:17. And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes,\nwast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord\nanointed thee to be king over Israel.\n\n15:18. And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the\nsinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast\nutterly destroyed them.\n\n15:19. Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but\nhast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?\n\n15:20. And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of\nthe Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and\nhave brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.\n\n15:21. But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the\nfirstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the\nLord their God in Galgal.\n\n15:22. And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims,\nand not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For\nobedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to\noffer the fat of rams.\n\n15:23. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the\ncrime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou\nhast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee\nfrom being king.\n\n15:24. And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have\ntransgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the\npeople, and obeying their voice.\n\n15:25. But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I\nmay adore the Lord.\n\n15:26. And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because\nthou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected\nthee from being king over Israel.\n\n15:27. And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the\nskirt of his mantle, and it rent.\n\n15:28. And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel\nfrom thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better\nthan thee.\n\n15:29. But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be\nmoved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.\n\n15:30. Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the\nancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I\nmay adore the Lord thy God.\n\n15:31. So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.\n\n15:32. And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec.\nAnd Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said:\nDoth bitter death separate in this manner?\n\n15:33. And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so\nshall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in\npieces before the Lord in Galgal.\n\n15:34. And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in\nGabaa.\n\n15:35. And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death:\nnevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that\nhe had made him king over Israel.\n\nSaw Saul no more till the day of his death.... That is, he went no more\nto see him: he visited him no more.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 16\n\nSamuel is sent to Bethlehem, where he anointeth David: who is taken\ninto Saul\u2019s family.\n\n16:1. And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul,\nwhom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil,\nand come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have\nprovided me a king among his sons.\n\n16:2. And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he\nwill kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of\nthe herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.\n\n16:3. And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee\nwhat thou art to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to\nthee.\n\n16:4. Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to\nBethlehem, and the ancients of the city wondered, and meeting him, they\nsaid: Is thy coming hither peaceable?\n\n16:5. And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the\nLord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he\nsanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.\n\n16:6. And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord\u2019s\nanointed before him?\n\n16:7. And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on\nthe height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge\naccording to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear,\nbut the Lord beholdeth the heart.\n\n16:8. And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he\nsaid: Neither hath the Lord chosen this,\n\n16:9. And Isai brought Samma, and he said of him: Neither hath the Lord\nchosen this.\n\n16:10. Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel\nsaid to Isai: The Lord hath not chosen any one of these.\n\n16:11. And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered:\nThere remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said\nto Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come\nhither.\n\n16:12. He sent therefore and brought him. Now he was ruddy and\nbeautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise,\nand anoint him, for this is he.\n\n16:13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst\nof his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that\nday forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha.\n\n16:14. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil\nspirit from the Lord troubled him.\n\nFrom the Lord.... An evil spirit, by divine permission, and for his\npunishment, either possessed or obsessed him.\n\n16:15. And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold now an evil spirit\nfrom God troubleth thee.\n\n16:16. Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee,\nwill seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil\nspirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou\nmayst bear it more easily.\n\n16:17. And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can\nplay well, and bring him to me.\n\n16:18. And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen a\nson of Isai, the Bethlehemite, a skilful player, and one of great\nstrength, and a man fit for war, and prudent in his words, and a comely\nperson: and the Lord is with him.\n\n16:19. Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David, thy\nson, who is in the pastures.\n\n16:20. And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and\na kid of the flock, and sent them by the hand of David, his son, to\nSaul.\n\n16:21. And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him\nexceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.\n\n16:22. And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he\nhath found favour in my sight.\n\n16:23. So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, David\ntook his harp, and played with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and\nwas better, for the evil spirit departed from him.\n\nDeparted from him.... Chased away by David\u2019s devotion.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 17\n\nWar with the Philistines. Goliath challengeth Israel. He is slain by\nDavid.\n\n17:1. Now the Philistines gathering together their troops to battle,\nassembled at Socho of Juda: and camped between Socho and Azeca, in the\nborders of Dommim.\n\n17:2. And Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together, came\nto the valley of Terebinth, and they set the army in array to fight\nagainst the Philistines.\n\n17:3. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and\nIsrael stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley\nbetween them.\n\n17:4. And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the\nPhilistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a\nspan:\n\n17:5. And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed\nwith a coat of mail with scales, and the weight of his coat of mail was\nfive thousand sicles of brass:\n\n17:6. And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass\ncovered his shoulders.\n\n17:7. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam, and the head\nof his spear weighed six hundred sicles of iron: and his armourbearer\nwent before him.\n\n17:8. And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to\nthem: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine,\nand you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come\ndown and fight hand to hand.\n\n17:9. If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants\nto you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be\nservants, and shall serve us.\n\n17:10. And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this\nday: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.\n\n17:11. And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the\nPhilistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid.\n\n17:12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda,\nbefore mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an\nold man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.\n\n17:13. And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the\nnames of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab, the\nfirstborn, and the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma:\n\n17:14. But David was the youngest. So the three eldest having followed\nSaul,\n\n17:15. David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father\u2019s flock\nat Bethlehem.\n\n17:16. Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented\nhimself forty days.\n\n17:17. And Isai said to David, his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi\nof frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren,\n\n17:18. And carry these ten little cheeses to the tribune: and go see\nthy brethren, if they are well: and learn with whom they are placed.\n\n17:19. But Saul, and they, and all the children of Israel, were in the\nvalley of Terebinth, fighting against the Philistines.\n\n17:20. David, therefore, arose in the morning, and gave the charge of\nthe flock to the keeper: and went away loaded, as Isai had commanded\nhim. And he came to the place of Magala, and to the army, which was\ngoing out to fight, and shouted for the battle.\n\n17:21. For Israel had put themselves in array, and the Philistines who\nstood against them were prepared.\n\n17:22. And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the\ncare of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and\nasked if all things went well with his brethren.\n\n17:23. And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was\nGoliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the\ncamp of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and\nDavid heard them,\n\n17:24. And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his\nface, fearing him exceedingly.\n\n17:25. And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come\nup, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him,\nthe king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter,\nand will make his father\u2019s house free from tribute in Israel.\n\n17:26. And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: What shall\nbe given to the man that shall kill this Philistine, and shall take\naway the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised\nPhilistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?\n\n17:27. And the people answered him the same words, saying: These things\nshall be given to the man that shall slay him.\n\n17:28. Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was\nspeaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest\nthou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I\nknow thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come\ndown to see the battle.\n\n17:29. And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?\n\n17:30. And he turned a little aside from him to another: and said the\nsame word. And the people answered him as before.\n\n17:31. And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed\nbefore Saul.\n\n17:32. And when he was brought to Saul, he said to him. Let not any\nman\u2019s heart be dismayed in him: I thy servant will go, and will fight\nagainst the Philistine.\n\n17:33. And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to withstand this\nPhilistine, nor to fight against him: for thou art but a boy, but he is\na warrior from his youth.\n\n17:34. And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept his father\u2019s sheep, and\nthere came a lion, or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the\nflock:\n\n17:35. And I pursued after them, and struck them, and delivered it out\nof their mouth: and they rose up against me, and I caught them by the\nthroat, and I strangled, and killed them.\n\n17:36. For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this\nuncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now,\nand take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised\nPhilistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?\n\n17:37. And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the\nlion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the\nhand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be\nwith thee.\n\n17:38. And Saul clothed David with his garments, and put a helmet of\nbrass upon his head, and armed him with a coat of mail.\n\n17:39. And David having girded his sword upon his armour, began to try\nif he could walk in armour: for he was not accustomed to it. And David\nsaid to Saul: I cannot go thus, for I am not used to it. And he laid\nthem off,\n\n17:40. And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands: and\nchose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them into the\nshepherd\u2019s scrip, which he had with him, and he took a sling in his\nhand, and went forth against the Philistine.\n\n17:41. And the Philistine came on, and drew nigh against David, and his\narmourbearer went before him.\n\n17:42. And when the Philistine looked, and beheld David, he despised\nhim. For he was a young man, ruddy, and of a comely countenance.\n\n17:43. And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest\nto me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.\n\n17:44. And he said to David: Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to\nthe birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.\n\n17:45. And David said to the Philistine: Thou comest to me with a\nsword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the\nname of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou\nhast defied.\n\n17:46. This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I\nwill slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the\ncarcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the\nair, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that\nthere is a God in Israel.\n\n17:47. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with\nsword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you into our\nhands.\n\n17:48. And when the Philistine arose, and was coming, and drew nigh to\nmeet David, David made haste, and ran to the fight to meet the\nPhilistine.\n\n17:49. And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast\nit with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the\nforehead: and the stone was fixed in his forehead, and he fell on his\nface upon the earth.\n\n17:50. And David prevailed over the Philistine, with a sling and a\nstone, and he struck, and slew the Philistine. And as David had no\nsword in his hand,\n\n17:51. He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and\ndrew it out of the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head. And the\nPhilistines seeing that their champion was dead, fled away.\n\n17:52. And the men of Israel and Juda rising up shouted, and pursued\nafter the Philistines till they came to the valley and to the gates of\nAccaron, and there fell many wounded of the Philistines in the way of\nSaraim, and as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron.\n\n17:53. And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the\nPhilistines, fell upon their camp.\n\n17:54. And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to\nJerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.\n\n17:55. Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the\nPhilistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family\nis this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth,\nO king, I know not.\n\n17:56. And the king said: Inquire thou, whose son this young man is.\n\n17:57. And when David was returned, after the Philistine was slain,\nAbner took him, and brought him in before Saul, with the head of the\nPhilistine in his hand.\n\n17:58. And Saul said to him: Young man, of what family art thou? And\nDavid said: I am the son of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 18\n\nThe friendship of Jonathan and David. The envy of Saul, and his design\nupon David\u2019s life. He marrieth him to his daughter Michol.\n\n18:1. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul,\nthe soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan\nloved him as his own soul.\n\n18:2. And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his\nfather\u2019s house.\n\n18:3. And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his\nown soul.\n\n18:4. And Jonathan stripped himself of the coat with which he was\nclothed, and gave it to David, and the rest of his garments, even to\nhis sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.\n\n18:5. And David went out to whatsoever business Saul sent him, and he\nbehaved himself prudently: and Saul set him over the soldiers, and he\nwas acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and especially in the\neyes of Saul\u2019s servants.\n\n18:6. Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women\ncame out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king\nSaul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.\n\n18:7. And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his\nthousands, and David his ten thousands.\n\n18:8. And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in\nhis eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me\nthey have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom?\n\n18:9. And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and\nforward.\n\n18:10. And the day after, the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and\nhe prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand\nas at other times. And Saul held a spear in his hand,\n\nProphesied.... Acted the prophet in a mad manner.\n\n18:11. And threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall: and David\nstept aside out of his presence twice.\n\n18:12. And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was\ndeparted from himself.\n\n18:13. Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him a captain over\na thousand men, and he went out and came in before the people.\n\n18:14. And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with\nhim.\n\n18:15. And Saul saw that he was exceeding prudent, and began to beware\nof him.\n\n18:16. But all Israel and Juda loved David, for he came in and went out\nbefore them.\n\n18:17. And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will\nI give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of\nthe Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him,\nbut let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.\n\n18:18. And David said to Saul: Who am I, or what is my life, or my\nfather\u2019s family in Israel, that I should be son in law of the king?\n\n18:19. And it came to pass at the time when Merob, the daughter of\nSaul, should have been given to David, that she was given to Hadriel,\nthe Molathite, to wife.\n\n18:20. But Michol, the other daughter of Saul, loved David. And it was\ntold Saul, and it pleased him.\n\n18:21. And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a\nstumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon\nhim. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law\nthis day.\n\n18:22. And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately,\nsaying: Behold, thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee.\nNow, therefore be the king\u2019s son in law.\n\n18:23. And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ears of\nDavid. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the\nking\u2019s son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.\n\n18:24. And the servants of Saul told him, saying: Such words as these\nhath David spoken.\n\n18:25. And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any\ndowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged\nof the king\u2019s enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands\nof the Philistines.\n\n18:26. And when his servants had told David the words that Saul had\nsaid, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David to be the king\u2019s son\nin law.\n\n18:27. And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that\nwere under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and\nbrought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he\nmight be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter,\nto wife.\n\n18:28. And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And\nMichol, the daughter of Saul, loved him.\n\n18:29. And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David\u2019s enemy\ncontinually.\n\n18:30. And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the\nbeginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than\nall the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 19\n\nOther attempts of Saul upon David\u2019s life. He cometh to Samuel. Saul\u2019s\nmessengers, and Saul himself prophesy.\n\n19:1. And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants,\nthat they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David\nexceedingly.\n\n19:2. And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill\nthee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and\nthou shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.\n\n19:3. And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where\nthou art: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall\nsee, I will tell thee.\n\n19:4. And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and\nsaid to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he\nhath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee.\n\n19:5. And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the\nLord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst\nrejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing\nDavid, who is without fault?\n\n19:6. And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of\nJonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.\n\n19:7. Then Jonathan called David, and told him all these words: and\nJonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had\nbeen yesterday and the day before.\n\n19:8. And the war began again, and David went out, and fought against\nthe Philistines, and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they\nfled from his face.\n\n19:9. And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul; and he sat in\nhis house, and held a spear in his hand: and David played with his\nhand.\n\n19:10. And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear.\nAnd David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed\nhim, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that\nnight.\n\n19:11. Saul therefore sent his guards to David\u2019s house to watch him,\nthat he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David\u2019s wife,\nhad told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to\nmorrow thou wilt die:\n\n19:12. She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away,\nand escaped.\n\n19:13. And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a\ngoat\u2019s skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with\nclothes.\n\n19:14. And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that\nhe was sick.\n\n19:15. And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the\nbed, that he may be slain.\n\n19:16. And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon\nthe bed, and a goat skin at his head.\n\n19:17. And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let\nmy enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to\nme: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.\n\n19:18. But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and\ntold him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and\ndwelt in Najoth.\n\nNajoth.... It was probably a school or college of prophets, in or near\nRamath under the direction of Samuel.\n\n19:19. And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is in Najoth,\nin Ramatha.\n\n19:20. So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company\nof prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of\nthe Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy.\n\nProphesying.... That is, singing praises to God by a divine impulse.\nGod was pleased on this occasion that both Samuel\u2019s messengers and\nhimself should experience the like impulse, that he might understand,\nby this instance of the divine power, how vain are the designs of man\nagainst him whom God protects.\n\n19:21. And when this was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they\nalso prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers the third time: and\nthey prophesied also. And Saul being exceeding angry,\n\n19:22. Went also himself to Ramatha, and came as far as the great\ncistern, which is in Socho, and he asked, and said: In what place are\nSamuel and David? And it was told him: Behold they are in Najoth, in\nRamatha.\n\n19:23. And he went to Najoth, in Ramatha, and the Spirit of the Lord\ncame upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied till he came to\nNajoth, in Ramatha.\n\n19:24. And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied\nwith the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night.\nThis gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets?\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 20\n\nSaul being obstinately bent upon killing David, he is sent away by\nJonathan.\n\n20:1. But David fled from Najoth, which is in Ramatha, and came and\nsaid to Jonathan: What have I done? what is my iniquity, and what is my\nsin against thy father, that he seeketh my life?\n\n20:2. And he said to him: God forbid, thou shalt not die: for my\nfather will do nothing, great or little, without first telling me: hath\nthen my father hid this word only from me? no, this shall not be.\n\n20:3. And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly\nknoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not\nJonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth,\nand thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me\nand death.\n\n20:4. And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me,\nI will do for thee.\n\n20:5. And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and\nI, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me\ngo then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third\nday.\n\nTo morrow is the new moon.... The neomenia, or first day of the moon,\nkept according to the law, as a festival; and therefore Saul feasted on\nthat day: and expected the attendance of his family.\n\n20:6. If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him:\nDavid asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because\nthere are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe.\n\n20:7. If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if\nhe be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.\n\n20:8. Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me,\nthy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any\niniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.\n\n20:9. And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should\ncertainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I\ncould do no otherwise than tell thee.\n\n20:10. And David answered Jonathan: Who shall bring me word, if thy\nfather should answer thee harshly concerning me?\n\n20:11. And Jonathan said to David: Come, and let us go out into the\nfield. And when they were both of them gone out into the field,\n\n20:12. Jonathan said to David: O Lord God of Israel, if I shall\ndiscover my father\u2019s mind, to morrow, or the day after, and there be\nany thing good for David, and I send not immediately to thee, and make\nit known to thee,\n\n20:13. May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan, and add still more. But\nif my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it\nto thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayst go in peace, and\nthe Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.\n\n20:14. And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but\nif I die,\n\n20:15. Thou shalt not take away thy kindness from my house for ever,\nwhen the Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one of\nthem from the earth, may he take away Jonathan from his house, and may\nthe Lord require it at the hands of David\u2019s enemies.\n\nMay he take away Jonathan, etc.... It is a curse upon himself, if he\nshould not be faithful to his promise.\u2014Ibid. Require it, etc.... That\nis, revenge it upon David\u2019s enemies, and upon me, if I should fail of\nmy word given to him.\n\n20:16. Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and\nthe Lord required it at the hands of David\u2019s enemies.\n\n20:17. And Jonathan swore again to David, because he loved him: for he\nloved him as his own soul.\n\n20:18. And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is the new moon, and thou\nwilt be missed:\n\n20:19. For thy seat will be empty till after to morrow. So thou shalt\ngo down quickly, and come to the place where thou must he hid, on the\nday when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt remain beside the stone,\nwhich is called Ezel.\n\n20:20. And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as if I\nwere exercising myself at a mark.\n\n20:21. And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the\narrows.\n\n20:22. If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of\nthee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee,\nand there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to\nthe boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord\nhath sent thee away.\n\n20:23. And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord\nbe between thee and me forever.\n\n20:24. So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the\nking sat down to eat bread.\n\n20:25. And when the king sat down upon his chair, (according to custom)\nwhich was beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul\u2019s\nside, and David\u2019s place appeared empty.\n\n20:26. And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have\nhappened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.\n\n20:27. And when the second day after the new moon was come, David\u2019s\nplace appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why\ncometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day?\n\n20:28. And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go\nto Bethlehem.\n\n20:29. And he said: Let me go, for there is a solemn sacrifice in the\ncity, one of my brethren hath sent for me: and now if I have found\nfavour in thy eyes, I will go quickly, and see my brethren. For this\ncause he came not to the king\u2019s table.\n\n20:30. Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of\na woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest\nthe son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy\nshameless mother?\n\n20:31. For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not\nbe established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and\nfetch him to me: for he is the son of death.\n\nThe son of death.... That is, one that deserveth death, and shall\nsurely be put to death.\n\n20:32. And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die?\nWhat hath he done?\n\n20:33. And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan\nunderstood that it was determined by his father to kill David.\n\n20:34. So Jonathan rose from the table in great anger, and did not eat\nbread on the second day after the new moon. For he was grieved for\nDavid, because his father had put him to confusion.\n\n20:35. And when the morning came, Jonathan went into the field\naccording to the appointment with David, and a little boy with him.\n\n20:36. And he said to his boy: Go, and fetch me the arrows which I\nshoot. And when the boy ran, he shot another arrow beyond the boy.\n\n20:37. The boy therefore came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan\nhad shot: and Jonathan cried after the boy, and said: Behold the arrow\nis there further beyond thee.\n\n20:38. And Jonathan cried again after the boy, saying: Make haste\nspeedily, stand not. And Jonathan\u2019s boy gathered up the arrows, and\nbrought them to his master:\n\n20:39. And he knew not at all what was doing: for only Jonathan and\nDavid knew the matter.\n\n20:40. Jonathan therefore gave his arms to the boy, and said to him:\nGo, and carry them into the city.\n\n20:41. And when the boy was gone, David rose out of his place, which\nwas toward the south, and falling on his face to the ground, adored\nthrice: and kissing one another, they wept together; but David more.\n\n20:42. And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that\nwe have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be\nbetween me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever.\n\n20:43. And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 21\n\nDavid receiveth holy bread of Achimelech, the priest: and feigneth\nhimself mad before Achis, king of Geth.\n\n21:1. And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech\nwas astonished at David\u2019s coming. And he said to him: Why art thou\nalone, and no man with thee?\n\nNobe.... A city in the tribe of Benjamin, to which the tabernacle of\nthe Lord had been translated from Silo.\n\n21:2. And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded\nme a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art\nsent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have\nappointed my servants to such and such a place.\n\n21:3. Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but\nfive loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.\n\n21:4. And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at\nhand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from\nwomen?\n\nIf the young men be clean, etc.... If this cleanness was required of\nthem that were to eat that bread, which was a figure of the bread of\nlife which we receive in the blessed sacrament; how clean ought\nChristians to be when they approach to our tremendous mysteries. And\nwhat reason hath the church of God to admit none to be her ministers to\nconsecrate and daily receive this most pure sacrament, but such as\ndevote themselves to a life of perpetual purity.\n\n21:5. And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what\nconcerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the\nday before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were\nholy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day\nin the vessels.\n\nThe vessels.... i. e., the bodies, have been holy, that is, have been\nkept from impurity.\u2014Ibid. Is defiled.... Is liable to expose us to\ndangers of uncleanness.\u2014Ibid. Be sanctified, etc.... That is, we shall\ntake care, notwithstanding these dangerous circumstances, to keep our\nvessels holy, that is, to keep our bodies from every thing that may\ndefile us.\n\n21:6. The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no\nbread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken\naway from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.\n\n21:7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,\nwithin the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite,\nthe chiefest of Saul\u2019s herdsmen.\n\n21:8. And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or\na sword? for I brought not my own sword, nor my own weapons with me,\nfor the king\u2019s business required haste.\n\n21:9. And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the\nPhilistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in\na cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here\nthere is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that,\ngive it me.\n\n21:10. And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and\ncame to Achis, the king of Geth:\n\n21:11. And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is\nnot this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their\ndances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten\nthousands?\n\n21:12. But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly\nafraid at the face of Achis, the king of Geth.\n\n21:13. And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down\nbetween their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and\nhis spittle ran down upon his beard.\n\n21:14. And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why\nhave you brought him to me?\n\n21:15. Have we need of mad men, that you have brought in this fellow,\nto play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my\nhouse?\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 22\n\nMany resort to David. Doeg accuseth Achimelech to Saul. He ordereth him\nand all the other priests of Nobe to be slain. Abiathar escapeth.\n\n22:1. David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of\nOdollam. And when his brethren, and all his father\u2019s house, had heard\nof it, they went down to him thither.\n\n22:2. And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under\naffliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their\nprince, and there were with him about four hundred men.\n\n22:3. And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said\nto the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I\nbeseech thee, till I know what God will do for me.\n\n22:4. And he left them under the eyes of the king of Moab, and they\nabode with him all the days that David was in the hold.\n\nThe hold.... The strong hold, or fortress of Maspha.\n\n22:5. And Gad the prophet said to David: Abide not in the hold, depart,\nand go into the land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the\nforest of Haret.\n\n22:6. And Saul heard that David was seen, and the men that were with\nhim. Now whilst Saul abode in Gabaa, and was in the wood, which is by\nRama, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing\nabout him,\n\n22:7. He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye\nsons of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and\nvineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions:\n\n22:8. That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to\ninform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with\nthe son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that\ngiveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant\nagainst me, plotting against me to this day.\n\n22:9. And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the\nservants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with\nAchimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest.\n\n22:10. And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and\ngave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.\n\n22:11. Then the king sent to call for Achimelech, the priest, the son\nof Achitob, and all his father\u2019s house, the priests that were in Nobe,\nand they came all of them to the king.\n\n22:12. And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He\nanswered: Here I am, my lord.\n\n22:13. And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou,\nand the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and\nhast consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me,\ncontinuing a traitor to this day.\n\n22:14. And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy\nservants is so faithful as David, who is the king\u2019s son in law, and\ngoeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?\n\n22:15. Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for him? far be this from\nme: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, or any\none in all my father\u2019s house: for thy servant knew nothing of this\nmatter, either little or great.\n\n22:16. And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and\nall thy father\u2019s house.\n\n22:17. And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn,\nand kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because\nthey knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king\u2019s\nservants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the\nLord.\n\n22:18. And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.\nAnd Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in\nthat day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.\n\n22:19. And Nobe, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the\nsword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass, and\nsheep, with the edge of the sword.\n\n22:20. But one of the sons of Achimelech, the son of Achitob, whose\nname was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,\n\n22:21. And told him that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord.\n\n22:22. And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg, the\nEdomite, was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been\nthe occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father\u2019s house.\n\n22:23. Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life,\nseeketh thy life also, and with me thou shalt be saved.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 23\n\nDavid relieveth Ceila, besieged by the Philistines. He fleeth into the\ndesert of Ziph. Jonathan and he confirm their former covenant. The\nZiphites discover him to Saul, who pursuing close after him, is called\naway by an invasion from the Philistines.\n\n23:1. And they told David, saying: Behold the Philistines fight against\nCeila, and they rob the barns.\n\n23:2. Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite\nthese Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite\nthe Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.\n\n23:3. And the men that were with David, said to him: Behold we are in\nfear here in Judea, how much more if we go to Ceila against the bands\nof the Philistines?\n\n23:4. Therefore David consulted the Lord again. And he answered and\nsaid to him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines\ninto thy hand.\n\n23:5. David, therefore, and his men, went to Ceila, and fought against\nthe Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great\nslaughter of them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila.\n\n23:6. Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, fled to\nDavid, to Ceila, he came down, having an ephod with him.\n\nAn ephod.... Or the ephod. That is, the vestment of the high priest,\nwith the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle.\n\n23:7. And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said:\nThe Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being\ncome into a city that hath gates and bars.\n\n23:8. And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against\nCeila, and to besiege David and his men.\n\n23:9. Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil\nagainst him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.\n\n23:10. And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a\nreport, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for\nmy sake:\n\n23:11. Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? and will Saul\ncome down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy\nservant. And the Lord said: He will come down.\n\n23:12. And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me and my men into\nthe hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up.\n\n23:13. Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and\ndeparting from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should\nstay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had\nescaped: wherefore he forbore to go out.\n\n23:14. But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained\nin a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought\nhim always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands.\n\n23:15. And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David\nwas in the desert of Ziph, in a wood.\n\n23:16. And Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose, and went to David, into\nthe wood, and strengthened his hands in God: and he said to him:\n\n23:17. Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul, shall not find thee,\nand thou shalt reign over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and\nmy father knoweth this.\n\n23:18. And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in\nthe wood: but Jonathan returned to his house.\n\n23:19. And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not\nDavid lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount\nHachila, which is on the right hand of the desert.\n\n23:20. Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath desired to come down:\nand it shall be our business to deliver him into the king\u2019s hands.\n\n23:21. And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my\ncase.\n\n23:22. Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously\ninquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen\nhim there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.\n\n23:23. Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and\nreturn to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you.\nAnd if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will\nsearch him out in all the thousands of Juda.\n\n23:24. And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his\nmen were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of\nJesimon.\n\n23:25. Then Saul and his men went to seek him: and it was told David,\nand forthwith he went down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of\nMaon: and when Saul had heard of it, he pursued after David in the\nwilderness of Maon.\n\n23:26. And Saul went on this side of the mountain: and David and his\nmen were on the other side of the mountain: and David despaired of\nbeing able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul and his men\nencompassed David and his men round about, to take them.\n\n23:27. And a messenger came to Saul, saying: Make haste to come, for\nthe Philistines have poured in themselves upon the land.\n\n23:28. Wherefore Saul returned, leaving the pursuit of David, and went\nto meet the Philistines. For this cause they called that place the rock\nof division.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 24\n\nSaul seeketh David in the wilderness of Engaddi: he goeth into a cave\nwhere David hath him in his power.\n\n24:1. Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds of\nEngaddi.\n\n24:2. And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they\ntold him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi.\n\n24:3. Saul, therefore, took three thousand chosen men out of all\nIsrael, and went out to seek after David and his men, even upon the\nmost craggy rocks, which are accessible only to wild goats.\n\n24:4. And he came to the sheepcotes which were in his way. And there\nwas a cave, into which Saul went, to ease nature: now David and his men\nlay hid in the inner part of the cave.\n\n24:5. And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which\nthe Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou\nmayst do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose,\nand secretly cut off the hem of Saul\u2019s robe.\n\n24:6. After which David\u2019s heart struck him, because he had cut off the\nhem of Saul\u2019s robe.\n\nHeart struck him.... Viz., with remorse, as fearing he had done amiss.\n\n24:7. And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may\ndo no such thing to my master, the Lord\u2019s anointed, as to lay my hand\nupon him, because he is the Lord\u2019s anointed.\n\n24:8. And David stopped his men with his words, and suffered them not\nto rise against Saul: but Saul, rising up out of the cave, went on his\nway.\n\n24:9. And David also rose up after him: and going out of the cave,\ncried after Saul, saying: My lord the king. And Saul looked behind him:\nand David bowing himself down to the ground, worshipped,\n\n24:10. And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say:\nDavid seeketh thy hurt?\n\n24:11. Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered\nthee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but\nmy eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against\nmy lord, because he is the Lord\u2019s anointed.\n\nA thought to kill thee.... That is, a suggestion, to which I did not\nconsent.\n\n24:12. Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my\nhand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my\nhand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand,\nnor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in\nwait for my life, to take it away.\n\n24:13. The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of\nthee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.\n\nRevenge me of thee.... Or, as it is in the Hebrew, will revenge me. The\nmeaning is, that he refers his whole cause to God, to judge and punish\naccording to his justice: yet so as to keep himself in the mean time,\nfrom all personal hatred to Saul, or desire of gratifying his own\npassion, by seeking revenge. So far from it, that when Saul was\nafterwards slain, we find, that instead of rejoicing at his death, he\nmourned most bitterly for him.\n\n24:14. As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall\nwickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After\nwhom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?\n\n24:15. After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.\n\n24:16. Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and\njudge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.\n\n24:17. And when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul,\nSaul said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his\nvoice, and wept:\n\n24:18. And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast\ndone good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.\n\n24:19. And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to\nme: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed\nme.\n\n24:20. For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away?\nBut the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to\nme this day.\n\n24:21. And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the\nkingdom of Israel in thy hand:\n\n24:22. Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed\nafter me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.\n\n24:23. And David swore to Saul. So Saul went home: and David and his\nmen went up into safer places.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 25\n\nThe death of Samuel. David, provoked by Nabal, threateneth to destroy\nhim: but is appeased by Abigail.\n\n25:1. And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they\nmourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David\nrose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.\n\n25:2. Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his\npossessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had\nthree thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was\nshearing his sheep in Carmel.\n\n25:3. Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was\nAbigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband\nwas churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of\nCaleb.\n\n25:4. And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing\nhis sheep,\n\n25:5. He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go\nto Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.\n\n25:6. And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and\npeace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast.\n\n25:7. I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert\nwere shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing\nto them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in\nCarmel.\n\n25:8. Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy\nservants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day,\nwhatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son\nDavid.\n\n25:9. And when David\u2019s servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these\nwords in David\u2019s name, and then held their peace.\n\n25:10. But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David?\nand what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee\nfrom their masters.\n\n25:11. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my\ncattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I\nknow not whence they are?\n\n25:12. So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came\nand told him all the words that he said.\n\n25:13. Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his\nsword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on\nhis sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two\nhundred remained with the baggage.\n\n25:14. But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal,\nsaying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute\nour master: and he rejected them.\n\n25:15. These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither\ndid we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in\nthe desert.\n\n25:16. They were a wall unto us, both by night and day, all the while\nwe were with them keeping the sheep.\n\n25:17. Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is\ndetermined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son\nof Belial, so that no man can speak to him.\n\n25:18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two\nvessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of\nparched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes\nof dry figs, and laid them upon asses:\n\n25:19. And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will\nfollow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.\n\n25:20. And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the\nfoot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and\nshe met them.\n\n25:21. And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to\nthis fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that\npertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.\n\n25:22. May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I\nleave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth\nagainst the wall.\n\nIf I leave, etc.... David certainly sinned in his designs against Nabal\nand his family, as he himself was afterwards sensible, when he blessed\nGod for hindering him from executing the revenge he had proposed.\n\n25:23. And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the\nass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.\n\n25:24. And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity\nbe, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and\nhear the words of thy servant.\n\n25:25. Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man,\nNabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him:\nbut I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou\nsentest.\n\nHis name.... Nabal, in Hebrew, signifies a fool.\n\n25:26. Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth,\nwho hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand\nto thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek\nevil to my lord.\n\n25:27. Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought\nto thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my\nlord.\n\n25:28. Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely\nmake for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the\nbattles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the\ndays of thy life.\n\n25:29. For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and\nseek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of\nthe living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall\nbe whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.\n\n25:30. And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good\nthat he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince\nover Israel,\n\n25:31. This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of\nheart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged\nthyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt\nremember thy handmaid.\n\n25:32. And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of\nIsrael, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:\n\n25:33. And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to\nblood, and revenging me with my own hand.\n\n25:34. Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath\nwithholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come\nto meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any\nthat pisseth against the wall.\n\n25:35. And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and\nsaid to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice,\nand honoured thy face.\n\n25:36. And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his\nhouse, like the feast of a king: and Nabal\u2019s heart was merry, for he\nwas very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning.\n\n25:37. But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his\nwife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became\nas a stone.\n\n25:38. And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he\ndied.\n\n25:39. And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed\nbe the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of\nNabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned\nthe wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with\nAbigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife.\n\nBlessed be, etc.... David praiseth God, on this occasion, not out of\njoy for the death of Nabal (which would have argued a rancour of\nheart), but because he saw that God had so visibly taken his cause in\nhand, in punishing the injury done to him; whilst, by a merciful\nprovidence he kept him from revenging himself.\n\n25:40. And David\u2019s servants came to Abigail, to Carmel, and spoke to\nher, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a\nwife.\n\n25:41. And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the\nearth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the\nfeet of the servants of my lord.\n\n25:42. And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five\ndamsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the\nmessengers of David, and became his wife.\n\n25:43. Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were\nboth of them his wives.\n\n25:44. But Saul gave Michol, his daughter, David\u2019s wife, to Phalti, the\nson of Lais, who was of Gallim.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 26\n\nSaul goeth out again after David, who cometh by night where Saul and\nhis men are asleep, but suffereth him not to be touched. Saul again\nconfesseth his fault, and promiseth peace.\n\n26:1. And the men of Ziph came to Saul in Gabaa, saying: Behold David\nis hid in the hill of Hachila, which is over against the wilderness.\n\n26:2. And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph having\nwith him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the\nwilderness of Ziph.\n\n26:3. And Saul encamped in Gabaa Hachila, which was over against the\nwilderness in the way: and David abode in the wilderness. And seeing\nthat Saul was come after him into the wilderness,\n\n26:4. He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come\nthither.\n\n26:5. And David arose secretly, and came to the place where Saul was:\nand when he had beheld the place, wherein Saul slept, and Abner, the\nson of Ner, the captain of his army, and Saul sleeping in a tent, and\nthe rest of the multitude round about him,\n\n26:6. David spoke to Achimelech, the Hethite, and Abisai, the son of\nSarvia, the brother of Joab, saying: Who will go down with me to Saul\ninto the camp? And Abisai said: I will go with thee.\n\n26:7. So David and Abisai came to the people by night, and found Saul\nlying and sleeping in the tent, and his spear fixed in the ground at\nhis head: and Abner and the people sleeping round about him.\n\n26:8. And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day\ninto thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to\nthe earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.\n\n26:9. And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth\nhis hand against the Lord\u2019s anointed, and shall be guiltless?\n\n26:10. And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike\nhim, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and\nperish:\n\n26:11. The Lord be merciful unto me, that I extend not my hand upon the\nLord\u2019s anointed. But now take the spear, which is at his head, and the\ncup of water, and let us go.\n\n26:12. So David took the spear, and the cup of water which was at\nSaul\u2019s head, and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, or\nawaked, but they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord was\nfallen upon them.\n\n26:13. And when David was gone over to the other side, and stood on the\ntop of the hill afar off, and a good space was between them,\n\n26:14. David cried to the people, and to Abner, the son of Ner, saying:\nWilt thou not answer, Abner? And Abner answering, said: Who art thou,\nthat criest, and disturbest the king?\n\n26:15. And David said to Abner: Art not thou a man? and who is like\nunto thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for\nthere came one of the people in to kill the king thy lord.\n\n26:16. This thing is not good, that thou hast done: as the Lord liveth,\nyou are the sons of death, who have not kept your master, the Lord\u2019s\nanointed. And now where is the king\u2019s spear, and the cup of water,\nwhich was at his head?\n\n26:17. And Saul knew David\u2019s voice, and said: Is this thy voice, my son\nDavid? And David said: It is my voice, my lord the king.\n\n26:18. And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What\nhave I done? or what evil is there in my hand?\n\n26:19. Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of\nthy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of\nsacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the\nLord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the\ninheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.\n\n26:20. And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord:\nfor the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is\nhunted in the mountains.\n\n26:21. And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will\nno more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes\nthis day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been\nignorant in very many things.\n\n26:22. And David answering, said: Behold the king\u2019s spear: let one of\nthe king\u2019s servants come over and fetch it.\n\n26:23. And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and\nhis faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my\nhand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord\u2019s anointed.\n\n26:24. And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so\nlet my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver\nme from all distress.\n\n26:25. Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and\ntruly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David\nwent on his way, and Saul returned to his place.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 27\n\nDavid goeth again to Achis king of Geth, and obtaineth of him the city\nof Siceleg.\n\n27:1. And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into\nthe hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in\nthe land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to\nseek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.\n\n27:2. And David arose, and went away, both he and the six hundred men\nthat were with him, to Achis, the son of Maoch, king of Geth.\n\n27:3. And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he and his men; every man\nwith his household, and David with his two wives, Achinoam, the\nJezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.\n\n27:4. And it was told Saul that David was fled to Geth, and he sought\nno more after him.\n\n27:5. And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let\na place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may\ndwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with\nthee?\n\n27:6. Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg\nbelongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day.\n\n27:7. And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines,\nwas four months.\n\n27:8. And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi,\nand the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the\ncountries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.\n\nPillaged Gessuri, etc.... These probably were enemies of the people of\nGod: and some, if not all of them, were of the number of those whom God\nhad ordered to be destroyed: which justifies David\u2019s proceedings in\ntheir regard. Though it is to be observed here, that we are not under\nan obligation of justifying every thing that he did: for the scripture,\nin relating what was done, does not say that it was well done. And even\nsuch as are true servants of God, are not to be imitated in all they\ndo.\n\n27:9. And David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman\nalive: and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the\ncamels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achis.\n\n27:10. And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David\nanswered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel,\nand against the south of Ceni.\n\n27:11. And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of\nthem to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David,\nand such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country\nof the Philistines.\n\n27:12. And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his\npeople Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 28\n\nThe Philistines go out to war against Israel. Saul being forsaken by\nGod, hath recourse to a witch. Samuel appeareth to him.\n\n28:1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered\ntogether their armies, to be prepared for war against Israel: And Achis\nsaid to David: Know thou now assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me\nto the war, thou, and thy men.\n\n28:2. And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant\nwill do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my\nlife for ever.\n\n28:3. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried\nhim in Ramatha, his city. And Saul had put away all the magicians and\nsoothsayers out of the land.\n\n28:4. And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped\nin Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to\nGelboe.\n\n28:5. And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his\nheart was very much dismayed.\n\n28:6. And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by\ndreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.\n\n28:7. And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that hath a\ndivining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire by her. And his\nservants said to him: There is a woman that hath a divining spirit at\nEndor.\n\n28:8. Then he disguised himself: and put on other clothes, and he went,\nand two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said\nto her: Divine to me by thy divining spirit, and bring me up him whom I\nshall tell thee.\n\n28:9. And the woman said to him: Behold thou knowest all that Saul hath\ndone, and how he hath rooted out the magicians and soothsayers from the\nland: why then dost thou lay a snare for my life, to cause me to be put\nto death?\n\n28:10. And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord liveth,\nthere shall no evil happen to thee for this thing.\n\n28:11. And the woman said to him: Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he\nsaid, Bring me up Samuel.\n\n28:12. And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice,\nand said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.\n\n28:13. And the king said to her: Fear not: what hast thou seen? and the\nwoman said to Saul: I saw gods ascending out of the earth.\n\n28:14. And he said to her: What form is he of? And she said: An old man\ncometh up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood that it\nwas Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and\nadored.\n\nUnderstood that it was Samuel.... It is the more common opinion of the\nholy fathers, and interpreters, that the soul of Samuel appeared\nindeed: and not, as some have imagined, an evil spirit in his shape.\nNot that the power of her magic could bring him thither, but that God\nwas pleased for the punishment of Saul, that Samuel himself should\ndenounce unto him the evils that were falling upon him. See Eccli.\n46.23.\n\n28:15. And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disturbed my rest, that I\nshould be brought up? And Saul said: I am in great distress: for the\nPhilistines fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would\nnot hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore\nI have called thee, that thou mayst shew me what I shall do.\n\n28:16. And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has\ndeparted from thee, and is gone over to thy rival?\n\n28:17. For the Lord will do to thee as he spoke by me, and he will rend\nthy kingdom out of thy hand, and will give it to thy neighbour David:\n\n28:18. Because thou didst not obey the voice of the Lord, neither didst\nthou execute the wrath of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore hath\nthe Lord done to thee what thou sufferest this day.\n\n28:19. And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands\nof the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me:\nand the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the\nPhilistines.\n\nWith me.... That is, in the state of the dead, and in another world,\nthough not in the same place.\n\n28:20. And forthwith Saul fell all along on the ground; for he was\nfrightened with the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him,\nfor he had eaten no bread all that day.\n\n28:21. And the woman came to Saul, (for he was very much troubled) and\nsaid to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put\nmy life in my hand: and I hearkened unto the words which thou spokest\nto me.\n\n28:22. Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also to the voice of\nthy handmaid, and let me set before thee a morsel of bread, that thou\nmayst eat and recover strength, and be able to go on thy journey.\n\n28:23. But he refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and\nthe woman forced him, and at length hearkening to their voice, he arose\nfrom the ground, and sat upon the bed.\n\n28:24. Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste\nand killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened\nbread,\n\n28:25. And set it before Saul, and before his servants. And when they\nhad eaten they rose up, and walked all that night.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 29\n\nDavid going with the Philistines is sent back by their princes.\n\n29:1. Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to\nAphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.\n\n29:2. And the lords of the Philistines marched with their hundreds and\ntheir thousands: but David and his men were in the rear with Achis.\n\n29:3. And the princes of the Philistines said to Achis: What mean these\nHebrews? And Achis said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you not\nknow David who was the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, and hath\nbeen with me many days, or years, and I have found no fault in him,\nsince the day that he fled over to me until this day?\n\n29:4. But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him, and they\nsaid to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou\nhast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he\nbe an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he\notherwise appease his master, but with our heads?\n\n29:5. Is not this David, to whom they sung in their dances, saying:\nSaul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?\n\n29:6. Then Achis called David, and said to him: As the Lord liveth,\nthou art upright and good in my sight: and so is thy going out, and thy\ncoming in with me in the army: and I have not found any evil in thee,\nsince the day that thou camest to me unto this day: but thou pleasest\nnot the lords.\n\n29:7. Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the\nprinces of the Philistines.\n\n29:8. And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou\nfound in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight\nuntil this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my\nlord the king?\n\n29:9. And Achis answering, said to David: I know that thou art good in\nmy sight, as an angel of God: But the princes of the Philistines have\nsaid: He shall not go up with us to the battle.\n\n29:10. Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy\nlord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall\nbegin to be light, go on your way.\n\n29:11. So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set\nforward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines:\nand the Philistines went up to Jezrahel.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 30\n\nThe Amalecites burn Siceleg, and carry off the prey: David pursueth\nafter them, and recovereth all out of their hands.\n\n30:1. Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day,\nthe Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and\nhad smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,\n\n30:2. And had taken the women captives that were in it, both little and\ngreat: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them with\nthem, and went on their way.\n\n30:3. So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt\nwith fire, and that their wives, and their sons, and their daughters,\nwere taken captives,\n\n30:4. David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices,\nand wept till they had no more tears.\n\n30:5. For the two wives also of David were taken captives, Achinoam,\nthe Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.\n\n30:6. And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to\nstone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons\nand daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.\n\n30:7. And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the son of Achimelech: Bring\nme hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.\n\n30:8. And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I pursue after these\nrobbers, and shall I overtake them, or not? And the Lord said to him:\nPursue after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them and recover the\nprey.\n\n30:9. So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and\nthey came to the torrent Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there.\n\n30:10. But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred\nstayed, who, being weary, could not go over the torrent Besor.\n\n30:11. And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to\nDavid: and they gave him bread to eat, and water to drink,\n\n30:12. As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two bunches of raisins.\nAnd when he had eaten them, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed:\nfor he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days and three\nnights.\n\n30:13. And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost\nthou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of\nEgypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I\nbegan to be sick three days ago.\n\n30:14. For we made an invasion on the south side of Cerethi, and upon\nJuda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire.\n\n30:15. And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this company? and\nhe said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver me\ninto the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company. And\nDavid swore to him.\n\n30:16. And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread\nabroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping\na festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken\nout of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.\n\n30:17. And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the\nnext day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young\nmen, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.\n\n30:18. So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he\nrescued his two wives.\n\n30:19. And there was nothing missing small or great, neither of their\nsons or their daughters, nor of the spoils, and whatsoever they had\ntaken, David recovered all.\n\n30:20. And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go\nbefore him: and they said: This is the prey of David.\n\n30:21. And David came to the two hundred men, who, being weary, had\nstayed, and were not able to follow David, and he had ordered them to\nabide at the torrent Besor: and they came out to meet David, and the\npeople that were with him. And David coming to the people, saluted them\npeaceably.\n\n30:22. Then all the wicked and unjust men, that had gone with David,\nanswering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them\nany thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take\nhis wife, and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way.\n\n30:23. But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these\nthings, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath\ndelivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands:\n\n30:24. And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall\nbe the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode\nat the baggage, and they shall divide alike.\n\n30:25. And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was\nmade a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.\n\n30:26. Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the prey to the\nancients of Juda, his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the\nprey of the enemies of the Lord.\n\n30:27. To them that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth to the\nsouth, and to them that were in Jether.\n\n30:28. And to them that were in Aroer, and that were in Sephamoth, and\nthat were in Esthamo,\n\n30:29. And that were in Rachal, and that were in the cities of\nJerameel, and that were in the cities of Ceni,\n\n30:30. And that were in Arama, and that were in the lake Asan, and that\nwere in Athach,\n\n30:31. And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those\nplaces, in which David had abode with his men.\n\n\n1 Kings Chapter 31\n\nIsrael is defeated by the Philistines: Saul and his sons are slain.\n\n31:1. And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel\nfled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.\n\n31:2. And the Philistines fell upon Saul, and upon his sons, and they\nslew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua, the sons of Saul.\n\n31:3. And the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the\narchers overtook him, and he was grievously wounded by the archers.\n\n31:4. Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me:\nlest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his\narmourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear.\nThen Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.\n\n31:5. And when his armourbearer saw this, to wit, that Saul was dead,\nhe also fell upon his sword and died with him.\n\n31:6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all\nhis men that same day together.\n\n31:7. And the men of Israel, that were beyond the valley, and beyond\nthe Jordan, seeing that the Israelites were fled, and that Saul was\ndead, and his sons, forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines\ncame and dwelt there.\n\n31:8. And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and\nthey found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe.\n\n31:9. And they cut off Saul\u2019s head, and stripped him of his armour, and\nsent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the\ntemples of their idols and among their people.\n\n31:10. And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body\nthey hung on the wall of Bethsan.\n\n31:11. Now when the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad had heard all that the\nPhilistines had done to Saul,\n\n31:12. All the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and\ntook the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of\nBethsan: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there.\n\n31:13. And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes:\nand fasted seven days.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\nThis Book relates the transactions from the death of Saul until the end\nof David\u2019s reign, being a history for the space of about forty-six\nyears.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 1\n\nDavid mourneth for the death of Saul and Jonathan: he ordereth the man\nto be slain who pretended he had killed Saul.\n\n1:1. Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from\nthe slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.\n\n1:2. And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul\u2019s\ncamp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he\ncame to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.\n\n1:3. And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to\nhim: I am fled out of the camp of Israel.\n\n1:4. And David said unto him: What is the matter that is come to pass?\ntell me: He said: The people are fled from the battle, and many of the\npeople are fallen and dead: moreover Saul and Jonathan his son are\nslain.\n\n1:5. And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou\nthat Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?\n\n1:6. And the young man that told him, said: I came by chance upon mount\nGelboe, and Saul leaned upon his spear: and the chariots and horsemen\ndrew nigh unto him,\n\n1:7. And looking behind him, and seeing me, he called me. And I\nanswered, Here am I.\n\n1:8. And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an\nAmalecite.\n\n1:9. And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come\nupon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.\n\n1:10. So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could not\nlive after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and\nthe bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee,\nmy lord.\n\nI killed him.... This story of the young Amalecite was not true, as may\neasily be proved by comparing it with the last chapter of the foregoing\nbook.\n\n1:11. Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise\nall the men that were with him.\n\n1:12. And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul,\nand for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the\nhouse of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.\n\n1:13. And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou?\nHe answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.\n\n1:14. David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to\nkill the Lord\u2019s anointed?\n\n1:15. And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall\nupon him. And he struck him so that he died.\n\n1:16. And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy\nown mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord\u2019s\nanointed.\n\n1:17. And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over\nJonathan his son.\n\n1:18. (Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda\nthe use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he\nsaid: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high\nplaces.\n\n1:19. The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are\nthe valiant fallen?\n\n1:20. Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon:\nlest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of\nthe uncircumcised triumph.\n\n1:21. Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you,\nneither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the\nshield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been\nanointed with oil.\n\n1:22. From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the valiant, the\narrow of Jonathan never turned back, and the sword of Saul did not\nreturn empty.\n\n1:23. Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in\ndeath they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger\nthan lions.\n\n1:24. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with\nscarlet in delights, who gave ornaments of gold for your attire.\n\n1:25. How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high\nplaces?\n\n1:26. I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and\namiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only\nson, so did I love thee.\n\n1:27. How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 2\n\nDavid is received and anointed king of Juda. Isboseth the son of Saul\nreigneth over the rest of Israel. A battle between Abner and Joab.\n\n2:1. And after these things David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I\ngo up into one of the cities of Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go up.\nAnd David said: Whither shall I go up? And he answered him: Into\nHebron.\n\n2:2. So David went up, and his two wives Achinoam the Jezrahelitess,\nand Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel:\n\n2:3. And the men also that were with him, David brought up every man\nwith his household: and they abode in the towns of Hebron.\n\n2:4. And the men of Juda came, and anointed David there, to be king\nover the house of Juda. And it was told David that the men of Jabes\nGalaad had buried Saul.\n\n2:5. David therefore sent messengers to the men of Jabes Galaad, and\nsaid to them: Blessed be you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to\nyour master Saul, and have buried him.\n\n2:6. And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I\nalso will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this\nthing.\n\n2:7. Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for\nalthough your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed\nme to be their king.\n\n2:8. But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul\u2019s army, took Isboseth\nthe son of Saul, and led him about through the camp,\n\n2:9. And made him king over Galaad, and over Gessuri, and over\nJezrahel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.\n\n2:10. Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years old when he began to\nreign over Israel, and he reigned two years; and only the house of Juda\nfollowed David.\n\nHe reigned two years.... Viz., before he began visibly to decline: but\nin all he reigned seven years and six months; for so long David reigned\nin Hebron.\n\n2:11. And the number of the days that David abode, reigning in Hebron\nover the house of Juda, was seven years and six months.\n\n2:12. And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Isboseth the son of\nSaul, went out from the camp to Gabaon.\n\n2:13. And Joab the son of Sarvia, and the servants of David went out,\nand met them by the pool of Gabaon. And when they were come together,\nthey sat down over against one another: the one on the one side of the\npool, and the other on the other side.\n\n2:14. And Abner said to Joab: Let the young men rise, and play before\nus. And Joab answered: Let them rise.\n\n2:15. Then there arose and went over twelve in number of Benjamin, of\nthe part of Isboseth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of\nDavid.\n\n2:16. And every one catching his fellow by the head, thrust his sword\ninto the side of his adversary, and they fell down together: and the\nname of the place was called: The field of the valiant, in Gabaon.\n\n2:17. And there was a very fierce battle that day: and Abner was put to\nflight, with the men of Israel, by the servants of David.\n\n2:18. And there were the three sons of Sarvia there, Joab, and Abisai,\nand Asael: now Asael was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that\nabide in the woods.\n\n2:19. And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned not to the right hand\nnor to the left from following Abner.\n\n2:20. And Abner looked behind him, and said: Art thou Asael? And he\nanswered: I am.\n\n2:21. And Abner said to him: Go to the right hand or to the left, and\nlay hold on one of the young men and take thee his spoils. But Asael\nwould not leave off following him close.\n\n2:22. And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest\nI be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to\nhold up my face to Joab thy brother.\n\n2:23. But he refused to hearken to him, and would not turn aside:\nwherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the\ngroin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot: and all that\ncame to the place where Asael fell down and died stood still.\n\n2:24. Now while Joab and Abisai pursued after Abner, the sun went down:\nand they came as far as the hill of the aqueduct, that lieth over\nagainst the valley by the way of the wilderness in Gabaon.\n\n2:25. And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together to\nAbner: and being joined in one body, they stood on the top of a hill.\n\n2:26. And Abner cried out to Joab, and said: Shall thy sword rage unto\nutter destruction? knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive\npeople to despair? how long dost thou defer to bid the people cease\nfrom pursuing after their brethren?\n\n2:27. And Joab said: As the Lord liveth, if thou hadst spoke sooner,\neven in the morning the people should have retired from pursuing after\ntheir brethren.\n\n2:28. Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and\ndid not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.\n\n2:29. And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plains:\nand they passed the Jordan, and having gone through all Beth-horon,\ncame to the camp.\n\n2:30. And Joab returning, after he had left Abner, assembled all the\npeople: and there were wanting of David\u2019s servants nineteen men, beside\nAsael.\n\n2:31. But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin, and of the men\nthat were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who all died.\n\n2:32. And they took Asael, and buried him in the sepulchre of his\nfather in Bethlehem and Joab, and the men that were with him, marched\nall the night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 3\n\nDavid groweth daily stronger. Abner cometh over to him: he is\ntreacherously slain by Joab.\n\n3:1. Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house\nof David: David prospering and growing always stronger and stronger,\nbut the house of Saul decaying daily.\n\nThere was a long war between the house of Saul, etc.... Rather a strife\nor emulation than a war with arms; it lasted five years and a half.\n\n3:2. And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon\nof Achinoam the Jezrahelitess:\n\n3:3. And his second Cheleab of Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel: and\nthe third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmai king of\nGessur:\n\n3:4. And the fourth Adonias, the son of Haggith: and the fifth\nSaphathia the son of Abital:\n\n3:5. And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the wife of David: these were born\nto David in Hebron.\n\n3:6. Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of\nDavid, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul.\n\n3:7. And Saul had a concubine named Respha, the daughter of Aia. And\nIsboseth said to Abner:\n\n3:8. Why didst thou go in to my father\u2019s concubine? And he was\nexceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog\u2019s\nhead against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul\nthy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered\nthee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me\nto charge me with a matter concerning a woman?\n\n3:9. So do God to Abner, and more also, unless as the Lord hath sworn\nto David, so I do to him,\n\n3:10. That the kingdom be translated from the house of Saul, and the\nthrone of David be set up over Israel, and over Juda from Dan to\nBersabee.\n\n3:11. And he could not answer him a word, because he feared him.\n\n3:12. Abner therefore sent messengers to David for himself, saying:\nWhose is the land? and that they should say: Make a league with me, and\nmy hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all Israel to thee.\n\n3:13. And he said: Very well: I will make a league with thee: but one\nthing I require of thee, saying: Thou shalt not see my face before thou\nbring Michol the daughter of Saul: and so thou shalt come, and see me.\n\n3:14. And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying:\nRestore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins\nof the Philistines.\n\n3:15. And Isboseth sent, and took her from her husband Phaltiel, the\nson of Lais.\n\n3:16. And her husband followed her, weeping as far as Bahurim: and\nAbner said to him: Go and return. And he returned.\n\n3:17. Abner also spoke to the ancients of Israel, saying: Both\nyesterday and the day before you sought for David that he might reign\nover you.\n\n3:18. Now then do it: because the Lord hath spoken to David, saying: By\nthe hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the\nhands of the Philistines, and of all their enemies.\n\n3:19. And Abner spoke also to Benjamin. And he went to speak to David\nin Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to all Benjamin.\n\n3:20. And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a\nfeast for Abner, and his men that came with him.\n\n3:21. And Abner said to David: I will rise, that I may gather all\nIsrael unto thee my lord the king, and may enter into a league with\nthee, and that thou mayst reign over all as thy soul desireth. Now when\nDavid had brought Abner on his way, and he was gone in peace,\n\n3:22. Immediately, David\u2019s servants and Joab came, after having slain\nthe robbers, with an exceeding great booty. And Abner was not with\nDavid in Hebron, for he had now sent him away, and he was gone in\npeace.\n\n3:23. And Joab and all the army that was with him, came afterwards: and\nit was told Joab, that Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he\nhath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.\n\n3:24. And Joab went in to the king, and said: What hast thou done?\nBehold Abner came to thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is gone\nand departed?\n\n3:25. Knowest thou not Abner the son of Ner, that to this end he came\nto thee, that he might deceive thee, and to know thy going out, and thy\ncoming in, and to know all thou dost?\n\n3:26. Then Joab going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and\nbrought him back from the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.\n\n3:27. And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the\nmiddle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him\nthere in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his\nbrother.\n\n3:28. And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he\nsaid: I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the\nblood of Abner the son of Ner:\n\n3:29. And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father\u2019s\nhouse: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an\nissue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that\nfalleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.\n\n3:30. So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed\ntheir brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.\n\n3:31. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him:\nRend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn\nbefore the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.\n\n3:32. And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up\nhis voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also\nwept.\n\n3:33. And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as\ncowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.\n\n3:34. Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as\nmen fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all\nthe people repeating it wept over him.\n\n3:35. And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it\nwas yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also,\nif I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.\n\n3:36. And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the\nking did seemed good in the sight of all the people.\n\n3:37. And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it\nwas not the king\u2019s doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.\n\n3:38. The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince\nand a great man is slain this day in Israel?\n\n3:39. But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the\nsons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil\naccording to his wickedness.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 4\n\nIsboseth is murdered by two of his servants. David punisheth the\nmurderers.\n\n4:1. And Isboseth the son of Saul heard that Abner was slain in Hebron:\nand his hands were weakened, and all Israel was troubled.\n\n4:2. Now the son of Saul had two men captains of his bands, the name of\nthe one was Baana, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Remmon\na Berothite of the children of Benjamin: for Beroth also was reckoned\nin Benjamin.\n\n4:3. And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there\nuntil that time.\n\n4:4. And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet:\nfor he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan\nfrom Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made\nhaste to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.\n\n4:5. And the sons of Remmon the Berothite, Rechab and Baana coming,\nwent into the house of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was\nsleeping upon his bed at noon. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was\ncleansing wheat, was fallen asleep.\n\n4:6. And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and\nRechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away.\n\n4:7. For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in\na parlour, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head\nthey went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.\n\n4:8. And they brought the head of Isboseth to David to Hebron: and they\nsaid to the king: Behold the head of Isboseth the son of Saul thy enemy\nwho sought thy life: and the Lord hath revenged my lord the king this\nday of Saul, and of his seed.\n\n4:9. But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of\nRemmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath\ndelivered my soul out of all distress,\n\n4:10. The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he\nbrought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who\nshould have been rewarded for his news.\n\n4:11. How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in\nhis own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your\nhand, and take you away from the earth?\n\n4:12. And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting\noff their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but\nthe head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in\nHebron.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 5\n\nDavid is anointed king of all Israel. He taketh Jerusalem, and dwelleth\nthere. He defeateth the Philistines.\n\n5:1. Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying:\nBehold we are thy bone and thy flesh.\n\n5:2. Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king\nover us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the\nLord said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be\nprince over Israel.\n\n5:3. The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king\nDavid made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they\nanointed David to be king over Israel.\n\n5:4. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nforty years.\n\n5:5. In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years and six months: and in\nJerusalem he reigned three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.\n\n5:6. And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem\nto the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David:\nThou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the\nlame that say: David shall not come in hither.\n\n5:7. But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.\n\n5:8. For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike\nthe Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and\ntake away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David:\ntherefore it is said in the proverb: The blind and the lame shall not\ncome into the temple.\n\n5:9. And David dwelt in the castle, and called it, The city of David:\nand built round about from Mello and inwards.\n\n5:10. And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of\nhosts was with him.\n\n5:11. And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar\ntrees, and carpenters, and masons for walls: and they built a house for\nDavid.\n\n5:12. And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel,\nand that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel.\n\n5:13. And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he\nwas come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and\ndaughters:\n\nDavid took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem.... Not harlots, but\nwives of an inferior condition; for such, in scripture, are styled\nconcubines.\n\n5:14. And these are the names of them, that were born to him in\nJerusalem, Samua, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,\n\n5:15. And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg,\n\n5:16. And Japhia, and Elisama, and Elioda, and Eliphaleth.\n\n5:17. And the Philistines heard that they had anointed David to be king\nover Israel: and they all came to seek David: and when David heard of\nit, he went down to a strong hold.\n\n5:18. And the Philistines coming spread themselves in the valley of\nRaphaim.\n\n5:19. And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up to the\nPhilistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said\nto David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into thy\nhand.\n\n5:20. And David came to Baal Pharisim: and defeated them there, and he\nsaid, The Lord hath divided my enemies before me, as waters are\ndivided. Therefore the name of the place was called Baal Pharisim.\n\n5:21. And they left there their idols: which David and his men took\naway.\n\n5:22. And the Philistines came up again and spread themselves into the\nvalley of Raphaim.\n\n5:23. And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the\nPhilistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go\nnot up against them but fetch a compass behind them, and thou shalt\ncome upon them over against the pear trees.\n\n5:24. And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of\nthe pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go\nout before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.\n\n5:25. And David did as the Lord had commanded him, and he smote the\nPhilistines from Gabaa until thou come to Gezer.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 6\n\nDavid fetcheth the ark from Cariathiarim. Oza is struck dead for\ntouching it. It is deposited in the house of Obededom: and from thence\ncarried to David\u2019s house.\n\n6:1. And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,\nthirty thousand.\n\n6:2. And David arose and went, with all the people that were with him\nof the men of Juda to fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of the\nLord of Hosts is invoked, who sitteth over it upon the cherubims.\n\n6:3. And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of\nthe house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, and Oza and Ahio, the sons of\nAbinadab, drove the new cart.\n\nGabaa.... The hill of Cariathiarim, where the ark had been in the house\nof Abinadab, from the time of its being restored back by the\nPhilistines.\n\n6:4. And when they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was\nin Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of God went before the ark.\n\n6:5. But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of\ninstruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets\nand cymbals.\n\n6:6. And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand\nto the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and\nmade it lean aside.\n\n6:7. And the indignation of the Lord was enkindled against Oza, and he\nstruck him for his rashness: and he died there before the ark of God.\n\n6:8. And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the\nname of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day.\n\n6:9. And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the\nark of the Lord come to me?\n\n6:10. And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself\ninto the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house\nof Obededom the Gethite.\n\n6:11. And the ark of the Lord abode in the house of Obededom the\nGethite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his\nhousehold.\n\n6:12. And it was told king David, that the Lord had blessed Obededom,\nand all that he had, because of the ark of God. So David went, and\nbrought away the ark of God out of the house of Obededom into the city\nof David with joy. And there were with David seven choirs, and calves\nfor victims.\n\nChoirs.... Or companies of musicians.\n\n6:13. And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six\npaces, he sacrificed an ox and a ram:\n\n6:14. And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David\nwas girded with a linen ephod.\n\n6:15. And David and all the house of Israel brought the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.\n\n6:16. And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David,\nMichol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king\nDavid leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her\nheart.\n\n6:17. And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in\nthe midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David\noffered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.\n\n6:18. And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace\nofferings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.\n\n6:19. And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and\nwomen, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and\nfine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his\nown house.\n\n6:20. And David returned to bless his own house: and Michol the\ndaughter of Saul coming out to meet David, said: How glorious was the\nking of Israel to day, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his\nservants, and was naked, as if one of the buffoons should be naked.\n\n6:21. And David said to Michol: Before the Lord, who chose me rather\nthan thy father, and than all his house, and commanded me to be ruler\nover the people of the Lord in Israel,\n\n6:22. I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I\nwill be little in my own eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou\nspeakest, I shall appear more glorious.\n\n6:23. Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of\nher death.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 7\n\nDavid\u2019s purpose to build a temple is rewarded with the promise of great\nblessings in his seed: his prayer and thanksgiving.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord\nhad given him rest on every side from all his enemies,\n\n7:2. He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a\nhouse of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?\n\n7:3. And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in thy heart:\nbecause the Lord is with thee.\n\n7:4. But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to\nNathan, saying:\n\n7:5. Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou\nbuild me a house to dwell in?\n\n7:6. Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought\nthe children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but\nhave walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.\n\n7:7. In all the places that I have gone through with all the children\nof Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel,\nwhom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not\nbuilt me a house of cedar?\n\n7:8. And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the\nLord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep\nto be ruler over my people Israel:\n\n7:9. And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have\nslain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a\ngreat man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.\n\n7:10. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant\nthem, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more:\nneither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they\ndid before,\n\n7:11. From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I\nwill give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to\nthee, that the Lord will make thee a house.\n\n7:12. And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with\nthy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed\nout of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.\n\nI will establish his kingdom.... This prophecy partly relateth to\nSolomon: but much more to Christ, who is called the son of David in\nscripture, and who is the builder of the true temple, which is the\nchurch, his everlasting kingdom, which shall never fail.\n\n7:13. He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the\nthrone of his kingdom for ever.\n\n7:14. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he\ncommit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with\nthe stripes of the children of men.\n\n7:15. But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from\nSaul, whom I removed from before my face.\n\n7:16. And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before\nthy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.\n\n7:17. According to all these words and according to all this vision so\ndid Nathan speak to David.\n\n7:18. And David went in, and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O\nLord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?\n\n7:19. But yet this hath seemed little in thy sight, O Lord God, unless\nthou didst also speak of the house of thy servant for a long time to\ncome: for this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:\n\n7:20. And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy\nservant, O Lord God:\n\n7:21. For thy word\u2019s sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done\nall these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy\nservant.\n\n7:22. Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none\nlike to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things\nthat we have heard with our ears.\n\n7:23. And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom\nGod went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and\nto do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the\nface of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from\nthe nations and their gods.\n\n7:24. For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an\neverlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.\n\n7:25. And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast\nspoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou\nhast spoken,\n\n7:26. That thy name may be magnified for ever, and it may be said: The\nLord of hosts is God over Israel. And the house of thy servant David\nshall be established before the Lord.\n\n7:27. Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to\nthe ear of thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house: therefore\nhath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee.\n\n7:28. And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true:\nfor thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.\n\n7:29. And now begin, and bless the house of thy servant, that it may\nendure for ever before thee: because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it,\nand with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 8\n\nDavid\u2019s victories, and his chief officers.\n\n8:1. And it came to pass after this that David defeated the\nPhilistines, and brought them down, and David took the bridle of\ntribute out of the hand of the Philistines,\n\n8:2. And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them\ndown to the earth: and he measured with two lines, one to put to death,\nand one to save alive: and Moab was made to serve David under tribute.\n\n8:3. David defeated also Adarezer the son of Rohob king of Soba, when\nhe went to extend his dominion over the river Euphrates.\n\n8:4. And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and\ntwenty thousand footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and only\nreserved of them for one hundred chariots.\n\n8:5. And the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Adarezer the king of\nSoba: and David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.\n\n8:6. And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and Syria served\nDavid under tribute, and the Lord preserved David in all his\nenterprises, whithersoever he went.\n\n8:7. And David took the arms of gold, which the servants of Adarezer\nwore and brought them to Jerusalem.\n\n8:8. And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of Adarezer, king David\ntook an exceeding great quantity of brass.\n\n8:9. And Thou the king of Emath heard that David had defeated all the\nforces of Adarezer.\n\n8:10. And Thou sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to\ncongratulate with him, and to return him thanks: because he had fought\nagainst Adarezer, and had defeated him. For Thou was an enemy to\nAdarezer, and in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver,\nand vessels of brass:\n\n8:11. And king David dedicated them to the Lord, together with the\nsilver and gold that he had dedicated of all the nations, which he had\nsubdued:\n\n8:12. Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the\nPhilistines, and of Amalec, and of the spoils of Adarezer the son of\nRohob king of Soba.\n\n8:13. David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking\nSyria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:\n\n8:14. And he put guards in Edom, and placed there a garrison: and all\nEdom was made to serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all\nenterprises he went about.\n\n8:15. And David reigned over all Israel: and David did judgment and\njustice to all his people.\n\n8:16. And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the army: and Josaphat the\nson of Ahilud was recorder:\n\nRecorder.... Or chancellor.\n\n8:17. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar,\nwere the priests: and Saraias was the scribe:\n\nScribe.... Or secretary.\n\n8:18. And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi:\nand the sons of David were the princes.\n\nThe Cerethi and Phelethi.... The king\u2019s guards.\u2014Ibid.\nPrinces.... Literally priests. (Cohen) So called, by a title of honour,\nand not from exercising the priestly functions.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 9\n\nDavid\u2019s kindness to Miphiboseth for the sake of his father Jonathan.\n\n9:1. And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of\nSaul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan\u2019s sake?\n\n9:2. Now there was of the house of Saul, a servant named Siba: and when\nthe king had called him to him, he said to him: Art thou Siba? And he\nanswered: I am Siba thy servant.\n\n9:3. And the king said: Is there any one left of the house of Saul,\nthat I may shew the mercy of God unto him? And Siba said to the king:\nThere is a son of Jonathan left, who is lame of his feet.\n\n9:4. Where is he? said he. And Siba said to the king: Behold he is in\nthe house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lodabar.\n\n9:5. Then King David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir\nthe son of Ammiel of Lodabar.\n\n9:6. And when Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul was come\nto David, he fell on his face and worshipped. And David said:\nMiphiboseth? And he answered: Behold thy servant.\n\n9:7. And David said to him: Fear not, for I will surely shew thee mercy\nfor Jonathan thy father\u2019s sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul\nthy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table always.\n\n9:8. He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou\nshouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?\n\n9:9. Then the King called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him:\nAll that belonged to Saul, and all his house, I have given to thy\nmaster\u2019s son.\n\n9:10. Thou therefore and thy sons and thy servants shall till the land\nfor him: and thou shalt bring in food for thy master\u2019s son, that he may\nbe maintained: and Miphiboseth the son of thy master shall always eat\nbread at my table. And Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.\n\n9:11. And Siba said to the king: As thou my lord the king hast\ncommanded thy servant, so will thy servant do: and Miphiboseth shall\neat at my table, as one of the sons of the King.\n\n9:12. And Miphiboseth had a young son whose name was Micha: and all\nthat kindred of the house of Siba served Miphiboseth.\n\n9:13. But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: because he ate always of the\nking\u2019s table: and he was lame of both feet.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 10\n\nThe Ammonites shamefully abuse the ambassadors of David: they hire the\nSyrians to the their assistance: but are overthrown with their allies.\n\n10:1. And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of\nAmmon died, and Hanon his son reigned in his stead.\n\n10:2. And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Daas, as\nhis father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort\nhim for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were\ncome into the land of the children of Ammon,\n\n10:3. The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon their lord:\nThinkest thou that for the honour of thy father, David hath sent\ncomforters to thee, and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee\nto search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?\n\n10:4. Wherefore Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the\none half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to\nthe buttocks, and sent them away.\n\n10:5. When this was told David, he sent to meet them: for the men were\nsadly put to confusion, and David commanded them, saying: Stay at\nJericho, till your beards be grown, and then return.\n\n10:6. And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done an injury to\nDavid, sent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba,\ntwenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and\nof Istob twelve thousand men.\n\n10:7. And when David heard this, he sent Joab and the whole army of\nwarriors.\n\n10:8. And the children of Ammon came out, and set their men in array at\nthe entering in of the gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob, and\nof Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in the field.\n\n10:9. Then Joab seeing that the battle was prepared against him, both\nbefore and behind, chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them\nin array against the Syrians:\n\n10:10. And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai his brother,\nwho set them in array against the children of Ammon.\n\n10:11. And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me, then thou\nshalt help me, but if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee,\nthen I will help thee.\n\n10:12. Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the\ncity of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.\n\n10:13. And Joab and the people that were with him, began to fight\nagainst the Syrians: and they immediately fled before him.\n\n10:14. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled,\nthey fled also before Abisai, and entered into the city: and Joab\nreturned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.\n\n10:15. Then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel,\ngathered themselves together.\n\n10:16. And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were beyond the\nriver, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host\nof Adarezer, was their general.\n\n10:17. And when this was told David, he gathered all Israel together,\nand passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set\nthemselves in array against David, and fought against him.\n\n10:18. And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David slew of the\nSyrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen:\nand smote Sobach the captain of the army, who presently died.\n\n10:19. And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing\nthemselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and\nfifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and\nserved them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of\nAmmon any more.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 11\n\nDavid falleth into the crime of adultery with Bethsabee: and not\nfinding other means to conceal it, causeth her husband Urias to be\nslain. Then marrieth her, who beareth him a son.\n\n11:1. And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when\nkings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him,\nand all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged\nRabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.\n\n11:2. In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after\nnoon, and walked upon the roof of the king\u2019s house: And he saw from the\nroof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the\nwoman was very beautiful.\n\n11:3. And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was\ntold him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of\nUrias the Hethite.\n\n11:4. And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him,\nand he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her\nuncleanness:\n\n11:5. And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and\ntold David, and said: I have conceived.\n\n11:6. And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And\nJoab sent Urias to David.\n\n11:7. And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the\npeople, and how the war was carried on.\n\n11:8. And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet.\nAnd Urias went out from the king\u2019s house, and there went out after him\na mess of meat from the king.\n\n11:9. But Urias slept before the gate of the king\u2019s house, with the\nother servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.\n\n11:10. And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his\nhouse. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey?\nwhy didst thou not go down to thy house?\n\n11:11. And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda\ndwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon\nthe face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to\ndrink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of\nthy soul I will not do this thing.\n\n11:12. Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I\nwill send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.\n\n11:13. And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made\nhim drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with\nthe servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.\n\n11:14. And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and\nsent it by the hand of Urias,\n\n11:15. Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle,\nwhere the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded\nand die.\n\n11:16. Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the\nplace where he knew the bravest men were.\n\n11:17. And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and\nthere fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the\nHethite was killed also.\n\n11:18. Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.\n\n11:19. And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all\nthe words of the battle to the king,\n\n11:20. If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you\napproach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are\nthrown from above off the wall?\n\n11:21. Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a\npiece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why\ndid you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite\nis also slain.\n\n11:22. So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab\nhad commanded him.\n\n11:23. And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us,\nand they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and\npursued them even to the gate of the city.\n\n11:24. And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the\nwall above: and some of the king\u2019s servants are slain, and thy servant\nUrias the Hethite is also dead.\n\n11:25. And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab:\nLet not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war:\nand sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword:\nencourage thy warriors against the city, and exhort them that thou\nmayest overthrow it.\n\n11:26. And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and\nshe mourned for him.\n\n11:27. And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his\nhouse, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing\nwhich David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 12\n\nNathan\u2019s parable. David confesseth his sin, and is forgiven: yet so as\nto be sentenced to most severe temporal punishments. The death of the\nchild. The birth of Solomon. The taking of Rabbath.\n\n12:1. And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him,\nhe said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the\nother poor.\n\n12:2. The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.\n\n12:3. But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb,\nwhich he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his\nhouse together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of\nhis cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.\n\n12:4. And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared\nto take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger,\nwho was come to him, but took the poor man\u2019s ewe, and dressed it for\nthe man that was come to him.\n\n12:5. And David\u2019s anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he\nsaid to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a\nchild of death.\n\n12:6. He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and\nhad no pity.\n\n12:7. And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord\nthe God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered\nthee from the hand of Saul,\n\n12:8. And gave thee thy master\u2019s house and thy master\u2019s wives into thy\nbosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things\nbe little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.\n\n12:9. Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil\nin my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and\nhast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword\nof the children of Ammon.\n\n12:10. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because\nthou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to\nbe thy wife.\n\n12:11. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee\nout of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and\ngive them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the\nsight of this sun.\n\nI will raise, etc.... All these evils, inasmuch as they were\npunishments, came upon David by a just judgment of God, for his sin,\nand therefore God says, I will raise, etc.; but inasmuch as they were\nsins, on the part of Absalom and his associates, God was not the author\nof them, but only permitted them.\n\n12:12. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the\nsight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.\n\n12:13. And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And\nNathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt\nnot die.\n\n12:14. Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of\nthe Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee,\nshall surely die.\n\n12:15. And Nathan returned to his house. The Lord also struck the child\nwhich the wife of Urias had borne to David, and his life was despaired\nof.\n\n12:16. And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a\nfast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.\n\n12:17. And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the\nground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.\n\n12:18. And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and\nthe servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For\nthey said: Behold when the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he\nwould not hearken to our voice: how much more will he afflict himself\nif we tell him that the child is dead?\n\n12:19. But when David saw his servants whispering, he understood that\nthe child was dead: and he said to his servants: Is the child dead?\nThey answered him He is dead.\n\n12:20. Then David arose from the ground, and washed and anointed\nhimself: and when he had changed his apparel, he went into the house of\nthe Lord: and worshipped, and then he came into his own house, and he\ncalled for bread, and ate.\n\n12:21. And his servants said to him: What thing is this that thou hast\ndone? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive, but\nwhen the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat bread.\n\n12:22. And he said: While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept\nfor him: for I said: Who knoweth whether the Lord may not give him to\nme, and the child may live?\n\n12:23. But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to\nbring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not\nreturn to me.\n\n12:24. And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her,\nand slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon,\nand the Lord loved him.\n\n12:25. And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his\nname, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.\n\nAmiable to the Lord.... Or, beloved of the Lord. In Hebrew, Jedidiah.\n\n12:26. And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and\nlaid close siege to the royal city.\n\n12:27. And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: I have fought against\nRabbath, and the city of waters is about to be taken.\n\nThe city of waters.... Rabbath the royal city of the Ammonites, was\ncalled the city of waters, from being encompassed with waters.\n\n12:28. Now therefore gather thou the rest of the people together, and\nbesiege the city and take it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me,\nthe victory be ascribed to my name.\n\n12:29. Then David gathered all the people together, and went out\nagainst Rabbath: and after fighting, he took it.\n\n12:30. And he took the crown of their king from his head, the weight of\nwhich was a talent of gold, set with most precious stones, and it was\nput upon David\u2019s head, and the spoils of the city which were very great\nhe carried away.\n\n12:31. And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove\nover them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and\nmade them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the\nchildren of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 13\n\nAmmon ravisheth Thamar. For which Absalom killeth him, and flieth to\nGessur.\n\n13:1. And it came to pass after this that Amnon the son of David loved\nthe sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her\nname was Thamar.\n\n13:2. And he was exceedingly fond of her, so that he fell sick for the\nlove of her: for as she was a virgin, he thought it hard to do any\nthing dishonestly with her.\n\n13:3. Now Amnon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the\nbrother of David, a very wise man:\n\nA very wise man.... That is, a crafty and subtle man: for the counsel\nhe gave on this occasion shews that his wisdom was but carnal and\nworldly.\n\n13:4. And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O\nson of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Amnon\nsaid to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.\n\n13:5. And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon thy bed, and feign thyself\nsick: and when thy father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let my\nsister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and to make\nme a mess, that I may eat it at her hand.\n\n13:6. So Amnon lay down, and made as if he were sick: and when the king\ncame to visit him, Amnon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister\nThamar come, and make in my sight two little messes, that I may eat at\nher hand.\n\n13:7. Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy\nbrother Amnon, and make him a mess.\n\n13:8. And Thamar came to the house of Amnon her brother: but he was\nlaid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his\nsight she made little messes.\n\n13:9. And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it\nbefore him, but he would not eat: and Amnon said: Put out all persons\nfrom me. And when they had put all persons out,\n\n13:10. Amnon said to Thamar: Bring the mess into the chamber, that I\nmay eat at thy hand. And Thamar took the little messes which she had\nmade, and brought them in to her brother Amnon in the chamber.\n\n13:11. And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her,\nand said: Come lie with me, my sister.\n\n13:12. She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no\nsuch thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.\n\n13:13. For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as\none of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will\nnot deny me to thee.\n\n13:14. But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger\noverpowered her and lay with her.\n\n13:15. Then Amnon hated her with an exceeding great hatred: so that the\nhatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love with which he\nhad loved her before. And Amnon said to her: Arise, and get thee gone.\n\n13:16. She answered him: This evil which now thou dost against me, in\ndriving me away, is greater than that which thou didst before. And he\nwould not hearken to her:\n\n13:17. But calling the servants that ministered to him, he said: Thrust\nthis woman out from me: and shut the door after her.\n\n13:18. And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king\u2019s daughters\nthat were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust\nher out: and shut the door after her.\n\n13:19. And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe and laid\nher hands upon her head, and went on crying.\n\n13:20. And Absalom her brother said to her: Hath thy brother Amnon lain\nwith thee? but now, sister, hold thy peace, he is thy brother: and\nafflict not thy heart for this thing. So Thamar remained pining away in\nthe house of Absalom her brother.\n\n13:21. And when king David heard of these things he was exceedingly\ngrieved: and he would not afflict the spirit of his son Amnon, for he\nloved him, because he was his firstborn.\n\n13:22. But Absalom spoke not to Amnon neither good nor evil: for\nAbsalom hated Amnon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.\n\n13:23. And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom\nwere shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all\nthe king\u2019s sons:\n\n13:24. And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant\u2019s\nsheep are shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his servants come to his\nservant.\n\n13:25. And the king said to Absalom: Nay, my son, do not ask that we\nshould all come, and be chargeable to thee. And when he pressed him,\nand he would not go, he blessed him.\n\n13:26. And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother\nAmnon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is\nnot necessary that he should go with thee.\n\n13:27. But Absalom pressed him, so that he let Amnon and all the king\u2019s\nsons go with him. And Absalom made a feast as it were the feast of a\nking.\n\n13:28. And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when\nAmnon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike\nhim, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take\ncourage, and be valiant men.\n\n13:29. And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had\ncommanded them. And all the king\u2019s sons arose and got up every man upon\nhis mule, and fled.\n\n13:30. And while they were yet in the way, a rumour came to David,\nsaying: Absalom hath slain all the king\u2019s sons, and there is not one of\nthem left.\n\n13:31. Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the\nground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their\ngarments.\n\n13:32. But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David\u2019s brother answering, said:\nLet not my lord the king think that all the king\u2019s sons are slain:\nAmnon only is dead, for he was appointed by the mouth of Absalom from\nthe day that he ravished his sister Thamar.\n\n13:33. Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his\nheart, saying: All the king\u2019s sons are slain: for Amnon only is dead.\n\n13:34. But Absalom fled away: and the young man that kept the watch,\nlifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there came much people by a\nby-way on the side of the mountain.\n\n13:35. And Jonadab said to the king: Behold the king\u2019s sons are come:\nas thy servant said, so it is.\n\n13:36. And when he made an end of speaking, the king\u2019s sons also\nappeared: and coming in they lifted up their voice, and wept: and the\nking also and all his servants wept very much.\n\n13:37. But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the\nking of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.\n\n13:38. And Absalom after he was fled, and come into Gessur, was there\nthree years. And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he\nwas comforted concerning the death of Amnon.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 14\n\nJoab procureth Absalom\u2019s return, and his admittance to the king\u2019s\npresence.\n\n14:1. And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king\u2019s heart\nwas turned to Absalom,\n\n14:2. Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to\nher: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be\nnot anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long\ntime been mourning for one dead.\n\n14:3. And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this\nmanner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.\n\n14:4. And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell\nbefore him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.\n\n14:5. And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She\nanswered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.\n\n14:6. And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each\nother in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck\nthe other, and slew him.\n\n14:7. And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith:\nDeliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the\nlife of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir:\nand they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my\nhusband no name, nor remainder upon the earth.\n\n14:8. And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give\ncharge concerning thee.\n\n14:9. And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord be the\niniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his\nthrone be guiltless.\n\n14:10. And the king said: If any one shall say ought against thee,\nbring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.\n\n14:11. And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the\nnext of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not\nkill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair\nof thy son fall to the earth.\n\n14:12. Then the woman said: Let thy hand maid speak one word to my lord\nthe king. And he said: Speak.\n\n14:13. And the woman said: Why hast thou thought such a thing against\nthe people of God, and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin, and\nnot bring home again his own exile?\n\n14:14. We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down\ninto the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth,\nmeaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.\n\n14:15. Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king\nbefore the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it\nmaybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.\n\n14:16. And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of\nthe hand of all that would destroy me and my son together out of the\ninheritance of God.\n\n14:17. Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be\nmade as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the\nking, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the\nLord thy God is also with thee.\n\n14:18. And the king answering, said to the woman: Hide not from me the\nthing that I ask thee. And the woman said to him: Speak, my lord the\nking.\n\n14:19. And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all\nthis? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord,\nO king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these\nthings which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he\ncommanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy\nhandmaid.\n\n14:20. That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant\nJoab commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to\nthe wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.\n\n14:21. And the king said to Joab: Behold I am appeased and have granted\nthy request: Go therefore and fetch back the boy Absalom.\n\n14:22. And Joab falling down to the ground upon his face, adored, and\nblessed the king: and Joab said: This day thy servant hath understood,\nthat I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king: for thou hast\nfulfilled the request of thy servant.\n\nBlessed.... That is, and gave thanks to the king.\n\n14:23. Then Joab arose and went to Gessur, and brought Absalom to\nJerusalem.\n\n14:24. But the king said: Let him return into his house, and let him\nnot see my face. So Absalom returned into his house, and saw not the\nking\u2019s face.\n\n14:25. But in all Israel there was not a man so comely, and so\nexceedingly beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of the foot to the\ncrown of his head there was no blemish in him.\n\n14:26. And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year,\nbecause his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head\nat two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.\n\n14:27. And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter,\nwhose name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful.\n\n14:28. And Absalom dwelt two years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king\u2019s\nface.\n\n14:29. He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to the king: but he would\nnot come to him. And when he had sent the second time, and he would not\ncome to him,\n\n14:30. He said to his servants: You know the field of Joab near my\nfield, that hath a crop of barley: go now and set it on fire. So the\nservants of Absalom set the corn on fire. And Joab\u2019s servants coming\nwith their garments rent, said: The servants of Absalom have set part\nof the field on fire.\n\n14:31. Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why\nhave thy servants set my corn on fire?\n\n14:32. And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to\ncome to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him:\nWherefore am I come from Gessur? it had been better for me to be there:\nI beseech thee therefore that I may see the face of the king: and if he\nbe mindful of my iniquity, let him kill me.\n\n14:33. So Joab going in to the king, told him all: and Absalom was\ncalled for, and, he went in to the king: and prostrated himself on the\nground before him: and the king kissed Absalom.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 15\n\nAbsalom\u2019s policy and conspiracy. David is obliged to flee.\n\n15:1. Now after these things Absalom made himself chariots, and\nhorsemen, and fifty men to run before him.\n\n15:2. And Absalom rising up early stood by the entrance of the gate,\nand when any man had business to come to the king\u2019s judgment, Absalom\ncalled him to him, and said: Of what city art thou? He answered, and\nsaid: Thy servant is of such tribe of Israel.\n\n15:3. And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But\nthere is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:\n\n15:4. O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have\nbusiness might come to me, that I might do them justice.\n\n15:5. Moreover when any man came to him to salute him, he put forth his\nhand, and took him, and kissed him.\n\n15:6. And this he did to all Israel that came for judgment, to be heard\nby the king, and he enticed the hearts of the men of Israel.\n\n15:7. And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and\npay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron.\n\n15:8. For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria,\nsaying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer\nsacrifice to the Lord.\n\n15:9. And king David said to him: Go in peace. And he arose, and went\nto Hebron.\n\n15:10. And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes of Israel, saying: As\nsoon as you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom\nreigneth in Hebron.\n\n15:11. Now there went with Absalom two hundred men out of Jerusalem\nthat were called, going with simplicity of heart, and knowing nothing\nof the design.\n\n15:12. Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David\u2019s\ncounsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices,\nthere was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together\nincreased with Absalom.\n\n15:13. And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with\ntheir whole heart followeth Absalom.\n\n15:14. And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem:\nArise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of\nAbsalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring\nruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.\n\n15:15. And the king\u2019s servants said to him: Whatsoever our lord the\nking shall command, we thy servants will willingly execute.\n\n15:16. And the king went forth, and all his household on foot: and the\nking left ten women his concubines to keep the house:\n\nConcubines.... That is, wives of an inferior degree.\n\n15:17. And the king going forth and all Israel on foot, stood afar off\nfrom the house:\n\n15:18. And all his servants walked by him, and the bands of the\nCerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the Gethites, valiant warriors, six\nhundred men who had followed him from Geth on foot, went before the\nking.\n\n15:19. And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us:\nreturn and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come\nout of thy own place.\n\n15:20. Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go\nforth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take\nback thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and\ntruth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.\n\n15:21. And Ethai answered the king, saying: As the Lord liveth, and as\nmy lord the king liveth: in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O\nking, either in death, or in life, there will thy servant be.\n\n15:22. And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass over. And Ethai the\nGethite passed, and all the men that were with him, and the rest of the\npeople.\n\n15:23. And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed\nover: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the\npeople marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.\n\n15:24. And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the Levites with him\ncarrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of\nGod: and Abiathar went up, till all the people that was come out of the\ncity had done passing.\n\n15:25. And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the\ncity: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me\nagain, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.\n\n15:26. But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let\nhim do that which is good before him.\n\n15:27. And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the\ncity in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of\nAbiathar, your two sons, be with you.\n\n15:28. Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till\nthere come word from you to certify me.\n\n15:29. So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into\nJerusalem: and they tarried there.\n\n15:30. But David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, going up and\nweeping, walking barefoot, and with his head covered, and all the\npeople that were with them, went up with their heads covered weeping.\n\nWeeping, etc.... David on this occasion wept for his sins, which he\nknew were the cause of all his sufferings.\n\n15:31. And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy\nwith Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the\ncounsel of Achitophel.\n\n15:32. And when David was come to the top of the mountain, where he was\nabout to adore the Lord, behold Chusai the Arachite, came to meet him\nwith his garment rent and his head covered with earth.\n\n15:33. And David said to him: If thou come with me, thou wilt be a\nburden to me:\n\n15:34. But if thou return into the city, and wilt say to Absalom: I am\nthy servant, O king: as I have been thy father\u2019s servant, so I will be\nthy servant: thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.\n\n15:35. And thou hast with thee Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests: and\nwhat thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king\u2019s house, thou shalt\ntell it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests.\n\n15:36. And there are with them their two sons Achimaas; the son of\nSadoc, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar: and you shall send by them to\nme every thing that you shall hear.\n\n15:37. Then Chusai the friend of David went into the city, and Absalom\ncame into Jerusalem.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 16\n\nSiba bringeth provisions to David. Semei curseth him. Absalom defileth\nhis father\u2019s wives.\n\n16:1. And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba\nthe servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with\ntwo hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a\nhundred cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine.\n\n16:2. And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba\nanswered: The asses are for the king\u2019s household to sit on: and the\nloaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if\nany man be faint in the desert.\n\n16:3. And the king said: Where is thy master\u2019s son? And Siba answered\nthe king: He remained in Jerusalem, saying: To day, will the house of\nIsrael restore me the kingdom of my father.\n\n16:4. And the king said to Siba: I give thee all that belonged to\nMiphiboseth. And Siba said: I beseech thee let me find grace before\nthee, my lord, O king.\n\n16:5. And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out\nfrom thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the\nson of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on,\n\n16:6. And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of king\nDavid: and all the people, and all the warriors walked on the right,\nand on the left side of the king.\n\n16:7. And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out,\nthou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.\n\n16:8. The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul:\nbecause thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath\ngiven the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thy\nevils press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood.\n\n16:9. And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this\ndead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.\n\n16:10. And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of\nSarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him\ncurse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so?\n\nHath bid him curse.... Not that the Lord was the author of Semei\u2019s sin,\nwhich proceeded purely from his own malice, and the abuse of his free\nwill. But that knowing, and suffering his malicious disposition to\nbreak out on this occasion, he made use of him as his instrument to\npunish David for his sins.\n\n16:11. And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my\nson, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now\na son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath\nbidden him.\n\n16:12. Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may\nrender me good for the cursing of this day.\n\n16:13. And David and his men with him went by the way. And Semei by the\nhill\u2019s side went over against him, cursing, and casting stones at him,\nand scattering earth.\n\n16:14. And the king and all the people with him came weary, and\nrefreshed themselves there.\n\n16:15. But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and\nAchitophel was with him.\n\n16:16. And when Chusai the Arachite, David\u2019s friend, was come to\nAbsalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.\n\n16:17. And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why\nwentest thou not with thy friend?\n\n16:18. And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the\nLord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him\nwill I abide.\n\n16:19. Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king\u2019s son? as I\nhave served thy father, so will I serve thee also.\n\n16:20. And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.\n\n16:21. And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy\nfather, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall\nhear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be\nstrengthened with thee.\n\nTheir hands may be strengthened, etc.... The people might apprehend\nlest Absalom should be reconciled to his father, and therefore they\nfollowed him with some fear of being left in the lurch, till they saw\nsuch a crime committed as seemed to make a reconciliation impossible.\n\n16:22. So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and\nhe went in to his father\u2019s concubines before all Israel.\n\n16:23. Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was\nas if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel,\nboth when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 17\n\nAchitophel\u2019s counsel is defeated by Chusai: who sendeth intelligence to\nDavid. Achitophel hangeth himself.\n\n17:1. And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand\nmen, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.\n\n17:2. And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will\ndefeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him,\nI will kill the king who will be left alone.\n\n17:3. And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one\nman: for thou seekest but one man: and all the people shall be in\npeace.\n\n17:4. And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel.\n\n17:5. But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite, and let us hear what\nhe also saith.\n\n17:6. And when Chusai was come to Absalom, Absalom said to him:\nAchitophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do it or not? what\ncounsel dost thou give?\n\n17:7. And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath\ngiven this time is not good.\n\n17:8. And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that\nare with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as\na bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy\nfather is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.\n\n17:9. Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he\nlist: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth\nit shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed\nAbsalom.\n\n17:10. And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion,\nshall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be\na valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.\n\n17:11. But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be\ngathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which\ncannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.\n\n17:12. And we shall come upon him in what place soever he shall be\nfound: and we shall cover him, as the dew falleth upon the ground, and\nwe shall not leave of the men that are with him, not so much as one.\n\n17:13. And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel shall cast ropes\nround about that city, and we will draw it into the river, so that\nthere shall not be found so much as one small stone thereof.\n\n17:14. And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of\nChusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel: and by\nthe will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated,\nthat the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.\n\n17:15. And Chusai said to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests: Thus and thus\ndid Achitophel counsel Absalom, and the ancients of Israel: and thus\nand thus did I counsel them.\n\n17:16. Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not\nthis night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass\nover: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with\nhim.\n\n17:17. And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the fountain Rogel: and\nthere went a maid and told them: and they went forward, to carry the\nmessage to king David, for they might not be seen, nor enter into the\ncity.\n\n17:18. But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making\nhaste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well\nin his court, and they went down into it.\n\n17:19. And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the\nwell, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.\n\n17:20. And when Absalom\u2019s servants were come into the house, they said\nto the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered\nthem: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water.\nBut they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into\nJerusalem.\n\n17:21. And when they were gone, they came up out of the well, and going\non told king David, and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river:\nfor this manner of counsel has Achitophel given against you.\n\n17:22. So David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they\npassed over the Jordan, until it grew light, and not one of them was\nleft that was not gone over the river.\n\n17:23. But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled\nhis ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and\nputting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the\nsepulchre of his father.\n\n17:24. But David came to the camp, and Absalom passed over the Jordan,\nhe and all the men of Israel with him.\n\nTo the camp.... The city of Mahanaim, the name of which, in Hebrew,\nsignifies The camp. It was a city of note at that time, as appears from\nits having been chosen by Isboseth for the place of his residence.\n\n17:25. Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab\u2019s stead over the army: and\nAmasa was the son of a man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went\nin to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia who was the\nmother of Joab.\n\n17:26. And Israel camped with Absalom in the land of Galaad.\n\n17:27. And when David was come to the camp, Sobi the son of Naas of\nRabbath of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammihel of\nLodabar and Berzellai the Galaadite of Rogelim,\n\n17:28. Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat,\nand barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and\nfried pulse,\n\n17:29. And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave\nto David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected\nthat the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 18\n\nAbsalom is defeated, and slain by Joab. David mourneth for him.\n\n18:1. And David, having reviewed his people, appointed over them\ncaptains of thousands and of hundreds,\n\n18:2. And sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab,\nand a third part under the hand of Abisai the son of Sarvia Joab\u2019s\nbrother, and a third part under the hand of Ethai, who was of Geth: and\nthe king said to the people: I also will go forth with you.\n\n18:3. And the people answered: Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee\naway, they will not much mind us: or if half of us should fall, they\nwill not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted for ten thousand:\nit is better therefore that thou shouldst be in the city to succour us.\n\n18:4. And the king said to them: What seemeth good to you, that will I\ndo. And the king stood by the gate: and all the people went forth by\ntheir troops, by hundreds and by thousands.\n\n18:5. And the king commanded Joab, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save\nme the boy Absalom. And all the people heard the king giving charge to\nall the princes concerning Absalom.\n\n18:6. So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the\nbattle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.\n\n18:7. And the people of Israel were defeated there by David\u2019s army, and\na great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.\n\n18:8. And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the\ncountry, and there were many more of the people whom the forest\nconsumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.\n\nConsumed.... Viz., by pits and precipices.\n\n18:9. And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on\na mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head\nstuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth,\nthe mule on which he rode passed on.\n\n18:10. And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging\nupon an oak.\n\n18:11. And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why\ndidst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten\nsicles of silver, and a belt?\n\n18:12. And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands\na thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king\u2019s\nson for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai,\nsaying: Save me the boy Absalom.\n\n18:13. Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this\ncould not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by\nme?\n\n18:14. And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy\nsight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the\nheart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the\noak,\n\n18:15. Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him\nslew him.\n\n18:16. And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from\npursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the\nmultitude.\n\n18:17. And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the\nforest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but\nall Israel fled to their own dwellings.\n\n18:18. Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a\npillar, which is in the king\u2019s valley: for he said: I have no son, and\nthis shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his\nown name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.\n\nNo son.... The sons mentioned above, chap. 14.27, were dead when this\npillar was erected: unless we suppose he raised this pillar before they\nwere born.\n\n18:19. And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the\nking, that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his\nenemies.\n\n18:20. And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be the messenger this day,\nbut shalt bear tidings another day: this day I will not have thee bear\ntidings, because the king\u2019s son is dead.\n\n18:21. And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the king what thou hast\nseen. Chusai bowed down to Joab, and ran.\n\n18:22. Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not\nI also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my\nson? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings.\n\n18:23. He answered: But what if I run? And he said to him: Run. Then\nAchimaas running by a nearer way passed Chusai.\n\n18:24. And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was\non the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man\nrunning alone.\n\n18:25. And crying out he told the king: and the king said: If he be\nalone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And as he was coming apace,\nand drawing nearer,\n\n18:26. The watchman saw another man running, and crying aloud from\nabove, he said: I see another man running alone. And the king said: He\nalso is a good messenger.\n\n18:27. And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me\nlike the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is\na good man: and cometh with good news.\n\n18:28. And Achimaas crying out, said to the king: God save thee, O\nking. And falling down before the king with his face to the ground, he\nsaid: Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men that have\nlifted up their hands against the lord my king.\n\n18:29. And the king said: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Achimaas\nsaid: I saw a great tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me thy\nservant: I know nothing else.\n\n18:30. And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.\n\n18:31. And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and\ncoming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the\nLord hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen\nup against thee.\n\n18:32. And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And\nChusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and\nall that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.\n\n18:33. The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber\nover the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son\nAbsalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee,\nAbsalom my son, my son Absalom.\n\nWould to God.... David lamented the death of Absalom, because of the\nwretched state in which he died: and therefore would have been glad to\nhave saved his life, even by dying for him. In which he was a figure of\nChrist weeping, praying and dying for his rebellious children, and even\nfor them that crucified him.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 19\n\nDavid, at the remonstrances of Joab, ceaseth his mourning. He is\ninvited back and met by Semei and Miphiboseth: a strife between the men\nof Juda and the men of Israel.\n\n19:1. And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:\n\n19:2. And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the\npeople: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his\nson.\n\n19:3. And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a\npeople would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the\nbattle.\n\n19:4. And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my\nson Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.\n\n19:5. Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast\nshamed this day the faces of all thy servants, that have saved thy\nlife, and the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of\nthy wives, and the lives of thy concubines.\n\n19:6. Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love\nthee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles,\nnor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had\nlived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.\n\n19:7. Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of\nthy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go\nforth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and\nthat will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee\nfrom thy youth until now.\n\n19:8. Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all\nthe people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came\nbefore the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.\n\n19:9. And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel,\nsaying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he\nsaved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of\nthe land for Absalom.\n\n19:10. But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle:\nhow long are you silent, and bring not back the king?\n\n19:11. And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying:\nSpeak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring\nthe king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the\nking in his house.)\n\n19:12. You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you\nthe last to bring back the king?\n\n19:13. And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do\nGod to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army\nbefore me always in the place of Joab.\n\n19:14. And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of\none man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy\nservants.\n\n19:15. And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all\nJuda came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the\nJordan.\n\n19:16. And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made\nhaste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,\n\n19:17. With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the\nhouse of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:\nand going over the Jordan,\n\n19:18.They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over\nthe king\u2019s household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei\nthe son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the\nJordan,\n\n19:19. Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor\nremember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the\nking, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.\n\n19:20. For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come\nthis day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet\nmy lord the king.\n\n19:21. But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for\nthese words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord\u2019s anointed?\n\n19:22. And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia?\nwhy are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this\nday in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel?\n\n19:23. And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore\nunto him.\n\n19:24. And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and\nhe had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his\ngarments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his\nreturn in peace.\n\n19:25. And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why\ncamest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?\n\n19:26. And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me:\nfor I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on\nand go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.\n\n19:27. Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord\nthe king: but thou my lord the king art as an angel of God, do what\npleaseth thee.\n\n19:28. For all of my father\u2019s house were no better than worthy of death\nbefore my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the\nguests of thy table: what just complaint therefore have I? or what\nright to cry any more to the king?\n\n19:29. Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I\nhave said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions.\n\n19:30. And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all,\nforasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.\n\n19:31. Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought\nthe king over the Jordan, being ready also to wait on him beyond the\nriver.\n\n19:32. Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say,\nfourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he\nabode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.\n\n19:33. And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest\nrest secure with me in Jerusalem.\n\n19:34. And Berzellai said to the king: How many are the days of the\nyears of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?\n\n19:35. I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to\ndiscern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or\ncan I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why\nshould thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?\n\n19:36. I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee:\nI need not this recompense.\n\n19:37. But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own\ncity, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother.\nBut there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the\nking, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.\n\n19:38. Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I\nwill do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt\nask of me, thou shalt obtain.\n\n19:39. And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan,\nthe king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own\nplace.\n\n19:40. So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the\npeople of Juda had brought the king over, and only half of the people\nof Israel were there.\n\n19:41. Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king,\nsaid to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away,\nand have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all\nthe men of David with him?\n\n19:42. And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the\nking is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten\nany thing of the king\u2019s, or have any gifts been given us?\n\n19:43. And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have\nten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more\nthan to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me\nfirst, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered\nmore harshly than the men of Israel.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 20\n\nSeba\u2019s rebellion. Amasa is slain by Joab. Abela is besieged, but upon\nthe citizens casting over the wall the head of Seba, Joab departeth\nwith all his army.\n\n20:1. And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was\nSeba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet,\nand said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai:\nreturn to thy dwellings, O Israel.\n\n20:2. And all Israel departed from David, and followed Seba the son of\nBochri: but the men of Juda stuck to their king from the Jordan unto\nJerusalem.\n\n20:3. And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took\nthe ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and\nput them inward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto\nthem, but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in\nwidowhood.\n\n20:4. And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the men of Juda\nagainst the third day, and be thou here present.\n\n20:5. So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond\nthe set time which the king had appointed him.\n\n20:6. And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us\nmore harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy\nlord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us.\n\n20:7. So Joab\u2019s men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the\nPhelethi: and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after\nSeba the son of Bochri.\n\n20:8. And when they were at the great stone which is in Gabaon, Amasa\ncoming met them. And Joab had on a close coat of equal length with his\nhabit, and over it was girded with a sword hanging down to his flank,\nin a scabbard, made in such manner as to come out with the least motion\nand strike.\n\n20:9. And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took\nAmasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.\n\n20:10. But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and\nhe struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and\ngave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his\nbrother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.\n\n20:11. In the mean time some men of Joab\u2019s company stopping at the dead\nbody of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab\u2019s stead the\ncompanion of David.\n\n20:12. And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way. A\ncertain man saw this that all the people stood still to look upon him,\nso he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and covered him\nwith a garment, that they who passed might, not stop on his account.\n\n20:13. And when he was removed out of the way, all the people went on\nfollowing Joab to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.\n\n20:14. Now he had passed through all the tribes of Israel unto Abela\nand Bethmaacha: and all the chosen men were gathered together unto him.\n\nAbela and Bethmaacha.... Cities of the tribe of Nephtali.\n\n20:15. And they came, and besieged him in Abela, and in Bethmaacha, and\nthey cast up works round the city, and the city was besieged: and all\nthe people that were with Joab, laboured to throw down the walls.\n\n20:16. And a wise woman cried out from the city: Hear, hear, and say to\nJoab: Come near hither, and I will speak with thee.\n\n20:17. And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou\nJoab? And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words\nof thy handmaid. He answered: I do hear.\n\n20:18. And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They\nthat inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end.\n\n20:19. Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to\ndestroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou\nthrow down the inheritance of the Lord?\n\n20:20. And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I\ndo not throw down, nor destroy.\n\n20:21. The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son\nof Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver\nhim only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab:\nBehold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall.\n\n20:22. So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and\nthey cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to\nJoab. And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city,\nevery one to their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.\n\n20:23. So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of\nJoiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,\n\n20:24. But Aduram over the tributes: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was\nrecorder.\n\n20:25. And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.\n\n20:26. And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 21\n\nA famine of three years, for the sin of Saul against the Gabaonites, at\nwhose desire seven of Saul\u2019s race are crucified. War again with the\nPhilistines.\n\n21:1. And there was a famine in the days of David for three years\nsuccessively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord\nsaid: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slew the\nGabaonites.\n\n21:2. Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the\nGabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the\nAmorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul\nsought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel\nand Juda:)\n\n21:3. David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you?\nand what shall be the atonement for you, that you may bless the\ninheritance of the Lord?\n\n21:4. And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver\nand gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire\nthat any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will\nyou then that I should do for you?\n\n21:5. And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed\nus unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much\nas one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.\n\n21:6. Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may\ncrucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord.\nAnd the king said: I will give them.\n\n21:7. And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of\nSaul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and\nJonathan the son of Saul.\n\n21:8. So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom\nshe bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol\nthe daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai,\nthat was of Molathi:\n\nOf Michol.... They were the sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel:\nbut they are here called the sons of Michol, because she adopted them,\nand brought them up as her own.\n\n21:9. And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they\ncrucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together\nin the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.\n\n21:10. And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it\nunder her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water\ndropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear\nthem by day, nor the beasts by night.\n\n21:11. And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the\nconcubine of Saul, had done.\n\n21:12. And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of\nJonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from\nthe street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they\nhad slain Saul in Gelboe.\n\n21:13. And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of\nJonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were\ncrucified,\n\n21:14. And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his\nson in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his\nfather: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed\nmercy again to the land after these things.\n\n21:15. And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David\nwent down, and his servants with him, and fought against the\nPhilistines. And David growing faint,\n\n21:16. Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose\nspear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword,\nattempted to kill David.\n\n21:17. And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the\nPhilistine killed him. Then David\u2019s men swore unto him saying: Thou\nshalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of\nIsrael.\n\n21:18. There was also a second battle in Gob against the Philistines:\nthen Sobochai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family\nof the giants.\n\n21:19. And there was a third battle in Gob against the Philistines, in\nwhich Adeodatus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew\nGoliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam.\n\nAdeodatus the son of the Forrest.... So it is rendered in the Latin\nVulgate, by giving the interpretation of the Hebrew names, which are\nElhanan the son of Jaare.\n\n21:20. A fourth battle was in Geth: where there was a man of great\nstature, that had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot,\nfour and twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.\n\n21:21. And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the\nbrother of David slew him.\n\n21:22. These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the\nhand of David, and of his servants.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 22\n\nKing David\u2019s psalm of thanksgiving for his deliverance from all his\nenemies.\n\n22:1. And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the\nday that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and\nout of the hand of Saul,\n\n22:2. And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my\nsaviour.\n\n22:3. God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the\nhorn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour,\nthou wilt deliver me from iniquity.\n\n22:4. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall\nbe saved from my enemies.\n\n22:5. For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial\nhave made me afraid.\n\n22:6. The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.\n\n22:7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my\nGod: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come\nto his ears.\n\n22:8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains\nwere moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.\n\n22:9. A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of\nhis mouth: coals were kindled by it.\n\n22:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his\nfeet.\n\n22:11. And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the\nwings of the wind.\n\n22:12. He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out\nof the clouds of the heavens.\n\n22:13. By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.\n\n22:14. The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give\nforth his voice.\n\n22:15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.\n\n22:16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of\nthe world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the\nspirit of his wrath.\n\n22:17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many\nwaters.\n\n22:18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that\nhated me: for they were too strong for me.\n\n22:19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became\nmy stay.\n\n22:20. And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me,\nbecause I pleased him.\n\n22:21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according\nto the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.\n\n22:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly\ndeparted from my God.\n\n22:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have\nnot removed from me.\n\n22:24. And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my\niniquity.\n\n22:25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and\naccording to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.\n\n22:26. With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant\nperfect.\n\n22:27. With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou\nwilt be perverted.\n\n22:28. And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt\nhumble the haughty.\n\n22:29. For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my\ndarkness.\n\n22:30. For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the\nwall.\n\n22:31. God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by\nfire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.\n\n22:32. Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?\n\n22:33. God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.\n\n22:34. Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my\nhigh places.\n\n22:35. He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of\nbrass.\n\n22:36. Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness\nhath multiplied me.\n\n22:37. Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not\nfail.\n\n22:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not\nreturn again till I consume them.\n\n22:39. I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall\nnot rise: they shall fall under my feet.\n\n22:40. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them\nthat resisted me to bow under me.\n\n22:41. My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that\nhated me, and I shall destroy them.\n\n22:42. They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord,\nand he shall not hear them.\n\n22:43. I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall\ncrush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.\n\n22:44. Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou\nwilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know\nnot, shall serve me,\n\n22:45. The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the\near they will obey me.\n\n22:46. The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their\ndistresses.\n\n22:47. The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my\nsalvation shall be exalted:\n\n22:48. God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,\n\n22:49. Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from\nthem that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.\n\n22:50. Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the\nGentiles, and will sing to thy name.\n\n22:51. Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David\nhis anointed, and to his seed for ever.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 23\n\nThe last words of David. A catalogue of his valiant men.\n\n23:1. Now these are David\u2019s last words. David the son of Isai said: The\nman to whom it was appointed concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob,\nthe excellent psalmist of Israel said:\n\n23:2. The spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me and his word by my\ntongue.\n\n23:3. The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the\nruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God.\n\n23:4. As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the\nmorning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by\nrain.\n\nAs the light, etc.... So shall be the kingdom of Christ.\n\n23:5. Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with\nme an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all\nmy salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that\nspringeth not up.\n\nNeither is my house, etc.... As if he should say: This everlasting\ncovenant was not due to my house: but purely owing to his bounty; who\nis all my salvation, and my will: that is, who hath always saved me,\nand granted me what I beseeched of him; so that I and my house, through\nhis blessing, have sprung up, and succeeded in all things.\n\n23:6. But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns:\nwhich are not taken away with hands.\n\n23:7. And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with\nthe staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to\nnothing.\n\n23:8. These are the names of the valiant men of David: Jesbaham sitting\nin the chair was the wisest chief among the three, he was like the most\ntender little worm of the wood, who killed eight hundred men at one\nonset.\n\nJesbaham.... The son of Hachamoni. For this was the name of this hero,\nas appears from 1 Chron. or Paralip. 11.\u2014Ibid. Most tender, etc.... He\nappeared like one tender and weak, but was indeed most valiant and\nstrong. It seems the Latin has here given the interpretation of the\nHebrew name of the hero, to whom Jesbaham was like, instead of the name\nitself, which was Adino the Eznite, one much renowned of old for his\nvalour.\n\n23:9. After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the\nthree valiant men that were with David when they defied the\nPhilistines, and they were there gathered together to battle.\n\nDodo.... In Latin, Patrui ejus, which is the interpretation of the\nHebrew name Dodo. The same occurs in ver. 24.\n\n23:10. And when the men of Israel were gone away, he stood and smote\nthe Philistines till his hand was weary, and grew stiff with the sword:\nand the Lord wrought a great victory that day: and the people that were\nfled away, returned to take spoils of them that were slain.\n\n23:11. And after him was Semma the son of Age of Arari. And the\nPhilistines were gathered together in a troop: for there was a field\nfull of lentils. And when the people were fled from the face of the\nPhilistines,\n\n23:12. He stood in the midst of the field, and defended it, and\ndefeated the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great victory.\n\n23:13. Moreover also before this the three who were princes among the\nthirty, went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave\nof Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was in the valley of the\ngiants.\n\n23:14. And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the\nPhilistines then in Bethlehem.\n\n23:15. And David longed, and said: O that some man would get me a drink\nof the water out of the cistern, that is in Bethlehem, by the gate.\n\n23:16. And the three valiant men broke through the camp of the\nPhilistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, that was\nby the gate, and brought it to David: but he would not drink, but\noffered it to the Lord,\n\n23:17. Saying: The Lord be merciful to me, that I may not do this:\nshall I drink the blood of these men that went, and the peril of their\nlives? therefore he would not drink. These things did these three\nmighty men.\n\n23:18. Abisai also the brother of Joab, the son of Sarvia, was chief\namong three: and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he\nslew, and he was renowned among the three,\n\n23:19. And the noblest of three, and was their chief, but to the three\nfirst he attained not.\n\n23:20. And Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of great\ndeeds, of Cabseel: he slew the two lions of Moab, and he went down, and\nslew a lion in the midst of a pit, in the time of snow.\n\n23:21. He also slew an Egyptian, a man worthy to be a sight, having a\nspear in his hand: but he went down to him with a rod, and forced the\nspear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with his own spear.\n\n23:22. These things did Banaias the son of Joiada.\n\n23:23. And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the\nmost honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first\nthree: and David made him of his privy council.\n\n23:24. Asael the brother of Joab was one of the thirty, Elehanan the\nson of Dodo of Bethlehem.\n\n23:25. Semma of Harodi, Elica of Harodi,\n\n23:26. Heles of Phalti, Hira the son of Acces of Thecua,\n\n23:27. Abiezer of Anathoth, Mobonnai of Husati,\n\n23:28. Selmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,\n\n23:29. Heled the son of Baana, also a Netophathite, Ithai the son of\nRibai of Gabaath of the children of Benjamin,\n\n23:30. Banaia the Pharathonite, Heddai of the torrent Gaas,\n\n23:31. Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Beromi,\n\n23:32. Eliaba of Salaboni. The sons of Jassen, Jonathan,\n\n23:33. Semma of Orori, Aliam the son of Sarar the Arorite,\n\n23:34. Eliphelet the son of Aasbai the son of Machati, Eliam the son of\nAchitophel the Gelonite,\n\n23:35. Hesrai of Carmel, Pharai of Arbi,\n\n23:36. Igaal the son of Nathan of Soba, Bonni of Gadi,\n\n23:37. Selec of Ammoni, Naharai the Berothite, armourbearer of Joab the\nson of Sarvia,\n\n23:38. Ira the Jethrite, Gareb also a Jethrite;\n\n23:39. Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.\n\n\n2 Kings Chapter 24\n\nDavid numbereth the people: God sendeth a pestilence, which is stopt by\nDavid\u2019s prayer and sacrifice.\n\n24:1. And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and\nstirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.\n\nStirred up, etc.... This stirring up was not the doing of God, but of\nSatan; as it is expressly declared, 1 Chron. or Paralip. 21.1.\n\n24:2. And the king said to Joab the general of his army: Go through all\nthe tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people\nthat I may know the number of them.\n\n24:3. And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people,\nand make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a\nhundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord\nthe king by this kind of thing?\n\n24:4. But the king\u2019s words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the\ncaptains of the army: and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went\nout from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.\n\n24:5. And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the\nright side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.\n\n24:6. And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of\nHodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by\nSidon,\n\n24:7. They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the\nHevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into\nBersabee:\n\n24:8. And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and\ntwenty days, they came to Jerusalem.\n\n24:9. And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king,\nand there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that\ndrew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.\n\n24:10. But David\u2019s heart struck him, after the people were numbered:\nand David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have\ndone: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy\nservant, because I have done exceeding foolishly.\n\nDavid\u2019s heart struck him, after the people were numbered.... That is he\nwas touched with a great remorse for the vanity and pride which had put\nhim upon numbering the people.\n\n24:11. And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to\nGad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:\n\n24:12. Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy\nchoice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may\ndo it to thee.\n\n24:13. And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either\nseven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt\nflee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee:\nor for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now\ntherefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that\nsent me.\n\n24:14. And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better\nthat I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are\nmany) than into the hands of men.\n\n24:15. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning\nunto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to\nBersabee seventy thousand men.\n\n24:16. And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over\nJerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said\nto the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And\nthe angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.\n\n24:17. And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the\npeople: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these\nthat are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee,\nbe turned against me, and against my father\u2019s house.\n\n24:18. And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an\naltar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.\n\n24:19. And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord\nhad commanded him.\n\n24:20. And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming\ntowards him:\n\n24:21. And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to\nthe earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?\nAnd David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an\naltar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may\ncease.\n\n24:22. And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer,\nas it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the\nwain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.\n\n24:23. All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna\nsaid to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.\n\n24:24. And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of\nthee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts\nfree cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of\nsilver:\n\n24:25. And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered\nholocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the\nland, and the plague was stayed from Israel.\n\n\n\n\nTHE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\nThis and the following Book are called by the holy fathers the third\nand fourth book of Kings; but by the Hebrews, the first and second.\nThey contain the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Juda, from the\nbeginning of the reign of Solomon, to the captivity. As to the writer\nof these books, it seems most probable they were not written by one\nman; nor at one time; but as there was all along a succession of\nprophets in Israel, who recorded, by divine inspiration, the most\nremarkable things that happened in their days, these books seem to have\nbeen written by these prophets. See 2 Paralip. alias 2 Chron. 9.29;\n12.15; 13.22; 20.34; 26.22; 32.32.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 1\n\nKing David growing old, Abisag a Sunamitess is brought to him. Adonias\npretending to reign, Nathan and Bethsabee obtain that Solomon should be\ndeclared and anointed king.\n\n1:1. Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was\ncovered with clothes he was not warm.\n\n1:2. His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our lord the\nking, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish\nhim, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king.\n\n1:3. So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of\nIsrael and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the\nking.\n\n1:4. And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the\nking, and served him, but the king did not know her.\n\n1:5. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying: I will\nbe king. And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to\nrun before him.\n\n1:6. Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast\nthou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after\nAbsalom.\n\n1:7. And he conferred with Joab, the son of Sarvia, and with Abiathar,\nthe priest, who furthered Adonias\u2019s side.\n\n1:8. But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Nathan,\nthe prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David\u2019s army, was\nnot with Adonias.\n\n1:9. And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat cattle, by\nthe stone of Zoheleth, which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all\nhis brethren, the king\u2019s sons, and all the men of Juda, the king\u2019s\nservants:\n\n1:10. But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men,\nand Solomon, his brother, he invited not.\n\n1:11. And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou\nnot heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord\nDavid knoweth it not?\n\n1:12. Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life\nof thy son Solomon.\n\n1:13. Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not\nthou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy\nson, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth\nAdonias reign?\n\n1:14. And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come\nin after thee, and will fill up thy words.\n\n1:15. So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber. Now the king\nwas very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him.\n\n1:16. Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king\nsaid to her: What is thy will?\n\n1:17. She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy\nhandmaid, by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign\nafter me, and he shall sit on my throne.\n\n1:18. And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord the king,\nknowest nothing of it.\n\n1:19. He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many rams, and\ninvited all the king\u2019s sons, and Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the\ngeneral of the army: but Solomon, thy servant, he invited not.\n\n1:20. And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,\nthat thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the\nking, after thee.\n\n1:21. Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth\nwith his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted\noffenders.\n\n1:22. As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came.\n\n1:23. And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And\nwhen he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to\nthe ground,\n\n1:24. Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign\nafter me, and let him sit upon my throne?\n\n1:25. Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and\nfatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king\u2019s sons, and the\ncaptains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and\ndrinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:\n\n1:26. But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son\nof Joiada, and Solomon, thy servant, he hath not invited.\n\n1:27. Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not\ntold me, thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king\nafter him?\n\n1:28. And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when\nshe was come in to the king, and stood before him,\n\n1:29. The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered\nmy soul out of all distress,\n\n1:30. Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying:\nSolomon thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne\nin my stead, so will I do this day.\n\n1:31. And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the\nking, saying: May my lord David live for ever.\n\n1:32. King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the\nprophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada. And when they were come in\nbefore the king,\n\n1:33. He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set\nmy son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:\n\n1:34. And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him\nthere king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say:\nGod save king Solomon.\n\n1:35. And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit\nupon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him\nto be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.\n\n1:36. And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen:\nso say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.\n\n1:37. As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with\nSolomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king\nDavid.\n\n1:38. So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, went down, and\nBanaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set\nSolomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon.\n\n1:39. And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle,\nand anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people\nsaid: God save king Solomon.\n\n1:40. And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played\nwith pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the\nnoise of their cry.\n\n1:41. And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard it, and now\nthe feast was at an end. Joab also, hearing the sound of the trumpet,\nsaid: What meaneth this noise of the city in an uproar?\n\n1:42. While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest,\ncame: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man,\nand bringest good news.\n\n1:43. And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord, king David,\nhath appointed Solomon king;\n\n1:44. And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the\nprophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and the\nPhelethi, and they have set him upon the king\u2019s mule:\n\n1:45. And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him\nking, in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the\ncity rang again: this is the noise that you have heard.\n\n1:46. Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the kingdom.\n\n1:47. And the king\u2019s servants going in, have blessed our lord king\nDavid, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name,\nand make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his\nbed:\n\n1:48. And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath\ngiven this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing it.\n\n1:49. Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they all arose,\nand every man went his way.\n\n1:50. And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the\nhorn of the altar.\n\n1:51. And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king\nSolomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king\nSolomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with\nthe sword.\n\n1:52. And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as\none hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him,\nhe shall die.\n\n1:53. Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and\ngoing in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to\nthy house.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 2\n\nDavid, after giving his last charge to Solomon, dieth. Adonias is put\nto death: Abiathar is banished: Joab and Semei are slain.\n\n2:1. And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged\nhis son Solomon, saying:\n\n2:2. I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew\nthyself a man.\n\n2:3. And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and\nobserve his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and\ntestimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayst\nunderstand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:\n\n2:4. That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me,\nsaying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk\nbefore me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul,\nthere shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.\n\n2:5. Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me,\nwhat he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the\nson of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the\nblood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was\nabout his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.\n\nJoab.... These instructions given by David to his son, with relation to\nJoab and Semei, proceeded not from any rancour of heart, or private\npique; but from a zeal for justice, that crimes so public and heinous\nmight not pass unpunished.\n\n2:6. Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head\ngo down to hell in peace.\n\nTo hell.... This word hell doth not here signify the place or state of\ndamnation; but the place and state of the dead.\n\n2:7. But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and let\nthem eat at thy table: for they met me when I fled from the face of\nAbsalom, thy brother.\n\n2:8. Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of\nJemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to\nthe camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the\nJordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee\nwith the sword:\n\n2:9. Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and\nknowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs\nwith blood to the grave.\n\n2:10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid.\n\n2:11. And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty years: in\nHebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem thirty-three.\n\n2:12. And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his\nkingdom was strengthened exceedingly.\n\n2:13. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of\nSolomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered: It\nis peaceable.\n\n2:14. And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him:\nSpeak. And he said:\n\n2:15. Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had\npreferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is\nbecome my brother\u2019s: for it was appointed him by the Lord.\n\n2:16. Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face.\nAnd she said to him: Say on.\n\n2:17. And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny\nthee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.\n\n2:18. And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to the king.\n\n2:19. Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias:\nand the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his\nthrone: and a throne was set for the king\u2019s mother, and she sat on his\nright hand.\n\n2:20. And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not\nput me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I\nmust not turn away thy face.\n\n2:21. And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias,\nthy brother, to wife.\n\n2:22. And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou\nask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom;\nfor he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab,\nthe son of Sarvia.\n\n2:23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do\nto me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his\nown life.\n\n2:24. And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed\nme upon the throne of David, my father, and who hath made me a house,\nas he promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day.\n\n2:25. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son of Joiada,\nwho slew him, and he died.\n\n2:26. And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth,\nto thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at\nthis time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the\nLord God before David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the\ntroubles my father endured.\n\n2:27. So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being the priest of the Lord,\nthat the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning\nthe house of Heli in Silo.\n\n2:28. And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias,\nand had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of\nthe Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar.\n\n2:29. And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the\ntabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias,\nthe son of Joiada, saying. Go, kill him.\n\n2:30. And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him:\nThus saith the king: Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth,\nbut here I will die. Banaias brought word back to the king, saying:\nThus saith Joab, and thus he answered me.\n\n2:31. And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and\nbury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed\nby Joab, from me, and from the house of my father:\n\n2:32. And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he\nmurdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the\nsword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general\nof the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army\nof Juda;\n\n2:33. And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the\nhead of his seed for ever. But to David and his seed, and his house,\nand to his throne, be peace for ever from the Lord.\n\n2:34. So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew\nhim, and he was buried in his house in the desert.\n\n2:35. And the king appointed Banaias, the son of Joiada in his room\nover the army; and Sadoc, the priest, he put in the place of Abiathar.\n\n2:36. The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to him: Build\nthee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from thence\nany where.\n\n2:37. For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the\nbrook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be\nupon thy own head.\n\n2:38. And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the\nking hath said, so will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem\nmany days.\n\n2:39. And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei\nran away to Achis, the son of Maacha, the king of Geth: and it was told\nSemei that his servants were gone to Geth.\n\n2:40. And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Achis, to Geth,\nto seek his servants, and he brought them out of Geth.\n\n2:41. And it was told Solomon, that Semei had gone from Jerusalem to\nGeth, and was come back.\n\n2:42. And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest\nto thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou\nshalt go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die? And\nthou answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good.\n\n2:43. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the\ncommandment that I laid upon thee?\n\n2:44. And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which\nthy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord\nhath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.\n\n2:45. And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall\nbe established before the Lord for ever.\n\n2:46. So the king commanded Banaias, the son of Joiada: and he went out\nand struck him; and he died.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 3\n\nSolomon marrieth Pharao\u2019s daughter. He sacrificeth in Gabaon: in the\nchoice which God gave him he preferreth wisdom. His wise judgment\nbetween the two harlots.\n\n3:1. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he\nmade affinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter,\nand brought her into the city of David: until he had made an end of\nbuilding his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of\nJerusalem round about.\n\n3:2. But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no\ntemple built to the name of the Lord until that day.\n\nHigh places.... That is, altars where they worshipped the Lord, but not\naccording to the ordinance of the law; which allowed of no other places\nfor sacrifice but the temple of God. Among these high places that of\nGabaon was the chiefest, because there was the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, which had been removed from Silo to Nobe and from Nobe to\nGabaon.\n\n3:3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his\nfather; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense.\n\n3:4. He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the\ngreat high place: a thousand victims for holocausts, did Solomon offer\nupon that altar, in Gabaon.\n\n3:5. And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask\nwhat thou wilt that I should give thee.\n\n3:6. And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant\nDavid, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice,\nand an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for\nhim, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.\n\n3:7. And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of\nDavid, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and\ncome in;\n\n3:8. And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast\nchosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for\nmultitude.\n\n3:9. Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy\npeople, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to\njudge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?\n\n3:10. And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked\nsuch a thing.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing,\nand hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of\nthy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment;\n\n3:12. Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have\ngiven thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath\nbeen no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.\n\n3:13. Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given\nthee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee\namong the kings in all days heretofore.\n\n3:14. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my\ncommandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.\n\n3:15. And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when\nhe was come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace\nofferings, and made a great feast for all his servants.\n\n3:16. Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and\nstood before him.\n\n3:17. And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman\ndwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the\nchamber.\n\n3:18. And the third day after I was delivered, she also was delivered;\nand we were together, and no other person with us in the house; only we\ntwo.\n\n3:19. And this woman\u2019s child died in the night: for in her sleep she\noverlaid him.\n\n3:20. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from\nmy side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom:\nand laid her dead child in my bosom.\n\n3:21. And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it\nwas dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I\nfound that it was not mine which I bore.\n\n3:22. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but\nthy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou\nliest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner\nthey strove before the king.\n\n3:23. Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy\nchild is dead. And the other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and\nmine liveth.\n\n3:24. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had\nbrought a sword before the king,\n\n3:25. Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the\none and half to the other.\n\n3:26. But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her\nbowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the\nchild alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither\nmine nor thine; but divide it.\n\n3:27. The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman,\nand let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof.\n\n3:28. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and\nthey feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do\njudgment.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 4\n\nSolomon\u2019s chief officers. His riches and wisdom.\n\n4:1. And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:\n\n4:2. And these were the princes which he had: Azarias, the son of\nSadoc, the priest:\n\n4:3. Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes: Josaphat, the son\nof Ahilud, recorder:\n\n4:4. Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc, and\nAbiathar, priests.\n\nAbiathar.... By this it appears that Abiathar was not altogether\ndeposed from the high priesthood; but only banished to his country\nhouse, and by that means excluded from the exercise of his functions.\n\n4:5. Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that were about the king:\nZabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the king\u2019s friend:\n\n4:6. And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda,\nover the tribute.\n\n4:7. And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided\nvictuals for the king and for his house hold: for every one provided\nnecessaries, each man his month in the year.\n\n4:8. And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim.\n\n4:9. Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in\nElon, and in Bethanan.\n\n4:10. Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land of Epher.\n\n4:11. Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor: he had Tapheth,\nthe daughter of Solomon, to wife.\n\n4:12. Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac, and Mageddo, and\nall Bethsan, which is by Sarthana, beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan unto\nAbelmehula, over against Jecmaan.\n\n4:13. Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the town of Jair, the son of\nManasses, in Galaad: he was chief in all the country of Argob, which is\nin Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and brazen bolts.\n\n4:14. Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in Manaim.\n\n4:15. Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Basemath, the daughter of\nSolomon, to wife.\n\n4:16. Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in Baloth.\n\n4:17. Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.\n\n4:18. Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.\n\n4:19. Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the land of\nSehon, the king of the Amorrhites, and of Og, the king of Basan, over\nall that were in that land.\n\n4:20. Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in\nmultitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing.\n\n4:21. And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the river to the\nland of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought\nhim presents, and served him all the days of his life.\n\nThe river.... Euphrates.\n\n4:22. And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures\nof fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;\n\n4:23. Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams;\nbesides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.\n\n4:24. For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from\nThaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had\npeace on every side round about.\n\n4:25. And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his\nvine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of\nSolomon.\n\n4:26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and\ntwelve thousand for the saddle.\n\n4:27. And the foresaid governors of the king fed them; and they\nfurnished the necessaries also for king Solomon\u2019s table, with great\ncare, in their time.\n\n4:28. They brought barley also, and straw for the horses and beasts, to\nthe place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.\n\n4:29. And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much,\nand largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.\n\n4:30. And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the\nOrientals, and of the Egyptians;\n\n4:31. And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite,\nand Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was\nrenowned in all nations round about.\n\n4:32. Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a\nthousand and five.\n\nThree thousand parables, etc.... These works are all lost, excepting\nsome part of the parables extant in the book of Proverbs; and his chief\npoem called the Canticle of Canticles.\n\n4:33. And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Libanus,\nunto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of\nbeasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.\n\n4:34. And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and\nfrom all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 5\n\nHiram king of Tyre agreeth to furnish timber and workmen for building\nthe temple: the number of workmen and overseers.\n\n5:1. And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon: for he\nheard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for\nHiram had always been David\u2019s friend.\n\n5:2. And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:\n\n5:3. Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not\nbuild a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that\nwere round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his\nfeet.\n\n5:4. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about; and there\nis no adversary nor evil occurrence.\n\n5:5. Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my\nGod, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will\nset upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n5:6. Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees,\nout of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will\ngive thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou\nknowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew\nwood like to the Sidonians.\n\n5:7. Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced\nexceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath given\nto David a very wise son over this numerous people.\n\n5:8. And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast\ndesired of me; and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and\nfir trees.\n\n5:9. My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I\nwill put them together in floats, on the sea, and convey them to the\nplace, which thou shalt signify to me, and will land them there, and\nthou shalt receive them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish\nfood for my household.\n\n5:10. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to\nall his desire.\n\n5:11. And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for\nprovision for his house, and twenty measures of the purest oil: thus\ngave Solomon to Hiram every year.\n\n5:12. And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised him: and\nthere was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league\ntogether.\n\n5:13. And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy\nwas of thirty thousand men.\n\n5:14. And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns,\nso that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.\n\n5:15. And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty\nthousand to hew stones in the mountain:\n\n5:16. Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three\nthousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that\ndid the work.\n\n5:17. And the king commanded that they should bring great stones,\ncostly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square\nthem:\n\n5:18. And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them:\nand the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 6\n\nThe building of Solomon\u2019s temple.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after\nthe children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth\nyear of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same\nis the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord.\n\n6:2. And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was\nthreescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty\ncubits in height.\n\n6:3. And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in\nlength, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it\nwas ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.\n\n6:4. And he made in the temple oblique windows.\n\n6:5. And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in\nthe walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he\nmade chambers in the sides round about.\n\nUpon the wall, i. e., joining to the wall.\u2014Ibid. He built floors round\nabout.... Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the\ntemple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and\noutward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.\u2014Ibid.\nThe oracle.... The inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his\noracles.\n\n6:6. The floor that was underneath was five cubits in breadth, and the\nmiddle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven\ncubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the\noutside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.\n\n6:7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed\nand made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool\nof iron heard in the house when it was in building.\n\nMade ready, etc.... So the stones for the building of God\u2019s eternal\ntemple in the heavenly Jerusalem, (who are the faithful,) must first be\nhewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before they can\nbe admitted to have a place in that celestial structure.\n\n6:8. The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house:\nand by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the\nmiddle to the third.\n\n6:9. So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house\nwith roofs of cedar.\n\n6:10. And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height,\nand he covered the house with timber of cedar.\n\n6:11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:\n\n6:12. As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in\nmy statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments,\nwalking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David\nthy father.\n\n6:13. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I\nwill not forsake my people Israel.\n\n6:14. So Solomon built the house, and finished it.\n\n6:15. And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of\ncedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the\nroofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered\nthe floor of the house with planks of fir.\n\n6:16. And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder\npart of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house\nof the oracle to be the holy of holies.\n\n6:17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty\ncubits long.\n\n6:18. And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the\nturnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings\nprojecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone\ncould be seen in the wall at all.\n\n6:19. And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner\npart, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n6:20. Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in\nbreadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid\nit with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.\n\n6:21. And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold,\nand fastened on the plates with nails of gold.\n\n6:22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with\ngold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.\n\n6:23. And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten\ncubits in height.\n\n6:24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the\ncherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity\nof one wing to the extremity of the other wing.\n\n6:25. The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the\nwork was the same in both the cherubims:\n\n6:26. That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like\nmanner the other cherub.\n\n6:27. And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and\nthe cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one\ntouched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other\nwall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one\nanother.\n\n6:28. And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.\n\n6:29. And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers\nfigures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and\ndivers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from\nthe wall.\n\n6:30. And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and\nwithout.\n\n6:31. And in the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors of olive\ntree, and posts of five corners,\n\n6:32. And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of\ncherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much\nprojecting; and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the\ncherubims and the palm trees, and the other things, with gold.\n\n6:33. And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree\nfoursquare:\n\n6:34. And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each door was\ndouble, and so opened with folding leaves.\n\n6:35. And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing\nvery much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by\nrule.\n\n6:36. And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones,\nand one row of beams of cedar.\n\n6:37. In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the\nmonth Zio:\n\n6:38. And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth\nmonth) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the\nappurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 7\n\nSolomon\u2019s palace, his house in the forest, and the queen\u2019s house: the\nwork of the two pillars: the sea (or laver) and other vessels.\n\n7:1. And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it\nto perfection.\n\n7:2. He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it\nwas a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height\nthirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had\ncut cedar trees into pillars.\n\n7:3. And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was\nheld up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars,\n\n7:4. Set one against another,\n\n7:5. And looking one upon another, with equal space between the\npillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.\n\n7:6. And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and\nthirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch,\nand pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.\n\n7:7. He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the seat of\njudgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top.\n\n7:8. And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in\njudgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of\nPharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this\nporch;\n\n7:9. All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and\nmeasure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the\nwalls, and without, unto the great court.\n\n7:10. And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten\ncubits or eight cubits.\n\n7:11. And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in\nlike manner planks of cedar.\n\n7:12. And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed\nstones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the\ninner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.\n\n7:13. And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,\n\n7:14. The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of Nephthali, whose father\nwas a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and\nunderstanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was\ncome to king Solomon, he wrought all his work.\n\n7:15. And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits\nhigh: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.\n\n7:16. He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the\ntops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and\nthe height of the other chapiter was five cubits:\n\n7:17. And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with\nwonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows\nof nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.\n\n7:18. And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to\ncover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in\nlike manner did he to the other chapiter.\n\n7:19. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of\nlily work, in the porch of four cubits.\n\n7:20. And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars\nabove, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network:\nand of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the\nother chapiter.\n\n7:21. And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and\nwhen he had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name\nthereof Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called\nthe name thereof Booz.\n\nJachin.... That is, firmly established.\u2014Ibid. Booz.... That is, in its\nstrength. By recording these names in holy writ, the spirit of God\nwould have us understand the invincible firmness and strength of the\npillars on which the true temple of God, which is the church, is\nestablished.\n\n7:22. And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work\nof the pillars was finished.\n\n7:23. He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim,\nround all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty\ncubits compassed it round about.\n\n7:24. And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten\ncubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered\nsculptures.\n\n7:25. And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the\nnorth, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and\nthree towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their\nhinder parts were all hid within.\n\n7:26. And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was\nlike the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two\nthousand bates.\n\nTwo thousand bates.... That is, about ten thousand gallons. This was\nthe quantity of water which was usually put into it: but it was\ncapable, if brimful, of holding three thousand. See 2 Par. 4.5.\n\n7:27. And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in\nlength, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.\n\n7:28. And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were\ngravings between the joinings.\n\n7:29. And between the little crowns and the ledges, were lions, and\noxen, and cherubims; and in the joinings likewise above: and under the\nlions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down.\n\n7:30. And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at\nthe four sides were undersetters, under the laver molten, looking one\nagainst another.\n\n7:31. The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the\nchapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round,\nand together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the\npillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were\nsquare, not round.\n\n7:32. And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base,\nwere joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a\ncubit and a half.\n\n7:33. And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot:\nand their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all cast.\n\n7:34. And the four undersetters, that were at every corner of each\nbase, were of the base itself, cast and joined together.\n\n7:35. And on the top of the base, there was a round compass of half a\ncubit, so wrought that the laver might be set thereon, having its\ngravings, and divers sculptures of itself.\n\n7:36. He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass, and in the\ncorners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man\nstanding, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round\nabout.\n\n7:37. After this manner, he made ten bases, of one casting and measure,\nand the like graving.\n\n7:38. He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bases,\nand was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many\nlavers.\n\n7:39. And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple,\nand five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the\ntemple, over against the east southward.\n\n7:40. And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished\nall the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:41. The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the\nchapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords,\nthat were upon the top of the pillars.\n\n7:42. And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks: two rows of\npomegranates for each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters,\nwhich were upon the tops of the pillars.\n\n7:43. And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.\n\n7:44. And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.\n\n7:45. And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the\nvessels that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the house of the Lord,\nwere of fine brass.\n\n7:46. In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay\nground, between Socoth and Sartham.\n\n7:47. And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great\nmultitude the brass could not be weighed.\n\n7:48. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the\naltar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of\nproposition should be set:\n\n7:49. And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on\nthe left, over against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like\nlilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers,\n\n7:50. And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of\nmost pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the\nholy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple, were of\ngold.\n\n7:51. And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of\nthe Lord, and brought in the things that David, his father, had\ndedicated, the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up\nin the treasures of the house of the Lord.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 8\n\nThe dedication of the temple: Solomon\u2019s prayer and sacrifices.\n\n8:1. Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes,\nand the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled\nto king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.\n\n8:2. And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the\nfestival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.\n\n8:3. And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the\nark,\n\n8:4. And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the\ntabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them.\n\n8:5. And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were\nassembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed\nsheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered.\n\n8:6. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord\ninto its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies,\nunder the wings of the cherubims.\n\n8:7. For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the\nark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.\n\n8:8. And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen\nwithout, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther\nout, and there they have been unto this day.\n\n8:9. Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone,\nwhich Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the\nchildren of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.\n\nNothing else, etc.... There was nothing else but the tables of the law\nwithin the ark: but on the outside of the ark, or near the ark were\nalso the rod of Aaron, and a golden urn with manna, Heb. 9.4.\n\n8:10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the\nsanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,\n\n8:11. And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:\nfor the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.\n\n8:12. Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.\n\n8:13. Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most\nfirm throne for ever.\n\n8:14. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of\nIsrael: for all the assembly of Israel stood.\n\n8:15. And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who\nspoke with his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath\naccomplished it, saying:\n\n8:16. Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I\nchose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built,\nthat my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people\nIsrael.\n\n8:17. And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the\nLord, the God of Israel:\n\n8:18. And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought\nin thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having\nthis same thing in thy mind.\n\n8:19. Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that\nshall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n8:20. The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in\nthe room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the\nLord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God\nof Israel.\n\n8:21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant\nof the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the\nland of Egypt.\n\n8:22. And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of\nthe assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven,\n\n8:23. And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in\nheaven above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy\nwith thy servants, that have walked before thee with all their heart:\n\n8:24. Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast\npromised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou\nhast performed, as this day proveth.\n\n8:25. Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant\nDavid, my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not\nbe taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of\nIsrael: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk\nbefore me as thou hast walked in my sight.\n\n8:26. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which\nthou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father.\n\n8:27. Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth?\nfor if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how\nmuch less this house which I have built?\n\n8:28. But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his\nsupplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy\nservant prayeth before thee this day:\n\n8:29. That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon\nthe house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou\nmayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to\nthee:\n\n8:30. That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and\nof thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and\nhear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou\nhearest, shew them mercy.\n\n8:31. If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon\nhim, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy\naltar, to thy house,\n\n8:32. Then hear thou in heaven: and do and judge thy servants,\ncondemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and\njustifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice.\n\n8:33. If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies (because they\nwill sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name,\nshall come and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house:\n\n8:34. Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people\nIsrael, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their\nfathers.\n\n8:35. If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because\nof their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy\nname, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their\nafflictions:\n\n8:36. Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy\nservants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein\nthey should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to\nthy people in possession.\n\n8:37. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air,\nor blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them,\nbesieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,\n\n8:38. Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy\npeople Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and\nshall spread forth his hands in this house;\n\n8:39. Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and\nforgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as\nthou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the\nchildren of men)\n\n8:40. That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face\nof the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.\n\n8:41. Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when\nhe shall come out of a far country for thy name\u2019s sake, (for they shall\nhear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand,\n\n8:42. And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray\nin this place,\n\n8:43. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place,\nand do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee:\nthat all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy\npeople Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this\nhouse, which I have built.\n\n8:44. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way\nsoever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of\nthe city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have\nbuilt to thy name:\n\n8:45. And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their\nsupplications, and do judgment for them.\n\n8:46. But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth\nnot) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that\nthey be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;\n\n8:47. Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of\ncaptivity, and being converted, make supplication to thee in their\ncaptivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have\ncommitted wickedness:\n\n8:48. And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in\nthe land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and\npray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their\nfathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple\nwhich I have built to thy name:\n\n8:49. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their\nprayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:\n\n8:50. And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all\ntheir iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and\ngive them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may\nhave compassion on them.\n\n8:51. For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast\nbrought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of\niron.\n\n8:52. That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and\nof thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall\ncall upon thee.\n\n8:53. For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from\namongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy\nservant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.\n\n8:54. And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all\nthis prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he rose from before the\naltar of the Lord: for he had fixed both knees on the ground, and had\nspread his hands towards heaven.\n\n8:55. And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud\nvoice, saying:\n\n8:56. Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel,\naccording to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one\nword of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses.\n\n8:57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not\nleave us, nor cast us off:\n\n8:58. But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all\nhis ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his\njudgments, which he commanded our fathers.\n\n8:59. And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed before the Lord,\nbe nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may do judgment\nfor his servant, and for his people Israel, day by day:\n\n8:60. That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is\nGod, and there is no other besides him.\n\n8:61. Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may\nwalk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.\n\n8:62. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered victims before the\nLord.\n\n8:63. And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed\nto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty\nthousand sheep so the king, and all the children of Israel, dedicated\nthe temple of the Lord.\n\n8:64. In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was\nbefore the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and\nsacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar\nthat was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and\nsacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.\n\n8:65. And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel\nwith him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of\nEgypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is,\nfourteen days.\n\n8:66. And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and they blessed\nthe king, and went to their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart,\nfor all the good things that the Lord had done for David, his servant,\nand for Israel, his people.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 9\n\nThe Lord appeareth again to Solomon: he buildeth cities: he sendeth a\nfleet to Ophir.\n\n9:1. And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the\nhouse of the Lord, and the king\u2019s house, and all that he desired and\nwas pleased to do,\n\n9:2. That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared\nto him in Gabaon.\n\n9:3. And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy\nsupplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this\nhouse, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my\neyes, and my heart, shall be there always.\n\n9:4. And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in\nsimplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have\ncommanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments,\n\nAs thy father walked, in simplicity of heart.... That is, in the\nsincerity and integrity of a single heart, as opposite to all double\ndealing and deceit.\n\n9:5. I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever,\nas I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of\nthy race upon the throne of Israel.\n\n9:6. But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from\nfollowing me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies,\nwhich I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and\nadore them:\n\n9:7. I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have\ngiven them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will\ncast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among\nall people.\n\n9:8. And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall\npass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the\nLord done thus to this land, and to this house?\n\n9:9. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God,\nwho brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed\nstrange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the\nLord brought upon them all this evil.\n\n9:10. And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had built the two\nhouses; that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,\n\n9:11. (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing Solomon with cedar trees,\nand fir trees, and gold, according to all he had need of) then Solomon\ngave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.\n\n9:12. And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had\ngiven him, and they pleased him not;\n\n9:13. And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me,\nbrother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.\n\nChabul.... That is, dirty or displeasing.\n\n9:14. And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of\ngold.\n\n9:15. This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to\nbuild the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall\nof Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.\n\n9:16. Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burnt it\nwith fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it\nfor a dowry to his daughter, Solomon\u2019s wife.\n\n9:17. So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron the nether,\n\n9:18. And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of the wilderness.\n\n9:19. And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled,\nhe fortified; the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the\nhorsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in\nLibanus, and in all the land of his dominion.\n\n9:20. All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites,\nand Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n9:21. Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the\nchildren of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary\nunto this day.\n\n9:22. But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any to be\nbondmen, but they were warriors, and his servants, and his princes, and\ncaptains, and overseers of the chariots and horses.\n\n9:23. And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all\nthe works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge\nover the appointed works.\n\n9:24. And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to\nher house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.\n\n9:25. Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and\nvictims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the\nLord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was\nfinished.\n\n9:26. And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath,\non the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.\n\n9:27. And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had\nknowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.\n\n9:28. And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king\nSolomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 10\n\nThe queen of Saba cometh to king Solomon: his riches and glory.\n\n10:1. And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of Solomon in the\nname of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.\n\n10:2. And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and\ncamels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and\nprecious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that\nshe had in her heart.\n\n10:3. And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him:\nthere was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not\nanswer her.\n\n10:4. And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the\nhouse which he had built,\n\n10:5. And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants,\nand the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers,\nand the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had\nno longer any spirit in her;\n\n10:6. And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my\nown country,\n\n10:7. Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not\nbelieve them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own\neyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom\nand thy works exceed the fame which I heard.\n\n10:8. Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand\nbefore thee always, and hear thy wisdom.\n\n10:9. Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath\nset thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel\nfor ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.\n\n10:10. And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and\nof spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no\nmore such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to\nking Solomon.\n\n10:11. (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought\nfrom Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.\n\n10:12. And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of\nthe Lord, and of the king\u2019s house: and citterns and harps for singers:\nthere were no such thyine trees as these brought nor seen unto this\nday.)\n\n10:13. And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired,\nand asked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal\nbounty. And she returned, and went to her own country, with her\nservants.\n\n10:14. And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every\nyear, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:\n\n10:15. Besides that which the men brought him that were over the\ntributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the\nkings of Arabia, and the governors of the country.\n\n10:16. And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he\nallowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.\n\n10:17. And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of\ngold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the\nforest of Libanus.\n\n10:18. King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it\nwith the finest gold.\n\n10:19. It had six steps: and the top of the throne was round behind:\nand there were two hands on either side holding the seat: and two lions\nstood, one at each hand,\n\n10:20. And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on the one\nside and on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom.\n\n10:21. Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were\nof gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus\nwas of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of\nit in the days of Solomon:\n\n10:22. For the king\u2019s navy, once in three years, went with the navy of\nHiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and\nelephants\u2019 teeth, and apes, and peacocks.\n\n10:23. And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches\nand wisdom.\n\n10:24. And all the earth desired to see Solomon\u2019s face, to hear his\nwisdom, which God had given in his heart.\n\n10:25. And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of\ngold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every\nyear.\n\n10:26. And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had\na thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he\nbestowed them in fenced cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.\n\n10:27. And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones:\nand cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.\n\n10:28. And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for\nthe king\u2019s merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set\nprice.\n\n10:29. And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for six hundred\nsicles of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And after this\nmanner did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 11\n\nSolomon by means of his wives falleth into idolatry: God raiseth him\nadversaries, Adad, Razon, and Jeroboam: Solomon dieth.\n\n11:1. And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter\nof Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon,\nand of the Hethites:\n\n11:2. Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of\nIsrael: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come\ninto yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to\nfollow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent\nlove.\n\n11:3. And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred\nconcubines: and the women turned away his heart.\n\n11:4. And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to\nfollow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his\nGod, as was the heart of David, his father.\n\n11:5. But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians,\nand Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites.\n\n11:6. And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and\ndid not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.\n\n11:7. Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the\nhill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the\nchildren of Ammon.\n\n11:8. And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers,\nwho burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.\n\n11:9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned\naway from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice;\n\n11:10. And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not\nfollow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord\ncommanded him.\n\n11:11. The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this,\nand hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded\nthee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy\nservant.\n\n11:12. Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy\nfather\u2019s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.\n\n11:13. Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I will give one\ntribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem,\nwhich I have chosen.\n\nOne tribe.... Besides that of Juda, his own native tribe.\n\n11:14. And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad, the\nEdomite, of the king\u2019s seed, in Edom.\n\n11:15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army,\nwas gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in\nEdom,\n\n11:16. (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had\nslain every male in Edom,)\n\n11:17. Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father\u2019s\nservants, with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy.\n\n11:18. And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they\ntook men with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt, to Pharao, the\nking of Egypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and\nassigned him land.\n\n11:19. And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave\nhim to wife the own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen.\n\n11:20. And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son, Genubath; and\nTaphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with\nPharao among his children.\n\n11:21. And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,\nand that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao:\nLet me depart, that I may go to my own country.\n\n11:22. And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me,\nthat thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing;\nyet I beseech thee to let me go.\n\n11:23. God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon, the son of\nEliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba.\n\n11:24. And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of\nrobbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and\ndwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.\n\n11:25. And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon: and\nthis is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against Israel; and he reigned\nin Syria.\n\n11:26. Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a\nservant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted\nup his hand against the king.\n\n11:27. And this is the cause of his rebellion against him; for Solomon\nbuilt Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David, his father.\n\n11:28. And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon seeing\nhim a young man ingenious and industrious, made him chief over the\ntributes of all the house of Joseph.\n\n11:29. So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of\nJerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new\ngarment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the field.\n\n11:30. And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided\nit into twelve parts:\n\n11:31. And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the\nhand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.\n\n11:32. But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant,\nDavid, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the\ntribes of Israel:\n\n11:33. Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the\ngoddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the\ngod of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do\njustice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did\nDavid, his father.\n\n11:34. Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I\nwill make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant\u2019s\nsake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts.\n\n11:35. But I will take away the kingdom out of his son\u2019s hand, and will\ngive thee ten tribes:\n\n11:36. And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a\nlamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city\nwhich I have chosen, that my name might be there.\n\n11:37. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy\nsoul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.\n\n11:38. If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command thee, and\nwilt walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my\ncommandments and my precepts, as David, my servant, did: I will be with\nthee, and will build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for\nDavid, and I will deliver Israel to thee:\n\n11:39. And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet not for\never.\n\n11:40. Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and\nfled into Egypt, to Sesac, the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the\ndeath of Solomon.\n\n11:41. And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did and\nhis wisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the\ndays of Solomon.\n\nThe book of the words, etc.... This book is lost, with divers others\nmentioned in holy writ.\n\n11:42. And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel,\nwere forty years.\n\n11:43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city\nof David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\nSolomon slept, etc.... That is, died. He was then about fifty-eight\nyears of age, having reigned forty years.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 12\n\nRoboam, following the counsel of young men alienateth from him the\nminds of the people. They make Jeroboam king over ten tribes: he\nsetteth up idolatry.\n\n12:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come\ntogether to make him king.\n\n12:2. But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive\nfrom the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of\nEgypt.\n\n12:3. And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the\nmultitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:\n\n12:4. Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou\ntake off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his\nmost heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.\n\n12:5. And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again.\nAnd when the people was gone,\n\n12:6. King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before\nSolomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do\nyou give me, that I may answer this people?\n\n12:7. They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and\ncondescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle\nwords to them, they will be thy servants always.\n\n12:8. But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,\nand consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and\nstood before him.\n\n12:9. And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may\nanswer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy\nfather put upon us, lighter?\n\n12:10. And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus\nshalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy\nfather made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My\nlittle finger is thicker than the back of my father.\n\n12:11. And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to\nyour yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with\nscorpions.\n\n12:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day,\nas the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.\n\n12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of\nthe old men, which they had given him,\n\n12:14. And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men,\nsaying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My\nfather beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.\n\n12:15. And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was\nturned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the\nhand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.\n\n12:16. Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them,\nanswered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what\ninheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel:\nnow, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their\ndwellings.\n\n12:17. But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities\nof Juda, Roboam reigned over them.\n\n12:18. Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all\nIsrael stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get\nhim up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:\n\n12:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.\n\n12:20. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come\nagain, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and\nmade him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the\nhouse of David but the tribe of Juda only.\n\nJuda only.... Benjamin was a small tribe, and so intermixed with the\ntribe of Juda, (the very city of Jerusalem being partly in Juda, partly\nin Benjamin,) that they are here counted but as one tribe.\n\n12:21. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the\nhouse of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand\nchosen men for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring\nthe kingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon.\n\n12:22. But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of God,\nsaying:\n\n12:23. Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to\nall the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people,\nsaying:\n\n12:24. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your\nbrethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house,\nfor this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and\nreturned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.\n\n12:25. And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and\ngoing out from thence, he built Phanuel.\n\n12:26. And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to\nthe house of David,\n\n12:27. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the\nLord at Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord\nRoboam, the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.\n\n12:28. And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to\nthem: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who\nbrought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\nGolden calves.... It is likely, by making his gods in this form, he\nmimicked the Egyptians, among whom he had sojourned, who worshipped\ntheir Apis and their Osiris under the form of a bullock.\n\n12:29. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:\n\nBethel and Dan.... Bethel was a city of the tribe of Ephraim in the\nsouthern part of the dominions of Jeroboam, about six leagues from\nJerusalem; Dan was in the extremity of his dominions to the north in\nthe confines of Syria.\n\n12:30. And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to\nadore the calf as far as Dan.\n\n12:31. And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the\nlowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.\n\n12:32. And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth\nday of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in\nJuda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to\nsacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel\npriests of the high places, which he had made.\n\n12:33. And he went up to the altar, which he had built in Bethel, on\nthe fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had devised of his own\nheart: and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and went up\non the altar to burn incense.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 13\n\nA prophet sent from Juda to Bethel foretelleth the birth of Josias, and\nthe destruction of Jeroboam\u2019s altar. Jeroboam\u2019s hand offering violence\nto the prophet withereth, but is restored by the prophet\u2019s prayer: the\nsame prophet is deceived by another prophet, and slain by a lion.\n\n13:1. And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of\nthe Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and\nburning incense.\n\n13:2. And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and\nsaid: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born\nto the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee\nthe priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he\nshall burn men\u2019s bones upon thee.\n\n13:3. And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign,\nthat the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the\nashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.\n\n13:4. And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he\nhad cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand\nfrom the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he\nstretched forth against him, withered: and he was not able to draw it\nback again to him.\n\n13:5. The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the\naltar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in\nthe word of the Lord.\n\n13:6. And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord\nthy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the\nman of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king\u2019s hand was\nrestored to him, and it became as it was before.\n\n13:7. And the king said to the man of God: Come home with me to dine,\nand I will make thee presents.\n\n13:8. And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me\nhalf thy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water\nin this place:\n\n13:9. For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me:\nThou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way\nthat thou camest.\n\n13:10. So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that\nhe came into Bethel.\n\n13:11. Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to\nhim, and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day\nin Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to\nthe king.\n\n13:12. And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed\nhim the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.\n\n13:13. And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had\nsaddled it, he got up,\n\n13:14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a\nturpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God who camest\nfrom Juda? He answered: I am.\n\n13:15. And he said to him: Come home with me to eat bread.\n\n13:16. But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I\neat bread, or drink water in this place:\n\n13:17. Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying:\nThou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor\nreturn by the way thou wentest.\n\n13:18. He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel\nspoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee\ninto thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived\nhim,\n\nAn angel spoke to me, etc.... This old man of Bethel was indeed a\nprophet, but he sinned in thus deceiving the man of God; the more\nbecause he pretended a revelation for what he did.\n\n13:19. And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and drank water\nin his house.\n\n13:20. And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the\nprophet that brought him back:\n\n13:21. And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying:\nThus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord,\nand hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded\nthee,\n\n13:22. And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place\nwherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink\nwater, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy\nfathers.\n\n13:23. And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the\nprophet, whom he had brought back.\n\n13:24. And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed\nhim, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and\nthe lion stood by the dead body.\n\nKilled him.... Thus the Lord often punishes his servants here, that he\nmay spare them hereafter. For the generality of divines are of opinion,\nthat the sin of this prophet, considered with all its circumstances,\nwas not mortal.\n\n13:25. And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast in the way,\nand the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the\ncity, wherein that old prophet dwelt.\n\n13:26. And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way,\nheard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the\nmouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he\nhath torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which\nhe spoke to him.\n\n13:27. And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when they had\nsaddled it,\n\n13:28. And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the\nass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the\ndead body, nor hurt the ass.\n\n13:29. And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it\nupon the ass, and going back brought it into the city of the old\nprophet, to mourn for him.\n\n13:30. And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and they mourned\nover him, saying: Alas! alas, my brother.\n\n13:31. And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: When I\nam dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried: lay\nmy bones beside his bones.\n\n13:32. For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold\nin the word of the Lord, against the altar that is in Bethel: and\nagainst all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of\nSamaria.\n\n13:33. After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way:\nbut on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of\nthe high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a\npriest of the high places.\n\n13:34. And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut\noff, and destroyed from the face of the earth.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 14\n\nAhias prophesieth the destruction of the family of Jeroboam. He dieth,\nand is succeeded by his son Nadab. The king of Egypt taketh and\npillageth Jerusalem. Roboam dieth and his son Abiam succeedeth.\n\n14:1. At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.\n\n14:2. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that\nthou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where\nAhias, the prophet is, who told me that I should reign over this\npeople.\n\n14:3. Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of\nhoney, and go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this\nchild.\n\n14:4. Jeroboam\u2019s wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo,\nand came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were\ndim by reason of his age.\n\n14:5. And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh\nin, to consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus\nshalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she\nwere another woman,\n\n14:6. Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and\nsaid: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be\nanother? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.\n\n14:7. Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:\nFor as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee\nprince over my people Israel;\n\n14:8. And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to\nthee, and thou hast not been as my servant, David, who kept my\ncommandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was\nwell pleasing in my sight:\n\n14:9. But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made\nthee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast\ncast me behind thy back:\n\n14:10. Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam,\nand will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and\nhim that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the\nremnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be\nclean.\n\n14:11. Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat:\nand them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall\ndevour: for the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n14:12. Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet\nshall be entering into the city, the child shall die,\n\n14:13. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he\nonly of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard\nthere is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the\nhouse of Jeroboam.\n\n14:14. And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who\nshall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:\n\n14:15. And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the\nwater: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave\nto their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they\nhave made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.\n\n14:16. And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who\nhath sinned, and made Israel to sin.\n\n14:17. And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to\nThersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the\nchild died,\n\n14:18. And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according\nto the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant\nAhias, the prophet.\n\n14:19. And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he\nreigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days\nof the kings of Israel.\n\nThe book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.... This book,\nwhich is often mentioned in the Book of Kings, is long since lost. For\nas to the books of Paralipomenon, or Chronicles, (which the Hebrews\ncall the words of the days,) they were certainly written after the Book\nof Kings, since they frequently refer to them.\n\n14:20. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years:\nand he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n14:21. And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one\nand forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen\nyears in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes\nof Israel to put his name there. And his mother\u2019s name was Naama, an\nAmmonitess.\n\n14:22. And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him\nabove all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they\ncommitted.\n\n14:23. For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon\nevery high hill, and under every green tree:\n\n14:24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did\naccording to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had\ndestroyed before the face of the children of Israel.\n\nThe effeminate.... Catamites, or men addicted to unnatural lust.\n\n14:25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of\nEgypt, came up against Jerusalem.\n\n14:26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the\nking\u2019s treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold\nwhich Solomon had made:\n\n14:27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered\nthem into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them\nthat kept watch before the gate of the king\u2019s house.\n\n14:28. And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose\noffice it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they\nbrought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.\n\n14:29. Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold\nthey are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda.\n\n14:30. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.\n\n14:31. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in\nthe city of David: and his mother\u2019s name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and\nAbiam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 15\n\nThe acts of Abiam and of Asa kings of Juda. And of Nadab and Baasa\nkings of Israel.\n\n15:1. Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.\n\n15:2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nMaacha, the daughter of Abessalom.\n\nMaacha, etc.... She is called elsewhere Michaia, daughter of Uriel; but\nit was common in those days for the same person to have two names.\n\n15:3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done\nbefore him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was\nthe heart of David, his father.\n\n15:4. But for David\u2019s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in\nJerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:\n\n15:5. Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the\nLord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him,\nall the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.\n\n15:6. But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his\nlife.\n\n15:7. And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\nAnd there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.\n\n15:8. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n15:9. So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned\nAsa, king of Juda,\n\n15:10. And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother\u2019s\nname was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.\n\nHis mother, etc.... That is, his grandmother; unless we suppose, which\nis not improbable, that the Maacha here named is different from the\nMaacha mentioned, ver. 2.\n\n15:11. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as\ndid David, his father:\n\n15:12. And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all\nthe filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.\n\n15:13. Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the\nprincess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had\nconsecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the\nfilthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:\n\n15:14. But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the\nheart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:\n\nThe high places.... There were excelsa or high places of two different\nkinds. Some were set up, and dedicated to the worship of idols, or\nstrange gods; and these Asa removed, 2 Par. 14.2; others were only\naltars of the true God, but were erected contrary to the law, which\nallowed of no sacrifices but in the temple; and these were not removed\nby Asa.\u2014Ibid. Perfect with the Lord.... Asa had his faults; but never\nforsook the worship of the Lord.\n\n15:15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and\nhe had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.\n\n15:16. And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all\ntheir days.\n\n15:17. And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and built Rama,\nthat no man might go out or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda.\n\n15:18. Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king\u2019s\nhouse, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them\nto Benadad, son of Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who\ndwelt in Damascus, saying:\n\n15:19. There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and\nthy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and\nI desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel,\nthat he may depart from me.\n\n15:20. Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army\nagainst the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and\nAbeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the land of Nephthali.\n\n15:21. And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and\nreturned into Thersa.\n\n15:22. But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be\nexcused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber\nthereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa\nbuilt Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.\n\n15:23. But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and\nall that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in\nthe book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time\nof his old age he was diseased in his feet.\n\n15:24. And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place.\n\n15:25. But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel the second\nyear of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.\n\n15:26. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways\nof his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.\n\n15:27. And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired\nagainst him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the\nPhilistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.\n\n15:28. So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa, king of Juda, and\nreigned in his place.\n\n15:29. And when he was king, he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he\nleft not so much as one soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed\nhim, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken in the hand\nof Ahias, the Silonite:\n\n15:30. Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and\nwherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he\nprovoked the Lord, the God of Israel.\n\n15:31. But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:32. And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all\ntheir days.\n\n15:33. In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the son of Ahias,\nreigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years.\n\n15:34. And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of\nJeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 16\n\nJehu prophesieth against Baasa: his son Ela is slain and all his family\ndestroyed by Zambri. Of the reign of Amri father of Achab.\n\n16:1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani,\nagainst Baasa, saying:\n\n16:2. For as much as I have exalted thee out of the dust and made thee\nprince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of\nJeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger\nwith their sins:\n\n16:3. Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity\nof his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat.\n\n16:4. Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him\nthat dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.\n\n16:5. But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his\nbattles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n16:6. So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and\nEla, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n16:7. And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son\nof Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and\nagainst all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him\nto anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam:\nfor this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani,\nthe prophet.\n\n16:8. In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son\nof Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years.\n\n16:9. And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen,\nrebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the\nhouse of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.\n\n16:10. And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in the seven\nand twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he reigned in his stead.\n\n16:11. And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the\nhouse of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and\nall his kinsfolks and friends.\n\n16:12. And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the\nword of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the\nprophet,\n\n16:13. For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who\nsinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel,\nwith their vanities.\n\n16:14. But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n16:15. In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri\nreigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a\ncity of the Philistines.\n\n16:16. And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the\nking, all Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in\nthe camp that day.\n\n16:17. And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and\nthey besieged Thersa.\n\n16:18. And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, went\ninto the palace, and burnt himself with the king\u2019s house: and he died\n\n16:19. In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord,\nand walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made\nIsrael to sin.\n\n16:20. But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and\ntyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n16:21. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half\nof the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and\none half followed Amri.\n\n16:22. But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people\nthat followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri\nreigned.\n\n16:23. In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Amri reigned\nover Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years.\n\nIn the one and thirtieth year, etc.... Amri began to reign in the seven\nand twentieth year of Asa; but had not quiet possession of the kingdom\ntill the death of his competitor Thebni, which was in the one and\nthirtieth year of Asa\u2019s reign.\n\n16:24. And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two talents of\nsilver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built\nSamaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.\n\n16:25. And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly\nabove all that were before him.\n\n16:26. And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and\nin his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the\nGod of Israel, to anger with their vanities.\n\nWith their vanities.... That is, their idols their golden calves, vain,\nfalse, deceitful things.\n\n16:27. Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n16:28. And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and\nAchab, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n16:29. Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and\nthirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri,\nreigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.\n\n16:30. And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord\nabove all that were before him.\n\n16:31. Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal,\nking of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.\n\n16:32. And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he\nhad built in Samaria;\n\n16:33. And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord,\nthe God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.\n\n16:34. In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his\nfirstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he\nset up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he\nspoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 17\n\nElias shutteth up the heaven from raining. He is fed by ravens, and\nafterwards by a widow of Sarephta. He raiseth the window\u2019s son to life.\n\n17:1. And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to\nAchab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand,\nthere shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words\nof my mouth.\n\n17:2. And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n17:3. Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the\ntorrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan;\n\n17:4. And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded\nthe ravens to feed thee there.\n\n17:5. So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going,\nhe dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.\n\n17:6. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and\nbread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.\n\n17:7. But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not\nrained upon the earth.\n\n17:8. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n17:9. Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for\nI have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.\n\nSarephta of the Sidonians.... That is, a city of the Sidonians.\n\n17:10. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate\nof the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called\nher, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may\ndrink.\n\n17:11. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying:\nBring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.\n\n17:12. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread,\nbut only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise:\nbehold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me\nand my son, that we may eat it and die.\n\n17:13. And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast\nsaid but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and\nbring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.\n\n17:14. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal\nshall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day\nwherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.\n\n17:15. She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate,\nand she, and her house: and from that day\n\n17:16. The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not\ndiminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the\nhand of Elias.\n\n17:17. And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the\nmistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous,\nso that there was no breath left in him.\n\n17:18. And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of\nGod? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and\nthat thou shouldst kill my son?\n\n17:19. And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of\nher bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and\nlaid him upon his own bed.\n\n17:20. And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou\nafflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as\nto kill her son?\n\n17:21. And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three\ntimes, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of\nthis child, I beseech thee, return into his body.\n\n17:22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child\nreturned into him, and he revived.\n\n17:23. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper\nchamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said\nto her: Behold thy son liveth.\n\n17:24. And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that thou art a\nman of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 18\n\nElias cometh before Achab. He convinceth the false prophets by bringing\nfire from heaven: he obtaineth rain by his prayer.\n\n18:1. After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third\nyear, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon\nthe face of the earth.\n\n18:2. And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous\nfamine in Samaria.\n\n18:3. And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias\nfeared the Lord very much.\n\n18:4. For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a\nhundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed\nthem with bread and water.\n\n18:5. And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of\nwaters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the\nhorses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.\n\n18:6. And they divided the countries between them, that they might go\nround about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by\nhimself.\n\n18:7. And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and\nfell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?\n\n18:8. And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.\n\n18:9. And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me,\nthy servant, into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?\n\n18:10. As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,\nwhither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He\nis not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou\nwast not found.\n\n18:11. And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is\nhere.\n\n18:12. And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry\nthee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab;\nand he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the\nLord from his infancy.\n\n18:13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel\nkilled the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the\nprophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with\nbread and water?\n\n18:14. And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that\nhe may kill me.\n\n18:15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I\nstand, this day I will shew myself unto him.\n\n18:16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab\ncame to meet Elias.\n\n18:17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest\nIsrael?\n\n18:18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy\nfather\u2019s house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and\nhave followed Baalim.\n\n18:19. Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount\nCarmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the\nprophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel\u2019s table.\n\n18:20. Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together\nthe prophets unto mount Carmel.\n\n18:21. And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt\nbetween two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then\nfollow him. And the people did not answer him a word.\n\n18:22. And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of\nthe Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.\n\n18:23. Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock\nfor themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no\nfire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and\nput no fire under it.\n\n18:24. Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name\nof my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And\nall the people answering, said: A very good proposal.\n\n18:25. Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock\nand dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your\ngods; but put no fire under.\n\n18:26. And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it:\nand they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,\nsaying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered:\nand they leaped over the altar that they had made.\n\n18:27. And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with\na louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an\ninn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.\n\n18:28. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their\nmanner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.\n\n18:29. And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the\ntime was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor\ndid any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.\n\n18:30. Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people\ncoming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was\nbroken down:\n\n18:31. And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes\nof the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel\nshall be thy name.\n\n18:32. And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord:\nand he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round\nabout the altar.\n\n18:33. And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces,\nand laid it upon the wood.\n\n18:34. And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the\nburnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the\nsecond time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the\nsame also the third time. And they did so the third time.\n\n18:35. And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was\nfilled with water.\n\n18:36. And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the\nprophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and\nIsrael, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy\nservant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these\nthings.\n\n18:37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou\nart the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.\n\n18:38. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and\nthe wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that\nwas in the trench.\n\n18:39. And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and\nthey said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.\n\n18:40. And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not\none of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them\ndown to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.\n\n18:41. And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a\nsound of abundance of rain.\n\n18:42. Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of\nCarmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between\nhis knees,\n\n18:43. And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And\nhe went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said\nto him: Return seven times.\n\n18:44. And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the\nsea like a man\u2019s foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare\nthy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.\n\n18:45. And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the\nheavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain.\nAnd Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:\n\n18:46. And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his\nloins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 19\n\nElias, fleeing from Jezabel, is fed by an angel in the desert; and by\nthe strength of that food walketh forty days, till he cometh to Horeb,\nwhere he hath a vision of God.\n\n19:1. And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had\nslain all the prophets with the sword.\n\n19:2. And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such\nthings may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to\nmorrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.\n\n19:3. Then Elias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he\nhad a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant\nthere,\n\n19:4. And he went forward, one day\u2019s journey into the desert. And when\nhe was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul\nthat he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my\nsoul: for I am no better than my fathers.\n\nThat he might die.... Elias requested to die, not out of impatience or\npusillanimity, but out of zeal against sin; and that he might no longer\nbe witness of the miseries of his people; and the war they were waging\nagainst God and his servants. See ver. 10.\n\n19:5. And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper\ntree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him:\nArise and eat.\n\n19:6. He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a\nvessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.\n\n19:7. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched\nhim, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.\n\n19:8. And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of\nthat food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.\n\nIn the strength of that food, etc.... This bread, with which Elias was\nfed in the wilderness, was a figure of the bread of life which we\nreceive in the blessed sacrament; by the strength of which we are to be\nsupported in our journey through the wilderness of this world till we\ncome to the true mountain of God, and his vision in a happy eternity.\n\n19:9. And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave: and behold the\nword of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou\nhere, Elias?\n\n19:10. And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God\nof hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they\nhave thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the\nsword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.\n\nI alone am left.... Viz., of the prophets in the kingdom of Israel, or\nof the ten tribes; for in the kingdom of Juda religion was at that time\nin a very flourishing condition under the kings Asa and Josaphat. And\neven in Israel there remained several prophets, though not then known\nto Elias. See chap. 20.13, 28, 35.\n\n19:11. And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before\nthe Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind\nbefore the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in\npieces: but the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an\nearthquake: but the Lord is not in the earthquake.\n\n19:12. And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord is not in the\nfire. And after the fire, a whistling of a gentle air.\n\n19:13. And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle,\nand coming forth, stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a\nvoice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:\n\n19:14. With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because\nthe children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed\nthy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am\nleft, and they seek my life to take it away.\n\n19:15. And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the\ndesert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint\nHazael to be king over Syria;\n\n19:16. And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be king over\nIsrael: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint\nto be prophet in thy room.\n\n19:17. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword\nof Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword\nof Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.\n\nShall be slain by Eliseus.... Eliseus did not kill any of the idolaters\nwith the material sword: but he is here joined with Hazael and Jehu,\nthe great instruments of God in punishing the idolatry of Israel,\nbecause he foretold to the former his exaltation to the kingdom of\nSyria, and the vengeance he would execute against Israel, and anointed\nthe latter by one of his disciples to be king of Israel, with\ncommission to extirpate the house of Achab.\n\n19:18. And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees\nhave not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not\nworshipped him, kissing the hands.\n\n19:19. And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus, the son of\nSaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that\nwere ploughing with, twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to\nhim, he cast his mantle upon him.\n\n19:20. And he forthwith left the oxen, and ran after Elias, and said:\nLet me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will\nfollow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which\nwas my part, I have done to thee.\n\n19:21. And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed\nthem, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the\npeople, and they ate: and rising up, he went away, and followed Elias,\nand ministered to him.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 20\n\nThe Syrians besiege Samaria: they are twice defeated by Achab: who is\nreprehended by a prophet for letting Benadad go.\n\n20:1. And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and\nthere were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and\ngoing up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.\n\n20:2. And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city,\n\n20:3. He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and\nthy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.\n\n20:4. And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord,\nO king, I am thine, and all that I have.\n\n20:5. And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who\nsent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy\nchildren, thou shalt deliver up to me.\n\n20:6. To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send my servants\nto thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy\nservants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands,\nand take away.\n\n20:7. And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and\nsaid: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for\nmy wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said\nnot nay.\n\n20:8. And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not\nto him, nor consent to him.\n\n20:9. Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord,\nthe king: All that thou didst send for to me, thy servant at first, I\nwill do: but this thing I cannot do.\n\n20:10. And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent\nagain, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more\nmay they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all\nthe people that follow me.\n\n20:11. And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the\ngirded boast himself as the ungirded.\n\nLet not the girded, etc.... Let him not boast before the victory: it\nwill then be time to glory when he putteth off his armour, having\novercome his adversary.\n\n20:12. And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and\nthe kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants:\nBeset the city. And they beset it.\n\n20:13. And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to\nhim: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great\nmultitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou\nmayst know that I am the Lord.\n\n20:14. And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the\nLord: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who\nshall begin to fight? And he said: Thou.\n\n20:15. So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and\nhe found the number of two hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered\nafter them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand:\n\n20:16. And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself\ndrunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were\ncome to help him.\n\n20:17. And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first.\nAnd Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of\nSamaria.\n\n20:18. And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or\nwhether they come to fight, take them alive.\n\n20:19. So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and\nthe rest of the army followed:\n\n20:20. And every one slew the man that came against him: and the\nSyrians fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad, king of\nSyria, fled away on horseback with his horsemen.\n\n20:21. But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and\nchariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.\n\n20:22. (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go,\nand strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next\nyear the king of Syria will come up against thee.)\n\n20:23. But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods\nare gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is\nbetter that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall\novercome them.\n\n20:24. Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy\narmy, and put captains in their stead:\n\n20:25. And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of\nthine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots,\naccording to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight\nagainst them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome\nthem. He believed their counsel, and did so.\n\n20:26. Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the\nSyrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.\n\n20:27. And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals,\nwent out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two\nlittle flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.\n\n20:28. (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith\nthe Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills,\nbut is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude\ninto thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)\n\n20:29. And both sides set their armies in array one against the other\nseven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the\nchildren of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in\none day.\n\n20:30. And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the\nwall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And\nBenadad fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a\nchamber.\n\n20:31. And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the\nkings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on\nour loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel:\nperhaps he will save our lives.\n\n20:32. So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their\nheads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant,\nBenadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he\nbe yet alive, he is my brother.\n\n20:33. The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word\nout of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them:\nGo, and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted\nhim up into his chariot.\n\n20:34. And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy\nfather, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as\nmy father made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from\nthee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.\n\n20:35. Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his\ncompanion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.\n\n20:36. Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the\nword of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall\nslay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him,\nand slew him.\n\n20:37. Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he\nstruck him and wounded him.\n\n20:38. So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised\nhimself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes.\n\n20:39. And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy\nservant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run\naway, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall\nslip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent\nof silver.\n\n20:40. And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and that, on a\nsudden he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This\nis thy judgment, which thyself hast decreed.\n\n20:41. But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king\nof Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets.\n\n20:42. And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let\ngo out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his\nlife, and thy people for his people.\n\n20:43. And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear,\nand raging came into Samaria.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 21\n\nNaboth, for denying his vineyard to king Achab, is by Jezabel\u2019s\ncommandment, falsely accused and stoned to death. For which crime Elias\ndenounceth to Achab the judgments of God: upon his humbling himself the\nsentence is mitigated.\n\n21:1. And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in\nJezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the palace of Achab, king\nof Samaria.\n\n21:2. And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I\nmay make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my\nhouse; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think\nit more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.\n\n21:3. Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me\ngive thee the inheritance of my fathers.\n\n21:4. And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the\nword that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will\nnot give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon\nhis bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.\n\n21:5. And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to him: What is\nthe matter that thy soul is so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread?\n\n21:6. And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said\nto him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please\nthee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will\nnot give thee my vineyard.\n\n21:7. Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority\nindeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread,\nand be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the\nJezrahelite.\n\n21:8. So she wrote letters in Achab\u2019s name, and sealed them with his\nring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his\ncity, and that dwelt with Naboth.\n\n21:9. And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make\nNaboth sit among the chief of the people;\n\n21:10. And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him, and let them\nbear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then\ncarry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.\n\n21:11. And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt\nwith him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was\nwritten in the letters which she had sent to them;\n\n21:12. They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of\nthe people.\n\n21:13. And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit\nagainst him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him\nbefore the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king.\nWherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to\ndeath.\n\n21:14. And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead.\n\n21:15. And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned,\nand dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the\nvineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and\ngive it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.\n\n21:16. And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he\narose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, to\ntake possession of it.\n\n21:17. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\n\n21:18. Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king of Israel, who is in\nSamaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take\npossession of it:\n\n21:19. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou\nhast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these\nwords thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the\ndogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.\n\n21:20. And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said:\nI have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the\nLord.\n\nSold, to do evil in the sight, etc.... That is, so addicted to evil, as\nif thou hadst sold thyself to the devil, to be his slave to work all\nkinds of evil.\n\n21:21. Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy\nposterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall,\nand him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.\n\n21:22. And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of\nNabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast\ndone to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.\n\n21:23. And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat\nJezabel in the field of Jezrahel.\n\n21:24. If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die\nin the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.\n\n21:25. Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do\nevil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife, Jezabel, set him on,\n\n21:26. And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols\nwhich the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face\nof the children of Israel.\n\n21:27. And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and\nput haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and\nwalked with his head cast down.\n\n21:28. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\n\n21:29. Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because\nhe hath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his\ndays, but in his son\u2019s days will I bring the evil upon his house.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 22\n\nAchab believing his false prophets, rather than Micheas, is slain in\nRamoth Galaad. Ochozias succeedeth him. Good king Josaphat dieth, and\nhis son Joram succeedeth him.\n\n22:1. And there passed three years without war between Syria and\nIsrael.\n\n22:2. And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the\nking of Israel.\n\n22:3. (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not that\nRamoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the\nking of Syria?)\n\n22:4. And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to\nRamoth Galaad?\n\n22:5. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my\npeople and thy people are one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And\nJosaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day\nthe word of the Lord.\n\n22:6. Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four\nhundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight,\nor shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it\ninto the hand of the king.\n\n22:7. And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord,\nthat we may inquire by him?\n\n22:8. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left,\nby whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I\nhate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat\nsaid: Speak not so, O king.\n\n22:9. Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make\nhaste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of Jemla.\n\n22:10. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, sat each on\nhis throne, clothed with royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of\nthe gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.\n\n22:11. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron,\nand said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till\nthou destroy it.\n\n22:12. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to\nRamoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the\nking\u2019s hands.\n\n22:13. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him,\nsaying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good\nthings to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and\nspeak that which is good.\n\n22:14. But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord\nshall say to me, that will I speak.\n\n22:15. So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall\nwe go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him:\nGo up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king\u2019s\nhands.\n\nGo up, etc.... This was spoken ironically, and by way of jesting at the\nflattering speeches of the false prophets: and so the king understood\nit, as appears by his adjuring Micheas, in the following verse, to tell\nhim the truth in the name of the Lord.\n\n22:16. But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that\nthou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord.\n\n22:17. And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like\nsheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master:\nlet every man of them return to his house in peace.\n\n22:18. (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee,\nthat he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?)\n\n22:19. And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the\nLord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven\nstanding by him on the right hand and on the left:\n\n22:20. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that\nhe may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this\nmanner, and another otherwise.\n\nThe Lord said, etc.... God standeth not in need of any counsellor; nor\nare we to suppose that things pass in heaven in the manner here\ndescribed: but this representation was made to the prophet, to be\ndelivered by him in a manner adapted to the common ways and notions of\nmen.\n\n22:21. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and\nsaid: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?\n\n22:22. And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the\nmouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him,\nand shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.\n\nGo forth, and do so.... This was not a command, but a permission: for\nGod never ordaineth lies; though he often permitteth the lying spirit\nto deceive those who love not the truth. 2 Thess. 2.10. And in this\nsense it is said in the following verse, The Lord hath given a lying\nspirit in the mouth of all thy prophets.\n\n22:23. Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the\nmouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil\nagainst thee.\n\n22:24. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on\nthe cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and\nspoken to thee?\n\n22:25. And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go\ninto a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.\n\nGo into a chamber, etc.... This happened when he heard the king was\nslain, and justly apprehended that he should be punished for his false\nprophecy.\n\n22:26. And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let him abide with\nAmon, the governor of the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech;\n\n22:27. And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and\nfeed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return\nin peace.\n\n22:28. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not\nspoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.\n\n22:29. So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to\nRamoth-Galaad.\n\n22:30. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take thy armour, and go\ninto the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel\nchanged his dress, and went into the battle.\n\n22:31. And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains\nof the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or\ngreat, but against the king of Israel only.\n\n22:32. So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they\nsuspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault,\nthey fought against him: and Josaphat cried out.\n\n22:33. And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the\nking of Israel, and they turned away from him.\n\n22:34. And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and\nchanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the\nstomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and\ncarry me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.\n\n22:35. And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood\nin his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the\nblood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.\n\n22:36. And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun\nset, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own\ncountry.\n\n22:37. And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried\nthe king in Samaria.\n\n22:38. And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs\nlicked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of\nthe Lord which he had spoken.\n\n22:39. But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the\nhouse of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n22:40. So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n22:41. But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Juda, in the\nfourth year of Achab, king of Israel.\n\n22:42. He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAzuba, the daughter of Salai.\n\n22:43. And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined\nnot from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.\n\n22:44. Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the\npeople offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.\n\nHe took not away, etc.... He left some of the high places, viz., those\nin which they worshipped the true God: but took away all others, 2 Par.\n17.6, and note ver. 14 of chap. 15. 3 Kings.\n\n22:45. And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.\n\n22:46. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he\ndid, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of\nthe days of the kings of Juda?\n\n22:47. And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days\nof Asa, his father, he took out of the land.\n\n22:48. And there was then no king appointed in Edom.\n\n22:49. But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for\ngold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.\n\n22:50. Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my\nservants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.\n\nWould not.... He had been reprehended before for admitting such a\npartner: and therefore would have no more to do with him.\n\n22:51. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n22:52. And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over Israel, in\nSamaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he\nreigned over Israel two years.\n\n22:53. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way\nof his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n22:54. He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord,\nthe God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 1\n\nOchozias sendeth to consult Beelzebub: Elias foretelleth his death: and\ncauseth fire to come down from heaven, upon two captains and their\ncompanies.\n\n1:1. And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.\n\n1:2. And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which\nhe had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to\nthem: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall\nrecover of this my illness.\n\n1:3. And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\nArise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say\nto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub,\nthe god of Accaron?\n\n1:4. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art\ngone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias\nwent away.\n\n1:5. And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them:\nWhy are you come back?\n\n1:6. But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and\nreturn to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith\nthe Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest\nto Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down\nfrom the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.\n\n1:7. And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and\nspoke these words?\n\n1:8. But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his\nloins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.\n\n1:9. And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were\nunder him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a\nhill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou\ncome down.\n\n1:10. And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man\nof God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty.\nAnd there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty\nthat were with him.\n\nLet fire, etc.... Elias was inspired to call for fire from heaven upon\nthese captains, who came to apprehend him; not out of a desire to\ngratify any private passion; but to punish the insult offered to\nreligion, to confirm his mission, and to shew how vain are the efforts\nof men against God, and his servants, whom he willeth to protect.\n\n1:11. And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his\nfifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king:\nMake haste and come down.\n\n1:12. Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down\nfrom heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from\nheaven, and consumed him and his fifty.\n\n1:13. Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that\nwere with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before\nElias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and\nthe lives of thy servants that are with me.\n\n1:14. Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first\ncaptains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I\nbeseech thee to spare my life.\n\n1:15. And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with\nhim, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king,\n\n1:16. And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent\nmessengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there\nwere not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word;\ntherefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come\ndown, but thou shalt surely die.\n\n1:17. So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke;\nand Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of\nJoram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son.\n\nThe second year of Joram, etc.... Counted from the time that he was\nassociated to the throne by his father Josaphat.\n\n1:18. But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 2\n\nEliseus will not part from Elias. The water of the Jordan is divided by\nElias\u2019 cloak. Elias is taken up in a fiery chariot, and his double\nspirit is given to Eliseus. Eliseus healeth the waters by casting in\nsalt. Boys are torn by bears for mocking Eliseus.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias, into\nheaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.\n\nHeaven.... By heaven here is meant the air, the lowest of the heavenly\nregions.\n\n2:2. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath\nsent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth,\nand as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come\ndown to Bethel,\n\n2:3. The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to\nEliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will\ntake away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold\nyour peace.\n\nThe sons of the prophets.... That is, the disciples of the prophets;\nwho seem to have had their schools, like colleges or communities, in\nBethel, Jericho, and other places in the days of Elias and Eliseus.\n\n2:4. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent\nme to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,\nI will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho,\n\n2:5. The sons of the prophets, that were at Jericho, came to Eliseus,\nand said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away\nthy master from thee? And he said: I also know it: hold your peace.\n\n2:6. And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as\nfar as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul\nliveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together.\n\n2:7. And fifty men, of the sons of the prophets, followed them, and\nstood in sight, at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan.\n\n2:8. And Elias took his mantle, and folded it together, and struck the\nwaters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed\nover on dry ground.\n\n2:9. And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou\nwilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And\nEliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be thy double spirit.\n\nDouble spirit.... A double portion of thy spirit, as the eldest son and\nheir: or thy spirit which is double in comparison of that which God\nusually imparteth to his prophets.\n\n2:10. And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if\nthou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast\nasked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.\n\n2:11. And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a\nfiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went\nup by a whirlwind into heaven.\n\n2:12. And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot\nof Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took\nhold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.\n\n2:13. And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going\nback, he stood on the bank of the Jordan;\n\n2:14. And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had\nfallen from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where is now\nthe God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided\nhither and thither, and Eliseus passed over.\n\n2:15. And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against\nhim, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And\ncoming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground.\n\nThey worshipped him.... viz., with an inferior, yet religious\nveneration, not for any temporal, but spiritual excellency.\n\n2:16. And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty\nstrong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit\nof the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into\nsome valley. And he said: Do not send.\n\n2:17. But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they\nsent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not.\n\n2:18. And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said\nto them: Did I not say to you? Do not send.\n\n2:19. And the men of the city, said to Eliseus: Behold the situation\nof this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are\nvery bad, and the ground barren.\n\n2:20. And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And\nwhen they had brought it,\n\n2:21. He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into\nit, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and\nthere shall be no more in them death or barrenness.\n\n2:22. And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word\nof Eliseus, which he spoke.\n\n2:23. And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by\nthe way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go\nup, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.\n\n2:24. And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the\nLord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of\nthem, two and forty boys.\n\nCursed them.... This curse, which was followed by so visible a judgment\nof God, was not the effect of passion, or of a desire of revenging\nhimself; but of zeal for religion, which was insulted by these boys, in\nthe person of the prophet; and of a divine inspiration: God punishing\nin this manner the inhabitants of Bethel, (the chief seat of the calf\nworship,) who had trained up their children in a prejudice against the\ntrue religion and its ministers.\n\n2:25. And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence he\nreturned to Samaria.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 3\n\nThe kings of Israel, Juda, and Edom, fight against the king of Moab.\nThey want water, which Eliseus procureth without rain: and prophesieth\nvictory. The king of Moab is overthrown, his city is besieged: he\nsacrificeth his firstborn son: so the Israelites raise the siege.\n\n3:1. And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in\nthe eighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve\nyears.\n\n3:2. And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his\nmother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had\nmade.\n\n3:3. Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat,\nwho made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.\n\n3:4. Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the\nking of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams,\nwith their fleeces.\n\n3:5. And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made\nwith the king of Israel.\n\n3:6. And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all\nIsrael.\n\n3:7. And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is\nrevolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered:\nI will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people:\nand my horses, thy horses.\n\n3:8. And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the\ndesert of Edom.\n\n3:9. So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom,\nwent, and they fetched a compass of seven days journey, and there was\nno water for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them.\n\n3:10. And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord hath\ngathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab.\n\n3:11. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that\nwe may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of\nIsrael answered: Here is Eliseus, the son of Saphat, who poured water\non the hands of Elias.\n\n3:12. And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king\nof Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down\nto him.\n\n3:13. And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with\nthee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of\nIsrael said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three\nkings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab?\n\n3:14. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose\nsight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat, king of\nJuda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.\n\n3:15. But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played,\nthe hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:\n\n3:16. Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of\nditches.\n\n3:17. For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and\nyet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you\nand your families, and your beasts.\n\n3:18. And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he\nwill deliver, also, Moab into your hands.\n\n3:19. And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city,\nand shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the\nsprings of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones.\n\n3:20. And it came to pass, in the morning, when the sacrifices used to\nbe offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country\nwas filled with water.\n\n3:21. And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight\nagainst them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon\nthem, and stood in the borders.\n\n3:22. And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and\nshining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them\nred, like blood,\n\n3:23. And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have\nfought among themselves, and they have killed one another: go now,\nMoab, to the spoils.\n\n3:24. And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up,\ndefeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went\nand smote Moab.\n\n3:25. And they destroyed the cities: and they filled every goodly\nfield, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs\nof waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick\nwalls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a\ngreat part thereof destroyed.\n\nBrick walls only remained.... It was the proper name of the capital\ncity of the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Haraseth.\n\n3:26. And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the enemies had\nprevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to\nbreak in upon the king of Edom: but they could not.\n\n3:27. Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his\nstead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there\nwas great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him,\nand returned into their own country.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 4\n\nMiracles of Eliseus. He raiseth a dead child to life.\n\n4:1. Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to\nEliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest\nthat thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is\ncome to take away my two sons to serve him.\n\n4:2. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell\nme, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I, thy handmaid,\nhave nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.\n\n4:3. And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty\nvessels, not a few.\n\n4:4. And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons:\nand pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full,\ntake them away.\n\n4:5. So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons:\nthey brought her the vessels, and she poured in.\n\n4:6. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet\na vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.\n\n4:7. And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the\noil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.\n\n4:8. And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a\ngreat woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed\noften that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.\n\n4:9. And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of\nGod, who often passeth by us.\n\n4:10. Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little\nbed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that\nwhen he cometh to us he may abide there.\n\n4:11. Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the\nchamber, and rested there.\n\n4:12. And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess. And when\nhe had called her, and she stood before him,\n\n4:13. He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently\nserved us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast\nthou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the\ngeneral of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own\npeople.\n\n4:14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi\nsaid: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.\n\n4:15. Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood\nbefore the door,\n\n4:16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in\ncompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I\nbeseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.\n\n4:17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and\nat the same hour that Eliseus had said.\n\n4:18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his\nfather to the reapers,\n\n4:19. He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he\nsaid to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother.\n\n4:20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat\nhim on her knees, until noon, and then he died.\n\n4:21. And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and\nshut the door: and going out,\n\n4:22. She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee,\none of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and\ncome again.\n\n4:23. And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither\nnew moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.\n\n4:24. And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and\nmake haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.\n\n4:25. So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel:\nand when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his\nservant: Behold that Sunamitess.\n\n4:26. Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with\nthee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well.\n\n4:27. And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught\nhold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God\nsaid: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid\nit from me, and hath not told me.\n\n4:28. And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to\nthee: Do not deceive me?\n\n4:29. Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in\nthy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man\nsalute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the\nchild.\n\nSalute him not.... He that is sent to raise to life the sinner\nspiritually dead, must not suffer himself to be called off, or diverted\nfrom his enterprise, by the salutations or ceremonies of the world.\n\n4:30. But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy\nsoul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed\nher.\n\n4:31. But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face\nof the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet\nhim, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.\n\nSt. Augustine considers a great mystery in this miracle wrought by the\nprophet Eliseus, thus: By the staff sent by his servant is figured the\nrod of Moses, or the Old Law, which was not sufficient to bring mankind\nto life then dead in sin. It was necessary that Christ himself should\ncome, and by taking on human nature, become flesh of our flesh, and\nrestore us to life. In this Eliseus was a figure of Christ, as it was\nnecessary that he should come himself to bring the dead child to life\nand restore him to his mother, who is here, in a mystical sense, a\nfigure of the Church.\n\n4:32. Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay\ndead on his bed:\n\n4:33. And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and\nprayed to the Lord.\n\n4:34. And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon\nhis mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:\nand he bowed himself upon him, and the child\u2019s flesh grew warm.\n\n4:35. Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he\nwent up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened\nhis eyes.\n\n4:36. And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And\nshe being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son.\n\n4:37. She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground:\nand took up her son, and went out.\n\n4:38. And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the\nland, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one\nof his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of\nthe prophets.\n\n4:39. And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he\nfound something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the\nfield, and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the\npot of pottage; for he knew not what it was.\n\nWild gourds of the field.... Colocynthidas. They are extremely bitter,\nand therefore are called the gall of the earth; and are poisonous if\ntaken in a great quantity.\n\n4:40. And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they\nhad tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the pot,\nO man of God. And they could not eat thereof.\n\n4:41. But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he\ncast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may\neat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot.\n\n4:42. And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of\nGod, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in\nhis scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.\n\n4:43. And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set\nit before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they\nmay eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be\nleft.\n\n4:44. So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left,\naccording to the word of the Lord.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 5\n\nNaaman the Syrian is cleansed of his leprosy. He professeth his belief\nin one God, promising to serve him. Giezi taketh gifts of Naaman, and\nis struck with leprosy.\n\n5:1. Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man\nwith his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance\nto Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.\n\n5:2. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away\ncaptive out of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon\nNaaman\u2019s wife.\n\n5:3. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the\nprophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the\nleprosy which he hath.\n\n5:4. Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and\nthus said the girl from the land of Israel.\n\n5:5. And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to\nthe king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of\nsilver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment;\n\n5:6. And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When\nthou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman,\nmy servant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy.\n\n5:7. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his\ngarments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that\nthis man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see\nhow he seeketh occasions against me.\n\n5:8. And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the\nking of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast\nthou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there\nis a prophet in Israel.\n\n5:9. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door\nof the house of Eliseus:\n\n5:10. And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven\ntimes in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt\nbe clean.\n\n5:11. Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have\ncome out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord\nhis God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed\nme.\n\n5:12. Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better\nthan all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made\nclean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,\n\n5:13. His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet\nhad bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it:\nhow much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be\nclean?\n\n5:14. Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times,\naccording to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored,\nlike the flesh of a little child: and he was made clean.\n\n5:15. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and\nstood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in\nall the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a\nblessing of thy servant.\n\nA blessing.... a present.\n\n5:16. But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will\nreceive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.\n\n5:17. And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me,\nthy servant, to take from hence two mules\u2019 burden of earth: for thy\nservant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods,\nbut to the Lord.\n\n5:18. But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for\nthy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship\nthere, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of\nRemmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me,\nthy servant, for this thing.\n\n5:19. And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the\nspring time of the earth.\n\nGo in peace.... What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward\nconformity to an idolatrous worship; but only a service which by his\noffice he owed to his master: who on all public occasions leaned on\nhim: so that his bowing down when his master bowed himself down was not\nin effect adoring the idols: nor was it so understood by the standers\nby, since he publicly professed himself a worshipper of the only true\nand living God, but it was no more than doing a civil office to the\nking his master, whose leaning upon him obliged him to bow at the same\ntime that he bowed.\n\n5:20. But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath\nspared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he\nbrought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something\nof him.\n\n5:21. And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running\nafter him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all\nwell?\n\n5:22. And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just\nnow there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons\nof the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of\ngarments.\n\n5:23. And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he\nforced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two\nchanges of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they\ncarried them before him.\n\n5:24. And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them\nfrom their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away,\nand they departed.\n\n5:25. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said:\nWhence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.\n\n5:26. But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back,\nfrom his chariot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and\nreceived garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and\noxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants.\n\n5:27. But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy\nseed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 6\n\nEliseus maketh iron to swim upon the water: he leadeth the Syrians that\nwere sent to apprehend him into Samaria, where there eyes being opened,\nthey are courteously entertained. The Syrians besiege Samaria: the\nfamine there causeth a woman to eat her own child. Upon this the king\ncommandeth Eliseus to be put to death.\n\n6:1. And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place\nwhere we dwell with thee is too strait for us.\n\n6:2. Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man\na piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And\nhe said: Go.\n\n6:3. And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He\nanswered: I will come.\n\n6:4. So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they\ncut down wood.\n\n6:5. And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of\nthe ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas,\nalas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.\n\n6:6. And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the\nplace: Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the\niron swam.\n\n6:7. And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand, and took it.\n\n6:8. And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with\nhis servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush.\n\n6:9. And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that\nthou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.\n\n6:10. And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God\nhad told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not\nonce nor twice.\n\n6:11. And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing.\nAnd calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who\nit is that betrays me to the king of Israel?\n\n6:12. And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but\nEliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all\nthe words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.\n\n6:13. And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and\ntake him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.\n\n6:14. Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength\nof an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.\n\n6:15. And the servant of the man of God, rising early went out, and saw\nan army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him,\nsaying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?\n\n6:16. But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with\nthem.\n\n6:17. And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may\nsee. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and\nbehold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round\nabout Eliseus.\n\n6:18. And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord,\nsaying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the\nLord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.\n\nBlindness.... The blindness here spoken of was of a particular kind,\nwhich hindered them from seeing the objects that were really before\nthem; and represented other different objects to their imagination: so\nthat they no longer perceived the city of Dothan, nor were able to know\nthe person of Eliseus; but were easily led by him, whom they took to be\nanother man, to Samaria. So that he truly told them, this is not the\nway, neither is this the city, etc., because he spoke with relation to\nthe way and to the city, which was represented to them.\n\n6:19. And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this\nthe city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he\nled them into Samaria.\n\n6:20. And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open\nthe eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their\neyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.\n\n6:21. And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My\nfather, shall I kill them?\n\n6:22. And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take\nthem with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set\nbread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to\ntheir master.\n\n6:23. And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate\nand drank; and he let them go: and they went away to their master: and\nthe robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.\n\n6:24. And it came to pass, after these things, that Benadad, king of\nSyria, gathered together all his army, and went up and besieged\nSamaria.\n\n6:25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the\nsiege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces\nof silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons\u2019 dung, for five\npieces of silver.\n\n6:26. And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain\nwoman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.\n\n6:27. And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee?\nout of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to\nher: What aileth thee? And she answered:\n\n6:28. This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today,\nand we will eat my son tomorrow.\n\n6:29. So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next\nday: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.\n\n6:30. When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by\nupon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore\nwithin next to his flesh.\n\n6:31. And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add\nmore, if the head of Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him\nthis day.\n\n6:32. But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So\nhe sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the\nancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off\nmy head? Look then when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and\nsuffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master\u2019s feet is\nbehind him.\n\n6:33. While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who\nwas coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the\nLord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 7\n\nEliseus prophesieth a great plenty, which presently ensueth upon the\nsudden flight of the Syrians; of which four lepers bring the news to\nthe city. The incredulous nobleman is trod to death.\n\n7:1. And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the\nLord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold\nfor a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of\nSamaria.\n\nA stater.... It is the same as a sicle or shekel.\n\n7:2. Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering\nthe man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven,\ncan that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it\nwith thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.\n\n7:3. Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and\nthey said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?\n\n7:4. If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and\nif we will remain here, we must also die: come therefore, and let us\nrun over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live:\nbut if they kill us, we shall but die.\n\n7:5. So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp. And when\nthey were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found\nno man there.\n\n7:6. For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise\nof chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one\nto another: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings\nof the Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us.\n\n7:7. Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left their\ntents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled, desiring to\nsave their lives.\n\n7:8. So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they\nwent into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence\nsilver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came\nagain, and went into another tent, and carried from thence in like\nmanner, and hid it.\n\n7:9. Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day\nof good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the\nmorning, we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go, and tell it\nin the king\u2019s court.\n\n7:10. So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We\nwent to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses,\nand asses tied, and the tents standing.\n\n7:11. Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the\nking\u2019s palace.\n\n7:12. And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you\nwhat the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great\nfamine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the\nfields, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them\nalive, and then we may get into the city.\n\n7:13. And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses\nthat are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole\nmultitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and\nsee.\n\n7:14. They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the\ncamp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.\n\n7:15. And they went after them, as far as the Jordan: and behold, all\nthe way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast\naway, in their fright, and the messengers returned, and told the king.\n\n7:16. And the people going out, pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a\nbushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley\nfor a stater, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n7:17. And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to\nstand at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the\ngate; and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down\nto him.\n\n7:18. And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God,\nwhich he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall\nbe for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very\ntime tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.\n\n7:19. When that lord answered the man of God, and said: Although the\nLord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which\nthou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, and\nshalt not eat thereof.\n\n7:20. And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people\ntrod upon him in the gate, and he died.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 8\n\nAfter seven years\u2019 famine foretold by Eliseus, the Sunamitess returning\nhome, recovereth her lands, and revenues. Eliseus foresheweth the death\nof Benadad, king of Syria, and the reign of Hazael. Joram\u2019s wicked\nreign in Juda. He dieth, and his son Ochozias succeedeth.\n\n8:1.And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life,\nsaying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever\nthou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come\nupon the land seven years.\n\n8:2. And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God:\nand going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the\nPhilistines many days.\n\n8:3. And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the\nland of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for\nher house and for her lands.\n\n8:4. And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God,\nsaying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.\n\n8:5. And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to\nlife, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to\nthe king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord, O king,\nthis is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.\n\n8:6. And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king\nappointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all\nthe revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this\npresent.\n\n8:7. Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad, king of Syria was\nsick; and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.\n\n8:8. And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to\nmeet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover\nof this my illness?\n\n8:9. And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the\ngood things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood\nbefore him, he said: Thy son, Benadad, the king of Syria, hath sent me\nto thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?\n\n8:10. And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but the\nLord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.\n\nTell him: thou shalt recover.... By these words the prophet signified\nthat the king\u2019s disease was not mortal: and that he would recover if no\nviolence were used. Or he might only express himself in this manner, by\nway of giving Hazael to understand that he knew both what he would say\nand do; that he would indeed tell the king he should recover; but would\nbe himself the instrument of his death.\n\n8:11. And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and\nthe man of God wept.\n\n8:12. And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said:\nBecause I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel.\nTheir strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou\nwilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up\ntheir pregnant women.\n\n8:13. And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should\ndo this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that\nthou shalt be king of Syria.\n\n8:14. And when he was departed from Eliseus he came to his master, who\nsaid to him: What said Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me:\nThou shalt recover.\n\n8:15. And on the next day, he took a blanket, and poured water on it,\nand spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his\nstead.\n\n8:16. In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of\nJosaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.\n\nAnd of Josaphat, etc.... That is, Josaphat being yet alive, who\nsometime before his death made his son Joram king, as David had done\nbefore by his own son Solomon.\n\n8:17. He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem.\n\n8:18. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of\nAchab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did\nthat which was evil in the sight of the Lord.\n\n8:19. But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant\u2019s\nsake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children\nalways.\n\n8:20. In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made\nthemselves a king.\n\n8:21. And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he\narose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him,\nand the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.\n\n8:22. So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna\nalso revolted at the same time.\n\n8:23. But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n8:24. And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n8:25. In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel,\nreigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda.\n\n8:26. Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia\nthe daughter of Amri king of Israel.\n\nDaughter.... That is, grand-daughter; for she was daughter of Achab son\nof Amri, ver. 18.\n\n8:27. And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil\nbefore the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law\nof the house of Achab.\n\n8:28. He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael,\nking of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:\n\n8:29. And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians\nhad wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria\nAnd Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram,\nthe son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 9\n\nJehu is anointed king of Israel, to destroy the house of Achab and\nJezebel. He killeth Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda.\nJezebel is eaten by dogs.\n\n9:1. And Eliseus the prophet, called one of the sons of the prophets,\nand said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil\nin thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad.\n\n9:2. And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the son of\nJosaphat the son of Namsi: and going in, thou shalt make him rise up\nfrom amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber.\n\n9:3. Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it on his\nhead, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king\nover Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay\nthere.\n\n9:4. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went away to Ramoth\nGalaad,\n\n9:5. And went in thither: and behold, the captains of the army were\nsitting, and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said:\nUnto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O prince.\n\n9:6. And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured the oil\nupon his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have\nanointed thee king over Israel, the people of the Lord.\n\n9:7. And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab, thy master, and I will\nrevenge the blood of my servants, the prophets, and the blood of all\nthe servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel.\n\n9:8. And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from\nAchab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and\nthe meanest in Israel.\n\n9:9. And I will make the house of Achab, like the house of Jeroboam,\nthe son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa, the son of Ahias.\n\n9:10. And the dogs shall eat Jezabel, in the field of Jezrahel, and\nthere shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and fled.\n\n9:11. Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his lord: and they said\nto him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said\nto them: You know the man, and what he said.\n\n9:12. But they answered: It is false; but rather do thou tell us. And\nhe said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus\nsaith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.\n\n9:13. Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it\nunder his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded\nthe trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.\n\n9:14. So Jehu, the son of Josaphat, the son of Namsi, conspired against\nJoram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he, and all Israel,\nfighting with Hazael, king of Syria:\n\n9:15. And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the\nSyrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And\nJehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the\ncity, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.\n\n9:16. And he got up, and went into Jezrahel for Joram was sick there,\nand Ochozias king of Juda, was come down to visit Joram.\n\n9:17. The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel,\nsaw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said:\nTake a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is\nall well?\n\n9:18. So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said: Thus saith\nthe king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou to do\nwith peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying: The\nmessenger came to them, but he returneth not.\n\n9:19. And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to them, and\nsaid: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast\nthou to do with peace? pass, and follow me.\n\n9:20. And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but\nreturneth not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of\nNamsi; for he drives furiously.\n\n9:21. And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made ready his\nchariot: and Joram, king of Israel, and Ochozias, king of Juda, went\nout, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him\nin the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.\n\n9:22. And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he\nanswered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy\nmother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour.\n\n9:23. And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias: There\nis treachery, Ochozias.\n\n9:24. But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the\nshoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he\nfell in his chariot.\n\n9:25. And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him\ninto the field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and\nthou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man\u2019s father, that the\nLord laid this burden upon him, saying:\n\n9:26. If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the\nblood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw\nyesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the\nfield, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n9:27. But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the\ngarden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his\nchariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by\nJeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.\n\n9:28. And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to\nJerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in\nthe city of David.\n\n9:29. In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned\nover Juda;\n\n9:30. And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel, hearing of his coming\nin, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and\nlooked out of a window.\n\n9:31. At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for\nZambri, that hath killed his master?\n\n9:32. And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this?\nAnd two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.\n\n9:33. And he said to them: Throw her down headlong; And they threw her\ndown, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the\nhorses trod upon her.\n\n9:34. And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and\nsee after that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king\u2019s\ndaughter.\n\n9:35. And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull,\nand the feet, and the extremities of her hands.\n\n9:36. And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of\nthe Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In\nthe field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel.\n\n9:37. And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the\nearth in the field of Jezrahel; so that they who pass by shall say: Is\nthis that same Jezabel?\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 10\n\nJehu destroyeth the house of Achab: abolisheth the worship of Baal, and\nkilleth the worshippers: but sticketh to the calves of Jeroboam. Israel\nis afflicted by the Syrians.\n\n10:1. And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote letters, and\nsent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and\nto them that brought up Achab\u2019s children, saying:\n\n10:2. As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your master\u2019s\nsons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and armour,\n\n10:3. Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your\nmaster\u2019s sons, and set him on his father\u2019s throne, and fight for the\nhouse of your master.\n\n10:4. But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings\ncould not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?\n\n10:5. Therefore they that were over the king\u2019s house, and the rulers of\nthe city, and the ancients, and the bringers up of the children, sent\nto Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us\nwe will do; we will not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth\nthee.\n\n10:6. And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be\nmine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and\ncome to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king\u2019s sons,\nbeing seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.\n\n10:7. And when the letters came to them, they took the king\u2019s sons, and\nslew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to\nhim to Jezrahel.\n\n10:8. And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the\nheads of the king\u2019s sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the\nentering in of the gate until the morning.\n\n10:9. And when it was light, he went out, and standing, said to all the\npeople: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him;\nwho hath slain all these?\n\n10:10. See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any\nof the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of\nAchab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his\nservant Elias.\n\n10:11. So Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in\nJezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till\nthere were no remains left of him.\n\n10:12. And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the\nshepherds\u2019 cabin in the way,\n\n10:13. He met with the brethren of Ochozias, king of Juda, and he said\nto them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren of\nOchozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and the\nsons of the queen.\n\n10:14. And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and\nkilled them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not\nany of them.\n\n10:15. And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab, the son of\nRechab, coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him: Is\nthy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab said: It is.\nIf it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And he\nlifted him up to him into the chariot,\n\n10:16. And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So\nhe made him ride in his chariot,\n\n10:17. And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were left of\nAchab, in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the Lord which he\nspoke by Elias.\n\n10:18. And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them:\nAchab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.\n\nI will worship him more.... Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship\nBaal, and causing sacrifice to be offered to him: because evil is not\nto be done, that good may come of it. Rom. 3.8.\n\n10:19. Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his\nservants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great\nsacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live.\nNow Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of\nBaal.\n\n10:20. And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,\n\n10:21. And he sent into all the borders of Israel; and all the servants\nof Baal came: there was not one left that did not come. And they went\ninto the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end\nto the other.\n\n10:22. And he said to them that were over the wardrobe: Bring forth\ngarments for all the servants of Baal. And they brought them forth\ngarments.\n\n10:23. And Jehu, and Jonadab, the son of Rechab, went to the temple of\nBaal, and said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see that there\nbe not any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the\nservants of Baal only.\n\n10:24. And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings: but\nJehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any\nof the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth\nhim go, shall answer life for life.\n\n10:25. And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that\nJehu commanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them:\nlet none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge\nof the sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the\ntemple of Baal,\n\n10:26. And brought the statue out of Baal\u2019s temple, and burnt it,\n\n10:27. And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal,\nand made a jakes in its place unto this day.\n\n10:28. So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel:\n\n10:29. But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves\nthat were in Bethel, and Dan.\n\n10:30. And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed\nthat which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the\nhouse of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children\nshall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.\n\n10:31. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of\nIsrael, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of\nJeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.\n\n10:32. In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael\nravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,\n\n10:33. From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and\nRuben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon, and\nGalaad, and Basan.\n\n10:34. But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his\nstrength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n10:35. And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria:\nand Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n10:36. And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was\neight and twenty years.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 11\n\nAthalia\u2019s usurpation and tyranny. Joas is made king. Athalia is slain.\n\n11:1. Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was\ndead, arose and slew all the royal seed.\n\n11:2. But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took\nJoas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king\u2019s sons\nthat were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from\nthe face of Athalia; so that he was not slain.\n\n11:3. And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And\nAthalia reigned over the land.\n\n11:4. And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions\nand soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and\nmade a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of\nthe Lord, shewed them the king\u2019s son:\n\n11:5. And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must\ndo.\n\n11:6. Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch\nof the king\u2019s house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and\nlet a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the\nshieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.\n\n11:7. But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep\nthe watch of the house of the Lord about the king.\n\n11:8. And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your\nhands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him\nbe slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.\n\n11:9. And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the\npriest, had commanded them: and taking every one their men, that went\nin on the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to\nJoiada, the priest.\n\n11:10. And he gave them the spears, and the arms of king David, which\nwere in the house of the Lord.\n\n11:11. And they stood, having every one their weapons in their hands,\nfrom the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and\nof the temple, about the king.\n\n11:12. And he brought forth the king\u2019s son, and put the diadem upon\nhim, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and\nclapping their hands, they said: God save the king.\n\nThe testimony.... The book of the law.\n\n11:13. And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in\nto the people into the temple of the Lord,\n\n11:14. She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was,\nand the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the\nland rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments,\nand cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.\n\nA tribunal.... A tribune, or a place elevated above the rest.\n\n11:15. But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and\nsaid to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and\nwhosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the\npriest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.\n\n11:16. And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by\nwhich the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.\n\n11:17. And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and\nthe people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the\nking and the people.\n\n11:18. And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and\nbroke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly:\nthey slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the\npriest set guards in the house of the Lord.\n\n11:19. And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and\nthe Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king\nfrom the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the\nshieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.\n\n11:20. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:\nbut Athalia was slain with the sword in the king\u2019s house.\n\n11:21. Now Joas was seven years old when he began to reign.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 12\n\nThe temple is repaired. Hazael is bought off from attacking Jerusalem.\nJoas is slain.\n\n12:1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned\nforty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of\nBersabee.\n\n12:2. And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days\nthat Joiada, the priest, taught him.\n\n12:3. But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still\nsacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.\n\n12:4. And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified\nthings, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that\npass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own\naccord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the\nLord:\n\nSanctified.... That is, dedicated to God\u2019s service.\u2014Ibid. The price of\na soul.... That is, the ordinary oblation, which every soul was to\noffer by the law. Ex. 30.\n\n12:5. Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the\nhouse, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.\n\n12:6. Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests\ndid not make the repairs of the temple.\n\n12:7. And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests,\nsaying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore,\nmoney no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing\nof the temple.\n\n12:8. And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the\npeople, and to make the repairs of the house.\n\n12:9. And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in\nthe top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came\ninto the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put\ntherein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.\n\n12:10. And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest,\nthe king\u2019s scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and\ncounted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.\n\n12:11. And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of\nthem that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they\nlaid it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the\nhouse of the Lord,\n\n12:12. And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy\ntimber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the\nLord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of\nexpenses to uphold the house.\n\n12:13. But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the\nLord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of\ngold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the\nLord:\n\n12:14. For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of\nthe Lord might be repaired.\n\n12:15. And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to\ndistribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.\n\n12:16. But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought\nnot into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.\n\n12:17. Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Geth,\nand took it, and set his face to go up to Jerusalem.\n\n12:18. Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things,\nwhich Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of\nJuda, had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and\nall the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of\nthe Lord, and in the king\u2019s palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of\nSyria, and he went off from Jerusalem.\n\n12:19. And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n12:20. And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew\nJoas, in the house of Mello, in the descent of Sella.\n\n12:21. For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer\nhis servant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his\nfathers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\nThe city of David.... He was buried in the same city with his fathers,\nbut not in the sepulchres of the kings. 2 Par. 14.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 13\n\nThe reign of Joachaz and of Joas kings of Israel. The last acts and\ndeath of Eliseus the prophet: a dead man is raised to life by the touch\nof his bones.\n\n13:1. In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias, king of\nJuda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu, reigned over Israel, in Samaria,\nseventeen years.\n\n13:2. And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of\nJeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; and he departed not\nfrom them.\n\n13:3. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he\ndelivered them into the hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the\nhand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days.\n\n13:4. But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard\nhim: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had\noppressed them:\n\n13:5. And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out\nof the hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in\ntheir pavilions as yesterday and the day before.\n\n13:6. But yet they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,\nwho made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a\ngrove also in Samaria.\n\nA grove.... Dedicated to the worship of idols.\n\n13:7. And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen,\nand ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had\nslain them, and had brought them low as dust by threshing in the\nbarnfloor.\n\n13:8. But the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his\nvalour, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n13:9. And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in\nSamaria: and Joas, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n13:10. In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king of Juda, Joas the\nson of Joachaz reigned over Israel, in Samaria, sixteen years.\n\n13:11. And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he\ndeparted not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made\nIsrael to sin; but he walked in them.\n\n13:12. But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his\nvalour wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n13:13. And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his\nthrone. But Joas was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel.\n\n13:14. Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas,\nking of Israel, went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my\nfather, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the guider thereof.\n\n13:15. And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and arrows. And when he had\nbrought him a bow and arrows,\n\n13:16. He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand upon the bow. And\nwhen he had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands over the king\u2019s hands,\n\n13:17. And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened\nit, Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The\narrow of the Lord\u2019s deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from\nSyria: and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume\nthem.\n\n13:18. And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he\nsaid to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three\ntimes, and stood still.\n\n13:19. And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst\nsmitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to\nutter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.\n\nIf thou hadst smitten, etc.... By this it appears that God had revealed\nto the prophet that the king should overcome the Syrians as many times\nas he should then strike on the ground; but as he had not at the same\ntime revealed to him how often the king would strike, the prophet was\nconcerned to see that he struck but thrice.\n\n13:20. And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab\ncame into the land the same year.\n\n13:21. And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the\nbody into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones\nof Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet.\n\n13:22. Now Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the days of\nJoachaz.\n\n13:23. And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of\nhis covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and\nhe would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this\npresent time.\n\n13:24. And Hazael, king of Syria, died; and Benadad, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n13:25. Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took the cities out of the hand of\nBenadad, the son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of\nJoachaz, his father, by war; three times did Joas beat him, and he\nrestored the cities to Israel.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 14\n\nAmasias reigneth in Juda: he overcometh the Edomites: but is overcome\nby Joas king of Israel. Jereboam the second reigneth in Israel.\n\n14:1. In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel,\nreigned Amasias son of Joas, king of Juda.\n\n14:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine\nand twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was\nJoadan, of Jerusalem.\n\n14:3. And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like\nDavid his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father,\ndid:\n\n14:4. But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the\npeople sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:\n\n14:5. And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to\ndeath that had slain the king, his father.\n\n14:6. But the children of the murderers he did not put to death,\naccording to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,\nwherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to\ndeath for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.\n\n14:7. He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits, ten thousand men,\nand took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto\nthis day.\n\n14:8. Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of\nJehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.\n\nLet us see one another.... This was a challenge to fight.\n\n14:9. And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda,\nsaying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus,\nsaying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the\nforest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.\n\n14:10. Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath\nlifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why\nprovokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee?\n\n14:11. But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas, king of Israel,\nwent up; and he and Amasias, king of Juda, saw one another in\nBethsames, a town in Juda.\n\n14:12. And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every\nman to their dwellings.\n\n14:13. But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king of Juda, the son of\nJoas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into\nJerusalem; and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of\nEphraim to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.\n\n14:14. And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that\nwere found in the house of the Lord, and in the king\u2019s treasures, and\nhostages, and returned to Samaria.\n\n14:15. But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour,\nwherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written\nin the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n14:16. And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with\nthe kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n14:17. And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda, lived after the\ndeath of Joas, son of Joachaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.\n\n14:18. And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the\nbook of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n14:19. Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled\nto Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.\n\n14:20. And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in\nJerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.\n\n14:21. And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years\nold, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.\n\n14:22. He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king\nslept with his fathers.\n\n14:23. In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda,\nreigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and\nforty years:\n\n14:24. And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not\nfrom all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to\nsin.\n\n14:25. He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath,\nunto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord, the\nGod of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas, the son of Amathi,\nthe prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.\n\nOpher.... The tribe of Zabulon.\n\n14:26. For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was\nexceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were\nshut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to\nhelp Israel.\n\n14:27. And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of\nIsrael from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam,\nthe son of Joas.\n\n14:28. But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and\nhis valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Emath\nto Juda, in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of\nthe days of the kings of Israel?\n\n14:29. And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and\nZacharias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 15\n\nThe reign of Azarias, and Joatham in Juda: and of Zacharias, Sellum,\nManahem, Phaceia, and Phacee in Israel.\n\n15:1. In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel,\nreigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda.\n\nAzarias.... Otherwise called Ozias.\n\n15:2. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\ntwo and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia,\nof Jerusalem.\n\n15:3. And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to\nall that his father, Amasias, had done.\n\n15:4. But the high places he did not destroy, for the people\nsacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.\n\n15:5. And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day\nof his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the\nking\u2019s son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.\n\nA leper.... In punishment of his usurping the priestly function. 2 Par.\n26.\n\n15:6. And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n15:7. And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his\nancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n15:8. In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nZacharias, son of Jeroboam, over Israel, in Samaria, six months:\n\n15:9. And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had\ndone: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who\nmade Israel to sin.\n\n15:10. And Sellum, the son of Jabes, conspired against him: and struck\nhim publicly, and killed him, and reigned in his place.\n\n15:11. Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in\nthe book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n15:12. This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying:\nThy children, to the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of\nIsrael. And so it came to pass.\n\n15:13. Sellum, the son of Jabes, began to reign in the nine and\nthirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda: and reigned one month in\nSamaria.\n\n15:14. And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Thersa, and he came\ninto Samaria, and struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and slew\nhim, and reigned in his stead.\n\n15:15. And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy which he\nmade, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the\nkings of Israel?\n\n15:16. Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the\nborders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he\nslew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up.\n\n15:17. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nManahem, son of Gadi, over Israel, ten years, in Samaria.\n\n15:18. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin,\nall his days.\n\n15:19. And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem\ngave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him\nin the kingdom.\n\n15:20. And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and\nrich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sicles of\nsilver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in\nthe land.\n\n15:21. And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:22. And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia, his son,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n15:23. In the fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Phaceia,\nthe son of Manahem, over Israel, in Samaria, two years.\n\n15:24. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n15:25. And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain, conspired against\nhim, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king\u2019s house, near\nArgob, and near Arie, and with him fifty men of the sons of the\nGalaadites, and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.\n\n15:26. And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nPhacee, the son of Romelia, over Israel, in Samaria, twenty years.\n\n15:28. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n15:29. In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar,\nking of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and\nCedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of\nNephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.\n\n15:30. Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against\nPhacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned\nin his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.\n\nIn the twentieth year of Joatham.... That is, in the twentieth year,\nfrom the beginning of Joatham\u2019s reign. The sacred writer chooses rather\nto follow here this date than to speak of the years of Achaz, who had\nnot yet been mentioned.\n\n15:31. But the rest of the acts of Phacee, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:32. In the second year of Phacee, the son of Romelia king of Israel,\nreigned Joatham, son of Ozias, king of Juda.\n\n15:33. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa,\nthe daughter of Sadoc.\n\n15:34. And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to\nall that his father Ozias had done, so did he.\n\n15:35. But the high places he took not away: the people still\nsacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest\ngate of the house of the Lord.\n\n15:36. But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n15:37. In those days the Lord began to send into Juda, Rasin king of\nSyria, and Phacee the son of Romelia.\n\n15:38. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, his father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 16\n\nThe wicked reign of Achaz: the kings of Syria and Israel war against\nhim: he hireth the king of the Assyrians to assist him: he causeth an\naltar to be made after the pattern of that of Damascus.\n\n16:1. In the seventeenth year of Phacee, the son of Romelia reigned\nAchaz, the son of Joatham, king of Juda.\n\n16:2. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nsixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the\nsight of the Lord, his God, as David, his father.\n\n16:3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he\nconsecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according\nto the idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n16:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on\nthe hills, and under every green tree.\n\n16:5. Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son of Romelia, king of\nIsrael, came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but\nwere not able to overcome him.\n\n16:6. At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and\ndrove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and\ndwelt there unto this day.\n\n16:7. And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar, king of the\nAssyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me\nout of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king\nof Israel, who are risen up together against me.\n\n16:8. And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could\nbe found in the house of the Lord, and in the king\u2019s treasures, he sent\nit for a present to the king of the Assyrians.\n\n16:9. And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went\nup against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the\ninhabitants thereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew.\n\n16:10. And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king\nof the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king\nAchaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness,\naccording to all the work thereof.\n\n16:11. And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king\nAchaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king\nAchaz came from Damascus.\n\n16:12. And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and\nworshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own\nsacrifice;\n\n16:13. And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace\nofferings, which he had offered, upon the altar.\n\n16:14. But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from\nthe face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the\nplace of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar\ntowards the north.\n\n16:15. And king Achaz commanded Urias, the priest, saying: Upon the\ngreat altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and\nthe king\u2019s holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole\npeople of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all\nthe blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, thou shalt\npour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.\n\n16:16. So Urias, the priest, did according to all that king Achaz had\ncommanded him.\n\n16:17. And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that\nwas upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held\nit up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.\n\n16:18. The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the\ntemple, and the king\u2019s entry from without, he turned into the temple of\nthe Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.\n\nMusach.... The covert, or pavilion, or tribune, for the king.\n\n16:19. Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n16:20. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, and Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 17\n\nThe reign of Osee. The Israelites for their sins are carried into\ncaptivity: other inhabitants are sent to Samaria, who make a mixture of\nreligion.\n\n17:1. In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela\nreigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years.\n\nIn the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda.... He began to reign before:\nbut was not in quiet possession of the kingdom to the twelfth year of\nAchaz.\n\n17:2. And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel\nthat had been before him.\n\n17:3. Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee\nbecame his servant, and paid him tribute.\n\n17:4. And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring\nto rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might\nnot pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every\nyear, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison.\n\n17:5. And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he\nbesieged it three years.\n\n17:6. And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took\nSamaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in\nHala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.\n\n17:7. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the\nLord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under\nthe hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.\n\n17:8. And they walked according to the way of the nations which the\nLord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the\nkings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.\n\n17:9. And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with\nthings that were not right: and built them high places in all their\ncities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.\n\n17:10. And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and\nunder every shady tree:\n\n17:11. And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of\nthe nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did\nwicked things, provoking the Lord.\n\n17:12. And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had\ncommanded them that they should not do this thing.\n\n17:13. And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the\nhand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked\nways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law\nwhich I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand\nof my servants the prophets.\n\n17:14. And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the\nneck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God.\n\n17:15. And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made\nwith their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against\nthem: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed\nthe nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had\ncommanded them that they should not do as they did.\n\n17:16. And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and\nmade to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the\nhost of heaven: and they served Baal,\n\n17:17. And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire:\nand they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they\ndelivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.\n\n17:18. And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from\nhis sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.\n\n17:19. But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord,\ntheir God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had\nwrought.\n\n17:20. And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted\nthem, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them\naway from his face:\n\n17:21. Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of\nDavid, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam\nseparated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.\n\n17:22. And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam,\nwhich he had done: and they departed not from them,\n\n17:23. Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in\nthe hand of all his servants, the prophets: and Israel was carried away\nout of their land to Assyria, unto this day.\n\n17:24. And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and\nfrom Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and\nplaced them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel:\nand they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.\n\n17:25. And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord:\nand the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.\n\n17:26. And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The\nnations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of\nSamaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord\nhath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they\nknow not the manner of the God of the land.\n\n17:27. And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither\none of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him\ngo, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the\nGod of the land.\n\n17:28. So one of the priests, who had been carried away captive from\nSamaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should\nworship the Lord.\n\n17:29. And every nation made gods of their own and put them in the\ntemples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation\nin their cities where they dwelt.\n\n17:30. For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made\nNergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.\n\n17:31. And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and Tharthac. And they that were\nof Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and\nAnamelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.\n\n17:32. And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to\nthemselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places,\nand they placed them in the temples of the high places.\n\n17:33. And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own\ngods, according to the custom of the nations out of which they were\nbrought to Samaria:\n\n17:34. Unto this day they follow the old manner: they fear not the\nLord, neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and\nthe commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom\nhe surnamed Israel:\n\n17:35. With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You\nshall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship\nthem, nor sacrifice to them.\n\n17:36. But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of\nEgypt, with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear,\nand him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.\n\n17:37. And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment,\nwhich he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you\nshall not fear strange gods.\n\n17:38. And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget:\nneither shall ye worship strange gods,\n\n17:39. But fear the Lord, your God, and he shall deliver you out of the\nhand of all your enemies.\n\n17:40. But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old\ncustom.\n\n17:41. So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also\ntheir idols: their children also, and grandchildren, as their fathers\ndid, so do they unto this day.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 18\n\nThe reign of Ezechias: he abolisheth idolatry and prospereth.\nSennacherib cometh up against him: Rabsaces soliciteth the people to\nrevolt; and blasphemeth the Lord.\n\n18:1. In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel,\nreigned Ezechias, the son of Achaz, king of Juda.\n\n18:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he\nreigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAbi, the daughter of Zacharias.\n\n18:3. And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all\nthat David, his father, had done.\n\n18:4. He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces,\nand cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had\nmade: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it:\nand he called its name Nohestan.\n\nAnd he called its name Noheston.... That is, their brass; or a little\nbrass. So he called it in contempt, because they had made an idol of\nit.\n\n18:5. He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him\nthere was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them\nthat were before him:\n\n18:6. And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but\nkept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n18:7. Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which\nhe went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the\nking of the Assyrians, and served him not.\n\n18:8. He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders,\nfrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.\n\n18:9. In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year\nof Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the\nAssyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it,\n\n18:10. And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of\nEzechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria\nwas taken:\n\n18:11. And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria,\nand placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the\ncities of the Medes.\n\n18:12. Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God,\nbut transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord,\ncommanded, they would not hear, nor do.\n\n18:13. In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of\nthe Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took\nthem.\n\n18:14. Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the\nAssyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all\nthat thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians\nput a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of\nsilver, and thirty talents of gold.\n\n18:15. And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of\nthe Lord, and in the king\u2019s treasures.\n\n18:16. At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord,\nand the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to\nthe king of the Assyrians.\n\n18:17. And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and\nRabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to\nJerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by\nthe conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller\u2019s\nfield.\n\n18:18. And they called for the king: and there went out to them\nEliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the\nscribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.\n\n18:19. And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the\ngreat king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein\nthou trustest?\n\n18:20. Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle.\nOn whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?\n\n18:21. Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if\na man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is\nPharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.\n\n18:22. But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not\nhe, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath\ncommanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in\nJerusalem?\n\n18:23. Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians,\nand I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to\nhave riders for them.\n\n18:24. And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my\nmaster\u2019s servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for\nhorsemen?\n\n18:25. Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this\nplace to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and\ndestroy it.\n\n18:26. Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to\nRabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we\nunderstand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews\u2019 language, in\nthe hearing of the people that are upon the wall.\n\n18:27. And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to\nthy master, and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the\nmen that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink\ntheir urine with you?\n\n18:28. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the\nJews\u2019 language, and said: Hear the word of the great king, the king of\nthe Assyrians.\n\n18:29. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall\nnot be able to deliver you out of my hand.\n\n18:30. Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord\nwill surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand\nof the king of the Assyrians.\n\n18:31. Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the\nAssyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to\nme: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own\nfig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns,\n\n18:32. Till I come, and take you away, to a land, like to your own\nland, a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and\nvineyards, a land of olives, and oil, and honey, and you shall live,\nand not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The\nLord will deliver us.\n\n18:33. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from\nthe hand of the king of Assyria?\n\n18:34. Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad? where is the god of\nSepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my\nhand?\n\n18:35. Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have\ndelivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver\nJerusalem out of my hand?\n\n18:36. But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word:\nfor they had received commandment from the king that they should not\nanswer him.\n\n18:37. And Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and\nSobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to\nEzechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 19\n\nEzechias is assured of God\u2019s help by Isaias the prophet. The king of\nthe Assyrians still threateneth and blasphemeth. Ezechias prayeth, and\nGod promiseth to protect Jerusalem. An angel destroyeth the army of the\nAssyrians, their king returneth to Nineve, and is slain by his two\nsons.\n\n19:1. And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments,\nand covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the\nLord.\n\n19:2. And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna, the\nscribe, and the ancients of the priests, covered with sackcloths, to\nIsaias, the prophet, the son of Amos.\n\n19:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of\ntribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to\nthe birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength.\n\n19:4. It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear all the words of Rabsaces,\nwhom the king of the Assyrians, his master, hath sent to reproach the\nliving God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord, thy God, hath\nheard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.\n\n19:5. So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.\n\n19:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with\nwhich the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.\n\n19:7. Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a\nmessage, and shall return into his own country, and I will make him\nfall by the sword in his own country.\n\n19:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians\nbesieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.\n\n19:9. And when he heard of Tharaca, king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is\ncome out to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent\nmessengers to Ezechias, saying:\n\n19:10. Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of Juda: Let not thy God\ndeceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall\nnot be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n19:11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have\ndone to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou\nalone be delivered?\n\n19:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my\nfathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the\nchildren of Eden, that were in Thelassar?\n\n19:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king\nof the city of Sepharvaim, and of Ana, and of Ava?\n\n19:14. And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the\nmessengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and\nspread it before the Lord,\n\n19:15. And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who\nsittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of\nthe earth: thou madest heaven and earth:\n\n19:16. Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and\nhear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the\nliving God.\n\n19:17. Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed\nnations, and the lands of them all.\n\n19:18. And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not\ngods, but the work of men\u2019s hands, of wood and stone, and they\ndestroyed them.\n\n19:19. Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all\nthe kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only\nGod.\n\n19:20. And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus\nsaith the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast\nmade to me concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians.\n\n19:21. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin,\nthe daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn:\nthe daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.\n\n19:22. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed?\nagainst whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on\nhigh? against the holy one of Israel.\n\n19:23. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and\nhast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the\nheight of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its\ntall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the\nfurthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.\n\nCarmel.... A pleasant fruitful hill in the forest. These expressions\nare figurative, signifying under the names of mountains and forests,\nthe kings and provinces whom the Assyrians had triumphed over.\n\n19:24. I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried\nup with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.\n\n19:25. Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from\nthe days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect:\nthat fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins:\n\nI have formed it, etc.... All thy exploits, in which thou takest pride,\nare no more than what I have decreed; and are not to be ascribed to thy\nwisdom or strength, but to my will and ordinance: who have given to\nthee to take and destroy so many fenced cities, and to carry terror\nwherever thou comest.\u2014Ibid. Heaps of ruin.... Literally ruin of the\nhills.\n\n19:26. And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and\nwere confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green\nherb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.\n\n19:27. Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way\nI knew before, and thy rage against me.\n\n19:28. Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my\nears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy\nlips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.\n\n19:29. And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year\nwhat thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of\nthemselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and\neat the fruit of them.\n\n19:30. And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take\nroot downward, and bear fruit upward.\n\n19:31. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which\nshall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall\ndo this.\n\n19:32. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the\nAssyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into\nit, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.\n\n19:33. By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he\nshall not come, saith the Lord.\n\n19:34. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake,\nand for David, my servant\u2019s sake.\n\n19:35. And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came,\nand slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five\nthousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies\nof the dead.\n\n19:36. And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away,\nand he returned and abode in Ninive.\n\n19:37. And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god,\nAdramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they\nfled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 20\n\nEzechias being sick, is told by Isaias that he shall die; but praying\nto God, he obtaineth longer life, and in confirmation thereof receiveth\na sign by the sun\u2019s returning back. He sheweth all his treasures to the\nambassadors of the king of Babylon: Isaias reproving him for it,\nforetelleth the Babylonish captivity.\n\n20:1. In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son\nof Amos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God:\nGive charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.\n\n20:2. And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord,\nsaying:\n\n20:3. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in\ntruth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing\nbefore thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.\n\n20:4. And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the\nword of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n20:5. Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I\nhave seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day\nthou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.\n\n20:6. And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee\nand this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will\nprotect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant\u2019s sake.\n\n20:7. And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had\nbrought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.\n\n20:8. And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the\nLord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the\nthird day?\n\n20:9. And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord,\nthat the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the\nshadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?\n\n20:10. And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go\nforward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it\nreturn back ten degrees.\n\n20:11. And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought\nthe shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already\ngone down on the dial of Achaz.\n\n20:12. At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the\nBabylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard\nthat Ezechias had been sick.\n\n20:13. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the\nhouse of his aromatical spices, and the gold, and the silver, and\ndivers precious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels,\nand all that he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house,\nnor in all his dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not.\n\n20:14. And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him:\nWhat said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias\nsaid to him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon.\n\n20:15. And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They\nsaw all the things that are in my house: There is nothing among my\ntreasures that I have not shewed them.\n\n20:16. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord.\n\n20:17. Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and\nthat thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried\ninto Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.\n\n20:18. And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt\nbeget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of\nthe king of Babylon.\n\n20:19. Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast\nspoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.\n\n20:20. And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how\nhe made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n20:21. And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son\nreigned in his stead.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 21\n\nThe wickedness of Manasses: God\u2019s threats by his prophets. His wicked\nson Amon succeedeth him, and is slain by his servants.\n\n21:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nHaphsiba.\n\n21:2. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols\nof the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n21:3. And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his\nfather, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves,\nas Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of\nheaven, and served them.\n\n21:4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord\nsaid: In Jerusalem I will put my name.\n\n21:5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts\nof the temple of the Lord.\n\n21:6. And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations,\nand observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers,\nto do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.\n\nPythons.... That is, diviners by spirits.\n\n21:7. He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the\ntemple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to\nSolomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen\nout of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.\n\n21:8. And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the\nland, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do\nall that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant\nMoses commanded them.\n\n21:9. But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil\nmore than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of\nIsrael.\n\n21:10. And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets,\nsaying:\n\n21:11. Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked\nabominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath\nmade Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:\n\n21:12. Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will\nbring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of\nthem, both his ears shall tingle.\n\n21:13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the\nweight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings\ntables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw\nthe pencil often over the face thereof.\n\n21:14. And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will\ndeliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a\nprey, and a spoil to all their enemies.\n\n21:15. Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to\nprovoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even\nunto this day.\n\n21:16. Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he\nfilled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made\nJuda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.\n\n21:17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and\nhis sin, which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words\nof the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n21:18. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the\ngarden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n21:19. Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth,\nthe daughter of Harus, of Jeteba.\n\n21:20. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses, his\nfather, had done.\n\n21:21. And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and\nhe served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored\nthem.\n\n21:22. And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in\nthe way of the Lord.\n\n21:23. And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his\nown house.\n\n21:24. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired\nagainst king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead.\n\n21:25. But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n21:26. And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and\nhis son, Josias, reigned in his stead.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 22\n\nJosias repaireth the temple. The book of the law is found, upon which\nthey consult the Lord, and are told that great evils shall fall upon\nthem, but not in the time of Josias.\n\n22:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one\nand thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the\ndaughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.\n\n22:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and\nwalked in all the ways of David, his father: he turned not aside to the\nright hand, or to the left.\n\n22:3. And in the eighteenth year of king Josias, the king sent Saphan,\nthe son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the\nLord, saying to him:\n\n22:4. Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put\ntogether which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the\ndoorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.\n\n22:5. And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house\nof the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the\ntemple of the Lord, to repair the temple:\n\n22:6. That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches:\nand that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to\nrepair the temple of the Lord.\n\n22:7. But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which\nthey receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust.\n\n22:8. And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have\nfound the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave\nthe book to Saphan, and he read it.\n\nThe book of the law.... That is, Deuteronomy.\n\n22:9. And Saphan, the scribe, came to the king, and brought him word\nagain concerning that which he had commanded, and said: Thy servants\nhave gathered together the money that was found in the house of the\nLord: and they have given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the\noverseers of the works of the temple of the Lord.\n\n22:10. And Saphan, the scribe, told the king, saying: Helcias, the\npriest, hath delivered to me a book. And when Saphan had read it before\nthe king,\n\n22:11. And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent\nhis garments.\n\n22:12. And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, the son of\nSaphan, and Achobor, the son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and\nAsaia, the king\u2019s servant, saying:\n\n22:13. Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all\nJuda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great\nwrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not\nhearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us.\n\n22:14. So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Saphan, and\nAsaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of\nThecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in\nJerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.\n\nThe Second.... A street, or part of the city, so called; in Hebrew,\nMassem.\n\n22:15. And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:\nTell the man that sent you to me:\n\n22:16. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place,\nand upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the\nking of Juda hath read:\n\n22:17. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my\nindignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be\nquenched.\n\n22:18. But to the king of Juda, who sent you to consult the Lord, thus\nshall you say: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: for as much as\nthou hast heard the words of the book,\n\n22:19. And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled\nthyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the\ninhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a\ncurse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have\nheard thee; saith the Lord.\n\n22:20. Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be\ngathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the\nevils which I will bring upon this place.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 23\n\nJosias readeth the law before all the people. They promise to observe\nit. He abolisheth all idolatry, celebrateth the phase: is slain in\nbattle by the king of Egypt. The short reign of Joachaz, in whose place\nJoakim is made king.\n\n23:1. And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he\nsent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.\n\n23:2. And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men\nof Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests,\nand the prophets, and all the people, both little and great: and in the\nhearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant,\nwhich was found in the house of the Lord.\n\n23:3. And the king stood upon the step: and he made a covenant with the\nLord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his\ntestimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all\ntheir soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were\nwritten in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.\n\nThe king stood upon the step.... That is, his tribune, or tribunal, a\nmore eminent place, from whence he might be seen and heard by the\npeople.\n\n23:4. And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests\nof the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of\nthe Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the\ngrove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without\nJerusalem, in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to\nBethel.\n\n23:5. And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had\nappointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and\nround about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the\nsun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of\nheaven.\n\n23:6. And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the\nLord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it\nthere, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the\ncommon people.\n\n23:7. He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in\nthe house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little\ndwellings for the grove.\n\n23:8. And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of\nJuda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered\nsacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the\ngates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of\nthe city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.\n\n23:9. However, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar\nof the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleavened bread among\ntheir brethren.\n\n23:10. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of\nEnnom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter,\nthrough fire, to Moloch.\n\n23:11. And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to\nthe sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber\nof Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the\nchariots of the sun with fire.\n\n23:12. And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of\nAchaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses\nhad made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke\ndown: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the\ntorrent Cedron.\n\n23:13. The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side\nof the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to\nAstaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of\nMoab, and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the\nking defiled.\n\n23:14. And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and\nhe filled their places with the bones of dead men.\n\n23:15. Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place,\nwhich Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made:\nboth the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and\nreduced to powder, and burnt the grove.\n\n23:16. And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that\nwere in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the\nsepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to\nthe word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold\nthese things.\n\n23:17. And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of\nthat city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came\nfrom Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the\naltar of Bethel.\n\n23:18. And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his\nbones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out\nof Samaria.\n\n23:19. Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the\ncities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the\nLord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts\nthat he had done in Bethel.\n\n23:20. And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there,\nupon the altars; and he burnt men\u2019s bones upon them: and returned to\nJerusalem.\n\n23:21. And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the\nLord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.\n\n23:22. Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges,\nwho judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of\nthe kings of Juda,\n\n23:23. As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in\nthe eighteenth year of king Josias.\n\n23:24. Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the\nfigures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had\nbeen in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might\nperform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which\nHelcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.\n\n23:25. There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the\nLord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his\nstrength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did\nthere arise any like unto him.\n\n23:26. But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great\nindignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of\nthe provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him.\n\n23:27. And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face,\nas I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem,\nwhich I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.\n\n23:28. Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n23:29. In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, went up against the\nking of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet\nhim: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.\n\n23:30. And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought\nhim to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people\nof the land took Joachaz, the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and\nmade him king in his father\u2019s stead.\n\n23:31. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.\n\n23:32. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his\nfathers had done.\n\n23:33. And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of\nEmath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon\nthe land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.\n\n23:34. And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the\nroom of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took\nJoachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.\n\n23:35. And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had\ntaxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the\ncommandment of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of\nthe people of the land, of every man according to his ability: to give\nto Pharao Nechao.\n\n23:36. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nZebida, the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma.\n\n23:37. And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his\nfathers had done.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 24\n\nThe reign of Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias.\n\n24:1. In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim\nbecame his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.\n\n24:2. And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the\nrovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children\nof Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to\nthe word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the\nprophets.\n\nThe Lord sent against him the rovers.... Latrunculos. Bands or parties\nof men, who pillaged and plundered wherever they came.\n\n24:3. And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove\nthem from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;\n\n24:4. And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with\ninnocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.\n\n24:5. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\nAnd Joakim slept with his fathers:\n\n24:6. And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n24:7. And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own\ncountry: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the\nking of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.\n\n24:8. Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta,\nthe daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.\n\n24:9. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father\nhad done.\n\n24:10. At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon,\ncame up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their\nforts.\n\n24:11. And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his\nservants, to assault it.\n\n24:12. And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he,\nand his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and\nthe king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.\n\n24:13. And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of\nthe Lord, and the treasures of the king\u2019s house: and he cut in pieces\nall the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the\ntemple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n24:14. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all\nthe valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into\ncaptivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the\npoor sort of the people of the land.\n\n24:15. And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king\u2019s mother,\nand the king\u2019s wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he\ncarried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon.\n\n24:16. And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and\nthe smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men, and fit for war: and\nthe king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.\n\n24:17. And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle, in his stead: and called\nhis name Sedecias.\n\n24:18. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.\n\n24:19. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim\nhad done.\n\n24:20. For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till\nhe cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of\nBabylon.\n\n\n4 Kings Chapter 25\n\nJerusalem is besieged and taken by Nabuchodonosor: Sedecias is taken:\nthe city and temple are destroyed. Godolias, who is left governor, is\nslain. Joachin is exalted by Evilmerodach.\n\n25:1. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of\nBabylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they\nsurrounded it: and raised works round about it.\n\n25:2. And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of\nking Sedecias,\n\n25:3. The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city,\nand there was no bread for the people of the land.\n\n25:4. And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled\nin the night between the two walls by the king\u2019s garden (now the\nChaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way\nthat leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.\n\n25:5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook\nhim in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him\nwere scattered, and left him:\n\n25:6. So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to\nReblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.\n\n25:7. And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out\nhis eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.\n\n25:8. In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, the same is the\nnineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander of\nthe army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.\n\n25:9. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king\u2019s house, and the\nhouses of Jerusalem, and every house he burnt with fire.\n\n25:10. And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander\nof the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.\n\n25:11. And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest\nof the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had\ngone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.\n\n25:12. But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and\nhusbandmen.\n\n25:13. And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord,\nand the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the\nLord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them\nto Babylon.\n\n25:14. They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the\nforks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass,\nwith which they ministered.\n\n25:15. Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as were of gold\nin gold: and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the army\ntook away.\n\n25:16. That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had\nmade in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was\nwithout weight.\n\n25:17. One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and the chapiter of brass,\nwhich was upon it, was three cubits high: and the network, and the\npomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of\nbrass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.\n\n25:18. And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and\nSophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers:\n\n25:19. And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over the men of\nwar: and five men of them who had stood before the king, whom he found\nin the city, and Sopher, the captain of the army, who exercised the\nyoung soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the\ncommon people, who were found in the city:\n\n25:20. These Nabuzardan, the general of the army, took away, and\ncarried them to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.\n\n25:21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha,\nin the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.\n\n25:22. But over the people that remained in the land of Juda, which\nNabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had left, he gave the government to\nGodolias, the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan.\n\n25:23. And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they\nand the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had\nmade Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son\nof Nathanias, and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of\nThanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they\nand their men.\n\n25:24. And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying: Be not\nafraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of\nBabylon, and it shall be well with you.\n\n25:25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son\nof Nathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men\nwith him, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and\nthe Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.\n\n25:26. And all the people, both little and great, and the captains of\nthe soldiers, rising up, went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.\n\n25:27. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the\ncaptivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and\ntwentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year\nthat he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda,\nout of prison.\n\n25:28. And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the\nthrone of the kings that were with him in Babylon.\n\n25:29. And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate\nbread always before him, all the days of his life.\n\n25:30. And he appointed him a continual allowance, which was also given\nhim by the king, day by day, all the days of his life.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\n\n\nThese Books are called by the Greek interpreters, Paralipomenon, that\nis, of things left out, or omitted; because they are a kind of a\nsupplement of such things as were passed over in the books of the\nKings. The Hebrews call them Dibre Haijamim, that is, The words of the\ndays, or The Chronicles.\u2014Not that they are the books which are so often\nquoted in the Kings, under the title of the words of the days of the\nkings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda: for the books of\nParalipomenon were written after the books of Kings: but because in all\nprobability they have been abridged from those ancient words of the\ndays, by Esdras or some other sacred writer.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 1\n\nThe genealogy of the patriarchs down to Abraham: The posterity of\nAbraham and of Esau.\n\n1:1. Adam, Seth, Enos,\n\n1:2. Cainan, Malaleel, Jared,\n\n1:3. Henoc, Mathusale, Lamech,\n\n1:4. Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.\n\n1:5. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,\nThubal, Mosoch, Thiras.\n\n1:6. And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez, and Riphath, and Thogorma.\n\n1:7. And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cethim and Dodanim.\n\n1:8. The sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesrai, and Phut, and Chanaan.\n\n1:9. And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, Sabatha, and Regma, and\nSabathaca. And the sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.\n\n1:10. Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty upon earth.\n\n1:11. But Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim, and Laabim, and Nephtuim,\n\n1:12. Phetrusim also, and Casluim: from whom came the Philistines, and\nCaphtorim.\n\n1:13. And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and the Hethite,\n\n1:14. And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite,\n\n1:15. And the Hevite, and the Aracite, and the Sinite,\n\n1:16. And the Aradian, and the Samarite, and the Hamathite.\n\n1:17. The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram,\nand Hus, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.\n\n1:18. And Arphaxad begot Sale, and Sale begot Heber.\n\n1:19. And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one was Phaleg,\nbecause in his days the earth was divided; and the name of his brother\nwas Jectan.\n\n1:20. And Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph, and Asarmoth, and Jare,\n\n1:21. And Adoram, and Usal, and Decla,\n\n1:22. And Hebal, and Abimael, and Saba,\n\n1:23. And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these are the sons of\nJectan.\n\n1:24. Sem, Arphaxad, Sale,\n\n1:25. Heber, Phaleg, Ragau,\n\n1:26. Serug, Nachor, Thare,\n\n1:27. Abram, this is Abraham.\n\n1:28. And the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Ismahel.\n\n1:29. And these are the generations of them. The firstborn of Ismahel,\nNabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam,\n\n1:30. And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad, and Thema,\n\n1:31. Jetur, Naphis, Cedma: these are the sons of Ismahel.\n\n1:32. And the sons of Cetura, Abraham\u2019s concubine, whom she bore:\nZamran, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue. And the sons of Jecsan,\nSaba, and Dadan. And the sons of Dadan: Assurim, and Latussim, and\nLaomin.\n\nConcubine.... She was his lawful wife, but of an inferior degree.\n\n1:33. And the sons of Madian: Epha, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida,\nand Eldaa. All these are the sons of Cetura.\n\n1:34. And Abraham begot Isaac: and his sons were Esau and Israel.\n\n1:35. The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Rahuel, Jehus, Ihelom, and Core.\n\n1:36. The sons of Eliphaz: Theman, Omar, Sephi, Gathan, Cenez, and by\nThamna, Amalec.\n\n1:37. The sons of Rahuel: Nahath, Zara, Samma, Meza.\n\n1:38. The sons of Seir: Lotan, Sobal, Sebeon, Ana, Dison, Eser, Disan.\n\n1:39. The sons of Lotan: Hori, Homam. And the sister of Lotan was\nThamna.\n\n1:40. The sons of Sobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Sephi, and\nOnam. The sons of Sebeon: Aia, and Ana. The son of Ana: Dison.\n\n1:41. The sons of Dison: Hamram, and Eseban, and Jethran, and Charan.\n\n1:42. The sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Jacan. The sons of\nDisan: Hus and Aran.\n\n1:43. Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before\nthere was a king over the children of Israel: Bale the son of Beor: and\nthe name of his city was Denaba.\n\n1:44. And Bale died, and Jobab the son of Zare of Bosra, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n1:45. And when Jobab also was dead, Husam of the land of the Themanites\nreigned in his stead.\n\n1:46. And Husam also died, and Adad the son of Badad reigned in his\nstead, and he defeated the Madianites in the land of Moab: the name of\nhis city was Avith.\n\n1:47. And when Adad also was dead, Semla of Masreca reigned in his\nstead.\n\n1:48. Semla also died, and Saul of Rohoboth, which is near the river,\nreigned in his stead.\n\n1:49. And when Saul was dead, Balanan the son of Achobor reigned in his\nstead.\n\n1:50. He also died, and Adad reigned in his stead: and the name of his\ncity was Phau, and his wife was called Meetabel the daughter of Matred,\nthe daughter of Mezaab.\n\n1:51. And after the death of Adad, there began to be dukes in Edom\ninstead of kings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,\n\n1:52. Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,\n\n1:53. Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,\n\n1:54. Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram. These are the dukes of Edom.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 2\n\nThe twelve tribes of Israel. The genealogy of Juda down to David. Other\ngenealogies of the tribe of Juda.\n\n2:1. And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,\nIssachar, and Zabulon,\n\n2:2. Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad, and Aser.\n\n2:3. The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela. These three were born to him\nof the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue. And Her the firstborn of Juda,\nwas wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him.\n\n2:4. And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all\nthe sons of Juda were five.\n\n2:5. And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and Hamul.\n\n2:6. And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and Ethan, and Eman, and\nChalchal, and Dara, five in all.\n\n2:7. And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who troubled Israel, and sinned by\nthe theft of the anathema.\n\nAchar.... Alias Achan. Jos. 7.\u2014Ibid. The anathema.... The thing devoted\nor accursed, viz., the spoils of Jericho.\n\n2:8. The sons of Ethan: Azarias,\n\n2:9. And the sons of Hesron that were born to him: Jerameel, and Ram,\nand Calubi.\n\n2:10. And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab begot Nahasson, prince of\nthe children of Juda.\n\nRam.... He is commonly called Aram. But it is to be observed here, once\nfor all, that it was a common thing among the Hebrews for the same\npersons to have different names: and that it is not impossible among so\nmany proper names, as here occur in the first nine chapters of this\nbook, that the transcribers of the ancient Hebrew copies may have made\nsome slips in the orthography.\n\n2:11. And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of Booz.\n\n2:12. And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot Isai.\n\n2:13. And Isai begot Eliab his firstborn, the second Abinadab, the\nthird Simmaa,\n\n2:14. The fourth, Nathanael, the fifth Raddai,\n\n2:15. The sixth Asom, the seventh David.\n\n2:16. And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail. The sons of Sarvia:\nAbisai, Joab, and Asael, three.\n\n2:17. And Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ismahelite.\n\n2:18. And Caleb the son of Hesron took a wife named Azuba, of whom he\nhad Jerioth: and her sons were Jaser, and Sobab, and Ardon.\n\nCaleb.... Alias Calubi, ver. 9.\n\n2:19. And when Azuba was dead, Caleb took to wife Ephrata: who bore him\nHur.\n\n2:20. And Hur begot Uri: and Uri begot Bezeleel.\n\n2:21. And afterwards Hesron went in to the daughter of Machir the\nfather of Galaad, and took her to wife when he was threescore years\nold: and she bore him Segub.\n\n2:22. And Segub begot Jair, and he had three and twenty cities in the\nland of Galaad.\n\n2:23. And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns of Jair, and Canath, and\nthe villages thereof, threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir\nfather of Galaad.\n\n2:24. And when Hesron was dead, Caleb went in to Ephrata. Hesron also\nhad to wife Abia who bore him Ashur the father of Thecua.\n\n2:25. And the sons of Jerameel the firstborn of Hesron, were Ram his\nfirstborn, and Buna, and Aram, and Asom, and Achia.\n\n2:26. And Jerameel married another wife, named Atara, who was the\nmother of Onam.\n\n2:27. And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel, were Moos, Jamin,\nand Achar.\n\n2:28. And Onam had sons Semei, and Jada. And the sons of Semei: Nadab,\nand Abisur.\n\n2:29. And the name of Abisur\u2019s wife was Abihail, who bore him Ahobban,\nand Molid.\n\n2:30. And the sons of Nadab were Saled and Apphaim. And Saled died\nwithout children.\n\n2:31. But the son of Apphaim was Jesi: and Jesi begot Sesan. And Sesan\nbegot Oholai.\n\n2:32. And the sons of Jada the brother of Semei: Jether and Jonathan.\nAnd Jether also died without children.\n\n2:33. But Jonathan begot Phaleth, and Ziza. These were the sons of\nJerameel.\n\n2:34. And Sesan had no sons, but daughters and a servant an Egyptian,\nnamed Jeraa.\n\n2:35. And he gave him his daughter to wife: and she bore him Ethei.\n\n2:36. And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad.\n\n2:37. And Zabad begot Ophlal, and Ophlal begot Obed.\n\n2:38. Obed begot Jehu, Jehu begot Azarias.\n\n2:39. Azarias begot Helles, and Helles begot Elasa.\n\n2:40. Elasa begot Sisamoi, Sisamoi begot Sellum,\n\n2:41. Sellum begot Icamia, and Icamia begot Elisama.\n\n2:42. Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerameel were Mesa his\nfirstborn, who was the father of Siph: and the sons of Maresa father of\nHebron.\n\n2:43. And the sons of Hebron, Core, and Thaphua, and Recem, and Samma.\n\n2:44. And Samma begot Raham, the father of Jercaam, and Recem begot\nSammai.\n\n2:45. The son of Sammai, Maon: and Maon the father of Bethsur.\n\n2:46. And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez.\nAnd Haran begot Gezez.\n\n2:47. And the sons of Jahaddai, Rogom, and Joathan, and Gesan, and\nPhalet, and Epha, and Saaph.\n\n2:48. And Maacha the concubine of Caleb bore Saber, and Tharana.\n\n2:49. And Saaph the father of Madmena begot Sue the father of Machbena,\nand the father of Gabaa. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.\n\n2:50. These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur the firstborn of\nEphrata, Sobal the father of Cariathiarim.\n\n2:51. Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hariph the father of Bethgader.\n\n2:52. And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had sons: he that saw half\nof the places of rest.\n\nHe that saw, etc.... The Latin interpreter seems to have given us here,\ninstead of the proper names, the meaning of those names in the Hebrew.\nHe has done in like manner, ver. 55.\n\n2:53. And of the kindred of Cariathiarim, the Jethrites, and\nAphuthites, and Semathites, and Maserites. Of them came the Saraites,\nand Esthaolites.\n\n2:54. The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and Netophathi, the crowns of the\nhouse of Joab, and half of the place of rest of Sarai.\n\n2:55. And the families of the scribes that dwell in Jabes, singing and\nmaking melody, and abiding in tents. These are the Cinites, who came of\nCalor (Chamath) father of the house of Rechab.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 3\n\nThe genealogy of the house of David.\n\n3:1. Now these were the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron:\nthe firstborn Amnon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of\nAbigail the Carmelitess.\n\n3:2. The third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tolmai king of\nGessur, the fourth Adonias the son of Aggith,\n\n3:3. The fifth Saphatias of Abital, the sixth Jethrahem of Egla his\nwife.\n\n3:4. So six sons were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven\nyears and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty\nyears.\n\n3:5. And these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Simmaa, and Sobab,\nand Nathan, and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the daughter of Ammiel.\n\n3:6. Jebaar also and Elisama,\n\n3:7. And Eliphaleth, and Noge, and Nepheg, and Japhia,\n\n3:8. And Elisama, and Eliada, and Elipheleth, nine:\n\n3:9. All these the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines:\nand they had a sister Thamar.\n\nThe concubines.... The inferior wives.\n\n3:10. And Solomon\u2019s son was Roboam: whose son Abia begot Asa. And his\nson was Josaphat,\n\n3:11. The father of Joram: and Joram begot Ochozias, of whom was born\nJoas:\n\n3:12. And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And Joathan the son of Azarias\n\n3:13. Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of whom was born Manasses.\n\n3:14. And Manasses begot Amon the father of Josias.\n\n3:15. And the sons of Josias were, the firstborn Johanan, the second\nJoakim, the third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.\n\n3:16. Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sedecias.\n\n3:17. The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,\n\n3:18. Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser and Jecemia, Sama, and Nadabia.\n\n3:19. Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and Semei. Zorobabel begot\nMosollam, Hananias, and Salomith their sister:\n\n3:20. Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias, and Hasadias, Josabhesed,\nfive.\n\n3:21. And the son of Hananias was Phaltias the father of Jeseias, whose\nson was Raphaia. And his son was Arnan, of whom was born Obdia, whose\nson was Sechenias.\n\n3:22. The son of Sechenias was Semeia, whose sons were Hattus, and\nJegaal, and Baria, and Naaria, and Saphat, six in number.\n\nSix.... Counting the father in the number.\n\n3:23. The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias, and Ezricam, three.\n\n3:24. The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Eliasub, and Pheleia, and Accub,\nand Johanan, and Dalaia, and Anani, seven.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 4\n\nOther genealogies of Juda and Simeon, and their victories.\n\n4:1. The sons of Juda: Phares, Hesron, and Charmi and Hur, and Sobal.\n\n4:2. And Raia the son of Sobal begot Jahath, of whom were born Ahumai,\nand Laad. These are the families of Sarathi.\n\n4:3. And this is the posterity of Etam: Jezrahel, and Jesema, And\nJedebos: and the name of their sister was Asalelphuni.\n\n4:4. And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and Ezar the father of Hosa,\nthese are the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratha the father of\nBethlehem.\n\n4:5. And Assur the father of Thecua had two wives, Halaa and Naara:\n\n4:6. And Naara bore him Ozam, and Hepher, and Themani, and Ahasthari:\nthese are the sons of Naara.\n\n4:7. And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar, and Ethnan.\n\n4:8. And Cos begot Anob, and Soboba, and the kindred of Aharehel the\nson of Arum.\n\n4:9. And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his\nmother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow.\n\nJabes.... That is, sorrowful.\n\n4:10. And Jabes called upon the God of Israel, saying: If blessing thou\nwilt bless me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me,\nand thou save me from being oppressed by evil. And God granted him the\nthings he prayed for.\n\n4:11. And Caleb the brother of Sua begot Mahir, who was the father of\nEsthon.\n\n4:12. And Esthon begot Bethrapha, and Phesse, and Tehinna father of the\ncity of Naas: these are the men of Recha.\n\n4:13. And the sons of Cenez were Othoniel, and Saraia. And the sons of\nOthoniel, Hathath, and Maonathi.\n\n4:14. Maonathi begot Ophra, and Saraia begot Joab the father of the\nValley of artificers: for artificers were there.\n\n4:15. And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephone, were Hir, and Ela, and\nNaham. And the sons of Ela: Cenez.\n\n4:16. The sons also of Jaleleel: Ziph, and Zipha, Thiria and Asrael.\n\n4:17. And the sons of Esra, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon,\nand he begot Mariam, and Sammai, and Jesba the father of Esthamo.\n\n4:18. And his wife Judaia, bore Jared the father of Gedor, and Heber\nthe father of Socho, and Icuthiel the father of Zanoe. And these are\nthe sons of Bethia the daughter of Pharao, whom Mered took to wife.\n\n4:19. And the sons of his wife Odaia the sister of Naham the father of\nCelia, Garmi, and Esthamo, who was of Machathi.\n\n4:20. The sons also of Simon, Amnon, and Rinna the son of Hanan, and\nThilon. And the sons of Jesi Zoheth, and Benzoheth.\n\n4:21. The sons of Sela the son of Juda: Her the father of Lecha, and\nLaada the father of Maresa, and the families of the house of them that\nwrought fine linen in the House of oath.\n\n4:22. And he that made the sun to stand, and the men of Lying, and\nSecure, and Burning, who were princes in Moab, and who returned into\nLahem. Now these are things of old.\n\nHe that made, etc.... Viz., Joazim, the meaning of whose name in Hebrew\nis, he that made the sun to stand. In like manner the following names,\nLying (Chozeba), Secure (Joas), and Burning (Saraph), are substituted\nin place of the Hebrew names of the same signification.\n\n4:23. These are the potters, and they dwelt in Plantations, and Hedges,\nwith the king for his works, and they abode there.\n\nPlantations and Hedges.... These are the proper names of the places\nwhere they dwelt. In Hebrew Atharim and Gadira.\n\n4:24. The sons of Simeon: Namuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zara, Saul:\n\n4:25. Sellum his son, Mapsam his son, Masma his son.\n\n4:26. The sons of Masma: Hamuel his son, Zachur his son, Semei his son.\n\n4:27. The sons of Semei were sixteen, and six daughters: but his\nbrethren had not many sons, and the whole kindred could not reach to\nthe sum of the children of Juda.\n\n4:28. And they dwelt in Bersabee, and Molada, and Hasarsuhal,\n\n4:29. And in Bala, and in Asom, and in Tholad,\n\n4:30. And in Bathuel, and in Horma, and in Siceleg,\n\n4:31. And in Bethmarchaboth, and in Hasarsusim, and in Bethberai, and\nin Saarim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.\n\n4:32. Their towns also were Etam, and Aen, Remmon, and Thochen, and\nAsan, five cities.\n\n4:33. And all their villages round about these cities as far as Baal.\nThis was their habitation, and the distribution of their dwellings.\n\n4:34. And Mosabab and Jemlech, and Josa, the son of Amasias,\n\n4:35. And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josabia the son of Saraia, the son\nof Asiel,\n\n4:36. And Elioenai, and Jacoba, and Isuhaia, and Asaia, and Adiel, and\nIsmiel, and Banaia,\n\n4:37. Ziza also the son of Sephei the son of Allon the son of Idaia the\nson of Semri the son of Samaia.\n\n4:38. These were named princes in their kindreds, and in the houses of\ntheir families were multiplied exceedingly.\n\n4:39. And they went forth to enter into Gador as far as to the east\nside of the valley, to seek pastures for their flocks.\n\n4:40. And they found fat pastures, and very good, and a country\nspacious, and quiet, and fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham\nhad dwelt before.\n\n4:41. And these whose names are written above, came in the days of\nEzechias king of Juda: and they beat down their tents, and slew the\ninhabitants that were found there, and utterly destroyed them unto this\nday: and they dwelt in their place, because they found there fat\npastures.\n\n4:42. Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into\nmount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia\nand Oziel the sons of Jesi:\n\n4:43. And they slew the remnant of the Amalecites, who had been able to\nescape, and they dwelt there in their stead unto this day.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 5\n\nGenealogies of Ruben and Gad: their victories over the Agarites: their\ncaptivity.\n\n5:1. Now the sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was his\nfirstborn: but forasmuch as he defiled his father\u2019s bed, his first\nbirthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he\nwas not accounted for the firstborn.\n\n5:2. But of the race of Juda, who was the strongest among his brethren,\ncame the princes: but the first birthright was accounted to Joseph.)\n\nAccounted to Joseph.... Viz., as to the double portion, which belonged\nto the firstborn; but the princely dignity was given to Juda, and the\npriesthood to Levi.\n\n5:3. The sons then of Ruben the firstborn of Israel were Enoch, and\nPhallu, Esron, and Charmi.\n\n5:4. The sons of Joel: Samaia his son, Gog his son, Semei his son,\n\n5:5. Micha his son, Reia his son, Baal his son,\n\n5:6. Beera his son, whom Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians\ncarried away captive, and he was prince in the tribe of Ruben.\n\n5:7. And his brethren, and all his kindred, when they were numbered by\ntheir families, had for princes Jehiel, and Zacharias.\n\n5:8. And Bala the son of Azaz, the son of Samma, the son of Joel, dwelt\nin Aroer as far as Nebo, and Beelmeon.\n\n5:9. And eastward he had his habitation as far as the entrance of the\ndesert, and the river Euphrates. For they possessed a great number of\ncattle in the land of Galaad.\n\n5:10. And in the days of Saul they fought against the Agarites, and\nslew them, and dwelt in their tents in their stead, in all the country,\nthat looketh to the east of Galaad.\n\n5:11. And the children of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of\nBasan, as far as Selcha:\n\n5:12. Johel the chief, and Saphan the second: and Janai, and Saphat in\nBasan.\n\n5:13. And their brethren according to the houses of their kindreds,\nwere Michael and Mosollam, and Sebe, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zie, and\nHeber, seven.\n\n5:14. These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jara,\nthe son of Galaad, the son of Michael, the son of Jesisi, the son of\nJeddo, the son of Buz.\n\n5:15. And their brethren the sons of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of\nthe house in their families,\n\n5:16. And they dwelt in Galaad, and in Basan and in the towns thereof,\nand in all the suburbs of Saron, unto the borders.\n\n5:17. All these were numbered in the days of Joathan king of Juda, and\nin the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.\n\n5:18. The sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses,\nfighting men, bearing shields, and swords, and bending the bow, and\ntrained up to battles, four and forty thousand seven hundred and\nthreescore that went out to war.\n\n5:19. They fought against the Agarites: but the Itureans, and Naphis,\nand Nodab,\n\n5:20. Gave them help. And the Agarites were delivered into their hands,\nand all that were with them, because they called upon God in the\nbattle: and he heard them, because they had put their faith in him.\n\n5:21. And they took all that they possessed, of camels fifty thousand,\nand of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand,\nand of men a hundred thousand souls.\n\n5:22. And many fell down slain: for it was the battle of the Lord. And\nthey dwelt in their stead till the captivity.\n\n5:23. And the children of the half tribe of Manasses possessed the\nland, from the borders of Basan unto Baal, Hermon, and Sanir, and mount\nHermon, for their number was great.\n\n5:24. And these were the heads of the house of their kindred, Epher,\nand Jesi, and Eliel, and Esriel, and Jeremia, and Odoia, and Jediel,\nmost valiant and powerful men, and famous chiefs in their families.\n\n5:25. But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after\nthe gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.\n\n5:26. And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Phul king of the\nAssyrians, and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur: and he\ncarried away Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, and\nbrought them to Lahela, and to Habor, and to Ara, and to the river of\nGozan, unto this day.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 6\n\nThe genealogies of Levi, and of Aaron: the cities of the Levites.\n\n6:1. The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.\n\n6:2. The sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel.\n\n6:3. The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Mary. The sons of Aaron:\nNadab and Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.\n\n6:4. Eleazar begot Phinees, and Phinees begot Abisue,\n\n6:5. And Abisue begot Bocci, and Bocci begot Ozi.\n\n6:6. Ozi begot Zaraias, and Zaraias begot Maraioth.\n\n6:7. And Maraioth begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.\n\n6:8. Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Achimaas.\n\n6:9. Achimaas begot Azarias, Azarias begot Johanan,\n\n6:10. Johanan begot Azarias. This is he that executed the priestly\noffice in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem.\n\n6:11. And Azarias begot Amarias, and Amarias begot Achitob.\n\n6:12. And Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Sellum,\n\n6:13. Sellum begot Helcias, and Helcias begot Azarias,\n\n6:14. Azarias begot Saraias, and Saraias begot Josedec.\n\n6:15. Now Josedec went out, when the Lord carried away Juda, and\nJerusalem, by the hands of Nabuchodonosor.\n\n6:16. So the sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Merari.\n\n6:17. And these are the names of the sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.\n\n6:18. The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel.\n\n6:19. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And these are the kindreds\nof Levi according to their families.\n\n6:20. Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahath his son, Zamma his son,\n\n6:21. Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his son, Jethrai his son.\n\n6:22. The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son, Core his son, Asir his son,\n\n6:23. Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son, Asir his son,\n\n6:24. Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias his son, Saul his son.\n\n6:25. The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achimoth.\n\n6:26. And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai his son, Nahath his son,\n\n6:27. Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his son.\n\n6:28. The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vasseni, and Abia.\n\n6:29. And the sons of Merari, Moholi: Lobni his son, Semei his son, Oza\nhis son,\n\n6:30. Sammaa his son, Haggia his son, Asaia his son.\n\n6:31. These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house\nof the Lord, after that the ark was placed.\n\n6:32. And they ministered before the tabernacle of the testimony, with\nsinging, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and\nthey stood according to their order in the ministry.\n\n6:33. And these are they that stood with their sons, of the sons of\nCaath, Hemam a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Sammuel,\n\n6:34. The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son\nof Thohu,\n\n6:35. The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the son of Mahath, the son of\nAmasai,\n\n6:36. The son of Elcana, the son of Johel, the son of Azarias, the son\nof Sophonias,\n\n6:37. The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the son of Abiasaph, the son\nof Core,\n\n6:38. The son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, the son of\nIsrael.\n\n6:39. And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, Asaph the son\nof Barachias, the son of Samaa.\n\n6:40. The son of Michael, the son of Basaia, the son of Melchia.\n\n6:41. The son of Athanai, the son of Zara, the son of Adaia.\n\n6:42. The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the son of Semei.\n\n6:43. The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son of Levi.\n\n6:44. And the sons of Merari their brethren, on the left hand, Ethan\nthe son of Cusi, the son of Abdi, the son of Meloch,\n\n6:45. The son of Hasabia, the son of Amasai, the son of Helcias,\n\n6:46. The son of Amasai, the son of Boni, the son of Somer,\n\n6:47. The son of Moholi, the son of Musi, the son of Merari, the son of\nLevi.\n\n6:48. Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the\nministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord.\n\n6:49. But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of\nholocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy\nof holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the\nservant of God had commanded.\n\n6:50. And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinees his\nson, Abisue his son,\n\n6:51. Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia his son,\n\n6:52. Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob his son,\n\n6:53. Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.\n\n6:54. And these are their dwelling places by the towns and confines, to\nwit, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Caathites: for they\nfell to them by lot.\n\n6:55. And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs\nthereof round about:\n\n6:56. But the fields of the city, and the villages to Caleb son of\nJephone.\n\n6:57. And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities for refuge Hebron,\nand Lobna, and the suburbs thereof,\n\n6:58. And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir\nwith their suburbs:\n\n6:59. Asan also, and Bethsames, with their suburbs.\n\n6:60. And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath\nwith its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities\nthroughout their families were thirteen.\n\n6:61. And to the sons of Caath that remained of their kindred they gave\nout of the half tribe of Manasses ten cities in possession.\n\n6:62. And to the sons of Gerson by their families out of the tribe of\nIssachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of\nNephtali, and out of the tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.\n\n6:63. And to the sons of Merari by their families out of the tribe of\nRuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon,\nthey gave by lot twelve cities.\n\n6:64. And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and\ntheir suburbs.\n\n6:65. And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe of the sons of Juda,\nand out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the\nsons of Benjamin, these cities which they called by their names.\n\n6:66. And to them that were of the kindred of the sons of Caath, and\nthe cities in their borders were of the tribe of Ephraim.\n\n6:67. And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem with its suburbs in\nmount Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs,\n\n6:68. Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-horon in like manner,\n\n6:69. Helon also with its suburbs, and Gethremmon in like manner,\n\n6:70. And out of the half tribe of Manasses, Aner and its suburbs,\nBaalam and its suburbs, to wit, to them that were left of the family of\nthe sons of Caath.\n\n6:71. And to the sons of Gersom, out of the kindred of the half tribe\nof Manasses, Gaulon, in Basan, and its suburbs, and Astharoth with its\nsuburbs.\n\n6:72. Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes and its suburbs, and Dabereth\nwith its suburbs;\n\n6:73. Ramoth also and its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs.\n\n6:74. And out of the tribe of Aser: Masal with its suburbs, and Abdon\nin like manner;\n\n6:75. Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol with its suburbs.\n\n6:76. And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee and its\nsuburbs, Hamon with its suburbs, and Cariathaim, and its suburbs.\n\n6:77. And to the sons of Merari that remained: out of the tribe of\nZabulon, Remmono and its suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs.\n\n6:78. Beyond the Jordan also over against Jericho, on the east side of\nthe Jordan, out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with its\nsuburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;\n\n6:79. Cademoth also and its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;\n\n6:80. Moreover also out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad and its\nsuburbs, and Manaim with its suburbs;\n\n6:81. Hesebon also with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 7\n\nGenealogies of Issachar, Benjamin, Nephtali, Manasses, Ephraim, and\nAser.\n\n7:1. Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua, Jasub and Simeron,\nfour.\n\n7:2. The sons of Thola: Ozi and Raphaia, and Jeriel, and Jemai, and\nJebsem, and Samuel, chiefs of the houses of their kindreds. Of the\nposterity of Thola were numbered in the days of David, two and twenty\nthousand six hundred most valiant men.\n\n7:3. The sons of Ozi: Izrahia, of whom were born Michael, and Obadia,\nand Joel, and Jesia, five all great men.\n\n7:4. And there were with them by their families and peoples, six and\nthirty thousand most valiant men ready for war: for they had many wives\nand children.\n\n7:5. Their brethren also throughout all the house of Issachar, were\nnumbered fourscore and seven thousand most valiant men for war.\n\n7:6. The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Bechor, and Jadihel, three.\n\n7:7. The sons of Bela: Esbon, and Ozi, and Ozial, and Jerimoth and\nUrai, five chiefs of their families, and most valiant warriors, and\ntheir number was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.\n\n7:8. And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and\nElioenai, and Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath:\nall these were the sons of Bechor.\n\n7:9. And they were numbered by the families, heads of their kindreds,\nmost valiant men for war, twenty thousand and two hundred.\n\n7:10. And the son of Jadihel: Balan. And the sons of Balan: Jehus and\nBenjamin, and Aod, and Chanana, and Zethan and Tharsis, and Ahisahar.\n\n7:11. All these were sons of Jadihel, heads of their kindreds, most\nvaliant men, seventeen thousand and two hundred fifty to go out to war.\n\n7:12. Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir: and Hasim the sons of\nAher.\n\n7:13. And the sons of Nephtali were Jasiel, and Guni, and Jezer, and\nSellum, sons of Bala.\n\n7:14. And the son of Manasses, Ezriel: and his concubine the Syrian\nbore Machir the father of Galaad.\n\n7:15. And Machir took wives for his sons Happhim, and Saphan: and he\nhad a sister named Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad, and\nSalphaad had daughters.\n\n7:16. And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name\nPhares: and the name of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam\nand Recen.\n\n7:17. And the son of Ulam, Baden. These are the sons of Galaad, the son\nof Machir, the son of Manasses.\n\n7:18. And his sister named Queen bore Goodlyman, and Abiezer, and\nMohola.\n\n7:19. And the sons of Semida were Ahiu, and Sechem, and Leci and Aniam.\n\n7:20. And the sons of Ephraim were Suthala, Bared his son, Thahath his\nson, Elada his son, Thahath his son, and his son Zabad,\n\n7:21. And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and Elad: and the men of\nGeth born in the land slew them, because they came down to invade their\npossessions.\n\n7:22. And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came\nto comfort him.\n\n7:23. And he went in to his wife: and she conceived and bore a son, and\nhe called his name Beria, because he was born when it went evil with\nhis house:\n\nBeria.... This name signifies in evil, or in affliction.\n\n7:24. And his daughter was Sara, who built Bethoron, the nether and the\nupper, and Ozensara.\n\n7:25. And Rapha was his son, and Reseph, and Thale, of whom was born\nThaan,\n\n7:26. Who begot Laadan: and his son was Ammiud, who begot Elisama,\n\n7:27. Of whom was born Nun, who had Josue for his son.\n\n7:28. And their possessions and habitations were Bethel with her\ndaughters, and eastward Noran, and westward Gazer and her daughters,\nSichem also with her daughters, as far as Asa with her daughters.\n\n7:29. And by the borders of the sons of Manasses Bethsan and her\ndaughters, Thanach and her daughters, Mageddo and her daughters: Dor\nand her daughters: in these dwelt the children of Joseph, the son of\nIsrael.\n\n7:30. The children of Aser were Jemna, and Jesua, and Jessui, and\nBaria, and Sara their sister.\n\n7:31. And the sons of Baria: Haber, and Melchiel: he is the father of\nBarsaith.\n\n7:32. And Heber begot Jephlat, and Somer, and Hotham, and Suaa their\nsister.\n\n7:33. The sons of Jephlat: Phosech, and Chamaal, and Asoth: these are\nthe sons of Jephlat.\n\n7:34. And the sons of Somer: Ahi, and Roaga and Haba, and Aram.\n\n7:35. And the sons of Helem his brother: Supha, and Jemna, and Selles,\nand Amal.\n\n7:36. The sons of Supha: Sue, Hernapher, and Sual, and Beri, and Jamra.\n\n7:37. Bosor and Hod, and Samma, and Salusa, and Jethran, and Bera.\n\n7:38. The sons of Jether: Jephone, and Phaspha, and Ara.\n\n7:39. And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel, and Resia.\n\n7:40. All these were sons of Aser, heads of their families, choice and\nmost valiant captains of captains: and the number of them that were of\nthe age that was fit for war, was six and twenty thousand.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 8\n\nThe posterity of Benjamin is further declared down to Saul. His issue.\n\n8:1. Now Benjamin begot Bale his firstborn, Asbel the second, Ahara the\nthird,\n\n8:2. Nohaa the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.\n\n8:3. And the sons of Bale were Addar, and Gera, and Abiud,\n\n8:4. And Abisue, and Naaman, and Ahoe,\n\n8:5. And Gera, and Sephuphan, and Huram.\n\n8:6. These are the sons of Ahod, heads of families that dwelt in Gabaa,\nwho were removed into Manahath.\n\n8:7. And Naaman, and Achia, and Gera he removed them, and begot Oza,\nand Ahiud.\n\n8:8. And Saharim begot in the land of Moab, after he sent away Husim\nand Bara his wives.\n\n8:9. And he begot of Hodes his wife Jobab, and Sebia, and Mosa, and\nMolchom,\n\n8:10. And Jehus and Sechia, and Marma. These were his sons heads of\ntheir families.\n\n8:11. And Mehusim begot Abitob, and Elphaal.\n\n8:12. And the sons of Elphaal were Heber, and Misaam, and Samad: who\nbuilt Ono, and Lod, and its daughters.\n\n8:13. And Baria, and Sama were heads of their kindreds that dwelt in\nAialon: these drove away the inhabitants of Geth.\n\n8:14. And Ahio, and Sesac, and Jerimoth,\n\n8:15. And Zabadia, and Arod, and Heder,\n\n8:16. And Michael, and Jespha, and Joha, the sons of Baria.\n\n8:17. And Zabadia, and Mosollam, and Hezeci, and Heber,\n\n8:18. And Jesamari, and Jezlia, and Jobab, sons of Elphaal,\n\n8:19. And Jacim, and Zechri, and Zabdi,\n\n8:20. And Elioenai, and Selethai, and Elial,\n\n8:21. And Adaia, and Baraia, and Samareth, the sons of Semei.\n\n8:22. And Jespham, and Heber, and Eliel,\n\n8:23. And Abdon, and Zechri, and Hanan,\n\n8:24. And Hanania, and Elam, and Anathothia.\n\n8:25. And Jephdaia, and Phanuel the sons of Sesac.\n\n8:26. And Samsari, and Sohoria and Otholia,\n\n8:27. And Jersia, and Elia, and Zechri, the sons of Jeroham.\n\n8:28. These were the chief fathers, and heads of their families who\ndwelt in Jerusalem.\n\n8:29. And at Gabaon dwelt Abigabaon, and the name of his wife was\nMaacha:\n\n8:30. And his firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and\nNadab,\n\n8:31. And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher, and Macelloth:\n\n8:32. And Macelloth begot Samaa: and they dwelt over against their\nbrethren in Jerusalem with their brethren.\n\n8:33. And Ner begot Cis and Cis begot Saul. And Saul begot Jonathan and\nMelchisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.\n\nEsbaal.... Alias Isboseth.\n\n8:34. And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begot Micha.\n\nMeribbaal.... Alias Miphiboseth. 2 Kings 4.4.\n\n8:35. And the sons of Micha were Phithon, and Melech, and Tharaa, and\nAhaz.\n\n8:36. And Ahaz begot Joada: and Joada begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and\nZamri: and Zamri begot Mosa,\n\n8:37. And Mosa begot Banaa, whose son was Rapha, of whom was born\nElasa, who begot Asel.\n\n8:38. And Asel had six sons whose names were Ezricam, Bochru, Ismahel,\nSaria, Obdia, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Asel.\n\n8:39. And the sons of Esec, his brother, were Ulam the firstborn, and\nJehus the second, and Eliphalet the third.\n\n8:40. And the sons of Ulam were most valiant men, and archers of great\nstrength: and they had many sons and grandsons, even to a hundred and\nfifty. All these were children of Benjamin.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 9\n\nThe Israelites, priests, and Levites, who first dwelt in Jerusalem\nafter the captivity. A repetition of the genealogy of Saul.\n\n9:1. And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in\nthe book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away\nto Babylon for their transgression.\n\n9:2. Now the first that dwelt in their possessions, and in their\ncities, were the Israelites, and the priests, and the Levites, and the\nNathineans.\n\nNathineans.... These were the posterity of the Gabaonites, whose office\nwas to bring wood, water, etc., for the service of the temple.\n\n9:3. And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Juda, and of the\nchildren of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and of Manasses.\n\n9:4. Othei the son of Ammiud, the son of Amri, the son of Omrai, the\nson of Bonni of the sons of Phares the son of Juda.\n\n9:5. And of Siloni: Asaia the firstborn, and his sons.\n\n9:6. And of the sons of Zara: Jehuel and their brethren, six hundred\nand ninety.\n\n9:7. And of the sons of Benjamin: Salo the son of Mosollam, the son of\nOduia, the son of Asana:\n\n9:8. And Jobania the son of Jeroham: and Ela the son of Ozi, the son of\nMochori and Mosallam the son of Saphatias, the son of Rahuel, the son\nof Jebania:\n\n9:9. And their brethren by their families, nine hundred and fifty-six.\nAll these were heads of their families, by the houses of their fathers.\n\n9:10. And of the priests: Jedaia, Joiarib, and Jachin:\n\n9:11. And Azarias the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of\nSadoc, the son of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, high priest of the\nhouse of God.\n\n9:12. And Adaias the son of Jeroham, the son of Phassur, the son of\nMelchias, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jezra, the son of\nMosollam, the son of Mosollamith, the son of Emmer.\n\n9:13. And their brethren heads in their families a thousand seven\nhundred and threescore, very strong and able men for the work of the\nministry in the house of God.\n\n9:14. And of the Levites: Semeia the son of Hassub the son of Ezricam,\nthe son of Hasebia of the sons of Merari.\n\n9:15. And Bacbacar the carpenter, and Galal, and Mathania the son of\nMicha, the son of Zechri the son of Asaph:\n\n9:16. And Obdia the son of Semeia, the son of Galal, the son of\nIdithum: and Barachia the son of Asa, the son of Elcana, who dwelt in\nthe suburbs of Netophati.\n\n9:17. And the porters were Sellum, and Accub, and Telmon, and Ahiman:\nand their brother Sellum was the prince,\n\n9:18. Until that time, in the king\u2019s gate eastward, the sons of Levi\nwaited by their turns.\n\n9:19. But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,\nwith his brethren and his father\u2019s house, the Corites were over the\nworks of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their\nfamilies in turns were keepers of the entrance of the camp of the Lord.\n\n9:20. And Phinees the son of Eleazar, was their prince before the Lord,\n\n9:21. And Zacharias the son of Mosollamia, was porter of the gate of\nthe tabernacle of the testimony:\n\n9:22. All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two\nhundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns:\nwhom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.\n\n9:23. As well them as their sons, to keep the gates of the house of the\nLord, and the tabernacle by their turns.\n\n9:24. In four quarters were the porters: that is to say, toward the\neast, and west, and north, and south.\n\n9:25. And their brethren dwelt in villages, and came upon their sabbath\ndays from time to time.\n\n9:26. To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the\nporters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house\nof the Lord.\n\n9:27. And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the\nLord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.\n\n9:28. And some of their stock had the charge of the vessels for the\nministry: for the vessels were both brought in and carried out by\nnumber.\n\n9:29. Some of them also had the instruments of the sanctuary committed\nunto them, and the charge of the fine flour, and wine, and oil, and\nfrankincense, and spices.\n\n9:30. And the sons of the priests made the ointments of the spices.\n\n9:31. And Mathathias a Levite, the firstborn of Sellum the Corite, was\noverseer of such things as were fried in the fryingpan.\n\n9:32. And some of the sons of Caath their brethren, were over the\nloaves of proposition, to prepare always new for every sabbath.\n\n9:33. These are the chief of the singing men of the families of the\nLevites, who dwelt in the chambers, by the temple, that they might\nserve continually day and night in their ministry.\n\n9:34. The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in\nJerusalem.\n\n9:35. And in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the father of Gabaon, and the name of\nhis wife was Maacha:\n\n9:36. His firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and Ner, and\nNadab,\n\n9:37. Gedor also, and Ahio, and Zacharias, and Macelloth.\n\n9:38. And Macelloth begot Samaan: these dwelt over against their\nbrethren in Jerusalem, with their brethren.\n\n9:39. Now Ner begot Cis: and Cis begot Saul: and Saul begot Jonathan\nand Melchisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.\n\n9:40. And the son of Jonathan, was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begot\nMicha.\n\n9:41. And the sons of Micha, were Phithon, and Melech, and Tharaa, and\nAhaz.\n\n9:42. And Ahaz begot Jara, and Jara begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and\nZamri. And Zamri begot Mosa.\n\n9:43. And Mosa begot Banaa: whose son Raphaia begot Elasa: of whom was\nborn Asel.\n\n9:44. And Asel had six sons whose names are, Ezricam Bochru, Ismahel,\nSaria, Obdia, Hanan: these are the sons of Asel.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 10\n\nSaul is slain for his sins: he is buried by the men of Jabes.\n\n10:1. Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel\nfled from before the Philistines, and fell down wounded in mount\nGelboe.\n\n10:2. And the Philistines drew near pursuing after Saul, and his sons,\nand they killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua the sons of Saul.\n\n10:3. And the battle grew hard against Saul and the archers reached\nhim, and wounded him with arrows.\n\n10:4. And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me:\nlest these uncircumcised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer would\nnot, for he was struck with fear: so Saul took his sword, and fell upon\nit.\n\n10:5. And when his armourbearer saw it, to wit, that Saul was dead, he\nalso fell upon his sword and died.\n\n10:6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house fell\ntogether.\n\n10:7. And when the men of Israel, that dwelt in the plains, saw this,\nthey fled: and Saul and his sons being dead, they forsook their cities,\nand were scattered up and down: and the Philistines came, and dwelt in\nthem.\n\n10:8. And the next day the Philistines taking away the spoils of them\nthat were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe.\n\n10:9. And when they had stripped him, and cut off his head, and taken\naway his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and\nshewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.\n\n10:10. And his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and\nhis head they fastened up in the temple of Dagon.\n\n10:11. And when the men of Jabes Galaad had heard this, to wit, all\nthat the Philistines had done to Saul,\n\n10:12. All the valiant men of them arose, and took the bodies of Saul\nand of his sons, and brought them to Jabes, and buried their bones\nunder the oak that was in Jabes, and they fasted seven days.\n\n10:13. So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the\ncommandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and\nmoreover consulted also a witch,\n\n10:14. And trusted not in the Lord: therefore he slew him, and\ntransferred his kingdom to David the son of Isai.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 11\n\nDavid is made king. He taketh the castle of Sion. A catalogue of his\nvaliant men.\n\n11:1. Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying:\nWe are thy bone, and thy flesh.\n\n11:2. Yesterday also, and the day before when Saul was king, thou wast\nhe that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said\nto thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over\nthem.\n\n11:3. So all the ancients of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and\nDavid made a covenant with them before the Lord: and they anointed him\nking over Israel according to the word of the Lord which he spoke in\nthe hand of Samuel.\n\n11:4. And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus, where\nthe Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land.\n\n11:5. And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David: Thou shalt not come\nin here. But David took the castle of Sion, which is the city of David.\n\n11:6. And he said: Whosoever shall first strike the Jebusites, shall be\nthe head and chief captain. And Joab the son of Sarvia went up first,\nand was made the general.\n\n11:7. And David dwelt in the castle, and therefore it was called the\ncity of David,\n\n11:8. And he built the city round about from Mello all round, and Joab\nbuilt the rest of the city.\n\n11:9. And David went on growing and increasing, and the Lord of hosts\nwas with him.\n\n11:10. These are the chief of the valiant men of David, who helped him\nto be made king over all Israel, according to the word of the Lord,\nwhich he spoke to Israel.\n\n11:11. And this is the number of the heroes of David: Jesbaam the son\nof Hachamoni the chief among the thirty: he lifted up his spear against\nthree hundred wounded by him at one time.\n\n11:12. And after him was Eleazar his uncle\u2019s son the Ahohite, who was\none of the three mighties.\n\n11:13. He was with David in Phesdomim, when the Philistines were\ngathered to that place to battle: and the field of that country was\nfull of barley, and the people fled from before the Philistines.\n\n11:14. But these men stood in the midst of the field, and defended it:\nand they slew the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great deliverance to\nhis people.\n\n11:15. And three of the thirty captains went down to the rock, wherein\nDavid was, to the cave of Odollam, when the Philistines encamped in the\nvalley of Raphaim.\n\n11:16. And David was in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines in\nBethlehem.\n\n11:17. And David longed, and said: O that some man would give me water\nof the cistern of Bethlehem, which is in the gate.\n\n11:18. And these three broke through the midst of the camp of the\nPhilistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, which was\nin the gate, and brought it to David to drink: and he would not drink\nof it, but rather offered it to the Lord,\n\n11:19. Saying: God forbid that I should do this in the sight of my God,\nand should drink the blood of these men: for with the danger of their\nlives they have brought me the water. And therefore he would not drink.\nThese things did the three most valiant.\n\n11:20. And Abisai the brother of Joab, he was chief of three, and he\nlifted up his spear against three hundred whom he slew, and he was\nrenowned among the three,\n\n11:21. And illustrious among the second three, and their captain: but\nyet he attained not to the first three.\n\n11:22. Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of Cabseel, who\nhad done many acts: he slew the two ariels of Moab: and he went down,\nand killed a lion in the midst of a pit in the time of snow.\n\nTwo ariels.... That is, two lions, or lion-like men; for Ariel in\nHebrew signifies a lion.\n\n11:23. And he slew an Egyptian, whose stature was of five cubits, and\nwho had a spear like a weaver\u2019s beam: and he went down to him with a\nstaff, and plucked away the spear, that he held in his hand, and slew\nhim with his own spear.\n\n11:24. These things did Banaias the son of Joiada, who was renowned\namong the three valiant ones,\n\n11:25. And the first among the thirty, but yet to the three he attained\nnot: and David made him of his council.\n\n11:26. Moreover the most valiant men of the army, were Asahel brother\nof Joab, and Elchanan the son of his uncle of Bethlehem,\n\n11:27. Sammoth an Arorite, Helles a Phalonite,\n\n11:28. Ira the son of Acces a Thecuite, Abiezer an Anathothite,\n\n11:29. Sobbochai a Husathite, Ilai an Ahohite,\n\n11:30. Maharai a Netophathite, Heled the son of Baana a Netophathite,\n\n11:31. Ethai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of the sons of Benjamin, Banai\na Pharathonite,\n\n11:32. Hurai of the torrent Gaas, Abiel an Arbathite, Azmoth a\nBauramite, Eliaba a Salabonite,\n\n11:33. The sons of Assem a Gezonite, Jonathan the son of Sage an\nArarite,\n\n11:34. Ahiam the son of Sachar an Ararite,\n\n11:35. Eliphal the son of Ur,\n\n11:36. Hepher a Mecherathite, Ahia a Phelonite,\n\n11:37. Hesro a Carmelite, Naarai the son of Azbai,\n\n11:38. Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibahar the son of Agarai.\n\n11:39. Selec an Ammonite, Naharai a Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab\nthe son of Sarvia.\n\n11:40. Ira a Jethrite, Gareb a Jethrite,\n\n11:41. Urias a Hethite, Zabad the son of Oholi,\n\n11:42. Adina the son of Siza a Rubenite the prince of the Rubenites,\nand thirty with him:\n\n11:43. Hanan the son of Maacha, and Josaphat a Mathanite,\n\n11:44. Ozia an Astarothite, Samma, and Jehiel the sons of Hotham an\nArorite,\n\n11:45. Jedihel the son of Zamri, and Joha his brother a Thosaite,\n\n11:46. Eliel a Mahumite, and Jeribai, and Josaia the sons of Elnaim,\nand Jethma a Moabite, Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel of Masobia.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 12\n\nWho followed David when he fled from Saul. And who came to Hebron to\nmake him king.\n\n12:1. Now these are they that came to David to Siceleg, while he yet\nfled from Saul the son of Cis, and they were most valiant and excellent\nwarriors,\n\n12:2. Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with\nslings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.\n\n12:3. The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the sons of Samaa of Gabaath,\nand Jaziel, and Phallet the sons of Azmoth, and Beracha, and Jehu an\nAnathothite.\n\n12:4. And Samaias of Gabaon, the stoutest amongst the thirty and over\nthe thirty; Jeremias, and Jeheziel and Johanan, and Jozabad of\nGaderoth;\n\n12:5. And Eluzai, and Jerimuth, and Baalia, and Samaria, and Saphatia\nthe Haruphite;\n\n12:6. Elcana, and Jesia, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jesbaam of\nCarehim:\n\n12:7. And Joela, and Zabadia the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.\n\n12:8. From Gaddi also there went over to David, when he lay hid in the\nwilderness most valiant men, and excellent warriors, holding shield and\nspear: whose faces were like the faces of a lion, and they were swift\nlike the roebucks on the mountains.\n\n12:9. Ezer the chief, Obdias the second, Eliab the third,\n\n12:10. Masmana the fourth, Jeremias the fifth,\n\n12:11. Ethi the sixth, Eliel the seventh,\n\n12:12. Johanan the eighth, Elzebad the ninth,\n\n12:13. Jerenias the tenth, Machbani the eleventh,\n\n12:14. These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the army: the least\nof them was captain over a hundred soldiers, and the greatest over a\nthousand.\n\n12:15. These are they who passed over the Jordan in the first month,\nwhen it is used to flow over its banks: and they put to flight all that\ndwelt in the valleys both toward the east and toward the west.\n\n12:16. And there came also of the men of Benjamin, and of Juda to the\nhold, in which David abode.\n\n12:17. And David went out to meet them, and said: If you are come\npeaceably to me to help me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you\nplot against me for my enemies whereas I have no iniquity in my hands,\nlet the God of our fathers see, and judge.\n\n12:18. But the spirit came upon Amasai the chief among thirty, and he\nsaid: We are thine, O David, and for thee, O son of Isai: peace, peace\nbe to thee, and peace to thy helpers. For thy God helpeth thee. So\nDavid received them, and made them captains of the band.\n\n12:19. And there were some of Manasses that went over to David, when he\ncame with the Philistines against Saul to fight: but he did not fight\nwith them: because the lords of the Philistines taking counsel sent him\nback, saying: With the danger of our heads he will return to his master\nSaul.\n\n12:20. So when he went back to Siceleg, there fled to him of Manasses,\nEdnas and Jozabad, and Jedihel, and Michael, and Ednas, and Jozabad,\nand Eliu, and Salathi, captains of thousands in Manasses.\n\n12:21. These helped David against the rovers: for they were all most\nvaliant men, and were made commanders in the army.\n\n12:22. Moreover day by day there came some to David to help him till\nthey became a great number, like the army of God.\n\n12:23. And this is the number of the chiefs of the army who came to\nDavid, when he was in Hebron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul,\naccording to the word of the Lord.\n\n12:24. The sons of Juda bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight\nhundred well appointed to war.\n\n12:25. Of the sons of Simeon valiant men for war, seven thousand one\nhundred.\n\n12:26. Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred.\n\n12:27. And Joiada prince of the race of Aaron, and with him three\nthousand seven hundred.\n\n12:28. Sadoc also a young man of excellent disposition, and the house\nof his father, twenty-two principal men.\n\n12:29. And of the sons of Benjamin the brethren of Saul, three\nthousand: for hitherto a great part of them followed the house of Saul.\n\n12:30. And of the sons of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, men of\ngreat valour renowned in their kindreds.\n\n12:31. And of the half tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, every one\nby their names, came to make David king.\n\n12:32. Also of the sons of Issachar men of understanding, that knew all\ntimes to order what Israel should do, two hundred principal men: and\nall the rest of the tribe followed their counsel.\n\n12:33. And of Zabulon such as went forth to battle, and stood in array\nwell appointed with armour for war, there came fifty thousand to his\naid, with no double heart.\n\n12:34. And of Nephtali, a thousand leaders: and with them seven and\nthirty thousand, furnished with shield and spear.\n\n12:35. Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hundred prepared for\nbattle.\n\n12:36. And of Aser forty thousand going forth to fight, and challenging\nin battle.\n\n12:37. And on the other side of the Jordan of the sons of Ruben, and of\nGad, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty\nthousand, furnished with arms for war.\n\n12:38. All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a\nperfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all\nthe rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king.\n\n12:39. And they were there with David three days eating and drinking:\nfor their brethren had prepared for them.\n\n12:40. Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and\nZabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on\nmules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen,\nand sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 13\n\nThe ark is brought from Cariathiarim. Oza for touching it is struck\ndead.\n\n13:1. David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds,\nand with all the commanders.\n\n13:2. And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you; and\nif the words which I speak come from the Lord our God, let us send to\nthe rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and to the\npriests, and the Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to\ngather themselves to us,\n\n13:3. And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought it\nnot in the days of Saul.\n\n13:4. And all the multitude answered that it should be so: for the word\npleased all the people.\n\n13:5. So David assembled all Israel from Sihor of Egypt, even to the\nentering into Emath, to bring the ark of God from Cariathiarim.\n\n13:6. And David went up with all the men of Israel to the hill of\nCariathiarim which is in Juda, to bring thence the ark of the Lord God\nsitting upon the cherubims, where his name is called upon.\n\n13:7. And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart out of the house\nof Abinadab. And Oza and his brother drove the cart.\n\n13:8. And David and all Israel played before God with all their might\nwith hymns, and with harps, and with psalteries, and timbrels, and\ncymbals, and trumpets,\n\n13:9. And when they came to the floor of Chidon, Oza put forth his\nhand, to hold up the ark: for the ox being wanton had made it lean a\nlittle on one side.\n\n13:10. And the Lord was angry with Oza, and struck him, because he had\ntouched the ark; and he died there before the Lord.\n\n13:11. And David was troubled because the Lord had divided Oza: and he\ncalled that place the Breach of Oza to this day.\n\n13:12. And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the\nark of God to me?\n\n13:13. And therefore he brought it not home to himself, that is, into\nthe city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the\nGethite.\n\n13:14. And the ark of God remained in the house of Obededom three\nmonths: and the Lord blessed his house, and all that he had.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 14\n\nDavid\u2019s house, and children: his victories over the Philistines.\n\n14:1. And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,\nand masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.\n\n14:2. And David perceived that the Lord had confirmed him king over\nIsrael, and that his kingdom was exalted over his people Israel.\n\n14:3. And David took other wives in Jerusalem: and he begot sons, and\ndaughters.\n\n14:4. Now these are the names of them that were born to him in\nJerusalem: Samua, and Sobad, Nathan, and Solomon,\n\n14:5. Jebahar, and Elisua, and Eliphalet,\n\n14:6. And Noga, and Napheg, and Japhia,\n\n14:7. Elisama, and Baaliada, and Eliphalet.\n\n14:8. And the Philistines hearing that David was anointed king over all\nIsrael, went all up to seek him: and David heard of it, and went out\nagainst them.\n\n14:9. And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the vale of\nRaphaim.\n\n14:10. And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go up against the\nPhilistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said\nto him: Go up, and I will deliver them into thy hand.\n\n14:11. And when they were come to Baalpharasim, David defeated them\nthere, and he said: God hath divided my enemies by my hand, as waters\nare divided: and therefore the name of that place was called\nBaalpharasim.\n\n14:12. And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they\nshould be burnt.\n\n14:13. Another time also the Philistines made an irruption, and spread\nthemselves abroad in the valley.\n\n14:14. And David consulted God again, and God said to him: Go not up\nafter them, turn away from them, and come upon them over against the\npear trees.\n\n14:15. And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of\nthe pear trees, then shalt thou go out to battle. For God is gone out\nbefore thee to strike the army of the Philistines.\n\n14:16. And David did as God had commanded him, and defeated the army of\nthe Philistines, slaying them from Gabaon to Gazera.\n\n14:17. And the name of David became famous in all countries, and the\nLord made all nations fear him.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 15\n\nThe ark is brought into the city of David, with great solemnity. Michol\nderideth David\u2019s devotion.\n\n15:1. He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a\nplace for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.\n\n15:2. Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the\nLevites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto\nhimself for ever.\n\n15:3. And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark\nof God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.\n\n15:4. And the sons of Aaron also, and the Levites.\n\n15:5. Of the children of Caath, Uriel was the chief, and his brethren a\nhundred and twenty.\n\n15:6. Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the chief, and his brethren two\nhundred and twenty.\n\n15:7. Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred\nand thirty.\n\n15:8. Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias the chief: and his brethren two\nhundred.\n\n15:9. Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief: and his brethren eighty.\n\n15:10. Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief: and his brethren a\nhundred and twelve.\n\n15:11. And David called Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, and the\nLevites, Uriel, Asaia, Joel, Semeia, Eliel, and Aminadab:\n\n15:12. And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical\nfamilies, be sanctified with your brethren, and bring the ark of the\nLord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:\n\n15:13. Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not\npresent, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing\nagainst the law.\n\n15:14. So the priests and the Levites were sanctified, to carry the ark\nof the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n15:15. And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as Moses had commanded,\naccording to the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the\nstaves.\n\n15:16. And David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites, to appoint some of\ntheir brethren to be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on\npsalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joyful noise might resound\non high.\n\n15:17. And they appointed Levites, Hemam the son of Joel, and of his\nbrethren Asaph the son of Barachias: and of the sons of Merari, their\nbrethren: Ethan the son of Casaia.\n\n15:18. And with them their brethren: in the second rank, Zacharias, and\nBen, and Jaziel, and Semiramoth, and Jahiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and\nBanaias, and Maasias, and Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias, and\nObededom, and Jehiel, the porters.\n\n15:19. Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, sounded with cymbals\nof brass.\n\n15:20. And Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Ani,\nand Eliab, and Maasias, and Banaias, sung mysteries upon psalteries.\n\n15:21. And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Macenias and Obededom, and\nJehiel and Ozaziu, sung a song of victory for the octave upon harps.\n\n15:22. And Chonenias chief of the Levites, presided over the prophecy,\nto give out the tunes: for he was very skilful.\n\nThe prophecy, to give out the tunes.... Singing praises to God is here\ncalled prophecy: the more, because these singers were often inspired\nmen.\n\n15:23. And Barachias, and Elcana, were doorkeepers of the ark.\n\n15:24. And Sebenias, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and\nZacharias, and Banaias, and Eliezer the priests, sounded with trumpets,\nbefore the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehias were porters of the ark.\n\n15:25. So David and all the ancients of Israel, and the captains over\nthousands, went to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the\nhouse of Obededom with joy.\n\n15:26. And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven\nrams.\n\n15:27. And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the\nLevites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the\nruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an\nephod of linen.\n\n15:28. And all Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with\njoyful shouting, and sounding with the sound of the cornet, and with\ntrumpets, and cymbals, and psalteries, and harps.\n\n15:29. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come to the\ncity of David, Michol the daughter of Saul looking out at a window, saw\nking David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 16\n\nThe ark is placed in the tabernacle. Sacrifice is offered. David\nblesseth the people, disposeth the offices of Levites, and maketh a\npsalm of praise to God.\n\n16:1. So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the\ntent, which David had pitched for it: and they offered holocausts, and\npeace offerings before God.\n\n16:2. And when David had made an end of offering holocausts, and peace\nofferings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.\n\n16:3. And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf\nof bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.\n\n16:4. And he appointed Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord,\nand to remember his works, and to glorify, and praise the Lord God of\nIsrael.\n\n16:5. Asaph the chief, and next after him Zacharias: moreover Jahiel,\nand Semiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mathathias, and Eliab, and Banaias, and\nObededom: and Jehiel over the instruments of psaltery, and harps: and\nAsaph sounded with cymbals:\n\n16:6. But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests, to sound the trumpet\ncontinually before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n16:7. In that day David made Asaph the chief to give praise to the Lord\nwith his brethren.\n\n16:8. Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make known his doings\namong the nations.\n\n16:9. Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and relate all his\nwondrous works.\n\n16:10. Praise ye his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice, that\nseek the Lord.\n\n16:11. Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye his face evermore.\n\n16:12. Remember his wonderful works, which he hath done: his signs, and\nthe judgments of his mouth.\n\n16:13. O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob his\nchosen.\n\n16:14. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.\n\n16:15. Remember for ever his covenant: the word, which he commanded to\na thousand generations.\n\n16:16. The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.\n\n16:17. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel\nfor an everlasting covenant:\n\n16:18. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan: the lot of your\ninheritance.\n\n16:19. When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in\nit.\n\n16:20. And they passed from nation to nation: and from a kingdom to\nanother people.\n\n16:21. He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for\ntheir sake.\n\n16:22. Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.\n\n16:23. Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew forth from day to day\nhis salvation.\n\n16:24. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all\npeople.\n\n16:25. For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is\nto be feared above all gods.\n\n16:26. For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the\nheavens.\n\n16:27. Praise and magnificence are before him: strength and joy in his\nplace.\n\n16:28. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye families of the nations: bring ye to\nthe Lord glory and empire.\n\n16:29. Give to the Lord glory to his name, bring up sacrifice, and come\nye in his sight: and adore the Lord in holy becomingness.\n\n16:30. Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded\nthe world immoveable.\n\n16:31. Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad: and let them say\namong the nations: The Lord hath reigned.\n\n16:32. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields\nrejoice, and all things that are in them.\n\n16:33. Then shall the trees of the wood give praise before the Lord:\nbecause he is come to judge the earth.\n\n16:34. Give ye glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n16:35. And say ye: Save us, O God our savior: and gather us together,\nand deliver us from the nations, that we may give glory to thy holy\nname, and may rejoice in singing thy praises.\n\n16:36. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity:\nand let all the people say Amen, and a hymn to God.\n\n16:37. So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,\nAsaph and his brethren to minister in the presence of the ark\ncontinually day by day, and in their courses.\n\n16:38. And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-eight: and Obededom the\nson of Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to be porters.\n\n16:39. And Sadoc the priest, and his brethren priests, before the\ntabernacle of the Lord in the high place, which was in Gabaon.\n\n16:40. That they should offer holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of\nholocausts continually, morning and evening, according to all that is\nwritten in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel.\n\n16:41. And after him Heman, and Idithun, and the rest that were chosen,\nevery one by his name to give praise to the Lord: because his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n16:42. And Heman and Idithun sounded the trumpet, and played on the\ncymbals, and all kinds of musical instruments to sing praises to God:\nand the sons of Idithun he made porters.\n\n16:43. And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless\nalso his own house.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 17\n\nDavid\u2019s purpose to build a temple, is rewarded by most ample promises:\nDavid\u2019s thanksgiving.\n\n17:1. Now when David was dwelling in his house, he said to Nathan the\nprophet: Behold I dwell in a house of cedar: and the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord is under skins.\n\n17:2. And Nathan said to David: Do all that is in thy heart: for God is\nwith thee.\n\n17:3. Now that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:\n\n17:4. Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou\nshalt not build me a house to dwell in.\n\n17:5. For I have not remained in a house from the time that I brought\nup Israel, to this day: but I have been always changing places in a\ntabernacle, and in a tent,\n\n17:6. Abiding with all Israel. Did I ever speak to any one, of all the\njudges of Israel whom I charged to feed my people, saying: Why have you\nnot built me a house of cedar?\n\n17:7. Now therefore thus shalt thou say to my servant David: Thus saith\nthe Lord of hosts: I took thee from the pastures, from following the\nflock, that thou shouldst be ruler of my people Israel.\n\n17:8. And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone: and have\nslain all thy enemies before thee, and have made thee a name like that\nof one of the great ones that are renowned in the earth.\n\n17:9. And I have given a place to my people Israel: they shall be\nplanted, and shall dwell therein, and shall be moved no more, neither\nshall the children of iniquity waste them, as at the beginning,\n\n17:10. Since the days that I gave judges to my people Israel, and have\nhumbled all thy enemies. And I declare to thee, that the Lord will\nbuild thee a house.\n\n17:11. And when thou shalt have ended thy days to go to thy fathers, I\nwill raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons: and I\nwill establish his kingdom.\n\n17:12. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for\never.\n\n17:13. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and I\nwill not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was\nbefore thee.\n\n17:14. But I will settle him in my house, and in my kingdom for ever:\nand his throne shall be most firm for ever.\n\n17:15. According to all these words, and according to all this vision,\nso did Nathan speak to David.\n\n17:16. And king David came and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I,\nO Lord God, and what is my house, that thou shouldst give such things\nto me?\n\n17:17. But even this hath seemed little in thy sight, and therefore\nthou hast also spoken concerning the house of thy servant for the time\nto come: and hast made me remarkable above all men, O Lord God.\n\n17:18. What can David add more, seeing thou hast thus glorified thy\nservant, and known him?\n\n17:19. O Lord, for thy servant\u2019s sake, according to thy own heart, thou\nhast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things\nto be known.\n\n17:20. O Lord there is none like thee: and here is no other God beside\nthee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears.\n\n17:21. For what other nation is there upon earth like thy people\nIsrael, whom God went to deliver, and make a people for himself, and by\nhis greatness and terrors cast out nations before their face whom he\nhad delivered out of Egypt?\n\n17:22. And thou hast made thy people Israel to be thy own people for\never, and thou, O Lord, art become their God.\n\n17:23. Now therefore, O Lord, let the word which thou hast spoken to\nthy servant, and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do\nas thou hast said.\n\n17:24. And let thy name remain and be magnified for ever: and let it be\nsaid: The Lord of hosts is God of Israel, and the house of David his\nservant remaineth before him.\n\n17:25. For thou, O Lord my God, hast revealed to the ear of thy\nservant, that thou wilt build him a house: and therefore thy servant\nhath found confidence to pray before thee.\n\n17:26. And now O Lord, thou art God: and thou hast promised to thy\nservant such great benefits.\n\n17:27. And thou hast begun to bless the house of thy servant, that it\nmay be always before thee: for seeing thou blessest it, O Lord, it\nshall be blessed for ever.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 18\n\nDavid\u2019s victories. His chief officers.\n\n18:1. And it came to pass after this, that David defeated the\nPhilistines, and humbled them, and took away Geth, and her daughters\nout of the hands of the Philistines,\n\n18:2. And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites were made David\u2019s\nservants, and brought him gifts.\n\n18:3. At that time David defeated also Adarezer king of Soba of the\nland of Hemath, when he went to extend his dominions as far as the\nriver Euphrates.\n\n18:4. And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand\nhorsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and he houghed all the chariot\nhorses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.\n\n18:5. And the Syrians of Damascus came also to help Adarezer king of\nSoba: and David slew of them likewise two and twenty thousand men.\n\n18:6. And he put a garrison in Damascus, that Syria also should serve\nhim, and bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him in all things to which\nhe went.\n\n18:7. And David took the golden quivers which the servants of Adarezer\nhad, and he brought them to Jerusalem.\n\n18:8. Likewise out of Thebath and Chun, cities of Adarezer, he brought\nvery much brass, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars,\nand the vessels of brass.\n\n18:9. Now when Thou king of Hemath heard that David had defeated all\nthe army of Adarezer king of Soba,\n\n18:10. He sent Adoram his son to king David to desire peace of him, and\nto congratulate him that he had defeated and overthrown Adarezer: for\nThou was an enemy to Adarezer.\n\n18:11. And all the vessels of gold, and silver and brass king David\nconsecrated to the Lord, with the silver and gold which he had taken\nfrom all the nations, as well from Edom, and from Moab, and from the\nsons of Ammon, as from the Philistines, and from Amalec.\n\n18:12. And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the Edomites in the vale of\nthe saltpits, eighteen thousand:\n\n18:13. And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom should serve David: and\nthe Lord preserved David in all things to which he went.\n\n18:14. So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and\njustice among all his people.\n\n18:15. And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the army, and Josaphat the\nson of Ahilud recorder.\n\n18:16. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of\nAbiathar, were the priests: and Susa, scribe.\n\n18:17. And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the bands of the Cerethi,\nand the Phelethi: and the sons of David were chief about the king.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 19\n\nThe Ammonites abuse David\u2019s ambassadors: both they and their\nconfederates are overthrown.\n\n19:1. Now it came to pass that Naas the king of the children of Ammon\ndied, and his son reigned in his stead.\n\n19:2. And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Naas:\nfor his father did a favour to me. And David sent messengers to comfort\nhim upon the death of his father. But when they were come into the land\nof the children of Ammon, to comfort Hanon,\n\n19:3. The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon: Thou thinkest\nperhaps that David to do honour to thy father hath sent comforters to\nthee: and thou dost not take notice, that his servants are come to thee\nto consider, and search, and spy out thy land.\n\n19:4. Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of\nDavid, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and\nsent them away.\n\n19:5. And when they were gone, they sent word to David, who sent to\nmeet them (for they had suffered a great affront) and ordered them to\nstay at Jericho till their beards grew and then to return.\n\n19:6. And when the children of Ammon saw that they had done an injury\nto David, Hanon and the rest of the people sent a thousand talents of\nsilver, to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out\nof Syria Maacha, and out of Soba.\n\n19:7. And they hired two and thirty thousand chariots, and the king of\nMaacha, with his people. And they came and camped over against Medaba.\nAnd the children of Ammon gathered themselves together out of their\ncities, and came to battle.\n\n19:8. And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of\nvaliant men:\n\n19:9. And the children of Ammon came out and put their army in array\nbefore the gate of the city: and the kings, that were come to their\naid, stood apart in the field.\n\n19:10. Wherefore Joab understanding that the battle was set against him\nbefore and behind, chose out the bravest men of all Israel, and marched\nagainst the Syrians,\n\n19:11. And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai\nhis brother, and they went against the children of Ammon.\n\n19:12. And he said: If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou\nshalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, I\nwill help thee.\n\n19:13. Be of good courage and let us behave ourselves manfully for our\npeople, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord will do that which\nis good in his sight.\n\n19:14. So Joab and the people that were with him, went against the\nSyrians to the battle: and he put them to flight.\n\n19:15. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled,\nthey likewise fled from Abisai his brother, and went into the city: and\nJoab also returned to Jerusalem.\n\n19:16. But the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel, sent\nmessengers, and brought to them the Syrians that were beyond the river:\nand Sophach, general of the army of Adarezer, was their leader.\n\n19:17. And it was told David, and he gathered together all Israel, and\npassed the Jordan, and came upon them, and put his army in array\nagainst them, and they fought with him.\n\n19:18. But the Syrian fled before Israel: and David slew of the Syrians\nseven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and Sophach the\ngeneral of the army.\n\nSeven thousand chariots.... That is, of men who fought in chariots.\n\n19:19. And when the servants of Adarezer saw themselves overcome by\nIsrael, they went over to David, and served him: and Syria would not\nhelp the children of Ammon any more.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 20\n\nRabba is taken. Other victories over the Philistines.\n\n20:1. And it came to pass after the course of a year, at the time that\nkings go out to battle, Joab gathered together an army and the strength\nof the troops, and wasted the land of the children of Ammon: and went\nand besieged Rabba. But David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab smote\nRabba, and destroyed it.\n\n20:2. And David took the crown of Melchom from his head, and found in\nit a talent weight of gold, and most precious stones, and he made\nhimself a diadem of it: he took also the spoils of the city which were\nvery great.\n\n20:3. And the people that were therein he brought out: and made\nharrows, and sleds, and chariots of iron to go over them, so that they\nwere cut and bruised to pieces: in this manner David dealt with all the\ncities of the children of Ammon: and he returned with all his people to\nJerusalem.\n\n20:4. After this there arose a war at Gazer against the Philistines: in\nwhich Sabachai the Husathite slew Saphai of the race of Raphaim, and\nhumbled them.\n\n20:5. Another battle also was fought against the Philistines, in which\nAdeodatus the son of Saltus a Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath\nthe Gethite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam.\n\n20:6. There was another battle also in Geth, in which there was a man\nof great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on\neach hand and foot: who also was born of the stock of Rapha.\n\n20:7. He reviled Israel: but Jonathan the son of Samaa the brother of\nDavid slew him. These were the sons of Rapha in Geth, who fell by the\nhand of David and his servants.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 21\n\nDavid\u2019s sin in numbering the people is punished by a pestilence: which\nceaseth upon his offering sacrifice in the thrashingfloor of Ornan.\n\n21:1. And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number\nIsrael.\n\n21:2. And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and\nnumber Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of\nthem that I may know it.\n\n21:3. And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more\nthan they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants:\nwhy doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to\nIsrael?\n\n21:4. But the king\u2019s word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went\nthrough all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.\n\n21:5. And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and\nall the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men\nthat drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand\nfighting men.\n\nThe number, etc.... The difference of the numbers here and 2 Kings 24.\nis to be accounted for, by supposing the greater number to be that\nwhich was really found, and the lesser to be that which Joab gave in.\n\n21:6. But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly\nexecuted the king\u2019s orders.\n\n21:7. And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he\nstruck Israel.\n\n21:8. And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I\nbeseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done\nfoolishly.\n\n21:9. And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:\n\n21:10. Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I\ngive thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I\nwill do it to thee.\n\n21:11. And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the\nLord: choose which thou wilt:\n\n21:12. Either three years famine: or three months to flee from thy\nenemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to\nhave the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel\nof the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see\nwhat I shall answer him who sent me.\n\nThree years famine.... Which joined with the three foregoing years of\nfamine mentioned, 2 Kings 21. and the seventh year of the land\u2019s\nresting, would make up the seven years proposed by the prophet, 2 Kings\n24.13.\n\n21:13. And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but\nit is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies\nare many, than into the hands of men.\n\n21:14. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of\nIsrael seventy thousand men.\n\n21:15. And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was\nstriking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the\nevil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy\nhand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashingfloor of Ornan\nthe Jebusite.\n\nOrnan.... Otherwise Areuna.\n\n21:16. And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord\nstanding between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand,\nturned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in\nhaircloth, fell down flat on the ground.\n\n21:17. And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to\nbe numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil:\nbut as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy\nhand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father\u2019s house:\nand let not thy people be destroyed.\n\n21:18. And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up,\nand build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the\nJebusite.\n\n21:19. And David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke\nto him in the name of the Lord.\n\n21:20. Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four\nsons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the\nfloor.\n\n21:21. And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of\nthe thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to\nthe ground.\n\n21:22. And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor,\nthat I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of\nme as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the\npeople.\n\n21:23. And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do\nall that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a\nholocaust, and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I\nwill give it all willingly.\n\n21:24. And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give\nthee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee,\nand so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.\n\n21:25. So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold\nof just weight.\n\nSix hundred sicles, etc.... This was the price of the whole place, on\nwhich the temple was afterwards built; but the price of the oxen was\nfifty sicles of silver. 2 Kings 24.24.\n\n21:26. And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered\nholocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he\nheard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.\n\n21:27. And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again\ninto the sheath.\n\n21:28. And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the\nthrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.\n\n21:29. But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert,\nand the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of\nGabaon.\n\n21:30. And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he\nwas seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel\nof the Lord.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 22\n\nDavid having prepared all necessaries, chargeth Solomon to build the\ntemple and the princes to assist him.\n\n22:1. Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar\nfor the holocaust of Israel.\n\n22:2. And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the\nland of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones\nand polish them, to build the house of God.\n\n22:3. And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates,\nand for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.\n\n22:4. And the cedar trees were without number, which the Sidonians, and\nTyrians brought to David.\n\n22:5. And David said: Solomon my son is very young and tender, and the\nhouse which I would have to be built to the Lord, must be such as to be\nrenowned in all countries: therefore I will prepare him necessaries.\nAnd therefore before his death he prepared all the charges.\n\n22:6. And he called for Solomon his son: and commanded him to build a\nhouse to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n22:7. And David said to Solomon: My son, it was my desire to have built\na house to the name of the Lord my God.\n\n22:8. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Thou hast shed much\nblood, and fought many battles, so thou canst not build a house to my\nname, after shedding so much blood before me:\n\n22:9. The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be a most quiet man:\nfor I will make him rest from all his enemies round about: and\ntherefore he shall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace and\nquietness to Israel all his days.\n\n22:10. He shall build a house to my name, and he shall be a son to me,\nand I will be a father to him: and I will establish the throne of his\nkingdom over Israel for ever.\n\n22:11. Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper,\nand build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.\n\n22:12. The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou\nmayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.\n\n22:13. For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the\ncommandments, and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach\nIsrael: take courage and act manfully, fear not, nor be dismayed.\n\n22:14. Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of\nthe Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million\nof talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the\nabundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have\nprepared for all the charges.\n\n22:15. Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and\nmasons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their\nwork,\n\n22:16. In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, whereof there\nis no number. Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee.\n\n22:17. David also charged all the princes of Israel, to help Solomon\nhis son,\n\n22:18. Saying: You see, that the Lord your God is with you, and hath\ngiven you rest round about, and hath delivered all your enemies into\nyour hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his\npeople.\n\n22:19. Give therefore your hearts and your souls, to seek the Lord your\nGod and arise, and build a sanctuary to the Lord God, that the ark of\nthe covenant of the Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the Lord, may\nbe brought into the house, which is built to the name of the Lord.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 23\n\nDavid appointeth Solomon king. The distribution of the Levites and\ntheir offices.\n\n23:1. David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over\nIsrael.\n\n23:2. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the\npriests and Levites.\n\n23:3. And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and\nupwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.\n\n23:4. Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto\nthe ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the\noverseers and judges.\n\n23:5. Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing\nto the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.\n\n23:6. And David distributed them into courses by the families of the\nsons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.\n\n23:7. The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.\n\n23:8. The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel,\nthree.\n\n23:9. The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aran, three: these\nwere the heads of the families of Leedan.\n\n23:10. And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and Ziza, and Jaus, and\nBaria: these were the sons of Semei, four.\n\n23:11. And Leheth was the first, Ziza the second: but Jaus and Baria\nhad not many children, and therefore they were counted in one family,\nand in one house.\n\n23:12. The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel,\nfour.\n\n23:13. The sons of Amram, Aaron, and Moses. And Aaron was separated to\nminister in the holy of holies, he and his sons for ever, and to burn\nincense before the Lord, according to his ceremonies, and to bless his\nname for ever.\n\n23:14. The sons also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the\ntribe of Levi.\n\n23:15. The sons of Moses were Gersom and Eliezer:\n\n23:16. The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.\n\n23:17. And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eliezer had\nno more sons. But the sons of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.\n\n23:18. The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.\n\n23:19. The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the first, Amarias the second,\nJahaziel the third, Jecmaam the fourth.\n\n23:20. The sons of Oziel: Micha the first, Jesia the second.\n\n23:21. The sons of Merari: Moholi, and Musi. The sons of Moholi:\nEleazar and Cis.\n\n23:22. And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of\nCis their brethren took them.\n\n23:23. The sons of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.\n\n23:24. These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families,\nprinces by their courses, and the number of every head that did the\nworks of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old\nand upward.\n\n23:25. For David said: The Lord the God of Israel hath given rest to\nhis people, and a habitation in Jerusalem for ever.\n\n23:26. And it shall not be the office of the Levites to carry any more\nthe tabernacle, and all the vessels for the service thereof.\n\n23:27. So according to the last precepts of David, the sons of Levi are\nto be numbered from twenty years old and upward.\n\n23:28. And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the\nservice of the house of the Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers,\nand in the place of purification, and in the sanctuary, and in all the\nworks of the ministry of the temple of the Lord.\n\n23:29. And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition,\nand of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of\nthe fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.\n\n23:30. And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and\nto sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,\n\n23:31. As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the\nsabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities,\naccording to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing,\ncontinually before the Lord.\n\n23:32. And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the\nsons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of\nthe Lord.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 24\n\nThe divisions of the priests into four and twenty courses, to serve in\nthe temple: the chiefs of the Levites.\n\n24:1. Now these were the divisions of the sons of Aaron: The sons of\nAaron: Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.\n\n24:2. But Nadab and Abiu died before their father, and had no children:\nso Eleazar, and Ithamar did the office of the priesthood.\n\n24:3. And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc of the sons of\nEleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their\ncourses and ministry.\n\n24:4. And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the\nprincipal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so,\nthat there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their\nfamilies: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and\nhouses.\n\n24:5. And he divided both the families one with the other by lot: for\nthere were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the\nsons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.\n\n24:6. And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe a Levite, wrote them\ndown before the king and the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and\nAhimelech the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the priestly and\nLevitical families: one house, which was over the rest, of Eleazar: and\nanother house, which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.\n\n24:7. Now the first lot came forth to Joiarib, the second to Jedei,\n\n24:8. The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,\n\n24:9. The fifth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,\n\n24:10. The seventh to Accos, the eighth to Abia,\n\n24:11. The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,\n\n24:12. The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to Jacim,\n\n24:13. The thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth to Isbaab,\n\n24:14. The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,\n\n24:15. The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,\n\n24:16. The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twentieth to Hezechiel,\n\n24:17. The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,\n\n24:18. The three and twentieth to Dalaiau, the four and twentieth to\nMaaziau.\n\n24:19. These are their courses according to their ministries, to come\ninto the house of the Lord, and according to their manner under the\nhand of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of Israel had\ncommanded.\n\n24:20. Now of the rest of the sons of Levi, there was of the sons of\nAmram, Subael: and of the sons of Subael, Jehedeia.\n\n24:21. Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief Jesias.\n\n24:22. And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and the son of Salemoth Jahath:\n\n24:23. And his son Jeriau the first, Amarias the second, Jahaziel the\nthird, Jecmaan the fourth.\n\n24:24. The son of Oziel, Micha: the son of Micha, Samir.\n\n24:25. The brother of Micha, Jesia: and the son of Jesia, Zacharias.\n\n24:26. The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.\n\n24:27. The son also of Merari Oziau, and Soam, and Zacchur, and Hebri.\n\n24:28. And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons.\n\n24:29. And the son of Cis, Jeramael.\n\n24:30. The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and Jerimoth. These are the sons\nof Levi according to the houses of their families.\n\n24:31. And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of\nAaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes\nof the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger.\nThe lot divided all equally.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 25\n\nThe number and divisions of the musicians.\n\n25:1. Moreover David and the chief officers of the army separated for\nthe ministry the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Idithun: to\nprophesy with harps, and with psalteries, and with cymbals according to\ntheir number serving in their appointed office.\n\n25:2. Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and Joseph, and Nathania, and\nAsarela, sons of Asaph: under the hand of Asaph prophesying near the\nking.\n\n25:3. And of Idithun: the sons of Idithun, Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and\nHasabias, and Mathathias, six, under the hand of their father Idithun,\nwho prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the Lord.\n\n25:4. Of Heman also: the sons of Heman, Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel,\nSubuel, and Jerimoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi, and\nRomemthiezer, and Jesbacassa, Mellothi, Othir, Mahazioth:\n\n25:5. All these were the sons of Heman the seer of the king in the\nwords of God, to lift up the horn: and God gave to Heman fourteen sons\nand three daughters.\n\n25:6. All these under their father\u2019s hand were distributed to sing in\nthe temple of the Lord, with cymbals, and psalteries and harps, for the\nservice of the house of the Lord near the king: to wit, Asaph, and\nIdithun, and Heman.\n\n25:7. And the number of them with their brethren, that taught the song\nof the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred and eighty-eight.\n\n25:8. And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the\nyounger, the learned and the unlearned together.\n\n25:9. And the first lot came forth to Joseph, who was of Asaph. The\nsecond to Godolias, to him and his sons, and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:10. The third to Zachur, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:11. The fourth to Isari, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:12. The fifth to Nathania, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:13. The sixth to Bocciau, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:14. The seventh to Isreela, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:15. The eighth to Jesaia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:16. The ninth to Mathanaias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:17. The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:18. The eleventh to Azareel, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:19. The twelfth to Hasabia, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:20. The thirteenth to Subael, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:21. The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:22. The fifteenth to Jerimoth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:23. The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:24. The seventeenth to Jesbacassa, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:25. The eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:26. The nineteenth to Mellothi, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:27. The twentieth to Eliatha, to his sons and his brethren twelve.\n\n25:28. The one and twentieth to Othir, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:29. The two and twentieth to Geddelthi, to his sons and his brethren\ntwelve.\n\n25:30. The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, to his sons and his\nbrethren twelve.\n\n25:31. The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer, to his sons and his\nbrethren twelve.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 26\n\nThe divisions of the porters. Offices of other Levites.\n\n26:1. And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites Meselemia, the\nson of Core, of the sons of Asaph.\n\n26:2. The sons of Meselemia: Zacharias the firstborn, Jadihel the\nsecond, Zabadias the third, Jathanael the fourth,\n\n26:3. Elam the fifth, Johanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.\n\n26:4. And the sons of Obededom, Semeias the firstborn, Jozabad the\nsecond, Joaha the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fifth,\n\n26:5. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Phollathi the eighth: for\nthe Lord had blessed him.\n\n26:6. And to Semei his son were born sons, heads of their families: for\nthey were men of great valour.\n\n26:7. The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and Raphael, and Obed,\nElizabad, and his brethren most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias.\n\n26:8. All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and\ntheir brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.\n\n26:9. And the sons of Meselemia, and their brethren strong men, were\neighteen.\n\n26:10. And of Hosa, that is, of the sons of Merari: Semri the chief,\n(for he had not a firstborn, and therefore his father made him chief.)\n\nHe had not a firstborn.... That is, his firstborn was either dead or\nnot fit to be chief; and therefore he made Semri the chief.\n\n26:11. Helcias the second, Tabelias the third, Zacharias the fourth:\nall these the sons, and the brethren of Hosa, were thirteen.\n\n26:12. Among these were the divisions of the porters, so that the\nchiefs of the wards, as well as their brethren, always ministered in\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n26:13. And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their\nfamilies for every one of the gates.\n\n26:14. And the lot of the east fell to Selemias. But to his son\nZacharias, a very wise and learned man, the north gate fell by lot.\n\n26:15. And to Obededom and his sons that towards the south: in which\npart of the house was the council of the ancients.\n\n26:16. To Sephim, and Hosa towards the west, by the gate which leadeth\nto the way of the ascent: ward against ward.\n\n26:17. Now towards the east were six Levites: and towards the north\nfour a day: and towards the south likewise four a day: and where the\ncouncil was, two and two.\n\n26:18. In the cells also of the porters toward the west four in the\nway: and two at every cell.\n\n26:19. These are the divisions of the porters of the sons of Core, and\nof Merari.\n\n26:20. Now Achias was over the treasures of the house of God, and the\nholy vessels.\n\nHoly vessels.... Or vessels of the holy places, or of things holy. Vasa\nsanctorum.\n\n26:21. The sons of Ledan, the sons of Gersonni: of Ledan were heads of\nthe families, of Ledan, and Gersonni, Jehieli.\n\n26:22. The sons of Jehieli: Zathan and Joel, his brethren over the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord,\n\n26:23. With the Amramites, and Isaarites, and Hebronites, and\nOzielites.\n\n26:24. And Subael the son of Gersom, the son of Moses, was chief over\nthe treasures.\n\n26:25. His brethren also, Eliezer, whose son Rohobia, and his son\nIsaias, and his son Joram, and his son Zechri, and his son Selemith.\n\n26:26. Which Selemith and his brethren were over the treasures of the\nholy things, which king David, and the heads of families, and the\ncaptains over thousands and over hundreds, and the captains of the host\nhad dedicated,\n\n26:27. Out of the wars, and the spoils won in battles, which they had\nconsecrated to the building and furniture of the temple of the Lord.\n\n26:28. And all these things that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of\nCis, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had\nsanctified: and whosoever had sanctified those things, they were under\nthe hand of Selemith and his brethren.\n\n26:29. But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the\nbusiness abroad over Israel to teach them and judge them.\n\n26:30. And of the Hebronites Hasabias, and his brethren most able men,\na thousand seven hundred had the charge over Israel beyond the Jordan\nwestward, in all the works of the Lord, and for the service of the\nking.\n\n26:31. And the chief of the Hebronites was Jeria according to their\nfamilies and kindreds. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they\nwere numbered, and there were found most valiant men in Jazer Galaad,\n\n26:32. And his brethren of stronger age, two thousand seven hundred\nchiefs of families. And king David made them rulers over the Rubenites\nand the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses, for all the service of\nGod, and the king.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 27\n\nThe twelve captains for every month; the twelve princes of the tribes.\nDavid\u2019s several officers.\n\n27:1. Now the children of Israel according to their number, the heads\nof families, captains of thousands and of hundreds, and officers, that\nserved the king according to their companies, who came in and went out\nevery month in the year, under every chief were four and twenty\nthousand.\n\n27:2. Over the first company the first month Jesboam, the son of\nZabdiel was chief, and under him were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:3. Of the sons of Phares, the chief of all the captains in the host\nin the first month.\n\n27:4. The company of the second month was under Dudia, an Ahohite, and\nafter him was another named Macelloth, who commanded a part of the army\nof four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:5. And the captain of the third company for the third month, was\nBanaias the son of Joiada the priest: and in his division were four and\ntwenty thousand.\n\n27:6. This is that Banaias the most valiant among the thirty, and above\nthe thirty. And Amizabad his son commanded his company.\n\n27:7. The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab,\nand Zabadias his son after him: and in his company were four and twenty\nthousand.\n\n27:8. The fifth captain for the fifth month, was Samaoth a Jezerite:\nand his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:9. The sixth, for the sixth month, was Hira the son of Acces a\nThecuite: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:10. The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helles a Phallonite of\nthe sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:11. The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sobochai a Husathite of\nthe race of Zarahi: and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:12. The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer an Anathothite of\nthe sons of Jemini, and in his company were four and twenty thousand.\n\n27:13. The tenth, for the tenth month, was Marai, who was a\nNetophathite of the race of Zarai: and in his company were four and\ntwenty thousand.\n\n27:14. The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Banaias, a\nPharathonite of the sons of Ephraim: and in his company were four and\ntwenty thousand.\n\n27:15. The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Holdai a Netophathite,\nof the race of Gothoniel: and in his company were four and twenty\nthousand.\n\n27:16. Now the chiefs over the tribes of Israel were these: over the\nRubenites, Eliezer the son of Zechri was ruler: over the Simeonites,\nSaphatias the son of Maacha:\n\n27:17. Over the Levites, Hasabias the son of Camuel: over the\nAaronites, Sadoc:\n\n27:18. Over Juda, Eliu the brother of David over Issachar, Amri the son\nof Michael:\n\n27:19. Over the Zabulonites, Jesmaias the son of Adias: over the\nNephtalites, Jerimoth the son of Ozriel:\n\n27:20. Over the sons of Ephraim, Osee the son of Ozaziu: over the half\ntribe of Manasses, Joel the son of Phadaia:\n\n27:21. And over the half tribe of Manasses in Galaad, Jaddo the son of\nZacharias: and over Benjamin, Jasiel the son of Abner.\n\n27:22. And over Dan, Ezrihel the son of Jeroham: these were the princes\nof the children of Israel.\n\n27:23. But David would not number them from twenty years old and under:\nbecause the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars\nof heaven.\n\n27:24. Joab the son of Sarvia began to number, but he finished not:\nbecause upon this there fell wrath upon Israel: and therefore the\nnumber of them that were numbered, was not registered in the chronicles\nof king David.\n\n27:25. And over the king\u2019s treasures was Azmoth the son of Adiel: and\nover those stores which were in the cities, and in the villages, and,\nin the castles, was Jonathan the son of Ozias.\n\n27:26. And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground,\nwas Ezri the son of Chelub:\n\n27:27. And over the dressers of the vine yards, was Semeias a\nRomathite: and over the wine cellars, Zabdias an Aphonite.\n\n27:28. And over the oliveyards and the fig groves, which were in the\nplains, was Balanam a Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.\n\n27:29. And over the herds that fed in Saron, was Setrai a Saronite: and\nover the oxen in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adli:\n\n27:30. And over the camels, Ubil an Ishmahelite and over the asses,\nJadias a Meronathite:\n\n27:31. And over the sheep Jaziz an Agarene. All these were the rulers\nof the substance of king David.\n\n27:32. And Jonathan David\u2019s uncle, a counsellor, a wise and learned\nman: he and Jahiel the son of Hachamoni were with the king\u2019s sons.\n\n27:33. And Achitophel was the king\u2019s counsellor, and Chusai the\nArachite, the king\u2019s friend.\n\n27:34. And after Achitophel was Joiada the son of Banaias, and\nAbiathar. And the general of the king\u2019s army was Joab.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 28\n\nDavid\u2019s speech, in a solemn assembly: his exhortation to Solomon. He\ngiveth him a pattern of the temple.\n\n28:1. And David assembled all the chief men of Israel, the princes of\nthe tribes, and the captains of the companies, who waited on the king:\nand the captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and them who had\nthe charge over the substance and possessions of the king, and his sons\nwith the officers of the court, and the men of power, and all the\nbravest of the army at Jerusalem.\n\n28:2. And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren\nand my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark\nof the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all\nthings for the building.\n\n28:3. And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name:\nbecause thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.\n\n28:4. But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my\nfather, to be king over Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose the\nprinces: and of the house of Juda, my father\u2019s house: and among the\nsons of my father, it pleased him to choose me king over all Israel.\n\n28:5. And among my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath\nchosen Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the\nLord over Israel.\n\n28:6. And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall build my house, and my\ncourts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be a father to\nhim.\n\n28:7. And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he continue to keep\nmy commandments, and my judgments, as at this day.\n\n28:8. Now then before all the assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our\nGod, keep ye, and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God: that\nyou may possess the good land, and may leave it to your children after\nyou for ever.\n\n28:9. And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve\nhim with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth\nall hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek\nhim, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee\noff for ever.\n\n28:10. Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the\nhouse of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it.\n\n28:11. And David gave to Solomon his son a description of the porch,\nand of the temple, and of the treasures, and of the upper floor, and of\nthe inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy seat,\n\n28:12. As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of\nthe chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord,\nand for the treasures of the consecrated things,\n\n28:13. And of the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, for all\nthe works of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of the\nservice of the temple of the Lord.\n\n28:14. Gold by weight for every vessel for the ministry. And silver by\nweight according to the diversity of the vessels and uses.\n\n28:15. He gave also gold for the golden candlesticks, and their lamps,\naccording to the dimensions of every candlestick, and the lamps\nthereof. In like manner also he gave silver by weight for the silver\ncandlesticks, and for their lamps according to the diversity of the\ndimensions of them.\n\n28:16. He gave also gold for the tables of proposition, according to\nthe diversity of the tables: in like manner also silver for other\ntables of silver.\n\n28:17. For fleshhooks also, and bowls, and censers of fine gold, and\nfor little lions of gold, according to the measure he gave by weight,\nfor every lion. In like manner also for lions of silver he set aside a\ndifferent weight of silver.\n\n28:18. And for the altar of incense, he gave the purest gold: and to\nmake the likeness of the chariot of the cherubims spreading their\nwings, and covering the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n28:19. All these things, said he, came to me written by the hand of the\nLord that I might understand all the works of the pattern.\n\n28:20. And David said to Solomon his son: Act like a man, and take\ncourage, and do: fear not, and be not dismayed: for the Lord my God\nwill be with thee, and will not leave thee, nor forsake thee, till thou\nhast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.\n\n28:21. Behold the courses of the priests and the Levites, for every\nministry of the house of the Lord, stand by thee, and are ready, and\nboth the princes, and the people know how to execute all thy\ncommandments.\n\n\n1 Paralipomenon Chapter 29\n\nDavid by word and example encourageth the princes to contribute\nliberally to the building of the temple. His thanksgiving, prayer, and\nsacrifices: his death.\n\n29:1. And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom\nalone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is\ngreat, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.\n\n29:2. And I with all my ability have prepared the expenses for the\nhouse of my God. Gold for vessels of gold, and silver for vessels of\nsilver, brass for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for\nthings of wood: and onyx stones, and stones like alabaster, and of\ndivers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble of Paros\nin great abundance.\n\n29:3. Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house\nof my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple\nof my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.\n\n29:4. Three thousand talents of gold of the gold of Ophir: and seven\nthousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.\n\n29:5. And gold for wheresoever there is need of gold: and silver for\nwheresoever there is need of silver, for the works to be made by the\nhands of the artificers: now if any man is willing to offer, let him\nfill his hand to day, and offer what he pleaseth to the Lord.\n\n29:6. Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of\nIsrael and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the\noverseers of the king\u2019s possessions promised,\n\n29:7. And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord, of gold,\nfive thousand talents, and ten thousand solids: of silver ten thousand\ntalents: and of brass eighteen thousand talents: and of iron a hundred\nthousand talents.\n\n29:8. And all they that had stones, gave them to the treasures of the\nhouse of the Lord, by the hand of Jahiel the Gersonite.\n\n29:9. And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings\nwillingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart:\nand David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.\n\n29:10. And he blessed the Lord before all the multitude, and he said:\nBlessed art thou, O Lord the God of Israel, our father from eternity to\neternity.\n\n29:11. Thine, O Lord, is magnificence, and power, and glory, and\nvictory: and to thee is praise: for all that is in heaven, and in\nearth, is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all\nprinces.\n\n29:12. Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou hast dominion over\nall, in thy hand is power and might: in thy hand greatness, and the\nempire of all things.\n\n29:13. Now therefore our God we give thanks to thee, and we praise thy\nglorious name.\n\n29:14. Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to\npromise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given\nthee what we received of thy hand.\n\n29:15. For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all\nour fathers. Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.\n\n29:16. O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build\nthee a house for thy holy name, is from thy hand, and all things are\nthine.\n\n29:17. I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity,\nwherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered\nall these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are\nhere present, offer thee their offerings.\n\n29:18. O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel our fathers,\nkeep for ever this will of their heart, and let this mind remain always\nfor the worship of thee.\n\n29:19. And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy\ncommandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things:\nand build the house, for which I have provided the charges.\n\n29:20. And David commanded all the assembly: Bless ye the Lord our God.\nAnd all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and\nthey bowed themselves and worshipped God, and then the king.\n\n29:21. And they sacrificed victims to the Lord: and they offered\nholocausts the next day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a\nthousand lambs, with their libations, and with every thing prescribed\nmost abundantly for all Israel.\n\n29:22. And they ate, and drank before the Lord that day with great joy.\nAnd they anointed the second time Solomon the son of David. And they\nanointed him to the Lord to be prince, and Sadoc to be high priest.\n\n29:23. And Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of\nDavid his father, and he pleased all: and all Israel obeyed him.\n\n29:24. And all the princes, and men of power, and all the sons of king\nDavid gave their hand, and were subject to Solomon the king.\n\n29:25. And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel: and gave him the\nglory of a reign, such as no king of Israel had before him.\n\n29:26. So David the son of Isai reigned over all Israel.\n\n29:27. And the days that he reigned over Israel, were forty years: in\nHebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem three and thirty years.\n\n29:28. And he died in a good age, full of days, and riches, and glory.\nAnd Solomon his son reigned in his stead.\n\n29:29. Now the acts of king David first and last are written in the\nbook of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in\nthe book of Gad the seer:\n\n29:30. And of all his reign, and his valour, and of the times that\npassed under him, either in Israel, or in all the kingdoms of the\ncountries.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 1\n\nSolomon offereth sacrifices at Gabaon. His choice of wisdom which God\ngiveth him.\n\n1:1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and\nthe Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a high degree.\n\n1:2. And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of\nthousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of all\nIsrael, and the heads of the families:\n\n1:3. And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon,\nwhere was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the\nservant of God made, in the wilderness.\n\n1:4. For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the\nplace, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a\ntabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.\n\n1:5. And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of\nHur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon\nand all the assembly sought it:\n\n1:6. And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before the\ntabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a thousand\nvictims.\n\n1:7. And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou\nwilt that I should give thee.\n\n1:8. And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my\nfather David: and hast made me king in his stead.\n\n1:9. Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou\nhast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy\ngreat people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.\n\n1:10. Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before\nthy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so\ngreat?\n\n1:11. And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy\nheart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the\nlives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked\nwisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have\nmade thee king,\n\n1:12. Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee\nriches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee,\nnor after thee, shall be like thee.\n\n1:13. Then Solomon came from the high place of Gabaon to Jerusalem\nbefore the tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned over Israel.\n\n1:14. And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a\nthousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he\nplaced them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in\nJerusalem.\n\n1:15. And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones,\nand cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great\nmultitude.\n\n1:16. And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the\nking\u2019s merchants, who went, and bought at a price,\n\n1:17. A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a\nhorse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all\nthe kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 2\n\nSolomon\u2019s embassy to Hiram, who sends him a skilful workman and timber.\n\n2:1. And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord,\nand a palace for himself.\n\n2:2. And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and\neighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six\nhundred to oversee them.\n\n2:3. He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with\nDavid my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in\nwhich he dwelt:\n\n2:4. So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my\nGod, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with\naromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and\nfor the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on\nthe new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which\nare commanded for Israel.\n\n2:5. For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is\ngreat above all gods.\n\n2:6. Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and\nthe heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I that I should be\nable to build him a house? but to this end only, that incense may be\nburnt before him.\n\n2:7. Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold,\nand in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in\nblue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I\nhave with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.\n\n2:8. Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus:\nfor I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus,\nand my servants shall be with thy servants,\n\n2:9. To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to\nbuild, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.\n\n2:10. And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the\ntrees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores\nof barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand\nmeasures of oil.\n\n2:11. And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because\nthe Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over\nthem.\n\n2:12. And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who\nmade heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing\nson, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the\nLord, and a palace for himself.\n\n2:13. I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most\nskilful man,\n\n2:14. The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a\nTyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and\nin iron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also, and violet, and\nsilk and scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and to\ndevise ingeniously all that there may be need of in the work with thy\nartificers, and with the artificers of my lord David thy father.\n\n2:15. The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the wine,\nwhich thou, my lord, hast promised, send to thy servants.\n\n2:16. And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt\nwant, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe: and it will be\nthy part to bring them thence to Jerusalem.\n\n2:17. And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel,\nafter the numbering which David his father had made, and they were\nfound a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.\n\n2:18. And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their\nshoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and\nthree thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the\npeople.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 3\n\nThe plan and ornaments of the temple: the cherubims, the veil, and the\npillars.\n\n3:1. And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in\nmount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place\nwhich David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.\n\n3:2. And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of\nhis reign.\n\n3:3. Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the\nhouse of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth\ntwenty cubits.\n\n3:4. And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according\nto the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the\nheight was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with\npure gold.\n\n3:5. And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid\nthem with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm\ntrees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.\n\n3:6. He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble,\nof great beauty.\n\n3:7. And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and\nthe beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of\nthe finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.\n\n3:8. He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it\naccording to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth\nof it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of\ngold, amounting to about six hundred talents.\n\n3:9. He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty\nsicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.\n\n3:10. He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of\nimage work: and he overlaid them with gold.\n\n3:11. The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that\none wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house:\nand the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the\nother cherub.\n\n3:12. In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits\nlong, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long,\nand touched the wing of the other cherub.\n\n3:13. So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were\nextended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their\nfaces were turned toward the house without.\n\n3:14. He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and\nwrought in it cherubims.\n\n3:15. He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which\nwere five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.\n\n3:16. He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put\nthem on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he\nput between the little chains.\n\n3:17. These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the\nright hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right\nhand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 4\n\nThe altar of brass, the molten sea upon twelve oxen, the ten loaves,\nthe candlesticks and other vessels and ornaments of the temple.\n\n4:1. He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty\ncubits broad, and ten cubits high.\n\n4:2. Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in\ncompass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed\nit round about.\n\n4:3. And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain\nengravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea,\nas it were with two rows.\n\n4:4. And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve\noxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward\nthe west: and other three toward the south, and the other three that\nremained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder\nparts of the oxen were inward under the sea.\n\n4:5. Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was\nlike the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three\nthousand measures.\n\n4:6. He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and\nfive on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer\nfor holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.\n\n4:7. And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which\nthey were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five\non the right hand, and five on the left.\n\n4:8. Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on\nthe right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.\n\n4:9. He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors\nin the hall, which he covered with brass.\n\n4:10. And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward\nthe south.\n\n4:11. And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished\nall the king\u2019s work in the house of God:\n\n4:12. That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the\nchapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.\n\n4:13. And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so\nthat two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the\npommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.\n\n4:14. He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:\n\n4:15. One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;\n\n4:16. And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did\nHiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the\nfinest brass.\n\n4:17. In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay\nground between Sochot and Saredatha.\n\n4:18. And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight\nof the brass was not known.\n\n4:19. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the\ngolden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of\nproposition,\n\n4:20. The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give\nlight before the oracle, according to the manner.\n\n4:21. And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made\nof the finest gold.\n\n4:22. The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the\nbowls, and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the\ninner temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the\ntemple without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which\nSolomon made in the house of the Lord.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 5\n\nThe ark is brought with great solemnity into the temple: the temple is\nfilled with the glory of God.\n\n5:1. Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had\nvowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the\ntreasures of the house of God.\n\n5:2. And after this he gathered together the ancients of Israel and all\nthe princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families, of the\nchildren of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of\nthe Lord out of the city of David, which is Sion.\n\n5:3. And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of\nthe seventh month.\n\n5:4. And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up\nthe ark,\n\n5:5. And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the\ntabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the\nsanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.\n\n5:6. And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel and all that were\ngathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without\nnumber: so great was the multitude of the victims.\n\n5:7. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord\ninto its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of\nholies under the wings of the cherubims:\n\n5:8. So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which\nthe ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.\n\n5:9. Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because\nthey were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man\nwere a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there\nunto this day.\n\n5:10. And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which\nMoses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of\nIsrael, at their coming out of Egypt.\n\n5:11. Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, for all the\npriests that could be found there, were sanctified: and as yet at that\ntime the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among\nthem,\n\n5:12. Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both they that\nwere under Asaph, and they that were under Heman, and they that were\nunder Idithun, with their sons, and their brethren, clothed with fine\nlinen, sounded with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, standing on the\neast side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests,\nsounding with trumpets.\n\n5:13. So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice,\nand cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments,\nand lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so\nthat when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the\nLord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God\nwas filled with a cloud.\n\n5:14. Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud.\nFor the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 6\n\nSolomon\u2019s blessings and prayer.\n\n6:1. Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a\ncloud.\n\n6:2. But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there\nfor ever.\n\n6:3. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of\nIsrael for all the multitude stood attentive and he said:\n\n6:4. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath accomplished in\ndeed that which he spoke to David my father, saying:\n\n6:5. From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I\nchose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built\nin it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my\npeople Israel.\n\n6:6. But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose\nDavid to set him over my people Israel.\n\n6:7. And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the\nname of the Lord the God of Israel,\n\n6:8. The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a\nhouse to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:\n\n6:9. But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come\nout of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n6:10. The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and\nI am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne\nof Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of\nthe Lord God of Israel.\n\n6:11. And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of the\nLord, which he made with the children of Israel.\n\n6:12. And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the\nmultitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.\n\n6:13. For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the\nmidst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad,\nand three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the\npresence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands\ntowards heaven,\n\n6:14. He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in\nheaven nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants,\nthat walk before thee with all their hearts:\n\n6:15. Who hast performed to thy servant David my father all that thou\nhast promised him: and hast accomplished in fact, what thou hast spoken\nwith thy mouth, as also the present time proveth.\n\n6:16. Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfil to thy servant David my\nfather, whatsoever thou hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail\nthee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of Israel: yet so that\nthy children take heed to their ways, and walk in my law, as thou hast\nwalked before me.\n\n6:17. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established which\nthou hast spoken to thy servant David.\n\n6:18. Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth?\nIf heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less\nthis house, which I have built?\n\n6:19. But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the\nprayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest\nhear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.\n\n6:20. That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night,\nupon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be\ncalled upon,\n\n6:21. And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth\nin it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people\nIsrael. Whosoever shall pray in this place, hear thou from thy dwelling\nplace, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.\n\n6:22. If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against\nhim, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:\n\n6:23. Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to\nrequite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and\nto revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.\n\n6:24. If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will\nsin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon\nthy name, and pray to thee in this place,\n\n6:25. Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people\nIsrael and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and\ntheir fathers.\n\n6:26. If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of\nthe sin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and\nconfess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost\nafflict them,\n\n6:27. Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy\nservants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which\nthey may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy\npeople to possess.\n\n6:28. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or\nmildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the\ncountry, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall\nbe upon them:\n\n6:29. Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and\ninfirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,\n\n6:30. Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive,\nand render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him\nto have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children\nof men:\n\n6:31. That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that\nthey live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our\nfathers.\n\n6:32. If the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, come from\na far country, for the sake of thy great name, and thy strong hand, and\nthy stretched out arm, and adore in this place:\n\n6:33. Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that\nwhich that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of\nthe earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel,\nand may know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have\nbuilt.\n\n6:34. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by the way\nthat thou shalt send them, and adore thee towards the way of this city,\nwhich thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:\n\n6:35. Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their\nsupplications, and revenge them.\n\n6:36. And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth\nnot) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies,\nand they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at\nhand,\n\n6:37. And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they\nwere led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their\ncaptivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt\nunjustly:\n\n6:38. And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul,\nin the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore\nthee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers,\nand of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have\nbuilt to thy name:\n\n6:39. Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling\nplace, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although\nthey have sinned:\n\n6:40. For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and\nlet thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.\n\n6:41. Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and\nthe ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation,\nand thy saints rejoice in good things.\n\n6:42. O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the\nmercies of David thy servant.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 7\n\nFire from heaven consumeth the sacrifices. The solemnity of the\ndedication of the temple. God signifieth his having heard Solomon\u2019s\nprayer: yet so if he continue to serve him.\n\n7:1. And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, fire came down\nfrom heaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the\nmajesty of the Lord filled the house.\n\n7:2. Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord,\nbecause the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:3. Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and\nthe glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces\nto the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the\nLord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n7:4. And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the\nLord.\n\n7:5. And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen,\nand one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the\npeople dedicated the house of God.\n\n7:6. And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites with the\ninstruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to praise the\nLord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of David\nby their ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them,\nand all Israel stood.\n\n7:7. Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple\nof the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the\npeace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not\nhold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:\n\n7:8. And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days, and all\nIsrael with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Emath\nto the torrent of Egypt.\n\n7:9. And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had\nkept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the\nsolemnity seven days.\n\n7:10. So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent\naway the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that\nthe Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his\npeople.\n\n7:11. And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king\u2019s house,\nand all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the\nLord, and in his own house, and he prospered.\n\n7:12. And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy\nprayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of\nsacrifice.\n\n7:13. If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders,\nand command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence\namong my people:\n\n7:14. And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted,\nshall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for\ntheir most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive\ntheir sins and will heal their land.\n\n7:15. My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer\nof him that shall pray in this place.\n\n7:16. For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name\nmay be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there\nperpetually.\n\n7:17. And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father\nwalked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my\njustices and my judgments:\n\n7:18. I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised to David\nthy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be\nruler in Israel.\n\n7:19. But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my\ncommandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve\nstrange gods, and adore them,\n\n7:20. I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given\nyou: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast\naway from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example\namong all nations.\n\n7:21. And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and\nthey shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this\nland, and to this house?\n\n7:22. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of\ntheir fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold\non strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all\nthese evils are come upon them.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 8\n\nSolomon\u2019s buildings and other acts.\n\n8:1. And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house\nof the Lord and his own house:\n\n8:2. He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused\nthe children of Israel to dwell there.\n\n8:3. He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.\n\n8:4. And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong\ncities in Emath.\n\n8:5. And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether,\nwalled cities with gates and bars and locks.\n\n8:6. Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon\u2019s, and\nall the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. All\nthat Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in\nLibanus, and in all the land of his dominion.\n\n8:7. All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites,\nand the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not\nof the stock of Israel:\n\n8:8. Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of\nIsrael had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this\nday.\n\n8:9. But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king\u2019s\nworks: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his\nchariots and horsemen.\n\n8:10. And all the chief captains of king Solomon\u2019s army were two\nhundred and fifty, who taught the people.\n\n8:11. And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to\nthe house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall\nnot dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified:\nbecause the ark of the Lord came into it.\n\n8:12. Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the\nLord which he had built before the porch,\n\n8:13. That every day an offering might be made on it according to the\nordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the\nfestival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of\nunleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of\ntabernacles.\n\n8:14. And he appointed according to the order of David his father the\noffices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their\norder to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the\nduty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate:\nfor so David the man of God had commanded.\n\n8:15. And the priests and Levites departed not from the king\u2019s\ncommandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the\nkeeping of the treasures.\n\n8:16. Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded\nthe house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.\n\n8:17. Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of\nthe Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.\n\n8:18. And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and\nskilful mariners, and they went with Solomon\u2019s servants to Ophir, and\nthey took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it\nto king Solomon.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 9\n\nThe queen of Saba admireth the wisdom of Solomon. His riches and glory.\nHis death.\n\n9:1. And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came\nto try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and\ncamels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious\nstones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that\nwas in her heart.\n\n9:2. And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and there was\nnot any thing that he did not make clear unto her.\n\n9:3. And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon,\nand the house which he had built,\n\n9:4. And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his\nservants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his\ncupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered\nin the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so\nastonished.\n\n9:5. And she said to the king: The word is true which I heard in my\ncountry of thy virtues and wisdom.\n\n9:6. I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had\nseen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told\nme: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues.\n\n9:7. Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always\nbefore thee, and hear thy wisdom.\n\n9:8. Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on\nhis throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and\nwill preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them,\nto do judgment and justice.\n\n9:9. And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and\nspices in great abundance, and most precious stones: there were no such\nspices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.\n\n9:10. And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of Solomon,\nbrought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most precious stones:\n\n9:11. And the king made of the thyine trees stairs in the house of the\nLord, and in the king\u2019s house, and harps and psalteries for the singing\nmen: never were there seen such trees in the land of Juda.\n\n9:12. And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired,\nand that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him: so\nshe returned, and went to her own country with her servants.\n\n9:13. And the weight of the gold, that was brought to Solomon every\nyear, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:\n\n9:14. Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the\nmerchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and\nthe lords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon.\n\n9:15. And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of\nsix hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:\n\n9:16. And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold,\nwhich went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in\nthe armoury, which was compassed with a wood.\n\n9:17. The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with\npure gold.\n\n9:18. And six steps to go up to the throne, and a footstool of gold,\nand two arms one on either side, and two lions standing by the arms:\n\n9:19. Moreover twelve other little lions standing upon the steps on\nboth sides: there was not such a throne in any kingdom.\n\n9:20. And all the vessels of the king\u2019s table were of gold, and the\nvessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold.\nFor no account was made of silver in those days.\n\n9:21. For the king\u2019s ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram,\nonce in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and\nivory, and apes, and peacocks.\n\n9:22. And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for\nriches and glory.\n\n9:23. And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of\nSolomon, that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his\nheart.\n\n9:24. And every year they brought him presents, vessels of silver and\nof gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.\n\n9:25. And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and twelve\nthousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of\nthe chariots and where the king was in Jerusalem.\n\n9:26. And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river\nEuphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.\n\n9:27. And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and\ncedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.\n\n9:28. And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of all\ncountries.\n\n9:29. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are written in\nthe words of Nathan the prophet, and in the books of Ahias the\nSilonite, and in the vision of Addo the seer, against Jeroboam the son\nof Nabat.\n\n9:30. And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.\n\n9:31. And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of\nDavid: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 10\n\nRoboam answereth the people roughly: upon which ten tribes revolt.\n\n10:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled,\nto make him king.\n\n10:2. And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was\nfled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.\n\n10:3. And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they\nspoke to Roboam, saying:\n\n10:4. Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern\nus with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy\nservitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.\n\n10:5. And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when\nthe people were gone,\n\n10:6. He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his\nfather Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to\nme, that I may answer the people?\n\n10:7. And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them\nwith kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.\n\n10:8. But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat\nwith the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his\ntrain.\n\n10:9. And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I\nanswer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father\nlaid upon us?\n\n10:10. But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in\npleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to\nthee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou\nanswer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.\n\n10:11. My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight\nto it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with\nscorpions.\n\n10:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as\nhe commanded them.\n\n10:13. And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the\nancients.\n\n10:14. And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father\nlaid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat\nyou with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.\n\n10:15. And he condescended not to the people\u2019s requests: for it was the\nwill of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by\nthe hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.\n\n10:16. And all the people upon the king\u2019s speaking roughly, said thus\nunto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai.\nReturn to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David feed thy own\nhouse. And Israel went away to their dwellings.\n\n10:17. But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the\ncities of Juda.\n\n10:18. And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the\nchildren of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste\nto get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.\n\n10:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 11\n\nRoboam\u2019s reign. His kingdom is strengthened.\n\n11:1. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the house\nof Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men\nand warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to\nhim.\n\n11:2. And the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God, saying:\n\n11:3. Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all\nIsrael, in Juda and Benjamin:\n\n11:4. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your\nbrethren: let every man return to his own house, for by my will this\nthing has been done. And when they heard the word of the Lord, they\nreturned, and did not go against Jeroboam,\n\n11:5. And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.\n\n11:6. And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Thecue,\n\n11:7. And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,\n\n11:8. And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,\n\n11:9. And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,\n\n11:10. Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Juda and\nBenjamin, well fenced cities.\n\n11:11. And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them\ngovernors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine.\n\n11:12. Moreover in every city he made an armoury of shields and spears,\nand he fortified them with great diligence, and he reigned over Juda,\nand Benjamin,\n\n11:13. And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to\nhim out of all their seats,\n\n11:14. Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over\nto Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them\noff, from executing the priestly office to the Lord.\n\n11:15. And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the\ndevils, and for the calves which he had made.\n\n11:16. Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their\nheart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to\nsacrifice their victims before the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n11:17. And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and established\nRoboam the son of Solomon for three years: for they walked in the ways\nof David and of Solomon, only three years.\n\n11:18. And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the\nson of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.\n\n11:19. And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somorias, and Zoom.\n\n11:20. And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who\nbore him Abia, and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.\n\n11:21. And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his\nwives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore\nconcubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore\ndaughters.\n\n11:22. But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to be the\nchief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him king,\n\n11:23. Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all\nthe countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities:\nand he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 12\n\nRoboam for his sins is delivered up into the hands of the king of\nEgypt: who carrieth away all the treasures of the temple.\n\n12:1. And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he\nforsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.\n\n12:2. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt\ncame up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)\n\n12:3. With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen:\nand the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to\nwit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.\n\n12:4. And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.\n\n12:5. And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of\nJuda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and\nhe said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left\nyou in the hand of Sesac.\n\n12:6. And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a\nconsternation, said: The Lord is just.\n\n12:7. And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the\nLord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not\ndestroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall\nnot fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.\n\n12:8. But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference\nbetween my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.\n\n12:9. So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king\u2019s house, and he\ntook all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made,\n\n12:10. Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them\nto the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the\npalace.\n\n12:11. And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the\nshieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their\narmoury.\n\n12:12. But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned\naway from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda\nthere were found good works.\n\n12:13. King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and\nreigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out\nof all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name\nof his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.\n\n12:14. But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.\n\n12:15. Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books\nof Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded:\nand there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.\n\n12:16. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 13\n\nAbia\u2019s reign: his victory over Jeroboam.\n\n13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.\n\n13:2. Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother\u2019s name was\nMichaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia\nand Jeroboam.\n\nMichaia.... Alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom,\nor Abessalom, and Uriel.\n\n13:3. And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred\nthousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array\nagainst him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most\nvaliant for war.\n\n13:4. And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and\nsaid: Hear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:\n\n13:5. Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the\nkingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of\nsalt?\n\nA covenant of salt.... That is, a firm and perpetual covenant. See Num.\n18.19.\n\n13:6. And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the son of\nDavid, rose up: and rebelled against his lord.\n\n13:7. And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial:\nand they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was\nunexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.\n\n13:8. And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the\nLord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great\nmultitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you\nfor gods.\n\n13:9. And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron,\nand the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of\nthe earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of\nthe herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no\ngods.\n\n13:10. But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests\nwho minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in\ntheir order.\n\n13:11. And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and\nevening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and\nthe loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us\nthe golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in\nthe evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you\nhave forsaken.\n\n13:12. Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who\nsound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel,\nfight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good\nfor you.\n\n13:13. While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to\ncome about behind him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he\nencompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with his army.\n\n13:14. And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming upon them\nboth before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests\nbegan to sound with the trumpets.\n\n13:15. And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they shouted,\nGod terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia and\nJuda.\n\n13:16. And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord\ndelivered them into their hand.\n\n13:17. And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and\nthere fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.\n\n13:18. And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and\nthe children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had\ntrusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n13:19. And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,\nBethel and her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also\nand her daughters.\n\n13:20. And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of\nAbia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.\n\n13:21. But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen\nwives: and begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.\n\n13:22. And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are\nwritten diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 14\n\nThe reign of Asa: his victory over the Ethiopians.\n\n14:1. And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land\nwas quiet ten years.\n\n14:2. And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his\nGod, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high\nplaces.\n\n14:3. And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.\n\n14:4. And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers,\nand to do the law, and all the commandments.\n\n14:5. And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and\ntemples, and reigned in peace.\n\n14:6. He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was quiet, and there\nhad no wars risen in his time, the Lord giving peace.\n\n14:7. And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them\nwith walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while\nall is quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our\nfathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and\nthere was no hinderance in building.\n\n14:8. And Asa had in his army of men that bore shields and spears of\nJuda three hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and drew\nbows, two hundred and eighty thousand, all these were most valiant men.\n\n14:9. And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten\nhundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as\nfar as Maresa.\n\n14:10. And Asa went out to meet him, and set his army in array for\nbattle in the vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa:\n\n14:11. And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no\ndifference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help\nus, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are\ncome against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man\nprevail against thee.\n\n14:12. And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and\nthe Ethiopians fled.\n\n14:13. And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to\nGerara: and the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord\nslew them, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed.\nAnd they took abundance of spoils,\n\n14:14. And they took all the cities round about Gerara: for a great\nfear was come upon all men: and they pillaged the cities, and carried\noff much booty.\n\n14:15. And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number\nof cattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 15\n\nThe prophecy of Azarias. Asa\u2019s covenant with God. He deposeth his\nmother.\n\n15:1. And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,\n\n15:2. And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa,\nand all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been\nwith him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he\nwill forsake you.\n\n15:3. And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and\nwithout a priest a teacher, and without the law.\n\n15:4. And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God\nof Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.\n\n15:5. At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and\ncometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the\nearth.\n\n15:6. For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for\nthe Lord will trouble them with all distress.\n\n15:7. Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be\nweakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.\n\n15:8. And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the\nson of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out\nof all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of\nmount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the\nLord, which was before the porch of the Lord.\n\n15:9. And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers\nwith them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over\nto him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.\n\n15:10. And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the\nfifteenth year of the reign of Asa,\n\n15:11. They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of\nthe prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand\nrams.\n\n15:12. And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they\nshould seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and\nwith all their soul.\n\n15:13. And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel,\nlet him die, whether little or great, man or woman.\n\n15:14. And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful\nshouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,\n\n15:15. All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart\nthey swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found\nhim, and the Lord gave them rest round about.\n\n15:16. Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal\nauthority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he\nentirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the\ntorrent Cedron.\n\n15:17. But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of\nAsa was perfect all his days.\n\n15:18. And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had\nvowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and\nvessels of divers uses.\n\n15:19. And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the\nkingdom of Asa.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 16\n\nAsa is reproved for seeking help from the Syrians: his last acts and\ndeath.\n\n16:1. And in the six and thirtieth year of his kingdom, Baasa the king\nof Israel came up against Juda, and built a wall about Rama, that no\none might safely go out or come in of the kingdom of Asa.\n\nSix and thirtieth year of his kingdom.... That is, of the kingdom of\nJuda, taking the date of it from the beginning of the reign of Reboam.\n\n16:2. Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the\nhouse of the Lord, and of the king\u2019s treasures, and sent to Benadad\nking of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:\n\n16:3. There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my\nfather and thy father, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that\nthou mayst break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, and make him\ndepart from me.\n\n16:4. And when Benadad heard this, he sent the captains of his armies\nagainst the cities of Israel: and they took Ahion, and Dan, and\nAbelmaim, and all the walled cities of Nephtali.\n\n16:5. And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and\ninterrupted his work.\n\n16:6. Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the\nstones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he\nbuilt with them Gabaa, and Maspha.\n\n16:7. At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and\nsaid to him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and\nnot in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria\nescaped out of thy hand.\n\n16:8. Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in\nchariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because\nthou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?\n\n16:9. For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength\nto those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast\ndone foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise\nagainst thee.\n\n16:10. And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in\nprison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to\ndeath many of the people at that time.\n\n16:11. But the works of Asa the first and last are written in the book\nof the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n16:12. And Asa fell sick in the nine and thirtieth year of his reign,\nof a most violent pain in his feet, and yet in his illness he did not\nseek the Lord, but rather trusted in the skill of physicians.\n\n16:13. And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and\nfortieth year of his reign.\n\n16:14. And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for\nhimself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of\nspices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the\nperfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 17\n\nJosaphat\u2019s reign: his care for the instruction of his people: his\nnumerous forces.\n\n17:1. And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong\nagainst Israel.\n\n17:2. And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of\nJuda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of\nEphraim, which Asa his father had taken.\n\n17:3. And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first\nways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,\n\n17:4. But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and\nnot according to the sins of Israel.\n\n17:5. And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda\nbrought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much\nglory.\n\n17:6. And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he\ntook away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.\n\n17:7. And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes\nBenhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to\nteach in the cities of Juda:\n\n17:8. And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias,\nand Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and\nThobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests.\n\n17:9. And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of\nthe law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and\ninstructed the people.\n\n17:10. And the fear of the Lord came upon all the kingdoms of the lands\nthat were round about Juda, and they durst not make war against\nJosaphat.\n\n17:11. The Philistines also brought presents to Josaphat, and tribute\nin silver, and the Arabians brought him cattle, seven thousand seven\nhundred rams, and as many he goats.\n\n17:12. And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in\nJuda houses like towers, and walled cities.\n\n17:13. And he prepared many works in the cities of Juda: and he had\nwarriors, and valiant men in Jerusalem.\n\n17:14. Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every\none: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three\nhundred thousand most valiant men.\n\n17:15. After him Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and\neighty thousand.\n\n17:16. And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the\nLord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.\n\n17:17. After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred\nthousand armed with bow and shield.\n\n17:18. After him also was Jozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty\nthousand ready for war.\n\n17:19. All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he\nhad put in the walled cities, in all Juda.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 18\n\nJosaphat accompanies Achab in his expedition against Ramoth; where\nAchab is slain, as Micheas had foretold.\n\n18:1. Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by\naffinity to Achab.\n\n18:2. And he went down to him after some years to Samaria: and Achab at\nhis coming killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people\nthat came with him: and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Galaad.\n\n18:3. And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda: Come with\nme to Ramoth Galaad. And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my\npeople as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war.\n\n18:4. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee,\nat present the word of the Lord.\n\n18:5. So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four\nhundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to\nfight, or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver\ninto the king\u2019s hand.\n\n18:6. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that\nwe may inquire also of him?\n\n18:7. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of\nwhom we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never\nprophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of\nJemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.\n\n18:8. And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to\nhim: Call quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.\n\n18:9. Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on\ntheir thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court\nby the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.\n\n18:10. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and\nsaid: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou\ndestroy it.\n\n18:11. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, and said: Go up\nto Ramoth Galaad, and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will deliver\nthem into the king\u2019s hand.\n\n18:12. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold\nthe words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king:\nI beseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak\nthou also good success.\n\n18:13. And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God\nshall say to me, that will I speak.\n\n18:14. So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall\nwe go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go\nup, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be\ndelivered into your hands.\n\n18:15. And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing\nbut the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.\n\n18:16. Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like\nsheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let\nevery man return to his own house in peace.\n\n18:17. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee\nthat this man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?\n\n18:18. Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the\nLord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him\non the right hand and on the left,\n\n18:19. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that\nhe may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this\nmanner, and another otherwise:\n\nWho shall deceive, etc.... See the annotations, 3 Kings 22.\n\n18:20. There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said:\nI will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou\ndeceive him?\n\n18:21. And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the\nmouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and\nshalt prevail: go out, and do so.\n\n18:22. Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the\nmouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.\n\n18:23. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the\ncheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak\nto thee?\n\n18:24. And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see in that day, when thou\nshalt go in from chamber to chamber, to hide thyself.\n\n18:25. And the king of Israel commanded, saying: Take Micheas, and\ncarry him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joas the son of\nAmelech,\n\n18:26. And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and\ngive him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.\n\n18:27. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not\nspoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.\n\n18:28. So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda went up to\nRamoth Galaad.\n\n18:29. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: I will change my dress,\nand so I will go to the battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And\nthe king of Israel having changed his dress, went to the battle.\n\n18:30. Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his cavalry,\nsaying: Fight ye not with small, or great, but with the king of Israel\nonly.\n\n18:31. So when the captains of the cavalry saw Josaphat, they said:\nThis is the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to attack him: but\nhe cried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned them away from him.\n\n18:32. For when the captains of the cavalry saw, that he was not the\nking of Israel, they left him.\n\n18:33. And it happened that one of the people shot an arrow at a\nventure, and struck the king of Israel between the neck and the\nshoulders, and he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and carry me\nout of the battle, for I am wounded.\n\n18:34. And the fight was ended that day: but the king of Israel stood\nin his chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and died at the\nsunset.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 19\n\nJosaphat\u2019s charge to the judges and to the Levites.\n\n19:1. And Josaphat king of Juda returned to his house in peace to\nJerusalem.\n\n19:2. And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him:\nThou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them\nthat hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath\nof the Lord:\n\n19:3. But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away\nthe groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek\nthe Lord the God of thy fathers.\n\n19:4. And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the\npeople from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the\nLord the God of their fathers.\n\n19:5. And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda,\nin every place.\n\n19:6. And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you\nexercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you\njudge, it shall redound to you.\n\n19:7. Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with\ndiligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect\nof persons, nor desire of gifts.\n\n19:8. In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and\nchiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause\nof the Lord for the inhabitants thereof.\n\n19:9. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the\nLord faithfully, and with a perfect heart.\n\n19:10. Every cause that shall come to you of your brethren, that dwell\nin their cities, between kindred and kindred, wheresoever there is\nquestion concerning the law, the commandment, the ceremonies, the\njustifications: shew it them, that they may not sin against the Lord,\nand that wrath may not come upon you and your brethren: and so doing\nyou shall not sin.\n\n19:11. And Amarias the priest your high priest shall be chief in the\nthings which regard God: and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler\nin the house of Juda, shall be over those matters which belong to the\nking\u2019s office: and you have before you the Levites for masters, take\ncourage and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you in good\nthings.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 20\n\nThe Ammonites, Moabites, and Syrians combine against Josaphat: he\nseeketh God\u2019s help by public prayer and fasting. A prophet foretelleth\nthat God will fight for his people: the enemies destroy one another.\nJosaphat with his men gathereth the spoils. He reigneth in peace, but\nhis navy perisheth, for his society with wicked Ochozias.\n\n20:1. After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and\nwith them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against\nJosaphat.\n\n20:2. And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There\ncometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of\nSyria, and behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.\n\n20:3. And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray\nto the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.\n\n20:4. And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and\nall came out of their cities to make supplication to him.\n\n20:5. And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and\nJerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,\n\n20:6. And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and\nrulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and\npower, and no one can resist thee.\n\n20:7. Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land\nbefore thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy\nfriend for ever?\n\n20:8. And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name,\nsaying:\n\n20:9. If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or\nfamine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy\nname is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and\nthou wilt hear, and save us.\n\n20:10. Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and\nmount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass,\nwhen they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew\nthem not,\n\n20:11. Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession\nwhich thou hast delivered to us.\n\n20:12. O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not\nstrength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh\nviolently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our\neyes to thee.\n\n20:13. And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and\ntheir wives, and their children.\n\n20:14. And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias, the son of Banaias, the son\nof Jehiel, the son of Mathanias, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, was\nthere, upon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the\nmultitude,\n\n20:15. And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you that dwell in\nJerusalem, and thou king Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye\nnot, and be not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is not\nyours, but God\u2019s.\n\n20:16. To morrow you shall go down against them: for they will come up\nby the ascent named Sis, and you shall find them at the head of the\ntorrent, which is over against the wilderness of Jeruel.\n\n20:17. It shall not be you that shall fight, but only stand with\nconfidence, and you shall see the help of the Lord over you, O Juda,\nand Jerusalem: fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow you shall go\nout against them, and the Lord will be with you.\n\n20:18. Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem\nfell flat on the ground before the Lord, and adored him.\n\n20:19. And the Levites of the sons of Caath, and of the sons of Core\npraised the Lord the God of Israel with a loud voice, on high.\n\n20:20. And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the\ndesert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the\nmidst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants\nof Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure:\nbelieve his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.\n\n20:21. And he gave counsel to the people, and appointed the singing men\nof the Lord, to praise him by their companies, and to go before the\narmy, and with one voice to say: Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n20:22. And when they began to sing praises, the Lord turned their\nambushments upon themselves, that is to say, of the children of Ammon,\nand of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were come out to fight against\nJuda, and they were slain.\n\n20:23. For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the\ninhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had\nmade an end of them, they turned also against one another, and\ndestroyed one another.\n\n20:24. And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the\ndesert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of\ndead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death.\n\n20:25. Then Josaphat came, and all the people with him to take away the\nspoils of the dead, and they found among the dead bodies, stuff of\nvarious kinds, and garments, and most precious vessels: and they took\nthem for themselves, insomuch that they could not carry all, nor in\nthree days take away the spoils, the booty was so great.\n\n20:26. And on the fourth day they were assembled in the valley of\nBlessing: for there they blessed the Lord, and therefore they called\nthat place the valley of Blessing until this day.\n\n20:27. And every man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem\nreturned, and Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem with great joy,\nbecause the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies.\n\n20:28. And they came into Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and\ntrumpets into the house of the Lord.\n\n20:29. And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands\nwhen they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.\n\n20:30. And the kingdom of Josaphat was quiet, and God gave him peace\nround about.\n\n20:31. And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he was five and thirty years\nold, when he began to reign: and he reigned five and twenty years in\nJerusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi.\n\n20:32. And he walked in the way of his father Asa and departed not from\nit, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.\n\n20:33. But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not\nyet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n20:34. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, are\nwritten in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested into\nthe books of the kings of Israel.\n\n20:35. After these things Josaphat king of Juda made friendship with\nOchozias king of Israel, whose works were very wicked.\n\n20:36. And he was partner with him in making ships, to go to Tharsis:\nand they made the ships in Asiongaber.\n\n20:37. And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa prophesied to Josaphat,\nsaying: Because thou hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath\ndestroyed thy works, and the ships are broken, and they could not go to\nTharsis.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 21\n\nJoram\u2019s wicked reign: his punishment and death.\n\n21:1. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.\n\n21:2. And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel,\nand Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were\nthe sons of Josaphat king of Juda.\n\n21:3. And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold,\nand pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to\nJoram, because he was the eldest.\n\n21:4. So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had\nestablished himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some\nof the princes of Israel.\n\n21:5. Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem.\n\n21:6. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of\nAchab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil\nin the sight of the Lord.\n\n21:7. But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the\ncovenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to\ngive a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.\n\n21:8. In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made\nthemselves a king.\n\n21:9. And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with\nhim, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had\nsurrounded him, and all the captains of his cavalry.\n\n21:10. However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda\nunto this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his\nhand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers.\n\n21:11. Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he\nmade the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to\ntransgress.\n\n21:12. And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in\nwhich it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father:\nBecause thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in\nthe ways of Asa king of Juda,\n\n21:13. But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast\nmade Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication,\nimitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou\nhast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than\nthyself,\n\n21:14. Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all\nthy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.\n\n21:15. And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels,\ntill thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.\n\n21:16. And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the\nPhilistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.\n\n21:17. And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they\ncarried away all the substance that was found in the king\u2019s house, his\nsons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but\nJoachaz, who was the youngest.\n\nJoachaz.... Alias Ochozias.\n\n21:18. And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable\ndisease in his bowels.\n\n21:19. And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years\npassed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void\nhis very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most\nwretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him\naccording to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.\n\n21:20. He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they\nburied him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the\nkings.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 22\n\nThe reign and death of Ochozias. The tyranny of Athalia.\n\n22:1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son\nking in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in\nupon the camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias\nthe son of Joram king of Juda reigned.\n\n22:2. Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia\nthe daughter of Amri.\n\nForty-two, etc.... Divers Greek Bibles read thirty-two, agreeably to 4\nKings 8.17.\n\n22:3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother\npushed him on to do wickedly.\n\n22:4. So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab\ndid: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to\nhis destruction.\n\n22:5. And he walked after their counsels. And he went with Joram the\nson of Achab king of Israel, to fight against Hazael king of Syria, at\nRamoth Galaad: and the Syrians wounded Joram.\n\n22:6. And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for he received many\nwounds in the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of\nJuda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel where he\nlay sick.\n\n22:7. For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come\nto Joram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son\nof Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab.\n\n22:8. So when Jehu was rooting out the house of Achab, he found the\nprinces of Juda, and the sons of the brethren of Ochozias, who served\nhim, and he slew them.\n\n22:9. And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in\nSamaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried\nhim: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with\nall his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of\nthe race of Ochozias.\n\n22:10. For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up,\nand killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.\n\n22:11. But Josabeth the king\u2019s daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias,\nand stole him from among the king\u2019s sons that were slain. And she hid\nhim with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was\ndaughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of\nOchozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him.\n\n22:12. And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during\nwhich Athalia reigned over the land.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 23\n\nJoiada the high priest causeth Joas to be made king: Athalia to be\nslain, and idolatry to be destroyed.\n\n23:1. And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the\ncaptains of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel\nthe son of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of\nAdaias, and Elisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.\n\n23:2. And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out\nof all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel,\nand they came to Jerusalem.\n\n23:3. And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house\nof God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king\u2019s son shall reign, as\nthe Lord hath said of the sons of David.\n\n23:4. And this is the thing that you shall do:\n\n23:5. A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and\nof the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third\npart at the king\u2019s house: and a third at the gate that is called the\nFoundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\nTo the sabbath.... That is, to perform in your weeks the functions of\nyour office, or the weekly watches.\n\n23:6. And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests,\nand they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because\nthey are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the\nwatches of the Lord.\n\n23:7. And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his\narms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let\nthem be with the king, both coming in, and going out.\n\n23:8. So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the\nhigh priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were\nunder him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those\nwho had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high\npriest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to\nsucceed one another every week.\n\n23:9. And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the\nshields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house\nof the Lord.\n\n23:10. And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the\nright side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the\naltar, and the temple, round about the king.\n\n23:11. And they brought out the king\u2019s son, and put the crown upon him,\nand the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they\nmade him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him:\nand they prayed for him, and said: God save the king.\n\n23:12. Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and\npraising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the\nLord.\n\n23:13. And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the\nentrance, and the princes, and the companies about him, and all the\npeople of the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing\non instruments of divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised,\nshe rent her garments, and said: Treason, treason.\n\n23:14. And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the\nchiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct\nof the temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the\nsword. For the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\n23:15. And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come\nwithin the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.\n\n23:16. And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people,\nand the king, that they should be the people of the Lord.\n\n23:17. And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed\nit: and they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan\nthe priest of Baal before the altars.\n\n23:18. And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under\nthe hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed\nin the house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is\nwritten in the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the\ndisposition of David.\n\n23:19. He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord,\nthat none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.\n\n23:20. And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men,\nand the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they\nbrought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him\nthrough the upper gate into the king\u2019s house, and set him on the royal\nthrone.\n\n23:21. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:\nbut Athalia was slain with the sword.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 24\n\nJoas reigneth well all the days of Joiada: afterwards falleth into\nidolatry and causeth Zacharias to be slain. He is slain himself by his\nservants.\n\n24:1. Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned\nforty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.\n\n24:2. And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of\nJoiada the priest.\n\n24:3. And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and\ndaughters.\n\n24:4. After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.\n\n24:5. And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them:\nGo out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair\nthe temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but\nthe Levites were negligent.\n\n24:6. And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast\nthou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and\nJerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord\nfor all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the\ntestimony?\n\n24:7. For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed\nthe house of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things\nthat had been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.\n\n24:8. And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the\ngate of the house of the Lord on the outside.\n\n24:9. And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every\nman should bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God\nappointed for all Israel, in the desert.\n\n24:10. And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going in\nthey contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it\nwas filled.\n\n24:11. And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the\nhands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king\u2019s\nscribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they\npoured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the\nchest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was\ngathered an immense sum of money.\n\n24:12. And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works\nof the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and\nartificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and\nsuch as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.\n\n24:13. And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was\nclosed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its\nformer state, and made it stand firm.\n\n24:14. And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest\nof the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels\nfor the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and\nother vessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the\nhouse of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.\n\n24:15. But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a\nhundred and thirty years old.\n\n24:16. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,\nbecause he had done good to Israel, and to his house.\n\n24:17. And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and\nworshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened\nto them.\n\n24:18. And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their\nfathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and\nJerusalem for this sin.\n\n24:19. And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and\nthey would not give ear when they testified against them.\n\n24:20. The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the\npriest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord\nwhich will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make\nhim forsake you?\n\n24:21. And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned\nhim at the king\u2019s commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.\n\n24:22. And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his\nfather had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said:\nThe Lord see, and require it.\n\n24:23. And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up\nagainst him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the\nprinces of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of\nDamascus.\n\n24:24. And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the\nLord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had\nforsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed\nshameful judgments.\n\n24:25. And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants\nrose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the\npriest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him\nin the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.\n\n24:26. Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of\nSemmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.\n\n24:27. And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered\nunder him, and the repairing the house of God, they are written more\ndiligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his\nstead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 25\n\nAmasias\u2019 reign: he beginneth well, but endeth ill: he is overthrown by\nJoas, and slain by his people.\n\n25:1. Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother\nwas Joadan of Jerusalem.\n\n25:2. And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not\nwith a perfect heart.\n\n25:3. And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to\ndeath the servants that had slain the king his father.\n\n25:4. But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of\nthe law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall\nnot be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but\nevery man shall die for his own sin.\n\n25:5. Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by\nfamilies, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and\nBenjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and\nfound three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and\ncould hold the spear and shield.\n\n25:6. He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a\nhundred talents of silver.\n\n25:7. But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army\nof Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all\nthe children of Ephraim:\n\n25:8. And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the\narmy, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it\nbelongeth to God both to help, and to put to flight.\n\n25:9. And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the\nhundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the\nman of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give\nthee much more than this.\n\n25:10. Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him out of\nEphraim, to go home again: but they being much enraged against Juda,\nreturned to their own country.\n\n25:11. And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and went to the\nvale of saltpits, and slew of the children of Seir ten thousand.\n\n25:12. And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to\nthe steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from the top,\nand they all were broken to pieces.\n\n25:13. But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not\ngo with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from\nSamaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much\nspoil.\n\n25:14. But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of\nthe children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and\nadored them, and burnt incense to them.\n\n25:15. Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet\nto him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not\ndelivered their own people out of thy hand?\n\n25:16. And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the\nking\u2019s counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet\ndeparting, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou\nhast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.\n\n25:17. Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas\nthe son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let\nus see one another.\n\n25:18. But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in\nLibanus, sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my\nson to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus\npassed by and trod down the thistle.\n\n25:19. Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart\nis lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil\nagainst thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.\n\n25:20. Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord\u2019s will\nthat he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the\ngods of Edom.\n\n25:21. So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented themselves to\nbe seen by one another: and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames of\nJuda:\n\n25:22. And Juda fell before Israel, and they fled to their dwellings.\n\n25:23. And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of\nJoas, the son of Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem:\nand broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate\nof the corner, four hundred cubits.\n\n25:24. And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that\nhe found in the house of God, and with Obededom, and in the treasures\nof the king\u2019s house, moreover also the sons of the hostages, he brought\nback to Samaria.\n\n25:25. And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death\nof Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen years.\n\n25:26. Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n25:27. And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a conspiracy\nagainst him in Jerusalem. And he fled into Lachis, and they sent, and\nkilled him there.\n\n25:28. And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his\nfathers in the city of David.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 26\n\nOzias reigneth prosperously, till he invadeth the priests\u2019 office, upon\nwhich he is struck with a leprosy.\n\n26:1. And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen\nyears old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.\n\n26:2. He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after\nthat the king slept with his fathers.\n\n26:3. Ozias was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nJechelia of Jerusalem.\n\n26:4. And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord,\naccording to all that Amasias his father had done.\n\n26:5. And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias that understood\nand saw God: and as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him in all\nthings.\n\n26:6. Moreover he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and\nbroke down the wall of Geth, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of\nAzotus: and he built towns in Azotus, and among the Philistines.\n\n26:7. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the\nArabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.\n\n26:8. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and his name was spread\nabroad even to the entrance of Egypt for his frequent victories.\n\n26:9. And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner,\nand over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the\nwall, and fortified them.\n\n26:10. And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns,\nfor he had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the\ndesert: he had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains,\nand in Carmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.\n\n26:11. And the army of his fighting men, that went out to war, was\nunder the hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under\nthe hand of Henanias, who was one of the king\u2019s captains.\n\n26:12. And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant\nmen were two thousand six hundred.\n\n26:13. And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand\nfive hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the\nenemy.\n\n26:14. And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army,\nshields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and\nslings to cast stones.\n\n26:15. And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he\nplaced in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows,\nand great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord\nhelped him, and had strengthened him.\n\n26:16. But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his\ndestruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the\ntemple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of\nincense.\n\n26:17. And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with\nhim fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,\n\n26:18. Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias,\nto burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons\nof Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the\nsanctuary, do not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy\nglory by the Lord God.\n\n26:19. And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn\nincense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in\nhis forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar\nof incense.\n\n26:20. And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests\nlooked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made\nhaste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to\ngo out, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord.\n\n26:21. And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he\ndwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been\ncast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the\nking\u2019s house, and judged the people of the land.\n\n26:22. But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and last were written by\nIsaias the son of Amos, the prophet.\n\n26:23. And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\nfield of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his\nson reigned in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 27\n\nJoatham\u2019s good reign.\n\n27:1. Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nJerusa the daughter of Sadoc.\n\n27:2. And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all\nthat Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the\ntemple of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.\n\n27:3. He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall\nof Ophel he built much.\n\n27:4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles\nand towers in the forests.\n\n27:5. He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame\nthem, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents\nof silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of\nbarley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and\nthird year.\n\n27:6. And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed\nbefore the Lord his God.\n\n27:7. Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his\nworks, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.\n\n27:8. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.\n\n27:9. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\ncity of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 28\n\nThe wicked and unhappy reign of Achaz.\n\n28:1. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nsixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the\nsight of the Lord as David his father had done,\n\n28:2. But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he\ncast statues for Baalim.\n\n28:3. It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and\nconsecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the\nnations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.\n\n28:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on\nthe hills, and under every green tree.\n\n28:5. And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of\nSyria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and\ncarried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the\nking of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.\n\n28:6. For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty\nthousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the\nLord the God of their fathers.\n\n28:7. At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias\nthe king\u2019s son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who\nwas next to the king.\n\n28:8. And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two\nhundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they\nbrought it to Samaria.\n\n28:9. At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name\nwas Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and\nsaid to them: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with\nJuda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them\ncruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.\n\n28:10. Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and\nJerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done:\nfor you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.\n\n28:11. But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have\nbrought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord\nhangeth over you.\n\n28:12. Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the\nson of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of\nSellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came\nfrom the war.\n\n28:13. And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives\nhither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and\nheap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce\nanger of the Lord hangeth over Israel.\n\n28:14. So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken,\nbefore the princes and all the multitude.\n\n28:15. And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the\ncaptives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and\nwhen they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and\ndrink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of\nthem, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon\nbeasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their\nbrethren, and they returned to Samaria.\n\n28:16. At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking\nhelp.\n\n28:17. And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great\nbooty.\n\n28:18. The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the\nplains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon,\nand Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages,\nand they dwelt in them.\n\n28:19. For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda,\nfor he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.\n\nFor he had stripped it of help.... That is, Achaz stripped the kingdom\nof Juda of the divine assistance by his wickedness, and by his\nintroducing idolatry.\n\n28:20. And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the\nAssyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any\nresistance.\n\n28:21. And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the\nkings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians,\nand yet it availed him nothing.\n\n28:22. Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt\nagainst the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,\n\n28:23. Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and\nhe said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease\nthem with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they\nwere the ruin of him, and of all Israel.\n\n28:24. Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of\nGod, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made\nhimself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.\n\n28:25. And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn\nfrankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath.\n\n28:26. But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n28:27. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\ncity of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the\nkings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 29\n\nEzechias purifieth the temple, and restoreth religion.\n\n29:1. Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years\nold, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his\nmother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.\n\n29:2. And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord,\naccording to all that David his father had done.\n\n29:3. In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of\nthe house of the Lord, and repaired them.\n\n29:4. And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in\nthe east street.\n\n29:5. And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified,\npurify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all\nfilth out of the sanctuary.\n\n29:6. Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord\nGod, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the\ntabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.\n\n29:7. They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out\nthe lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the\nsanctuary of the God of Israel.\n\n29:8. Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda\nand Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to\ndestruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.\n\n29:9. Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our\ndaughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.\n\n29:10. Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the\nLord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his\nindignation from us.\n\n29:11. My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand\nbefore him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn\nincense to him.\n\n29:12. Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the\nson of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis\nthe son of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of\nGerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.\n\n29:13. And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the\nsons of Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.\n\n29:14. And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of\nIdithun, Semeias, and Oziel.\n\n29:15. And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified\nthemselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and\nthe precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.\n\n29:16. And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it,\nand brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the\nentrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and\ncarried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.\n\n29:17. And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month,\nand on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the\ntemple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on\nthe sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.\n\n29:18. And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have\nsanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and\nthe vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,\n\n29:19. And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his\nreign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set\nforth before the altar of the Lord.\n\n29:20. And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the\ncity, and went up into the house of the Lord:\n\n29:21. And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and\nseven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the\nsanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to\noffer them upon the altar of the Lord.\n\n29:22. Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the\nblood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and\ntheir blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs,\nand poured the blood upon the altar.\n\n29:23. And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the\nwhole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:\n\n29:24. And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before\nthe altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded\nthat the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.\n\n29:25. And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals,\nand psalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the\nking, and of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the\ncommandment of the Lord by the hand of his prophets.\n\n29:26. And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the\npriests with trumpets.\n\n29:27. And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon\nthe altar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing\npraises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments\nwhich David the king of Israel had prepared.\n\n29:28. And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the\ntrumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.\n\n29:29. And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were\nwith him bowed down and adored.\n\n29:30. And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the\nLord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him\nwith great joy, and bowing the knee adored.\n\n29:31. And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the\nLord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And\nall the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a\ndevout mind.\n\n29:32. And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered,\nwas seventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.\n\n29:33. And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen, and three\nthousand sheep.\n\n29:34. But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the\nholocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the\nwork was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are\nsanctified with an easier rite than the priests.\n\n29:35. So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace offerings,\nand the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the\nLord was completed.\n\n29:36. And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry\nof the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing\nwas taken suddenly.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 30\n\nEzechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the pasch; the solemnity is\nkept fourteen days.\n\n30:1. And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to\nEphraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in\nJerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel,\n\n30:2. For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the\nassembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.\n\n30:3. For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not\npriests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered\ntogether to Jerusalem.\n\nThe host of heaven.... The sun, moon, and stars.\n\n30:4. And the thing pleased the king, and all the people.\n\n30:5. And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee\neven to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the\nGod of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is\nprescribed by the law.\n\n30:6. And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and\nhis princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the\nking\u2019s orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of\nAbraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant\nof you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n30:7. Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the\nLord the God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to\ndestruction, as you see.\n\n30:8. Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to\nthe Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever:\nserve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his\nindignation shall be turned away from you.\n\n30:9. For if you turn again to the Lord, your brethren, and children\nshall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive,\nand they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is\nmerciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to\nhim.\n\n30:10. So the posts went speedily from city to city, through the land\nof Ephraim, and of Manasses, even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at\nthem and mocked them.\n\n30:11. Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon,\nyielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.\n\n30:12. But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do\nthe word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of\nthe princes.\n\n30:13. And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the\nsolemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:\n\n30:14. And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem,\nand took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast\nthem into the torrent Cedron.\n\n30:15. And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second\nmonth. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified\noffered holocausts in the house of the Lord.\n\n30:16. And they stood in their order according to the disposition and\nlaw of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which\nwas to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,\n\n30:17. Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the\nLevites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be\nsanctified to the Lord.\n\n30:18. For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and\nIssachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase\notherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The\nLord who is good will shew mercy,\n\n30:19. To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God\nof their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not\nsanctified.\n\n30:20. And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.\n\n30:21. And the children of Israel, that were found at Jerusalem, kept\nthe feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy, praising the\nLord every day, the Levites also, and the priests, with instruments\nthat agreed to their office.\n\n30:22. And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had\ngood understanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven\ndays of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and\npraising the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n30:23. And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days:\nwhich they did with great joy.\n\n30:24. For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a\nthousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given\nthe people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great\nnumber of priests was sanctified.\n\n30:25. And all the multitude of Juda with the priests and Levites, and\nall the assembly, that came out of Israel; and the proselytes of the\nland of Israel, and that dwelt in Juda were full of joy.\n\n30:26. And there was a great solemnity in Jerusalem, such as had not\nbeen in that city since the time of Solomon the son of David king of\nIsrael.\n\n30:27. And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people:\nand their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling\nplace of heaven.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 31\n\nIdolatry is abolished; and provisions made for the ministers.\n\n31:1. And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that\nwere found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols,\nand cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the\naltars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also\nand Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the\nchildren of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.\n\n31:2. And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites,\nby their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the\npriests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings,\nto minister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the\nLord.\n\n31:3. And the king\u2019s part was, that of his proper substance the\nholocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the\nsabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written\nin the law of Moses.\n\n31:4. He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to\nthe priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to\nthe law of the Lord.\n\n31:5. Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the\nchildren of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,\nand oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the\nground bringeth forth.\n\n31:6. Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the\ncities of Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the\ntithes of holy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and\ncarrying them all, made many heaps.\n\n31:7. In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the\nheaps, and in the seventh month, they finished them.\n\n31:8. And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps,\nand they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.\n\n31:9. And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay\nso.\n\n31:10. Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him,\nsaying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the\nLord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left,\nbecause the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is\nthis great store which thou seest.\n\n31:11. Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of\nthe Lord. And when they had done so,\n\n31:12. They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes,\nand all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the\nLevite, and Semei his brother was the second,\n\n31:13. And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and\nJerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and\nBanaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother,\nby the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of\nthe house of God, to whom all things appertained.\n\n31:14. But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east\ngate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord,\nand of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.\n\n31:15. And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and\nSemeias, and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to\ndistribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and\ngreat:\n\n31:16. Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that\nwent into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in\nthe ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.\n\n31:17. To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the\ntwentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.\n\n31:18. And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their\nchildren of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the\nthings that had been sanctified.\n\n31:19. Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the\nsuburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions\nto all the males, among the priests and the Levites.\n\n31:20. So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and\nwrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his\nGod,\n\n31:21. In all the service of the ministry of the house of the Lord\naccording to the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with\nall his heart, and he did it and prospered.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 32\n\nSennacherib invadeth Juda: his army is destroyed by an angel. Ezechias\nrecovereth from his sickness: his other acts.\n\n32:1. After these things, and this truth, Sennacherib king of the\nAssyrians came and entered into Juda, and besieged the fenced cities,\ndesiring to take them.\n\n32:2. And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and that the\nwhole force of the war was turning against Jerusalem,\n\n32:3. He took counsel with the princes, and the most valiant men, to\nstop up the heads of the springs, that were without the city: and as\nthey were all of this mind,\n\n32:4. He gathered together a very great multitude, and they stopped up\nall the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the land,\nsaying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and find abundance\nof water.\n\n32:5. He built up also with great diligence all the wall that had been\nbroken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without: and he\nrepaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and\nshields:\n\n32:6. And he appointed captains of the soldiers of the army: and he\ncalled them all together in the street of the gate of the city, and\nspoke to their heart, saying:\n\n32:7. Behave like men, and take courage: be not afraid nor dismayed for\nthe king of the Assyrians, nor for all the multitude that is with him:\nfor there are many more with us than with him.\n\n32:8. For with him is an arm of flesh: with us the Lord our God, who is\nour helper, and fighteth for us. And the people were encouraged with\nthese words of Ezechias king of Juda.\n\n32:9. After this, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians sent his servants\nto Jerusalem, (for he with all his army was besieging Lachis,) to\nEzechias king of Juda, and to all the people that were in the city,\nsaying:\n\n32:10. Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: In whom do you\ntrust, that you sit still besieged in Jerusalem?\n\n32:11. Doth not Ezechias deceive you, to give you up to die by hunger\nand thirst, affirming that the Lord your God shall deliver you from the\nhand of the king of the Assyrians?\n\n32:12. Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high\nplaces, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You\nshall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?\n\n32:13. Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people\nof the lands? have the gods of any nations and lands been able to\ndeliver their country out of my hand?\n\n32:14. Who is there among all the gods of the nations, which my fathers\nhave destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your\nGod should be able to deliver you out of this hand?\n\n32:15. Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a\nvain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the\nnations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out\nof the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able\nto deliver you out of my hand.\n\n32:16. And many other things did his servants speak against the Lord\nGod, and against Ezechias his servant.\n\n32:17. He wrote also letters full of blasphemy against the Lord the God\nof Israel, and he spoke against him: As the gods of other nations could\nnot deliver their people out of my hand, so neither can the God of\nEzechias deliver his people out of this hand.\n\n32:18. Moreover he cried out with a loud voice, in the Jews\u2019 tongue, to\nthe people that sat on the walls of Jerusalem, that he might frighten\nthem, and take the city.\n\n32:19. And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods\nof the people of the earth, the works of the hands of men.\n\n32:20. And Ezechias the king, and Isaias the prophet the son of Amos,\nprayed against this blasphemy, and cried out to heaven.\n\n32:21. And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the stout men and\nthe warriors, and the captains of the army of the king of the\nAssyrians: and he returned with disgrace into his own country. And when\nhe was come into the house of his god, his sons that came out of his\nbowels, slew him with the sword.\n\n32:22. And the Lord saved Ezechias and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\nout of the hand of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, and out of the\nhand of all, and gave them treasures on every side.\n\n32:23. Many also brought victims, and sacrifices to the Lord to\nJerusalem, and presents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he was magnified\nthenceforth in the sight of all nations.\n\n32:24. In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and he prayed to\nthe Lord: and he heard him, and gave him a sign.\n\n32:25. But he did not render again according to the benefits which he\nhad received, for his heart was lifted up: and wrath was enkindled\nagainst him, and against Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n32:26. And he humbled himself afterwards, because his heart had been\nlifted up, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and therefore the\nwrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Ezechias.\n\n32:27. And Ezechias was rich, and very glorious, and he gathered\nhimself great treasures of silver and of gold, and of precious stones,\nof spices, and of arms, of all kinds, and of vessels of great price.\n\n32:28. Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and stalls for\nall beasts, and folds for cattle.\n\n32:29. And he built himself cities: for he had flocks of sheep, and\nherds without number, for the Lord had given him very much substance.\n\n32:30. This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper source of the\nwaters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west of the\ncity of David: in all his works he did prosperously what he would.\n\n32:31. But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent\nto him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God\nleft him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known\nthat were in his heart.\n\n32:32. Now the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and of his mercies are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n32:33. And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him above\nthe sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated his funeral: and Manasses his son\nreigned in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 33\n\nManasses for his manifold wickedness is led captive to Babylon: he\nrepenteth, and is restored to his kingdom, and destroyeth idolatry: his\nsuccessor Amon is slain by his servants.\n\n33:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.\n\n33:2. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the\nabominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n33:3. And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his\nfather had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves,\nand he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.\n\nThe host of heaven.... The sun, moon, and stars.\n\n33:4. He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord\nhad said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.\n\n33:5. And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n33:6. And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of\nBenennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to\nmagic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many\nevils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.\n\n33:7. He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of\nwhich God had said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this house, and\nin Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will\nI put my name for ever.\n\n33:8. And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the\nland which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take\nheed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the\nceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.\n\n33:9. So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do\nevil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the\nface of the children of Israel.\n\n33:10. And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they would not\nhearken.\n\n33:11. Therefore he brought upon them the captains of the army of the\nking of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound\nwith chains and fetters to Babylon.\n\n33:12. And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God:\nand did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.\n\n33:13. And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard\nhis prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and\nManasses knew that the Lord was God.\n\n33:14. After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the\nwest side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the fish gate\nround about to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he\nappointed captains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:\n\n33:15. And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house\nof the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the\nhouse of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the\ncity.\n\n33:16. And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed upon it\nvictims, and peace offerings, and praise: and he commanded Juda to\nserve the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n33:17. Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to\nthe Lord their God.\n\n33:18. But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God,\nand the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord\nthe God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.\n\n33:19. His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and\ncontempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves,\nand statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.\n\n33:20. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his\nhouse: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.\n\n33:21. Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years in Jerusalem.\n\n33:22. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father\nhad done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had\nmade, and served them.\n\n33:23. And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasses his\nfather had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.\n\n33:24. And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own\nhouse.\n\n33:25. But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had\nkilled Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 34\n\nJosias destroyeth idolatry, repaireth the temple, and reneweth the\ncovenant between God and the people.\n\n34:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\none and thirty years in Jerusalem.\n\n34:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and\nwalked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the\nright hand, nor to the left.\n\n34:3. And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he\nbegan to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year\nafter he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high\nplaces, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.\n\n34:4. And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and\ndemolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the\ngroves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the\nfragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.\n\n34:5. And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols,\nand he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n34:6. And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon,\neven to Nephtali he demolished all.\n\n34:7. And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had\nbroken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples\nthroughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.\n\n34:8. Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the\nland, and the temple of the Lord, he sent Saphan the son of Eselias,\nand Maasias the governor of the city, Joha the son of Joachaz the\nrecorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.\n\n34:9. And they came to Helcias the high priest: and received of him the\nmoney which had been brought into the house of the Lord, and which the\nLevites and porters had gathered together from Manasses, and Ephraim,\nand all the remnant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin, and the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem,\n\n34:10. Which they delivered into the hands of them that were over the\nworkmen in the house of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all\nthat was weak.\n\n34:11. But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy\nstones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the\nbuilding, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had\ndestroyed.\n\n34:12. And they did all faithfully. Now the overseers of the workmen\nwere Jahath and Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of\nthe sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all Levites skilful to play\non instruments.\n\n34:13. But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were\nscribes, and masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.\n\n34:14. Now when they carried out the money that had been brought into\nthe temple of the Lord, Helcias the priest found the book of the law of\nthe Lord, by the hand of Moses.\n\n34:15. And he said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the\nlaw in the house of the Lord: and he delivered it to him.\n\n34:16. But he carried the book to the king, and told him, saying: Lo,\nall that thou hast committed to thy servants, is accomplished.\n\n34:17. They have gathered together the silver that was found in the\nhouse of the Lord: and it is given to the overseers of the artificers,\nand of the workmen, for divers works.\n\n34:18. Moreover Helcias the priest gave me this book. And he read it\nbefore the king.\n\n34:19. And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his\ngarments:\n\n34:20. And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and\nAbdon the son of Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa the king\u2019s\nservant, saying:\n\n34:21. Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel,\nand Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for\nthe great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers\nhave not kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written\nin this book.\n\n34:22. And Helcias and they that were sent with him by the king, went\nto Olda the prophetess, the wife of Sellum the son of Thecuath, the son\nof Hasra keeper of the wardrobe: who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second\npart: and they spoke to her the words above mentioned.\n\n34:23. And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nTell the man that sent you to me:\n\n34:24. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place,\nand upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written\nin this book which they read before the king of Juda.\n\n34:25. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands,\ntherefore my wrath shall fall upon this place, and shall not be\nquenched.\n\n34:26. But as to the king of Juda that sent you to beseech the Lord,\nthus shall you say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nBecause thou hast heard the words of this book,\n\n34:27. And thy heart was softened, and thou hast humbled thyself in the\nsight of God for the things that are spoken against this place, and the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast rent thy\ngarments, and wept before me: I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.\n\n34:28. For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be\nbrought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil\nthat I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof. They\ntherefore reported to the king all that she had said.\n\n34:29. And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n34:30. And went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Juda,\nand the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all\nthe people from the least to the greatest. And the king read in their\nhearing, in the house of the Lord, all the words of the book.\n\n34:31. And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the\nLord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and\njustifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the\nthings that were written in that book which he had read.\n\n34:32. And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to\ndo the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the\ncovenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n34:33. And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the\ncountries of the children of Israel and made all that were left in\nIsrael, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed\nnot from the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 35\n\nJosias celebrateth a most solemn pasch. He is slain by the king of\nEgypt.\n\n35:1. And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was\nsacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.\n\n35:2. And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to\nminister in the house of the Lord.\n\n35:3. And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was\nsanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the\ntemple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: for you\nshall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to\nhis people Israel.\n\n35:4. And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to\nyour courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son\nhath written.\n\n35:5. And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of\nLevi.\n\n35:6. And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren,\nthat they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the\nhand of Moses.\n\n35:7. And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the\nsolemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of\nother small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all\nthese were of the king\u2019s substance.\n\n35:8. And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to\nthe people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and\nZacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the\npriests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and\nthree hundred oxen.\n\n35:9. And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his brethren, and\nHasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to the\nrest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle,\nand five hundred oxen.\n\n35:10. And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their\noffice: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king\u2019s\ncommandment.\n\n35:11. And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood\nwith their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:\n\n35:12. And they separated them, to give them by the houses and families\nof every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the\nbook of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.\n\n35:13. And they roasted the phase with fire, according to that which is\nwritten in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they boiled in\ncaldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily\namong all the people.\n\n35:14. And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the\npriests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the\nfat until night, wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for\nthe priests the sons of Aaron last.\n\n35:15. And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order,\naccording to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and\nIdithun, the prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every\ngate, so as not to depart one moment from their service, and therefore\ntheir brethren the Levites prepared meats for them.\n\n35:16. So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day,\nboth in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the\nLord, according to the commandment of king Josias.\n\n35:17. And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase\nat that time, and the feast of unleavened seven days.\n\n35:18. There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of\nSamuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep\nsuch a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all\nJuda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n35:19. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase\ncelebrated.\n\n35:20. After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt\ncame up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to\nmeet him.\n\n35:21. But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with\nthee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight\nagainst another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste:\nforbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.\n\n35:22. Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and\nhearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but went to\nfight in the field of Mageddo.\n\n35:23. And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his\nservants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.\n\n35:24. And they removed him from the chariot into another, that\nfollowed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to\nJerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers,\nand all Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him,\n\n35:25. Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the\nsinging men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like\na law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.\n\n35:26. Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according\nto what was commanded by the law of the Lord:\n\n35:27. And his works first and last, are written in the book of the\nkings of Juda and Israel.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 36\n\nThe reigns of Joachaz, Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias: the captivity of\nBabylon released at length by Cyrus.\n\n36:1. Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and\nmade him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.\n\n36:2. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned three months in Jerusalem.\n\n36:3. And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and\ncondemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of\ngold.\n\n36:4. And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and\nJerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with\nhim and carried him away into Egypt.\n\n36:5. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord\nhis God.\n\n36:6. Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led\nhim bound in chains into Babylon.\n\n36:7. And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them\nin his temple.\n\n36:8. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which\nhe wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the\nbook of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n36:9. Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the\nsight of the Lord.\n\nEight years old.... He was associated by his father to the kingdom,\nwhen he was but eight years old; but after his father\u2019s death, when he\nreigned alone, he was eighteen years old. 4 Kings 24.8.\n\n36:10. And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and\nbrought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most\nprecious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his\nuncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n36:11. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign:\nand he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.\n\n36:12. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not\nreverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the\nmouth of the Lord.\n\n36:13. He also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him\nswear by God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to\nthe Lord the God of Israel.\n\n36:14. Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly\ntransgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and\nthey defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself\nin Jerusalem.\n\n36:15. And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand\nof his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he\nspared his people and his dwelling place.\n\n36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,\nand misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his\npeople, and there was no remedy.\n\n36:17. For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew\ntheir young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no\ncompassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped\nfor age, but he delivered them all into his hands.\n\n36:18. And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and\nthe treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he\ncarried away to Babylon.\n\n36:19. And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the\nwall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious\nthey destroyed.\n\n36:20. Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there\nserved the king and his sons, till the reign of the king of Persia,\n\n36:21. That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be\nfulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of\nthe desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.\n\n36:22. But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil\nthe word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the\nLord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the Persians: who commanded\nit to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also,\nsaying:\n\n36:23. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the\nearth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged\nme to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there\namong you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him\ngo up.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS\n\n\nThis Book taketh its name from the writer: who was a holy priest, and\ndoctor of the law. He is called by the Hebrews, Ezra.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 1\n\nCyrus king of Persia releaseth God\u2019s people from their captivity, with\nlicense to return and build the temple in Jerusalem: and restoreth the\nholy vessels which Nabuchodonosor had taken from thence.\n\n1:1. In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of\nthe Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred\nup the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation\nthroughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:\n\n1:2. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven\nhath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me\nto build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.\n\n1:3. Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let\nhim go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the\nLord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.\n\n1:4. And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help\nhim every man from his place, with silver and gold, and goods, and\ncattle, besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God,\nwhich is in Jerusalem.\n\n1:5. Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and\nthe priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up,\nto go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.\n\n1:6. And all they that were round about, helped their hands with\nvessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with\nfurniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.\n\n1:7. And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the temple of the\nLord, which Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them\nin the temple of his god.\n\n1:8. Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of\nMithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the\nprince of Juda.\n\n1:9. And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand\nbowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,\n\n1:10. Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels\na thousand.\n\n1:11. All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred:\nall these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity\nof Babylon to Jerusalem.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 2\n\nThe number of them that returned to Judea: their oblations.\n\n2:1. Now these are the children of the province, that went out of the\ncaptivity, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away to\nBabylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Juda, every man to his city.\n\n2:2. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemia, Saraia, Rahelaia,\nMardochai, Belsan, Mesphar, Beguai, Rehum, Baana. The number of the men\nof the people of Israel:\n\n2:3. The children of Pharos two thousand one hundred seventy-two.\n\n2:4. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.\n\n2:5. The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.\n\n2:6. The children of Phahath Moab, of the children of Josue: Joab, Two\nthousand eight hundred twelve.\n\n2:7. The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n2:8. The children of Zethua, nine hundred forty-five.\n\n2:9. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.\n\n2:10. The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.\n\n2:11. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:12. The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty-two.\n\n2:13. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-six.\n\n2:14. The children of Beguai, two thousand fifty-six.\n\n2:15. The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.\n\n2:16. The children of Ather, who were of Ezechias, ninety-eight.\n\n2:17. The children of Besai, three hundred and twenty-three.\n\n2:18. The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.\n\n2:19. The children of Hasum, two hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:20. The children of Gebbar, ninety-five.\n\n2:21. The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:22. The men of Netupha, fifty-six.\n\n2:23. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n2:24. The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.\n\n2:25. The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred\nforty-three.\n\n2:26. The children of Rama and Gabaa, six hundred twenty-one.\n\n2:27. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.\n\n2:28. The men of Bethel and Hai, two hundred twenty-three.\n\n2:29. The children of Nebo, fifty-two.\n\n2:30. The children of Megbis, a hundred fifty-six.\n\n2:31. The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred\nfifty-four.\n\n2:32. The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.\n\n2:33. The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.\n\n2:34. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.\n\n2:35. The children of Senaa, three thousand six hundred thirty.\n\n2:36. The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine\nhundred seventy-three.\n\n2:37. The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two.\n\n2:38. The children of Pheshur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven.\n\n2:39. The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.\n\n2:40. The Levites: the children of Josue and of Cedmihel, the children\nof Odovia, seventy-four.\n\n2:41. The singing men: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n2:42. The children of the porters: the children of Sellum, the children\nof Ater, the children of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of\nHatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred thirty-nine.\n\n2:43. The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the children of Hasupha,\nthe children of Tabbaoth,\n\n2:44. The children of Ceros, the children of Sia, the children of\nPhadon,\n\n2:45. The children of Lebana, the children of Hegaba, the children of\nAccub,\n\n2:46. The children of Hagab, the children of Semlai, the children of\nHanan,\n\n2:47. The children of Gaddel, the children of Gaher, the children of\nRaaia,\n\n2:48. The children of Rasin, the children of Necoda, the children of\nGazam,\n\n2:49. The children of Asa, the children of Phasea, the children of\nBesee,\n\n2:50. The children of Asena, the children of Munim, the children of\nNephusim,\n\n2:51. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of\nHarhur,\n\n2:52. The children of Besluth, the children of Mahida, the children of\nHarsa,\n\n2:53. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of\nThema,\n\n2:54. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,\n\n2:55. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sotai,\nthe children of Sopheret, the children of Pharuda,\n\n2:56. The children of Jala, the children of Dercon, the children of\nGeddel,\n\n2:57. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of\nPhochereth, which were of Asebaim, the children of Ami,\n\n2:58. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,\nthree hundred ninety-two.\n\n2:59. And these are they that came up from Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,\nand Adon, and Emer. And they could not shew the house of their fathers\nand their seed, whether they were of Israel.\n\n2:60. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of\nNecoda, six hundred fifty-two.\n\n2:61. And of the children of the priests: the children of Hobia, the\nchildren of Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the\ndaughters of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and was called by their name:\n\n2:62. These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not,\nand they were cast out of the priesthood.\n\n2:63. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy\nof holies, till there arose a priest learned and perfect.\n\n2:64. All the multitudes as one man, were forty-two thousand three\nhundred and sixty:\n\nForty-two thousand, etc.... Those who are reckoned up above of the\ntribes of Juda, Benjamin, and Levi, fall short of this number. The\nrest, who must be taken in to make up the whole sum, were of the other\ntribes.\n\n2:65. Besides their menservants, and womenservants, of whom there were\nseven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among them singing\nmen, and singing women two hundred.\n\n2:66. Their horses seven hundred thirty-six, their mules two hundred\nforty-five,\n\n2:67. Their camels four hundred thirty-five, their asses six thousand\nseven hundred and twenty.\n\n2:68. And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the\ntemple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house\nof the Lord to build it in its place.\n\n2:69. According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the\nwork, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of\nsilver, and a hundred garments for the priests.\n\n2:70. So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the\nsinging men, and the porters, and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities,\nand all Israel in their cities.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 3\n\nAn altar is built for sacrifice, the feast of tabernacles is solemnly\ncelebrated, and the foundations of the temple are laid.\n\n3:1. And now the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel\nwere in their cities: and the people gathered themselves together as\none man to Jerusalem.\n\n3:2. And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, and his brethren the\npriests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they\nbuilt the altar of the God of Israel that they might offer holocausts\nupon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.\n\nJosue.... or Jesus (Jeshua) the son of Josedec; he was the high priest,\nat that time.\n\n3:3. And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of\nthe lands round about put them in fear, and they offered upon it a\nholocaust to the Lord morning and evening.\n\n3:4. And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and\noffered the holocaust every day orderly according to the commandment,\nthe duty of the day in its day.\n\n3:5. And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and\non all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all\nin which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.\n\n3:6. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer\nholocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.\n\n3:7. And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat\nand drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees\nfrom Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus\nking of the Persians had given them.\n\n3:8. And in the second year of their coming to the temple of God in\nJerusalem, the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue\nthe son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the priests, and the\nLevites, and all that were come from the captivity to Jerusalem began,\nand they appointed Levites from twenty years old and upward, to hasten\nforward the work of the Lord.\n\n3:9. Then Josue and his sons and his brethren, Cedmihel, and his sons,\nand the children of Juda, as one man, stood to hasten them that did the\nwork in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and\ntheir brethren the Levites.\n\n3:10. And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the\nLord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the\nLevites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of\nDavid king of Israel.\n\n3:11. And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he\nis good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the\npeople shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the\nfoundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.\n\n3:12. But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the\nfathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had\nthe foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud\nvoice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.\n\n3:13. So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy,\nfrom the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the\npeople shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 4\n\nThe Samaritans by their letter to the king hinder the building.\n\n4:1. Now the enemies of Juda and Benjamin heard that the children of\nthe captivity were building a temple to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n4:2. And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief of the fathers, and said\nto them: Let us build with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold\nwe have sacrificed to him, since the days of Asor Haddan king of\nAssyria, who brought us hither.\n\n4:3. But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of the chief of the fathers\nof Israel said to them: You have nothing to do with us to build a house\nto our God, but we ourselves alone will build to the Lord our God, as\nCyrus king of the Persians hath commanded us.\n\n4:4. Then the people of the land hindered the hands of the people of\nJuda, and troubled them in building.\n\n4:5. And they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their design\nall the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius\nking of the Persians.\n\n4:6. And in the reign of Assuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they\nwrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\nAssuerus.... Otherwise called Cambyses the son and successor of Cyrus.\nHe is also in the following verse named Artaxerxes, a name common to\nalmost all the kings of Persia.\n\n4:7. And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam, Mithridates, and Thabeel,\nand the rest that were in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the\nPersians: and the letter of accusation was written in Syrian, and was\nread in the Syrian tongue.\n\n4:8. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe wrote a letter from Jerusalem\nto king Artaxerxes, in this manner:\n\n4:9. Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe and the rest of their\ncounsellors, the Dinites, and the Apharsathacites, the Therphalites,\nthe Apharsites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Susanechites, the\nDievites, and the Elamites,\n\n4:10. And the rest of the nations, whom the great and glorious\nAsenaphar brought over: and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria and\nin the rest of the countries of this side of the river in peace.\n\n4:11. (This is the copy of the letter, which they sent to him:) To\nArtaxerxes the king, thy servants, the men that are on this side of the\nriver, send greeting.\n\n4:12. Be it known to the king, that the Jews, who came up from thee to\nus, are come to Jerusalem a rebellious and wicked city, which they are\nbuilding, setting up the ramparts thereof and repairing the walls.\n\n4:13. And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up,\nand the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor\nyearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon the kings.\n\n4:14. But we remembering the salt that we have eaten in the palace, and\nbecause we count it a crime to see the king wronged, have therefore\nsent and certified the king,\n\n4:15. That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy\nfathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know\nthat this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and\nprovinces, and that wars were raised therein of old time: for which\ncause also the city was destroyed.\n\n4:16. We certify the king, that if this city be built, and the walls\nthereof repaired, thou shalt have no possession on this side of the\nriver.\n\n4:17. The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe, and to\nthe rest that were in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to the\nrest beyond the river, sending greeting and peace.\n\n4:18. The accusation, which you have sent to us, hath been plainly read\nbefore me,\n\n4:19. And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that\nthis city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and\nwars have been raised therein.\n\n4:20. For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had\ndominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have\nreceived tribute, and toll and revenues.\n\n4:21. Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder those men, that this city\nbe not built, till further orders be given by me.\n\n4:22. See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little\nand little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.\n\n4:23. Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum\nBeelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went\nup in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and\npower.\n\n4:24. Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was\ninterrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius\nking of the Persians.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 5\n\nBy the exhortation of Aggeus, and Zacharias, the people proceed in\nbuilding the temple. Which their enemies strive in vain to hinder.\n\n5:1. Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied\nto the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of\nIsrael.\n\n5:2. Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the son of\nJosedec, and began to build the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with\nthem were the prophets of God helping them.\n\n5:3. And at the same time came to them Thathanai, who was governor\nbeyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and their counsellors: and said\nthus to them: Who hath given you counsel to build this house, and to\nrepair the walls thereof?\n\n5:4. In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the\npromoters of that building.\n\n5:5. But the eye of their God was upon the ancients of the Jews, and\nthey could not hinder them. And it was agreed that the matter should be\nreferred to Darius, and then they should give satisfaction concerning\nthat accusation.\n\n5:6. The copy of the letter that Thathanai governor of the country\nbeyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the\nArphasachites, who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the king.\n\n5:7. The letter which they sent him, was written thus: To Darius the\nking all peace.\n\n5:8. Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to\nthe house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished\nstones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on\ndiligently and advanceth in their hands.\n\n5:9. And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given\nyou authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?\n\n5:10. We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee\nnotice: and we have written the names of the men that are the chief\namong them.\n\n5:11. And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants\nof the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was\nbuilt these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and\nset up.\n\n5:12. But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to\nwrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the\npeople to Babylon.\n\n5:13. But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus\nset forth a decree, that this house of God should be built.\n\n5:14. And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in\nJerusalem, and had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus\nbrought out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one\nSassabasar, whom also he appointed governor,\n\n5:15. And said to him: Take these vessels, and go, and put them in the\ntemple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its\nplace.\n\n5:16. Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the\ntemple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in\nbuilding, and is not yet finished.\n\n5:17. Now therefore if it seem good to the king, let him search in the\nking\u2019s library, which is in Babylon, whether it hath been decreed by\nCyrus the king, that the house of God in Jerusalem should be built, and\nlet the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 6\n\nKing Darius favoureth the building and contributeth to it.\n\n6:1. Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of\nthe books that were laid up in Babylon,\n\n6:2. And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province\nof Media, a book in which this record was written.\n\n6:3. In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that\nthe house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place\nwhere they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that\nmay support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of\nthreescore cubits,\n\n6:4. Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and\nthe charges shall be given out of the king\u2019s house.\n\n6:5. And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God,\nwhich Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought\nto Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to\ntheir place, which also were placed in the temple of God.\n\n6:6. Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river,\nStharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are beyond\nthe river, depart far from them,\n\n6:7. And let that temple of God be built by the governor of the Jews,\nand by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in its\nplace.\n\n6:8. I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the\nJews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king\u2019s\nchest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond\nthe river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work\nbe hindered.\n\n6:9. And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and\nkids, for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil,\naccording to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given\nthem day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.\n\n6:10. And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for\nthe life of the king, and of his children.\n\n6:11. And I have made a decree: That if any whosoever, shall alter this\ncommandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be\nnailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.\n\n6:12. And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell there,\ndestroy all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to\nresist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius\nhave made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.\n\n6:13. So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond the river, and\nStharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what Darius the\nking had commanded.\n\n6:14. And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to\nthe prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo:\nand they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel,\nand by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of\nthe Persians.\n\n6:15. And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of\nthe month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king\nDarius.\n\n6:16. And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the\nrest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house\nof God with joy.\n\n6:17. And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a hundred\ncalves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering\nfor all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes\nof Israel.\n\n6:18. And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in\ntheir courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in\nthe book of Moses.\n\n6:19. And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on\nthe fourteenth day of the first month.\n\n6:20. For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all\nwere clean to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and\nfor their brethren the priests, and themselves.\n\n6:21. And the children of Israel that were returned from captivity, and\nall that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the nations of\nthe earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.\n\n6:22. And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy,\nfor the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king\nof Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the\nhouse of the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 7\n\nEsdras goeth up to Jerusalem to teach, and assist the people, with a\ngracious decree of Artaxerxes.\n\n7:1. Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the\nPersians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of\nHelcias,\n\n7:2. The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,\n\n7:3. The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,\n\n7:4. The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,\n\n7:5. The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son\nof Aaron, the priest from the beginning.\n\n7:6. This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the\nlaw of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king\ngranted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God\nupon him.\n\n7:7. And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the\nchildren of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the\nsinging men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in\nthe seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.\n\n7:8. And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year\nof the king.\n\n7:9. For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from\nBabylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem\naccording to the good hand of his God upon him.\n\n7:10. For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord,\nand to do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.\n\n7:11. And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king\nArtaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed in the\nwords and commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel.\n\n7:12. Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned\nscribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.\n\n7:13. It is decreed by me, that all they of the people of Israel, and\nof the priests and of the Levites in my realm, that are minded to go\ninto Jerusalem, should go with thee.\n\n7:14. For thou art sent from before the king, and his seven\ncounsellors, to visit Judea and Jerusalem according to the law of thy\nGod, which is in thy hand.\n\n7:15. And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his\ncounsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose tabernacle\nis in Jerusalem.\n\n7:16. And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the\nprovince of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that\nthe priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God,\nwhich is in Jerusalem,\n\n7:17. Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams,\nlambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon\nthe altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.\n\n7:18. And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing\nwith the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of\nyour God.\n\n7:19. The vessels also, that are given thee for the sacrifice of the\nhouse of thy God, deliver thou in the sight of God in Jerusalem.\n\n7:20. And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy\nGod, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be\ngiven out of the treasury, and the king\u2019s exchequer, and by me.\n\n7:21. I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and decreed to all the keepers\nof the public chest, that are beyond the river, that whatsoever Esdras\nthe priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require\nof you, you give it without delay,\n\n7:22. Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred cores of\nwheat, and unto a hundred bates of wine, and unto a hundred bates of\noil, and salt without measure.\n\n7:23. All that belongeth to the rites of the God of heaven, let it be\ngiven diligently in the house of the God of heaven: lest his wrath\nshould be enkindled against the realm of the king, and of his sons.\n\n7:24. We give you also to understand concerning all the priests, and\nthe Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nathinites, and\nministers of the house of this God, that you have no authority to\nimpose toll or tribute, or custom upon them.\n\n7:25. And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in\nthy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the\npeople, that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of\nthy God, yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.\n\n7:26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the\nking diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto\ndeath, or unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least\nto prison.\n\n7:27. Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in\nthe king\u2019s heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in\nJerusalem,\n\n7:28. And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his\ncounsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being\nstrengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me,\ngathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 8\n\nThe companions of Esdras. The fast which he appointed. They bring the\nholy vessels into the temple.\n\n8:1. Now these are the chiefs of families, and the genealogy of them,\nwho came up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.\n\n8:2. Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of\nthe sons of David, Hattus.\n\n8:3. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos, Zacharias, and with\nhim were numbered a hundred and fifty men.\n\n8:4. Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai the son of Zareha, and with\nhim two hundred men.\n\n8:5. Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel, and with him three\nhundred men.\n\n8:6. Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty\nmen.\n\n8:7. Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of Athalias, and with him\nseventy men.\n\n8:8. Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of Michael, and with him\neighty men.\n\n8:9. Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel, and with him two\nhundred and eighteen men.\n\n8:10. Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia, and with him a\nhundred and sixty men.\n\n8:11. Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of Bebai: and with him\neight and twenty men.\n\n8:12. Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of Eccetan, and with him a\nhundred and ten men.\n\n8:13. Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the last: and these are their\nnames: Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.\n\n8:14. Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur, and with them seventy\nmen.\n\n8:15. And I gathered them together to the river, which runneth down to\nAhava, and we stayed there three days: and I sought among the people\nand among the priests for the sons of Levi, and found none there.\n\n8:16. So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias, and Elnathan, and\nJarib, and another Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam,\nchief men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.\n\n8:17. And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the place of Chasphia,\nand I put in their mouth the words that they should speak to Eddo, and\nhis brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia, that they should\nbring us ministers of the house of our God.\n\n8:18. And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a most\nlearned man of the sons of Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel,\nand Sarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,\n\n8:19. And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the sons of Merari, and his\nbrethren, and his sons twenty.\n\n8:20. And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the\nservice of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these\nwere called by their names.\n\n8:21. And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might\nafflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right\nway for us and for our children, and for all our substance.\n\nAnd I proclaimed a fast.... It is not enough to part from Babylon, that\nis, figuratively from sin, but we must also do works of penance; and\ntherefore Esdras here proclaimed an extraordinary fast to those that\nwere come from captivity. This shews that fasting was commanded and\npractised from the earliest times.\n\n8:22. For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to\ndefend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king:\nThe hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his\npower and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.\n\n8:23. And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out\nprosperously unto us.\n\n8:24. And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and\nHasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,\n\n8:25. And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the vessels\nconsecrated for the house of our God, which the king and his\ncounsellors, and his princes, and all Israel, that were found had\noffered.\n\n8:26. And I weighed to their hands six hundred and fifty talents of\nsilver, and a hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,\n\n8:27. And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of\nthe best shining brass, beautiful as gold.\n\n8:28. And I said to them: You are the holy ones of the Lord, and the\nvessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is freely offered to\nthe Lord the God of our fathers.\n\n8:29. Watch ye and keep them, till you deliver them by weight before\nthe chief of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the\nfamilies of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of the\nLord.\n\n8:30. And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver\nand gold, and the vessels, to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of\nour God.\n\n8:31. Then we set forward from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of\nthe first month to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon\nus, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in\nwait by the way.\n\n8:32. And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed there three days.\n\n8:33. And on the fourth day the silver and the gold, and the vessels\nwere weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of\nUrias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with\nthem Jozabad the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.\n\n8:34. According to the number and weight of everything: and all the\nweight was written at that time.\n\n8:35. Moreover the children of them that had been carried away that\nwere come out of the captivity, offered holocausts to the God of\nIsrael, twelve calves for all the people of Israel, ninety-six rams,\nseventy-seven lambs, and twelve he goats for sin: all for a holocaust\nto the Lord.\n\n8:36. And they gave the king\u2019s edicts to the lords that were from the\nking\u2019s court, and the governors beyond the river, and they furthered\nthe people and the house of God.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 9\n\nEsdras mourneth for the transgression of the people: his confession and\nprayer.\n\n9:1. And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me,\nsaying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not\nseparated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their\nabominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the\nPherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and\nthe Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.\n\nThis shows how sinful it is to intermarry with those that the Church\nforbids us, on account of the danger of perversion and falling off from\nthe true faith.\n\n9:2. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for\ntheir sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the\nlands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in\nthis transgression.\n\n9:3. And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and\nplucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.\n\n9:4. And there were assembled to me all that feared the God of Israel,\nbecause of the transgression of those that were come from the\ncaptivity, and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sacrifice.\n\n9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and\nhaving rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread\nout my hands to the Lord my God,\n\n9:6. And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to\nthee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins\nare grown up even unto heaven,\n\n9:7. From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned\ngrievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and\nour priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the\nlands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to\nconfusion of face, as it is at this day.\n\n9:8. And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made\nbefore the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in\nhis holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would\ngive us a little life in our bondage.\n\nA pin.... or nail, here signifies a small settlement or holding; which\nEsdras begs for, to preserve even a part of the people, who, by their\ngreat iniquity had incurred the anger of God.\n\n9:9. For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken\nus, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to\ngive us life, and to set up the house of our God, and to rebuild the\ndesolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n9:10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have\nforsaken thy commandments,\n\n9:11. Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the\nprophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land,\naccording to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with\ntheir abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their\nfilth.\n\n9:12. Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, and take not\ntheir daughters for your sons, and seek not their peace, nor their\nprosperity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and may eat the good\nthings of the land, and may have your children your heirs for ever.\n\n9:13. And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds,\nand our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our\niniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,\n\n9:14. That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor\njoin in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry\nwith us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?\n\n9:15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we remain yet to be\nsaved as at this day. Behold we are before thee in our sin, for there\ncan be no standing before thee in this matter.\n\n\n1 Esdras Chapter 10\n\nOrder is given for discharging strange women: the names of the guilty.\n\n10:1. Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping,\nand lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel\nan exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the\npeople wept with much lamentation.\n\n10:2. And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and\nsaid to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange\nwives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in\nIsrael concerning this,\n\n10:3. Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the\nwives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord,\nand of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be\ndone according to the law.\n\n10:4. Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we will be with thee:\ntake courage, and do it.\n\n10:5. So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the priests and of the\nLevites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this\nword, and they swore.\n\n10:6. And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the\nchamber of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate\nno bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for the transgression of\nthem that were come out of the captivity.\n\n10:7. And proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the\nchildren of the captivity, that they should assemble together into\nJerusalem.\n\n10:8. And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to\nthe counsel of the princes and the ancients, all his substance should\nbe taken away, and he should be cast out of the company of them that\nwere returned from captivity.\n\n10:9. Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves\ntogether to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the\ntwentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the\nhouse of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.\n\n10:10. And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have\ntransgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel.\n\n10:11. And now make confession to the Lord the God of your fathers, and\ndo his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land,\nand from your strange wives.\n\n10:12. And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice:\nAccording to thy word unto us, so be it done.\n\n10:13. But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and we are\nnot able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for\nwe have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)\n\n10:14. Let rulers be appointed in all the multitude: and in all our\ncities, let them that have taken strange wives come at the times\nappointed, and with them the ancients and the judges of every city,\nuntil the wrath of our God be turned away from us for this sin.\n\n10:15. Then Jonathan the son of Azahel, and Jaasia the son of Thecua\nwere appointed over this, and Mesollam and Sebethai, Levites, helped\nthem:\n\n10:16. And the children of the captivity did so. And Esdras the priest,\nand the men heads of the families in the houses of their fathers, and\nall by their names, went and sat down in the first day of the tenth\nmonth to examine the matter.\n\n10:17. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange\nwives by the first day of the first month.\n\n10:18. And there were found among the sons of the priests that had\ntaken strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his\nbrethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.\n\n10:19. And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer\nfor their offence a ram of the flock.\n\n10:20. And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani, and Zebedia.\n\n10:21. And of the sons of Harim, Maasia, and Elia, and Semeia, and\nJehiel, and Ozias.\n\n10:22. And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai, Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael,\nJozabed, and Elasa.\n\n10:23. And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed, and Semei, and Celaia,\nthe same is Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.\n\n10:24. And of the singing men, Elisiab: and of the porters, Sellum, and\nTelem, and Uri.\n\n10:25. And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos, Remeia, and Jezia, and\nMelchia, and Miamin, and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.\n\n10:26. And of the sons of Elam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Jehiel, and\nAbdi, and Jerimoth, and Elia.\n\n10:27. And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania,\nJerimuth, and Zabad, and Aziaza.\n\n10:28. And of the sons of Babai, Johanan, Hanania, Zabbai, Athalai:\n\n10:29. And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam, and Melluch, and Adaia,\nJasub, and Saal, and Ramoth.\n\n10:30. And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and\nMaasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.\n\n10:31. And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer, Josue, Melchias, Semeias,\nSimeon,\n\n10:32. Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.\n\n10:33. And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai, Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet,\nJermai, Manasse, Semei.\n\n10:34. Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram, and Uel,\n\n10:35. Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,\n\n10:36. Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,\n\n10:37. Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,\n\n10:38. And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,\n\n10:39. And Salmias, and Nathan, and Adaias,\n\n10:40. And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,\n\n10:41. Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,\n\n10:42. Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.\n\n10:43. Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu,\nand Joel, and Banaia.\n\n10:44. All these had taken strange wives, and there were among them\nwomen that had borne children.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF NEHEMIAS, WHICH IS CALLED THE SECOND OF ESDRAS\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from the writer, who was cupbearer to\nArtaxerxes (surnamed Longimanus) king of Persia, and was sent by him\nwith a commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. It is also called\nthe second book of Esdras; because it is a continuation of the history,\nbegun by Esdras, of the state of the people of God after their return\nfrom captivity.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 1\n\nNehemias hearing the miserable state of his countrymen in Judea,\nlamenteth, fasteth, and prayeth to God for their relief.\n\n1:1. The words of Nehemias the son of Helchias. And it came to pass in\nthe month of Casleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in the castle of\nSusa,\n\n1:2. That Hanani one of my brethren came, he and some men of Juda; and\nI asked them concerning the Jews, that remained and were left of the\ncaptivity, and concerning Jerusalem.\n\n1:3. And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the\ncaptivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach:\nand the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are\nburnt with fire.\n\n1:4. And when I had heard these words, I sat down, and wept, and\nmourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the\nGod of heaven.\n\n1:5. And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, strong, great,\nand terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy with those that love thee,\nand keep thy commandments:\n\n1:6. Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer\nof thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the\nchildren of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children\nof Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father\u2019s\nhouse have sinned.\n\n1:7. We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy\ncommandments, and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded\nthy servant Moses.\n\n1:8. Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant,\nsaying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the\nnations:\n\n1:9. But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do them,\nthough you should be led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I\nwill gather you from thence, and bring you back to the place which I\nhave chosen for my name to dwell there.\n\n1:10. And these are thy servants, and thy people: whom thou hast\nredeemed by thy great strength, and by thy mighty hand.\n\n1:11. I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of\nthy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy\nname: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this\nman. For I was the king\u2019s cupbearer.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 2\n\nNehemias with commission from king Artaxerxes cometh to Jerusalem: and\nexhorteth the Jews to rebuild the walls.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year\nof Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the\nwine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before\nhis face.\n\n2:2. And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou\ndost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I\nknow not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding\ngreat fear:\n\n2:3. And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my\ncountenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the\nsepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt\nwith fire?\n\n2:4. Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I\nprayed to the God of heaven,\n\n2:5. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy\nservant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into\nJudea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.\n\n2:6. And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how\nlong shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased\nthe king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.\n\n2:7. And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give\nme letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they\nconvey me over, till I come into Judea:\n\n2:8. And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king\u2019s forest, to give me\ntimber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the\nwalls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king\ngave me according to the good hand of my God with me.\n\n2:9. And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and\ngave them the king\u2019s letters. And the king had sent with me captains of\nsoldiers, and horsemen.\n\n2:10. And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the\nAmmonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was\ncome, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.\n\n2:11. And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.\n\n2:12. And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told\nnot any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there\nwas no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.\n\n2:13. And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the\ndragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of\nJerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were\nconsumed with fire.\n\n2:14. And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king\u2019s\naqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.\n\n2:15. And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall,\nand going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.\n\n2:16. But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did:\nneither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or\nto the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.\n\n2:17. Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are,\nbecause Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with\nfire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be\nno longer a reproach.\n\n2:18. And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and\nthe king\u2019s words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise\nup, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.\n\n2:19. But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the\nAmmonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us,\nand despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you\ngoing to rebel against the king?\n\n2:20. And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he\nhelpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you\nhave no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 3\n\nThey begin to build the walls: the names and order of the builders.\n\n3:1. Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests,\nand they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors\nthereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it\nunto the tower of Hananeel.\n\n3:2. And next to him the men of Jericho built: and next to them built\nZachur the son of Amri.\n\n3:3. But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and\nset up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars. And next to them\nbuilt Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.\n\n3:4. And next to him built Mosollam the son of Barachias, the son of\nMerezebel, and next to them built Sadoc the son of Baana.\n\n3:5. And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not\nput their necks to the work of their Lord.\n\n3:6. And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosollam the son of Besodia\nbuilt the old gate: they covered it and set up the doors thereof, and\nthe locks, and the bars.\n\n3:7. And next to them built Meltias the Gabaonite, and Jadon the\nMeronathite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that was in\nthe country beyond the river.\n\n3:8. And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia the goldsmith: and\nnext to him built Ananias the son of the perfumer: and they left\nJerusalem unto the wall of the broad street.\n\n3:9. And next to him built Raphaia the son of Hur, lord of the street\nof Jerusalem.\n\n3:10. And next to him Jedaia the son of Haromaph over against his own\nhouse: and next to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.\n\n3:11. Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the son of Phahath Moab,\nbuilt half the street, and the tower of the furnaces.\n\n3:12. And next to him built Sellum the son of Alohes, lord of half the\nstreet of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.\n\n3:13. And the gate of the valley Hanun built, and the inhabitants of\nZanoe: they built it, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and\nthe bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the gate of the\ndunghill.\n\n3:14. And the gate of the dunghill Melchias the son of Rechab built,\nlord of the street of Bethacharam: he built it, and set up the doors\nthereof, and the locks, and the bars.\n\n3:15. And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the son of Cholhoza, built,\nlord of the street of Maspha: he built it, and covered it, and set up\nthe doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and the walls of the\npool of Siloe unto the king\u2019s guard, and unto the steps that go down\nfrom the city of David.\n\n3:16. After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the\nstreet of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and\nto the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the\nmighty.\n\n3:17. After him built the Levites, Rehum the son of Benni. After him\nbuilt Hasebias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his own street.\n\n3:18. After him built their brethren Bavai the son of Enadad, lord of\nhalf Ceila.\n\n3:19. And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord of Maspha, built\nanother measure, over against the going up of the strong corner.\n\n3:20. After him in the mount Baruch the son of Zachai built another\nmeasure, from the corner to the door of the house of Eliasib the high\npriest.\n\n3:21. After him Merimuth the son of Urias the son of Haccus, built\nanother measure, from the door of the house of Eliasib, to the end of\nthe house of Eliasib.\n\n3:22. And after him built the priests, the men of the plains of the\nJordan.\n\n3:23. After him built Benjamin and Hasub, over against their own house:\nand after him built Azarias the son of Maasias the son of Ananias over\nagainst his house.\n\n3:24. After him built Bennui the son of Hanadad another measure, from\nthe house of Azarias unto the bending, and unto the corner.\n\n3:25. Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the bending and the tower,\nwhich lieth out from the king\u2019s high house, that is, in the court of\nthe prison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos.\n\n3:26. And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the\nwater gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.\n\n3:27. After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from\nthe great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.\n\n3:28. And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over\nagainst his house.\n\n3:29. After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house.\nAnd after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east\ngate.\n\n3:30. After him built Hanania the son of Selemia, and Hanun the sixth\nson of Seleph, another measure: after him built Mosollam the son of\nBarachias over against his treasury. After him Melcias the goldsmith\u2019s\nson built unto the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of small\nwares, over against the judgment gate, and unto the chamber of the\ncorner.\n\n3:31. And within the chamber of the corner of the flock gate, the\ngoldsmiths and the merchants built.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 4\n\nThe building is carried on notwithstanding the opposition of their\nenemies.\n\n4:1. And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were\nbuilding the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed\nat the Jews.\n\n4:2. And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans:\nWhat are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will\nthey sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones\nout of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?\n\n4:3. Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a\nfox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.\n\n4:4. Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon\ntheir own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.\n\n4:5. Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out\nfrom before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.\n\n4:6. So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half\nthereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.\n\n4:7. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the\nArabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of\nJerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they\nwere exceedingly angry.\n\n4:8. And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight\nagainst Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.\n\n4:9. And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and\nnight against them.\n\n4:10. And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed,\nand the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the\nwall.\n\n4:11. And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we\ncome in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.\n\n4:12. And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came\nand told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to\nus,\n\n4:13. I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in\norder, with their swords, and spears, and bows.\n\n4:14. And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the\nmagistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of\nthem. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your\nbrethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your\nhouses.\n\n4:15. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had\nbeen told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of\nus to the walls, every man to his work.\n\n4:16. And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their\nyoung men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears,\nand shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind\nthem in all the house of Juda.\n\n4:17. Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that\nladed: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he\nheld a sword.\n\n4:18. For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his\nreins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.\n\n4:19. And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest\nof the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated\non the wall one far from another:\n\n4:20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run\nall thither unto us: our God will fight for us.\n\n4:21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears\nfrom the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.\n\n4:22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his\nservant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in\nthe night, and by day, to work.\n\n4:23. Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that\nfollowed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped\nhimself when he was to be washed.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 5\n\nNehemias blameth the rich, for their oppressing the poor. His\nexhortation, and bounty to his countrymen.\n\n5:1. Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives\nagainst their brethren the Jews.\n\n5:2. And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very\nmany: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and\nlive.\n\n5:3. And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our\nvineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.\n\n5:4. And others said: Let us borrow money for the king\u2019s tribute, and\nlet us give up our fields and vineyards:\n\n5:5. And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our\nchildren as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and\nour daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither\nhave we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards\nother men possess.\n\n5:6. And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to\nthese words.\n\n5:7. And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and\nmagistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your\nbrethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,\n\n5:8. And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to\nour ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and\nwill you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held\ntheir peace, and found not what to answer.\n\n5:9. And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not\nin the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the\nGentiles our enemies?\n\n5:10. Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn\nto many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the\ndebt that is owing to us.\n\n5:11. Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards,\nand their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the\nmoney, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to\nexact of them, give it rather for them.\n\n5:12. And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of\nthem: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took\nan oath of them, to do according to what I had said.\n\n5:13. Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man\nthat shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his\nlabours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the\nmultitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did\naccording to what was said.\n\n5:14. And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor\nin the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and\nthirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my\nbrethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the\ngovernors.\n\n5:15. But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable\nto the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every\nday forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I\ndid not so for the fear of God.\n\n5:16. Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land,\nand all my servants were gathered together to the work.\n\n5:17. The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred\nand fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from\namong the nations that were round about us.\n\n5:18. And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice\nrams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines,\nand many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as\ngovernor: for the people were very much impoverished.\n\n5:19. Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done\nfor this people.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 6\n\nThe enemies seek to terrify Nehemias. He proceedeth and finisheth the\nwall.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the\nArabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall,\nand that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not\nset up the doors in the gates,)\n\n6:2. Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a\nleague together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought\nto do me mischief.\n\n6:3. And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work,\nand I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down\nto you.\n\n6:4. And they sent to me according to this word, four times: and I\nanswered them after the same manner.\n\n6:5. And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to\nthe former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this\nmanner:\n\n6:6. It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and Gossem hath said it, that\nthou and the Jews think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the wall,\nand hast a mind to set thyself king over them: for which end\n\n6:7. Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem,\nsaying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things:\ntherefore come now, that we may take counsel together.\n\n6:8. And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou\nsayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.\n\n6:9. For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands\nwould cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I\nstrengthened my hands the more:\n\n6:10. And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of\nMetabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house\nof God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the\ntemple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will\ncome to slay thee.\n\n6:11. And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that\nbeing as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not\ngo in.\n\n6:12. And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had\nspoken to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat\nhad hired him.\n\n6:13. For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing,\nand sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.\n\n6:14. Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to\ntheir works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the\nprophets that would have put me in fear.\n\n6:15. But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month\nof Elul, in two and fifty days.\n\n6:16. And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all\nnations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down\nwithin themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of\nGod.\n\n6:17. Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal\nmen of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.\n\n6:18. For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son\nin law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to\nwife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.\n\n6:19. And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to\nhim: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 7\n\nNehemias appointeth watchmen in Jerusalem. The list of those who came\nfirst from Babylon.\n\n7:1. Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and\nnumbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:\n\n7:2. I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of\nJerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God\nabove the rest,)\n\n7:3. And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till\nthe sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were\nshut, and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\nevery one by their courses, and every man over against his house.\n\n7:4. And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the\nmidst thereof, and the houses were not built.\n\n7:5. But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and\nmagistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of\nthe number of them who came up at first and therein it was found\nwritten:\n\n7:6. These are the children of the province, who came up from the\ncaptivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the\nking of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every\none into his own city.\n\n7:7. Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemias, Azarias, Raamias,\nNahamani, Mardochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia, Nahum, Baana. The\nnumber of the men of the people of Israel:\n\n7:8. The children of Pharos, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.\n\n7:9. The children of Sephatia, three hundred seventy-two.\n\n7:10. The children of Area, six hundred fifty-two.\n\n7:11. The children of Phahath Moab of the children of Josue and Joab,\ntwo thousand eight hundred eighteen.\n\n7:12. The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n7:13. The children of Zethua, eight hundred forty-five.\n\n7:14. The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.\n\n7:15. The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-eight.\n\n7:16. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:17. The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.\n\n7:18. The children of Adonicam, six hundred sixty-seven.\n\n7:19. The children of Beguai, two thousand sixty-seven.\n\n7:20. The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.\n\n7:21. The children of Ater, children of Hezechias, ninety-eight.\n\n7:22. The children of Hasem, three hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:23. The children of Besai, three hundred twenty-four.\n\n7:24. The children of Hareph, a hundred and twelve.\n\n7:25. The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.\n\n7:26. The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha, a hundred eighty-eight.\n\n7:27. The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-eight.\n\n7:28. The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.\n\n7:29. The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred\nforty-three.\n\n7:30. The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.\n\n7:31. The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-two.\n\n7:32. The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred twenty-three.\n\n7:33. The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.\n\n7:34. The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.\n\n7:35. The children of Harem, three hundred and twenty.\n\n7:36. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.\n\n7:37. The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.\n\n7:38. The children of Senaa, three thousand nine hundred thirty.\n\n7:39. The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine\nhundred and seventy-three.\n\n7:40. The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.\n\n7:41. The children of Phashur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.\n\n7:42. The children of Arem, one thousand and seventeen. The Levites:\n\n7:43. The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the sons\n\n7:44. Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:\n\n7:45. The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-eight.\n\n7:46. The porters: the children of Sellum, the children of Ater, the\nchildren of Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of Hatita, the\nchildren of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.\n\n7:47. The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the children of Hasupha,\nthe children of Tebbaoth,\n\n7:48. The children of Ceros, the children of Siaa, the children of\nPhadon, the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of\nSelmai,\n\n7:49. The children of Hanan, the children of Geddel, the children of\nGaher,\n\n7:50. The children of Raaia, the children of Rasin, the children of\nNecoda,\n\n7:51. The children of Gezem, the children of Asa, the children of\nPhasea,\n\n7:52. The children of Besai, the children of Munim, the children of\nNephussim,\n\n7:53. The children of Bacbuc, the children of Hacupha, the children of\nHarhur,\n\n7:54. The children of Besloth, the children of Mahida, the children of\nHarsa,\n\n7:55. The children of Bercos, the children of Sisara, the children of\nThema,\n\n7:56. The children of Nasia, the children of Hatipha,\n\n7:57. The children of the servants of Solomon, the children of Sothai,\nthe children of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,\n\n7:58. The children of Jahala, the children of Darcon, the children of\nJeddel,\n\n7:59. The children of Saphatia, the children of Hatil, the children of\nPhochereth, who was born of Sabaim, the son of Amon.\n\n7:60. All the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon,\nthree hundred ninety-two.\n\n7:61. And these are they that came up from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub,\nAddon, and Emmer: and could not shew the house of their fathers, nor\ntheir seed, whether they were of Israel.\n\n7:62. The children of Dalaia, the children of Tobia, the children of\nNecoda, six hundred forty-two.\n\n7:63. And of the priests, the children of Habia, the children of Accos,\nthe children of Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of\nBerzellai the Galaadite, and he was called by their name.\n\n7:64. These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and\nthey were cast out of the priesthood.\n\n7:65. And Athersatha said to them, that they should not eat of the\nholies of holies, until there stood up a priest learned and skilful.\n\n7:66. All the multitude as it were one man, forty-two thousand three\nhundred sixty,\n\n7:67. Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven\nthousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and\nsinging women, two hundred forty-five.\n\n7:68. Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six: their mules two hundred\nforty-five.\n\n7:69. Their camels, four hundred thirty-five, their asses, six thousand\nseven hundred and twenty.\n\n(Hitherto is related what was written in the record. From this place\nforward goeth on the history of Nehemias.)\n\n7:70. And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work.\nAthersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty\nbowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests.\n\nAthersatha.... That is, Nehemias; as appears from chap. 12. Either that\nhe was so called at the court of the king of Persia, where he was\ncupbearer: or that, as some think, this name signifies governor; and he\nwas at that time governor of Judea.\n\n7:71. And some of the heads of families gave to the treasure of the\nwork, twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand two hundred\npounds of silver.\n\n7:72. And that which the rest of the people gave, was twenty thousand\ndrams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven\ngarments for priests.\n\n7:73. And the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the\nsinging men, and the rest of the common people, and the Nathinites, and\nall Israel dwelt in their cities.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 8\n\nEsdras readeth the law before the people. Nehemias comforteth them.\nThey celebrate the feast of tabernacles.\n\n8:1. And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in\ntheir cities. And all the people were gathered together as one man to\nthe street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the\nscribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had\ncommanded to Israel.\n\n8:2. Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men\nand women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the\nseventh month.\n\n8:3. And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water\ngate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and\nall those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were\nattentive to the book.\n\n8:4. And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made\nto speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania,\nand Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left,\nPhadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and\nMosollam.\n\n8:5. And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above\nall the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.\n\n8:6. And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people\nanswered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and\nadored God with their faces to the ground.\n\n8:7. Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia,\nMaasia, Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made\nsilence among the people to hear the law: and the people stood in their\nplace.\n\n8:8. And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly\nto be understood: and they understood when it was read.\n\n8:9. And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Esdras the priest and scribe,\nand the Levites who interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy\nday to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor weep: for all the people\nwept, when they heard the words of the law.\n\n8:10. And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and\nsend portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it\nis the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is\nour strength.\n\n8:11. And the Levites stilled all the people, saying: Hold your peace,\nfor the day is holy, and be not sorrowful.\n\n8:12. So all the people went to eat and drink, and to send portions,\nand to make great mirth: because they understood the words that he had\ntaught them.\n\n8:13. And on the second day the chiefs of the families of all the\npeople, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Esdras\nthe scribe, that he should interpret to them the words of the law.\n\n8:14. And they found written in the law, that the Lord had commanded by\nthe hand of Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in\ntabernacles, on the feast, in the seventh month:\n\n8:15. And that they should proclaim and publish the word in all their\ncities, and in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the mount, and fetch\nbranches of olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches of myrtle,\nand branches of palm, and branches of thick trees, to make tabernacles,\nas it is written.\n\n8:16. And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves\ntabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and\nin the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate,\nand in the street of the gate of Ephraim.\n\n8:17. And all the assembly of them that were returned from the\ncaptivity, made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the\ndays of Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had not done so,\nuntil that day: and there was exceeding great joy.\n\n8:18. And he read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the\nfirst day till the last, and they kept the solemnity seven days, and in\nthe eighth day a solemn assembly according to the manner.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 9\n\nThe people repent with fasting and sackcloth. The Levites confess God\u2019s\nbenefits, and the people\u2019s ingratitude: they pray for them, and make a\ncovenant with God.\n\n9:1. And in the four and twentieth day of the month the children of\nIsrael came together with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon\nthem.\n\n9:2. And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from\nevery stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the\niniquities of their fathers.\n\n9:3. And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book of the law of\nthe Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they\nconfessed, and adored the Lord their God.\n\n9:4. And there stood up upon the step of the Levites, Josue, and Bani,\nand Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they\ncried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.\n\n9:5. And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia,\nOduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God from\neternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with\nall blessing and praise.\n\n9:6. Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven\nof heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are\nin it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all\nthese things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.\n\n9:7. Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him\nforth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of\nAbraham.\n\nThe fire of the Chaldeans.... The city of Ur in Chaldea, the name of\nwhich signifies fire. Or out of the fire of the tribulations and\ntemptations, to which he was there exposed.\u2014The ancient Rabbins\nunderstood this literally, affirming that Abram was cast into the fire\nby the idolaters, and brought out by a miracle without any hurt.\n\n9:8. And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou\nmadest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of\nthe Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the\nJebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast\nfulfilled thy words, because thou art just.\n\n9:9. And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou\ndidst hear their cry by the Red Sea.\n\n9:10. And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his\nservants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they\ndealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at\nthis day.\n\n9:11. And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they passed\nthrough the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou\nthrewest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.\n\n9:12. And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in\na pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they\nwent.\n\n9:13. Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them\nfrom heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of\ntruth, ceremonies, and good precepts.\n\n9:14. Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe\nto them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses\nthy servant.\n\n9:15. And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and\nbroughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and\nthou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon\nwhich thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.\n\n9:16. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks\nand hearkened not to thy commandments.\n\n9:17. And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders\nwhich thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave\nthe head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But\nthou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full\nof compassion, didst not forsake them.\n\nAnd gave the head.... That is, they set their head, or were bent to\nreturn to Egypt.\n\n9:18. Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had\nsaid: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had\ncommitted great blasphemies:\n\n9:19. Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the\ndesert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead\nthem in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way\nby which they should go.\n\n9:20. And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna\nthou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water\nfor their thirst.\n\n9:21. Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was\nwanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were\nnot worn.\n\n9:22. And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots\nfor them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the\nking of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.\n\n9:23. And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven,\nand broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to\ntheir fathers, that they should go in and possess it.\n\n9:24. And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst\nhumble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and\ngavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the\nland, that they might do with them as it pleased them.\n\n9:25. And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses\nfull of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards,\nand fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became\nfat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.\n\n9:26. But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and\nthrew thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who\nadmonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of\ngreat blasphemies.\n\n9:27. And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they\nafflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to\nthee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of\nthy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the\nhands of their enemies.\n\n9:28. But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight:\nand thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had\ndominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou\nheardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.\n\n9:29. And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt\nproudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy\njudgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew\nthe shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.\n\n9:30. And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst\ntestify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and\nthey heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people\nof the lands.\n\n9:31. Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them,\nnor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.\n\n9:32. Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest\ncovenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which\nhath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests,\nand our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of\nthe king of Assur, until this day.\n\n9:33. And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because\nthou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.\n\n9:34. Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not\nkept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies\nwhich thou hast testified among them.\n\n9:35. And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and in thy\nmanifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat\nland, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from\ntheir most wicked devices.\n\n9:36. Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which\nthou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things\nthereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.\n\n9:37. And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set\nover us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over\nour beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.\n\n9:38. And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write\nit, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 10\n\nThe names of the subscribers to the covenant, and the contents of it.\n\n10:1. And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha the son of\nHachelai, and Sedecias,\n\n10:2. Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,\n\n10:3. Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,\n\n10:4. Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,\n\n10:5. Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,\n\n10:6. Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,\n\n10:7. Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,\n\n10:8. Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.\n\n10:9. And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias, Bennui of the sons of\nHenadad, Cedmihel,\n\n10:10. And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,\n\n10:11. Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,\n\n10:12. Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,\n\n10:13. Odaia, Bani, Baninu.\n\n10:14. The heads of the people, Pharos, Phahath Moab, Elam, Zethu,\nBani,\n\n10:15. Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,\n\n10:16. Adonia, Begoai, Adin,\n\n10:17. Ater, Hezecia, Azur,\n\n10:18. Odaia, Hasum, Besai,\n\n10:19. Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,\n\n10:20. Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,\n\n10:21. Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,\n\n10:22. Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,\n\n10:23. Osee, Hanania, Hasub,\n\n10:24. Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,\n\n10:25. Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,\n\n10:26. Echaia, Hanan, Anan,\n\n10:27. Melluch, Haran, Baana:\n\n10:28. And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and\nsinging men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the\npeople of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and\ntheir daughters.\n\n10:29. All that could understand, promising for their brethren, with\ntheir chief men, and they came to promise, and swear that they would\nwalk in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of Moses the servant\nof God, that they would do and keep all the commandments of the Lord\nour God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.\n\n10:30. And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the\nland, nor take their daughters for our sons.\n\n10:31. And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any\nthings for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy\nthem on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the\nseventh year, and the exaction of every hand.\n\n10:32. And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of\na sicle every year for the work of the house of our God,\n\n10:33. For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice,\nand for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the\nset feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that\natonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of\nour God.\n\n10:34. And we cast lots among the priests, and the Levites, and the\npeople for the offering of wood, that it might be brought into the\nhouse of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times, from year\nto year: to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written\nin the law of Moses:\n\n10:35. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our land, and the\nfirstfruits of all fruit of every tree, from year to year, in the house\nof our Lord.\n\n10:36. And the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is\nwritten in the law, and the firstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep,\nto be offered in the house of our God, to the priests who minister in\nthe house of our God.\n\n10:37. And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our\nlibations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil\nto the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our\nground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our\nworks out of all the cities.\n\n10:38. And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites in the\ntithes of the Levites, and the Levites shall offer the tithe of their\ntithes in the house of our God, to the storeroom into the treasure\nhouse.\n\n10:39. For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry\nto the treasury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and of oil: and the\nsanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing\nmen, and the porters, and ministers, and we will not forsake the house\nof our God.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 11\n\nWho were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the other cities.\n\n11:1. And the princes of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: but the rest of\nthe people cast lots, to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the\nholy city, and nine parts in the other cities.\n\n11:2. And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered\nthemselves to dwell in Jerusalem.\n\n11:3. These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in\nJerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his\npossession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the\nNathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.\n\n11:4. And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of the children of Juda, and\nsome of the children of Benjamin: of the children of Juda, Athaias the\nson of Aziam, the son of Zacharias, the son of Amarias, the son of\nSaphatias, the son of Malaleel: of the sons of Phares,\n\n11:5. Maasia the son of Baruch, the son of Cholhoza, the son of Hazia,\nthe son of Adaia, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zacharias, the son of\nthe Silonite:\n\n11:6. All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four\nhundred sixty-eight valiant men.\n\n11:7. And these are the children of Benjamin: Sellum the son of\nMosollam, the son of Joed, the son of Phadaia, the son of Colaia, the\nson of Masia, the son of Etheel, the son of Isaia.\n\n11:8. And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.\n\n11:9. And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler, and Judas the son of\nSenua was second over the city.\n\n11:10. And of the priests Idaia the son of Joarib, Jachin,\n\n11:11. Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of\nSadoc, the son of Meraioth, the son of Achitob the prince of the house\nof God,\n\n11:12. And their brethren that do the works of the temple: eight\nhundred twenty-two. And Adaia the son of Jeroham, the son of Phelelia,\nthe son of Amsi, the son of Zacharias, the son of Pheshur, the son of\nMelchias,\n\n11:13. And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers: two hundred\nforty-two. And Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of\nMosollamoth, the son of Emmer,\n\n11:14. And their brethren who were very mighty, a hundred twenty-eight:\nand their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty.\n\n11:15. And of the Levites Semeia the son of Hasub, the son of Azaricam,\nthe son of Hasabia, the son of Boni,\n\n11:16. And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business\nof the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,\n\n11:17. And Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zebedei, the son of\nAsaph, was the principal man to praise, and to give glory in prayer,\nand Becbecia, the second, one of his brethren, and Abda the son of\nSamua, the son of Galal, the son of Idithun.\n\n11:18. All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.\n\n11:19. And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the\ndoors: a hundred seventy-two.\n\n11:20. And the rest of Israel, the priests and the Levites were in all\nthe cities of Juda, every man in his possession.\n\n11:21. And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha\nof the Nathinites.\n\n11:22. And the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem, was Azzi the son\nof Bani, the son of Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the son of Micha. Of\nthe sons of Asaph, were the singing men in the ministry of the house of\nGod.\n\n11:23. For the king\u2019s commandment was concerning them, and an order\namong the singing men day by day.\n\n11:24. And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel of the children of Zara the\nson of Juda was at the hand of the king, in all matters concerning the\npeople,\n\n11:25. And in the houses through all their countries. Of the children\nof Juda some dwelt at Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and at\nDibon, and in the villages thereof: and at Cabseel, and in the villages\nthereof.\n\n11:26. And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at Bethphaleth,\n\n11:27. And at Hasersual, and at Bersabee, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:28. And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:29. And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and at Jerimuth,\n\n11:30. Zanoa, Odollam, and in their villages, at Lachis and its\ndependencies, and at Azeca and the villages thereof. And they dwelt\nfrom Bersabee unto the valley of Ennom.\n\n11:31. And the children of Benjamin, from Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai,\nand at Bethel, and in the villages thereof,\n\n11:32. At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,\n\n11:33. Asor, Rama, Gethaim,\n\n11:34. Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,\n\n11:35. And Ono the valley of craftsmen.\n\n11:36. And of the Levites were portions of Juda and Benjamin.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 12\n\nThe priests, and Levites that came up with Zorobabel. The succession of\nhigh priests: the solemnity of the dedication of the wall.\n\n12:1. Now these are the priests and the Levites, that went up with\nZorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,\n\n12:2. Amaria, Melluch, Hattus,\n\n12:3. Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,\n\n12:4. Addo, Genthon, Abia,\n\n12:5. Miamin, Madia, Belga,\n\n12:6. Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum Amoc, Helcias,\n\n12:7. Idaia. These were the chief of the priests, and of their brethren\nin the days of Josue.\n\n12:8. And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Cedmihel, Sarebia, Juda,\nMathanias, they and their brethren were over the hymns:\n\n12:9. And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their brethren every one in his\noffice.\n\n12:10. And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib\nbegot Joiada,\n\n12:11. And Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jeddoa.\n\n12:12. And in the days of Joacim the priests and heads of the families\nwere: Of Saraia, Maraia: of Jeremias, Hanania:\n\n12:13. Of Esdras, Mosollam: and of Amaria, Johanan:\n\n12:14. Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:\n\n12:15. Of Haram, Edna: of Maraioth, Helci:\n\n12:16. Of Adaia, Zacharia: of Genthon, Mosollam:\n\n12:17. Of Abia, Zechri: of Miamin and Moadia, Phelti:\n\n12:18. Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jonathan:\n\n12:19. Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:\n\n12:20. Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:\n\n12:21. Of Helcias, Hasebia: of Idaia, Nathanael.\n\n12:22. The Levites the chiefs of the families in the days of Eliasib,\nand Joiada, and Johanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded, and the priests in\nthe reign of Darius the Persian.\n\n12:23. The sons of Levi, heads of the families were written in the book\nof Chronicles, even unto the days of Jonathan the son of Eliasib.\n\n12:24. Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue\nthe son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and\nto give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God,\nand to wait equally in order.\n\n12:25. Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub,\nwere keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates.\n\n12:26. These were in the days of Joacim the son of Josue, the son of\nJosedec, and in the days of Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the\npriest and scribe.\n\n12:27. And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the\nLevites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to\nkeep the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with\nsinging, and with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.\n\n12:28. And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of\nthe plain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of\nNethuphati,\n\n12:29. And from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and\nAzmaveth: for the singing men had built themselves villages round about\nJerusalem.\n\n12:30. And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified\nthe people, and the gates, and the wall.\n\n12:31. And I made the princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I\nappointed two great choirs to give praise. And they went on the right\nhand upon the wall toward the dung gate.\n\n12:32. And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,\n\n12:33. And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Judas, and Benjamin, and\nSemeia, and Jeremias.\n\n12:34. And of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son\nof Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of\nMichaia, the son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,\n\n12:35. And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai,\nNathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David\nthe man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them at the fountain gate.\n\n12:36. And they went up over against them by the stairs of the city of\nDavid, at the going up of the wall of the house of David, and to the\nwater gate eastward:\n\n12:37. And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the\nopposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the\nwall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,\n\n12:38. And above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above\nthe fish gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and\neven to the flock gate: and they stood still in the watch gate.\n\n12:39. And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the\nhouse of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.\n\n12:40. And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea, Elioenai,\nZacharia, Hanania with trumpets,\n\n12:41. And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar, and Azzi, and Johanan, and\nMelchia, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sung loud, and Jezraia was\ntheir overseer:\n\n12:42. And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and they\nrejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: their wives also\nand their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar\noff.\n\n12:43. They appointed also in that day men over the storehouses of the\ntreasure, for the libations, and for the firstfruits, and for the\ntithes, that the rulers of the city might bring them in by them in\nhonour of thanksgiving, for the priests and Levites: for Juda was\njoyful in the priests and Levites that assisted.\n\n12:44. And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of\nexpiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the\ncommandment of David, and of Solomon his son.\n\n12:45. For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were\nchief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to\nGod.\n\n12:46. And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of\nNehemias gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by\nday, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the\nsons of Aaron.\n\nSanctified.... That is, they gave them that which by the law was set\naside, and sanctified for their use.\n\n\n2 Esdras Chapter 13\n\nDivers abuses are reformed.\n\n13:1. And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of\nthe people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the\nMoabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:\n\n13:2. Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water:\nand they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned\nthe curse into blessing.\n\n13:3. And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they\nseparated every stranger from Israel.\n\n13:4. And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the\ntreasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.\n\nOver this thing, etc.... Or, he was faulty in this thing, or in this\nkind.\n\n13:5. And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up\ngifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of\nthe wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the\nsinging men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.\n\n13:6. But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two\nand thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king,\nand after certain days I asked the king:\n\n13:7. And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib\nhad done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the\nhouse of God.\n\n13:8. And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels\nof the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.\n\n13:9. And I commanded and they cleansed the storehouses: and I brought\nthither again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the\nfrankincense.\n\n13:10. And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been\ngiven them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that\nministered were fled away every man to his own country:\n\n13:11. And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why\nhave we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I\nmade them to stand in their places.\n\n13:12. And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and\nthe oil into the storehouses.\n\n13:13. And we set over the storehouses Selemias the priest, and Sadoc\nthe scribe, and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the son\nof Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were approved as faithful, and\nto them were committed the portions of their brethren.\n\n13:14. Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my\nkindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his\nceremonies.\n\n13:15. In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the\nsabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes,\nand figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem\non the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day\non which it was lawful to sell.\n\n13:16. Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who brought fish, and all manner\nof wares: and they sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda in\nJerusalem.\n\n13:17. And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is\nthis evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day:\n\n13:18. Did not our fathers do these things, and our God brought all\nthis evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon\nIsrael by violating the sabbath.\n\n13:19. And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at\nrest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I\ncommanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I\nset some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in\nburthens on the sabbath day.\n\n13:20. So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed\nwithout Jerusalem, once or twice.\n\n13:21. And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the\nwall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that\ntime they came no more on the sabbath.\n\n13:22. I spoke also to the Levites that they should be purified, and\nshould come to keep the gates, and to sanctify the sabbath day: for\nthis also remember me, O my God, and spare me according to the\nmultitude of thy tender mercies.\n\n13:23. In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of\nAzotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.\n\n13:24. And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could\nnot speak the Jews\u2019 language, but they spoke according to the language\nof this and that people.\n\n13:25. And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of\nthem, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they\nwould not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters\nfor their sons, nor for themselves, saying:\n\n13:26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and\nsurely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was\nbeloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet\nwomen of other countries brought even him to sin.\n\n13:27. And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to\ntransgress against our God, and marry strange women:\n\n13:28. And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high\npriest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from\nme.\n\n13:29. Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and\nthe law of priests and Levites.\n\n13:30. So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the\ncourses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:\n\n13:31. And for the offering of wood at times appointed, and for the\nfirstfruits: remember me, O my God, unto good. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF TOBIAS\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from the holy man Tobias, whose wonderful\nvirtues are herein recorded. It contains most excellent documents of\ngreat piety, extraordinary patience, and of a perfect resignation to\nthe will of God. His humble prayer was heard, and the angel Raphael was\nsent to relieve him: he is thankful and praises the Lord, calling on\nthe children of Israel to do the same. Having lived to the age of one\nhundred and two years, he exhorts his son and grandsons to piety,\nforetells the destruction of Ninive and the rebuilding of Jerusalem: he\ndies happily.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 1\n\nTobias\u2019s early piety: his works of mercy, particularly in burying the\ndead.\n\n1:1. Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper\nparts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the\nwest, having on the right hand the city of Sephet,)\n\n1:2. When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the\nAssyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,\n\n1:3. But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow\ncaptives, that were of his kindred.\n\n1:4. And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did\nhe no childish thing in his work.\n\n1:5. Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of\nIsrael had made, he alone fled the company of all,\n\n1:6. And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored\nthe Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and\nhis tithes,\n\n1:7. So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the\nproselytes, and strangers.\n\n1:8. These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according\nto the law of God.\n\n1:9. But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and\nhad a son by her, whom he called after his own name,\n\n1:10. And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain\nfrom all sin.\n\n1:11. And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all\nhis tribe was come to the city of Ninive,\n\n1:12. (When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and\nnever was defiled with their meats.\n\n1:13. And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God\ngave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king.\n\n1:14. And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty\nto do whatever he had a mind.\n\n1:15. He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them\nwholesome admonitions.\n\n1:16. And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten\ntalents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king:\n\n1:17. And when amongst a great multitude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus\nin want, who was one of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave\nhim the aforesaid sum of money.\n\n1:18. But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when\nSennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n1:19. Tobias daily went among all his kindred and comforted them, and\ndistributed to every one as he was able, out of his goods:\n\n1:20. He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful\nto bury the dead, and they that were slain.\n\n1:21. And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by\nreason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy,\nand being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried\ntheir bodies.\n\n1:22. But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and\ntook away all his substance.\n\n1:23. But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay\nconcealed, for many loved him.\n\n1:24. But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.\n\n1:25. And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was\nrestored to him.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 2\n\nTobias leaveth his dinner to bury the dead: he loseth his sight by\nGod\u2019s permission, for manifestation of his patience.\n\n2:1. But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good\ndinner was prepared in Tobias\u2019s house,\n\n2:2. He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God,\nto feast with us.\n\n2:3. And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the\nchildren of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up\nfrom his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to\nthe body.\n\n2:4. And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the\nsun was down, he might bury him cautiously.\n\n2:5. And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,\n\n2:6. Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet:\nYour festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.\n\n2:7. So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.\n\n2:8. Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already\ncommandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and\nthou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again\nbury the dead?\n\n2:9. But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies\nof them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight\nburied them.\n\n2:10. Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came\nto his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,\n\n2:11. And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow\u2019s nest fell\nupon his eyes, and he was made blind.\n\n2:12. Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him,\nthat an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of\nholy Job.\n\n2:13. For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept\nhis commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of\nblindness had befallen him,\n\n2:14. But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God\nall the days of his life.\n\n2:15. For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and\nkinsmen mocked at his life, saying:\n\nKings.... So Job\u2019s three friends are here called, because they were\nprinces in their respective territories.\n\n2:16. Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the\ndead?\n\n2:17. But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:\n\n2:18. For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which\nGod will give to those that never change their faith from him.\n\n2:19. Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought\nhome what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.\n\n2:20. Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and\nbrought it home:\n\n2:21. And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest\nperhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful\nfor us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.\n\n2:22. At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident thy\nhope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.\n\n2:23. And with these and other, such like words she upbraided him.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 3\n\nThe prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are\nheard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them.\n\n3:1. Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,\n\n3:2. Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and\nall thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:\n\n3:3. And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins,\nneither remember my offences, nor those of my parents.\n\n3:4. For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we\ndelivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable,\nand a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.\n\n3:5. And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done\naccording to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.\n\n3:6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my\nspirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to\nlive.\n\n3:7. Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in\nRages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father\u2019s\nservant maids,\n\nRages.... In the Greek it is Ecbatana, which was also called Rages. For\nthere were two cities in Media of the name of Rages. Raguel dwelt in\none of them, and Gabelus in the other.\n\n3:8. Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named\nAsmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.\n\n3:9. So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her,\nsaying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou\nmurderer of thy husbands.\n\n3:10. Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven\nhusbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house:\nand for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:\n\n3:11. But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would\ndeliver her from this reproach.\n\n3:12. And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end\nof her prayer, blessing the Lord,\n\n3:13. She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when\nthou hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation\nforgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.\n\n3:14. To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.\n\n3:15. I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach,\nor else take me away from the earth.\n\n3:16. Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have\nkept my soul clean from all lust.\n\n3:17. Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I\nmade myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.\n\n3:18. But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my\nlust.\n\n3:19. And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not\nworthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,\n\n3:20. For thy counsel is not in man\u2019s power.\n\n3:21. But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his\nlife, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under\ntribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it\nshall be allowed to come to thy mercy.\n\n3:22. For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a\nstorm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in\njoyfulness.\n\n3:23. Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,\n\n3:24. At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of\nthe glory of the most high God:\n\n3:25. And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them\nboth, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the\nLord.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 4\n\nTobias thinking he shall die, giveth his son godly admonitions: and\ntelleth him of money he had lent to a friend.\n\n4:1. Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he\nmight die, he called to him Tobias his son,\n\n4:2. And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them\nas a foundation in thy heart.\n\n4:3. When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou\nshalt honour thy mother all the days of her life:\n\n4:4. For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered\nfor thee in her womb.\n\n4:5. And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her\nby me.\n\n4:6. And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed\nthou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord\nour God.\n\n4:7. Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from\nany poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord\nshall not be turned from thee.\n\n4:8. According to thy ability be merciful.\n\n4:9. If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care\neven so to bestow willingly a little.\n\n4:10. For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of\nnecessity.\n\n4:11. For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not\nsuffer the soul to go into darkness.\n\n4:12. Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all\nthem that give it.\n\n4:13. Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and\nbeside thy wife never endure to know a crime.\n\n4:14. Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for\nfrom it all perdition took its beginning.\n\n4:15. If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his\nhire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.\n\n4:16. See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done\nto thee by another.\n\n4:17. Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy\ngarments cover the naked,\n\n4:18. Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man,\nand do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.\n\n4:19. Seek counsel always of a wise man.\n\n4:20. Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and\nthat all thy counsels may abide in him.\n\n4:21. I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver,\nwhile thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes,\nand I have a note of his hand with me:\n\n4:22. Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of\nhim the foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand.\n\n4:23. Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have\nmany good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that\nwhich is good.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 5\n\nYoung Tobias seeking a guide for his journey, the angel Raphael, in\nshape of a man, undertaketh this office.\n\n5:1. Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things,\nfather, which thou hast commanded me.\n\n5:2. But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me,\nand I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know\nthe way which leadeth thither.\n\n5:3. Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand\nwith me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.\n\n5:4. But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee\nfor his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.\n\n5:5. Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing\ngirded, and as it were ready to walk.\n\n5:6. And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and\nsaid: From whence art thou, good young man?\n\n5:7. But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to\nhim: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?\n\n5:8. And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all\nthe ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who\ndwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of\nEcbatana.\n\n5:9. And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell\nthese same things to my father.\n\n5:10. Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon\nwhich his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in\nunto him.\n\n5:11. So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.\n\n5:12. And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in\ndarkness and see not the light of heaven?\n\n5:13. And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from\nGod is at hand.\n\n5:14. And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at\nRages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee\nthy hire.\n\n5:15. And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring\nhim back to thee.\n\n5:16. And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or\nwhat tribe art thou?\n\n5:17. And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him\nthou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?\n\n5:18. But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the\ngreat Ananias.\n\nAzarias.... The angel took the form of Azarias: and therefore might\ncall himself by the name of the man whom he personated. Azarias, in\nHebrew, signifies the help of God, and Ananias the grace of God.\n\n5:19. And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee\nbe not angry that I desired to know thy family.\n\n5:20. And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring\nhim to thee again safe.\n\n5:21. And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God\nbe with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.\n\n5:22. Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their\njourney, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set\nout both together.\n\n5:23. And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to\nsay: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from\nus.\n\n5:24. I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.\n\n5:25. For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it\nas riches, that we saw our son.\n\n5:26. And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither\nsafe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.\n\n5:27. For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and\ndoth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall\nreturn to us with joy.\n\n5:28. At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 6\n\nBy the angel\u2019s advice young Tobias taketh hold on a fish that\nassaulteth him. Reserveth the heart, the gall, and the liver for\nmedicines. They lodge at the house of Raguel, whose daughter Sara,\nTobias is to marry; she had before been married to seven husbands, who\nwere all slain by a devil.\n\n6:1. And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged\nthe first night by the river of Tigris.\n\n6:2. And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came\nup to devour him.\n\n6:3. And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice,\nsaying: Sir, he cometh upon me.\n\n6:4. And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to\nthee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he\nbegan to pant before his feet.\n\n6:5. Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish,\nand lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these\nare necessary for useful medicines.\n\n6:6. And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they\ntook it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might\nserve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.\n\n6:7. Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee,\nbrother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which\nthou hast bid me keep of the fish?\n\n6:8. And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece\nof its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of\ndevils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to\nthem.\n\nIts heart, etc. The liver (ver. 19).... God was pleased to give these\nthings a virtue against those proud spirits, to make them, who affected\nto be like the Most High, subject to such mean corporeal creatures as\ninstruments of his power.\n\n6:9. And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a\nwhite speck, and they shall be cured.\n\n6:10. And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?\n\n6:11. And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel,\na near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he\nhath no son nor any other daughter beside her.\n\n6:12. All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.\n\n6:13. Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to\nwife.\n\n6:14. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given\nto seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a\ndevil killed them.\n\n6:15. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also:\nand whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down\ntheir old age with sorrow to hell.\n\nHell.... That is, to the place where the souls of the good were kept\nbefore the coming of Christ.\n\n6:16. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee\nwho they are, over whom the devil can prevail.\n\n6:17. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God\nfrom themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their\nlust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them\nthe devil hath power.\n\n6:18. But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for\nthree days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing\nelse but to prayers with her.\n\n6:19. And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the\ndevil shall be driven away.\n\n6:20. But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of\nthe holy Patriarchs.\n\n6:21. And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound\nchildren may be born of you.\n\n6:22. And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with\nthe fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust,\nthat in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 7\n\nThey are kindly entertained by Raguel. Tobias demandeth Sara to wife.\n\n7:1. And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received them with joy.\n\n7:2. And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is\nthis young man to my cousin?\n\n7:3. And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young\nmen our brethren?\n\n7:4. But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captivity\nof Ninive.\n\n7:5. And Raguel said to them: Do you know Tobias my brother? And they\nsaid: We know him.\n\n7:6. And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said\nto Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man\u2019s\nfather.\n\n7:7. And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon\nhis neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the\nson of a good and most virtuous man.\n\n7:8. And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept.\n\n7:9. And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed,\nand a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to\ndinner,\n\n7:10. Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou\nfirst grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.\n\n7:11. Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had\nhappened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began\nto fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was\nin suspense, and gave no answer to his petition,\n\n7:12. The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for\nto him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore\nanother could not have her.\n\n7:13. Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers\nand tears in his sight.\n\n7:14. And I believe he hath therefore made you come to me, that this\nmaid might be married to one of her own kindred, according to the law\nof Moses: and now doubt not but I will give her to thee.\n\n7:15. And taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the\nright hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,\nand the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join you together, and\nfulfil his blessing in you.\n\n7:16. And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage.\n\n7:17. And afterwards they made merry, blessing God.\n\n7:18. And Raguel called to him Anna his wife, and bade her to prepare\nanother chamber.\n\n7:19. And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept.\n\n7:20. And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my daughter: the Lord of\nheaven give thee joy for the trouble thou hast undergone.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 8\n\nTobias burneth part of the fish\u2019s liver, and Raphael bindeth the devil.\nTobias and Sara pray.\n\n8:1. And after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her.\n\n8:2. And Tobias remembering the angel\u2019s word, took out of his bag part\nof the liver, and laid it upon burning coals.\n\n8:3. Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert\nof upper Egypt.\n\n8:4. Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and\nlet us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for\nthese three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is\nover, we will be in our own wedlock.\n\n8:5. For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined\ntogether like heathens that know not God.\n\n8:6. So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health\nmight be given them,\n\n8:7. And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the\nearth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy\ncreatures that are in them, bless thee.\n\n8:8. Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for\na helper.\n\n8:9. And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take\nmy sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy\nname may be blessed for ever and ever.\n\n8:10. Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and\nlet us grow old both together in health.\n\n8:11. And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his\nservants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a\ngrave.\n\n8:12. For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like\nmanner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.\n\n8:13. And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife,\nand said to her:\n\n8:14. Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may\nbury him before it be day.\n\n8:15. So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber,\nand found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.\n\n8:16. And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his\nwife blessed the Lord,\n\n8:17. And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath\nnot happened as we suspected.\n\n8:18. For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us\nthe enemy that persecuted us.\n\n8:19. And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O\nLord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy\npraise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone\nart God in all the earth.\n\n8:20. And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to fill up the pit\nthey had made, before it was day.\n\n8:21. And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and prepare all\nkind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey.\n\n8:22. He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be killed, and a\nbanquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his friends,\n\n8:23. And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with him two weeks.\n\n8:24. And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave one half to\nTobias, and made a writing, that the half that remained should after\ntheir decease come also to Tobias.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 9\n\nThe angel Raphael goeth to Gabelus, receiveth the money, and bringeth\nhim to the marriage.\n\n9:1. Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and\nsaid to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:\n\n9:2. If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a\nworthy return for thy care.\n\n9:3. However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants,\nand to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to\nhim his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to\ncome to my wedding.\n\n9:4. For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay\none day more, his soul will be afflicted.\n\n9:5. And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I\ncannot despise.\n\n9:6. Then Raphael took four of Raguel\u2019s servants, and two camels, and\nwent to Rages the city of the Medes: and finding Gabelus, gave him his\nnote of hand, and received of him all the money.\n\n9:7. And he told him concerning Tobias the son of Tobias, all that had\nbeen done: and made him come with him to the wedding.\n\n9:8. And when he was come into Raguel\u2019s house he found Tobias sitting\nat the table: and he leaped up, and they kissed each other: and Gabelus\nwept, and blessed God,\n\n9:9. And said: The God of Israel bless thee, because thou art the son\nof a very good and just man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds:\n\n9:10. And may a blessing come upon thy wife and upon your parents.\n\n9:11. And may you see your children, and your children\u2019s children, unto\nthe third and fourth generation: and may your seed be blessed by the\nGod of Israel, who reigneth for ever and ever.\n\n9:12. And when all had said, Amen, they went to the feast: but the\nmarriage feast they celebrated also with the fear of the Lord.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 10\n\nThe parents lament the long absence of their son Tobias. He sets out to\nreturn.\n\n10:1. But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage,\nTobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son\ntarry, or why is he detained there?\n\n10:2. Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the\nmoney?\n\n10:3. And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with\nhim: and they began both to weep together, because their son did not\nreturn to them on the day appointed.\n\n10:4. But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe,\nwoe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the\nlight of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life,\nthe hope of our posterity?\n\n10:5. We having all things together in thee alone, ought not to have\nlet thee go from us.\n\n10:6. And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our\nson is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty.\n\n10:7. But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out\nlooked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed\nany hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming\nafar off.\n\n10:8. But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here, and I will send a\nmessenger to Tobias thy father, that thou art in health.\n\n10:9. And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now\ncount the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them.\n\n10:10. And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no\nmeans would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all\nhis substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels,\nand in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from\nhim,\n\n10:11. Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey,\nand bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about\nyour parents, and my eyes may see your children before I die.\n\n10:12. And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her\ngo:\n\n10:13. Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love\nher husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to\nbehave herself irreprehensibly.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 11\n\nTobias anointeth his father\u2019s eyes with the fish\u2019s gall, and he\nrecovereth his sight.\n\n11:1. And as they were returning they came to Charan, which is in the\nmidway to Ninive, the eleventh day.\n\n11:2. And the angel said: Brother Tobias, thou knowest how thou didst\nleave thy father.\n\n11:3. If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family\nfollow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts.\n\n11:4. And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take\nwith thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias\ntook some of that gall and departed.\n\n11:5. But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from\nwhence she might see afar off.\n\n11:6. And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him\nafar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning\nshe told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh.\n\n11:7. And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as thou shalt come into thy\nhouse, forthwith adore the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go\nto thy father, and kiss him.\n\n11:8. And immediately anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish, which\nthou carriest with thee. For be assured that his eyes shall be\npresently opened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven, and\nshall rejoice in the sight of thee.\n\n11:9. Then the dog, which had been with them in the way, ran before,\nand coming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning\nand wagging his tail.\n\nThe dog, etc.... This may seem a very minute circumstance to be\nrecorded in sacred history: but as we learn from our Saviour, St. Matt.\n5.18, there are iotas and tittles in the word of God: that is to say,\nthings that appear minute, but which have indeed a deep and mysterious\nmeaning in them.\n\n11:10. And his father that was blind, rising up, began to run stumbling\nwith his feet: and giving a servant his hand, went to meet his son.\n\n11:11. And receiving him kissed him, as did also his wife, and they\nbegan to weep for joy.\n\n11:12. And when they had adored God, and given him thanks, they sat\ndown together.\n\n11:13. Then Tobias taking of the gall of the fish, anointed his\nfather\u2019s eyes.\n\n11:14. And he stayed about half an hour: and a white skin began to come\nout of his eyes, like the skin of an egg.\n\n11:15. And Tobias took hold of it, and drew it from his eyes, and\nimmediately he recovered his sight.\n\n11:16. And they glorified God, both he and his wife and all that knew\nhim.\n\n11:17. And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because\nthou hast chastised me, and thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias\nmy son.\n\n11:18. And after seven days Sara his son\u2019s wife and all the family\narrived safe, and the cattle, and the camels, and an abundance of money\nof his wife\u2019s: and that money also which he had received of Gabelus,\n\n11:19. And he told his parents all the benefits of God, which he had\ndone to him by the man that conducted him.\n\n11:20. And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen of Tobias came, rejoicing for\nTobias, and congratulating with him for all the good things that God\nhad done for him.\n\n11:21. And for seven days they feasted and rejoiced all with great joy.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 12\n\nRaphael maketh himself known.\n\n12:1. Then Tobias called to him his son and said to him: What can we\ngive to this holy man, that is come with thee?\n\n12:2. Tobias answering, said to his father: Father, what wages shall we\ngive him? or what can be worthy of his benefits?\n\n12:3. He conducted me and brought me safe again, he received the money\nof Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife, and he chased from her the\nevil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he delivered from being\ndevoured by the fish, thee also he hath made to see the light of\nheaven, and we are filled with all good things through him. What can we\ngive him sufficient for these things?\n\n12:4. But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would\nvouchsafe to accept of one half of all things that have been brought.\n\n12:5. So the father and the son calling him, took him aside: and began\nto desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things\nthat they had brought,\n\n12:6. Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the God of heaven, give\nglory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his\nmercy to you.\n\n12:7. For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to\nreveal and confess the works of God.\n\n12:8. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up\ntreasures of gold.\n\n12:9. For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which\npurgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.\n\n12:10. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own\nsoul.\n\n12:11. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the\nsecret from you.\n\n12:12. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and\ndidst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury\nthem by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.\n\n12:13. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that\ntemptation should prove thee.\n\n12:14. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara\nthy son\u2019s wife from the devil.\n\n12:15. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before\nthe Lord.\n\n12:16. And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and\nbeing seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.\n\n12:17. And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.\n\n12:18. For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless\nye him, and sing praises to him.\n\n12:19. I seemed indeed to eat and to drink with you but I use an\ninvisible meat and drink, which cannot be seen by men.\n\n12:20. It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but\nbless ye God, and publish all his wonderful works.\n\n12:21. And when he had said these things, he was taken from their\nsight, and they could see him no more.\n\n12:22. Then they lying prostrate for three hours upon their face,\nblessed God, and rising up, they told all his wonderful works.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 13\n\nTobias the father praiseth God, exhorting all Israel to do the same.\nProphesieth the restoration and better state of Jerusalem.\n\n13:1. And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and\nsaid: Thou art great O Lord, for ever, and thy kingdom is unto all\nages.\n\n13:2. For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell,\nand bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.\n\n13:3. Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel, and praise him in\nthe sight of the Gentiles:\n\n13:4. Because he hath therefore scattered you among the Gentiles, who\nknow not him, that you may declare his wonderful works, and make them\nknow that there is no other almighty God besides him.\n\n13:5. He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and he will save us for\nhis own mercy.\n\n13:6. See then what he hath done with us, and with fear and trembling\ngive ye glory to him: and extol the eternal King of worlds in your\nworks.\n\n13:7. As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because\nhe hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation,\n\n13:8. Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do justice before God,\nbelieving that he will shew his mercy to you.\n\n13:9. And I and my soul will rejoice in him.\n\n13:10. Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days of joy, and give\nglory to him.\n\n13:11. Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chastised thee for the\nworks of thy hands.\n\nJerusalem.... What is prophetically delivered here, and in the\nfollowing chapter, with relation to Jerusalem, is partly to be\nunderstood of the rebuilding of the city after the captivity: and\npartly of the spiritual Jerusalem, which is the church of Christ, and\nthe eternal Jerusalem in heaven.\n\n13:12. Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, and bless the God\neternal that he may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and may call back\nall the captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever and ever.\n\n13:13. Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and all the ends of the\nearth shall worship thee,\n\n13:14. Nations from afar shall come to thee: and shall bring gifts, and\nshall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy.\n\n13:15. For they shall call upon the great name in thee,\n\n13:16. They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be\ncondemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that\nshall build thee up,\n\n13:17. But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, because they shall all\nbe blessed, and shall be gathered together to the Lord.\n\n13:18. Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy\npeace,\n\n13:19. My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the Lord our God hath\ndelivered Jerusalem his city from all her troubles.\n\n13:20. Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed, to see the\nglory of Jerusalem.\n\n13:21. The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of\nemerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones.\n\n13:22. All its streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and\nAlleluia shall be sung in its streets,\n\n13:23. Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it, and may he reign over\nit for ever and ever, Amen.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 14\n\nOld Tobias dieth at the age of a hundred and two years, after exhorting\nhis son and grandsons to piety, foreshewing that Ninive shall be\ndestroyed, and Jerusalem rebuilt. The younger Tobias returneth with his\nfamily to Raguel, and dieth happily as he had lived.\n\n14:1. And the words of Tobias were ended. And after Tobias was restored\nto his sight, he lived two and forty years, and saw the children of his\ngrandchildren.\n\n14:2. And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried\nhonorably in Ninive.\n\n14:3. For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his\neyes, and sixty when he recovered it again.\n\n14:4. And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of\nthe fear of God he departed in peace.\n\n14:5. And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias\nand his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:\n\n14:6. The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord\nmust be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the\nland of Israel, shall return to it.\n\n14:7. And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with\npeople, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be\nrebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither.\n\n14:8. And the Gentiles shall leave their idols, and shall come into\nJerusalem, and shall dwell in it.\n\n14:9. And all the kings of the earth shall rejoice in it, adoring the\nKing of Israel.\n\n14:10. Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord\nin truth, and seek to do the things that please him:\n\n14:11. And command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds,\nand that they be mindful of God, and bless him at all times in truth,\nand with all their power.\n\n14:12. And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as\nyou shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct\nyour steps to depart hence:\n\n14:13. For I see that its iniquity will bring it to destruction.\n\n14:14. And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias\ndeparted out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children\u2019s\nchildren, and returned to his father and mother in law.\n\n14:15. And he found them in health in a good old age: and he took care\nof them, and he closed their eyes: and all the inheritance of Raguel\u2019s\nhouse came to him: and he saw his children\u2019s children to the fifth\ngeneration.\n\n14:16. And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the\nLord, with joy they buried him.\n\n14:17. And all his kindred, and all his generation continued in good\nlife, and in holy conversation, so that they were acceptable both to\nGod, and to men, and to all that dwelt in the land.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JUDITH\n\n\nThe sacred writer of this Book is generally believed to be the high\npriest Eliachim (called also Joachim). The transactions herein related,\nmost probably happened in his days, and in the reign of Manasses, after\nhis repentance and return from captivity. It takes its name from that\nillustrious woman, by whose virtue and fortitude, and armed with\nprayer, the children of Israel were preserved from the destruction\nthreatened them by Holofernes and his great army. It finishes with her\ncanticle of thanksgiving to God.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 1\n\nNabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians overcometh Arphaxad king of the\nMedes.\n\n1:1. Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his\ndominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,\n\nArphaxad.... He was probably the same as is called Dejoces by\nHerodotus; to whom he attributes the building of Ecbatana, the capital\ncity of Media.\n\n1:2. Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy\ncubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a\nhundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended\nthe space of twenty feet.\n\n1:3. And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the\ntowers:\n\n1:4. And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the\nglory of his chariots.\n\n1:5. Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the\nAssyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against\nArphaxad and overcame him,\n\nNabuchodonosor.... Not the king of Babylon, who took and destroyed\nJerusalem, but another of the same name, who reigned in Ninive: and is\ncalled by profane historians Saosduchin. He succeeded Asarhaddan in the\nkingdom of the Assyrians, and was contemporary with Manasses king of\nJuda.\n\n1:6. In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and\nthe Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the\nElicians.\n\n1:7. Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was\nelevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and\nLibanus,\n\n1:8. And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the\ninhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,\n\n1:9. And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even\nto Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of\nEthiopia.\n\n1:10. To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent\nmessengers:\n\n1:11. But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and\nrejected them without honour.\n\n1:12. Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore\nby his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those\ncountries.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 2\n\nNabuchodonosor sendeth Holofernes to waste the countries of the west.\n\n2:1. In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and\ntwentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house\nof Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself.\n\n2:2. And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his\nofficers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:\n\n2:3. And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under\nhis empire.\n\n2:4. And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king,\ncalled Holofernes the general of his armies,\n\n2:5. And said to him: Go out against all the kingdoms of the west, and\nagainst them especially that despised my commandment.\n\n2:6. Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom, and all the strong cities\nthou shalt bring under my yoke.\n\n2:7. Then Holofernes called the captains, and officers of the power of\nthe Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, as the king\ncommanded him, a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men on foot, and\ntwelve thousand archers, horsemen.\n\n2:8. And he made all his warlike preparations to go before with a\nmultitude of innumerable camels, with all provisions sufficient for the\narmies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, without\nnumber.\n\n2:9. He appointed corn to be prepared out of all Syria in his passage.\n\n2:10. But gold and silver he took out of the king\u2019s house in great\nabundance.\n\n2:11. And he went forth he and all the army, with the chariots, and\nhorsemen, and archers, who covered the face of the earth, like locusts.\n\n2:12. And when he had passed through the borders of the Assyrians, he\ncame to the great mountains of Ange, which are on the left of Cilicia:\nand he went up to all their castles, and took all the strong places.\n\n2:13. And he took by assault the renowned city of Melothus, and\npillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who\nwere over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land\nof Cellon.\n\n2:14. And he passed over the Euphrates and came into Mesopotamia: and\nhe forced all the stately cities that were there, from the torrent of\nMambre, till one comes to the sea:\n\n2:15. And he took the borders thereof, from Cilicia to the coasts of\nJapheth, which are towards the south.\n\n2:16. And he carried away all the children of Madian, and stripped them\nof all their riches, and all that resisted him he slew with the edge of\nthe sword.\n\n2:17. And after these things he went down into the plains of Damascus\nin the days of the harvest, and he set all the corn on fire, and he\ncaused all the trees and vineyards to be cut down.\n\n2:18. And the fear of them fell upon all the inhabitants of the land.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 3\n\nMany submit themselves to Holofernes. He destroyeth their cities, and\ntheir gods, that Nabuchodonosor only might be called God.\n\n3:1. Then the kings and the princes of all the cities and provinces, of\nSyria, Mesopotamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their\nambassadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:\n\n3:2. Let thy indignation towards us cease, for it is better for us to\nlive and serve Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be subject to thee,\nthan to die and to perish, or suffer the miseries of slavery.\n\n3:3. All our cities and our possessions, all mountains and hills, and\nfields, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses,\nand camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy sight:\n\n3:4. Let all we have be subject to thy law,\n\n3:5. Both we and our children are thy servants.\n\n3:6. Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall\nplease thee,\n\n3:7. Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great\npower, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants\nof the land.\n\n3:8. And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and\nchosen for war,\n\n3:9. And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the\ninhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the\npeople, went out to meet him at his coming.\n\n3:10. And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and\ntimbrels, and flutes.\n\n3:11. And though they did these things, they could not for all that\nmitigate the fierceness of his heart:\n\n3:12. For he both destroyed their cities, and cut down their groves.\n\n3:13. For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the\ngods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations\nwhich could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes.\n\n3:14. And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea,\nand all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,\n\n3:15. And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for\nthirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to\nbe united.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 4\n\nThe children of Israel prepare themselves to resist Holofernes. They\ncry to the Lord for help.\n\n4:1. Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Juda,\nhearing these things, were exceedingly afraid of him.\n\n4:2. Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the\nsame to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to\nother cities and their temples.\n\n4:3. And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and\nseized upon all the tops of the mountains:\n\n4:4. And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together\ncorn for provision for war.\n\n4:5. And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against\nEsdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom\nthere might be a passage of way, that they should take possession of\nthe ascents of the mountains, by which there might be any way to\nJerusalem, and should keep watch where the way was narrow between the\nmountains.\n\n4:6. And the children of Israel did as the priest of the Lord Eliachim\nhad appointed them.\n\n4:7. And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and\nthey humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their\nwives.\n\n4:8. And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little\nchildren to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar\nof the Lord they covered with haircloth.\n\n4:9. And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that\ntheir children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off,\nand their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that\nthey might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.\n\n4:10. Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord went about all Israel\nand spoke to them,\n\n4:11. Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear your prayers, if you\ncontinue with perseverance in fastings and prayers in the sight of the\nLord.\n\n4:12. Remember Moses the servant of the Lord overcame Amalec that\ntrusted in his own strength, and in his power, and in his army, and in\nhis shields, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not by fighting\nwith the sword, but by holy prayers:\n\n4:13. So all the enemies of Israel be, if you persevere in this work\nwhich you have begun.\n\n4:14. So they being moved by this exhortation of his, prayed to the\nLord, and continued in the sight of the Lord.\n\n4:15. So that even they who offered the holocausts to the Lord, offered\nthe sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon\ntheir head.\n\n4:16. And they all begged of God with all their heart, that he would\nvisit his people Israel.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 5\n\nAchior gives Holofernes an account of the people of Israel.\n\n5:1. And it was told Holofernes the general of the army of the\nAssyrians, that the children of Israel prepared themselves to resist,\nand had shut up the ways of the mountains.\n\n5:2. And he was transported with exceeding great fury and indignation,\nand he called all the princes of Moab and the leaders of Ammon.\n\n5:3. And he said to them: Tell me what is this people that besetteth\nthe mountains: or what are their cities, and of what sort, and how\ngreat: also what is their power, or what is their multitude: or who is\nthe king over their warfare:\n\n5:4. And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us,\nand have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with\npeace?\n\n5:5. Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said;\nIf thou vouchsafe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight\nconcerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall\nnot a false word come out of my mouth.\n\n5:6. This people is of the offspring of the Chaldeans.\n\n5:7. They dwelt first in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the\ngods of their fathers, who were in the land of the Chaldeans.\n\n5:8. Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which\nconsisted in the worship of many gods,\n\n5:9. They worshipped one God of heaven, who also commanded them to\ndepart from thence, and to dwell in Charan. And when there was a famine\nover all the land, they went down into Egypt, and there for four\nhundred years were so multiplied, that the army of them could not be\nnumbered.\n\n5:10. And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of\nthem to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they\ncried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers\nplagues.\n\n5:11. And when the Egyptians had cast them out from them, and the\nplague had ceased from them, and they had a mind to take them again,\nand bring them back to their service,\n\n5:12. The God of heaven opened the sea to them in their flight, so that\nthe waters were made to stand firm as a wall on either side, and they\nwalked through the bottom of the sea and passed it dry foot.\n\n5:13. And when an innumerable army of the Egyptians pursued after them\nin that place, they were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there was\nnot one left, to tell what had happened to posterity.\n\n5:14. After they came out of the Red Sea, they abode in the deserts of\nmount Sina, in which never man could dwell, or son of man rested.\n\n5:15. There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for\nforty years they received food from heaven.\n\n5:16. Wheresoever they went in without bow and arrow, and without\nshield and sword, their God fought for them and overcame.\n\n5:17. And there was no one that triumphed over this people, but when\nthey departed from the worship of the Lord their God.\n\n5:18. But as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other,\nthey were given to spoil and to the sword, and to reproach.\n\n5:19. And as often as they were penitent for having revolted from the\nworship of their God, the God of heaven gave them power to resist.\n\n5:20. So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the\nJebusites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the\nHevites, and of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and\nthey possessed their lands, and their cities:\n\n5:21. And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was\nwell with them: for their God hateth iniquity.\n\n5:22. And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which\nGod had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by\nmany nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange\nland.\n\n5:23. But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different\nplaces wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone\nup into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their\nholies are.\n\n5:24. Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs\nin the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will\nsurely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke\nof thy power:\n\n5:25. But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their\nGod, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we\nshall be a reproach to the whole earth.\n\n5:26. And it came to pass, when Achior had ceased to speak these words,\nall the great men of Holofernes were angry, and they had a mind to kill\nhim, saying to each other:\n\n5:27. Who is this, that saith the children of Israel can resist king\nNabuchodonosor, and his armies, men unarmed, and without force, and\nwithout skill in the art of war?\n\n5:28. That Achior therefore may know that he deceiveth us, let us go up\ninto the mountains: and when the bravest of them shall be taken, then\nshall he with them be stabbed with the sword,\n\n5:29. That every nation may know that Nabuchodonosor is god of the\nearth, and besides him there is no other.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 6\n\nHolofernes in great rage sendeth Achior to Bethulia, there to be slain\nwith the Israelites.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass when they had left off speaking, that\nHolofernes being in a violent passion, said to Achior:\n\n6:2. Because thou hast prophesied unto us, saying: That the nation of\nIsrael is defended by their God, to shew thee that there is no God, but\nNabuchodonosor:\n\n6:3. When we shall slay them all as one man, then thou also shalt die\nwith them by the sword of the Assyrians, and all Israel shall perish\nwith thee:\n\n6:4. And thou shalt find that Nabuchodonosor is lord of the whole\nearth: and then the sword of my soldiers shall pass through thy sides,\nand thou shalt be stabbed and fall among the wounded of Israel, and\nthou shalt breathe no more till thou be destroyed with them.\n\n6:5. But if thou think thy prophecy true, let not thy countenance sink,\nand let the paleness that is in thy face, depart from thee, if thou\nimaginest these my words cannot be accomplished.\n\n6:6. And that thou mayst know that thou shalt experience these things\ntogether with them, behold from this hour thou shalt be associated to\ntheir people, that when they shall receive the punishment they deserve\nfrom my sword, thou mayst fall under the same vengeance.\n\n6:7. Then Holofernes commanded his servants to take Achior, and to lead\nhim to Bethulia, and to deliver him into the hands of the children of\nIsrael.\n\n6:8. And the servants of Holofernes taking him, went through the\nplains: but when they came near the mountains, the slingers came out\nagainst them.\n\n6:9. Then turning out of the way by the side of the mountain, they tied\nAchior to a tree hand and foot, and so left him bound with ropes, and\nreturned to their master.\n\n6:10. And the children of Israel coming down from Bethulia, came to\nhim, and loosing him they brought him to Bethulia, and setting him in\nthe midst of the people, asked him what was the matter that the\nAssyrians had left him bound.\n\n6:11. In those days the rulers there, were Ozias the son of Micha of\nthe tribe of Simeon, and Charmi, called also Gothoniel.\n\n6:12. And Achior related in the midst of the ancients, and in the\npresence of all the people, all that he had said being asked by\nHolofernes: and how the people of Holofernes would have killed him for\nthis word,\n\n6:13. And how Holofernes himself being angry had commanded him to be\ndelivered for this cause to the Israelites: that when he should\novercome the children of Israel, then he might command Achior also\nhimself to be put to death by diverse torments, for having said: The\nGod of heaven is their defender.\n\n6:14. And when Achior had declared all these things, all the people\nfell upon their faces, adoring the Lord, and all of them together\nmourning and weeping poured out their prayers with one accord to the\nLord,\n\n6:15. Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and\nlook on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints,\nand shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou\nhumblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own\nstrength.\n\n6:16. So when their weeping was ended, and the people\u2019s prayer, in\nwhich they continued all the day, was concluded, they comforted Achior,\n\n6:17. Saying: The God of our fathers, whose power thou hast set forth,\nwill make this return to thee, that thou rather shalt see their\ndestruction.\n\n6:18. And when the Lord our God shall give this liberty to his\nservants, let God be with thee also in the midst of us: that as it\nshall please thee, so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.\n\n6:19. Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken up, received him into\nhis house, and made him a great supper.\n\n6:20. And all the ancients were invited, and they refreshed themselves\ntogether after their fast was over.\n\n6:21. And afterwards all the people were called together, and they\nprayed all the night long within the church, desiring help of the God\nof Israel.\n\nThe church.... That is, the synagogue or place where they met for\nprayer.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 7\n\nHolofernes besiegeth Bethulia. The distress of the besieged.\n\n7:1. But Holofernes on the next day gave orders to his army, to go up\nagainst Bethulia.\n\n7:2. Now there were in his troops a hundred and twenty thousand\nfootmen, and two and twenty thousand horsemen, besides the preparations\nof those men who had been taken, and who had been brought away out of\nthe provinces and cities of all the youth.\n\n7:3. All these prepared themselves together to fight against the\nchildren of Israel, and they came by the hillside to the top, which\nlooketh toward Dothain, from the place which is called Belma, unto\nChelmon, which is over against Esdrelon.\n\n7:4. But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them,\nprostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads,\npraying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his mercy\nupon his people.\n\n7:5. And taking their arms of war, they posted themselves at the\nplaces, which by a narrow pathway lead directly between the mountains,\nand they guarded them all day and night.\n\n7:6. Now Holofernes, in going round about, found that the fountain\nwhich supplied them with water, ran through an aqueduct without the\ncity on the south side: and he commanded their aqueduct to be cut off.\n\n7:7. Nevertheless there were springs not far from the walls, out of\nwhich they were seen secretly to draw water, to refresh themselves a\nlittle rather than to drink their fill.\n\n7:8. But the children of Ammon and Moab came to Holofernes, saying: The\nchildren of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but\nthe mountains are their defence, and the steep hills and precipices\nguard them.\n\n7:9. Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them without joining battle,\nset guards at the springs that they may not draw water out of them, and\nthou shalt destroy them without sword, or at least being wearied out\nthey will yield up their city, which they suppose, because it is\nsituate in the mountains, to be impregnable.\n\n7:10. And these words pleased Holofernes, and his officers, and he\nplaced all round about a hundred men at every spring.\n\n7:11. And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the\ncisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of\nBethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy\nthem, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people\nby measure.\n\n7:12. Then all the men and women, young men, and children, gathering\nthemselves together to Ozias, all together with one voice,\n\n7:13. Said: God be judge between us and thee, for thou hast done evil\nagainst us, in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably with the\nAssyrians, and for this cause God hath sold us into their hands.\n\n7:14. And therefore there is no one to help us, while we are cast down\nbefore their eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.\n\n7:15. And now assemble ye all that are in the city, that we may of our\nown accord yield ourselves all up to the people of Holofernes.\n\n7:16. For it is better, that being captives we should live and bless\nthe Lord, than that we should die, and be a reproach to all flesh,\nafter we have seen our wives and our infants die before our eyes.\n\n7:17. We call to witness this day heaven and earth, and the God of our\nfathers, who taketh vengeance upon us according to our sins, conjuring\nyou to deliver now the city into the hand of the army of Holofernes,\nthat our end may be short by the edge of the sword, which is made\nlonger by the drought of thirst.\n\n7:18. And when they had said these things, there was great weeping and\nlamentation of all in the assembly, and for many hours with one voice\nthey cried to God, saying:\n\n7:19. We have sinned with our fathers, we have done unjustly, we have\ncommitted iniquity:\n\n7:20. Have thou mercy on us, because thou art good, or punish our\niniquities by chastising us thyself, and deliver not them that trust in\nthee to a people that knoweth not thee,\n\n7:21. That they may not say among the Gentiles: Where is their God?\n\n7:22. And when being wearied with these cries, and tired with these\nweepings, they held their peace,\n\n7:23. Ozias rising up all in tears, said: Be of good courage, my\nbrethren, and let us wait these five days for mercy from the Lord.\n\n7:24. For perhaps he will put a stop to his indignation, and will give\nglory to his own name.\n\n7:25. But if after five days be past there come no aid, we will do the\nthings which you have spoken.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 8\n\nThe character of Judith: her discourse to the ancients.\n\n8:1. Now it came to pass, when Judith a widow had heard these words,\nwho was the daughter of Merari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the\nson of Ozias, the son of Elai, the son of Jamnor, the son of Gedeon,\nthe son of Raphaim, the son of Achitob, the son of Melchias, the son of\nEnan, the son of Nathanias, the son of Salathiel, the son of Simeon,\nthe son of Ruben:\n\nSimeon the son of Ruben.... In the Greek, it is the son of Israel. For\nSimeon the patriarch, from whom Judith descended, was not the son, but\nthe brother of Ruben. It seems more probable that the Simeon and the\nRuben here mentioned are not the patriarchs: but two of the descendants\nof the patriarch Simeon: and that the genealogy of Judith, recorded in\nthis place, is not carried up so high as the patriarchs. No more than\nthat of Elcana the father of Samuel, 1 Kings 1.1, and that of king\nSaul, 1 Kings 9.1.\n\n8:2. And her husband was Manasses, who died in the time of the barley\nharvest:\n\n8:3. For he was standing over them that bound sheaves in the field; and\nthe heat came upon his head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and\nwas buried there with his fathers.\n\n8:4. And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.\n\n8:5. And she made herself a private chamber in the upper part of her\nhouse, in which she abode shut up with her maids.\n\n8:6. And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of\nher life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the\nhouse of Israel.\n\n8:7. And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her husband left her great\nriches, and very many servants, and large possessions of herds of oxen,\nand flocks of sheep.\n\n8:8. And she was greatly renowned among all, because she feared the\nLord very much, neither was there any one that spoke an ill word of\nher.\n\n8:9. When therefore she had heard that Ozias had promised that he would\ndeliver up the city after the fifth day, she sent to the ancients\nChabri and Charmi.\n\n8:10. And they came to her, and she said to them: What is this word, by\nwhich Ozias hath consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if\nwithin five days there come no aid to us?\n\n8:11. And who are you that tempt the Lord?\n\n8:12. This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may\nstir up wrath, and enkindle indignation.\n\n8:13. You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have\nappointed him a day, according to your pleasure.\n\n8:14. But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this\nsame thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon:\n\n8:15. For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like\nthe son of man.\n\n8:16. And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing\nin an humble spirit, in his service:\n\n8:17. Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he\nwould shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their\npride, so also we may glorify in our humility.\n\n8:18. For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook\ntheir God, and worshipped strange gods.\n\n8:19. For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the\nsword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but\nhim.\n\n8:20. Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will\nrequire our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble\nall the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to\ndisgrace.\n\n8:21. And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of\nGod, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your\nspeech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they\nmight be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.\n\n8:22. They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being\nproved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God.\n\n8:23. So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God,\npassed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.\n\n8:24. But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the\nLord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring\nagainst the Lord,\n\n8:25. Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents.\n\n8:26. As for us therefore let us not revenge ourselves for these things\nwhich we suffer.\n\n8:27. But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins\ndeserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which\nlike servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and\nnot for our destruction.\n\n8:28. And Ozias and the ancients said to her: All things which thou\nhast spoken are true, and there is nothing to be reprehended in thy\nwords.\n\n8:29. Now therefore pray for us, for thou art a holy woman, and one\nfearing God.\n\n8:30. And Judith said to them: As you know that what I have been able\nto say is of God:\n\n8:31. So that which I intend to do prove ye if it be of God, and pray\nthat God may strengthen my design.\n\n8:32. You shall stand at the gate this night, and I will go out with my\nmaidservant: and pray ye, that as you have said, in five days the Lord\nmay look down upon his people Israel.\n\n8:33. But I desire that you search not into what I am doing, and till I\nbring you word let nothing else be done but to pray for me to the Lord\nour God.\n\n8:34. And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her: Go in peace, and the\nLord be with thee to take revenge of our enemies. So returning they\ndeparted.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 9\n\nJudith\u2019s prayer, to beg of God to fortify her in her undertaking.\n\n9:1. And when they were gone, Judith went into her oratory: and putting\non haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before\nthe Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying:\n\n9:2. Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute\nvengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and\nuncovered the virgin unto confusion:\n\nGavest him a sword, etc.... The justice of God is here praised, in\npunishing by the sword of Simeon the crime of the Sichemites: and not\nthe act of Simeon, which was justly condemned by his father, Gen. 49.5.\nThough even with regard to this act, we may distinguish between his\nzeal against the crime committed by the ravishers of his sister, which\nzeal may be considered just: and the manner of his punishing that\ncrime, which was irregular and excessive.\n\n9:3. And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters\ninto captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to the servants, who\nwere zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O Lord God, me a\nwidow.\n\n9:4. For thou hast done the things of old, and hast devised one thing\nafter another: and what thou hast designed hath been done.\n\n9:5. For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy providence thou hast\nplaced thy judgments.\n\n9:6. Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now, as thou wast pleased to\nlook upon the camp of the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after thy\nservants, trusting in their chariots, and in their horsemen, and in a\nmultitude of warriors.\n\n9:7. But thou lookedst over their camp, and darkness wearied them.\n\n9:8. The deep held their feet, and the waters overwhelmed them.\n\n9:9. So may it be with these also, O Lord, who trust in their\nmultitude, and in their chariots, and in their pikes, and in their\nshields, and in their arrows, and glory in their spears,\n\n9:10. And know not that thou art our God, who destroyest wars from the\nbeginning, and the Lord is thy name.\n\n9:11. Lift up thy arm as from the beginning, and crush their power with\nthy power: let their power fall in their wrath, who promise themselves\nto violate thy sanctuary, and defile the dwelling place of thy name,\nand to beat down with their sword the horn of thy altar.\n\n9:12. Bring to pass, O Lord, that his pride may be cut off with his own\nsword.\n\n9:13. Let him be caught in the net of his own eyes in my regard, and do\nthou strike him by the graces of the words of my lips.\n\n9:14. Give me constancy in my mind, that I may despise him: and\nfortitude that I may overthrow him.\n\n9:15. For this will be a glorious monument for thy name, when he shall\nfall by the hand of a woman.\n\n9:16. For thy power, O Lord, is not in a multitude, nor is thy pleasure\nin the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the proud been\nacceptable to thee: but the prayer of the humble and the meek hath\nalways pleased thee.\n\n9:17. O God of the heavens, creator of the waters, and Lord of the\nwhole creation, hear me a poor wretch, making supplication to thee, and\npresuming of thy mercy.\n\n9:18. Remember, O Lord, thy covenant, and put thou words in my mouth,\nand strengthen the resolution in my heart, that thy house may continue\nin thy holiness:\n\n9:19. And all nations may acknowledge that thou art God, and there is\nno other besides thee.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 10\n\nJudith goeth out towards the camp, and is taken, and brought to\nHolofernes.\n\n10:1. And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry to the Lord, that\nshe rose from the place wherein she lay prostrate before the Lord.\n\n10:2. And she called her maid, and going down into her house she took\noff her haircloth, and put away the garments of her widowhood,\n\n10:3. And she washed her body, and anointed herself with the best\nointment, and plaited the hair of her head, and put a bonnet upon her\nhead, and clothed herself with the garments of her gladness, and put\nsandals on her feet, and took her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets,\nand rings, and adorned herself with all her ornaments.\n\n10:4. And the Lord also gave her more beauty: because all this dressing\nup did not proceed from sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the\nLord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men\u2019s eyes\nincomparably lovely.\n\n10:5. And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel\nof oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went\nout.\n\n10:6. And when they came to the gate of the city, they found Ozias, and\nthe ancients of the city waiting.\n\n10:7. And when they saw her they were astonished, and admired her\nbeauty exceedingly.\n\n10:8. But they asked her no question, only they let her pass, saying:\nThe God of our fathers give thee grace, and may he strengthen all the\ncounsel of thy heart with his power, that Jerusalem may glory in thee,\nand thy name may be in the number of the holy and just.\n\n10:9. And they that were there said, all with one voice: So be it, so\nbe it.\n\n10:10. But Judith praying to the Lord, passed through the gates, she\nand her maid.\n\n10:11. And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of\nday, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her,\nsaying: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou?\n\n10:12. And she answered: I am a daughter of the Hebrews, and I am fled\nfrom them, because I knew they would be made a prey to you, because\nthey despised you, and would not of their own accord yield themselves,\nthat they might find mercy in your sight.\n\n\nBecause I knew, etc.... In this and the following Chapter, some things\nare related to have been said by Judith, which seem hard to reconcile\nwith truth. But all that is related in scripture of the servants of God\nis not approved by the scripture; and even the saints in their good\nenterprises may sometimes slip into venial sins.\n\n10:13. For this reason I thought with myself, saying: I will go to the\npresence of the prince Holofernes, that I may tell him their secrets,\nand shew him by what way he may take them, without the loss of one man\nof his army.\n\n10:14. And when the men had heard her words, they beheld her face, and\ntheir eyes were amazed, for they wondered exceedingly at her beauty.\n\n10:15. And they said to her: Thou hast saved thy life by taking this\nresolution, to come down to our lord.\n\n10:16. And be assured of this, that when thou shalt stand before him,\nhe will treat thee well, and thou wilt be most acceptable to his heart.\nAnd they brought her to the tent of Holofernes, telling him of her.\n\n10:17. And when she was come into his presence, forthwith Holofernes\nwas caught by his eyes.\n\n10:18. And his officers said to him: Who can despise the people of the\nHebrews, who have such beautiful women, that we should not think it\nworth our while for their sakes to fight against them?\n\n10:19. And Judith seeing Holofernes sitting under a canopy, which was\nwoven of purple and gold, with emeralds and precious stones:\n\n10:20. After she had looked on his face, bowed down to him, prostrating\nherself to the ground. And the servants of Holofernes lifted her up, by\nthe command of their master.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 11\n\nJudith\u2019s speech to Holofernes.\n\n11:1. Then Holofernes said to her: Be of good comfort, and fear not in\nthy heart: for I have never hurt a man that was willing to serve\nNabuchodonosor the king.\n\n11:2. And if thy people had not despised me, I would never have lifted\nup my spear against them.\n\n11:3. But now tell me, for what cause hast thou left them, and why it\nhath pleased thee to come to us?\n\n11:4. And Judith said to him: Receive the words of thy handmaid, for if\nthou wilt follow the words of thy handmaid, the Lord will do with thee\na perfect thing.\n\n11:5. For as Nabuchodonosor the king of the earth liveth, and his power\nliveth which is in thee for chastising of all straying souls: not only\nmen serve him through thee, but also the beasts of the field obey him.\n\n11:6. For the industry of thy mind is spoken of among all nations, and\nit is told through the whole world, that thou only art excellent, and\nmighty in all his kingdom, and thy discipline is cried up in all\nprovinces.\n\n11:7. It is known also what Achior said, nor are we ignorant of what\nthou hast commanded to be done to him.\n\n11:8. For it is certain that our God is so offended with sins, that he\nhath sent word by his prophets to the people, that he will deliver them\nup for their sins.\n\n11:9. And because the children of Israel know they have offended their\nGod, thy dread is upon them.\n\n11:10. Moreover also a famine hath come upon them, and for drought of\nwater they are already to be counted among the dead.\n\n11:11. And they have a design even to kill their cattle, and to drink\nthe blood of them.\n\n11:12. And the consecrated things of the Lord their God which God\nforbade them to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed\nto make use of, and they design to consume the things which they ought\nnot to touch with their hands: therefore because they do these things,\nit is certain they will be given up to destruction.\n\n11:13. And I thy handmaid knowing this, am fled from them, and the Lord\nhath sent me to tell thee these very things.\n\n11:14. For I thy handmaid worship God even now that I am with thee, and\nthy handmaid will go out, and I will pray to God,\n\n11:15. And he will tell me when he will repay them for their sins, and\nI will come and tell thee, so that I may bring thee through the midst\nof Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of Israel, as sheep\nthat have no shepherd, and there shall not so much as one dog bark\nagainst thee:\n\n11:16. Because these things are told me by the providence of God.\n\n11:17. And because God is angry with them, I am sent to tell these very\nthings to thee.\n\n11:18. And all these words pleased Holofernes, and his servants, and\nthey admired her wisdom, and they said one to another:\n\n11:19. There is not such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty,\nand in sense of words.\n\n11:20. And Holofernes said to her: God hath done well who sent thee\nbefore the people, that thou mightest give them into our hands:\n\n11:21. And because thy promise is good, if thy God shall do this for\nme, he shall also be my God, and thou shalt be great in the house of\nNabuchodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned through all the earth.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 12\n\nJudith goeth out in the night to pray: she is invited to a banquet with\nHolofernes.\n\n12:1. Then he ordered that she should go in where his treasures were\nlaid up, and bade her tarry there, and he appointed what should be\ngiven her from his own table.\n\n12:2. And Judith answered him and said: Now I cannot eat of these\nthings which thou commandest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but\nI will eat of the things which I have brought.\n\n12:3. And Holofernes said to her: If these things which thou hast\nbrought with thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee?\n\n12:4. And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall\nnot spend all these things till God do by my hand that which I have\npurposed. And his servants brought her into the tent which he had\ncommanded.\n\n12:5. And when she was going in, she desired that she might have\nliberty to go out at night and before day to prayer, and to beseech the\nLord.\n\n12:6. And he commanded his chamberlains, that she might go out and in,\nto adore her God as she pleased, for three days.\n\n12:7. And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and\nwashed herself in a fountain of water.\n\n12:8. And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel,\nthat he would direct her way to the deliverance of his people.\n\n12:9. And going in, she remained pure in the tent, until she took her\nown meat in the evening.\n\n12:10. And it came to pass on the fourth day, that Holofernes made a\nsupper for his servants, and said to Vagao his eunuch: Go, and persuade\nthat Hebrew woman, to consent of her own accord to dwell with me.\n\n12:11. For it is looked upon as shameful among the Assyrians, if a\nwoman mock a man, by doing so as to pass free from him.\n\n12:12. Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said: Let not my good maid be\nafraid to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face,\nthat she may eat with him and drink wine and be merry.\n\n12:13. And Judith answered him: Who am I, that I should gainsay my\nlord?\n\n12:14. All that shall be good and best before his eyes, I will do. And\nwhatsoever shall please him, that shall be best to me all the days of\nmy life.\n\n12:15. And she arose and dressed herself out with her garments, and\ngoing in she stood before his face.\n\n12:16. And the heart of Holofernes was smitten, for he was burning with\nthe desire of her.\n\n12:17. And Holofernes said to her: Drink now, and sit down and be\nmerry; for thou hast found favour before me.\n\n12:18. And Judith said: I will drink my lord, because my life is\nmagnified this day above all my days.\n\n12:19. And she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had\nprepared for her.\n\n12:20. And Holofernes was made merry on her occasion, and drank\nexceeding much wine, so much as he had never drunk in his life.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 13\n\nJudith cutteth off the head of Holofernes, and returneth to Bethulia.\n\n13:1. And when it was grown late, his servants made haste to their\nlodgings, and Vagao shut the chamber doors, and went his way.\n\n13:2. And they were all overcharged with wine.\n\n13:3. And Judith was alone in the chamber.\n\n13:4. But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast asleep, being exceedingly\ndrunk.\n\n13:5. And Judith spoke to her maid to stand without before the chamber,\nand to watch:\n\n13:6. And Judith stood before the bed praying with tears, and the\nmotion of her lips in silence,\n\n13:7. Saying: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, and in this hour\nlook on the works of my hands, that as thou hast promised, thou mayst\nraise up Jerusalem thy city: and that I may bring to pass that which I\nhave purposed, having a belief that it might be done by thee.\n\n13:8. And when she had said this, she went to the pillar that was at\nhis bed\u2019s head, and loosed his sword that hung tied upon it.\n\n13:9. And when she had drawn it out, she took him by the hair of his\nhead, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this hour.\n\n13:10. And she struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head, and\ntook off his canopy from the pillars, and rolled away his headless\nbody.\n\n13:11. And after a while she went out, and delivered the head of\nHolofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet.\n\n13:12. And they two went out according to their custom, as it were to\nprayer, and they passed the camp, and having compassed the valley, they\ncame to the gate of the city.\n\n13:13. And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls:\nOpen the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.\n\n13:14. And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they\ncalled the ancients of the city.\n\n13:15. And all ran to meet her from the least to the greatest: for they\nnow had no hopes that she would come.\n\n13:16. And lighting up lights they all gathered round about her: and\nshe went up to a higher place, and commanded silence to be made. And\nwhen all had held their peace,\n\n13:17. Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God, who hath not forsaken\nthem that hope in him.\n\n13:18. And by me his handmaid he hath fulfilled his mercy, which he\npromised to the house of Israel: and he hath killed the enemy of his\npeople by my hand this night.\n\n13:19. Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet,\nand shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the general\nof the army of the Assyrians, and behold his canopy, wherein he lay in\nhis drunkenness, where the Lord our God slew him by the hand of a\nwoman.\n\n13:20. But as the same Lord liveth, his angel hath been my keeper both\ngoing hence, and abiding there, and returning from thence hither: and\nthe Lord hath not suffered me his handmaid to be defiled, but hath\nbrought me back to you without pollution of sin, rejoicing for his\nvictory, for my escape, and for your deliverance.\n\n13:21. Give all of you glory to him, because he is good, because his\nmercy endureth for ever.\n\n13:22. And they all adored the Lord, and said to her: The Lord hath\nblessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies\nto nought.\n\n13:23. And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel, said to her:\nBlessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all\nwomen upon the earth.\n\n13:24. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed\nthee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies.\n\n13:25. Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise\nshall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the\npower of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by\nreason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast\nprevented our ruin in the presence of our God.\n\n13:26. And all the people said: So be it, so be it.\n\n13:27. And Achior being called for came, and Judith said to him: The\nGod of Israel, to whom thou gavest testimony, that he revengeth himself\nof his enemies, he hath cut off the head of all the unbelievers this\nnight by my hand.\n\n13:28. And that thou mayst find that it is so, behold the head of\nHolofernes, who in the contempt of his pride despised the God of\nIsrael: and threatened them with death, saying: When the people of\nIsrael shall be taken, I will command thy sides to be pierced with a\nsword.\n\n13:29. Then Achior seeing the head of Holofernes, being seized with a\ngreat fear he fell on his face upon the earth, and his soul swooned\naway.\n\n13:30. But after he had recovered his spirits he fell down at her feet,\nand reverenced her, and said:\n\n13:31. Blessed art thou by thy God in every tabernacle of Jacob, for in\nevery nation which shall hear thy name, the God of Israel shall be\nmagnified on occasion of thee.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 14\n\nThe Israelites assault the Assyrians, who finding their general slain,\nare seized with a panic fear.\n\n14:1. And Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my brethren, hang ye\nup this head upon our walls.\n\n14:2. And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every man take his arms,\nand rush ye out, not as going down beneath, but as making an assault.\n\n14:3. Then the watchmen must needs run to awake their prince for the\nbattle.\n\n14:4. And when the captains of them shall run to the tent of\nHolofernes, and shall find him without his head wallowing in his blood,\nfear shall fall upon them.\n\n14:5. And when you shall know that they are fleeing, go after them\nsecurely, for the Lord will destroy them under your feet.\n\n14:6. Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought,\nleaving the religion of the Gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised\nthe flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel, with\nall the succession of his kindred until this present day.\n\n14:7. And immediately at break of day, they hung up the head of\nHolofernes upon the walls, and every man took his arms, and they went\nout with a great noise and shouting.\n\n14:8. And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the tent of Holofernes.\n\n14:9. And they that were in the tent came, and made a noise, before the\ndoor of the chamber to awake him, endeavouring by art to break his\nrest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their calling him, but by\ntheir noise.\n\n14:10. For no man durst knock, or open and go into the chamber of the\ngeneral of the Assyrians.\n\n14:11. But when his captains and tribunes were come, and all the chiefs\nof the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the\nchamberlains:\n\n14:12. Go in, and awake him, for the mice, coming out of their holes,\nhave presumed to challenge us to fight.\n\n14:13. Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood before the curtain, and\nmade a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he was sleeping\nwith Judith.\n\n14:14. But when with hearkening, he perceived no motion of one lying,\nhe came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of\nHolofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, weltering in his\nblood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his\ngarments.\n\n14:15. And he went into the tent of Judith, and not finding her, he ran\nout to the people,\n\n14:16. And said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of\nking Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and\nhis head is not upon him.\n\n14:17. Now when the chiefs of the army of the Assyrians had heard this,\nthey all rent their garments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell\nupon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly.\n\n14:18. And there was a very great cry in the midst of their camp.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 15\n\nThe Assyrians flee: the Hebrews pursue after them, and are enriched by\ntheir spoils.\n\n15:1. And when all the army heard that Holofernes was beheaded, courage\nand counsel fled from them, and being seized with trembling and fear\nthey thought only to save themselves by flight.\n\n15:2. So that no one spoke to his neighbour, but hanging down the head,\nleaving all things behind, they made haste to escape from the Hebrews,\nwho, as they heard, were coming armed upon them, and fled by the ways\nof the fields, and the paths of the hills.\n\n15:3. So the children of Israel seeing them fleeing, followed after\nthem. And they went down sounding with trumpets and shouting after\nthem.\n\n15:4. And because the Assyrians were not united together, they went\nwithout order in their flight; but the children of Israel pursuing in\none body, defeated all that they could find.\n\n15:5. And Ozias sent messengers through all the cities and countries of\nIsrael.\n\n15:6. And every country, and every city, sent their chosen young men\narmed after them, and they pursued them with the edge of the sword\nuntil they came to the extremities of their confines.\n\n15:7. And the rest that were in Bethulia went into the camp of the\nAssyrians, and took away the spoils which the Assyrians in their flight\nhad left behind them, and they were laden exceedingly,\n\n15:8. But they that returned conquerors to Bethulia, brought with them\nall things that were theirs, so that there was no numbering of their\ncattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, insomuch that from the\nleast to the greatest all were made rich by their spoils.\n\n15:9. And Joachim the high priest came from Jerusalem to Bethulia with\nall his ancients to see Judith.\n\n15:10. And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one\nvoice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of\nIsrael, thou art the honour of our people:\n\n15:11. For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart has been\nstrengthened, because thou hast loved chastity, and after thy husband\nhast not known any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord hath\nstrengthened thee, and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever.\n\n15:12. And all the people said: So be it, so be it.\n\n15:13. And thirty days were scarce sufficient for the people of Israel\nto gather up the spoils of the Assyrians.\n\n15:14. But all those things that were proved to be the peculiar goods\nof Holofernes, they gave to Judith in gold, and silver, and garments\nand precious stones, and all household stuff, and they all were\ndelivered to her by the people.\n\n15:15. And all the people rejoiced, with the women, and virgins, and\nyoung men, playing on instruments and harps.\n\n\nJudith Chapter 16\n\nThe canticle of Judith: her virtuous life and death.\n\n16:1. Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying:\n\n16:2. Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with\ncymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.\n\n16:3. The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.\n\n16:4. He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us\nfrom the hand of all our enemies.\n\n16:5. The Assyrian came out of the mountains from the north in the\nmultitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and\ntheir horses covered the valleys.\n\n16:6. He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my\nyoung men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins\ncaptives.\n\n16:7. But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him\ninto the hands of a woman, and hath slain him.\n\n16:8. For their mighty one did not fall by young men, neither did the\nsons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose themselves to him, but\nJudith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her face.\n\n16:9. For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the\ngarments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel.\n\n16:10. She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with\na crown, she took a new robe to deceive him.\n\n16:11. Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her\ncaptive, with a sword she cut off his head.\n\n16:12. The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her\nboldness.\n\n16:13. Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones\nappeared, parched with thirst.\n\n16:14. The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have\nkilled them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before\nthe face of the Lord my God.\n\n16:15. Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our\nGod.\n\n16:16. O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and\nno one can overcome thee.\n\n16:17. Let all thy creatures serve thee: because thou hast spoken, and\nthey were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were\ncreated, and there is no one that can resist thy voice.\n\n16:18. The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the\nwaters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.\n\n16:19. But they that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things.\n\n16:20. Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the\nLord almighty will take revenge on them, in the day of judgment he will\nvisit them.\n\n16:21. For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, that they may\nburn, and may feel for ever.\n\n16:22. And it came to pass after these things, that all the people,\nafter the victory, came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord: and as soon as\nthey were purified, they all offered holocausts, and vows, and their\npromises.\n\n16:23. And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of\nHolofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had\ntaken away out of his chamber.\n\nAn anathema of oblivion.... That is, a gift or offering made to God, by\nway of an everlasting monument, to prevent the oblivion or forgetting\nso great a benefit.\n\n16:24. And the people were joyful in the sight of the sanctuary, and\nfor three months the joy of this victory was celebrated with Judith.\n\n16:25. And after those days every man returned to his house, and Judith\nwas made great in Bethulia, and she was most renowned in all the land\nof Israel.\n\n16:26. And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man\nall the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband.\n\n16:27. And on festival days she came forth with great glory.\n\n16:28. And she abode in her husband\u2019s house a hundred and five years,\nand made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her\nhusband in Bethulia.\n\n16:29. And all the people mourned for seven days.\n\n16:30. And all the time of her life there was none that troubled\nIsrael, nor many years after her death.\n\n16:31. But the day of the festivity of this victory is received by the\nHebrews in the number of holy days, and is religiously observed by the\nJews from that time until this day.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF ESTHER\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from queen Esther, whose history is here\nrecorded. The general opinion of almost all commentators on the Holy\nScriptures makes Mardochai the writer of it: which also may be\ncollected below from chap. 9 ver. 20.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 1\n\nKing Assuerus maketh a great feast. Queen Vasthi being sent for\nrefuseth to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.\n\n1:1. In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a\nhundred and twenty seven provinces:\n\n1:2. When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the\ncapital of his kingdom.\n\n1:3. Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all\nthe princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians,\nand the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his\nsight,\n\n1:4. That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the\ngreatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a\nhundred and fourscore days.\n\n1:5. And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the\npeople that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and\ncommanded a feast to be made seven days in the court of the garden, and\nof the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king.\n\n1:6. And there were hung up on every side sky coloured, and green, and\nviolet hangings, fastened with cords of silk, and of purple, which were\nput into rings of ivory, and were held up with marble pillars. The beds\nalso were of gold and silver, placed in order upon a floor paved with\nporphyry and white marble: which was embellished with painting of\nwonderful variety.\n\n1:7. And they that were invited, drank in golden cups, and the meats\nwere brought in divers vessels one after another. Wine also in\nabundance and of the best was presented, as was worthy of a king\u2019s\nmagnificence.\n\n1:8. Neither was there any one to compel them to drink that were not\nwilling, but as the king had appointed, who set over every table one of\nhis nobles, that every man might take what he would.\n\n1:9. Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace,\nwhere king Assuerus was used to dwell.\n\n1:10. Now on the seventh day, when the king was merry, and after very\nmuch drinking was well warmed with wine, he commanded Mauman, and\nBazatha, and Harbona, and Bagatha, and Abgatha, and Zethar, and\nCharcas, the seven eunuchs that served in his presence,\n\n1:11. To bring in queen Vasthi before the king, with the crown set upon\nher head, to shew her beauty to all the people and the princes: for she\nwas exceeding beautiful.\n\n1:12. But she refused, and would not come at the king\u2019s commandment,\nwhich he had signified to her by the eunuchs. Whereupon the king, being\nangry, and inflamed with a very great fury,\n\n1:13. Asked the wise men, who according to the custom of the kings,\nwere always near his person, and all he did was by their counsel, who\nknew the laws, and judgments of their forefathers:\n\n1:14. (Now the chief and nearest him were, Charsena, and Sethar, and\nAdmatha, and Tharsis, and Mares, and Marsana, and Mamuchan, seven\nprinces of the Persians and of the Medes, who saw the face of the king,\nand were used to sit first after him:)\n\n1:15. What sentence ought to pass upon Vasthi the queen, who had\nrefused to obey the commandment of king Assuerus, which he had sent to\nher by the eunuchs?\n\n1:16. And Mamuchan answered, in the hearing of the king and the\nprinces: Queen Vasthi hath not only injured the king, but also all the\npeople and princes that are in all the provinces of king Assuerus.\n\n1:17. For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that\nthey will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded\nthat queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not.\n\n1:18. And by this example all the wives of the princes of the Persians\nand the Medes will slight the commandments of their husbands: wherefore\nthe king\u2019s indignation is just.\n\n1:19. If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let\nit be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes,\nwhich must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but\nanother, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.\n\n1:20. And let this be published through all the provinces of thy\nempire, (which is very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the greater\nas of the lesser, give honour to their husbands.\n\n1:21. His counsel pleased the king, and the princes: and the king did\naccording to the counsel of Mamuchan.\n\n1:22. And he sent letters to all the provinces of his kingdom, as every\nnation could hear and read, in divers languages and characters, that\nthe husbands should be rulers and masters in their houses: and that\nthis should be published to every people.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 2\n\nEsther is advanced to be queen. Mardochai detecteth a plot against the\nking.\n\n2:1. After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was appeased, he\nremembered Vasthi, and what she had done and what she had suffered:\n\n2:2. And the king\u2019s servants and his officers said: Let young women be\nsought for the king, virgins and beautiful,\n\n2:3. And let some persons be sent through all the provinces to look for\nbeautiful maidens and virgins: and let them bring them to the city of\nSusan, and put them into the house of the women under the hand of Egeus\nthe eunuch, who is the overseer and keeper of the king\u2019s women: and let\nthem receive women\u2019s ornaments, and other things necessary for their\nuse.\n\n2:4. And whosoever among them all shall please the king\u2019s eyes, let her\nbe queen instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he commanded\nit should be done as they had suggested.\n\n2:5. There was a man in the city of Susan, a Jew, named Mardochai, the\nson of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the race of Jemini,\n\n2:6. Who had been carried away from Jerusalem at the time that\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away Jechonias king of Juda,\n\n2:7. And he had brought up his brother\u2019s daughter Edissa, who by\nanother name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and\nwas exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead,\nMardochai adopted her for his daughter.\n\n2:8. And when the king\u2019s ordinance was noised abroad, and according to\nhis commandment many beautiful virgins were brought to Susan, and were\ndelivered to Egeus the eunuch: Esther also among the rest of the\nmaidens was delivered to him to be kept in the number of the women.\n\n2:9. And she pleased him, and found favour in his sight. And he\ncommanded the eunuch to hasten the women\u2019s ornaments, and to deliver to\nher her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king\u2019s\nhouse, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids.\n\n2:10. And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For\nMardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:\n\n2:11. And he walked every day before the court of the house, in which\nthe chosen virgins were kept, having a care for Esther\u2019s welfare, and\ndesiring to know what would befall her.\n\n2:12. Now when every virgin\u2019s turn came to go in to the king, after all\nhad been done for setting them off to advantage, it was the twelfth\nmonth: so that for six months they were anointed with oil of myrrh, and\nfor other six months they used certain perfumes and sweet spices.\n\n2:13. And when they were going in to the king, whatsoever they asked to\nadorn themselves they received: and being decked out, as it pleased\nthem, they passed from the chamber of the women to the king\u2019s chamber.\n\n2:14. And she that went in at evening, came out in the morning, and\nfrom thence she was conducted to the second house, that was under the\nhand of Susagaz the eunuch, who had the charge over the king\u2019s\nconcubines: neither could she return any more to the king, unless the\nking desired it, and had ordered her by name to come.\n\n2:15. And as the time came orderly about, the day was at hand, when\nEsther, the daughter of Abihail the brother of Mardochai, whom he had\nadopted for his daughter, was to go in to the king. But she sought not\nwomen\u2019s ornaments, but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of the\nvirgins had a mind, he gave her to adorn her. For she was exceeding\nfair, and her incredible beauty made her appear agreeable and amiable\nin the eyes of all.\n\n2:16. So she was brought to the chamber of king Assuerus the tenth\nmonth, which is called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.\n\n2:17. And the king loved her more than all the women, and she had\nfavour and kindness before him above all the women, and he set the\nroyal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vasthi.\n\n2:18. And he commanded a magnificent feast to be prepared for all the\nprinces, and for his servants, for the marriage and wedding of Esther,\nAnd he gave rest to all the provinces, and bestowed gifts according to\nprincely magnificence.\n\n2:19. And when the virgins were sought the second time, and gathered\ntogether, Mardochai stayed at the king\u2019s gate,\n\n2:20. Neither had Esther as yet declared her country and people,\naccording to his commandment. For whatsoever he commanded, Esther\nobserved: and she did all things in the same manner as she was wont at\nthat time when he brought her up a little one.\n\n2:21. At that time, therefore, when Mardochai abode at the king\u2019s gate,\nBagathan and Thares, two of the king\u2019s eunuchs, who were porters, and\npresided in the first entry of the palace, were angry: and they\ndesigned to rise up against the king, and to kill him.\n\n2:22. And Mardochai had notice of it, and immediately he told it to\nqueen Esther: and she to the king in Mardochai\u2019s name, who had reported\nthe thing unto her.\n\n2:23. It was inquired into, and found out: and they were both hanged on\na gibbet. And it was put in the histories, and recorded in the\nchronicles before the king.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 3\n\nAman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mardochai, and therefore\nprocureth the king\u2019s decree to destroy the whole nation of the Jews.\n\n3:1. After these things, king Assuerus advanced Aman, the son of\nAmadathi, who was of the race of Agag: and he set his throne above all\nthe princes that were with him.\n\n3:2. And all the king\u2019s servants, that were at the doors of the palace,\nbent their knees, and worshipped Aman: for so the emperor had commanded\nthem, only Mardochai did not bend his knee, nor worship him.\n\n3:3. And the king\u2019s servants that were chief at the doors of the\npalace, said to him: Why dost thou alone not observe the king\u2019s\ncommandment?\n\n3:4. And when they were saying this often, and he would not hearken to\nthem, they told Aman, desirous to know whether he would continue in his\nresolution: for he had told them that he was a Jew.\n\n3:5. Now when Aman had heard this, and had proved by experience that\nMardochai did not bend his knee to him, nor worship him, he was\nexceeding angry.\n\n3:6. And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone:\nfor he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose\nrather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom\nof Assuerus.\n\n3:7. In the first month (which is called Nisan) in the twelfth year of\nthe reign of Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew is\ncalled Phur, before Aman, on what day and what month the nation of the\nJews should be destroyed: and there came out the twelfth month, which\nis called Adar.\n\n3:8. And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered\nthrough all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from\nanother, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the\nking\u2019s ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient\nfor thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity.\n\n3:9. If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will\npay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.\n\n3:10. And the king took the ring that he used, from his own hand, and\ngave it to Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy of\nthe Jews,\n\n3:11. And he said to him: As to the money which thou promisest, keep it\nfor thyself: and as to the people, do with them as seemeth good to\nthee.\n\n3:12. And the king\u2019s scribes were called in the first month Nisan, on\nthe thirteenth day of the same month: and they wrote, as Aman had\ncommanded, to all the king\u2019s lieutenants, and to the judges of the\nprovinces, and of divers nations, as every nation could read, and hear\naccording to their different languages, in the name of king Assuerus:\nand the letters, sealed with his ring,\n\n3:13. Were sent by the king\u2019s messengers to all provinces, to kill and\ndestroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women,\nin one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is\ncalled Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.\n\n3:14. And the contents of the letters were to this effect, that all\nprovinces might know and be ready against that day.\n\n3:15. The couriers that were sent made haste to fulfil the king\u2019s\ncommandment. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king\nand Aman feasting together, and all the Jews that were in the city\nweeping.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 4\n\nMardochai desireth Esther to petition the king for the Jews. They join\nin fasting and prayer.\n\n4:1. Now when Mardochai had heard these things, he rent his garments,\nand put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his head and he cried with a\nloud voice in the street in the midst of the city, shewing the anguish\nof his mind.\n\n4:2. And he came lamenting in this manner even to the gate of the\npalace: for no one clothed with sackcloth might enter the king\u2019s court.\n\n4:3. And in all provinces, towns, and places, to which the king\u2019s cruel\nedict was come, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting,\nwailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and ashes for their bed.\n\n4:4. Then Esther\u2019s maids and her eunuchs went in, and told her. And\nwhen she heard it she was in a consternation and she sent a garment, to\nclothe him, and to take away the sackcloth: but he would not receive\nit.\n\n4:5. And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed\nto attend upon her, and she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and learn\nof him why he did this.\n\n4:6. And Athach going out went to Mardochai, who was standing in the\nstreet of the city, before the palace gate:\n\n4:7. And Mardochai told him all that had happened, how Aman had\npromised to pay money into the king\u2019s treasures, to have the Jews\ndestroyed.\n\n4:8. He gave him also a copy of the edict which was hanging up in\nSusan, that he should shew it to the queen, and admonish her to go in\nto the king, and to entreat him for her people.\n\n4:9. And Athach went back and told Esther all that Mardochai had said.\n\n4:10. She answered him, and bade him say to Mardochai:\n\n4:11. All the king\u2019s servants, and all the provinces that are under his\ndominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the\nking\u2019s inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to\ndeath without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden\nsceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can\nI go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called\nunto him?\n\n4:12. And when Mardochai had heard this,\n\n4:13. He sent word to Esther again, saying: Think not that thou mayst\nsave thy life only, because thou art in the king\u2019s house, more than all\nthe Jews:\n\n4:14. For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered\nby some other occasion: and thou, and thy father\u2019s house shall perish.\nAnd who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom,\nthat thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?\n\n4:15. And again Esther sent to Mardochai in these words:\n\n4:16. Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in\nSusan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and\nthree nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and\nthen I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and\nexpose myself to death and to danger.\n\n4:17. So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 5\n\nEsther is graciously received: she inviteth the king and Aman to\ndinner, Aman prepareth a gibbet for Mardochai.\n\n5:1. And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in\nthe inner court of the king\u2019s house, over against the king\u2019s hall: now\nhe sat upon his throne in the hall of the palace, over against the door\nof the house.\n\n5:2. And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes,\nand he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his\nhand and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.\n\n5:3. And the king said to her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? what is\nthy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it\nshall be given to thee.\n\n5:4. But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to\nme this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.\n\n5:5. And the king said forthwith: Call ye Aman quickly, that he may\nobey Esther\u2019s will. So the king and Aman came to the banquet which the\nqueen had prepared for them.\n\n5:6. And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully:\nWhat dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest\nthou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt\nhave it.\n\n5:7. And Esther answered: My petition and request is this:\n\n5:8. If I have found favour in the king\u2019s sight, and if it please the\nking to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and\nAman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I\nwill open my mind to the king.\n\n5:9. So Aman went out that day joyful and merry. And when he saw\nMardochai sitting before the gate of the palace, and that he not only\ndid not rise up to honour him, but did not so much as move from the\nplace where he sat, he was exceedingly angry:\n\n5:10. But dissembling his anger, and returning into his house, he\ncalled together to him his friends, and Zares his wife:\n\n5:11. And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the\nmultitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had\nadvanced him above all his princes and servants.\n\n5:12. And after this he said: Queen Esther also hath invited no other\nto the banquet with the king, but me: and with her I am also to dine to\nmorrow with the king:\n\n5:13. And whereas I have all these things, I think I have nothing, so\nlong as I see Mardochai the Jew sitting before the king\u2019s gate.\n\n5:14. Then Zares his wife, and the rest of his friends answered him:\nOrder a great beam to be prepared, fifty cubits high, and in the\nmorning speak to the king, that Mardochai may be hanged upon it, and so\nthou shalt go full of joy with the king to the banquet. The counsel\npleased him, and he commanded a high gibbet to be prepared.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 6\n\nThe king hearing of the good service done him by Mardochai, commandeth\nAman to honour him next to the king, which he performeth.\n\n6:1. That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the\nhistories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when\nthey were reading them before him,\n\n6:2. They came to that place where it was written, how Mardochai had\ndiscovered the treason of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who sought\nto kill king Assuerus.\n\n6:3. And when the king heard this, he said: What honour and reward hath\nMardochai received for this fidelity? His servants and ministers said\nto him: He hath received no reward at all.\n\nNo reward at all.... He received some presents from the king, chap.\n12.5; but these were so inconsiderable in the opinion of the courtiers,\nthat they esteemed them as nothing at all.\n\n6:4. And the king said immediately: Who is in the court? for Aman was\ncoming in to the inner court of the king\u2019s house, to speak to the king,\nthat he might order Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet, which was\nprepared for him.\n\n6:5. The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king\nsaid: Let him come in.\n\n6:6. And when he was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to\nthe man whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking in his\nheart, and supposing that the king would honour no other but himself,\n\n6:7. Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,\n\n6:8. Ought to be clothed with the king\u2019s apparel, and to be set upon\nthe horse that the king rideth upon, and to have the royal crown upon\nhis head,\n\n6:9. And let the first of the king\u2019s princes and nobles hold his horse,\nand going through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say:\nThus shall he be honoured, whom the king hath a mind to honour.\n\n6:10. And the king said to him: Make haste and take the robe and the\nhorse, and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth\nbefore the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over any of those\nthings which thou hast spoken.\n\n6:11. So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mardochai in\nthe street of the city, and setting him on the horse, went before him,\nand proclaimed: This honour is he worthy of, whom the king hath a mind\nto honour.\n\n6:12. But Mardochai returned to the palace gate: and Aman made haste to\ngo to his house, mourning and having his head covered:\n\n6:13. And he told Zares his wife, and his friends, all that had\nbefallen him. And the wise men whom he had in counsel, and his wife\nanswered him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou\nhast begun to fall, thou canst not resist him, but thou shalt fall in\nhis sight.\n\n6:14. As they were yet speaking, the king\u2019s eunuchs came, and compelled\nhim to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 7\n\nEsther\u2019s petition for herself and her people: Aman is hanged upon the\ngibbet he had prepared for Mardochai.\n\n7:1. So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.\n\n7:2. And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm\nwith wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee?\nand what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom,\nthou shalt have it.\n\n7:3. Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king,\nand if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people\nfor which I request.\n\n7:4. For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be\nslain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and\nbondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in\nsilence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the\nking.\n\n7:5. And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what\npower, that he should do these things?\n\n7:6. And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most\nwicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being\nable to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.\n\n7:7. But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the\nbanquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat\nEsther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared\nfor him by the king.\n\n7:8. And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and\nentered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon\nthe bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also\nin my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the\nking\u2019s mouth, and immediately they covered his face.\n\n7:9. And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king,\nsaid: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke\nfor the king, standeth in Aman\u2019s house, being fifty cubits high. And\nthe king said to him: Hang him upon it.\n\n7:10. So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for\nMardochai: and the king\u2019s wrath ceased.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 8\n\nMardochai is advanced: Aman\u2019s letters are reversed.\n\n8:1. On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews\u2019 enemy,\nto queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had\nconfessed to him that he was her uncle.\n\n8:2. And the king took the ring which he had commanded to be taken\nagain from Aman, and gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai\nover her house.\n\n8:3. And not content with these things, she fell down at the king\u2019s\nfeet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give\norders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices\nwhich he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.\n\n8:4. But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his\nhand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before\nhim,\n\n8:5. And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his\nsight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that\nthe former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which\nhe commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king\u2019s provinces,\nmay be reversed by new letters.\n\n8:6. For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?\n\n8:7. And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the\nJew: I have given Aman\u2019s house to Esther, and I have commanded him to\nbe hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.\n\n8:8. Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleaseth you in the king\u2019s\nname, and seal the letters with my ring. For this was the custom, that\nno man durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the king\u2019s name,\nand were sealed with his ring.\n\n8:9. Then the king\u2019s scribes and secretaries were called for (now it\nwas the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and\ntwentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had\na mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to\nthe judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven\nprovinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to\npeople and people, according to their languages and characters, and to\nthe Jews, according as they could read and hear.\n\n8:10. And these letters which were sent in the king\u2019s name, were sealed\nwith his ring, and sent by posts: who were to run through all the\nprovinces, to prevent the former letters with new messages.\n\n8:11. And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every\ncity, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand\nfor their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their\nwives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.\n\n8:12. And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces,\nto wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.\n\n8:13. And this was the content of the letter, that it should be\nnotified in all lands and peoples that were subject to the empire of\nking Assuerus, that the Jews were ready to be revenged of their\nenemies.\n\n8:14. So the swift posts went out carrying the messages, and the king\u2019s\nedict was hung up in Susan.\n\n8:15. And Mardochai going forth out of the palace, and from the king\u2019s\npresence, shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour,\nwearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed with a cloak of silk\nand purple. And all the city rejoiced, and was glad.\n\n8:16. But to the Jews, a new light seemed to rise, joy, honour, and\ndancing.\n\n8:17. And in all peoples, cities, and provinces, whithersoever the\nking\u2019s commandments came, there was wonderful rejoicing, feasts and\nbanquets, and keeping holy day: Insomuch that many of other nations and\nreligion, joined themselves to their worship and ceremonies. For a\ngreat dread of the name of the Jews had fallen upon all.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 9\n\nThe Jews kill their enemies that would have killed them. The days of\nPhurim are appointed to be kept holy.\n\n9:1. So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have\nsaid above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be\nmassacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case\nbeing altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge\nthemselves of their adversaries.\n\nTo revenge, etc.... The Jews on this occasion, by authority from the\nking, were made executioners of the public justice, for punishing by\ndeath a crime worthy of death, viz., a malicious conspiracy for\nextirpating their whole nation.\n\n9:2. And they gathered themselves together in every city, and town, and\nplace, to lay their hands on their enemies, and their persecutors. And\nno one durst withstand them, for the fear of their power had gone\nthrough every people.\n\n9:3. And the judges of the provinces, and the governors, and\nlieutenants, and every one in dignity, that presided over every place\nand work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mardochai:\n\n9:4. For they knew him to be prince of the palace, and to have great\npower: and the fame of his name increased daily, and was spread abroad\nthrough all men\u2019s mouths.\n\n9:5. So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed\nthem, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:\n\n9:6. Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides\nthe ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names\nare these:\n\n9:7. Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha\n\n9:8. And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,\n\n9:9. And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Jezatha.\n\n9:10. And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of\ntheir goods.\n\n9:11. And presently the number of them that were killed in Susan was\nbrought to the king.\n\n9:12. And he said to the queen: The Jews have killed five hundred men\nin the city of Susan, besides the ten sons of Aman: how many dost thou\nthink they have slain in all the provinces? What askest thou more, and\nwhat wilt thou have me to command to be done?\n\n9:13. And she answered: If it please the king, let it be granted to the\nJews, to do to morrow in Susan as they have done to day, and that the\nten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets.\n\n9:14. And the king commanded that it should be so done. And forthwith\nthe edict was hung up in Susan, and the ten sons of Aman were hanged.\n\n9:15. And on the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews gathered\nthemselves together, and they killed in Susan three hundred men: but\nthey took not their substance.\n\n9:16. Moreover through all the provinces which were subject to the\nking\u2019s dominion the Jews stood for their lives, and slew their enemies\nand persecutors: insomuch that the number of them that were killed\namounted to seventy-five thousand, and no man took any of their goods.\n\n9:17. Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with\nthem all of the slaughter, and on the fourteenth day they left off.\nWhich they ordained to be kept holy day, so that all times hereafter\nthey should celebrate it with feasting, joy, and banquets.\n\n9:18. But they that were killing in the city of Susan, were employed in\nthe slaughter on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month:\nand on the fifteenth day they rested. And therefore they appointed that\nday to be a holy day of feasting and gladness.\n\n9:19. But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages,\nappointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and\ngladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions\nof their banquets and meats.\n\n9:20. And Mardochai wrote all these things, and sent them comprised in\nletters to the Jews that abode in all the king\u2019s provinces, both those\nthat lay near and those afar off,\n\n9:21. That they should receive the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the\nmonth Adar for holy days, and always at the return of the year should\ncelebrate them with solemn honour:\n\n9:22. Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their\nenemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy,\nand that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they\nshould send one to another portions of meats, and should give gifts to\nthe poor.\n\n9:23. And the Jews undertook to observe with solemnity all they had\nbegun to do at that time, which Mardochai by letters had commanded to\nbe done.\n\n9:24. For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy and\nadversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and\ndestroy them; and had cast Phur, that is, the lot.\n\n9:25. And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that\nhis endeavours might be made void by the king\u2019s letters: and the evil\nthat he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head.\nAnd so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.\n\n9:26. And since that time these days are called Phurim, that is, of\nlots: because Phur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all\nthings that were done, are contained in the volume of this epistle,\nthat is, of this book:\n\n9:27. And the things that they suffered, and that were afterwards\nchanged, the Jews took upon themselves and their seed, and upon all\nthat had a mind to be joined to their religion, so that it should be\nlawful for none to pass these days without solemnity: which the writing\ntestifieth, and certain times require, as the years continually succeed\none another.\n\n9:28. These are the days which shall never be forgot: and which all\nprovinces in the whole world shall celebrate throughout all\ngenerations: neither is there any city wherein the days of Phurim, that\nis, of lots, must not be observed by the Jews, and by their posterity,\nwhich is bound to these ceremonies.\n\n9:29. And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mardochai the\nJew, wrote also a second epistle, that with all diligence this day\nshould be established a festival for the time to come.\n\n9:30. And they sent to all the Jews that were in the hundred and\ntwenty-seven provinces of king Assuerus, that they should have peace,\nand receive truth,\n\n9:31. And observe the days of lots, and celebrate them with joy in\ntheir proper time: as Mardochai and Esther had appointed, and they\nundertook them to be observed by themselves and by their seed, fasts,\nand cries, and the days of lots,\n\n9:32. And all things which are contained in the history of this book,\nwhich is called Esther.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 10\n\nAssuerus\u2019s greatness. Mardochai\u2019s dignity.\n\n10:1. And king Assuerus made all the land, and all the islands of the\nsea tributary.\n\n10:2. And his strength and his empire, and the dignity and greatness\nwherewith he exalted Mardochai, are written in the books of the Medes,\nand of the Persians:\n\n10:3. And how Mardochai of the race of the Jews, was next after king\nAssuerus: and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his\nbrethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking those things\nwhich were for the welfare of his seed.\n\n10:4. Then Mardochai said: God hath done these things.\n\nThen Mardochai, etc.... Here St. Jerome advertiseth the reader, that\nwhat follows is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the septuagint Greek\nedition, which the seventy-two interpreters translated out of the\nHebrew, or added by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.\n\n10:5. I remember a dream that I saw, which signified these same things:\nand nothing thereof hath failed.\n\nA dream.... This dream was prophetical and extraordinary: otherwise the\ngeneral rule is not to observe dreams.\n\n10:6. The little fountain which grew into a river, and was turned into\na light, and into the sun, and abounded into many waters, is Esther,\nwhom the king married, and made queen.\n\n10:7. But the two dragons are I and Aman.\n\n10:8. The nations that were assembled are they that endeavoured to\ndestroy the name of the Jews.\n\n10:9. And my nation is Israel, who cried to the Lord, and the Lord\nsaved his people: and he delivered us from all evils, and hath wrought\ngreat signs and wonders among the nations:\n\n10:10. And he commanded that there should be two lots, one of the\npeople of God, and the other of all the nations.\n\n10:11. And both lots came to the day appointed already from that time\nbefore God to all nations:\n\n10:12. And the Lord remembered his people, and had mercy on his\ninheritance.\n\n10:13. And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar on the\nfourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same month, with all diligence,\nand joy of the people gathered into one assembly, throughout all the\ngenerations hereafter of the people of Israel.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 11\n\nThe dream of Mardochai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was\ninto the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome, and put\nin this place.\n\n11:1. In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra,\nDositheus, who said he was a priest, and of the Levitical race, and\nPtolemy his son brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said\nLysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted in Jerusalem.\n\n11:2. In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the\nfirst day of the month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of\nSemei, the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:\n\n11:3. A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great man and among the\nfirst of the king\u2019s court, had a dream.\n\n11:4. Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of\nJuda:\n\n11:5. And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults,\nand thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.\n\n11:6. And behold two great dragons came forth ready to fight one\nagainst another.\n\n11:7. And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the\nnation of the just.\n\n11:8. And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and\ndistress, and great fear upon the earth.\n\n11:9. And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils,\nand was prepared for death.\n\n11:10. And they cried to God: and as they were crying, a little\nfountain grew into a very great river, and abounded into many waters.\n\n11:11. The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and\nthey devoured the glorious.\n\n11:12. And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he\nwas thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind,\ndesirous to know what the dream should signify.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 12\n\nMardochai detects the conspiracy of the two eunuchs.\n\n12:1. And he abode at that time in the king\u2019s court with Bagatha and\nThara the king\u2019s eunuchs, who were porters of the palace.\n\n12:2. And when he understood their designs, and had diligently searched\ninto their projects, he learned that they went about to lay violent\nhands on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.\n\n12:3. Then the king had them both examined, and after they had\nconfessed, commanded them to be put to death.\n\n12:4. But the king made a record of what was done: and Mardochai also\ncommitted the memory of the thing to writing.\n\n12:5. And the king commanded him, to abide in the court of the palace,\nand gave him presents for the information.\n\n12:6. But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with\nthe king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the\ntwo eunuchs of the king who were put to death.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 13\n\nA copy of a letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews. Mardochai\u2019s prayer\nfor the people.\n\n13:1. And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king\nwho reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of\nthe hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire,\ngreeting.\n\n13:2. Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the\nworld under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my\npower, but to govern my subjects with clemency and that they might live\nquietly without any terror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by\nall men,\n\n13:3. But when I asked my counsellors how this might be accomplished,\none that excelled the rest in wisdom and fidelity, and was second after\nthe king, Aman by name,\n\n13:4. Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole\nworld, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all\nnations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their\nopposition the concord of all nations.\n\n13:5. Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in\nopposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our\ncommandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces\nsubject to us,\n\n13:6. We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief\nover all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour\nas a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their\nwives and children, and that none shall have pity on them, on the\nfourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:\n\n13:7. That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore\nto our empire the peace which they had disturbed.\n\n13:8. But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,\n\n13:9. And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy\npower, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to\nsave Israel.\n\n13:10. Thou hast made heaven and earth and all things that are under\nthe cope of heaven.\n\n13:11. Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist thy\nmajesty.\n\n13:12. Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of\npride and or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud\nAman,\n\n13:13. (For I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel\nhave kissed even the steps of his feet,)\n\n13:14. But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a\nman, and lest I should adore any one except my God.\n\n13:15. And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy\npeople, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy\ninheritance.\n\n13:16. Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself\nout of Egypt.\n\n13:17. Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and\ninheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and\npraise thy name, O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to\nthee.\n\n13:18. And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the\nLord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 14\n\nThe prayer of Esther for herself and her people.\n\n14:1. Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was at hand, had\nrecourse to the Lord.\n\n14:2. And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments\nsuitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious\nointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled\nher body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was\naccustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.\n\n14:3. And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord,\nwho alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other\nhelper but thee.\n\n14:4. My danger is in my hands.\n\n14:5. I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel\nfrom among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to\npossess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them\nas thou hast promised.\n\n14:6. We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us\ninto the hands of our enemies:\n\n14:7. For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.\n\n14:8. And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard\nbondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of\ntheir idols.\n\n14:9. They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance,\nand shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory\nof thy temple and altar,\n\n14:10. That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the\nstrength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.\n\n14:11. Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they\nlaugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy\nhim that hath begun to rage against us.\n\n14:12. Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time of our\ntribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all\npower:\n\n14:13. Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the\nlion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he\nhimself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.\n\n14:14. But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no other\nhelper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.\n\n14:15. And thou knowest that I hate the glory of the wicked, and abhor\nthe bed of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.\n\n14:16. Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign of my pride\nand glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public appearance,\nand detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of my\nsilence,\n\n14:17. And that I have not eaten at Aman\u2019s table, nor hath the king\u2019s\nbanquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink\nofferings:\n\n14:18. And that thy handmaid hath never rejoiced, since I was brought\nhither unto this day but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.\n\n14:19. O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of them, that\nhave no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and\ndeliver me from my fear.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 15\n\nEsther comes into the king\u2019s presence: she is terrified, but God turns\nhis heart.\n\n15:1. And he commanded her (no doubt but he was Mardochai) to go to the\nking, and petition for her people, and for her country.\n\n15:2. Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low estate, how thou wast\nbrought up by my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath\nspoken against us unto death.\n\n15:3. And do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king for us, and\ndeliver us from death.\n\n15:4. And on the third day she laid away the garments she wore, and put\non her glorious apparel.\n\n15:5. And glittering in royal robes, after she had called upon God the\nruler and Saviour of all, she took two maids with her,\n\n15:6. And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and\novermuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.\n\n15:7. And the other maid followed her lady, bearing up her train\nflowing on the ground.\n\n15:8. But she with a rosy colour in her face, and with gracious and\nbright eyes hid a mind full of anguish, and exceeding great fear.\n\n15:9. So going in she passed through all doors in order, and stood\nbefore the king, where he sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his\nroyal robes, and glittering with gold, and precious stones, and he was\nterrible to behold.\n\n15:10. And when he had lifted up his countenance, and with burning eyes\nhad shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour\nturned pale, and she rested her weary head upon her handmaid.\n\n15:11. And God changed the king\u2019s spirit into mildness, and all in\nhaste and in fear he leaped from his throne, and holding her up in his\narms, till she came to herself, caressed her with these words:\n\n15:12. What is the matter, Esther? I am thy brother, fear not.\n\n15:13. Thou shalt not die: for this law is not made for thee, but for\nall others.\n\n15:14. Come near then, and touch the sceptre.\n\n15:15. And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid\nit upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to\nme?\n\n15:16. She answered: I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my\nheart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.\n\n15:17. For thou, my lord, art very admirable, and thy face is full of\ngraces.\n\n15:18. And while she was speaking, she fell down again, and was almost\nin a swoon.\n\n15:19. But the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.\n\n\nEsther Chapter 16\n\nA copy of the king\u2019s letter in favour of the Jews.\n\n16:1. The great king Artaxerxes, from India to Ethiopia, to the\ngovernors and princes of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, which\nobey our command, sendeth greeting.\n\nFrom India to Ethiopia.... That is, who reigneth from India to\nEthiopia.\n\n16:2. Many have abused unto pride the goodness of princes, and the\nhonour that hath been bestowed upon them:\n\n16:3. And not only endeavour to oppress the king\u2019s subjects, but not\nbearing the glory that is given them, take in hand, to practise also\nagainst them that gave it.\n\n16:4. Neither are they content not to return thanks for benefits\nreceived, and to violate in themselves the laws of humanity, but they\nthink they can also escape the justice of God who seeth all things.\n\n16:5. And they break out into so great madness, as to endeavour to\nundermine by lies such as observe diligently the offices committed to\nthem, and do all things in such manner as to be worthy of all men\u2019s\npraise,\n\n16:6. While with crafty fraud they deceive the ears of princes that are\nwell meaning, and judge of others by their own nature.\n\n16:7. Now this is proved both from ancient histories, and by the things\nwhich are done daily, how the good designs of kings are depraved by the\nevil suggestions of certain men.\n\n16:8. Wherefore we must provide for the peace of all provinces.\n\n16:9. Neither must you think, if we command different things, that it\ncometh of the levity of our mind, but that we give sentence according\nto the quality and necessity of times, as the profit of the\ncommonwealth requireth.\n\n16:10. Now that you may more plainly understand what we say, Aman the\nson of Amadathi, a Macedonian both in mind and country, and having\nnothing of the Persian blood, but with his cruelty staining our\ngoodness, was received being a stranger by us:\n\n16:11. And found our humanity so great towards him, that he was called\nour father, and was worshipped by all as the next man after the king:\n\n16:12. But he was so far puffed up with arrogancy, as to go about to\ndeprive us of our kingdom and life.\n\n16:13. For with certain new and unheard of devices he hath sought the\ndestruction of Mardochai, by whose fidelity and good services our life\nwas saved, and of Esther the partner of our kingdom with all their\nnation:\n\n16:14. Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason\nagainst us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom\nof the Persians to the Macedonians.\n\n16:15. But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked\nman appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise,\nuse just laws,\n\n16:16. And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the\never living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our\nfathers and to us, and is kept unto this day.\n\n16:17. Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name,\nare void and of no effect.\n\n16:18. For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his\nkindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we,\nbut God repaying him as he deserved.\n\n16:19. But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all\ncities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws.\n\n16:20. And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared\nthemselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,\nwhich is called Adar.\n\n16:21. For the almighty God hath turned this day of sadness and\nmourning into joy to them.\n\n16:22. Wherefore you shall also count this day among other festival\ndays, and celebrate it with all joy, that it may be known also in times\nto come,\n\n16:23. That all they who faithfully obey the Persians, receive a worthy\nreward for their fidelity: but they that are traitors to their kingdom,\nare destroyed for their wickedness.\n\n16:24. And let every province and city, that will not be partaker of\nthis solemnity, perish by the sword and by fire, and be destroyed in\nsuch manner as to be made unpassable, both to men and beasts, for an\nexample of contempt, and disobedience.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF JOB\n\n\nThis Book takes its name from the holy man of whom it treats: who,\naccording to the more probable opinion, was of the race of Esau; and\nthe same as Jobab, king of Edom, mentioned Gen. 36.33. It is uncertain\nwho was the writer of it. Some attribute it to Job himself; others to\nMoses, or some one of the prophets. In the Hebrew it is written in\nverse, from the beginning of the third chapter to the forty-second\nchapter.\n\n\nJob Chapter 1\n\nJob\u2019s virtue and riches. Satan by permission from God strippeth him of\nall his substance. His patience.\n\n1:1. There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that\nman was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.\n\nHus.... The land of Hus was a part of Edom; as appears from Lam.\n4.21.\u2014Ibid. Simple.... That is, innocent, sincere, and without guile.\n\n1:2. And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.\n\n1:3. And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand\ncamels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and\na family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people\nof the east.\n\n1:4. And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his\nday. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink\nwith them.\n\nAnd made a feast by houses.... That is, each made a feast in his own\nhouse and had his day, inviting the others, and their sisters.\n\n1:5. And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to\nthem, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for\nevery one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and\nhave blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.\n\nBlessed.... For greater horror of the very thought of blasphemy, the\nscripture both here and ver. 11, and in the following chapter, ver. 5\nand 9, uses the word bless to signify its contrary.\n\n1:6. Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before\nthe Lord, Satan also was present among them.\n\nThe sons of God.... The angels.\u2014Ibid. Satan also, etc.... This passage\nrepresents to us in a figure, accommodated to the ways and\nunderstandings of men, 1. The restless endeavours of Satan against the\nservants of God; 2. That he can do nothing without God\u2019s permission; 3.\nThat God doth not permit him to tempt them above their strength: but\nassists them by his divine grace in such manner, that the vain efforts\nof the enemy only serve to illustrate their virtue and increase their\nmerit.\n\n1:7. And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and\nsaid: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.\n\n1:8. And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job,\nthat there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and\nfearing God, and avoiding evil?\n\n1:9. And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain?\n\n1:10. Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his\nsubstance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his\npossession hath increased on the earth?\n\n1:11. But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath,\nand see if he bless thee not to thy face.\n\n1:12. Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy\nhand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth\nfrom the presence of the Lord.\n\n1:13. Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating\nand drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother,\n\n1:14. There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing,\nand the asses feeding beside them,\n\n1:15. And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the\nservants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:16. And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire\nof God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath\nconsumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:17. And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said:\nThe Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and\ntaken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and\nI alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:18. He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy\nsons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their\neldest brother,\n\n1:19. A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and\nshook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and\nthey are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.\n\n1:20. Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his\nhead, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,\n\n1:21. And said: Naked came I out of my mother\u2019s womb, and naked shall I\nreturn thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath\npleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.\n\n1:22. In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any\nfoolish thing against God.\n\n\nJob Chapter 2\n\n2:1. And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came,\nand stood before the Lord, and Satan came amongst them, and stood in\nhis sight,\n\n2:2. That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered,\nand said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.\n\n2:3. And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job,\nthat there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and\nfearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But\nthou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without\ncause.\n\n2:4. And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man\nhath, he will give for his life:\n\n2:5. But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then\nthou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.\n\n2:6. And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet\nsave his life.\n\n2:7. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job\nwith a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top\nof his head:\n\n2:8. And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on\na dunghill.\n\n2:9. And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy\nsimplicity? bless God and die.\n\n2:10. And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish\nwomen: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should\nwe not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.\n\n2:11. Now when Job\u2019s three friends heard all the evil that had befallen\nhim, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite,\nand Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamathite. For they had made\nan appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.\n\n2:12. And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him\nnot, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they\nsprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.\n\n2:13. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights\nand no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very\ngreat.\n\n\nJob Chapter 3\n\n3:1. After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,\n\nCursed his day.... Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of\nwishing evil to any thing of God\u2019s creation; but only to express in a\nstronger manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own\ncalamities in particular.\n\n3:2. And he said:\n\n3:3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it\nwas said: A man child is conceived.\n\n3:4. Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from\nabove, and let not the light shine upon it.\n\n3:5. Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist\noverspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.\n\n3:6. Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be\ncounted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.\n\n3:7. Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.\n\n3:8. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a\nleviathan:\n\n3:9. Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect\nlight, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:\n\n3:10. Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor\ntook away evils from my eyes.\n\n3:11. Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came\nout of the belly?\n\n3:12. Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?\n\n3:13. For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest\nin my sleep:\n\n3:14. With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves\nsolitudes:\n\n3:15. Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with\nsilver:\n\n3:16. Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that,\nbeing conceived, have not seen the light.\n\n3:17. There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in\nstrength are at rest.\n\n3:18. And they sometime bound together without disquiet, have not heard\nthe voice of the oppressor.\n\n3:19. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his\nmaster.\n\n3:20. Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them\nthat are in bitterness of soul?\n\n3:21. That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a\ntreasure:\n\n3:22. And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?\n\n3:23. To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with\ndarkness?\n\n3:24. Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:\n\n3:25. For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I\nwas afraid of, hath befallen me.\n\n3:26. Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been\nquiet? and indignation is come upon me.\n\n\nJob Chapter 4\n\n4:1. Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:\n\n4:2. If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but\nwho can withhold the words he hath conceived?\n\n4:3. Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary\nhands:\n\n4:4. Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast\nstrengthened the trembling knees:\n\n4:5. But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath\ntouched thee, and thou art troubled.\n\n4:6. Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection\nof thy ways?\n\n4:7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when\nwere the just destroyed?\n\n4:8. On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow\nsorrows, and reap them,\n\n4:9. Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his\nwrath.\n\n4:10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the\nteeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:\n\n4:11. The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are\nscattered abroad.\n\n4:12. Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by\nstealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.\n\n4:13. In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to\nhold men,\n\n4:14. Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were\naffrighted:\n\n4:15. And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood\nup.\n\n4:16. There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my\neyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.\n\n4:17. Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be\nmore pure than his maker?\n\nShall man be justified in comparison of God, etc.... These are the\nwords which Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which, ver. 15, he calls a\nspirit.\n\n4:18. Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels\nhe found wickedness:\n\n4:19. How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have\nan earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?\n\n4:20. From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no\none understandeth, they shall perish for ever.\n\n4:21. And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they\nshall die, and not in wisdom.\n\n\nJob Chapter 5\n\n5:1. Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some\nof the saints.\n\n5:2. Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.\n\n5:3. I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty\nimmediately.\n\n5:4. His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in\nthe gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.\n\n5:5. Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take\nhim by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.\n\n5:6. Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not\nspring out of the ground.\n\n5:7. Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.\n\n5:8. Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:\n\n5:9. Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things\nwithout number:\n\n5:10. Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all\nthings with waters:\n\n5:11. Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health\nthose that mourn.\n\n5:12. Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that\ntheir hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:\n\n5:13. Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the\ncounsel of the wicked:\n\n5:14. They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as\nin the night.\n\n5:15. But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and\nthe poor from the hand of the violent.\n\n5:16. And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in\nher mouth.\n\n5:17. Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore,\nthe chastising of the Lord.\n\n5:18. For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall\nheal.\n\n5:19. In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil\nshall not touch thee.\n\n5:20. In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from\nthe hand of the sword.\n\n5:21. Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou\nshalt not fear calamity when it cometh.\n\n5:22. In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be\nafraid of the beasts of the earth.\n\n5:23. But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and\nthe beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.\n\n5:24. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting\nthy beauty, thou shalt not sin.\n\n5:25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy\noffspring like the grass of the earth.\n\n5:26. Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat\nis brought in its season.\n\n5:27. Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou\nhaving heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.\n\n\nJob Chapter 6\n\n6:1. But Job answered, and said:\n\n6:2. O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity\nthat I suffer, were weighed in a balance.\n\nMy sins, etc.... He does not mean to compare his sufferings with his\nreal sins: but with the imaginary crimes which his friends imputed to\nhim: and especially with his wrath, or grief, expressed in the third\nchapter, which they so much accused. Though, as he tells them here, it\nbore no proportion with the greatness of his calamity.\n\n6:3. As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my\nwords are full of sorrow:\n\n6:4. For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up\nmy spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.\n\n6:5. Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when\nhe standeth before a full manger?\n\n6:6. Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with\nsalt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?\n\n6:7. The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through\nanguish, are my meats.\n\n6:8. Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me\nwhat I look for?\n\n6:9. And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose\nhis hand, and cut me off?\n\n6:10. And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow,\nhe spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.\n\n6:11. For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end,\nthat I should keep patience?\n\n6:12. My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of\nbrass.\n\n6:13. Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends\nalso are departed from me.\n\n6:14. He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of\nthe Lord.\n\n6:15. My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth\nswiftly in the valleys.\n\n6:16. They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.\n\n6:17. At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and\nafter it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.\n\n6:18. The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain,\nand shall perish.\n\n6:19. Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little\nwhile.\n\n6:20. They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also\neven unto me, and are covered with shame.\n\n6:21. Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid.\n\n6:22. Did I say: Bring to me, and give me of your substance?\n\n6:23. Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of\nthe hand of the mighty?\n\n6:24. Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant\nof any thing, instruct me.\n\n6:25. Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none\nof you that can reprove me?\n\n6:26. You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the\nwind.\n\n6:27. You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow\nyour friend.\n\n6:28. However, finish what you have begun: give ear and see whether I\nlie.\n\n6:29. Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that\nwhich is just, judge ye.\n\n6:30. And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly\nsound in my mouth.\n\n\nJob Chapter 7\n\n7:1. The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the\ndays of a hireling.\n\n7:2. As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for\nthe end of his work;\n\n7:3. So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself\nwearisome nights.\n\n7:4. If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again,\nI shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even\ntill darkness.\n\n7:5. My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin\nis withered and drawn together.\n\n7:6. My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the\nweaver, and are consumed without any hope.\n\n7:7. Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to\nsee good things.\n\n7:8. Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I\nshall be no more.\n\n7:9. As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down\nto hell shall not come up.\n\n7:10. Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his\nplace know him any more.\n\n7:11. Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the\naffliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.\n\n7:12. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?\n\n7:13. If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved,\nspeaking with myself on my couch:\n\n7:14. Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.\n\n7:15. So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.\n\n7:16. I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for\nmy days are nothing.\n\n7:17. What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou\nset thy heart upon him?\n\n7:18. Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him\nsuddenly.\n\n7:19. How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my\nspittle?\n\n7:20. I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast\nthou set me opposite to thee, and am I become burdensome to myself?\n\n7:21. Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away\nmy iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me\nin the morning, I shall not be.\n\n\nJob Chapter 8\n\n8:1. Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:\n\n8:2. How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the\nwords of thy mouth be like a strong wind?\n\n8:3. Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that\nwhich is just?\n\n8:4. Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left\nthem in the hand of their iniquity:\n\n8:5. Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the\nAlmighty:\n\n8:6. If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto\nthee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:\n\n8:7. In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things\nwould be multiplied exceedingly.\n\n8:8. For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into\nthe memory of the fathers:\n\n8:9. (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon\nearth are but a shadow.)\n\n8:10. And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter\nwords out of their hearts.\n\n8:11. Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow\nwithout water?\n\n8:12. When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it\nwithereth before all herbs.\n\n8:13. Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the\nhypocrite shall perish:\n\n8:14. His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the\nspider\u2019s web.\n\n8:15. He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall\nprop it up, and it shall not rise:\n\n8:16. He seemeth to have moisture before the sun cometh; and at his\nrising, his blossom shall shoot forth.\n\n8:17. His roots shall be thick upon a heap of stones; and among the\nstones he shall abide.\n\n8:18. If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and\nshall say: I know thee not.\n\n8:19. For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out\nof the earth.\n\n8:20. God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the\nevil doer:\n\n8:21. Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with\nrejoicing.\n\n8:22. They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the\ndwelling of the wicked shall not stand.\n\n\nJob Chapter 9\n\n9:1. And Job answered, and said:\n\n9:2. Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared\nwith God.\n\n9:3. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a\nthousand.\n\n9:4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted\nhim, and hath had peace?\n\n9:5. Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his\nwrath, knew it not.\n\n9:6. Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof\ntremble.\n\n9:7. Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the\nstars, as it were, under a seal:\n\n9:8. Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of\nthe sea,\n\n9:9. Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of\nthe south.\n\nArcturus, etc.... These are names of stars or constellations. In\nHebrew, Ash, Cesil, and Cimah. See note chap. 38, ver. 31.\n\n9:10. Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of\nwhich there is no number.\n\n9:11. If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not\nunderstand.\n\n9:12. If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say:\nWhy dost thou so?\n\n9:13. God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop\nthat bear up the world.\n\n9:14. What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with\nhim?\n\n9:15. I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer,\nbut would make supplication to my judge.\n\n9:16. And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that\nhe had heard my voice.\n\n9:17. For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even\nwithout cause.\n\nWithout cause.... That is, without my knowing the cause: or without any\ncrime of mine.\n\n9:18. He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with\nbitterness.\n\n9:19. If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of\njudgment, no man dare bear witness for me.\n\n9:20. If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I\nwould shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.\n\n9:21. Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant\nof, and I shall be weary of my life.\n\n9:22. One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the\nwicked he consumeth.\n\n9:23. If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains\nof the innocent.\n\n9:24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the\nface of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?\n\n9:25. My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and\nhave not seen good.\n\n9:26. They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying\nto the prey.\n\n9:27. If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented\nwith sorrow.\n\n9:28. I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the\noffender.\n\n9:29. But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?\n\n9:30. If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall\nshine ever so clean:\n\n9:31. Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor\nme.\n\n9:32. For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that\nmay be heard with me equally in judgment.\n\n9:33. There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his\nhand between both.\n\n9:34. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify\nme.\n\n9:35. I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I\nam in fear.\n\n\nJob Chapter 10\n\n10:1. My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against\nmyself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.\n\n10:2. I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me\nso?\n\n10:3. Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and\noppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the\nwicked?\n\n10:4. Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?\n\n10:5. Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times\nof men:\n\n10:6. That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my\nsin?\n\n10:7. And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there\nis no man that can deliver out of thy hand?\n\n10:8. Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and\ndost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?\n\n10:9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and\nthou wilt bring me into dust.\n\n10:10. Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?\n\n10:11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me\ntogether with bones and sinews:\n\n10:12. Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath\npreserved my spirit.\n\n10:13. Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that\nthou rememberest all things.\n\n10:14. If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost\nthou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?\n\n10:15. And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift\nup my head, being filled with affliction and misery.\n\n10:16. And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning,\nthou tormentest me wonderfully.\n\n10:17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy\nwrath upon me, and pains war against me.\n\n10:18. Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been\nconsumed, that eye might not see me!\n\n10:19. I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb\nto the grave.\n\n10:20. Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me,\ntherefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:\n\n10:21. Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and\ncovered with the mist of death:\n\n10:22. A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no\norder, but everlasting horror dwelleth.\n\n\nJob Chapter 11\n\nSophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to\nrepentance.\n\n11:1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:\n\n11:2. Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full\nof talk be justified?\n\n11:3. Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast\nmocked others, shall no man confute thee?\n\n11:4. For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.\n\n11:5. And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his\nlips to thee,\n\n11:6. That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law\nis manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of\nthee, than thy iniquity deserveth.\n\n11:7. Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find\nout the Almighty perfectly?\n\n11:8. He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper\nthan hell, and how wilt thou know?\n\n11:9. The measure of him is longer than the earth, and broader than the\nsea.\n\n11:10. If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together,\nwho shall contradict him?\n\n11:11. For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity,\ndoth he not consider it?\n\n11:12. A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born\nfree like a wild ass\u2019s colt.\n\n11:13. But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to\nhim.\n\n11:14. If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy\nhand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:\n\n11:15. Then mayst thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be\nsteadfast, and shalt not fear.\n\n11:16. Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters\nthat are passed away.\n\n11:17. And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at\nevening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as\nthe day star.\n\n11:18. And thou shalt have confidence, hope being set before thee, and\nbeing buried thou shalt sleep secure.\n\n11:19. Thou shalt rest, and there shall be none to make thee afraid:\nand many shall entreat thy face.\n\n11:20. But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape\nshall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.\n\n\nJob Chapter 12\n\nJob\u2019s reply to Sophar. He extols God\u2019s power and wisdom.\n\n12:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n12:2. Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?\n\n12:3. I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these\nthings, which you know?\n\n12:4. He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he\nwill hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.\n\n12:5. The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the\ntime appointed.\n\n12:6. The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly;\nwhereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:\n\n12:7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds\nof the air, and they shall tell thee.\n\n12:8. Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of\nthe sea shall tell.\n\n12:9. Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these\nthings?\n\n12:10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit\nof all flesh of man.\n\n12:11. Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that\neateth, the taste?\n\n12:12. In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.\n\n12:13. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and\nunderstanding.\n\n12:14. If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut\nup a man, there is none that can open.\n\n12:15. If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if\nhe send them out, they shall overturn the earth.\n\n12:16. With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers,\nand him that is deceived.\n\n12:17. He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to\ninsensibility.\n\n12:18. He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a\ncord.\n\n12:19. He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.\n\n12:20. He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the\ndoctrine of the aged.\n\n12:21. He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were\noppressed.\n\n12:22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to\nlight the shadow of death.\n\n12:23. He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them\nagain after they were overthrown.\n\n12:24. He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth,\nand deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.\n\n12:25. They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he\nshall make them stagger like men that are drunk.\n\n\nJob Chapter 13\n\nJob persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends.\n\n13:1. Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard\nthem, and I have understood them all.\n\n13:2. According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to\nyou.\n\n13:3. But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with\nGod.\n\n13:4. Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers\nof perverse opinions.\n\n13:5. And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought\nto be wise men.\n\n13:6. Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my\nlips.\n\n13:7. Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully\nfor him?\n\n13:8. Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?\n\n13:9. Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or\nshall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?\n\n13:10. He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.\n\n13:11. As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his\ndread shall fall upon you.\n\n13:12. Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks\nshall be brought to clay.\n\n13:13. Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my\nmind shall suggest to me.\n\n13:14. Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my\nhands?\n\n13:15. Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will\nreprove my ways in his sight.\n\n13:16. And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before\nhis presence.\n\n13:17. Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.\n\n13:18. If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.\n\n13:19. Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I\nconsumed holding my peace?\n\n13:20. Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not\nbe hid:\n\n13:21. Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.\n\n13:22. Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do\nthou answer me.\n\n13:23. How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and\noffenses.\n\n13:24. Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?\n\n13:25. Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest\nthy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.\n\n13:26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me\nfor the sins of my youth.\n\n13:27. Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my\npaths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:\n\n13:28. Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is\nmotheaten.\n\n\nJob Chapter 14\n\nJob declares the shortness of man\u2019s days: and professes his belief of a\nresurrection.\n\n14:1. Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many\nmiseries.\n\n14:2. Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a\nshadow, and never continueth in the same state.\n\n14:3. And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one,\nand to bring him into judgment with thee?\n\n14:4. Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it\nnot thou who only art?\n\n14:5. The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with\nthee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.\n\n14:6. Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for\nday come, as that of the hireling.\n\n14:7. A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the\nboughs thereof sprout.\n\n14:8. If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the\ndust:\n\n14:9. At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves,\nas when it was first planted.\n\n14:10. But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray\nyou where is he?\n\n14:11. As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied\nriver should be dried up;\n\n14:12. So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the\nheavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.\n\n14:13. Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and\nhide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt\nremember me?\n\nThat thou mayst protect me in hell.... That is, in the state of the\ndead; and in the place where the souls are kept waiting for their\nRedeemer.\n\n14:14. Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days\nin which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.\n\n14:15. Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy\nhands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.\n\n14:16. Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.\n\n14:17. Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast\ncured my iniquity.\n\n14:18. A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out\nof its place.\n\n14:19. Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by\nlittle and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy\nman.\n\n14:20. Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass\naway for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.\n\n14:21. Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not\nunderstand.\n\n14:22. But yet his flesh, while he shall live, shall have pain, and his\nsoul shall mourn over him.\n\n\nJob Chapter 15\n\nEliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and describes the wretched\nstate of the wicked.\n\n15:1. And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:\n\n15:2. Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and\nfill his stomach with burning heat?\n\n15:3. Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou\nspeakest that which is not good for thee.\n\n15:4. As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken\naway prayers from before God.\n\nThou hast made void fear.... That is, cast off the fear of offending\nGod.\n\n15:5. For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the\ntongue of blasphemers.\n\n15:6. Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips\nshall answer thee.\n\n15:7. Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before\nthe hills?\n\n15:8. Hast thou heard God\u2019s counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior\nto thee?\n\n15:9. What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou\nunderstand that we know not?\n\n15:10. There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy\nfathers.\n\n15:11. Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy\nwicked words hinder this.\n\n15:12. Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with\nthy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?\n\n15:13. Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out\nof thy mouth?\n\n15:14. What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born\nof a woman that he should appear just?\n\n15:15. Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens\nare not pure in his sight.\n\n15:16. How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh\niniquity like water?\n\n15:17. I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have\nseen.\n\n15:18. Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.\n\nWise men confess and hide not their fathers.... That is, the knowledge\nand documents they have received from their fathers they are not\nashamed to own.\n\n15:19. To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed\namong them.\n\n15:20. The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the\nyears of his tyranny is uncertain.\n\n15:21. The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is\npeace, he always suspecteth treason.\n\n15:22. He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light,\nlooking round about for the sword on every side.\n\n15:23. When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of\ndarkness is ready at his hand.\n\n15:24. Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him,\nas a king that is prepared for the battle.\n\n15:25. For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath\nstrengthened himself against the Almighty.\n\n15:26. He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed\nwith a fat neck.\n\n15:27. Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his\nsides.\n\n15:28. He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are\nreduced into heaps.\n\n15:29. He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue,\nneither shall he push his root in the earth.\n\n15:30. He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his\nbranches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.\n\n15:31. He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he\nmay be redeemed with any price.\n\n15:32. Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall\nwither away.\n\n15:33. He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first\nflower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.\n\n15:34. For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall\ndevour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.\n\n15:35. He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and\nhis womb prepareth deceits.\n\n\nJob Chapter 16\n\nJob expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God.\n\n16:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n16:2. I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome\ncomforters.\n\n16:3. Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to\nspeak?\n\n16:4. I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my\nsoul.\n\n16:5. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over\nyou.\n\n16:6. I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as\nsparing you.\n\n16:7. But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I\nhold my peace, it will not depart from me.\n\n16:8. But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought\nto nothing.\n\n16:9. My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth\nup against my face, contradicting me.\n\n16:10. He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening\nme he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with\nterrible eyes.\n\n16:11. They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they\nhave struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.\n\n16:12. God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me\ninto the hands of the wicked.\n\n16:13. I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to\npieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me\nup to be his mark.\n\n16:14. He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath\nwounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on\nthe earth,\n\n16:15. He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me\nlike a giant.\n\n16:16. I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh\nwith ashes.\n\n16:17. My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.\n\n16:18. These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand,\nwhen I offered pure prayers to God.\n\n16:19. O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a\nhiding place in thee.\n\n16:20. For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my\nconscience is on high.\n\n16:21. My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.\n\n16:22. And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man\nis judged with his companion!\n\n16:23. For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by\nwhich I shall not return.\n\n\nJob Chapter 17\n\nJob\u2019s hope in God: he expects rest in death.\n\n17:1. My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only\nthe grave remaineth for me.\n\n17:2. I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.\n\nNot sinned.... That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me\nwith.\n\n17:3. Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man\u2019s\nhand fight against me.\n\n17:4. Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they\nshall not be exalted.\n\n17:5. He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his\nchildren shall fail.\n\n17:6. He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an\nexample before them.\n\n17:7. My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it\nwere to nothing.\n\n17:8. The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be\nraised up against the hypocrite.\n\n17:9. And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean\nhands shall be stronger and stronger.\n\n17:10. Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find\namong you any wise man.\n\n17:11. My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting\nmy heart.\n\n17:12. They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for\nlight again.\n\n17:13. If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.\n\nHell.... Sheol. The region of the dead.\n\n17:14. I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my\nmother and my sister.\n\n17:15. Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my\npatience?\n\n17:16. All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest\nthou that there at least I shall have rest?\n\nDeepest pit.... Literally, hell.\n\n\nJob Chapter 18\n\nBaldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked.\n\n18:1. Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:\n\n18:2. How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let\nus speak.\n\n18:3. Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?\n\n18:4. Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be\nforsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?\n\n18:5. Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame\nof his fire not shine?\n\n18:6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is\nover him, shall be put out.\n\n18:7. The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel\nshall cast him down headlong.\n\n18:8. For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its\nmeshes.\n\n18:9. The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall\nburn against him.\n\n18:10. A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the\npath.\n\n18:11. Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his\nfeet.\n\n18:12. Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade\nhis ribs.\n\n18:13. Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death\nconsume his arms.\n\n18:14. Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let\ndestruction tread upon him like a king.\n\n18:15. Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle,\nlet brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.\n\n18:16. Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed\nabove.\n\n18:17. Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his\nname be renowned in the streets.\n\n18:18. He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove\nhim out of the world.\n\n18:19. His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people,\nnor any remnants in his country.\n\n18:20. They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and\nhorror shall fall upon them that went before.\n\n18:21. These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place\nof him that knoweth not God.\n\n\nJob Chapter 19\n\nJob complains of the cruelty of his friends; he describes his own\nsufferings: and his belief of a future resurrection.\n\n19:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n19:2. How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with\nwords?\n\n19:3. Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to\noppress me.\n\n19:4. For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.\n\n19:5. But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my\nreproaches.\n\n19:6. At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an\nequal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.\n\nWith an equal judgment.... St. Gregory explains these words thus: Job\nbeing a just man, and truly considering his own life, thought that his\naffliction was greater than his sins deserved: and in that respect,\nthat the punishment was not equal, yet it was just, as coming from God,\nwho gives a crown of justice to those who suffer for righteousness\u2019\nsake, and proves the just with tribulations, as gold is tried by fire.\n\n19:7. Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I\nshall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.\n\n19:8. He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in\nmy way he hath set darkness.\n\n19:9. He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my\nhead.\n\n19:10. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath\ntaken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.\n\n19:11. His wrath is kindled against me, and he hath counted me as his\nenemy.\n\n19:12. His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by\nme, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.\n\n19:13. He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like\nstrangers have departed from me.\n\n19:14. My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have\nforgotten me.\n\n19:15. They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me\nas a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.\n\n19:16. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him\nwith my own mouth.\n\n19:17. My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of\nmy womb.\n\n19:18. Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they\nspoke against me.\n\n19:19. They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he\nwhom I loved most is turned against me.\n\n19:20. The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and\nnothing but lips are left about my teeth.\n\n19:21. Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends,\nbecause the hand of the Lord hath touched me.\n\n19:22. Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my\nflesh?\n\n19:23. Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant\nme that they may be marked down in a book?\n\n19:24. With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with\nan instrument in flint stone?\n\n19:25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall\nrise out of the earth.\n\nVer. 25, 26, and 27 shew Job\u2019s explicit belief in his Redeemer, and\nalso of the resurrection of the flesh, not as one tree riseth in place\nof another, but that the selfsame flesh shall rise at the last day, by\nthe power of God, changed in quality but not in substance, every one to\nreceive sentence according to his works in this life.\n\n19:26. And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I\nshall see my God.\n\n19:27. Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not\nanother: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.\n\n19:28. Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find\noccasion of word against him?\n\n19:29. Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the\nrevenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.\n\n\nJob Chapter 20\n\nSophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and\ntheir sudden downfall.\n\n20:1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:\n\n20:2. Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind\nis hurried away to different things.\n\n20:3. The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the\nspirit of my understanding shall answer for me.\n\n20:4. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the\nearth,\n\n20:5. That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the\nhypocrite but for a moment.\n\n20:6. If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the\nclouds:\n\n20:7. In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that\nhad seen him, shall say: Where is he?\n\n20:8. As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass\nas a vision of the night:\n\n20:9. The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall\nhis place any more behold him.\n\n20:10. His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall\nrender to him his sorrow.\n\n20:11. His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they\nshall sleep with him in the dust.\n\n20:12. For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under\nhis tongue.\n\n20:13. He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his\nthroat.\n\n20:14. His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps\nwithin him,\n\n20:15. The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God\nshall draw them out of his belly.\n\n20:16. He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper\u2019s tongue shall\nkill him.\n\n20:17. Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey\nand of butter.\n\n20:18. He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be\nconsumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he\nsuffer.\n\nAccording to the multitude of his devices.... That is, his stratagems\nto gratify his passions and to oppress and destroy the poor.\n\n20:19. Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently\ntaken away a house which he did not build.\n\n20:20. And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he\ncoveted, he shall not be able to possess them.\n\n20:21. There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall\ncontinue of his goods:\n\n20:22. When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn,\nand every sorrow shall fall upon him.\n\n20:23. May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of\nhis indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.\n\n20:24. He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of\nbrass.\n\n20:25. The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and\nglittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon\nhim.\n\n20:26. All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not\nkindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his\ntabernacle.\n\n20:27. The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise\nup against him.\n\n20:28. The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled\ndown in the day of God\u2019s wrath.\n\n20:29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the\ninheritance of his doings from the Lord.\n\n\nJob Chapter 21\n\nJob shews that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end\nof their life: but that their judgment is in another world.\n\n21:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n21:2. Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.\n\n21:3. Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at\nmy words.\n\n21:4. Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to\nbe troubled?\n\n21:5. Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your\nmouth.\n\n21:6. As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh\nhold on my flesh.\n\n21:7. Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened\nwith riches?\n\n21:8. Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of\nchildren\u2019s children in their sight.\n\n21:9. Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not\nupon them.\n\n21:10. Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has\ncalved, and is not deprived of her fruit.\n\n21:11. Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance\nand play.\n\n21:12. They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of\nthe organ.\n\n21:13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to\nhell.\n\n21:14. Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the\nknowledge of thy ways.\n\n21:15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it\nprofit us if we pray to him?\n\n21:16. Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the\ncounsel of the wicked be far from me.\n\n21:17. How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge\ncome upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?\n\n21:18. They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes\nwhich the whirlwind scattereth.\n\n21:19. God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and\nwhen he shall repay, then shall he know.\n\n21:20. His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of\nthe wrath of the Almighty.\n\n21:21. For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if\nthe number of his months be diminished by one half?\n\n21:22. Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are\nhigh?\n\n21:23. One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.\n\n21:24. His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with\nmarrow.\n\n21:25. But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:\n\n21:26. And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall\ncover them.\n\n21:27. Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against\nme.\n\n21:28. For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the\ndwelling places of the wicked?\n\n21:29. Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive\nthat he knoweth these same things.\n\n21:30. Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction,\nand he shall be brought to the day of wrath.\n\n21:31. Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him\nwhat he hath done?\n\n21:32. He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap\nof the dead.\n\n21:33. He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall\ndraw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.\n\nAcceptable to the gravel of Cocytus.... The Hebrew word, which St.\nJerome has here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets\nrepresent as a river in hell,) signifies a valley or a torrent: and in\nthis place, is taken for the low region of death and hell: which\nwillingly, as it were, receives the wicked at their death: who are\nushered in by innumerable others that have gone before them; and are\nfollowed by multitudes above number.\n\n21:34. How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn\nto be repugnant to truth?\n\n\nJob Chapter 22\n\nEliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity\nif he will repent.\n\n22:1. Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:\n\n22:2. Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect\nknowledge?\n\n22:3. What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give\nhim if thy way be unspotted?\n\n22:4. Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:\n\n22:5. And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?\n\n22:6. For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without\ncause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.\n\n22:7. Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread\nfrom the hungry.\n\n22:8. In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being\nthe most mighty thou holdest it.\n\n22:9. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless\nthou hast broken in pieces.\n\n22:10. Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear\ntroubleth thee.\n\n22:11. And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and\nthat thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing\nwaters?\n\n22:12. Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is\nelevated above the height of the stars?\n\n22:13. And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were\nthrough a mist.\n\n22:14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things,\nand he walketh about the poles of heaven.\n\n22:15. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have\ntrodden?\n\n22:16. Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath\noverthrown their foundation.\n\n22:17. Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as\nif he could do nothing:\n\n22:18. Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way\nof thinking be far from me.\n\n22:19. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall\nlaugh them to scorn.\n\n22:20. Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the\nremnants of them?\n\n22:21. Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou\nshalt have the best fruits.\n\n22:22. Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.\n\n22:23. If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and\nshalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.\n\n22:24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.\n\n22:25. And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall\nbe heaped together for thee.\n\n22:26. Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt\nlift up thy face to God.\n\n22:27. Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt\npay vows.\n\n22:28. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light\nshall shine in thy ways.\n\n22:29. For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that\nshall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.\n\n22:30. The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the\ncleanness of his hands.\n\n\nJob Chapter 23\n\nJob wishes to be tried at God\u2019s tribunal.\n\n23:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n23:2. Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge\nis more grievous than my mourning.\n\n23:3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even\nto his throne?\n\n23:4. I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with\ncomplaints.\n\n23:5. That I might know the words that he would answer me, and\nunderstand what he would say to me.\n\n23:6. I would not that he should contend with me with much strength,\nnor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.\n\n23:7. Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to\nvictory.\n\n23:8. But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I\nshall not understand him.\n\n23:9. If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on\nhim: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.\n\n23:10. But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth\nthrough the fire:\n\n23:11. My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have\nnot declined from it.\n\n23:12. I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the\nwords of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.\n\n23:13. For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and\nwhatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.\n\n23:14. And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like\nthings are also at hand with him.\n\n23:15. And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider\nhim I am made pensive with fear.\n\n23:16. God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.\n\n23:17. For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over\nme, neither hath the mist covered my face.\n\n\nJob Chapter 24\n\nGod\u2019s providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their\nsins: but punisheth them in another life.\n\n24:1. Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know\nnot his days.\n\n24:2. Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and\nfed them.\n\n24:3. They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken\naway the widow\u2019s ox for a pledge.\n\n24:4. They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed\ntogether the meek of the earth.\n\n24:5. Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by\nwatching for a prey they get bread for their children.\n\n24:6. They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage\nof his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.\n\n24:7. They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no\ncovering in the cold:\n\n24:8. Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no\ncovering embrace the stones.\n\n24:9. They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor\ncommon people.\n\n24:10. From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the\nhungry they have taken away the ears of corn.\n\n24:11. They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who\nafter having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.\n\n24:12. Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of\nthe wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass\nunrevenged.\n\n24:13. They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his\nways, neither have they returned by his paths.\n\n24:14. The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the\nneedy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.\n\n24:15. The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye\nshall see me: and he will cover his face.\n\n24:16. He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had\nappointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.\n\n24:17. If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of\ndeath: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.\n\n24:18. He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on\nthe earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.\n\n24:19. Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin\neven to hell.\n\n24:20. Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be\nremembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.\n\n24:21. For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he\nhath done no good.\n\n24:22. He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he\nstandeth up, he shall not trust to his life.\n\n24:23. God hath given him place for penance, and he abuseth it unto\npride: but his eyes are upon his ways.\n\n24:24. They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and\nshall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as\nthe tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.\n\n24:25. And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and\nset my words before God?\n\n\nJob Chapter 25\n\nBaldad represents the justice of God, before whom no man can be\njustified.\n\n25:1. Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:\n\n25:2. Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high\nplaces.\n\n25:3. Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not\nhis light arise?\n\n25:4. Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a\nwoman appear clean?\n\n25:5. Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure\nin his sight.\n\n25:6. How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a\nworm?\n\n\nJob Chapter 26\n\nJob declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God.\n\n26:1. Then Job answered, and said:\n\n26:2. Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou\nhold up the arm of him that has no strength?\n\n26:3. To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no\nwisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.\n\n26:4. Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?\n\n26:5. Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell\nwith them.\n\n26:6. Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for\ndestruction.\n\n26:7. He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the\nearth upon nothing.\n\n26:8. He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not\nout and fall down together.\n\n26:9. He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud\nover it.\n\n26:10. He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness\ncome to an end.\n\n26:11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.\n\n26:12. By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his\nwisdom has struck the proud one.\n\n26:13. His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand\nbrought forth the winding serpent.\n\nHis obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.... That is, the\nomnipotent power of God: which brought forth all things created in\ntime, but conceived in the Divine mind from all eternity. The winding\nserpent, a constellation of fixed stars winding round the north pole,\ncalled Draco. This appears from the foregoing part of the same verse,\nHis spirit hath adorned the heavens.\n\n26:14. Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we\nhave heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to\nbehold the thunder of his greatness?\n\n\nJob Chapter 27\n\nJob persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will\nbe punished in the end.\n\n27:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:\n\n27:2. As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty,\nwho hath brought my soul to bitterness,\n\n27:3. As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my\nnostrils,\n\n27:4. My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue\ncontrive lying.\n\n27:5. God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will\nnot depart from my innocence.\n\n27:6. My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake:\nfor my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.\n\n27:7. Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked\none.\n\n27:8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he\ntake by violence, and God deliver not his soul?\n\n27:9. Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?\n\n27:10. Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at\nall times?\n\n27:11. I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and\nI will not conceal it.\n\n27:12. Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without\ncause?\n\n27:13. This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the\ninheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.\n\n27:14. If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his\ngrandsons shall not be filled with bread.\n\n27:15. They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his\nwidows shall not weep.\n\n27:16. If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment\nas clay,\n\n27:17. He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with\nit: and the innocent shall divide the silver.\n\n27:18. He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made\na booth.\n\n27:19. The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with\nhim: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.\n\n27:20. Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall\noppress him in the night:\n\n27:21. A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a\nwhirlwind shall snatch him from his place.\n\n27:22. And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand\nhe would willingly flee.\n\n27:23. He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him,\nbeholding his place.\n\n\nJob Chapter 28\n\nMan\u2019s industry searcheth out many things: true wisdom is taught by God\nalone.\n\n28:1. Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place\nwherein it is melted.\n\n28:2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is\nturned into brass.\n\n28:3. He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he\nconsidereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of\ndeath.\n\n28:4. The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey,\nthose whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be\ncome at.\n\n28:5. The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been\noverturned with fire.\n\n28:6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it\nare gold.\n\n28:7. The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the\nvulture beheld it.\n\n28:8. The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath\nthe lioness passed by it.\n\n28:9. He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned\nmountains from the roots.\n\n28:10. In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every\nprecious thing.\n\n28:11. The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he\nhath brought forth to light.\n\n28:12. But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of\nunderstanding?\n\n28:13. Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the\nland of them that live in delights.\n\n28:14. The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not\nwith me.\n\n28:15. The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be\nweighed in exchange for it.\n\n28:16. It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with\nthe most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.\n\n28:17. Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of\ngold be changed for it.\n\n28:18. High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of\nit: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.\n\n28:19. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it\nbe compared to the cleanest dyeing.\n\n28:20. Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of\nunderstanding?\n\n28:21. It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air\nknow it not.\n\n28:22. Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the\nfame thereof.\n\n28:23. God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place\nthereof.\n\n28:24. For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all\nthings that are under heaven.\n\n28:25. Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by\nmeasure.\n\n28:26. When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding\nstorms.\n\n28:27. Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it.\n\n28:28. And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom:\nand to depart from evil, is understanding.\n\n\nJob Chapter 29\n\nJob relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed\nhim.\n\n29:1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:\n\n29:2. Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past,\naccording to the days in which God kept me?\n\n29:3. When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in\ndarkness?\n\n29:4. As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my\ntabernacle?\n\n29:5. When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?\n\n29:6. When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out\nrivers of oil?\n\n29:7. When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they\nprepared me a chair?\n\n29:8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up\nand stood.\n\n29:9. The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.\n\n29:10. The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their\nthroat.\n\n29:11. The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave\nwitness to me:\n\n29:12. Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the\nfatherless, that had no helper.\n\n29:13. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I\ncomforted the heart of the widow.\n\n29:14. I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment,\nas with a robe and a diadem.\n\n29:15. I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.\n\n29:16. I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I\nsearched out most diligently.\n\n29:17. I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took\naway the prey.\n\n29:18. And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall\nmultiply my days.\n\n29:19. My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in\nmy harvest.\n\n29:20. My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be\nrepaired.\n\n29:21. They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive\nheld their peace at my counsel.\n\n29:22. To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon\nthem.\n\n29:23. They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as\nfor a latter shower.\n\n29:24. If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the\nlight of my countenance fell not on earth.\n\n29:25. If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a\nking, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them\nthat mourned.\n\n\nJob Chapter 30\n\nJob shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to\ngreat calamity.\n\n30:1. But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not\nhave set with the dogs of my flock:\n\nBut now the younger in time.... That is, younger than I am, and as it\nwere obscure, when I was conspicuous and in magnificence; they now look\ndown on me.\n\n30:2. The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were\nthought unworthy of life itself.\n\n30:3. Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness,\ndisfigured with calamity and misery.\n\n30:4. And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers\nwas their food.\n\n30:5. Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they\nhad found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.\n\n30:6. They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of\nearth, or upon the gravel.\n\n30:7. They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted\nit delightful to be under the briers.\n\n30:8. The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all\nupon the earth.\n\n30:9. Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.\n\n30:10. They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit\nin my face.\n\n30:11. For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath\nput a bridle into my mouth.\n\n30:12. At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose:\nthey have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths\nas with waves.\n\n30:13. They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me,\nand they have prevailed, and there was none to help.\n\n30:14. They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a\ngate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.\n\n30:15. I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my\ndesire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.\n\n30:16. And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction\npossess me.\n\n30:17. In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed\nupon me, do not sleep.\n\n30:18. With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have\ngirded me about, as with the collar of my coat.\n\n30:19. I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.\n\n30:20. I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou\ndost not regard me.\n\n30:21. Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of\nthy hand thou art against me.\n\n30:22. Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and\nthou hast mightily dashed me.\n\n30:23. I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is\nappointed for every one that liveth.\n\n30:24. But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption:\nand if they shall fall down thou wilt save.\n\n30:25. I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had\ncompassion on the poor.\n\n30:26. I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for\nlight, and darkness broke out.\n\n30:27. My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of\naffliction have prevented me.\n\n30:28. I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the\ncrowd.\n\n30:29. I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.\n\nBrother of dragons, etc.... Imitating these creatures in their\nlamentable noise.\n\n30:30. My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with\nheat.\n\n30:31. My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of\nthose that weep.\n\n\nJob Chapter 31\n\nJob, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives\na sincere account of his own virtues.\n\n31:1. I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think\nupon a virgin.\n\n31:2. For what part should God from above have in me, and what\ninheritance the Almighty from on high?\n\n31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work\niniquity?\n\n31:4. Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?\n\n31:5. If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to\ndeceit:\n\n31:6. Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my\nsimplicity.\n\n31:7. If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath\nfollowed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:\n\n31:8. Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be\nrooted out.\n\n31:9. If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid\nwait at my friend\u2019s door:\n\n31:10. Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with\nher.\n\n31:11. For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.\n\n31:12. It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up\nall things that spring.\n\n31:13. If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my\nmaidservant, when they had any controversy against me:\n\n31:14. For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he\nshall examine, what shall I answer him?\n\n31:15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not\none and the same form me in the womb?\n\n31:16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made\nthe eyes of the widow wait:\n\n31:17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not\neaten thereof:\n\n31:18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with\nme from my mother\u2019s womb:)\n\n31:19. If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing,\nand the poor man that had no covering:\n\n31:20. If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with\nthe fleece of my sheep:\n\n31:21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I\nsaw myself superior in the gate:\n\n31:22. Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its\nbones be broken.\n\n31:23. For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his\nweight I was unable to bear.\n\n31:24. If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold:\nMy confidence:\n\n31:25. If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had\ngotten much.\n\n31:26. If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in\nbrightness:\n\nIf I beheld the sun, etc.... If I behold the sun and moon with\nadmiration, knowing them to be created and governed by the power of\nGod, I call on my adversaries to produce any thing against me, whereby\nI could be charged with worshipping the sun or moon.\n\n31:27. And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand\nwith, my mouth:\n\n31:28. Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most\nhigh God.\n\n31:29. If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and\nhave rejoiced that evil had found him.\n\n31:30. For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his\nsoul.\n\n31:31. If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of\nhis flesh that we may be filled?\n\n31:32. The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the\ntraveller.\n\n31:33. If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in\nmy bosom.\n\n31:34. If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the\ncontempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my\npeace, and not gone out of the door.\n\n31:35. Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my\ndesire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,\n\n31:36. That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a\ncrown?\n\n31:37. At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a\nprince.\n\n31:38. If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof\nmourn:\n\n31:39. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have\nafflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:\n\n31:40. Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead\nof barley.\n\nThe words of Job are ended.\n\n\nJob Chapter 32\n\nEliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself.\n\n32:1. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just\nto himself.\n\n32:2. And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram,\nwas angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job,\nbecause he said he was just before God.\n\n32:3. And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a\nreasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.\n\n32:4. So Eliu waited while Job was speaking because they were his\nelders that were speaking.\n\n32:5. But when he saw that the three were not able to answer, he was\nexceedingly angry.\n\n32:6. Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, and said: I am\nyounger in days, and you are more ancient, therefore hanging down my\nhead, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.\n\n32:7. For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of\nyears would teach wisdom.\n\n32:8. But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of\nthe Almighty giveth understanding.\n\n32:9. They that are aged are not the wise men, neither do the ancients\nunderstand judgment.\n\n32:10. Therefore I will speak: Hearken to me, I also will shew you my\nwisdom.\n\n32:11. For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your\nwisdom, as long as you were disputing in words.\n\n32:12. And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but,\nas I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his\nwords.\n\n32:13. Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him\ndown, not man.\n\n32:14. He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will not answer him\naccording to your words.\n\n32:15. They were afraid, and answered no more, and they left off\nspeaking.\n\n32:16. Therefore because I have waited, and they have not spoken: they\nstood, and answered no more:\n\n32:17. I also will answer my part, and will shew my knowledge.\n\n32:18. For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels\nstraiteneth me.\n\n32:19. Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which\nbursteth the new vessels.\n\n32:20. I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and\nwill answer.\n\n32:21. I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God\nwith man.\n\nI will not level God with man.... Here Eliu considers that Job hath put\nhimself on a level with God, by the manner he assumed to justify his\nown life in speaking to God as if he spoke to an equal: Eliu expresses\nin the following ver. 22 his fear of punishment hereafter for such an\nattempt.\n\n32:22. For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a\nwhile my Maker may take me away.\n\n\nJob Chapter 33\n\nEliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence.\n\n33:1. Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.\n\n33:2. Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my\njaws.\n\n33:3. My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a\npure sentence.\n\n33:4. The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me\nlife.\n\n33:5. If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.\n\n33:6. Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I\nalso was formed.\n\n33:7. But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence\nbe burdensome to thee.\n\n33:8. Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of\nthy words:\n\n33:9. I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no\niniquity in me.\n\n33:10. Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath\ncounted me for his enemy.\n\n33:11. He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my\npaths.\n\n33:12. Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will\nanswer thee, that God is greater than man.\n\n33:13. Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee\nto all words?\n\n33:14. God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the\nsecond time.\n\n33:15. By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon\nmen, and they are sleeping in their beds:\n\n33:16. Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them\nin what they are to learn.\n\n33:17. That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may\ndeliver him from pride.\n\n33:18. Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to\nthe sword.\n\n33:19. He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his\nbones to wither.\n\n33:20. Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul\nthe meat which before he desired.\n\n33:21. His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were\ncovered shall be made bare.\n\n33:22. His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the\ndestroyers.\n\n33:23. If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among\nthousands, to declare man\u2019s uprightness,\n\n33:24. He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he\nmay not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful\nto him.\n\n33:25. His flesh is consumed with punishments, let him return to the\ndays of his youth.\n\n33:26. He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he\nshall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.\n\n33:27. He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed\nI have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.\n\n33:28. He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it\nmay live and see the light.\n\n33:29. Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every\none.\n\n33:30. That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten\nthem with the light of the living.\n\n33:31. Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I\nspeak.\n\n33:32. But if thou hast any thing to say, answer me, speak: for I would\nhave thee to appear just.\n\n33:33. And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy peace, and I will teach\nthee wisdom.\n\n\nJob Chapter 34\n\nEliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice\nof God.\n\n34:1. And Eliu continued his discourse, and said:\n\n34:2. Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye learned, hearken to me:\n\n34:3. For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the\ntaste.\n\n34:4. Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what\nis the best.\n\n34:5. For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my\njudgment.\n\n34:6. For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any\nsin.\n\n34:7. What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?\n\n34:8. Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh\nwith wicked men?\n\n34:9. For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with\nhim.\n\n34:10. Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be\nwickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.\n\n34:11. For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways\nof every one he will reward them.\n\n34:12. For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither\nwill the Almighty pervert judgment.\n\n34:13. What other hath he appointed over the earth? or whom hath he set\nover the world which he made?\n\n34:14. If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath\nunto himself.\n\n34:15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into\nashes.\n\n34:16. If then thou hast understanding, hear what is said, and hearken\nto the voice of my words.\n\n34:17. Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so\nfar condemn him that is just?\n\n34:18. Who saith to the king: Thou art an apostate: who calleth rulers\nungodly:\n\n34:19. Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the\ntyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of\nhis hands.\n\n34:20. They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at\nmidnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.\n\n34:21. For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all\ntheir steps.\n\n34:22. There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where\nthey may be hid who work iniquity.\n\n34:23. For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment\nwith God.\n\n34:24. He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make\nothers to stand in their stead.\n\n34:25. For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night\non them, and they shall be destroyed.\n\n34:26. He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight.\n\n34:27. Who as it were on purpose have revolted from him, and would not\nunderstand all his ways:\n\n34:28. So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he\nheard the voice of the poor.\n\n34:29. For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When\nhe hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it\nregard nations, or all men?\n\n34:30. Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of\nthe people?\n\n34:31. Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy\nturn.\n\n34:32. If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I\nwill add no more.\n\n34:33. Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee?\nfor thou begannest to speak, and not I: but if thou know any thing\nbetter, speak.\n\n34:34. Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wise man hearken\nto me.\n\n34:35. But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not\ndiscipline.\n\n34:36. My father, let Job be tried even to the end: cease not from the\nman of iniquity.\n\n34:37. Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast\nin the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment\nwith his speeches.\n\n\nJob Chapter 35\n\nEliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God.\n\n35:1. Moreover Eliu spoke these words:\n\n35:2. Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am\nmore just than God?\n\n35:3. For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or\nwhat will it profit thee if I sin?\n\n35:4. Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.\n\n35:5. Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher\nthan thee.\n\n35:6. If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be\nmultiplied, what shalt thou do against him?\n\n35:7. And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he\nreceive of thy hand?\n\n35:8. Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice\nmay help the son of man.\n\n35:9. By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and\nshall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.\n\n35:10. And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given\nsongs in the night?\n\n35:11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and\ninstructeth us more than the fowls of the air.\n\n35:12. There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride\nof evil men.\n\n35:13. God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look\ninto the causes of every one.\n\n35:14. Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before\nhim, and expect him.\n\n35:15. For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge\nwickedness exceedingly.\n\n35:16. Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words\nwithout knowledge.\n\n\nJob Chapter 36\n\nEliu proceeds in setting forth the justice and power of God.\n\n36:1. Eliu also proceeded, and said:\n\n36:2. Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat\nto speak in God\u2019s behalf.\n\n36:3. I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove\nmy Maker just.\n\n36:4. For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge\nshall be proved to thee.\n\n36:5. God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is\nmighty.\n\n36:6. But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.\n\n36:7. He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth\nkings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.\n\n36:8. And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of\npoverty:\n\n36:9. He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because\nthey have been violent.\n\n36:10. He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak,\nthat they may return from iniquity.\n\n36:11. If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days\nin good, and their years in glory.\n\n36:12. But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be\nconsumed in folly.\n\n36:13. Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall\nthey cry when they are bound.\n\n36:14. Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the\neffeminate.\n\n36:15. He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open\nhis ear in affliction.\n\n36:16. Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth,\nand which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall\nbe full of fatness.\n\nOut of the narrow mouth.... That is, out of hell, whose entrance is\nnarrow, and its depth bottomless; but figuratively meant here, that is,\nfrom his miseries and calamity to be restored to his former state of\nhappiness.\n\n36:17. Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and\njudgment thou shalt recover.\n\n36:18. Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man:\nneither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.\n\n36:19. Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty\nof strength.\n\n36:20. Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.\n\n36:21. Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun\nto follow after misery.\n\nFor this thou hast begun to follow after misery.... Eliu charges Job,\nthat notwithstanding his misery, he does not fear God as he ought: but\nin his judgment, falls into iniquity.\n\n36:22. Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among\nthe lawgivers.\n\n36:23. Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast\nwrought iniquity?\n\n36:24. Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men\nhave sung.\n\n36:25. All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.\n\n36:26. Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his\nyears is inestimable.\n\n36:27. He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like\nfloods:\n\n36:28. Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.\n\n36:29. If he will spread out clouds as his tent,\n\n36:30. And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the\nends of the sea.\n\n36:31. For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.\n\n36:32. In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come\nagain.\n\n36:33. He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession,\nand that he may come up to it.\n\n\nJob Chapter 37\n\nEliu goes on in his discourse, shewing God\u2019s wisdom and power, by his\nwonderful works.\n\n37:1. At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.\n\n37:2. Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that\ncometh out of his mouth.\n\n37:3. He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the\nends of the earth.\n\n37:4. After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of\nhis majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard.\n\n37:5. God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great\nand unsearchable things.\n\n37:6. He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter\nrain, and the shower of his strength.\n\n37:7. He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his\nworks.\n\nHe sealeth up, etc.... When he sends those showers of his strength,\nthat is, those storms of rain, he seals up, that is, he shuts up the\nhands of men from their usual works abroad, and confines them within\ndoors, to consider his works; or to forecast their works, that is, what\nthey themselves are to do.\n\n37:8. Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his\nden.\n\n37:9. Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the\nnorth.\n\n37:10. When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are\npoured out abundantly.\n\n37:11. Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:\n\n37:12. Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that\ngoverneth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them\nupon the face of the whole earth:\n\n37:13. Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place\nsoever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.\n\n37:14. Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous\nworks of God.\n\n37:15. Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light\nof his clouds?\n\n37:16. Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect\nknowledges?\n\n37:17. Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the\nearth?\n\n37:18. Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most\nstrong, as if they were of molten brass.\n\n37:19. Shew us what we may say to him: for we are wrapped up in\ndarkness.\n\n37:20. Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall\nspeak, he shall be swallowed up.\n\nHe shall be swallowed up.... All that man can say when he speaks of\nGod, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject,\nthat man is lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean.\n\n37:21. But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be\nthickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.\n\n37:22. Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.\n\n37:23. We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in\njudgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.\n\n37:24. Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to\nbe wise, shall not dare to behold him.\n\n\nJob Chapter 38\n\nGod interposes and shews from the things he hath made, that man cannot\ncomprehend his power and wisdom.\n\n38:1. Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:\n\nThe Lord. That is, an angel speaking in the name of the Lord.\n\n38:2. Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?\n\n38:3. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou\nme.\n\n38:4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me\nif thou hast understanding.\n\n38:5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath\nstretched the line upon it?\n\n38:6. Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone\nthereof,\n\n38:7. When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of\nGod made a joyful melody?\n\n38:8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing\nout of the womb:\n\n38:9. When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist\nas in swaddling bands?\n\n38:10. I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:\n\n38:11. And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further,\nand here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.\n\n38:12. Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the\ndawning of the day its place?\n\n38:13. And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them,\nand hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?\n\n38:14. The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a\ngarment.\n\n38:15. From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high\narm shall be broken.\n\n38:16. Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the\nlowest parts of the deep?\n\n38:17. Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen\nthe darksome doors?\n\n38:18. Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou\nknowest all things?\n\n38:19. Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of\ndarkness?\n\n38:20. That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and\nunderstand the paths of the house thereof.\n\n38:21. Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou\nknow the number of thy days?\n\n38:22. Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou\nbeheld the treasures of the hail:\n\n38:23. Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day\nof battle and war?\n\n38:24. By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the\nearth?\n\n38:25. Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy\nthunder:\n\n38:26. That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness,\nwhere no mortal dwelleth:\n\n38:27. That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should\nbring forth green grass?\n\n38:28. Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?\n\n38:29. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who\nhath gendered it?\n\n38:30. The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the\ndeep is congealed.\n\n38:31. Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the\nPleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?\n\nPleiades.... Hebrew, Cimah. A cluster of seven stars in the\nconstellation Taurus or the Bull. Arcturus, a bright star in the\nconstellation Bootes. The Hebrew name Cesil, is variously interpreted;\nby some, Orion; by others, the Great Bear is understood.\n\n38:32. Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the\nevening star to rise upon the children of the earth?\n\n38:33. Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the\nreason thereof on the earth?\n\n38:34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of\nwaters may cover thee?\n\n38:35. Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they\nreturn and say to thee: Here we are?\n\n38:36. Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock\nunderstanding?\n\nUnderstanding.... That instinct by which he distinguishes the times of\ncrowing in the night.\n\n38:37. Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the\nharmony of heaven to sleep?\n\n38:38. When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened\ntogether?\n\n38:39. Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the\nappetite of her whelps,\n\n38:40. When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?\n\n38:41. Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to\nGod, wandering about, because they have no meat?\n\n\nJob Chapter 39\n\nThe wonders of the power and providence of God in many of his\ncreatures.\n\n39:1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the\nrocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?\n\n39:2. Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest\nthou the time when they bring forth?\n\n39:3. They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and\nsend forth roarings.\n\n39:4. Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return\nnot to them.\n\n39:5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his\nbonds?\n\n39:6. To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings\nin the barren land.\n\n39:7. He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of\nthe driver.\n\n39:8. He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh\nfor every green thing,\n\n39:9. Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at\nthy crib?\n\n39:10. Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will\nhe break the clods of the valleys after thee?\n\n39:11. Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy\nlabours to him?\n\n39:12. Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and\ngather it into thy barnfloor?\n\n39:13. The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of\nthe hawk.\n\n39:14. When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm\nthem in the dust.\n\n39:15. She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the\nbeasts of the field may break them.\n\n39:16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not\nhers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.\n\n39:17. For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her\nunderstanding.\n\n39:18. When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she\nscorneth the horse and his rider.\n\n39:19. Wilt thou give strength to the horse or clothe his neck with\nneighing?\n\n39:20. Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his\nnostrils is terror.\n\n39:21. He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he\ngoeth forward to meet armed men.\n\n39:22. He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword.\n\n39:23. Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall\nglitter.\n\n39:24. Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he\nmake account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.\n\n39:25. When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the\nbattle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of\nthe army.\n\n39:26. Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings\nto the south?\n\n39:27. Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in\nhigh places?\n\n39:28. She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints,\nand stony hills, where there is no access.\n\n39:29. From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar\noff.\n\n39:30. Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass\nshall be, she is immediately there.\n\n39:31. And the Lord went on, and said to Job:\n\n39:32. Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely\nhe that reproveth God, ought to answer him.\n\n39:33. Then Job answered the Lord, and said:\n\n39:34. What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay\nmy hand upon my mouth.\n\nSpoken inconsiderately.... If we discuss all Job\u2019s words (saith St.\nGregory), we shall find nothing impiously spoken; as may be gathered\nfrom the words of the Lord himself, chap. 42, ver. 7, 8; but what was\nreprehensible in him, was the manner of expressing himself at times,\nspeaking too much of his own affliction, and too little of God\u2019s\ngoodness towards him, which here he acknowledges as inconsiderate.\n\n39:35. One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and\nanother, to which I will add no more.\n\n\nJob Chapter 40\n\nOf the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan.\n\n40:1. And the Lord answering Job out of the whirlwind, said:\n\n40:2. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and do thou tell\nme.\n\n40:3. Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst\nbe justified?\n\n40:4. And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a\nvoice like him?\n\n40:5. Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself up on high, and be\nglorious, and put on goodly garments.\n\n40:6. Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant\nman, and humble him.\n\n40:7. Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the\nwicked in their place,\n\n40:8. Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the\npit.\n\n40:9. Then I will confess that thy right hand is able to save thee.\n\n40:10. Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an\nox.\n\nBehemoth.... In Hebrew, behema, which signifies in general an animal;\nbut many authors explain, that here it is put for the elephant.\n\n40:11. His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his\nbelly.\n\n40:12. He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his testicles\nare wrapped together.\n\n40:13. His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of\niron.\n\n40:14. He is the beginning of the ways of God, who made him, he will\napply his sword.\n\nHe will apply his sword.... This text is variously explained: some\nexplain the sword, the horn given to the animal for his defence:\nothers, the power that God hath given to the animal for his defence:\nothers, the power that God hath given to man to slay him,\nnotwithstanding his great size and strength.\n\n40:15. To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of\nthe field shall play.\n\n40:16. He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in\nmoist places.\n\n40:17. The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall\ncompass him about.\n\n40:18. Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he\ntrusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.\n\n40:19. In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through\nhis nostrils with stakes.\n\n40:20. Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie\nhis tongue with a cord?\n\nLeviathan.... The whale or some sea monster.\n\n40:21. Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with\na buckle?\n\n40:22. Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to\nthee?\n\n40:23. Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be\na servant for ever,\n\n40:24. Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy\nhandmaids?\n\n40:25. Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?\n\n40:26. Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and the cabins of fishes with\nhis head?\n\n40:27. Lay thy hand upon him: remember the battle, and speak no more.\n\n40:28. Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the sight of all he shall\nbe cast down.\n\n\nJob Chapter 41\n\nA further description of the leviathan.\n\n41:1. I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can\nresist my countenance?\n\n41:2. Who hath given me before that I should repay him? All things that\nare under heaven are mine.\n\n41:3. I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make\nsupplication.\n\n41:4. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can go into the\nmidst of his mouth?\n\n41:5. Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round\nabout.\n\n41:6. His body is like molten shields, shut close up with scales\npressing upon one another.\n\n41:7. One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come\nbetween them:\n\n41:8. They stick one to another and they hold one another fast, and\nshall not be separated.\n\n41:9. His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the\neyelids of the morning.\n\n41:10. Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.\n\n41:11. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that of a pot heated and\nboiling.\n\n41:12. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his\nmouth.\n\n41:13. In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his\nface.\n\n41:14. The members of his flesh cleave one to another: he shall send\nlightnings against him, and they shall not be carried to another place.\n\n41:15. His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith\u2019s\nanvil,\n\n41:16. When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being\naffrighted shall purify themselves.\n\nAngels.... Elim, Hebrew: which signifies here, the mighty, the most\nvaliant, shall fear this monstrous fish, and in their fear shall seek\nto be purified.\n\n41:17. When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor\na spear, nor a breastplate.\n\n41:18. For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.\n\n41:19. The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling\nare to him like stubble.\n\n41:20. As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to\nscorn who shaketh the spear.\n\n41:21. The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold\nunder him like mire.\n\nUnder him.... He shall not value the beams of the sun; and gold to him\nshall be like mire.\n\n41:22. He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it\nas when ointments boil.\n\n41:23. A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as\ngrowing old.\n\nThe deep as growing old.... Growing hoary, as it were with the froth\nwhich he leaves behind him.\n\n41:24. There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who\nwas made to fear no one,\n\n41:25. He beholdeth every high thing, he is king over all the children\nof pride.\n\nHe is king, etc.... He is superior in strength to all that are great\nand strong amongst living creatures: mystically it is understood of the\ndevil, who is king over all the proud.\n\n\nJob Chapter 42\n\nJob submits himself. God pronounces in his favour. Job offers sacrifice\nfor his friends. He is blessed with riches and children, and dies\nhappily,\n\n42:1. Then Job answered the Lord, and said:\n\n42:2. I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from\nthee.\n\n42:3. Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I\nhave spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my\nknowledge.\n\n42:4. Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.\n\n42:5. With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye\nseeth thee.\n\n42:6. Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.\n\n42:7. And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to\nEliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against\nthy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right\nbefore me, as my servant Job hath.\n\n42:8. Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my\nservant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job\nshall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed\nto you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant\nJob hath.\n\n42:9. So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the\nNaamathite went, and did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord\naccepted the face of Job.\n\n42:10. The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed\nfor his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.\n\n42:11. And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all\nthat knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and\nbemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought\nupon him. And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.\n\n42:12. And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his\nbeginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels,\nand a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.\n\n42:13. And he had seven sons, and three daughters.\n\n42:14. And he called the name of one Dies, and the name of the second\nCassia, and the name of the third Cornustibii.\n\n42:15. And there were not found in all the earth women so beautiful as\nthe daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among\ntheir brethren.\n\n42:16. And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and\nhe saw his children, and his children\u2019s children, unto the fourth\ngeneration, and he died an old man, and full of days.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF PSALMS\n\n\nThe psalms are called by the Hebrews TEHILLIM, that is, Hymns of\nPraise. The author, of a great part of them at least, was king David:\nbut many are of opinion that some of them were made by Asaph, and\nothers whose names are prefixed in the titles.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 1\n\nBeatus vir.\n\nThe happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked.\n\n1:1. Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the\nungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of\npestilence:\n\n1:2. But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall\nmeditate day and night.\n\n1:3. And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running\nwaters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf\nshall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.\n\n1:4. Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind\ndriveth from the face of the earth.\n\n1:5. Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners\nin the council of the just.\n\n1:6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the\nwicked shall perish.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 2\n\nQuare fremuerunt.\n\nThe vain efforts of persecutors against Christ and his church.\n\n2:1. Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?\n\n2:2. The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together,\nagainst the Lord, and against his Christ.\n\n2:3. Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke\nfrom us.\n\n2:4. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall\nderide them.\n\n2:5. Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his\nrage.\n\n2:6. But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain,\npreaching his commandment.\n\n2:7. The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I\nbegotten thee.\n\n2:8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance,\nand the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.\n\n2:9. Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in\npieces like a potter\u2019s vessel.\n\n2:10. And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that\njudge the earth.\n\n2:11. Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.\n\n2:12. Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you\nperish from the just way.\n\n2:13. When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all\nthey that trust in him.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 3\n\nDomine, quid multiplicati.\n\nThe prophet\u2019s danger and delivery from his son Absalom: mystically, the\npassion and resurrection of Christ.\n\n3:1. The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.\n\n3:2. Why, O Lord, are they multipied that afflict me? many are they who\nrise up against me.\n\n3:3. Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.\n\n3:4. But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of\nmy head.\n\n3:5. I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from\nhis holy hill.\n\n3:6. I have slept and have taken my rest: and I have risen up, because\nthe Lord hath protected me.\n\n3:7. I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O\nLord; save me, O my God.\n\n3:8. For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without\ncause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.\n\n3:9. Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 4\n\nCum invocarem.\n\nThe prophet teacheth us to flee to God in tribulation, with confidence\nin him.\n\n4:1. Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.\n\nUnto the end.... Or, as St. Jerome renders it, victori, to him that\novercometh: which some understand of the chief musician; to whom they\nsuppose the psalms, which bear that title, were given to be sung: we\nrather understand the psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ, who is\nthe end of the law, and the great conqueror of death and hell, and to\nthe New Testament.\u2014Ibid. In verses, in carminibus.... In the Hebrew, it\nis neghinoth, supposed by some to be a musical instrument, with which\nthis psalm was to be sung.\u2014Ibid. For David, or to David.... That is,\ninspired to David himself, or to be sung.\n\n4:2. When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was\nin distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my\nprayer.\n\n4:3. O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you\nlove vanity, and seek after lying?\n\n4:4. Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the\nLord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.\n\n4:5. Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be\nsorry for them upon your beds.\n\n4:6. Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many\nsay, Who sheweth us good things?\n\n4:7. The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast\ngiven gladness in my heart.\n\n4:8. By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they are\nmultiplied.\n\n4:9. In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest:\n\n4:10. For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 5\n\nVerba mea auribul.\n\nA prayer to God against the iniquities of men.\n\n5:1. Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for\nDavid.\n\nFor her that obtaineth the inheritance.... That is, for the church of\nChrist.\n\n5:2. Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.\n\n5:3. Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.\n\n5:4. For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my\nvoice.\n\n5:5. In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because\nthou art not a God that willest iniquity.\n\n5:6. Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust\nabide before thy eyes.\n\n5:7. Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all\nthat speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.\n\n5:8. But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy\nhouse; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.\n\n5:9. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct\nmy way in thy sight.\n\n5:10. For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.\n\n5:11. Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with\ntheir tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices:\naccording to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for\nthey have provoked thee, O Lord.\n\n5:12. But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice\nfor ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name\nshall glory in thee.\n\n5:13. For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as\nwith a shield of thy good will.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 6\n\nDomine, ne in furore.\n\nA prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first\npenitential psalm.\n\n6:1. Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave.\n\nFor the octave.... That is, to be sung on an instrument of eight\nstrings. St. Augustine understands it mystically, of the last\nresurrection, and the world to come; which is, as it were, the octave,\nor eighth day, after the seven days of this mortal life: and for this\noctave, sinners must dispose themselves, like David, by bewailing their\nsins, whilst they are here upon earth.\n\n6:2. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy\nwrath.\n\n6:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my\nbones are troubled.\n\n6:4. And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long?\n\n6:5. Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy\u2019s\nsake.\n\n6:6. For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who\nshall confess to thee in hell?\n\n6:7. I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I\nwill water my couch with my tears.\n\n6:8. My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst\nall my enemies.\n\n6:9. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath\nheard the voice of my weeping.\n\n6:10. The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my\nprayer.\n\n6:11. Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let\nthem be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 7\n\nDomine, Deus meus.\n\nDavid, trusting in the justice of his cause, prayeth for God\u2019s help\nagainst his enemies.\n\n7:1. The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of\nChusi, the son of Jemini.\n\n7:2. O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them\nthat persecute me, and deliver me.\n\n7:3. Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is\nno one to redeem me, nor to save.\n\n7:4. O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in\nmy hands:\n\n7:5. If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly\nfall empty before my enemies.\n\n7:6. Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life,\non the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.\n\n7:7. Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders\nof my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou\nhast commanded:\n\n7:8. And a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their\nsakes return thou on high.\n\n7:9. The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my\njustice, and according to my innocence in me.\n\n7:10. The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou\nshalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.\n\n7:11. Just is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.\n\n7:12. God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?\n\n7:13. Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath\nbent his bow, and made it ready.\n\n7:14. And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made\nready his arrows for them that burn.\n\nFor them that burn.... That is, against the persecutors of his saints.\n\n7:15. Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived\nsorrow, and brought forth iniquity.\n\n7:16. He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole\nhe made.\n\n7:17. His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity\nshall come down upon his crown.\n\n7:18. I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will\nsing to the name of the Lord the most high.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 8\n\nDomine, Dominus noster.\n\nGod is wonderful in his works; especially in mankind, singularly\nexalted by the incarnation of Christ.\n\n8:1. Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.\n\nThe presses.... In Hebrew, Gittith, supposed to be a musical\ninstrument.\n\n8:2. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!\nFor thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.\n\n8:3. Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected\npraise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and\nthe avenger.\n\n8:4. For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon\nand the stars which thou hast founded.\n\n8:5. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that\nthou visitest him?\n\n8:6. Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast\ncrowned him with glory and honour:\n\n8:7. And hast set him over the works of thy hands.\n\n8:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen:\nmoreover, the beasts also of the fields.\n\n8:9. The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through\nthe paths of the sea.\n\n8:10. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 9\n\nConfitebor tibi, Domine. The church praiseth God for his protection\nagainst her enemies.\n\n9:1. Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.\n\nThe hidden things of the Son.... The humility and sufferings of Christ,\nthe Son of God; and of good Christians, who are his sons by adoption;\nare called hidden things, with regard to the children of this world,\nwho know not the value and merit of them.\n\n9:2. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will\nrelate all thy wonders.\n\n9:3. I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O\nthou most high.\n\n9:4. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and\nperish before thy face.\n\n9:5. For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat\non the throne, who judgest justice.\n\n9:6. Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished;\nthou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.\n\n9:7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities\nthou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:\n\n9:8. But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in\njudgment:\n\n9:9. And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people\nin justice.\n\n9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due\ntime in tribulation.\n\n9:11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not\nforsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.\n\n9:12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among\nthe Gentiles:\n\n9:13. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not\nforgotten the cry of the poor.\n\n9:14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from\nmy enemies.\n\n9:15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may\ndeclare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.\n\n9:16. I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in\nthe destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the\nvery snare which they hid.\n\n9:17. The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner\nhath been caught in the works of his own hands.\n\n9:18. The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget\nGod.\n\n9:19. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience\nof the poor shall not perish for ever.\n\n9:20. Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be\njudged in thy sight.\n\n9:21. Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know\nthemselves to be but men.\n\nHere the late Hebrew doctors divide this psalm into two, making ver. 22\nthe beginning of Psalm 10. And again they join Psalms 146 and 147 into\none, in order that the whole number of psalms should not exceed 150.\nAnd in this manner the psalms are numbered in the Protestant Bible.\n\nPsalm 10 according to the Hebrews.\n\n9a:1. Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us\nin our wants, in the time of trouble?\n\n9a:2. Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are\ncaught in the counsels which they devise.\n\n9a:3. For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the\nunjust man is blessed.\n\n9a:4. The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of\nhis wrath, he will not seek him:\n\n9a:5. God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy\njudgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his\nenemies.\n\n9a:6. For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from\ngeneration to generation, and shall be without evil.\n\n9a:7. His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit:\nunder his tongue are labour and sorrow.\n\n9a:8. He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he\nmay kill the innocent.\n\n9a:9. His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like\na lion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man:\nso catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.\n\n9a:10. In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when\nhe shall have power over the poor.\n\n9a:11. For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath\nturned away his face, not to see to the end.\n\n9a:12. Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.\n\n9a:13. Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his\nheart: He will not require it.\n\n9a:14. Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou\nmayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou\nwilt be a helper to the orphan.\n\n9a:15. Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin\nshall be sought, and shall not be found.\n\n9a:16. The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye\nGentiles shall perish from his land.\n\n9a:17. The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard\nthe preparation of their heart.\n\n9a:18. To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no\nmore presume to magnify himself upon earth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 10\n\nIn Domino confido.\n\nThe just man\u2019s confidence in God in the midst of persecutions.\n\n10:1. Unto the end. A psalm to David.\n\n10:2. In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get\nthee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.\n\n10:3. For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their\narrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.\n\n10:4. For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what\nhas the just man done?\n\n10:5. The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord\u2019s throne is in heaven.\nHis eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.\n\n10:6. The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth\niniquity, hateth his own soul.\n\n10:7. He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms\nof winds, shall be the portion of their cup.\n\n10:8. For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance\nhath beheld righteousness.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 11\n\nSalvum me fac.\n\nThe prophet calls for God\u2019s help against the wicked.\n\n11:1. Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David.\n\n11:2. Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed\nfrom among the children of men.\n\n11:3. They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with\ndeceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.\n\n11:4. May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that\nspeaketh proud things.\n\n11:5. Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own:\nwho is Lord over us?\n\n11:6. By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor,\nnow will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal\nconfidently in his regard.\n\n11:7. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the\nfire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.\n\n11:8. Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation\nfor ever.\n\n11:9. The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast\nmultiplied the children of men.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 12\n\nUsquequo, Domine.\n\nA prayer in tribulation.\n\n12:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou\nforget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?\n\n12:2. How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all\nthe day?\n\n12:3. How long shall my enemy be exalted over Me?\n\n12:4. Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I\nnever sleep in death:\n\n12:5. Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They\nthat trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:\n\n12:6. But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy\nsalvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I\nwill sing to the name of the Lord, the most high.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 13\n\nDixit insipiens.\n\nThe general corruption of man before our redemption by Christ.\n\n13:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart:\nThere is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their\nways: there is none that doth good, no not one.\n\n13:2. The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men,\nto see if there be any that understand and seek God.\n\n13:3. They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together:\nthere is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open\nsepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of\nasps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and\nbitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and\nunhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known:\nthere is no fear of God before their eyes.\n\n13:4. Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people\nas they eat bread?\n\n13:5. They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for\nfear, where there was no fear.\n\n13:6. For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the\ncounsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.\n\n13:7. Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord\nshall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall\nrejoice, and Israel shall be glad.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 14\n\nDomine, quis habitabit.\n\nWhat kind of men shall dwell in the heavenly Sion.\n\n14:1. A psalm for David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or\nwho shall rest in thy holy hill?\n\n14:2. He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:\n\n14:3. He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in\nhis tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a\nreproach against his neighbours.\n\n14:4. In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he\nglorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour,\nand deceiveth not;\n\n14:5. He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes\nagainst the innocent: He that doth these things, shall not be moved for\never.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 15\n\nConserva me, Domine.\n\nChrist\u2019s future victory and triumph over the world and death.\n\n15:1. The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord,\nfor I have put my trust in thee.\n\nThe inscription of a title.... That is, of a pillar or monument,\nstaylographia: which is as much as to say, that this psalm is most\nworthy to be engraved on an everlasting monument.\n\n15:2. I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need\nof my goods.\n\n15:3. To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my\ndesires in them.\n\n15:4. Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I\nwill not gather together their meetings for bloodofferings: nor will I\nbe mindful of their names by my lips.\n\n15:5. The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is\nthou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.\n\n15:6. The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance\nis goodly to me.\n\n15:7. I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover,\nmy reins also have corrected me even till night.\n\n15:8. I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand,\nthat I be not moved.\n\n15:9. Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced:\nmoreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope.\n\n15:10. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give\nthy holy one to see corruption.\n\n15:11. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me\nwith joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to\nthe end.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 16\n\nExaudi, Domine, justitiam.\n\nA just man\u2019s prayer in tribulation against the malice of his enemy.\n\n16:1. The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my\nsupplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from\ndeceitful lips.\n\n16:2. Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes\nbehold the things that are equitable.\n\n16:3. Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast\ntried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.\n\n16:4. That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the\nwords of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.\n\n16:5. Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not\nmoved.\n\n16:6. I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline\nthy ear unto me, and hear my words.\n\n16:7. Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust\nin thee.\n\n16:8. From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy\neye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.\n\n16:9. From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies\nhave surrounded my soul:\n\n16:10. They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.\n\nTheir fat.... That is, their bowels of compassion: for they have none\nfor me.\n\n16:11. They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they\nhave set their eyes bowing down to the earth.\n\n16:12. They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a\nyoung lion dwelling in secret places.\n\n16:13. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul\nfrom the wicked one; thy sword\n\n16:14. From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few\nof the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden\nstores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little\nones the rest of their substance.\n\nDivide them from the few, etc.... That is, cut them off from the earth,\nand the few trifling things thereof; which they are so proud of, or\ndivide them from the few; that is, from thy elect, who are but few;\nthat they may no longer have it in their power to oppress them. It is\nnot meant by way of a curse or imprecation; but, as many other the like\npassages in the psalms, by way of a prediction, or prophecy of what\nshould come upon them, in punishment of their wickedness. Ibid. Thy\nhidden stores.... Thy secret treasures, out of which thou furnishest\nthose earthly goods, which, with a bountiful hand thou hast distributed\nboth to the good and the bad.\n\n16:15. But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I\nshall be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 17\n\nDiligam te, Domine.\n\nDavid\u2019s thanks to God for his delivery from all his enemies.\n\n17:1. Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to\nthe Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered\nhim from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he\nsaid:\n\n17:2. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:\n\n17:3. The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is\nmy helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn\nof my salvation, and my support.\n\n17:4. Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my\nenemies.\n\n17:5. The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity\ntroubled me.\n\n17:6. The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death\nprevented me.\n\n17:7. In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God:\nAnd he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came\ninto his ears.\n\n17:8. The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains\nwere troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.\n\n17:9. There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his\nface: coals were kindled by it.\n\n17:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his\nfeet.\n\n17:11. And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the\nwings of the winds.\n\n17:12. And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him:\ndark waters in the clouds of the air.\n\n17:13. At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail\nand coals of fire.\n\n17:14. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his\nvoice: hail and coals of fire.\n\n17:15. And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he\nmultiplied lightnings, and troubled them.\n\n17:16. Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of\nthe world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the\nspirit of thy wrath.\n\n17:17. He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many\nwaters.\n\n17:18. He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that\nhated me: for they were too strong for me.\n\n17:19. They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord\nbecame my protector.\n\n17:20. And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because\nhe was well pleased with me.\n\n17:21. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will\nrepay me according to the cleanness of my hands:\n\n17:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done\nwickedly against my God.\n\n17:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have\nnot put away from me.\n\n17:24. And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my\niniquity.\n\n17:25. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and\naccording to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.\n\n17:26. With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou\nwilt be innocent:\n\n17:27. And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse\nthou wilt be perverted.\n\n17:28. For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the\neyes of the proud.\n\n17:29. For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my\ndarkness.\n\n17:30. For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my\nGod I shall go over a wall.\n\n17:31. As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are\nfire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.\n\n17:32. For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?\n\n17:33. God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.\n\n17:34. Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me\nupon high places.\n\n17:35. Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a\nbrazen bow.\n\n17:36. And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy\nright hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto\nthe end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.\n\n17:37. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not\nweakened.\n\n17:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will\nnot turn again till they are consumed.\n\n17:39. I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they\nshall fall under my feet.\n\n17:40. And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast\nsubdued under me them that rose up against me.\n\n17:41. And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast\ndestroyed them that hated me.\n\n17:42. They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he\nheard them not.\n\n17:43. And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I\nshall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.\n\n17:44. Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou\nwilt make me head of the Gentiles.\n\n17:45. A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the\near they have obeyed me.\n\n17:46. The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange\nchildren have faded away, and have halted from their paths.\n\n17:47. The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my\nsalvation be exalted.\n\n17:48. O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my\ndeliverer from my enraged enemies.\n\n17:49. And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me:\nfrom the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.\n\n17:50. Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations,\nand I will sing a psalm to thy name.\n\n17:51. Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to\nDavid, his anointed: and to his seed for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 18\n\nCoeli enarrant.\n\nThe works of God shew forth his glory: his law is greatly to be\nesteemed and loved.\n\n18:1. Unto the end. A Psalm for David.\n\n18:2. The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament\ndeclareth the work of his hands.\n\n18:3. Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.\n\n18:4. There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not\nheard.\n\n18:5. Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words\nunto the ends of the world.\n\n18:6. He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom\ncoming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the\nway:\n\n18:7. His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to\nthe end thereof: and there is no one that can hide himself from his\nheat.\n\n18:8. The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony\nof the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.\n\n18:9. The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the\ncommandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.\n\n18:10. The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the\njudgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.\n\n18:11. More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and\nsweeter than honey and the honeycomb.\n\n18:12. For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a\ngreat reward.\n\n18:13. Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:\n\n18:14. And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have\nno dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be\ncleansed from the greatest sin.\n\n18:15. And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the\nmeditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my\nRedeemer.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 19\n\nExaudiat te Dominus.\n\nA prayer for the king.\n\n19:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David.\n\n19:2. May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of\nthe God of Jacob protect thee.\n\n19:3. May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee out of\nSion.\n\n19:4. May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole\nburntoffering be made fat.\n\n19:5. May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy\ncounsels.\n\n19:6. We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we\nshall be exalted.\n\n19:7. The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord\nhath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the\nsalvation of his right hand is in powers.\n\nThe salvation of his right hand is in powers.... That is, in strength.\nHis right hand is strong and mighty to save them that trust in him.\n\n19:8. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon\nthe name of the Lord, our God.\n\n19:9. They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set\nupright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall\ncall upon thee.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 20\n\nDomine, in virtute.\n\nPraise to God for Christ\u2019s exaltation after his passion.\n\n20:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David.\n\n20:2. In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation\nhe shall rejoice exceedingly.\n\n20:3. Thou hast given him his heart\u2019s desire: and hast not withholden\nfrom him the will of his lips.\n\n20:4. For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou\nhast set on his head a crown of precious stones.\n\n20:5. He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for\never and ever.\n\n20:6. His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt\nthou lay upon him.\n\n20:7. For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou\nshalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.\n\n20:8. For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the\nmost High he shall not be moved.\n\n20:9. Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find\nout all them that hate thee.\n\n20:10. Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy\nanger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour\nthem.\n\n20:11. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed\nfrom among the children of men.\n\n20:12. For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised\ncounsels which they have not been able to establish.\n\n20:13. For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou\nshalt prepare their face.\n\nIn thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.... Or thou shalt set thy\nremnants against their faces. That is, thou shalt make them see what\npunishments remain for them hereafter from thy justice. Instead of\nremnants, St. Jerome renders it funes, that is, cords or strings, viz.,\nof the bow of divine justice, from which God directs his arrows against\nthe faces of his enemies.\n\n20:14. Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and\npraise thy power.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 21\n\nDeus Deus meus.\n\nChrist\u2019s passion: and the conversion of the Gentiles.\n\n21:1. Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.\n\n21:2. O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from\nmy salvation are the words of my sins.\n\nThe words of my sins.... That is, the sins of the world, which I have\ntaken upon myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all my\nsufferings.\n\n21:3. O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by\nnight, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.\n\n21:4. But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.\n\n21:5. In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast\ndelivered them.\n\n21:6. They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee,\nand were not confounded.\n\n21:7. But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast\nof the people.\n\n21:8. All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken\nwith the lips, and wagged the head.\n\n21:9. He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him,\nseeing he delighteth in him.\n\n21:10. For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from\nthe breasts of my mother.\n\n21:11. I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother\u2019s womb thou\nart my God,\n\n21:12. Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is\nnone to help me.\n\n21:13. Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.\n\n21:14.They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and\nroaring.\n\n21:15. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My\nheart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.\n\n21:16. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath\ncleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of\ndeath.\n\n21:17. For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant\nhath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.\n\n21:18. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared\nupon me.\n\n21:19. They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they\ncast lots.\n\n21:20. But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me;\nlook towards my defence.\n\n21:21. Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the\nhand of the dog.\n\n21:22. Save me from the lion\u2019s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of\nthe unicorns.\n\n21:23. I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the\nchurch will I praise thee.\n\n21:24. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob,\nglorify him.\n\n21:25. Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not\nslighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he\nturned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.\n\n21:26. With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in\nthe sight of them that fear him.\n\n21:27. The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise\nthe Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.\n\n21:28. All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted\nto the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his\nsight.\n\n21:29. For the kingdom is the Lord\u2019s; and he shall have dominion over\nthe nations.\n\n21:30. All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all\nthey that go down to the earth shall fall before him.\n\n21:31. And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.\n\n21:32. There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and\nthe heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be\nborn, which the Lord hath made.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 22\n\nDominus regit me.\n\nGod\u2019s spiritual benefits to faithful souls.\n\n22:1. A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.\n\nRuleth me.... In Hebrew, Is my shepherd, viz., to feed, guide, and\ngovern me.\n\n22:2. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on\nthe water of refreshment:\n\n22:3. He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of\njustice, for his own name\u2019s sake.\n\n22:4. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I\nwill fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they\nhave comforted me.\n\n22:5. Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict\nme. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which\ninebriateth me, how goodly is it!\n\n22:6. And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I\nmay dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 23\n\nDomini est terra.\n\nWho are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ\u2019s triumphant ascension\nthither.\n\n23:1. On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the\nLord\u2019s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell\ntherein.\n\n23:2. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon\nthe rivers.\n\n23:3. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall\nstand in his holy place?\n\n23:4. The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his\nsoul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.\n\n23:5. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his\nSaviour.\n\n23:6. This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek\nthe face of the God of Jacob.\n\n23:7. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal\ngates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.\n\n23:8. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the\nLord mighty in battle.\n\n23:9. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal\ngates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.\n\n23:10. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of\nGlory.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 24\n\nAd te, Domine, levavi.\n\nA prayer for grace, mercy, and protection against our enemies.\n\n24:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted\nup my soul.\n\n24:2. In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.\n\n24:3. Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on\nthee shall be confounded.\n\n24:4. Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause.\nShew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.\n\n24:5. Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my\nSaviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.\n\n24:6. Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that\nare from the beginning of the world.\n\n24:7. The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According\nto thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness\u2019 sake, O Lord.\n\n24:8. The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to\nsinners in the way.\n\n24:9. He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his\nways.\n\n24:10. All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek\nafter his covenant and his testimonies.\n\n24:11. For thy name\u2019s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is\ngreat.\n\n24:12. Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a\nlaw in the way he hath chosen.\n\n24:13. His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit\nthe land.\n\n24:14. The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant\nshall be made manifest to them.\n\n24:15. My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet\nout of the snare.\n\n24:16. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and\npoor.\n\n24:17. The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my\nnecessities.\n\n24:18. See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.\n\n24:19. Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me\nwith an unjust hatred.\n\n24:20. Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I\nhave hoped in thee.\n\n24:21. The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have\nwaited on thee.\n\n24:22. Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 25\n\nJudica me, Domine.\n\nDavid\u2019s prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may\ncome to worship him in his tabernacle.\n\n25:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have\nwalked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall\nnot be weakened.\n\n25:2. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.\n\n25:3. For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy\ntruth.\n\n25:4. I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in\nwith the doers of unjust things.\n\n25:5. I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I\nwill not sit.\n\n25:6. I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy\naltar, O Lord:\n\n25:7. That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy\nwondrous works.\n\n25:8. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place\nwhere thy glory dwelleth.\n\n25:9. Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with\nbloody men:\n\n25:10. In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with\ngifts.\n\n25:11. But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and\nhave mercy on me.\n\n25:12. My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will\nbless thee, O Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 26\n\nDominus illuminatio.\n\nDavid\u2019s faith and hope in God.\n\n26:1. The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light\nand my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my\nlife: of whom shall I be afraid?\n\n26:2. Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My\nenemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have\nfallen.\n\n26:3. If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart\nshall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I\nbe confident.\n\n26:4. One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that\nI may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I\nmay see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.\n\n26:5. For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he\nhath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.\n\n26:6. He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head\nabove my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his\ntabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm\nto the Lord.\n\n26:7. Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have\nmercy on me and hear me.\n\n26:8. My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O\nLord, will I still seek.\n\n26:9. Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy\nservant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O\nGod my Saviour.\n\n26:10. For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath\ntaken me up.\n\n26:11. Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right\npath, because of my enemies.\n\n26:12. Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for\nunjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to\nitself.\n\n26:13. I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the\nliving.\n\n26:14. Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage,\nand wait thou for the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 27\n\nAd te, Domine, clamabo.\n\nDavid\u2019s prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him.\n\n27:1. A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my\nGod, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become\nlike them that go down into the pit.\n\n27:2. Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee;\nwhen I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.\n\n27:3. Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers\nof iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but\nevils are in their hearts.\n\n27:4. Give them according to their works, and according to the\nwickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands\ngive thou to them: render to them their reward.\n\n27:5. Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the\noperations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build\nthem up.\n\n27:6. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my\nsupplication.\n\n27:7. The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart\nconfided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again,\nand with my will I will give praise to him.\n\n27:8. The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the\nsalvation of his anointed.\n\n27:9. Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule\nthem and exalt them for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 28\n\nAfferte Domino.\n\nAn invitation to glorify God, with a commemoration of his mighty works.\n\n28:1. A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to\nthe Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of\nrams.\n\n28:2. Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring to the Lord glory to\nhis name: adore ye the Lord in his holy court.\n\n28:3. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath\nthundered, The Lord is upon many waters.\n\n28:4. The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in\nmagnificence.\n\n28:5. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall\nbreak the cedars of Libanus.\n\n28:6. And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the\nbeloved son of unicorns.\n\nShall reduce them to pieces, etc.... In Hebrew, shall make them to skip\nlike a calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of thunder (which\nhe calls the voice of the Lord) which sometimes breaks down the tallest\nand strongest trees; and makes their broken branches skip, etc. All\nthis is to be understood mystically of the powerful voice of God\u2019s word\nin his church; which has broken the pride of the great ones of this\nworld, and brought many of them meekly and joyfully to submit their\nnecks to the sweet yoke of Christ.\n\n28:7. The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire:\n\n28:8. The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall\nshake the desert of Cades.\n\n28:9. The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover\nthe thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.\n\n28:10. The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king\nfor ever. The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will\nbless his people with peace.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 29\n\nExaltabo te, Domine.\n\nDavid praiseth God for his deliverance, and his merciful dealings with\nhim.\n\n29:1. A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David\u2019s house.\n\n29:2. I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not\nmade my enemies to rejoice over me.\n\n29:3. O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and thou hast healed me.\n\n29:4. Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast\nsaved me from them that go down into the pit.\n\n29:5. Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory\nof his holiness.\n\n29:6. For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In\nthe evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.\n\n29:7. And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved.\n\n29:8. O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou\nturnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.\n\n29:9. To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my\nGod.\n\n29:10. What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to\ncorruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?\n\n29:11. The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became\nmy helper.\n\n29:12. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my\nsackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:\n\n29:13. To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret:\nO Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 30\n\nIn te, Domine, speravi.\n\nA prayer of a just man under affliction.\n\n30:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.\n\n30:2. In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded:\ndeliver me in thy justice.\n\n30:3. Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me\na God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.\n\n30:4. For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name\u2019s sake\nthou wilt lead me, and nourish me.\n\n30:5. Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for\nme: for thou art my protector.\n\n30:6. Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O\nLord, the God of truth.\n\n30:7. Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I\nhave hoped in the Lord:\n\n30:8. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded\nmy humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.\n\n30:9. And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast\nset my feet in a spacious place.\n\n30:10. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled\nwith wrath, my soul, and my belly:\n\n30:11. For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My\nstrength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.\n\n30:12. I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my\nneighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without\nfled from me.\n\n30:13. I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a\nvessel that is destroyed.\n\n30:14. For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While\nthey assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my\nlife.\n\n30:15. But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my\nGod.\n\n30:16. My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my\nenemies; and from them that persecute me.\n\n30:17. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.\n\n30:18. Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee.\nLet the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.\n\n30:19. Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against\nthe just, with pride and abuse.\n\n30:20. O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which\nthou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for\nthem that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.\n\n30:21. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the\ndisturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the\ncontradiction of tongues.\n\n30:22. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me\nin a fortified city.\n\n30:23. But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before\nthy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I\ncried to thee.\n\n30:24. O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require\ntruth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.\n\n30:25. Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that\nhope in the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 31\n\nBeati quorum.\n\nThe second penitential psalm.\n\n31:1. To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose\niniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.\n\n31:2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in\nwhose spirit there is no guile.\n\n31:3. Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all\nthe day long.\n\nBecause I was silent, etc.... That is, whilst I kept silence, by\nconcealing, or refusing to confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me,\netc.\n\n31:4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my\nanguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.\n\nI am turned, etc.... That is, I turn and roll about in my bed to seek\nfor ease in my pain whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh,\nand sticks fast in me. Or, I am turned: that is, I am converted to\nthee, my God, by being brought to a better understanding by thy\nchastisements. In the Hebrew it is, my moisture is turned into the\ndroughts of the summer.\n\n31:5. I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not\nconcealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the\nLord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.\n\n31:6. For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a\nseasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come\nnigh unto him.\n\n31:7. Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my\njoy, deliver me from them that surround me.\n\n31:8. I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this\nway, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.\n\n31:9. Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no\nunderstanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not\nnear unto thee.\n\n31:10. Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass\nhim that hopeth in the Lord.\n\n31:11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye\nright of heart.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 32\n\nExultate, justi.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God, and to trust in him.\n\n32:1. A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise\nbecometh the upright.\n\n32:2. Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the\npsaltery, the instrument of ten strings.\n\n32:3. Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.\n\n32:4. For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done\nwith faithfulness.\n\n32:5. He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of\nthe Lord.\n\n32:6. By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the\npower of them by the spirit of his mouth:\n\n32:7. Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying\nup the depths in storehouses.\n\n32:8. Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of\nthe world be in awe of him.\n\n32:9. For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were\ncreated.\n\n32:10. The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he\nrejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of\nprinces.\n\n32:11. But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of\nhis heart to all generations.\n\n32:12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he\nhath chosen for his inheritance.\n\n32:13. The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of\nmen.\n\n32:14. From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon\nall that dwell on the earth.\n\n32:15. He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who\nunderstandeth all their works.\n\n32:16. The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be\nsaved by his own great strength.\n\n32:17. Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the\nabundance of his strength.\n\n32:18. Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on\nthem that hope in his mercy.\n\n32:19. To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.\n\n32:20. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and\nprotector.\n\n32:21. For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have\ntrusted.\n\n32:22. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 33\n\nBenedicam Dominum.\n\nAn exhortation to the praise, and service of God.\n\n33:1. For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who\ndismissed him, and he went his way. [1 Kings 21.]\n\n33:2. I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in\nmy mouth.\n\n33:3. In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and\nrejoice.\n\n33:4. O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.\n\n33:5. I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all\nmy troubles.\n\n33:6. Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be\nconfounded.\n\n33:7. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of\nall his troubles.\n\n33:8. The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear\nhim: and shall deliver them.\n\n33:9. O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that\nhopeth in him.\n\n33:10. Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them\nthat fear him.\n\n33:11. The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that\nseek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.\n\n33:12. Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the\nLord.\n\n33:13. Who is the man that desireth life: who loveth to see good days?\n\n33:14. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.\n\n33:15. Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.\n\n33:16. The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their\nprayers.\n\n33:17. But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil\nthings: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.\n\n33:18. The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out\nof all their troubles.\n\n33:19. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he\nwill save the humble of spirit.\n\n33:20. Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will\nthe Lord deliver them.\n\n33:21. The Lord keepeth all their bones, not one of them shall be\nbroken.\n\n33:22. The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the\njust shall be guilty.\n\n33:23. The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of them\nthat trust in him shall offend.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 34\n\nJudica, Domine, nocentes me.\n\nDavid, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors:\nprophetically foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them.\n\n34:1. For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me:\noverthrow them that fight against me.\n\n34:2. Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.\n\n34:3. Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that\npersecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation.\n\n34:4. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let\nthem be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.\n\n34:5. Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the\nLord straiten them.\n\n34:6. Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the\nLord pursue them.\n\n34:7. For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto\ndestruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.\n\n34:8. Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net\nwhich he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.\n\n34:9. But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in\nhis salvation.\n\n34:10. All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who\ndeliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he;\nthe needy and the poor from them that strip him.\n\n34:11. Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.\n\n34:12. They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.\n\n34:13. But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed\nwith haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be\nturned into my bosom.\n\n34:14. As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one\nmourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.\n\n34:15. But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were\ngathered together upon me, and I knew not.\n\n34:16. They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they\nscoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.\n\n34:17. Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou my soul from\ntheir malice: my only one from the lions.\n\n34:18. I will give thanks to thee in a great church; I will praise thee\nin a strong people.\n\n34:19. Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who\nhave hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.\n\n34:20. For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger\nof the earth they devised guile.\n\n34:21. And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well\ndone, well done, our eyes have seen it.\n\n34:22. Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not\nfrom me.\n\n34:23. Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to my cause, my God, and\nmy Lord.\n\n34:24. Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them\nnot rejoice over me.\n\n34:25. Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our\nmind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.\n\n34:26. Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my\nevils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great\nthings against me.\n\n34:27. Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my\njustice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights\nin the peace of his servant.\n\n34:28. And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day\nlong.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 35\n\nDixit injustus.\n\nThe malice of sinners, and the goodness of God.\n\n35:1. Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself.\n\n35:2. The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is\nno fear of God before his eyes.\n\n35:3. For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may\nbe found unto hatred.\n\nUnto hatred.... That is, hateful to God.\n\n35:4. The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not\nunderstand that he might do well.\n\n35:5. He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every\nway that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.\n\n35:6. O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to\nthe clouds.\n\n35:7. Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great\ndeep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:\n\n35:8. O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of\nmen shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.\n\n35:9. They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou\nshalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.\n\n35:10. For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall\nsee light.\n\n35:11. Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them\nthat are right in heart.\n\n35:12. Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of\nthe sinner move me.\n\n35:13. There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and\ncould not stand.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 36\n\nNoli aemulari.\n\nAn exhortation to despise this world; and the short prosperity of the\nwicked; and to trust in Providence.\n\n36:1. Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity.\n\n36:2. For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green\nherbs shall quickly fall.\n\n36:3. Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou\nshalt be fed with its riches.\n\n36:4. Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy\nheart.\n\n36:5. Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.\n\n36:6. And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy\njudgment as the noonday.\n\n36:7. Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who\nprospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.\n\n36:8. Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.\n\n36:9. For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord,\nthey shall inherit the land.\n\n36:10. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou\nshalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.\n\n36:11. But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in\nabundance of peace.\n\n36:12. The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him\nwith his teeth.\n\n36:13. But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day\nshall come.\n\n36:14. The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow.\nTo cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.\n\n36:15. Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow\nbe broken.\n\n36:16. Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the\nwicked.\n\n36:17. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; but the\nLord strengtheneth the just.\n\n36:18. The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their\ninheritance shall be for ever.\n\n36:19. They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days\nof famine they shall be filled:\n\n36:20. Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord,\npresently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to\nnothing and vanish like smoke.\n\n36:21. The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; but the just sheweth\nmercy and shall give.\n\n36:22. For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse\nhim shall perish.\n\n36:23. With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall\nlike well his way.\n\n36:24. When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth\nhis hand under him.\n\n36:25. I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just\nforsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.\n\n36:26. He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed\nshall be in blessing.\n\n36:27. Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.\n\n36:28. For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints:\nthey shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the\nseed of the wicked shall perish.\n\n36:29. But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for\nevermore.\n\n36:30. The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue\nshall speak judgment.\n\n36:31. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be\nsupplanted.\n\n36:32. The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to\ndeath,\n\n36:33. But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him\nwhen he shall be judged.\n\n36:34. Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to\ninherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.\n\n36:35. I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the\ncedars of Libanus.\n\n36:36. And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his\nplace was not found.\n\n36:37. Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for\nthe peaceable man.\n\n36:38. But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the\nwicked shall perish.\n\n36:39. But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their\nprotector in the time of trouble.\n\n36:40. And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue\nthem from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 37\n\nDomine, ne in furore.\n\nA prayer of a penitent for the remission of his sins. The third\npenitential psalm.\n\n37:1. A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.\n\nFor a remembrance.... Viz., of our miseries and sins: and to be sung on\nthe sabbath day.\n\n37:2. Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy\nwrath.\n\n37:3. For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong\nupon me.\n\n37:4. There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no\npeace for my bones, because of my sins.\n\n37:5. For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden\nare become heavy upon me.\n\n37:6. My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.\n\n37:7. I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I\nwalked sorrowful all the day long.\n\n37:8. For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in\nmy flesh.\n\n37:9. I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the\ngroaning of my heart.\n\n37:10. Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not\nhidden from thee.\n\n37:11. My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of\nmy eyes itself is not with me.\n\n37:12. My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against\nme. And they that were near me stood afar off:\n\n37:13. And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought\nevils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.\n\n37:14. But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening\nhis mouth.\n\n37:15. And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no\nreproofs in his mouth.\n\n37:16. For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my\nGod.\n\n37:17. For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and\nwhilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.\n\n37:18. For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before\nme.\n\n37:19. For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think for my sin.\n\n37:20. But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: and they that hate\nme wrongfully are multiplied.\n\n37:21. They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I\nfollowed goodness.\n\n37:22. For sake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.\n\n37:23. Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 38\n\nDixi custodiam.\n\nA just man\u2019s peace and patience in his sufferings; considering the\nvanity of the world, and the providence of God.\n\n38:1. Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.\n\n38:2. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my\ntongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against\nme.\n\n38:3. I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things:\nand my sorrow was renewed.\n\n38:4. My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall\nflame out.\n\n38:5. I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is\nthe number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.\n\n38:6. Behold thou hast made my days measurable, and my substance is as\nnothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man\nliving.\n\n38:7. Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in\nvain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these\nthings.\n\n38:8. And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is\nwith thee.\n\n38:9. Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a\nreproach to the fool.\n\n38:10. I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done\nit.\n\n38:11. Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made\nme faint in rebukes:\n\n38:12. Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his\nsoul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.\n\n38:13. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my\ntears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as\nall my fathers were.\n\n38:14. O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be\nno more.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 39\n\nExpectans expectavi.\n\nChrist\u2019s coming, and redeeming mankind.\n\n39:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.\n\n39:2. With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive\nto me.\n\n39:3. And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery\nand the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my\nsteps.\n\n39:4. And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many\nshall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.\n\n39:5. Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and\nwho hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.\n\n39:6. Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in\nthy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have\nspoken they are multiplied above number.\n\n39:7. Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast\npierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not\nrequire:\n\n39:8. Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written\nof me\n\n39:9. That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy\nlaw in the midst of my heart.\n\n39:10. I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not\nrestrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.\n\n39:11. I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy\ntruth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth\nfrom a great council.\n\n39:12. Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy\nand thy truth have always upheld me.\n\n39:13. For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have\novertaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the\nhairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.\n\nMy iniquities.... That is, the sins of all mankind, which I have taken\nupon me.\n\n39:14. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: look down, O Lord, to help\nme.\n\n39:15. Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my\nsoul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that\ndesire evils to me.\n\n39:16. Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: \u2019Tis\nwell, \u2019tis well.\n\n\u2019Tis well.... The Hebrew here is an interjection of insult and\nderision, like the Vah. Matt. 27.49.\n\n39:17. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such\nas love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.\n\n39:18. But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art\nmy helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 40\n\nBeatus qui intelligit.\n\nThe happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the\nhumility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies,\nespecially of the traitor Judas.\n\n40:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.\n\n40:2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the\npoor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.\n\n40:3. The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed\nupon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.\n\n40:4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his\ncouch in his sickness.\n\n40:5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have\nsinned against thee.\n\n40:6. My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and\nhis name perish?\n\n40:7. And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart\ngathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same\npurpose.\n\n40:8. All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils\nto me.\n\n40:9. They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth\nrise again no more?\n\n40:10. For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my\nbread, hath greatly supplanted me.\n\n40:11. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I\nwill requite them.\n\n40:12. By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because\nmy enemy shall not rejoice over me.\n\n40:13. But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast\nestablished me in thy sight for ever.\n\n40:14. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity.\nSo be it. So be it.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 41\n\nQuemadmodum desiderat.\n\nThe fervent desire of the just after God: hope in afflictions.\n\n41:1. Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core.\n\n41:2. As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul\npanteth after thee, O God.\n\n41:3. My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I\ncome and appear before the face of God?\n\n41:4. My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to\nme daily: Where is thy God?\n\n41:5. These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I\nshall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the\nhouse of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one\nfeasting.\n\n41:6. Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope\nin God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my\ncountenance,\n\n41:7. And my God. My soul is troubled within my self: therefore will I\nremember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little\nhill.\n\n41:8. Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy\nheights and thy billows have passed over me.\n\n41:9. In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle\nto him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.\n\n41:10. I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten\nme? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?\n\n41:11. Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have\nreproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?\n\n41:12. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet\nme? Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the\nsalvation of my countenance, and my God.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 42\n\nJudica me, Deus.\n\nThe prophet aspireth after the temple and altar of God.\n\n42:1. A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from\nthe nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful\nman.\n\n42:2. For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why\ndo I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?\n\n42:3. Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and\nbrought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.\n\n42:4. And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my\nyouth.\n\n42:5. To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art\nthou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?\n\n42:6. Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation\nof my countenance, and my God.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 43\n\nDeus auribus nostris.\n\nThe church commemorates former favours, and present afflictions; under\nwhich she prays for succour.\n\n43:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.\n\n43:2. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to\nus, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.\n\n43:3. Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou\ndidst afflict the people and cast them out.\n\n43:4. For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword:\nneither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm,\nand the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.\n\n43:5. Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of\nJacob.\n\n43:6. Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and\nthrough thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.\n\n43:7. For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.\n\n43:8. But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put\nthem to shame that hate us.\n\n43:9. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will\ngive praise for ever.\n\n43:10. But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O\nGod, wilt not go out with our armies.\n\n43:11. Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that\nhated us plundered for themselves.\n\n43:12. Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast\nscattered us among the nations.\n\n43:13. Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no\nreckoning in the exchange of them.\n\n43:14. Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and\nderision to them that are round about us.\n\n43:15. Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the\nhead among the people.\n\n43:16. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my\nface hath covered me,\n\n43:17. At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the\nface of the enemy and persecutor.\n\n43:18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten\nthee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.\n\n43:19. And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned\naside our steps from thy way.\n\n43:20. For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the\nshadow of death hath covered us.\n\n43:21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread\nforth our hands to a strange god:\n\n43:22. Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the\nsecrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day\nlong: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.\n\n43:23. Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to\nthe end.\n\n43:24. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our\ntrouble?\n\n43:25. For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to\nthe earth.\n\n43:26. Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name\u2019s sake.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 44\n\nEructavit cor meum.\n\nThe excellence of Christ\u2019s kingdom, and the endowments of his church.\n\n44:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of\nCore, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved.\n\nFor them that shall be changed.... i.e., for souls happily changed, by\nbeing converted to God.\u2014Ibid. The Beloved.... Viz., Our Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n44:2. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king:\nMy tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.\n\n44:3. Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad\nin thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.\n\n44:4. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty.\n\n44:5. With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously,\nand reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right\nhand shall conduct thee wonderfully.\n\n44:6. Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the\nhearts of the king\u2019s enemies.\n\n44:7. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy\nkingdom is a sceptre of uprightness.\n\n44:8. Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy\nGod, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.\n\n44:9. Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory\nhouses: out of which\n\n44:10. The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The\nqueen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with\nvariety.\n\n44:11. Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget\nthy people and thy father\u2019s house.\n\n44:12. And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord\nthy God, and him they shall adore.\n\n44:13. And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among\nthe people, shall entreat thy countenance.\n\n44:14. All the glory of the king\u2019s daughter is within in golden\nborders,\n\n44:15. Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be\nbrought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.\n\n44:16. They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be\nbrought into the temple of the king.\n\n44:17. Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make\nthem princes over all the earth.\n\n44:18. They shall remember thy name throughout all generations.\nTherefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 45\n\nDeus noster refugium.\n\nThe church in persecution trusteth in the protection of God.\n\n45:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.\n\n45:2. Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which\nhave found us exceedingly.\n\n45:3. Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and\nthe mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.\n\n45:4. Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were\ntroubled with his strength.\n\n45:5. The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most\nHigh hath sanctified his own tabernacle.\n\n45:6. God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help\nit in the morning early.\n\n45:7. Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered\nhis voice, the earth trembled.\n\n45:8. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.\n\n45:9. Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath\ndone upon earth,\n\n45:10. Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall\ndestroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in\nthe fire.\n\n45:11. Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the\nnations, and I will be exalted in the earth.\n\n45:12. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our\nprotector.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 46\n\nOmnes gentes, plaudite.\n\nThe Gentiles are invited to praise God for the establishment of the\nkingdom of Christ.\n\n46:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core.\n\n46:2. O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice\nof joy,\n\n46:3. For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.\n\n46:4. He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our\nfeet.\n\n46:5. He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which\nhe hath loved.\n\n46:6. God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of\ntrumpet.\n\n46:7. Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing\nye.\n\n46:8. For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.\n\n46:9. God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.\n\n46:10. The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of\nAbraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 47\n\nMagnus Dominus.\n\nGod is greatly to be praised for the establishment of his church.\n\n47:1. A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of\nthe week.\n\n47:2. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of\nour God, in his holy mountain.\n\n47:3. With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the\nsides of the north, the city of the great king.\n\n47:4. In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.\n\n47:5. For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they\ngathered together.\n\n47:6. So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were\nmoved:\n\n47:7. Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in\nlabour.\n\n47:8. With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of\nTharsis.\n\n47:9. As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of\nhosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.\n\n47:10. We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.\n\n47:11. According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the\nends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.\n\n47:12. Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad;\nbecause of thy judgments, O Lord.\n\n47:13. Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers.\n\n47:14. Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that\nye may relate it in another generation.\n\n47:15. For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever:\nhe shall rule us for evermore.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 48\n\nAudite haec, omnes gentes.\n\nThe folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, without thinking of death\nor hell.\n\n48:1. Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.\n\n48:2. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants\nof the world.\n\n48:3. All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and\npoor together.\n\n48:4. My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart\nunderstanding.\n\n48:5. I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on\nthe psaltery.\n\n48:6. Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall\nencompass me.\n\nThe iniquity of my heel.... That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways:\nor the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have\nspurned and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that\nis, the iniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of\nthis verse is, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful\naffections, or commit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear\nand anguish in the evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass\nme, and the perils of hell shall find me?\n\n48:7. They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude\nof their riches,\n\nThey that trust, etc.... As much as to say, let them fear that trust in\ntheir strength or riches: for they have great reason to fear: seeing no\nbrother or other man, how much a friend soever, can by any price or\nlabour rescue them from death.\n\n48:8. No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to\nGod his ransom,\n\n48:9. Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for\never,\n\nAnd shall labour for ever, etc.... This seems to be a continuation of\nthe foregoing sentence: as much as to say no man can by any price or\nransom prolong his life, that so he may still continue to labour here,\nand live to the end of the world. Others understand it of the eternal\nsorrows, and dying life of hell, which is the dreadful consequence of\ndying in sin.\n\n48:10. And shall still live unto the end.\n\n48:11. He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying:\nthe senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave\ntheir riches to strangers:\n\nHe shall not see destruction, etc.... Or, shall he not see destruction?\nAs much as to say, however thoughtless he may be of his death, he must\nnot expect to escape; when even the wise and the good are not exempt\nfrom dying.\n\n48:12. And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their\ndwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by\ntheir names.\n\nThey have called, etc.... That is, they have left their names on their\ngraves, which alone remain of their lands.\n\n48:13. And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared\nto senseless beasts, and is become like to them.\n\n48:14. This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards\nthey shall delight in their mouth.\n\nThey shall delight in their mouth.... Notwithstanding the wretched way\nin which they walk, they shall applaud themselves with their mouths,\nand glory in their doings.\n\n48:15. They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them.\nAnd the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their\nhelp shall decay in hell from their glory.\n\nIn the morning.... That is, in the resurrection to a new life; when the\njust shall judge and condemn the wicked. Ibid. From their glory....\nThat is, when their short-lived glory in this world shall be past, and\nbe no more.\n\n48:16. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall\nreceive me.\n\n48:17. Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the\nglory of his house shall be increased.\n\n48:18. For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his\nglory descend with him.\n\n48:19. For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise\nthee when thou shalt do well to him.\n\n48:20. He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall\nnever see light.\n\n48:21. Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been\ncompared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 49\n\nDeus deorum.\n\nThe coming of Christ: who prefers virtue and inward purity before the\nblood of victims.\n\n49:1. A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he\nhath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down\nthereof:\n\n49:2. Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.\n\n49:3. God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep\nsilence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be\nround about him.\n\n49:4. He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his\npeople.\n\n49:5. Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before\nsacrifices.\n\n49:6. And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.\n\n49:7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify\nto thee: I am God, thy God.\n\n49:8. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt\nofferings are always in my sight.\n\n49:9. I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy\nflocks.\n\n49:10. For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the\nhills, and the oxen.\n\n49:11. I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of\nthe field.\n\n49:12. If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is\nmine, and the fulness thereof.\n\n49:13. Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of\ngoats?\n\n49:14. Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the\nmost High.\n\n49:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and\nthou shalt glorify me.\n\n49:16. But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my\njustices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?\n\n49:17. Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind\nthee.\n\n49:18. If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with\nadulterers thou hast been a partaker.\n\n49:19. Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed\ndeceits.\n\n49:20. Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a\nscandal against thy mother\u2019s son:\n\n49:21. These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest\nunjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and\nset before thy face.\n\n49:22. Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you\naway, and there be none to deliver you.\n\n49:23. The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way\nby which I will shew him the salvation of God.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 50\n\nMiserere.\n\nThe repentance and confession of David after his sin. The fourth\npenitential psalm.\n\n50:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David,\n\n50:2. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with\nBethsabee. [2 Kings 12.]\n\n50:3. Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And\naccording to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.\n\n50:4. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.\n\n50:5. For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.\n\n50:6. To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that\nthou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art\njudged.\n\n50:7. For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my\nmother conceive me.\n\n50:8. For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things\nof thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.\n\n50:9. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou\nshalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.\n\n50:10. To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones\nthat have been humbled shall rejoice.\n\n50:11. Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.\n\n50:12. Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit\nwithin my bowels.\n\n50:13. Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit\nfrom me.\n\n50:14. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with\na perfect spirit.\n\n50:15. I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be\nconverted to thee.\n\n50:16. Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my\ntongue shall extol thy justice.\n\n50:17. O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy\npraise.\n\n50:18. For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given\nit: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.\n\n50:19. A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and\nhumbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.\n\n50:20. Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the\nwalls of Jerusalem may be built up.\n\n50:21. Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and\nwhole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 51\n\nQuid gloriaris.\n\nDavid condemneth the wickedness of Doeg, and foretelleth his\ndestruction.\n\n51:1. Unto the end, understanding for David,\n\n51:2. When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house\nof Achimelech.\n\n51:3. Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?\n\n51:4. All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp\nrazor, thou hast wrought deceit.\n\n51:5. Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather\nthan to speak righteousness.\n\n51:6. Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.\n\n51:7. Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out,\nand remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land\nof the living.\n\n51:8. The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:\n\n51:9. Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the\nabundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.\n\n51:10. But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped\nin the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.\n\n51:11. I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I\nwill wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 52\n\nDixit insipiens.\n\nThe general corruption of man before the coming of Christ.\n\n52:1. Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said\nin his heart: There is no God.\n\nMaeleth.... Or Machalath. A musical instrument, or a chorus of\nmusicians, for St. Jerome renders it, per chorum.\n\n52:2. They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is\nnone that doth good.\n\n52:3. God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if\nthere were any that did understand, or did seek God.\n\n52:4. All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there\nis none that doth good, no not one.\n\n52:5. Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people\nas they eat bread?\n\n52:6. They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear,\nwhere there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that\nplease men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.\n\nGod hath scattered the bones, etc.... That is, God has brought to\nnothing the strength of all those that seek to please men, to the\nprejudice of their duty to their Maker.\n\n52:7. Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall\nbring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel\nshall be glad.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 53\n\nDeus, in nomine tuo.\n\nA prayer for help in distress.\n\n53:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.\n\n53:2. When the men of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David\nhidden with us? [1 Kings 23.19]\n\n53:3. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.\n\n53:4. O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.\n\n53:5. For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have\nsought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.\n\n53:6. For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my\nsoul.\n\n53:7. Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy\ntruth.\n\n53:8. I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to\nthy name: because it is good:\n\n53:9. For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath\nlooked down upon my enemies.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 54\n\nExaudi, Deus.\n\nA prayer of a just man under persecution from the wicked. It agrees to\nChrist persecuted by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas.\n\n54:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.\n\n54:2. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:\n\n54:3. Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and\nam troubled,\n\n54:4. At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner.\nFor they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were\ntroublesome to me.\n\n54:5. My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen\nupon me.\n\n54:6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered\nme.\n\n54:7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly\nand be at rest?\n\n54:8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the\nwilderness.\n\n54:9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit,\nand a storm.\n\n54:10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen\niniquity and contradiction in the city.\n\n54:11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in\nthe midst thereof are labour,\n\n54:12. And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its\nstreets.\n\n54:13. For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with\nit. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would\nperhaps have hidden my self from him.\n\n54:14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,\n\n54:15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God\nwe walked with consent.\n\n54:16. Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell.\nFor there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.\n\nLet death, etc.... This, and such like imprecations which occur in the\npsalms, are delivered prophetically; that is, by way of foretelling the\npunishments which shall fall upon the wicked from divine justice, and\napproving the righteous ways of God: but not by way of ill will, or\nuncharitable curses, which the law of God disallows.\n\n54:17. But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.\n\n54:18. Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and\nhe shall hear my voice.\n\n54:19. He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me:\nfor among many they were with me.\n\nAmong many, etc.... That is, they that drew near to attack me were many\nin company all combined to fight against me.\n\n54:20. God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is\nno change with them, and they have not feared God:\n\n54:21. He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his\ncovenant,\n\n54:22. They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart\nhath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are\ndarts.\n\nThey are divided, etc.... Dispersed, scattered, and brought to nothing,\nby the wrath of God; who looks with indignation on their wicked and\ndeceitful ways.\n\n54:23. Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall\nnot suffer the just to waver for ever.\n\n54:24. But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of\ndestruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their\ndays; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 55\n\nMiserere mei, Deus.\n\nA prayer of David in danger and distress.\n\n55:1. Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance form the\nsanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when\nthe Philistines held him in Geth.\n\n55:2. Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all\nthe day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.\n\n55:3. My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many\nthat make war against me.\n\n55:4. From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in\nthee.\n\nThe height of the day.... That is, even at noonday, when the sun is the\nhighest, I am still in danger.\n\n55:5. In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will\nnot fear what flesh can do against me.\n\nMy words.... The words or promises God has made in my favour.\n\n55:6. All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were\nagainst me unto evil.\n\n55:7. They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As\nthey have waited for my soul,\n\n55:8. For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break\nthe people in pieces. O God,\n\nFor nothing shalt thou save them.... That is, since they lie in wait to\nruin my soul, thou shalt for no consideration favour or assist them,\nbut execute thy justice upon them.\n\n55:9. I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set my tears in thy\nsight, As also in thy promise.\n\n55:10. Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall\ncall upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.\n\n55:11. In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his\nspeech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.\n\n55:12. In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to\nthee:\n\n55:13. Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from\nfalling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the\nliving.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 56\n\nMiserere mei, Deus. The prophet prays in his affliction, and praises\nGod for his delivery.\n\n56:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a\ntitle, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [1 Kings 24.]\n\nDestroy not.... Suffer me not to be destroyed.\n\n56:2. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth\nin thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity\npass away.\n\n56:3. I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.\n\n56:4. He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a\nreproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,\n\n56:5. And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions.\nI slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows,\nand their tongue a sharp sword.\n\n56:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above\nall the earth.\n\n56:7. They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul.\nThey dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.\n\n56:8. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and\nrehearse a psalm.\n\n56:9. Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.\n\n56:10. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will\nsing a psalm to thee among the nations.\n\n56:11. For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth\nunto the clouds.\n\n56:12. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above\nall the earth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 57\n\nSi vere utique.\n\nDavid reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment.\n\n57:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a\ntitle.\n\n57:2. If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of\nmen.\n\n57:3. For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice\nin the earth.\n\n57:4. The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray\nfrom the womb: they have spoken false things.\n\n57:5. Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the\ndeaf asp that stoppeth her ears:\n\n57:6. Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard\nthat charmeth wisely.\n\n57:7. God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord\nshall break the grinders of the lions.\n\n57:8. They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent\nhis bow till they be weakened.\n\n57:9. Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen\non them, and they shall not see the sun.\n\n57:10. Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up,\nas alive, in his wrath.\n\nBefore your thorns, etc.... That is, before your thorns grow up, so as\nto become strong briers, they shall be overtaken and consumed by divine\njustice, swallowing them up, as it were, alive in his wrath.\n\n57:11. The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall\nwash his hands in the blood of the sinner.\n\nShall wash his hands, etc.... Shall applaud the justice of God, and\ntake occasion from the consideration of the punishment of the wicked to\nwash and cleanse his hands from sin.\n\n57:12. And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there\nis indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 58\n\nEripe me.\n\nA prayer to be delivered from the wicked, with confidence in God\u2019s help\nand protection. It agrees to Christ and his enemies the Jews.\n\n58:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a\ntitle, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [1 Kings 19.]\n\n58:2. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them\nthat rise up against me.\n\n58:3. Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody\nmen.\n\n58:4. For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in\nupon me:\n\n58:5. Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity\nhave I run, and directed my steps.\n\n58:6. Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God\nof hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no\nmercy on all them that work iniquity.\n\n58:7. They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs:\nand shall go round about the city.\n\n58:8. Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their\nlips: for who, say they, hath heard us?\n\n58:9. But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the\nnations to nothing.\n\n58:10. I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:\n\n58:11. My God, his mercy shall prevent me.\n\n58:12. God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any\ntime my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down,\nO Lord, my protector:\n\n58:13. For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let\nthem be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they\nshall be talked of,\n\n58:14. When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and\nthey shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob,\nand all the ends of the earth.\n\n58:15. They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs:\nand shall go round about the city.\n\n58:16. They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they\nbe not filled.\n\n58:17. But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the\nmorning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of\nmy trouble.\n\n58:18. Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my\ndefence: my God my mercy.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 59\n\nDeus, repulisti nos.\n\nAfter many afflictions, the church of Christ shall prevail.\n\n59:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription\nof a title, to David himself, for doctrine,\n\n59:2. When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab\nreturned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand\nmen.\n\n59:3. O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast\nbeen angry, and hast had mercy on us.\n\n59:4. Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the\nbreaches thereof, for it has been moved.\n\n59:5. Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink\nthe wine of sorrow.\n\n59:6. Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may\nflee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.\n\n59:7. Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.\n\n59:8. God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will\ndivide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.\n\n59:9. Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength\nof my head. Juda is my king:\n\n59:10. Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my\nshoe: to me the foreigners are made subject.\n\nThe pot of my hope.... Or my watering pot. That is, a vessel for meaner\nuses, by being reduced to serve me, even in the meanest\nemployments.\u2014Ibid. Foreigners.... So the Philistines are called, who\nhad no kindred with the Israelites; whereas the Edomites, Moabites,\netc., were originally of the same family.\n\n59:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into\nEdom?\n\n59:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O\nGod, go out with our armies?\n\n59:13. Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.\n\n59:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing\nthem that afflict us.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 60\n\nExaudi, Deus.\n\nA prayer for the coming of the kingdom of Christ, which shall have no\nend.\n\n60:1. Unto the end, in hymns, for David.\n\n60:2. Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.\n\n60:3. To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart\nwas in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;\n\n60:4. For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face\nof the enemy.\n\n60:5. In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected\nunder the covert of thy wings.\n\n60:6. For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an\ninheritance to them that fear thy name.\n\n60:7. Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to\ngeneration and generation.\n\n60:8. He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who\nshall search?\n\n60:9. So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may\npay my vows from day to day.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 61\n\nNonne Deo.\n\nThe prophet encourageth himself and all others to trust in God, and\nserve him.\n\n61:1. Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.\n\n61:2. Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my\nsalvation.\n\n61:3. For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be\nmoved no more.\n\n61:4. How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were\nthrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.\n\n61:5. But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst:\nthey blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.\n\n61:6. But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my\npatience.\n\n61:7. For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be\nmoved.\n\n61:8. In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help,\nand my hope is in God.\n\n61:9. Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts\nbefore him. God is our helper for ever.\n\n61:10. But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the\nbalances: that by vanity they may together deceive.\n\nAre liars in the balances, etc.... They are so vain and light, that if\nthey are put into the scales, they will be found to be of no weight;\nand to be mere lies, deceit, and vanity. Or, They are liars in their\nbalances, by weighing things by false weights, and preferring the\ntemporal before the eternal.\n\n61:11. Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches\nabound, set not your heart upon them.\n\n61:12. God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power\nbelongeth to God,\n\n61:13. And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man\naccording to his works.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 62\n\nDeus Deus meus, ad te.\n\nThe prophet aspireth after God.\n\n62:1. A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom.\n\n62:2. O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my\nsoul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!\n\n62:3. In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in\nthe sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.\n\n62:4. For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise.\n\n62:5. Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will\nlift up my hands.\n\n62:6. Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth\nshall praise thee with joyful lips.\n\n62:7. If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in\nthe morning:\n\n62:8. Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the\ncovert of thy wings:\n\n62:9. My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received\nme.\n\n62:10. But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the\nlower parts of the earth:\n\n62:11. They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall\nbe the portions of foxes.\n\n62:12. But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised\nthat swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak\nwicked things.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 63\n\nExaudi Deus orationem.\n\nA prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to\nnought the machinations of persecutors.\n\n63:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.\n\n63:2. Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver\nmy soul from the fear of the enemy.\n\n63:3. Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from\nthe multitude of the workers of iniquity.\n\n63:4. For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent\ntheir bow a bitter thing,\n\n63:5. To shoot in secret the undefiled.\n\n63:6. They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are\nresolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have\nsaid: Who shall see them?\n\n63:7. They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their\nsearch. Man shall come to a deep heart:\n\nA deep heart.... That is, crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs;\nwhich nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted in\nbringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.\n\n63:8. And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their\nwounds:\n\nThe arrows of children are their wounds.... That is, the wounds,\nstripes, or blows, they seek to inflict upon the just, are but like the\nweak efforts of children\u2019s arrows, which can do no execution: and their\ntongues, that is, their speeches against them come to nothing.\n\n63:9. And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them\nwere troubled;\n\n63:10. And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God,\nand understood his doings.\n\n63:11. The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and\nall the upright in heart shall be praised.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 64\n\nTe decet.\n\nGod is to be praised in his church, to which all nations shall be\ncalled.\n\n64:1. To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and\nEzechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out.\n\nOf the captivity.... That is, the people of the captivity of Babylon.\nThis is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the ancient translation of\nthe Septuagint.\n\n64:2. A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to\nthee in Jerusalem.\n\n64:3. O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.\n\n64:4. The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt\npardon our transgressions.\n\n64:5. Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall\ndwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy\nhouse; holy is thy temple,\n\n64:6. Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the\nhope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.\n\n64:7. Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded\nwith power:\n\n64:8. Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The\nGentiles shall be troubled,\n\n64:9. And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at\nthy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the\nevening to be joyful.\n\n64:10. Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it;\nthou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water,\nthou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.\n\n64:11. Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it\nshall spring up and rejoice in its showers.\n\n64:12. Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy\nfields shall be filled with plenty.\n\n64:13. The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the\nhills shall be girded about with joy,\n\n64:14. The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound\nwith corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 65\n\nJubilate Deo.\n\nAn invitation to praise God.\n\n65:1. Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout\nwith joy to God, all the earth,\n\n65:2. Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise.\n\n65:3. Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the\nmultitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.\n\n65:4. Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a\npsalm to thy name.\n\n65:5. Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels\nover the sons of men.\n\n65:6. Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass\non foot: there shall we rejoice in him.\n\n65:7. Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations;\nlet not them that provoke him be exalted in themselves.\n\n65:8. O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to\nbe heard.\n\n65:9. Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be\nmoved:\n\n65:10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as\nsilver is tried.\n\n65:11. Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on\nour back:\n\n65:12. Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire\nand water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.\n\n65:13. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee\nmy vows,\n\n65:14. Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was\nin trouble.\n\n65:15. I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt\nofferings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats.\n\n65:16. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what\ngreat things he hath done for my soul.\n\n65:17. I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.\n\n65:18. If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear\nme.\n\n65:19. Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of\nmy supplication.\n\n65:20. Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his\nmercy from me.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 66\n\nDeus misereatur.\n\nA prayer for the propagation of the church.\n\n66:1. Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David.\n\n66:2. May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of\nhis countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.\n\n66:3. That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all\nnations.\n\n66:4. Let people confess to thee, O God: let all people give praise to\nthee.\n\n66:5. Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people\nwith justice, and directest the nations upon earth.\n\n66:6. Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give\npraise to thee:\n\n66:7. The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us,\n\n66:8. May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 67\n\nExurgat Deus.\n\nThe glorious establishment of the church of the New Testament,\nprefigured by the benefits bestowed on the people of Israel.\n\n67:1. Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself.\n\n67:2. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them\nthat hate him flee from before his face.\n\n67:3. As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth\nbefore the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.\n\n67:4. And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted\nwith gladness.\n\n67:5. Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who\nascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him:\nbut the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,\n\nWho ascendeth upon the west.... Super occasum. St. Gregory understands\nit of Christ, who after his going down, like the sun, in the west, by\nhis passion and death, ascended more glorious, and carried all before\nhim. St. Jerome renders it, who ascendeth, or cometh up, through the\ndeserts.\n\n67:6. Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his\nholy place:\n\n67:7. God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who\nbringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that\nprovoke, that dwell in sepulchres.\n\nOf one manner.... That is, agreeing in faith, unanimous in love, and\nfollowing the same manner of discipline. It is verified in the servants\nof God, living together in his house, which is the church. 1 Tim.\n3.15.\u2014Ibid. Them that were bound, etc.... The power and mercy of God\nappears in his bringing out of their captivity those that were strongly\nbound in their sins: and in restoring to his grace those whose\nbehaviour had been most provoking; and who by their evil habits were\nnot only dead, but buried in their sepulchres.\n\n67:8. O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when\nthou didst pass through the desert:\n\n67:9. The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of\nthe God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.\n\n67:10. Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and\nit was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.\n\nA free rain.... the manna, which rained plentifully from heaven, in\nfavour of God\u2019s inheritance, that is, of his people Israel: which was\nweakened indeed under a variety of afflictions, but was made perfect by\nGod; that is, was still supported by divine providence, and brought on\nto the promised land. It agrees particularly to the church of Christ\nhis true inheritance, which is plentifully watered with the free rain\nof heavenly grace; and through many infirmities, that is, crosses and\ntribulations, is made perfect, and fitted for eternal glory.\n\n67:11. In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou\nhast provided for the poor.\n\nIn it, etc.... That is, in this church, which is thy fold and thy\ninheritance, shall thy animals, thy sheep, dwell: where thou hast\nplentifully provided for them.\n\n67:12. The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings\nwith great power.\n\nTo them that preach good tidings.... Evangelizantibus. That is, to the\npreachers of the gospel; who receiving the word from the Lord, shall\nwith great power and efficacy preach throughout the world the glad\ntidings of a Saviour, and of eternal salvation through him.\n\n67:13. The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the\nbeauty of the house shall divide spoils.\n\nThe king of powers.... That is, the mighty King, the Lord of hosts, is\nof the beloved, of the beloved; that is, is on the side of Christ, his\nmost beloved son: and his beautiful house, viz., the church, in which\nGod dwells forever, shall by her spiritual conquests divide the spoils\nof many nations. The Hebrew (as it now stands pointed) is thus\nrendered, The kings of armies have fled, they have fled, and she that\ndwells at home (or the beauty of the house) shall divide the spoils.\n\n67:14. If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings\nof a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with\nthe paleness of gold.\n\nIf you sleep among the midst of lots (intermedios cleros, etc.)...\nViz., in such dangers and persecutions, as if your enemies were\ncasting lots for your goods and persons: or in the midst of the lots,\n(intermedios terminos, as St. Jerome renders it,) that is, upon the\nvery bounds or borders of the dominions of your enemies: you shall be\nsecure nevertheless under the divine protection; and shall be enabled\nto fly away, like a dove, with glittering wings and feathers shining\nlike the palest and most precious gold; that is, with great increase of\nvirtue, and glowing with the fervour of charity.\n\n67:15. When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall\nbe whited with snow in Selmon.\n\nKings over her.... That is, pastors and rulers over his church, viz.,\nthe apostles and their successors. Then by their ministry shall men be\nmade whiter than the snow which lies on the top of the high mountain\nSelmon.\n\n67:16. The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat\nmountain.\n\nThe mountain of God.... The church, which, Isa. 2.2, is called The\nmountain of the house of the Lord upon the top of mountains. It is here\ncalled a fat and a curdled mountain; that is to say, most fruitful, and\nenriched by the spiritual gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost.\n\n67:17. Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is\nwell pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.\n\nWhy suspect, ye curdled mountains?.... Why do you suppose or imagine\nthere may be any other such curdled mountains? You are mistaken: the\nmountain thus favoured by God is but one; and this same he has chosen\nfor his dwelling for ever.\n\n67:18. The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of\nthem that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.\n\nThe chariot of God.... Descending to give his law on mount Sina: as\nalso of Jesus Christ his Son, ascending into heaven, to send from\nthence the Holy Ghost, to publish his new law, is attended with ten\nthousands, that is, with an innumerable multitude of joyful angels.\n\n67:19. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive;\nthou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not\nbelieve, the dwelling of the Lord God.\n\nLed captivity captive.... Carrying away with thee to heaven those who\nbefore had been the captives of Satan; and receiving from God the\nFather gifts to be distributed to men; even to those who were before\nunbelievers.\n\n67:20. Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will\nmake our journey prosperous to us.\n\n67:21. Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord\nare the issues from death.\n\nThe issues from death.... The Lord alone is master of the issues, by\nwhich we may escape from death.\n\n67:22. But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of\nthem that walk on in their sins.\n\n67:23. The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them\ninto the depth of the sea:\n\nI will turn them from Basan, etc.... I will cast out my enemies from\ntheir rich possessions, signified by Basan, a fruitful country; and I\nwill drive them into the depth of the sea: and make such a slaughter of\nthem, that the feet of my servants may be dyed in their blood, etc.\n\n67:24. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the\ntongue of thy dogs be red with the same.\n\n67:25. They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my\nking who is in his sanctuary.\n\nThy goings.... Thy ways, thy proceedings, by which thou didst formerly\ntake possession of the promised land in favour of thy people; and shalt\nafterwards of the whole world, which thou shalt subdue to thy Son.\n\n67:26. Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young\ndamsels playing on timbrels.\n\nPrinces.... The apostles, the first converters of nations; attended by\nnumbers of perfect souls, singing the divine praises, and virgins\nconsecrated to God.\n\n67:27. In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of\nIsrael.\n\nFrom the fountains of Israel.... From whom both Christ and his apostles\nsprung. By Benjamin, the holy fathers on this place understand St.\nPaul, who was of that tribe, named here a youth, because he was the\nlast called to the apostleship. By the princes of Juda, Zabulon, and\nNephthali, we may understand the other apostles, who were of the tribe\nof Juda; or of the tribes of Zabulon, and Nephthali, where our Lord\nbegan to preach, Matt. 4.13, etc.\n\n67:28. There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of\nJuda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of\nNephthali.\n\n67:29. Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast\nwrought in us.\n\nCommand thy strength.... Give orders that thy strength may be always\nwith us.\n\n67:30. From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to\nthee.\n\n67:31. Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls\nwith the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried\nwith silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:\n\nRebuke the wild beasts of the reeds.... or the wild beasts, which lie\nhid in the reeds. That is, the devils, who hide themselves in order to\nsurprise their prey. Or by wild beasts, are here understood\npersecutors, who, for all their attempts against the Church, are but as\nweak reeds, which cannot prevail against them who are supported by the\nstrength of the Almighty. The same are also called the congregation of\nbulls (from their rage against the Church) who assemble together all\ntheir kine, that is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can,\nfrom Christ and his inheritance, his constant confessors, who are like\nsilver tried by fire.\n\n67:32. Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch\nout her hands to God.\n\nAmbassadors shall come, etc.... It is a prophecy of the conversion of\nthe Gentiles, and by name of the Egyptians and Ethiopians.\n\n67:33. Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing\nye to God,\n\n67:34. Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he\nwill give to his voice the voice of power:\n\nTo the east.... From mount Olivet, which is on the east side of\nJerusalem.\u2014Ibid. The voice of power.... That is, he will make his voice\nto be a powerful voice: by calling from death to life, such as were\ndead in mortal sin: as at the last day he will by the power of his\nvoice call all the dead from their graves.\n\n67:35. Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power\nis in the clouds.\n\n67:36. God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will\ngive power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 68\n\nSalvum me fac, Deus.\n\nChrist in his passion declareth the greatness of his sufferings, and\nthe malice of his persecutors the Jews; and foretelleth their\nreprobation.\n\n68:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.\n\nFor them that shall be changed.... A psalm for Christian converts, to\nremember the passion of Christ.\n\n68:2. Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.\n\nThe waters.... Of afflictions and sorrows. My soul is sorrowful even\nunto death. Matt. 26.38.\n\n68:3. I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure\nstanding. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath\noverwhelmed me.\n\n68:4. I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes\nhave failed, whilst I hope in my God.\n\n68:5. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me\nwithout cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully\npersecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.\n\nI pay that which I took not away.... Christ in his passion made\nrestitution of what he had not taken away, by suffering the punishment\ndue to our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done to God.\n\n68:6. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not\nhidden from thee:\n\nMy foolishness and my offences.... which my enemies impute to me: or\nthe follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself.\n\n68:7. Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the\nLord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee,\nO God of Israel.\n\n68:8. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my\nface.\n\n68:9. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons\nof my mother.\n\n68:10. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches\nof them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.\n\n68:11. And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to\nme.\n\n68:12. And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.\n\n68:13. They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank\nwine made me their song.\n\n68:14. But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy\ngood pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the\ntruth of thy salvation.\n\n68:15. Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me\nfrom them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.\n\n68:16. Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water\nswallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.\n\n68:17. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according\nto the multitude of thy tender mercies.\n\n68:18. And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in\ntrouble, hear me speedily.\n\n68:19. Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my\nenemies.\n\n68:20. Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.\n\n68:21. In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath\nexpected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve\ntogether with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort\nme, and I found none.\n\n68:22. And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me\nvinegar to drink.\n\n68:23. Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense,\nand a stumblingblock.\n\nLet their table, etc.... What here follows in the style of an\nimprecation, is a prophecy of the wretched state to which the Jews\nshould be reduced in punishment of their wilful obstinacy.\n\n68:24. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back\nbend thou down always.\n\n68:25. Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger\ntake hold of them.\n\n68:26. Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to\ndwell in their tabernacles.\n\n68:27. Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and\nthey have added to the grief of my wounds.\n\n68:28. Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come\ninto thy justice.\n\n68:29. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the\njust let them not be written.\n\n68:30. But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me\nup.\n\n68:31. I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will\nmagnify him with praise.\n\n68:32. And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth\nforth horns and hoofs.\n\n68:33. Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall\nlive.\n\n68:34. For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his\nprisoners.\n\n68:35. Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every\nthing that creepeth therein.\n\n68:36. For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built\nup. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.\n\nSion.... The catholic church. The cities of Juda, etc., her places of\nworship, which shall be established throughout the world. And there,\nviz., in this church of Christ, shall his servants dwell, etc.\n\n68:37. And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that\nlove his name shall dwell therein.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 69\n\nDeus in adjutorium.\n\nA prayer in persecution.\n\n69:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the\nLord saved him.\n\n69:2. O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.\n\n69:3. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:\n\n69:4. Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire\nevils to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that\nsay to me: \u2019Tis well, \u2019tis well.\n\n\u2019Tis well, \u2019tis well.... Euge, euge. St. Jerome renders it, vah, vah!\nwhich is the voice of one insulting and deriding. Some understand it as\na detestation of deceitful flatterers.\n\n69:5. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such\nas love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.\n\n69:6. But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and\nmy deliverer: O lord, make no delay.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 70\n\nIn te, Domine.\n\nA prayer for perseverance.\n\n70:1. A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former\ncaptives. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to\nconfusion:\n\nOf the sons of Jonadab.... The Rechabites, of whom see Jer. 35. By this\naddition of the seventy-two interpreters, we gather that this psalm was\nusually sung in the synagogue, in the person of the Rechabites, and of\nthose who were first carried away into captivity.\n\n70:2. Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto\nme, and save me.\n\n70:3. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that\nthou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.\n\n70:4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of\nthe hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.\n\n70:5. For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.\n\n70:6. By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother\u2019s\nwomb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:\n\n70:7. I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.\n\n70:8. Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory;\nthy greatness all the day long.\n\n70:9. Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall\nfail, do not thou forsake me.\n\n70:10. For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my\nsoul have consulted together,\n\n70:11. Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is\nnone to deliver him.\n\n70:12. O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.\n\n70:13. Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul;\nlet them be covered with confusion and shame that seek my hurt.\n\n70:14. But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.\n\n70:15. My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day\nlong. Because I have not known learning,\n\nLearning.... As much as to say, I build not upon human learning, but\nonly on the power and justice of God.\n\n70:16. I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be\nmindful of thy justice alone.\n\n70:17. Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will\ndeclare thy wonderful works.\n\n70:18. And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I\nshew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,\n\n70:19. And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou\nhast done: O God, who is like to thee?\n\n70:20. How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and\nturning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again\nfrom the depths of the earth:\n\n70:21. Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou\nhast comforted me.\n\n70:22. For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments\nof psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of\nIsrael.\n\n70:23. My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my\nsoul which thou hast redeemed.\n\n70:24. Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day;\nwhen they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 71\n\nDeus, judicium tuum.\n\nA prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom: prefigured by\nSolomon and his happy reign.\n\n71:1. A psalm on Solomon.\n\n71:2. Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king\u2019s son thy\njustice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.\n\n71:3. Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills\njustice.\n\n71:4. He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the\nchildren of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.\n\n71:5. And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon,\nthroughout all generations.\n\n71:6. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers\nfalling gently upon the earth.\n\n71:7. In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till\nthe moon be taken away.\n\n71:8. And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the\nends of the earth.\n\n71:9. Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall\nlick the ground.\n\n71:10. The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the\nkings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:\n\n71:11. And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall\nserve him.\n\n71:12. For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy\nthat had no helper.\n\n71:13. He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls\nof the poor.\n\n71:14. He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their\nnames shall be honourable in his sight.\n\n71:15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of\nArabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the\nday.\n\n71:16. And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of\nmountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they\nof the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.\n\nA firmament on the earth, etc.... This may be understood of the church\nof Christ, ever firm and visible: and of the flourishing condition of\nits congregation.\n\n71:17. Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before\nthe sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all\nnations shall magnify him.\n\n71:18. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful\nthings.\n\n71:19. And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole\nearth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.\n\n71:20. The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.\n\nAre ended.... By this it appears that this psalm, though placed here,\nwas in order of time the last of those which David composed.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 72\n\nQuam bonus Israel Deus.\n\nThe temptation of the weak, upon seeing the prosperity of the wicked,\nis overcome by the consideration of the justice of God, who will\nquickly render to every one according to his works.\n\n72:1. A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of\na right heart!\n\n72:2. But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.\n\n72:3. Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the\nprosperity of sinners.\n\n72:4. For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in\ntheir stripes.\n\n72:5. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged\nlike other men.\n\n72:6. Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their\niniquity and their wickedness.\n\n72:7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they\nhave passed into the affection of the heart.\n\nFatness.... Abundance and temporal prosperity, which hath encouraged\nthem in their iniquity: and made them give themselves up to their\nirregular affections.\n\n72:8. They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken\niniquity on high.\n\n72:9. They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath\npassed through the earth.\n\n72:10. Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be\nfound in them.\n\nReturn here.... or hither. The weak among the servants of God, will be\napt often to return to this thought, and will be shocked when they\nconsider the full days, that is, the long and prosperous life of the\nwicked; and will be tempted to make the reflections against providence\nwhich are set down in the following verses.\n\n72:11. And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the\nmost High?\n\n72:12. Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they\nhave obtained riches.\n\n72:13. And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed\nmy hands among the innocent.\n\n72:14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath\nbeen in the mornings.\n\n72:15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the\ngeneration of thy children.\n\nIf I said, etc.... That is, if I should indulge such thoughts as these.\n\n72:16. I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my\nsight:\n\n72:17. Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning\ntheir last ends.\n\n72:18. But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were\nlifted up thou hast cast them down.\n\nThou hast put it to them.... In punishment of their deceits, or for\ndeceiving them, thou hast brought evils upon them in their last end,\nwhich, in their prosperity they never apprehended.\n\n72:19. How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to\nbe: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.\n\n72:20. As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou\nshalt bring their image to nothing.\n\n72:21. For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:\n\n72:22. And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.\n\n72:23. I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.\n\n72:24. Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast\nconducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.\n\n72:25. For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire\nupon earth?\n\n72:26. For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the\nGod of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.\n\n72:27. For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast\ndestroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.\n\n72:28. But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the\nLord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the\ndaughter of Sion.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 73\n\nUt quid, Deus.\n\nA prayer of the church under grievous persecutions.\n\n73:1. Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto\nthe end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?\n\n73:2. Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the\nbeginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed:\nmount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.\n\n73:3. Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what\nthings the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.\n\n73:4. And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of\nthy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,\n\nTheir ensigns, etc.... They have fixed their colours for signs and\ntrophies, both on the gates, and on the highest top of the temple: and\nthey knew not, that is, they regarded not the sanctity of the place.\nThis psalm manifestly foretells the time of the Machabees, and the\nprofanation of the temple by Antiochus.\n\n73:5. And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top.\nAs with axes in a wood of trees,\n\n73:6. They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and\nhatchet they have brought it down.\n\n73:7. They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the\ndwelling place of thy name on the earth.\n\n73:8. They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let\nus abolish all the festival days of God from the land.\n\n73:9. Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will\nknow us no more.\n\n73:10. How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to\nprovoke thy name for ever?\n\n73:11. Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the\nmidst of thy bosom for ever?\n\n73:12. But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in\nthe midst of the earth.\n\n73:13. Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush\nthe heads of the dragons in the waters.\n\nThe sea firm.... By making the waters of the Red Sea stand like firm\nwalls, whilst Israel passed through: and destroying the Egyptians\ncalled here dragons from their cruelty, in the same waters, with their\nking: casting up their bodies on the shore to be stripped by the\nEthiopians inhabiting in those days the coast of Arabia.\n\n73:14. Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to\nbe meat for the people of the Ethiopians.\n\n73:15. Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast\ndried up the Ethan rivers.\n\nEthan rivers.... That is, rivers which run with strong streams. This\nwas verified in Jordan, Jos. 3, and in Arnon, Num. 21.14.\n\n73:16. Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the\nmorning light and the sun.\n\n73:17. Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the\nspring were formed by thee.\n\n73:18. Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish\npeople hath provoked thy name.\n\n73:19. Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and\nforget not to the end the souls of thy poor.\n\n73:20. Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of\nthe earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.\n\nThe obscure of the earth.... Mean and ignoble wretches have been\nfilled, that is, enriched, with houses of iniquity, that is, with our\nestates and possessions, which they have unjustly acquired.\n\n73:21. Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and\nneedy shall praise thy name.\n\n73:22. Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with\nwhich the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.\n\n73:23. Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that\nhate thee ascendeth continually.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 74\n\nConfitebimur tibi.\n\nThere is a just judgment to come: therefore let the wicked take care.\n\n74:1. Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.\n\nCorrupt not.... It is believed to have been the beginning of some ode\nor hymn, to the tune of which this psalm was to be sung. St. Augustine\nand other fathers take it to be an admonition of the spirit of God, not\nto faint or fail in our hope: but to persevere with constancy in good:\nbecause God will not fail in his due time to render to every man\naccording to his works.\n\n74:2. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon\nthy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:\n\n74:3. When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.\n\nWhen I shall take a time.... In proper times: particularly at the last\nday, when the earth shall melt away at the presence of the great Judge:\nthe same who originally laid the foundations of it, and as it were\nestablished its pillars.\n\n74:4. The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have\nestablished the pillars thereof.\n\n74:5. I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners:\nLift not up the horn.\n\n74:6. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.\n\n74:7. For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert\nhills:\n\n74:8. For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth\nup:\n\n74:9. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of\nmixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs\nthereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.\n\n74:10. But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.\n\n74:11. And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the\njust shall be exalted.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 75\n\nNotus in Judaea.\n\nGod is known in his church: and exerts his power in protecting it. It\nalludes to the slaughter of the Assyrians, in the days of king\nEzechias.\n\n75:1. Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the\nAssyrians.\n\n75:2. In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.\n\n75:3. And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:\n\n75:4. There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword,\nand the battle.\n\n75:5. Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.\n\n75:6. All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their\nsleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.\n\n75:7. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that\nmounted on horseback.\n\n75:8. Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy\nwrath.\n\nFrom that time, etc.... From the time that thy wrath shall break out.\n\n75:9. Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth\ntrembled and was still,\n\n75:10. When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.\n\n75:11. For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the\nremainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.\n\n75:12. Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round\nabout him bring presents. To him that is terrible,\n\n75:13. Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the\nterrible with the kings of the earth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 76\n\nVoce mea.\n\nThe faithful have recourse to God in trouble of mind, with confidence\nin his mercy and power.\n\n76:1. Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.\n\n76:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he\ngave ear to me.\n\n76:3. In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to\nhim in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be\ncomforted:\n\n76:4. I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my\nspirit swooned away.\n\n76:5. My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.\n\n76:6. I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal\nyears.\n\n76:7. And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was\nexercised and I swept my spirit.\n\n76:8. Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more\nfavourable again?\n\n76:9. Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to\ngeneration?\n\n76:10. Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut\nup his mercies?\n\n76:11. And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right\nhand of the most High.\n\n76:12. I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy\nwonders from the beginning.\n\n76:13. And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in\nthy inventions.\n\n76:14. Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like\nour God?\n\n76:15. Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power\nknown among the nations:\n\n76:16. With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob\nand of Joseph.\n\n76:17. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were\nafraid, and the depths were troubled.\n\n76:18. Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound.\nFor thy arrows pass:\n\n76:19. The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened\nthe world: the earth shook and trembled.\n\n76:20. Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy\nfootsteps shall not be known.\n\n76:21. Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses\nand Aaron.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 77\n\nAttendite.\n\nGod\u2019s great benefits to the people of Israel, notwithstanding their\ningratitude.\n\n77:1. Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline\nyour ears to the words of my mouth.\n\n77:2. I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from\nthe beginning.\n\nPropositions.... Deep and mysterious sayings. By this it appears that\nthe historical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this psalm, were\ndeep and mysterious: as being figures of great truths appertaining to\nthe time of the New Testament.\n\n77:3. How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have\ntold us.\n\n77:4. They have not been hidden from their children, in another\ngeneration. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his\nwonders which he hath done.\n\n77:5. And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How\ngreat things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same\nknown to their children:\n\n77:6. That another generation might know them. The children that should\nbe born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.\n\n77:7. That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works\nof God: and may seek his commandments.\n\n77:8. That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and\nexasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright:\nand whose spirit was not faithful to God.\n\n77:9. The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have\nturned back in the day of battle.\n\n77:10. They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not\nwalk.\n\n77:11. And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn\nthem.\n\n77:12. Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the\nland of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.\n\n77:13. He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the\nwaters to stand as in a vessel.\n\n77:14. And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night\nwith a light of fire.\n\n77:15. He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as\nout of the great deep.\n\n77:16. He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run\ndown as rivers.\n\n77:17. And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most\nHigh to wrath in the place without water.\n\n77:18. And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their\ndesires.\n\n77:19. And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in\nthe wilderness?\n\n77:20. Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the\nstreams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his\npeople?\n\n77:21. Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled\nagainst Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.\n\n77:22. Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his\nsalvation.\n\n77:23. And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the\ndoors of heaven.\n\n77:24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them\nthe bread of heaven.\n\n77:25. Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in\nabundance.\n\n77:26. He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought\nin the south-west wind.\n\n77:27. And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like\nas the sand of the sea.\n\n77:28. And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their\npavilions.\n\n77:29. So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them\ntheir desire:\n\n77:30. they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their\nmeat was in their mouth:\n\n77:31. And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones\namongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.\n\n77:32. In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for\nhis wondrous works.\n\n77:33. And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in\nhaste.\n\n77:34. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and\ncame to him early in the morning.\n\n77:35. And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high\nGod their redeemer.\n\n77:36. And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they\nlied unto him:\n\n77:37. But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted\nfaithful in his covenant.\n\n77:38. But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not\ndestroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not\nkindle all his wrath.\n\n77:39. And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and\nreturneth not.\n\n77:40. How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to\nwrath in the place without water?\n\n77:41. And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one\nof Israel.\n\n77:42. They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them\nfrom the hand of him that afflicted them:\n\n77:43. How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field\nof Tanis.\n\n77:44. And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that\nthey might not drink.\n\n77:45. He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them:\nand frogs which destroyed them.\n\n77:46. And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to\nthe locust.\n\n77:47. And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry\ntrees with hoarfrost.\n\n77:48. And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the\nfire.\n\n77:49. And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation\nand wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.\n\n77:50. He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls\nfrom death, and their cattle he shut up in death.\n\n77:51. And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the\nfirstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.\n\n77:52. And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the\nwilderness like a flock.\n\n77:53. And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea\noverwhelmed their enemies.\n\n77:54. And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the\nmountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the\nGentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line\nof distribution.\n\n77:55. And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.\n\n77:56. Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept\nnot his testimonies.\n\n77:57. And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their\nfathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.\n\n77:58. They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to\njealousy with their graven things.\n\n77:59. God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly\nas it were to nothing.\n\n77:60. And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he\ndwelt among men.\n\n77:61. And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty\ninto the hands of the enemy.\n\n77:62. And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his\ninheritance.\n\n77:63. Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not\nlamented.\n\n77:64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.\n\n77:65. And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty\nman that hath been surfeited with wine.\n\n77:66. And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an\neverlasting reproach.\n\n77:67. And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the\ntribe of Ephraim:\n\n77:68. But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.\n\n77:69. And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he\nfounded for ever.\n\nAs of unicorns.... That is, firm and strong like the horn of the\nunicorn. This is one of the chiefest of the propositions of this psalm,\nforeshewing the firm establishment of the one, true, and everlasting\nsanctuary of God, in his church.\n\n77:70. And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of\nsheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,\n\n77:71. To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.\n\n77:72. And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted\nthem by the skilfulness of his hands.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 78\n\nDeus, venerunt gentes.\n\nThe church in time of persecution prayeth for relief. It seems to\nbelong to the time of the Machabees.\n\n78:1. A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy\ninheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made\nJerusalem as a place to keep fruit.\n\n78:2. They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for\nthe fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the\nearth.\n\n78:3. They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem\nand there was none to bury them.\n\n78:4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision\nto them that are round about us.\n\n78:5. How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be\nkindled like a fire?\n\n78:6. Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and\nupon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.\n\n78:7. Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.\n\n78:8. Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily\nprevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.\n\n78:9. Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O\nLord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name\u2019s sake:\n\n78:10. Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And\nlet him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the\nrevenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:\n\n78:11. Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According\nto the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them\nthat have been put to death.\n\n78:12. And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the\nreproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.\n\n78:13. But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give\nthanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation\nand generation.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 79\n\nQui regis Israel.\n\nA prayer for the church in tribulation, commemorating God\u2019s former\nfavours.\n\n79:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for\nAsaph, a psalm.\n\n79:2. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph\nlike a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth\n\n79:3. Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and\ncome to save us.\n\n79:4. Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.\n\n79:5. O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the\nprayer of thy servant?\n\n79:6. How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us\nfor our drink tears in measure?\n\n79:7. Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and\nour enemies have scoffed at us.\n\n79:8. O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be\nsaved.\n\n79:9. Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the\nGentiles and planted it.\n\n79:10. Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst\nthe roots thereof, and it filled the land.\n\n79:11. The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the\ncedars of God.\n\n79:12. It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs\nunto the river.\n\n79:13. Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they\nwho pass by the way do pluck it?\n\n79:14. The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild\nbeast hath devoured it.\n\n79:15. Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and\nvisit this vineyard:\n\n79:16. And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon\nthe son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.\n\n79:17. Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of\nthy countenance.\n\nThings set on fire, etc.... So this vineyard of thine, almost consumed\nalready, must perish, if thou continue thy rebukes.\n\n79:18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son\nof man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.\n\nThe man of thy right hand.... Christ.\n\n79:19. And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will\ncall upon thy name.\n\n79:20. O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall\nbe saved.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 80\n\nExultate Deo.\n\nAn invitation to a solemn praising of God.\n\n80:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.\n\nFor the winepresses, etc.... Torcularibus. It either signifies a\nmusical instrument, or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of\nthe tabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage.\n\n80:2. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.\n\n80:3. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery\nwith the harp.\n\n80:4. Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your\nsolemnity.\n\n80:5. For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of\nJacob.\n\n80:6. He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the\nland of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.\n\n80:7. He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in\nbaskets.\n\n80:8. Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I\nheard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters\nof contradiction.\n\nIn the secret place of tempest.... Heb., Of thunder. When thou\nsoughtest to hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to\nmount Sina, hidden from thy eyes in a storm of thunder.\n\n80:9. Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou\nwilt hearken to me,\n\n80:10. there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a\nstrange god.\n\n80:11. For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of\nEgypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.\n\n80:12. But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to\nme.\n\n80:13. So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they\nshall walk in their own inventions.\n\n80:14. If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:\n\n80:15. I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on\nthem that troubled them.\n\n80:16. The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall\nbe for ever.\n\nTheir time shall be forever.... Impenitent sinners shall suffer for\never.\n\n80:17. And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with\nhoney out of the rock.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 81\n\nDeus stetit.\n\nAn exhortation to judges and men in power.\n\n81:1. A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods:\nand being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.\n\n81:2. How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the\nwicked?\n\n81:3. Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and\nthe poor.\n\n81:4. Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the\nsinner.\n\n81:5. They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all\nthe foundations of the earth shall be moved.\n\n81:6. I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most\nHigh.\n\n81:7. But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the\nprinces.\n\n81:8. Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among\nall the nations.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 82\n\nDeus, quis similis.\n\nA prayer against the enemies of God\u2019s church.\n\n82:1. A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.\n\n82:2. O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be\nthou still, O God.\n\n82:3. For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee\nhave lifted up the head.\n\n82:4. They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have\nconsulted against thy saints.\n\n82:5. They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not\na nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.\n\n82:6. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a\ncovenant together against thee,\n\n82:7. The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and\nthe Agarens,\n\n82:8. Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the\ninhabitants of Tyre.\n\n82:9. Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to\nthe aid of the sons of Lot.\n\n82:10. Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at\nthe brook of Cisson.\n\n82:11. Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.\n\n82:12. Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana.\nAll their princes,\n\n82:13. Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an\ninheritance.\n\n82:14. O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the\nwind.\n\n82:15. As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning\nmountains:\n\n82:16. So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble\nthem in thy wrath.\n\n82:17. Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O\nLord.\n\n82:18. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them\nbe confounded and perish.\n\n82:19. And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the\nmost High over all the earth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 83\n\nQuam dilecta.\n\nThe soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in\nthe communion of God\u2019s church upon earth.\n\n83:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core.\n\n83:2. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!\n\n83:3. my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart\nand my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.\n\n83:4. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest\nfor herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of\nhosts, my king and my God.\n\n83:5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall\npraise thee for ever and ever.\n\n83:6. Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath\ndisposed to ascend by steps,\n\nIn his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, etc.... Ascensiones\nin corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God\nsituated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal\ntemple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart:\nand this whilst he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the\nplace which man hath set: that is, which he hath brought himself to:\nbeing cast out of paradise for his sin.\n\n83:7. In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.\n\n83:8. For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue\nto virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.\n\n83:9. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.\n\n83:10. Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.\n\n83:11. For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have\nchosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in\nthe tabernacles of sinners.\n\n83:12. For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and\nglory.\n\n83:13. He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence:\nO Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 84\n\nBenedixisti, Domine.\n\nThe coming of Christ, to bring peace and salvation to man.\n\n84:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.\n\n84:2. Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the\ncaptivity of Jacob.\n\n84:3. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered\nall their sins.\n\n84:4. Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the\nwrath of thy indignation.\n\n84:5. Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.\n\n84:6. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy\nwrath from generation to generation?\n\n84:7. Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall\nrejoice in thee.\n\n84:8. Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.\n\n84:9. I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak\npeace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are\nconverted to the heart.\n\n84:10. Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory\nmay dwell in our land.\n\n84:11. Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have\nkissed.\n\n84:12. Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down\nfrom heaven.\n\n84:13. For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her\nfruit.\n\n84:14. Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the\nway.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 85\n\nInclina, Domine.\n\nA prayer for God\u2019s grace to assist us to the end.\n\n85:1. A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me:\nfor I am needy and poor.\n\n85:2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that\ntrusteth in thee.\n\nI am holy.... I am by my office and profession dedicated to thy\nservice.\n\n85:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.\n\n85:4. Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have\nlifted up my soul.\n\n85:5. For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to\nall that call upon thee.\n\n85:6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my\npetition.\n\n85:7. I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou\nhast heard me.\n\n85:8. There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is\nnone according to thy works.\n\n85:9. All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee,\nO Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.\n\n85:10. For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God\nalone.\n\n85:11. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth:\nlet my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.\n\n85:12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I\nwill glorify thy name for ever:\n\n85:13. For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my\nsoul out of the lower hell.\n\n85:14. O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of\nthe mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their\neyes.\n\n85:15. And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful,\npatient, and of much mercy, and true.\n\n85:16. O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy\nservant, and save the son of thy handmaid.\n\n85:17. Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be\nconfounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 86\n\nFundamenta ejus.\n\nThe glory of the church of Christ.\n\n86:1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations\nthereof are in the holy mountains:\n\nThe holy mountains.... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20.\n\n86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of\nJacob.\n\n86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.\n\n86:4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the\nforeigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were\nthere.\n\nRahab.... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many\nshall resort from all nations.\n\n86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the\nHighest himself hath founded her.\n\nShall not Sion say, etc.... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the\nchurch, shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular\nperson of renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of\npeople and princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the\nwritings of the prophets, and registered in the writings of the\napostles.\n\n86:6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of\nthem that have been in her.\n\n86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 87\n\nDomine, Deus salutis.\n\nA prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees to Christ in his\npassion, and alludes to his death and burial.\n\n87:1. A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for\nMaheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.\n\nMaheleth.... A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer\none another.\u2014Ibid. Understanding.... Or a psalm of instruction,\ncomposed by Eman the Ezrahite, or by David, in his name.\n\n87:2. O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in\nthe night before thee.\n\n87:3. Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my\npetition.\n\n87:4. For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to\nhell.\n\n87:5. I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a\nman without help,\n\n87:6. Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres,\nwhom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.\n\n87:7. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in\nthe shadow of death.\n\n87:8. Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought\nin upon me.\n\n87:9. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me\nan abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:\n\n87:10. My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee,\nO Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.\n\n87:11. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to\nlife, and give praise to thee?\n\n87:12. Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth\nin destruction?\n\n87:13. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the\nland of forgetfulness?\n\n87:14. But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer\nshall prevent thee.\n\n87:15. Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy\nface from me?\n\n87:16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have\nbeen humbled and troubled.\n\n87:17. Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.\n\n87:18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have\ncompassed me about together.\n\n87:19. Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my\nacquaintance, because of misery.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 88\n\nMisericordias Domini.\n\nThe perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promise\nof God: which, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes\nmost grievous afflictions.\n\n88:1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.\n\n88:2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth\nthy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.\n\n88:3. For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the\nheavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.\n\n88:4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my\nservant:\n\n88:5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne\nunto generation and generation.\n\n88:6. The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in\nthe church of the saints.\n\n88:7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among\nthe sons of God shall be like to God?\n\n88:8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and\nterrible above all them that are about him.\n\n88:9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O\nLord, and thy truth is round about thee.\n\n88:10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of\nthe waves thereof.\n\n88:11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the\narm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.\n\n88:12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the\nfulness thereof thou hast founded:\n\n88:13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall\nrejoice in thy name:\n\n88:14. Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy\nright hand exalted:\n\n88:15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy\nand truth shall go before thy face:\n\n88:16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk,\nO Lord, in the light of thy countenance:\n\n88:17. And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy\njustice they shall be exalted.\n\n88:18. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good\npleasure shall our horn be exalted.\n\n88:19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one\nof Israel.\n\n88:20. Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have\nlaid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of\nmy people.\n\n88:21. I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed\nhim.\n\n88:22. For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.\n\n88:23. The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of\niniquity have power to hurt him.\n\n88:24. And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that\nhate him I will put to flight.\n\n88:25. And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name\nshall his horn be exalted.\n\n88:26. And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the\nrivers.\n\n88:27. He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the\nsupport of my salvation.\n\n88:28. And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the\nearth.\n\n88:29. I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful\nto him.\n\n88:30. And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne\nas the days of heaven.\n\n88:31. And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my\njudgments:\n\n88:32. If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:\n\n88:33. I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with\nstripes.\n\n88:34. But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my\ntruth to fail.\n\n88:35. Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed\nfrom my mouth I will not make void.\n\n88:36. Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:\n\n88:37. His seed shall endure for ever.\n\n88:38. And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for\never, and a faithful witness in heaven.\n\n88:39. But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with\nmy anointed.\n\n88:40. Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast\nprofaned his sanctuary on the earth.\n\nOverthrown the covenant, etc.... All this seems to relate to the time\nof the captivity of Babylon, in which, for the sins of the people and\ntheir princes, God seemed to have set aside for a while the covenant he\nmade with David.\n\n88:41. Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his\nstrength fear.\n\n88:42. All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a\nreproach to his neighbours.\n\n88:43. Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou\nhast made all his enemies to rejoice.\n\n88:44. Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not\nassisted him in battle.\n\n88:45. Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his\nthrone down to the ground.\n\n88:46. Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him\nwith confusion.\n\n88:47. How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy\nanger burn like fire?\n\n88:48. Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the\nchildren of men in vain?\n\n88:49. Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall\ndeliver his soul from the hand of hell?\n\n88:50. Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou\ndidst swear to David in thy truth?\n\n88:51. Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I\nhave held in my bosom) of many nations:\n\n88:52. Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they\nhave reproached the change of thy anointed.\n\n88:53. Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 89\n\nDomine, refugium.\n\nA prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of\nthe days of man.\n\n89:1. A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge\nfrom generation to generation.\n\n89:2. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was\nformed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.\n\n89:3. Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be\nconverted, O ye sons of men.\n\nTurn not man away, etc.... Suffer him not quite to perish from thee,\nsince thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.\n\n89:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is\npast. And as a watch in the night,\n\n89:5. Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.\n\n89:6. In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he\nshall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry,\nand wither.\n\n89:7. For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy\nindignation.\n\n89:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the\nlight of thy countenance.\n\n89:9. For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted\naway. Our years shall be considered as a spider:\n\nAs a spider.... As frail and weak as a spider\u2019s web; and miserable\nwithal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to\ncatch flies.\n\n89:10. The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But\nif in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is\nlabour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be\ncorrected.\n\nMildness is come upon us, etc.... God\u2019s mildness corrects us; inasmuch\nas he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable\nlife; and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments,\nand teaching us true wisdom.\n\n89:11. Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear\n\n89:12. Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men\nlearned in heart, in wisdom.\n\n89:13. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy\nservants.\n\n89:14. We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have\nrejoiced, and are delighted all our days.\n\n89:15. We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for\nthe years in which we have seen evils.\n\n89:16. Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their\nchildren.\n\n89:17. And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and\ndirect thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands\ndo thou direct.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 90\n\nQui habitat.\n\nThe just is secure under the protection of God.\n\n90:1. The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid\nof the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.\n\n90:2. He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge:\nmy God, in him will I trust.\n\n90:3. For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from\nthe sharp word.\n\n90:4. He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings\nthou shalt trust.\n\n90:5. His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be\nafraid of the terror of the night.\n\n90:6. Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh\nabout in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.\n\n90:7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right\nhand: but it shall not come nigh thee.\n\n90:8. But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward\nof the wicked.\n\n90:9. Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High\nthy refuge.\n\n90:10. There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come\nnear thy dwelling.\n\n90:11. For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in\nall thy ways.\n\n90:12. In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot\nagainst a stone.\n\n90:13. Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt\ntrample under foot the lion and the dragon.\n\n90:14. Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him\nbecause he hath known my name.\n\n90:15. He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in\ntribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.\n\n90:16. I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my\nsalvation.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 91\n\nBonum est confiteri.\n\nGod is to be praised for his wondrous works.\n\n91:1. A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.\n\n91:2. It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O\nmost High.\n\n91:3. To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the\nnight:\n\n91:4. Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a\ncanticle upon the harp.\n\n91:5. For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in\nthe works of thy hands I shall rejoice.\n\n91:6. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.\n\n91:7. The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand\nthese things.\n\n91:8. When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of\niniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:\n\n91:9. But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.\n\n91:10. For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall\nperish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.\n\n91:11. But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my\nold age in plentiful mercy.\n\n91:12. My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall\nhear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.\n\n91:13. The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up\nlike the cedar of Libanus.\n\n91:14. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in\nthe courts of the house of our God.\n\n91:15. They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be\nwell treated,\n\n91:16. That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and\nthere is no iniquity in him.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 92\n\nDominus regnavit.\n\nThe glory and stability of the kingdom; that is, of the church of\nChrist.\n\nPraise in the way of a canticle, for David himself, on the day before\nthe sabbath, when the earth was founded.\n\n92:1. The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is\nclothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established\nthe world which shall not be moved.\n\n92:2. My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting.\n\n92:3. The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up\ntheir voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,\n\n92:4. With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the\nsea: wonderful is the Lord on high.\n\n92:5. Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness\nbecometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 93\n\nDeus ultionum.\n\nGod shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people.\n\nA psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the week.\n\n93:1. The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge\nhath acted freely.\n\n93:2. Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to\nthe proud.\n\n93:3. How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?\n\n93:4. Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work\ninjustice?\n\n93:5. Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have\nafflicted thy inheritance.\n\n93:6. They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have\nmurdered the fatherless.\n\n93:7. And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God\nof Jacob understand.\n\n93:8. Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be\nwise at last.\n\n93:9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the\neye, doth he not consider?\n\n93:10. He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that\nteacheth man knowledge?\n\n93:11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.\n\n93:12. Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt\nteach him out of thy law.\n\n93:13. That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be\ndug for the wicked.\n\nRest from the evil days.... That thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to\nwhich he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality.\n\n93:14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he\nforsake his own inheritance.\n\n93:15. Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it\nare all the upright in heart.\n\nUntil justice be turned into judgment, etc.... By being put in\nexecution; which will be agreeable to all the upright in heart.\n\n93:16. Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall\nstand with me against the workers of iniquity?\n\n93:17. Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in\nhell.\n\n93:18. If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.\n\n93:19. According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy\ncomforts have given joy to my soul.\n\n93:20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in\ncommandment?\n\nDoth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, etc.... That is, wilt thou, O\nGod, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity: that is, of\ninjustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou\nwho framest, or makest, labour in commandment, that is, thou who\nobligest us to labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments.\n\n93:21. They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn\ninnocent blood.\n\n93:22. But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.\n\n93:23. And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he\nwill destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 94\n\nVenite exultemus.\n\nAn invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice.\n\nPraise of a canticle for David himself.\n\n94:1. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God\nour saviour.\n\n94:2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a\njoyful noise to him with psalms.\n\n94:3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.\n\n94:4. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of\nthe mountains are his.\n\n94:5. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry\nland.\n\n94:6. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that\nmade us.\n\n94:7. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture\nand the sheep of his hand.\n\n94:8. To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:\n\n94:9. As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the\nwilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my\nworks.\n\n94:10. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I\nsaid: These always err in heart.\n\n94:11. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath\nthat they shall not enter into my rest.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 95\n\nCantate Domino.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ and his kingdom.\n\n95:1. A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the\ncaptivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all\nthe earth.\n\nWhen the house was built, etc.... Alluding to that time, and then\nordered to be sung: but principally relating to the building of the\nchurch of Christ, after our redemption from the captivity of Satan.\n\n95:2. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation\nfrom day to day.\n\n95:3. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all\npeople.\n\n95:4. For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be\nfeared above all gods.\n\n95:5. For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made\nthe heavens.\n\n95:6. Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his\nsanctuary.\n\n95:7. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to\nthe Lord glory and honour:\n\n95:8. Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and\ncome into his courts:\n\n95:9. Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved\nat his presence.\n\n95:10. Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath\ncorrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people\nwith justice.\n\n95:11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea\nbe moved, and the fulness thereof:\n\n95:12. The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then\nshall all the trees of the woods rejoice\n\n95:13. before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he\ncometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and\nthe people with his truth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 96\n\nDominus regnavit.\n\nAll are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and reign of Christ.\n\n96:1. For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The\nLord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.\n\n96:2. Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are\nthe establishment of his throne.\n\nClouds and darkness.... The coming of Christ in the clouds with great\nterror and majesty to judge the world, is here prophesied.\n\n96:3. A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round\nabout.\n\n96:4. His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and\ntrembled.\n\n96:5. The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at\nthe presence of the Lord of all the earth.\n\n96:6. The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.\n\n96:7. Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that\nglory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:\n\n96:8. Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced,\nbecause of thy judgments, O Lord.\n\n96:9. For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art\nexalted exceedingly above all gods.\n\n96:10. You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls\nof his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.\n\n96:11. Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.\n\n96:12. Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the\nremembrance of his holiness.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 97\n\nCantate Domino.\n\nAll are again invited to praise the Lord, for the victories of Christ.\n\n97:1. A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle:\nbecause he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for\nhim salvation, and his arm is holy.\n\n97:2. The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his\njustice in the sight of the Gentiles.\n\n97:3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of\nIsrael. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.\n\n97:4. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and\nsing.\n\n97:5. Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the\nvoice of a psalm:\n\n97:6. With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise\nbefore the Lord our king:\n\n97:7. Let the sea be moved and the fullness thereof: the world and they\nthat dwell therein.\n\n97:8. The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice\ntogether\n\n97:9. At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the\nearth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with\nequity.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 98\n\nDominus regnavit.\n\nThe reign of the Lord in Sion: that is, of Christ in his church.\n\n98:1. A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people\nbe angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.\n\nLet the people be angry.... Though many enemies rage, and the whole\nearth be stirred up to oppose the reign of Christ, he shall still\nprevail.\n\n98:2. The lord is great in Sion, and high above all people.\n\n98:3. Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and\nholy:\n\n98:4. And the king\u2019s honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared\ndirections: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.\n\nLoveth judgment.... Requireth discretion.\u2014Ibid. Directions.... Most\nright and just laws to direct men.\n\n98:5. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is\nholy.\n\nAdore his footstool.... The ark of the covenant was called, in the Old\nTestament, God\u2019s footstool: over which he was understood to sit, on his\npropitiatory, or mercy seat, as on a throne, between the wings of the\ncherubims, in the sanctuary: to which the children of Israel paid a\ngreat veneration. But as this psalm evidently relates to Christ, and\nthe New Testament, where the ark has no place, the holy fathers\nunderstand this text, of the worship paid by the church to the body and\nblood of Christ in the sacred mysteries: inasmuch as the humanity of\nChrist is, as it were, the footstool of the divinity. So St. Ambrose,\nL. 3. De Spiritu Sancto, c. 12. And St. Augustine upon this psalm.\n\n98:6. Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that\ncall upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:\n\nMoses and Aaron among his priests.... By this it is evident, that Moses\nalso was a priest, and indeed the chief priest, inasmuch as he\nconsecrated Aaron, and offered sacrifice for him. Lev. 8. So that his\npre-eminence over Aaron makes nothing for lay church headship.\n\n98:7. He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his\ntestimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.\n\n98:8. Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to\nthem, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.\n\nAll their inventions.... that is, all the enterprises of their enemies\nagainst them, as in the case of Core, Dathan, and Abiron.\n\n98:9. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for\nthe Lord our God is holy.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 99\n\nJubilate Deo.\n\nAll are invited to rejoice in God the creator of all.\n\n99:1. A psalm of praise.\n\n99:2. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with\ngladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.\n\n99:3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we\nourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.\n\n99:4. Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and\ngive glory to him. Praise ye his name:\n\n99:5. For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth\nto generation and generation.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 100\n\nMisericordiam et judicium.\n\nThe prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow mercy and justice.\n\n100:1. A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to\nthee, O Lord: I will sing,\n\n100:2. And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come\nto me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.\n\nI will understand, etc.... That is, I will apply my mind, I will do my\nendeavour, to know and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments:\nnot trusting to my own strength, but relying on thy coming to me by thy\ngrace.\n\n100:3. I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the\nworkers of iniquities.\n\n100:4. The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that\nturned aside from me, I would not know.\n\n100:5. The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I\npersecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I\nwould not eat.\n\n100:6. My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the\nman that walked in the perfect way, he served me.\n\n100:7. He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house:\nhe that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.\n\n100:8. In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I\nmight cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 101\n\nDomine, exaudi.\n\nA prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.\n\n101:1. The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out\nhis supplication before the Lord.\n\n101:2. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.\n\n101:3. Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble,\nincline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear\nme speedily.\n\n101:4. For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry\nlike fuel for the fire.\n\n101:5. I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I\nforgot to eat my bread.\n\n101:6. Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my\nflesh.\n\n101:7. I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a\nnight raven in the house.\n\nA pelican, etc.... I am become through grief, like birds that affect\nsolitude and darkness.\n\n101:8. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the\nhousetop.\n\n101:9. All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised\nme did swear against me.\n\n101:10. For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with\nweeping.\n\n101:11. Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up\nthou hast thrown me down.\n\n101:12. My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like\ngrass.\n\n101:13. But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all\ngenerations.\n\n101:14. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have\nmercy on it, for the time is come.\n\n101:15. For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they\nshall have pity on the earth thereof.\n\n101:16. And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings\nof the earth thy glory.\n\n101:17. For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his\nglory.\n\n101:18. He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not\ndespised their petition.\n\n101:19. Let these things be written unto another generation: and the\npeople that shall be created shall praise the Lord:\n\n101:20. Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from\nheaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.\n\n101:21. That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that\nhe might release the children of the slain:\n\n101:22. That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his\npraise in Jerusalem;\n\n101:23. When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the\nLord.\n\n101:24. He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the\nfewness of my days.\n\nHe answered him in the way of his strength.... That is, the people,\nmentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this\npsalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that\nis, according to the best of his power and strength: or when he was in\nthe flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his\ndays: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy\nrestoration of Sion, etc.\n\n101:25. Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto\ngeneration and generation.\n\n101:26. In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the\nheavens are the works of thy hands.\n\n101:27. They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall\ngrow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and\nthey shall be changed.\n\n101:28. But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.\n\n101:29. The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed\nshall be directed for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 102\n\nBenedic, anima.\n\nThanksgiving to God for his mercies.\n\n102:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that\nis within me bless his holy name.\n\n102:2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for\nthee.\n\n102:3. Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.\n\n102:4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with\nmercy and compassion.\n\n102:5. Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be\nrenewed like the eagle\u2019s.\n\n102:6. The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.\n\n102:7. He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children\nof Israel.\n\n102:8. The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and\nplenteous in mercy.\n\n102:9. He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever.\n\n102:10. He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded\nus according to our iniquities.\n\n102:11. For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he\nhath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.\n\n102:12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our\niniquities from us.\n\n102:13. As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord\ncompassion on them that fear him:\n\n102:14. For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:\n\n102:15. Man\u2019s days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he\nflourish.\n\n102:16. For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he\nshall know his place no more.\n\n102:17. But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity\nupon them that fear him: And his justice unto children\u2019s children,\n\n102:18. To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his\ncommandments to do them.\n\n102:19. The lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom\nshall rule over all.\n\n102:20. Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in\nstrength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders.\n\n102:21. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do\nhis will.\n\n102:22. Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion,\nO my soul, bless thou the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 103\n\nBenedic, anima.\n\nGod is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence.\n\n103:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God,\nthou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty:\n\n103:2. And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out\nthe heaven like a pavilion:\n\n103:3. Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the\nclouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.\n\n103:4. Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.\n\n103:5. Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be\nmoved for ever and ever.\n\n103:6. The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains\nshall the waters stand.\n\n103:7. At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they\nshall fear.\n\n103:8. The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place\nwhich thou hast founded for them.\n\n103:9. Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither\nshall they return to cover the earth.\n\n103:10. Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of\nthe hills the waters shall pass.\n\n103:11. All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall\nexpect in their thirst.\n\n103:12. Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of\nthe rocks they shall give forth their voices.\n\n103:13. Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall\nbe filled with the fruit of thy works:\n\n103:14. Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of\nmen. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:\n\n103:15. And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the\nface cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man\u2019s heart.\n\n103:16. The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of\nLibanus which he hath planted:\n\n103:17. There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them\nis the house of the heron.\n\n103:18. The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the\nirchins.\n\n103:19. He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going\ndown.\n\n103:20. Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all\nthe beasts of the woods go about:\n\n103:21. The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their\nmeat from God.\n\n103:22. The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall\nlie down in their dens.\n\n103:23. Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the\nevening.\n\n103:24. How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in\nwisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.\n\n103:25. So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are\ncreeping things without number: Creatures little and great.\n\n103:26. There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast\nformed to play therein.\n\n103:27. All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.\n\n103:28. What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou\nopenest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.\n\n103:29. But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou\nshalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to\ntheir dust.\n\n103:30. Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created:\nand thou shalt renew the face of the earth.\n\n103:31. May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall\nrejoice in his works.\n\n103:32. He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he toucheth\nthe mountains, and they smoke.\n\n103:33. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise\nto my God while I have my being.\n\n103:34. Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in\nthe Lord.\n\n103:35. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so\nthat they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 104\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nA thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people Israel.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n104:1. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his\ndeeds among the Gentiles.\n\n104:2. Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous\nworks.\n\n104:3. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that\nseek the Lord.\n\n104:4. Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.\n\n104:5. Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders,\nand the judgments of his mouth.\n\n104:6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.\n\n104:7. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.\n\n104:8. He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he\ncommanded to a thousand generations.\n\n104:9. Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:\n\n104:10. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for\nan everlasting testament:\n\n104:11. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of\nyour inheritance.\n\n104:12. When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners\ntherein:\n\n104:13. And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to\nanother people.\n\n104:14. He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for\ntheir sakes.\n\n104:15. Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.\n\n104:16. And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces\nall the support of bread.\n\n104:17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.\n\n104:18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,\n\n104:19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.\n\n104:20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people,\nand he set him at liberty.\n\n104:21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his\npossession.\n\n104:22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his\nancients wisdom.\n\n104:23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the\nland of Cham.\n\n104:24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them\nover their enemies.\n\n104:25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal\ndeceitfully with his servants.\n\nHe turned their heart, etc.... Not that God (who is never the author of\nsin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the\nEgyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of\nthe benefits which God bestowed upon them.\n\n104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.\n\n104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the\nland of Cham.\n\n104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his\nwords.\n\nGrieved not his words.... That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his\nwords: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words:\nor he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of\nIsrael, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with\ndarkness.\n\n104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.\n\n104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their\nkings.\n\n104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in\nall their coasts.\n\nSciniphs.... See the annotation, Ex.8.16.\n\n104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.\n\n104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he\nbroke in pieces the trees of their coasts.\n\n104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there\nwas no number.\n\nBruchus.... An insect of the locust kind.\n\n104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all\nthe fruit of their ground.\n\n104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of\nall their labour.\n\n104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not\namong their tribes one that was feeble.\n\n104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay\nupon them.\n\n104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them\nlight in the night.\n\n104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the\nbread of heaven.\n\n104:41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the\ndry land.\n\n104:42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his\nservant Abraham.\n\n104:43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with\ngladness.\n\n104:44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed\nthe labours of the people:\n\n104:45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his\nlaw.\n\nHis justifications.... That is, his commandments; which here, and in\nmany other places of the scripture, are called justifications, because\nthe keeping of them makes man just. The Protestants render it by the\nword statutes, in favour of their doctrine, which does not allow good\nworks to justify.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 105\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nA confession of the manifold sins and ingratitudes of the Israelites.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n105:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n105:2. Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth\nall his praises?\n\n105:3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all\ntimes.\n\n105:4. Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with\nthy salvation.\n\n105:5. That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in\nthe joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.\n\n105:6. We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have\nwrought iniquity.\n\n105:7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered\nnot the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up\nto the sea, even the Red Sea.\n\n105:8. And he saved them for his own name\u2019s sake: that he might make\nhis power known.\n\n105:9. And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them\nthrough the depths, as in a wilderness.\n\n105:10. And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he\nredeemed them from the hand of the enemy.\n\n105:11. And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not\none of them left.\n\n105:12. And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.\n\n105:13. They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited\nnot for his counsel.\n\n105:14. And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted\nGod in the place without water.\n\n105:15. And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their\nsouls.\n\n105:16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the\nLord.\n\n105:17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the\ncongregation of Abiron.\n\n105:18. And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned\nthe wicked.\n\n105:19. They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven\nthing.\n\n105:20. And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that\neateth grass.\n\n105:21. They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in\nEgypt,\n\n105:22. Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red\nSea.\n\n105:23. And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his\nchosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he\nshould destroy them.\n\n105:24. And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not\nhis word,\n\n105:25. And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the\nvoice of the Lord.\n\n105:26. And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the\ndesert;\n\n105:27. And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter\nthem in the countries.\n\n105:28. They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices\nof the dead.\n\nInitiated.... That is, they dedicated, or consecrated themselves to the\nidol of the Moabites and Madianites, called Beelphegor, or Baal-Peor.\nNum. 25.3.\u2014Ibid. The dead.... Viz., idols without life.\n\n105:29. And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction\nwas multiplied among them.\n\n105:30. Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter\nceased.\n\n105:31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and\ngeneration for evermore.\n\n105:32. They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and\nMoses was afflicted for their sakes:\n\n105:33. Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with\nhis lips.\n\nHe distinguished with his lips.... Moses, by occasion of the people\u2019s\nrebellion and incredulity, was guilty of distinguishing with his lips;\nwhen, instead of speaking to the rock, as God had commanded, he said to\nthe people, with a certain hesitation in his faith, Hear ye, rebellious\nand incredulous: Can we from this rock bring out water for you? Num.\n20.10.\n\n105:34. They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto\nthem.\n\n105:35. And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their\nworks:\n\n105:36. And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.\n\n105:37. And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.\n\n105:38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of\ntheir daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the\nland was polluted with blood,\n\n105:39. And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after\ntheir own inventions.\n\n105:40. And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he\nabhorred his inheritance.\n\n105:41. And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they\nthat hated them had dominion over them.\n\n105:42. And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under\ntheir hands:\n\n105:43. Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with\ntheir counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.\n\n105:44. And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their\nprayer.\n\n105:45. And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to\nthe multitude of his mercies.\n\n105:46. And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that\nhad made them captives.\n\n105:47. Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations:\nThat we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.\n\n105:48. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to\neverlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 106\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nAll are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over\nmen.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n106:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n106:2. Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he\nhath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the\ncountries.\n\n106:3. From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north\nand from the sea.\n\n106:4. They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they\nfound not the way of a city for their habitation.\n\n106:5. They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.\n\n106:6. And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he\ndelivered them out of their distresses.\n\n106:7. And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city\nof habitation.\n\n106:8. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful\nworks to the children of men.\n\n106:9. For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry\nsoul with good things.\n\n106:10. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in\nwant and in iron.\n\n106:11. Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the\ncounsel of the most High:\n\n106:12. And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened,\nand there was none to help them.\n\n106:13. Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he\ndelivered them out of their distresses.\n\n106:14. And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death;\nand broke their bonds in sunder.\n\n106:15. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his\nwonderful works to the children of men.\n\n106:16. Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.\n\n106:17. He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were\nbrought low for their injustices.\n\n106:18. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even\nto the gates of death.\n\n106:19. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he\ndelivered them out of their distresses.\n\n106:20. He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from\ntheir destructions.\n\n106:21. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his\nwonderful works to the children of men.\n\n106:22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his\nworks with joy.\n\n106:23. They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the\ngreat waters:\n\n106:24. These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the\ndeep.\n\n106:25. He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the\nwaves thereof were lifted up.\n\n106:26. They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths:\ntheir soul pined away with evils.\n\n106:27. They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all\ntheir wisdom was swallowed up.\n\n106:28. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought\nthem out of their distresses.\n\n106:29. And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were\nstill.\n\n106:30. And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them\nto the haven which they wished for.\n\n106:31. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his\nwonderful works to the children of men.\n\n106:32. And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise\nhim in the chair of the ancients.\n\n106:33. He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of\nwaters into dry ground:\n\n106:34. A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them\nthat dwell therein.\n\n106:35. He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry\nland into water springs.\n\n106:36. And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for\ntheir habitation.\n\n106:37. And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded\nfruit of birth.\n\n106:38. And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and\ntheir cattle he suffered not to decrease.\n\n106:39. Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted\nthrough the trouble of evils and sorrow.\n\n106:40. Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused\nthem to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.\n\n106:41. And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families\nlike a flock of sheep.\n\n106:42. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall\nstop her mouth.\n\n106:43. Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand\nthe mercies of the Lord?\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 107\n\nParatum cor meum.\n\nThe prophet praiseth God for benefits received.\n\n107:1. A canticle of a psalm for David himself.\n\n107:2. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and\nwill give praise, with my glory.\n\n107:3. Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the\nmorning early.\n\n107:4. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing\nunto thee among the nations.\n\n107:5. For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even\nunto the clouds.\n\n107:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over\nall the earth:\n\n107:7. That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and\nhear me.\n\n107:8. God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will\ndivide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.\n\n107:9. Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection\nof my head. Juda is my king:\n\n107:10. Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe:\nthe aliens are become my friends.\n\n107:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into\nEdom?\n\n107:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou,\nO God, go forth with our armies?\n\n107:13. O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.\n\n107:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies\nto nothing.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 108\n\nDeus, laudem meam.\n\nDavid in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors; more\nespecially the traitor Judas: foretelling and approving his just\npunishment for his obstinacy in sin and final impenitence.\n\n108:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.\n\n108:2. O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the\nwicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.\n\n108:3. They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they\nhave compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against\nme without cause.\n\n108:4. Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I\ngave myself to prayer.\n\n108:5. And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.\n\n108:6. Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his\nright hand.\n\nSet thou the sinner over him, etc.... Give to the devil, that\narch-sinner, power over him: let him enter into him, and possess him.\nThe imprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this psalm, are\nopposed to the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed our\nLord; and are to be taken as prophetic denunciations of the evils that\nshould befall the traitor and his accomplices the Jews; and not\nproperly as curses.\n\n108:7. When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer\nbe turned to sin.\n\n108:8. May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.\n\n108:9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.\n\n108:10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let\nthem be cast out of their dwellings.\n\n108:11. May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers\nplunder his labours.\n\n108:12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless\noffspring.\n\n108:13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be\nblotted out.\n\n108:14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of\nthe Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.\n\n108:15. May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of\nthem perish from the earth:\n\n108:16. because he remembered not to shew mercy,\n\n108:17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in\nheart, to put him to death.\n\n108:18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would\nnot have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing,\nlike a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like\noil in his bones.\n\n108:19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like\na girdle with which he is girded continually.\n\n108:20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and\nwho speak evils against my soul.\n\n108:21. But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name\u2019s sake: because thy\nmercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,\n\n108:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.\n\n108:23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am\nshaken off as locusts.\n\n108:24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed\nfor oil.\n\nFor oil.... Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being\nperfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or\nfatness.\n\n108:25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked\ntheir heads.\n\n108:26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.\n\n108:27. And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord,\nhast done it.\n\n108:28. They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up\nagainst me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.\n\n108:29. Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be\ncovered with their confusion as with a double cloak.\n\n108:30. I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the\nmidst of many I will praise him.\n\n108:31. Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my\nsoul from persecutors.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 109\n\nDixit Dominus.\n\nChrist\u2019s exaltation and everlasting priesthood.\n\n109:1. A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my\nright hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.\n\n109:2. The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion:\nrule thou in the midst of thy enemies.\n\n109:3. With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the\nbrightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot\nthee.\n\n109:4. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest\nfor ever according to the order of Melchisedech.\n\n109:5. The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his\nwrath.\n\n109:6. He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall\ncrush the heads in the land of many.\n\n109:7. He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he\nlift up the head.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 110\n\nConfitebor tibi, Domine.\n\nGod is to be praised for his graces, and benefits to his church.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n110:1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council\nof the just, and in the congregation.\n\n110:2. Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his\nwills.\n\n110:3. His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth\nfor ever and ever.\n\n110:4. He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a\nmerciful and gracious Lord:\n\n110:5. He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for\never of his covenant:\n\n110:6. He will shew forth to his people the power of his works.\n\n110:7. That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works\nof his hands are truth and judgment.\n\n110:8. All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever,\nmade in truth and equity.\n\n110:9. He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his\ncovenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:\n\n110:10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good\nunderstanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and\never.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 111\n\nBeatus vir.\n\nThe good man is happy.\n\nAlleluia, of the returning of Aggeus and Zacharias.\n\nOf the returning, etc.... This is in the Greek and Latin, but not in\nthe Hebrew. It signifies that this psalm was proper to be sung at the\ntime of the return of the people from their captivity; to inculcate to\nthem, how happy they might be, if they would be constant in the service\nof God.\n\n111:1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight\nexceedingly in his commandments.\n\n111:2. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the\nrighteous shall be blessed.\n\n111:3. Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice\nremaineth for ever and ever.\n\n111:4. To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is\nmerciful, and compassionate and just.\n\n111:5. Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall\norder his words with judgment:\n\n111:6. Because he shall not be moved for ever.\n\n111:7. The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear\nthe evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:\n\n111:8. His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look\nover his enemies.\n\n111:9. He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice\nremaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.\n\n111:10. The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with\nhis teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 112\n\nLaudate, pueri.\n\nGod is to be praised for his regard to the poor and humble.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n112:1. Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.\n\n112:2. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for\never.\n\n112:3. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the\nname of the Lord is worthy of praise.\n\n112:4. The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the\nheavens.\n\n112:5. Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:\n\n112:6. and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?\n\n112:7. Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out\nof the dunghill:\n\n112:8. That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his\npeople.\n\n112:9. Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother\nof children.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 113\n\nIn exitu Israel.\n\nGod hath shewn his power in delivering his people: idols are vain. The\nHebrews divide this into two psalms.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n113:1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a\nbarbarous people:\n\n113:2. Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.\n\n113:3. The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.\n\n113:4. The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of\nthe flock.\n\n113:5. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O\nJordan, that thou wast turned back?\n\n113:6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like\nlambs of the flock?\n\n113:7. At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence\nof the God of Jacob:\n\n113:8. Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into\nfountains of waters.\n\n113:1. Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.\n\n113:2. For thy mercy, and for thy truth\u2019s sake: lest the Gentiles\nshould say: Where is their God?\n\n113:3. But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he\nwould.\n\n113:4. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the\nhands of men.\n\n113:5. They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.\n\n113:6. They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.\n\n113:7. They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not:\nneither shall they cry out through their throat.\n\n113:8. Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as\ntrust in them.\n\n113:9. The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper\nand their protector.\n\n113:10. The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper\nand their protector.\n\n113:11. They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their\nhelper and their protector.\n\n113:12. The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath\nblessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.\n\n113:13. He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.\n\n113:14. May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your\nchildren.\n\n113:15. Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\n\n113:16. The heaven of heaven is the Lord\u2019s: but the earth he has given\nto the children of men.\n\n113:17. The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go\ndown to hell.\n\n113:18. But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for\never.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 114\n\nDilexi.\n\nThe prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in\nGod.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n114:1. I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.\n\n114:2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will\ncall upon him.\n\n114:3. The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell\nhave found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:\n\n114:4. And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.\n\n114:5. The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.\n\n114:6. The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he\ndelivered me.\n\n114:7. Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful\nto thee.\n\n114:8. For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my\nfeet from falling.\n\n114:9. I will please the Lord in the land of the living.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 115\n\nCredidi.\n\nThis in the Hebrew is joined with the foregoing psalm, and continues to\nexpress the faith and gratitude of the psalmist.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n115:10. I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been\nhumbled exceedingly.\n\n115:11. I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.\n\n115:12. What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he\nhath rendered to me?\n\n115:13. I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the\nname of the Lord.\n\n115:14. I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:\n\n115:15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.\n\n115:16. O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of\nthy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:\n\n115:17. I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will\ncall upon the name of the Lord.\n\n115:18. I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:\n\n115:19. In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O\nJerusalem.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 116\n\nLaudate Dominum.\n\nAll nations are called upon to praise God for his mercy and truth.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n116:1. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.\n\n116:2. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord\nremaineth for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 117\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nThe psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from evils: putteth his\nwhole trust in him; and foretelleth the coming of Christ.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n117:1. Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n117:2. Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n117:3. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n117:4. Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n117:5. In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and\nenlarged me.\n\n117:6. The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do unto me.\n\n117:7. The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies.\n\n117:8. It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have\nconfidence in man.\n\n117:9. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in\nprinces.\n\n117:10. All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I\nhave been revenged on them.\n\n117:11. Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the\nLord I have been revenged on them.\n\n117:12. They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among\nthorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.\n\n117:13. Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord\nsupported me.\n\n117:14. The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my\nsalvation.\n\n117:15. The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles\nof the just.\n\n117:16. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right\nhand of the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath\nwrought strength.\n\n117:17. I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the\nLord.\n\n117:18. The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not\ndelivered me over to death.\n\n117:19. Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and\ngive praise to the Lord.\n\n117:20. This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it.\n\n117:21. I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art\nbecome my salvation.\n\n117:22. The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the\nhead of the corner.\n\n117:23. This is the Lord\u2019s doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.\n\n117:24. This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and\nrejoice therein.\n\n117:25. O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success.\n\n117:26. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have\nblessed you out of the house of the Lord.\n\n117:27. The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn\nday, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.\n\n117:28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I\nwill exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and\nart become my salvation.\n\n117:29. O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 118\n\nBeati immaculati.\n\nOf the excellence of virtue consisting in the love and observance of\nthe commandments of God.\n\nAlleluia.\n\nALEPH.\n\n\nAleph.... The first eight verses of this psalm in the original begin\nwith Aleph, which is the name of the first letter of the Hebrew\nalphabet. The second eight verses begin with Beth, the name of the\nsecond letter of the Hebrew alphabet; and so to the end of the whole\nalphabet, in all twenty-two letters, each letter having eight verses.\nThis order is variously expounded by the holy fathers; which shews the\ndifficulty of understanding the holy scriptures, and consequently with\nwhat humility, and submission to the Church they are to be read.\n\n118:1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the\nLord.\n\n118:2. Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with\ntheir whole heart.\n\nHis testimonies.... The commandments of God are called his testimonies,\nbecause they testify his holy will unto us. Note here, that in almost\nevery verse of this psalm (which in number are 176) the word and law of\nGod, and the love and observance of it, is perpetually inculcated,\nunder a variety of denominations, all signifying the same thing.\n\n118:3. For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.\n\n118:4. Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.\n\n118:5. O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.\n\n118:6. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have\nlearned the judgments of thy justice.\n\n118:8. I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake\nme.\n\nBETH.\n\n\n118:9. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy\nwords.\n\n118:10. With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray\nfrom thy commandments.\n\n118:11. Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against\nthee.\n\n118:12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.\n\n118:13. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.\n\n118:14. I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all\nriches.\n\n118:15. I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy\nways.\n\n118:16. I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy\nwords.\n\nGIMEL.\n\n\n118:17. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep\nthy words.\n\n118:18. Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of\nthy law.\n\n118:19. I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from\nme.\n\n118:20. My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all\ntimes.\n\n118:21. Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from\nthy commandments.\n\n118:22. Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought\nafter thy testimonies.\n\n118:23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was\nemployed in thy justifications.\n\n118:24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications\nmy counsel.\n\nDALETH.\n\n\n118:25. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according\nto thy word.\n\n118:26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I\nshall be exercised in thy wondrous works.\n\n118:28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in\nthy words.\n\n118:29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have\nmercy on me.\n\n118:30. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not\nforgotten.\n\n118:31. I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.\n\n118:32. I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge\nmy heart.\n\nHE.\n\n\n118:33. Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord:\nand I will always seek after it.\n\n118:34. Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will\nkeep it with my whole heart.\n\n118:35. Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have\ndesired.\n\n118:36. Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.\n\n118:37. Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me\nin thy way.\n\n118:38. Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.\n\n118:39. Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy\njudgments are delightful.\n\n118:40. Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy\njustice.\n\nVAU.\n\n\n118:41. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation\naccording to thy word.\n\n118:42. So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I\nhave trusted in thy words.\n\n118:43. And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth:\nfor in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.\n\n118:44. So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.\n\n118:45. And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:46. And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not\nashamed.\n\n118:47. I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.\n\n118:48. And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved:\nand I was exercised in thy justifications.\n\nZAIN.\n\n\n118:49. Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast\ngiven me hope.\n\n118:50. This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath\nenlivened me.\n\n118:51. The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from\nthy law.\n\n118:52. I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was\ncomforted.\n\n118:53. A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that\nforsake thy law.\n\n118:54. Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of\nmy pilgrimage.\n\n118:55. In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept\nthy law.\n\n118:56. This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications.\n\nHETH.\n\n\n118:57. O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.\n\n118:58. I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me\naccording to thy word.\n\n118:59. I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy\ntestimonies.\n\n118:60. I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:61. The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not\nforgotten thy law.\n\n118:62. I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of\nthy justification.\n\n118:63. I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:64. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy\njustifications.\n\nTETH.\n\n\n118:65. Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy\nword.\n\n118:66. Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have\nbelieved thy commandments.\n\n118:67. Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy\nword.\n\n118:68. Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.\n\n118:69. The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I\nwill seek thy commandments with my whole heart.\n\n118:70. Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy\nlaw.\n\n118:71. It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn\nthy justifications.\n\n118:72. The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and\nsilver.\n\nJOD.\n\n\n118:73. Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding,\nand I will learn thy commandments.\n\n118:74. They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad: because I\nhave greatly hoped in thy words.\n\n118:75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth\nthou hast humbled me.\n\n118:76. O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto\nthy servant.\n\n118:77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy\nlaw is my meditation.\n\n118:78. Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly\ntowards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.\n\n118:79. Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy\ntestimonies.\n\n118:80. Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not\nbe confounded.\n\nCAPH.\n\n\n118:81. My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I\nhave very much hoped.\n\n118:82. My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou\ncomfort me?\n\n118:83. For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not\nforgotten thy justifications.\n\n118:84. How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute\njudgment on them that persecute me?\n\n118:85. The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.\n\n118:86. All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly,\ndo thou help me.\n\n118:87. They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not\nforsaken thy commandments.\n\n118:88. Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the\ntestimonies of thy mouth.\n\nLAMED.\n\n\n118:89. For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.\n\n118:90. Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth,\nand it continueth.\n\n118:91. By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.\n\n118:92. Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps\nperished in my abjection.\n\n118:93. Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast\ngiven me life.\n\n118:94. I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.\n\n118:95. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have\nunderstood thy testimonies.\n\n118:96. I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is\nexceeding broad.\n\nMEM.\n\n\n118:97. O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the\nday.\n\n118:98. Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my\nenemies: for it is ever with me.\n\n118:99. I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy\ntestimonies are my meditation.\n\n118:100. I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought\nthy commandments.\n\n118:101. I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep\nthy words.\n\n118:102. I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set\nme a law.\n\n118:103. How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my\nmouth.\n\n118:104. By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I\nhated every way of iniquity.\n\nNUN.\n\n\n118:105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.\n\n118:106. I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy\njustice.\n\n118:107. I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me\naccording to thy word.\n\n118:108. The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and\nteach me thy judgments.\n\n118:109. My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten\nthy law.\n\n118:110. Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from\nthy precepts.\n\n118:111. I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever:\nbecause they are the joy of my heart.\n\n118:112. I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever,\nfor the reward.\n\nSAMECH.\n\n\n118:113. I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.\n\n118:114. Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have\ngreatly hoped.\n\n118:115. Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the\ncommandments of my God.\n\n118:116. Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me\nnot be confounded in my expectation.\n\n118:117. Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on\nthy justifications.\n\n118:118. Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments;\nfor their thought is unjust.\n\n118:119. I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators:\ntherefore have I loved thy testimonies.\n\n118:120. Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy\njudgments.\n\nAIN.\n\n\n118:121. I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that\nslander me.\n\n118:122. Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.\n\n118:123. My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of\nthy justice.\n\n118:124. Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:125. I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy\ntestimonies.\n\n118:126. It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.\n\n118:127. Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the\ntopaz.\n\n118:128. Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated\nall wicked ways.\n\nPHE.\n\n\n118:129. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought\nthem.\n\n118:130. The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth\nunderstanding to little ones.\n\n118:131. I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:132. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the\njudgment of them that love thy name.\n\n118:133. Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity\nhave dominion over me.\n\n118:134. Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:135. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:136. My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have\nnot kept thy law.\n\nSADE.\n\n\n118:137. Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.\n\n118:138. Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth\nexceedingly.\n\n118:139. My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy\nwords.\n\n118:140. Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved\nit.\n\n118:141. I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy\njustifications.\n\n118:142. Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth.\n\n118:143. Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my\nmeditation.\n\n118:144. Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding,\nand I shall live.\n\nCOPH.\n\n\n118:145. I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy\njustifications.\n\n118:146. I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.\n\n118:147. I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy\nwords I very much hoped.\n\n118:148. My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might\nmeditate on thy words.\n\n118:149. Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and\nquicken me according to thy judgment.\n\n118:150. They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they\nare gone far off from thy law.\n\n118:151. Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.\n\n118:152. I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies:\nthat thou hast founded them for ever.\n\nRES.\n\n\n118:153. See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy\nlaw.\n\n118:154. Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy\nword\u2019s sake.\n\n118:155. Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought\nthy justifications.\n\n118:156. Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy\njudgment.\n\n118:157. Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not\ndeclined from thy testimonies.\n\n118:158. I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept\nnot thy word.\n\n118:159. Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou\nin thy mercy.\n\n118:160. The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy\njustice are for ever.\n\nSIN.\n\n\n118:161. Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath\nbeen in awe of thy words.\n\n118:162. I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great\nspoil.\n\n118:163. I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.\n\n118:164. Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the\njudgments of thy justice.\n\n118:165. Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is\nno stumbling block.\n\n118:166. I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:167. My soul hath kept thy testimonies and hath loved them\nexceedingly.\n\n118:168. I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all\nmy ways are in thy sight.\n\nTAU.\n\n\n118:169. Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me\nunderstanding according to thy word.\n\n118:170. Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according\nto thy word.\n\n118:171. My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:172. My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy\ncommandments are justice.\n\n118:173. Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy\nprecepts.\n\n118:174. I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my\nmeditation.\n\n118:175. My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments\nshall help me.\n\n118:176. I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy\nservant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 119\n\nAd Dominum.\n\nA prayer in tribulation.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\nA gradual canticle.... The following psalms, in number fifteen, are\ncalled gradual psalms, or canticles, from the word gradus, signifying\nsteps, ascensions, or degrees: either because they were appointed to be\nsung on the fifteen steps, by which the people ascended to the temple:\nor, that in the singing of them the voice was to be raised by certain\nsteps or ascensions: or, that they were to be sung by the people\nreturning from their captivity and ascending to Jerusalem, which was\nseated amongst mountains. The holy fathers, in a mystical sense,\nunderstand these steps, or ascensions, of the degrees by which\nChristians spiritually ascend to virtue and perfection; and to the true\ntemple of God in the heavenly Jerusalem.\n\n119:1. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.\n\n119:2. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful\ntongue.\n\n119:3. What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to\na deceitful tongue?\n\n119:4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.\n\n119:5. Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with\nthe inhabitants of Cedar:\n\n119:6. My soul hath been long a sojourner.\n\n119:7. With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them\nthey fought against me without cause.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 120\n\nLevavi oculos.\n\nGod is the keeper of his servants.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n120:1. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help\nshall come to me.\n\n120:2. My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\n\n120:3. May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber\nthat keepeth thee.\n\n120:4. Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.\n\n120:5. The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy\nright hand.\n\n120:6. The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.\n\n120:7. The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.\n\n120:8. May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from\nhenceforth now and for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 121\n\nLaetatus sum in his.\n\nThe desire and hope of the just for the coming of the kingdom of God,\nand the peace of his church.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n121:1. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into \nthe house of the Lord.\n\n121:2. Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.\n\n121:3. Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.\n\n121:4. For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the\ntestimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.\n\n121:5. Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house\nof David.\n\n121:6. Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and\nabundance for them that love thee.\n\n121:7. Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.\n\n121:8. For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace\nof thee.\n\n121:9. Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good\nthings for thee.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 122\n\nAd te levavi.\n\nA prayer in affliction, with confidence in God.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n122:1. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.\n\n122:2. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their\nmasters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress:\nso are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.\n\n122:3. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly\nfilled with contempt.\n\n122:4. For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich,\nand contempt to the proud.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 123\n\nNisi quia Domini.\n\nThe church giveth glory to God for her deliverance, from the hands of\nher enemies.\n\nA gradual canticle. \n\n123:1. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:\n\n123:2. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up\nagainst us,\n\n123:3. Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was\nenkindled against us,\n\n123:4. Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.\n\n123:5. Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had\npassed through a water insupportable.\n\n123:6. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their\nteeth.\n\n123:7. Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of\nthe fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.\n\n123:8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 124\n\nQui confidunt.\n\nThe just are always under God\u2019s protection.\n\nA gradual canticle. \n\n124:1. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not \nbe moved for ever that dwelleth\n\n124:2. In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round\nabout his people from henceforth now and for ever.\n\n124:3. For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of\nthe just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.\n\n124:4. Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of\nheart.\n\n124:5. But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with\nthe workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 125\n\nIn convertendo.\n\nThe people of God rejoice at their delivery from captivity.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n125:1. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like \nmen comforted.\n\n125:2. Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with\njoy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great\nthings for them.\n\n125:3. The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.\n\n125:4. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.\n\n125:5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.\n\n125:6. Going they went and wept, casting their seeds.\n\n125:7. But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their\nsheaves.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 126\n\nNisi Dominus.\n\nNothing can be done without God\u2019s grace and blessing.\n\nA gradual canticle of Solomon.\n\n126:1. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build \nit. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.\n\n126:2. It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have\nsitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to\nhis beloved,\n\nIt is vain for you to rise before light.... That is, your early rising,\nyour labour and worldly solicitude, will be vain, that is, will avail\nyou nothing, without the light, grace, and blessing of God.\n\n126:3. Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the\nfruit of the womb.\n\n126:4. As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them\nthat have been shaken.\n\n126:5. Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he\nshall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 127\n\nBeati omnes.\n\nThe fear of God is the way to happiness.\n\nA gradual canticle. \n\n127:1. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.\n\n127:2. For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou,\nand it shall be well with thee.\n\n127:3. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy\nchildren as olive plants, round about thy table.\n\n127:4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.\n\n127:5. May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good\nthings of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.\n\n127:6. And mayst thou see thy children\u2019s children, peace upon Israel.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 128\n\nSaepe expugnaverunt.\n\nThe church of God is invincible: her persecutors come to nothing.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n128:1. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now \nsay.\n\n128:2. Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could\nnot prevail over me.\n\n128:3. The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their\niniquity.\n\n128:4. The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:\n\n128:5. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.\n\n128:6. Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth\nbefore it be plucked up:\n\n128:7. Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth\nsheaves his bosom.\n\n128:8. And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord\nbe upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 129\n\nDe profundis.\n\nA prayer of a sinner, trusting in the mercies of God. The sixth\npenitential psalm.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n129:1. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord:\n\n129:2. Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of\nmy supplication.\n\n129:3. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.\n\n129:4. For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of\nthy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his\nword:\n\n129:5. my soul hath hoped in the Lord.\n\n129:6. From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the\nLord.\n\n129:7. Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful\nredemption.\n\n129:8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 130\n\nDomine, none est.\n\nThe prophet\u2019s humility.\n\nA gradual canticle of David.\n\n130:1. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither \nhave I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.\n\n130:2. If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that\nis weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.\n\n130:3. Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 131\n\nMemento, Domine.\n\nA prayer for the fulfilling of the promise made to David.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n131:1. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness.\n\n131:2. How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:\n\n131:3. If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go\nup into the bed wherein I lie:\n\n131:4. If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,\n\n131:5. Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a\ntabernacle for the God of Jacob.\n\n131:6. Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the\nfields of the wood.\n\nWe have heard of it in Ephrata.... When I was young, and lived in\nBethlehem, otherwise called Ephrata, I heard of God\u2019s tabernacle and\nark, and had a devout desire of seeking it; and accordingly I found it\nat Cariathiarim, the city of the woods: where it was till it was\nremoved to Jerusalem. See 1 Par. 13.\n\n131:7. We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where\nhis feet stood.\n\n131:8. Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which\nthou hast sanctified.\n\n131:9. Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints\nrejoice.\n\n131:10. For thy servant David\u2019s sake, turn not away the face of thy\nanointed.\n\n131:11. The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it\nvoid: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne.\n\n131:12. If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies\nwhich I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit\nupon thy throne.\n\n131:13. For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his\ndwelling.\n\n131:14. This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I\nhave chosen it.\n\n131:15. Blessing I will bless her widow: I will satisfy her poor with\nbread.\n\n131:16. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall\nrejoice with exceeding great joy.\n\n131:17. There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a\nlamp for my anointed.\n\n131:18. His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my\nsanctification flourish.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 132\n\nEcce quam bonum.\n\nThe happiness of brotherly love and concord.\n\nA gradual canticle of David.\n\n132:1. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell \ntogether in unity:\n\n132:2. Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the\nbeard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:\n\n132:3. As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For\nthere the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 133\n\nEcce nunc benedicite.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God continually.\n\nA gradual canticle. \n\n133:1. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who \nstand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.\n\n133:2. In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless\nye the Lord.\n\n133:3. May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and\nearth.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 134\n\nLaudate nomen.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God: the vanity of idols.\n\n134:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants,\npraise the Lord:\n\n134:2. You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the\nhouse of our God.\n\n134:3. Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name,\nfor it is sweet.\n\n134:4. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own\npossession.\n\n134:5. For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above\nall gods.\n\n134:6. Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth,\nin the sea, and in all the deeps.\n\n134:7. He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made\nlightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:\n\n134:8. He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast.\n\n134:9. He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt:\nupon Pharao, and upon all his servants.\n\n134:10. He smote many nations, and slew mighty kings:\n\n134:11. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the\nkingdoms of Chanaan.\n\n134:12. And gave their land for an inheritance, for an inheritance to\nhis people Israel.\n\n134:13. Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memorial, O Lord, unto all\ngenerations.\n\n134:14. For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in\nfavour of his servants.\n\n134:15. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of\nmen\u2019s hands.\n\n134:16. They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they\nsee not.\n\n134:17. They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath\nin their mouths.\n\n134:18. Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that\ntrusteth in them.\n\n134:19. Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of\nAaron.\n\n134:20. Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless\nthe Lord.\n\n134:21. Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 135\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nGod is to be praised for his wonderful works.\n\n135:1. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\nPraise the Lord.... By this invitation to praise the Lord, thrice\nrepeated, we profess the Blessed Trinity, One God in three distinct\nPersons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.\n\n135:2. Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:3. Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:4. Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:5. Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:6. Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:7. Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:8. The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:9. The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:10. Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:11. Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:12. With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:13. Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:14. And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:15. And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:16. Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:17. Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:18. And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:19. Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:20. And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:21. And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:22. For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:23. For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:24. And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:25. Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:26. Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:27. Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 136\n\nSuper flumina.\n\nThe lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon.\n\nA psalm of David, for Jeremias.\n\nFor Jeremias.... For the time of Jeremias, and the captivity of\nBabylon.\n\n136:1. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we\nremembered Sion:\n\n136:2. On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.\n\n136:3. For there they that led us into captivity required of us the\nwords of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a\nhymn of the songs of Sion.\n\n136:4. How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?\n\n136:5. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.\n\n136:6. Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I\nmake not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.\n\n136:7. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem:\nWho say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.\n\n136:8. O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall\nrepay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.\n\n136:9. Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against\nthe rock.\n\nDash thy little ones, etc.... In the spiritual sense, we dash the\nlittle ones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions,\nand stifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock\nwhich is Christ.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 137\n\nConfitebor tibi.\n\nThanksgiving to God for his benefits.\n\n137:1. For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole\nheart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to\nthee in the sight of the angels:\n\n137:2. I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to\nthy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy\nholy name above all.\n\n137:3. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt\nmultiply strength in my soul.\n\n137:4. May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have\nheard all the words of thy mouth.\n\n137:5. And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the\nglory of the Lord.\n\n137:6. For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he\nknoweth afar off.\n\n137:7. If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken\nme: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my\nenemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.\n\n137:8. The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for\never: O despise not the works of thy hands.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 138\n\nDomine, probasti.\n\nGod\u2019s special providence over his servants.\n\n138:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and\nknown me:\n\n138:2. Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.\n\n138:3. Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line\nthou hast searched out.\n\n138:4. And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my\ntongue.\n\nThere is no speech, etc.... Viz., unknown to thee: or when there is no\nspeech in my tongue; yet my whole interior and my most secret thoughts\nare known to thee.\n\n138:5. Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those\nof old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.\n\n138:6. Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I\ncannot reach to it.\n\n138:7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from\nthy face?\n\n138:8. If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell,\nthou art present.\n\n138:9. If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the\nuttermost parts of the sea:\n\n138:10. Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand\nshall hold me.\n\n138:11. And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be\nmy light in my pleasures.\n\n138:12. But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be\nlight all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are\nalike to thee.\n\n138:13. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from\nmy mother\u2019s womb.\n\n138:14. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful\nare thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.\n\n138:15. My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in\nsecret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.\n\n138:16. Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall\nbe written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.\n\n138:17. But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable:\ntheir principality is exceedingly strengthened.\n\n138:18. I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the\nsand, I rose up and am still with thee.\n\n138:19. If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart\nfrom me:\n\n138:20. Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in\nvain.\n\nBecause you say in thought, etc.... Depart from me, you wicked, who\nplot against the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the\ncities of their habitation; as if they have received them in vain, and\nto no purpose.\n\n138:21. Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away\nbecause of thy enemies?\n\n138:22. I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become\nenemies to me.\n\nI have hated them.... Not with an hatred of malice, but a zeal for the\nobservance of God\u2019s commandments; which he saw were despised by the\nwicked, who are to be considered enemies to God.\n\n138:23. Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my\npaths.\n\n138:24. And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in\nthe eternal way.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 139\n\nEripe me, Domine.\n\nA prayer to be delivered from the wicked.\n\n139:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David.\n\n139:2. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust\nman.\n\n139:3. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long\nthey designed battles.\n\n139:4. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of\nasps is under their lips.\n\n139:5. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust\nmen deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:\n\n139:6. The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out\ncords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the\nwayside.\n\n139:7. I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of\nmy supplication.\n\n139:8. O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast\novershadowed my head in the day of battle.\n\n139:9. Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have\nplotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.\n\n139:10. The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips\nshall overwhelm them.\n\n139:11. Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down\ninto the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.\n\n139:12. A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth:\nevil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.\n\n139:13. I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will\nrevenge the poor.\n\n139:14. But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the\nupright shall dwell with thy countenance.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 140\n\nDomine, clamavi.\n\nA prayer against sinful words, and deceitful flatterers.\n\nA psalm of David.\n\n140:1. I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when\nI cry to thee.\n\n140:2. Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting\nup of my hands, as evening sacrifice.\n\n140:3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my\nlips.\n\n140:4. Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins.\nWith men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the\nchoicest of them.\n\n140:5. The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me:\nbut let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall\nstill be against the things with which they are well pleased:\n\nLet not the oil of the sinner, etc.... That is, the flattery, or\ndeceitful praise.\u2014Ibid. For my prayer, etc.... So far from coveting\ntheir praises, who are never well pleased but with things that are\nevil; I shall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they\nare delighted with.\n\n140:6. Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They\nshall hear my words, for they have prevailed:\n\nTheir judges, etc.... Their rulers, or chiefs, quickly vanish and\nperish, like ships dashed against the rocks, and swallowed up by the\nwaves. Let them then hear my words, for they are powerful and will\nprevail; or, as it is in the Hebrew, for they are sweet.\n\n140:7. As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground:\nOur bones are scattered by the side of hell.\n\n140:8. But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my\ntrust, take not away my soul.\n\n140:9. Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from\nthe stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.\n\n140:10. The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.\n\nI am alone, etc.... Singularly protected by the Almighty, until I pass\nall their nets and snares.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 141\n\nVoce mea.\n\nA prayer of David in extremity of danger.\n\n141:1. Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1\nKings 24.]\n\n141:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made\nsupplication to the Lord.\n\n141:3. In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my\ntrouble:\n\n141:4. When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this\nway wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.\n\n141:5. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that\nwould know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath\nregard to my soul.\n\n141:6. I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in\nthe land of the living.\n\n141:7. Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me\nfrom my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.\n\n141:8. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the\njust wait for me, until thou reward me.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 142\n\nDomine, exaudi.\n\nThe psalmist in tribulation calleth upon God for his delivery. The\nseventh penitential psalm.\n\n142:1. A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Kings\n17.] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth:\nhear me in thy justice.\n\n142:2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight\nno man living shall be justified.\n\n142:3. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my\nlife to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that\nhave been dead of old:\n\n142:4. And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is\ntroubled.\n\n142:5. I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I\nmeditated upon the works of thy hands.\n\n142:6. I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without\nwater unto thee.\n\n142:7. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not\naway thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the\npit.\n\n142:8. Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I\nhoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have\nlifted up my soul to thee.\n\n142:9. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:\n\n142:10. Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit\nshall lead me into the right land:\n\n142:11. for thy name\u2019s sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy\njustice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble:\n\n142:12. And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt\ncut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 143\n\nBenedictus Dominus.\n\nThe prophet praiseth God, and prayeth to be delivered from his enemies.\nNo worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God.\n\nA psalm of David against Goliath.\n\n143:1. Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and\nmy fingers to war.\n\n143:2. My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My\nprotector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.\n\n143:3. Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son\nof man, that thou makest account of him?\n\n143:4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.\n\n143:5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and\nthey shall smoke.\n\n143:6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy\narrows, and thou shalt trouble them.\n\n143:7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me\nfrom many waters: from the hand of strange children:\n\n143:8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the\nright hand of iniquity.\n\n143:9. To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and\nan instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.\n\n143:10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant\nDavid from the malicious sword:\n\n143:11. Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children;\nwhose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand\nof iniquity:\n\n143:12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters\ndecked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:\n\n143:13. Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their\nsheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:\n\n143:14. Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor\ncrying out in their streets.\n\n143:15. They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but\nhappy is that people whose God is the Lord.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 144\n\nExaltabo te, Deus.\n\nA psalm of praise, to the infinite majesty of God.\n\n144:1. Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and\nI will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.\n\n144:2. Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for\never; yea, for ever and ever.\n\n144:3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his\ngreatness there is no end.\n\n144:4. Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall\ndeclare thy power.\n\n144:5. They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy\nholiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.\n\n144:6. And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and\nshall declare thy greatness.\n\n144:7. They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness:\nand shall rejoice in thy justice.\n\n144:8. The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in\nmercy.\n\n144:9. The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all\nhis works.\n\n144:10. Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints\nbless thee.\n\n144:11. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of\nthy power:\n\n144:12. To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of\nthe magnificence of thy kingdom.\n\n144:13. Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth\nthroughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and\nholy in all his works.\n\n144:14. The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are\ncast down.\n\n144:15. The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat\nin due season.\n\n144:16. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living\ncreature.\n\n144:17. The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.\n\n144:18. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that\ncall upon him in truth.\n\n144:19. He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear\ntheir prayer, and save them.\n\n144:20. The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he\nwill destroy.\n\n144:21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh\nbless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 145\n\nLauda, anima.\n\nWe are not to trust in men, but in God alone.\n\n145:1. Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.\n\n145:2. Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I\nwill sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in\nprinces:\n\n145:3. In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.\n\n145:4. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth:\nin that day all their thoughts shall perish.\n\n145:5. Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose\nhope is in the Lord his God:\n\n145:6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in\nthem.\n\n145:7. Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that\nsuffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that\nare fettered:\n\n145:8. The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that\nare cast down: the Lord loveth the just.\n\n145:9. The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless\nand the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.\n\n145:10. The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation\nand generation.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 146\n\nLaudate Dominum.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God for his benefits.\n\n146:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God\nbe joyful and comely praise.\n\n146:2. The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the\ndispersed of Israel.\n\n146:3. Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.\n\n146:4. Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by\ntheir names.\n\n146:5. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom\nthere is no number.\n\n146:6. The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even\nto the ground.\n\n146:7. Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.\n\n146:8. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the\nearth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the\nservice of men.\n\n146:9. Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that\ncall upon him.\n\n146:10. He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take\npleasure in the legs of a man.\n\n146:11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them\nthat hope in his mercy.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 147\n\nLauda, Jerusalem.\n\nThe church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and\nfavours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the\nforegoing.\n\n147:12. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.\n\n147:13. Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath\nblessed thy children within thee.\n\n147:14. Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the\nfat of corn.\n\n147:15. Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth\nswiftly.\n\n147:16. Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.\n\n147:17. He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the\nface of his cold?\n\nHe sendeth his crystal.... That is, his ice. Some understand it of\nhail, which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.\n\n147:18. He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall\nblow, and the waters shall run.\n\n147:19. Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments\nto Israel.\n\n147:20. He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his\njudgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 148\n\nLaudate Dominum de caelis.\n\nAll creatures are invited to praise their Creator.\n\n148:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in \nthe high places.\n\n148:2. Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts.\n\n148:3. Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and\nlight.\n\n148:4. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that\nare above the heavens\n\n148:5. Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made:\nhe commanded, and they were created.\n\n148:6. He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath\nmade a decree, and it shall not pass away.\n\n148:7. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:\n\n148:8. Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:\n\n148:9. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars:\n\n148:10. Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:\n\n148:11. Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of\nthe earth:\n\n148:12. Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the\nname of the Lord:\n\n148:13. For his name alone is exalted.\n\n148:14. The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath\nexalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the\nchildren of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 149\n\nCantate Domino.\n\nThe church is particularly bound to praise God.\n\n149:1. Alleluia. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be \nin the church of the saints.\n\n149:2. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of\nSion be joyful in their king.\n\n149:3. Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the\ntimbrel and the psaltery.\n\n149:4. For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt\nthe meek unto salvation.\n\n149:5. The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their\nbeds.\n\n149:6. The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged\nswords in their hands:\n\n149:7. To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the\npeople:\n\n149:8. To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles\nof iron.\n\n149:9. To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is\nto all his saints. Alleluia.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 150\n\nLaudate Dominum in sanctis.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God with all sorts of instruments.\n\n150:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him \nin the firmament of his power.\n\n150:2. Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to\nthe multitude of his greatness.\n\n150:3. Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery\nand harp.\n\n150:4. Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and\norgans.\n\n150:5. Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of\njoy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF PROVERBS\n\n\nThis Book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty\nsentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom\nand virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because great\ntruths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 1\n\nThe use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company of\nthe wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom.\n\n1:1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,\n\n1:2. To know wisdom, and instruction:\n\n1:3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the\ninstruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:\n\n1:4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and\nunderstanding.\n\n1:5. A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that\nunderstandeth shall possess governments.\n\n1:6. He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of\nthe wise, and their mysterious sayings.\n\n1:7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise\nwisdom and instruction.\n\n1:8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the\nlaw of thy mother:\n\n1:9. That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy\nneck.\n\n1:10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.\n\n1:11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood,\nlet us hide snares for the innocent without cause:\n\n1:12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that\ngoeth down into the pit.\n\n1:13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses\nwith spoils.\n\n1:14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.\n\n1:15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their\npaths.\n\n1:16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.\n\n1:17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have\nwings.\n\n1:18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise\ndeceits against their own souls.\n\n1:19. So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the\npossessors.\n\n1:20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:\n\n1:21. At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the\ngates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:\n\n1:22. O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet\nthose things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate\nknowledge?\n\n1:23. Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and\nwill shew you my words.\n\n1:24. Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and\nthere was none that regarded.\n\n1:25. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my\nreprehensions.\n\n1:26. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that\nshall come to you which you feared.\n\n1:27. When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a\ntempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come\nupon you:\n\n1:28. Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall\nrise in the morning, and shall not find me:\n\n1:29. Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of\nthe Lord,\n\n1:30. Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.\n\n1:31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be\nfilled with their own devices.\n\n1:32. The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the\nprosperity of fools shall destroy them.\n\n1:33. But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall\nenjoy abundance, without fear of evils.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 2\n\nThe advantages of wisdom: and the evils from which it delivers.\n\n2:1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my\ncommandments with thee,\n\n2:2. That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know\nprudence.\n\n2:3. For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to\nprudence:\n\n2:4. If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a\ntreasure:\n\n2:5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find\nthe knowledge of God:\n\n2:6. Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh\nprudence and knowledge.\n\n2:7. He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that\nwalk in simplicity,\n\n2:8. Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.\n\n2:9. Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and\nevery good path.\n\n2:10. If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy\nsoul:\n\n2:11. Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,\n\n2:12. That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man\nthat speaketh perverse things:\n\n2:13. Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:\n\n2:14. Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most\nwicked things:\n\n2:15. Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.\n\n2:16. That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the\nstranger, who softeneth her words;\n\n2:17. And forsaketh the guide of her youth,\n\n2:18. And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house\ninclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.\n\n2:19. None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they\ntake hold of the paths of life.\n\n2:20. That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of\nthe just.\n\n2:21. For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the\nsimple shall continue in it.\n\n2:22. But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that\ndo unjustly, shall be taken away from it.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 3\n\nAn exhortation to the practice of virtue.\n\n3:1. My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.\n\n3:2. For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and\npeace.\n\n3:3. Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and\nwrite them in the tables of thy heart.\n\n3:4. And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and\nmen.\n\n3:5. Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon\nthy own prudence.\n\n3:6. In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.\n\n3:7. Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:\n\n3:8. For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.\n\n3:9. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of\nall thy fruits;\n\n3:10. And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses\nshall run over with wine.\n\n3:11. My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint\nwhen thou art chastised by him:\n\n3:12. For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the\nson he pleaseth himself.\n\n3:13. Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:\n\n3:14. The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver,\nand her fruit than the chief and purest gold:\n\n3:15. She is more precious than all riches: and all the things that are\ndesired, are not to be compared to her.\n\n3:16. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches\nand glory.\n\n3:17. Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.\n\n3:18. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that\nshall retain her is blessed.\n\n3:19. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the\nheavens by prudence.\n\n3:20. By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow\nthick with dew.\n\n3:21. My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law\nand counsel:\n\n3:22. And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.\n\n3:23. Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall\nnot stumble:\n\n3:24. If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy\nsleep shall be sweet.\n\n3:25. Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the power of the wicked\nfalling upon thee.\n\n3:26. For the Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that\nthou be not taken.\n\n3:27. Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art\nable, do good thyself also.\n\n3:28. Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will\ngive to thee: when thou canst give at present.\n\n3:29. Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath confidence in\nthee.\n\n3:30. Strive not against a man without cause, when he hath done thee no\nevil.\n\n3:31. Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways.\n\n3:32. For every mocker is an abomination to the Lord, and his\ncommunication is with the simple.\n\n3:33. Want is from the Lord in the house of the wicked: but the\nhabitations of the just shall be blessed.\n\n3:34. He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.\n\n3:35. The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 4\n\nA further exhortation to seek after wisdom.\n\n4:1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that\nyou may know prudence.\n\n4:2. I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.\n\n4:3. For I also was my father\u2019s son, tender, and as an only son in the\nsight of my mother:\n\n4:4. And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep\nmy commandments, and thou shalt live.\n\n4:5. Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the\nwords of my mouth.\n\n4:6. Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall\npreserve thee.\n\n4:7. The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession\npurchase prudence.\n\n4:8. Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be\nglorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.\n\n4:9. She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee\nwith a noble crown.\n\n4:10. Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be\nmultiplied to thee.\n\n4:11. I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths\nof equity:\n\n4:12. Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be\nstraitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a\nstumblingblock.\n\n4:13. Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is\nthy life.\n\n4:14. Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way\nof evil men please thee.\n\n4:15. Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.\n\n4:16. For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep\nis taken away unless they have made some to fall.\n\n4:17. They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.\n\n4:18. But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and\nincreaseth even to perfect day.\n\n4:19. The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.\n\n4:20. My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.\n\n4:21. Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy\nheart:\n\n4:22. For they are life to those that find them, and health to all\nflesh.\n\n4:23. With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out\nfrom it.\n\n4:24. Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far\nfrom thee.\n\n4:25. Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy\nsteps.\n\n4:26. Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be\nestablished.\n\n4:27. Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy\nfoot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right\nhand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will\nmake thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 5\n\nAn exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it.\n\n5:1. My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,\n\n5:2. That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve\ninstruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.\n\n5:3. For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her\nthroat is smoother than oil.\n\n5:4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.\n\n5:5. Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.\n\n5:6. They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and\nunaccountable.\n\n5:7. Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of\nmy mouth.\n\n5:8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her\nhouse.\n\n5:9. Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.\n\n5:10. Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in\nanother man\u2019s house,\n\n5:11. And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh\nand thy body, and say;\n\n5:12. Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to\nreproof,\n\n5:13. And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not\ninclined my ear to masters?\n\n5:14. I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of\nthe congregation.\n\n5:15. Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own\nwell:\n\n5:16. Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide\nthy waters.\n\n5:17. Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers\nwith thee.\n\n5:18. Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:\n\n5:19. Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her\nbreasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with\nher love.\n\n5:20. Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art\ncherished in the bosom of another?\n\n5:21. The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his\nsteps.\n\n5:22. His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with\nthe ropes of his own sins.\n\n5:23. He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in\nthe multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 6\n\nDocuments on several heads.\n\n6:1. My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast\nthy hand to a stranger,\n\n6:2. Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy\nown words.\n\n6:3. Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because\nthou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste,\nstir up thy friend:\n\n6:4. Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.\n\n6:5. Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the\nhand of the fowler.\n\n6:6. Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn\nwisdom:\n\n6:7. Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,\n\n6:8. Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her\nfood in the harvest.\n\n6:9. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of\nthy sleep?\n\n6:10. Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt\nfold thy hands a little to sleep:\n\n6:11. And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a\nman armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a\nfountain, and want shall flee far from thee.\n\n6:12. A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a\nperverse mouth,\n\n6:13. He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with\nthe finger.\n\n6:14. With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth\ndiscord.\n\n6:15. To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall\nsuddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.\n\n6:16. Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his\nsoul detesteth:\n\n6:17. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,\n\n6:18. A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run\ninto mischief,\n\n6:19. A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth\ndiscord among brethren.\n\n6:20. My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the\nlaw of thy mother.\n\n6:21. Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.\n\n6:22. When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let\nthem keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.\n\n6:23. Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and\nreproofs of instruction are the way of life:\n\n6:24. That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the\nflattering tongue of the stranger.\n\n6:25. Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:\n\n6:26. For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman\ncatcheth the precious soul of a man.\n\n6:27. Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?\n\n6:28. Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?\n\n6:29. So he that goeth in to his neighbour\u2019s wife, shall not be clean\nwhen he shall touch her.\n\n6:30. The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth\nto fill his hungry soul:\n\nThe fault is not so great, etc.... The sin of theft is not so great, as\nto be compared with adultery: especially when a person pressed with\nhunger (which is the case here spoken of) steals to satisfy nature.\nMoreover the damage done by theft may much more easily be repaired,\nthan the wrong done by adultery. But this does not hinder, but that\ntheft also is a mortal sin, forbidden by one of the ten commandments.\n\n6:31. And if he be taken, he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up\nall the substance of his house.\n\n6:32. But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall\ndestroy his own soul:\n\n6:33. He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach\nshall not be blotted out:\n\n6:34. Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in\nthe day of revenge,\n\n6:35. Nor will he yield to any man\u2019s prayers, nor will he accept for\nsatisfaction ever so many gifts.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 7\n\nThe love of wisdom is the best preservative from being led astray by\ntemptation.\n\n7:1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,\n\n7:2. Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple\nof thy eye:\n\n7:3. Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.\n\n7:4. Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,\n\n7:5. That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from\nthe stranger who sweeteneth her words.\n\n7:6. For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,\n\n7:7. And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,\n\n7:8. Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the\nway of her house,\n\n7:9. In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of\nthe night.\n\n7:10. And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot\u2019s attire, prepared to\ndeceive souls: talkative and wandering,\n\n7:11. Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,\n\n7:12. Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the\ncorners.\n\n7:13. And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent\nface, flattereth, saying:\n\n7:14. I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.\n\n7:15. Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I\nhave found thee.\n\n7:16. I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted\ntapestry, brought from Egypt.\n\n7:17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.\n\n7:18. Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the\ndesired embraces, till the day appear.\n\n7:19. For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.\n\n7:20. He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of\nthe full moon.\n\n7:21. She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the\nflattery of her lips.\n\n7:22. Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as\na lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool\nto bonds,\n\n7:23. Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste\nto the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.\n\n7:24. Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my\nmouth.\n\n7:25. Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou\ndeceived with her paths.\n\n7:26. For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been\nslain by her.\n\n7:27. Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers\nof death.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 8\n\nThe preaching of wisdom. Her excellence.\n\n8:1. Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?\n\n8:2. Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst\nof the paths,\n\n8:3. Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh,\nsaying:\n\n8:4. O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.\n\n8:5. O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.\n\n8:6. Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be\nopened to preach right things.\n\n8:7. My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.\n\n8:8. All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in\nthem.\n\n8:9. They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find\nknowledge.\n\n8:10. Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather\nthan gold.\n\n8:11. For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and\nwhatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.\n\n8:12. I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.\n\n8:13. The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride,\nand every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.\n\n8:14. Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.\n\n8:15. By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.\n\n8:16. By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.\n\n8:17. I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early\nwatch for me, shall find me.\n\n8:18. With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.\n\n8:19. For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my\nblossoms than choice silver.\n\n8:20. I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of\njudgment,\n\n8:21. That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their\ntreasures.\n\n8:22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he\nmade any thing from the beginning.\n\n8:23. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was\nmade.\n\n8:24. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither\nhad the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.\n\n8:25. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been\nestablished: before the hills, I was brought forth:\n\n8:26. He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of\nthe world.\n\n8:27. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain\nlaw, and compass, he enclosed the depths:\n\n8:28. When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of\nwaters:\n\n8:29. When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the\nwaters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the\nfoundations of the earth;\n\n8:30. I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day,\nplaying before him at all times;\n\n8:31. Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the\nchildren of men.\n\n8:32. Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep\nmy ways.\n\n8:33. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.\n\n8:34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my\ngates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.\n\n8:35. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation\nfrom the Lord.\n\n8:36. But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All\nthat hate me love death.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 9\n\nWisdom invites all to her feast. Folly calls another way.\n\n9:1. Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven\npillars.\n\n9:2. She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine, and set forth her\ntable.\n\n9:3. She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls\nof the city:\n\n9:4. Whosoever is a little one, let him come to me. And to the unwise\nshe said:\n\n9:5. Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for\nyou.\n\n9:6. Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.\n\n9:7. He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that\nrebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.\n\n9:8. Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he\nwill love thee.\n\n9:9. Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him.\nTeach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.\n\n9:10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the\nknowledge of the holy is prudence.\n\n9:11. For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall\nbe added to thee.\n\n9:12. If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner,\nthou alone shalt bear the evil.\n\n9:13. A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and\nknowing nothing at all,\n\n9:14. Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the\ncity,\n\n9:15. To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:\n\n9:16. He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she\nsaid:\n\n9:17. Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.\n\n9:18. And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests\nare in the depths of hell.\n\nTHE PARABLES OF SOLOMON\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 10\n\nIn the twenty following chapters are contained many wise sayings and\naxioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice.\n\n10:1. A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the\nsorrow of his mother.\n\n10:2. Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall\ndeliver from death.\n\n10:3. The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and\nhe will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.\n\n10:4. The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the\nindustrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds:\nand the same runneth after birds, that fly away.\n\n10:5. He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that\nsnorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.\n\n10:6. The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but\niniquity covereth the mouth of the wicked.\n\n10:7. The memory of the just is with praises: and the name of the\nwicked shall rot.\n\n10:8. The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.\n\n10:9. He that walketh sincerely, walketh confidently: but he that\nperverteth his ways, shall be manifest.\n\n10:10. He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the\nfoolish in lips shall be beaten.\n\n10:11. The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the\nwicked covereth iniquity.\n\n10:12. Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.\n\n10:13. In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back\nof him that wanteth sense.\n\n10:14. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to\nconfusion.\n\n10:15. The substance of a rich man is the city of his strength: the\nfear of the poor is their poverty.\n\n10:16. The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked\nunto sin.\n\n10:17. The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that\nforsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.\n\n10:18. Lying lips hide hatred: he that uttereth reproach, is foolish.\n\n10:19. In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that\nrefraineth his lips, is most wise.\n\n10:20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the\nwicked is nothing worth.\n\n10:21. The lips of the just teach many: but they that are ignorant,\nshall die in the want of understanding.\n\n10:22. The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall\naffliction be joined to them.\n\n10:23. A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is\nprudence to a man.\n\n10:24. That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just\ntheir desire shall be given.\n\n10:25. As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but\nthe just is as an everlasting foundation.\n\n10:26. As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the\nsluggard to them that sent him.\n\n10:27. The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the\nwicked shall be shortened.\n\n10:28. The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked\nshall perish.\n\n10:29. The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to\nthem that work evil.\n\n10:30. The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on\nthe earth.\n\n10:31. The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of\nthe perverse shall perish.\n\n10:32. The lips of the just consider what is acceptable: and the mouth\nof the wicked uttereth perverse things.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 11\n\n11:1. A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just\nweight is his will.\n\n11:2. Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility\nis, there also is wisdom.\n\n11:3. The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the\ndeceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.\n\n11:4. Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall\ndeliver from death.\n\n11:5. The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the\nwicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.\n\n11:6. The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust\nshall be caught in their own snares.\n\n11:7. When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and\nthe expectation of the solicitous shall perish.\n\n11:8. The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be\ngiven up for him.\n\n11:9. The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his friend: but the just\nshall be delivered by knowledge.\n\n11:10. When it goeth well with the just, the city shall rejoice: and\nwhen the wicked perish, there shall be praise.\n\n11:11. By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by\nthe mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.\n\n11:12. He that despiseth his friend, is mean of heart: but the wise man\nwill hold his peace.\n\n11:13. He that walketh deceitfully, revealeth secrets: but he that is\nfaithful, concealeth the thing committed to him by his friend.\n\n11:14. Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is\nsafety where there is much counsel.\n\n11:15. He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger:\nbut he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.\n\n11:16. A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have\nriches.\n\n11:17. A merciful man doth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel\ncasteth off even his own kindred.\n\n11:18. The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth\njustice, there is a faithful reward.\n\n11:19. Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.\n\n11:20. A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in\nthem that walk sincerely.\n\n11:21. Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of\nthe just shall be saved.\n\n11:22. A golden ring in a swine\u2019s snout, a woman fair and foolish.\n\n11:23. The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the\nwicked is indignation.\n\n11:24. Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take\naway what is not their own, and are always in want.\n\n11:25. The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that\ninebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.\n\n11:26. He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a\nblessing upon the head of them that sell.\n\n11:27. Well doth he rise early who seeketh good things; but he that\nseeketh after evil things, shall be oppressed by them.\n\n11:28. He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall\nspring up as a green leaf.\n\n11:29. He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and\nthe fool shall serve the wise.\n\n11:30. The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth\nsouls is wise.\n\n11:31. If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked\nand the sinner.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 12\n\n12:1. He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth\nreproof, is foolish.\n\n12:2. He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that\ntrusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.\n\n12:3. Man shall not be strengthened by wickedness: and the root of the\njust shall not be moved.\n\n12:4. A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth\nthings worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.\n\n12:5. The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the\nwicked are deceitful.\n\n12:6. The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the\njust shall deliver them.\n\n12:7. Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just\nshall stand firm.\n\n12:8. A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and\nfoolish, shall be exposed to contempt.\n\n12:9. Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that\nis glorious and wanteth bread.\n\n12:10. The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of\nthe wicked are cruel.\n\n12:11. He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he\nthat pursueth idleness is very foolish.\n\n12:12. He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a\nreproach in his strong holds.\n\n12:12. The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but\nthe root of the just shall prosper.\n\n12:13. For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but\nthe just shall escape out of distress.\n\n12:14. By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good\nthings, and according to the works of his hands it shall be repaid him.\n\n12:15. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise\nhearkeneth unto counsels.\n\n12:16. A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but he that dissembleth\ninjuries is wise.\n\n12:17. He that speaketh that which he knoweth, sheweth forth justice:\nbut he that lieth, is a deceitful witness.\n\n12:18. There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword\nof conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.\n\n12:19. The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a\nhasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.\n\n12:20. Deceit is in the heart of them that think evil things: but joy\nfolloweth them that take counsels of peace.\n\n12:21. Whatsoever shall befall the just man, shall not make him sad:\nbut the wicked shall be filled with mischief.\n\n12:22. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal\nfaithfully, please him.\n\n12:23. A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and the heart of fools\npublisheth folly.\n\n12:24. The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but that which is\nslothful shall be under tribute.\n\n12:25. Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good\nword he shall be made glad.\n\n12:26. He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but\nthe way of the wicked shall deceive them.\n\n12:27. The deceitful man shall not find gain: but the substance of a\njust man shall be precious gold.\n\n12:28. In the path of justice is life: but the bye-way leadeth to\ndeath.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 13\n\n13:1. A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father: but he that is a\nscorner, heareth not when he is reproved.\n\n13:2. Of the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good\nthings: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.\n\n13:3. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no\nguard on his speech shall meet with evils.\n\n13:4. The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that\nwork, shall be made fat.\n\n13:5. The just shall hate a lying word: but the wicked confoundeth, and\nshall be confounded.\n\n13:6. Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness\noverthroweth the sinner.\n\n13:7. One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it\nwere poor, when he hath great riches.\n\n13:8. The ransom of a man\u2019s life are his riches: but he that is poor,\nbeareth not reprehension.\n\n13:9. The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked\nshall be put out.\n\n13:10. Among the proud there are always contentions: but they that do\nall things with counsel, are ruled by wisdom.\n\n13:11. Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by\nlittle and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.\n\n13:12. Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it\ncometh, is a tree of life.\n\n13:13. Whosoever speaketh ill of any thing, bindeth himself for the\ntime to come: but he that feareth the commandment, shall dwell in\npeace. Deceitful souls go astray in sins: the just are merciful, and\nshew mercy.\n\n13:14. The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline\nfrom the ruin of death.\n\n13:15. Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a\ndeep pit.\n\n13:16. The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a\nfool, layeth open his folly.\n\n13:17. The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a\nfaithful ambassador is health.\n\n13:18. Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that\nyieldeth to reproof shall be glorified.\n\n13:19. The desire that is accomplished, delighteth the soul: fools hate\nthem that flee from evil things.\n\n13:20. He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools\nshall become like to them.\n\n13:21. Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid.\n\n13:22. The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and grandsons: and the\nsubstance of the sinner is kept for the just.\n\n13:23. Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is\ngathered without judgment.\n\n13:24. He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him,\ncorrecteth him betimes.\n\n13:25. The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the\nwicked is never to be filled.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 14\n\n14:1. A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down\nwith her hands that also which is built.\n\n14:2. He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by\nhim that goeth by an infamous way.\n\n14:3. In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the\nwise preserve them.\n\n14:4. Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty: but where there is\nmuch corn, there the strength of the ox is manifest.\n\n14:5. A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth\na lie.\n\n14:6. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the\nwise is easy.\n\n14:7. Go against a foolish man, and he knoweth not the lips of\nprudence.\n\n14:8. The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the\nimprudence of fools erreth.\n\n14:9. A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide.\n\n14:10. The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his\njoy the stranger shall not intermeddle.\n\n14:11. The house of the wicked shall be destroyed: but the tabernacles\nof the just shall flourish.\n\n14:12. There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof\nlead to death.\n\n14:13. Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning taketh hold\nof the ends of joy.\n\n14:14. A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall\nbe above him.\n\n14:15. The innocent believeth every word: the discreet man considereth\nhis steps. No good shall come to the deceitful son: but the wise\nservant shall prosper in his dealings, and his way shall be made\nstraight.\n\n14:16. A wise man feareth, and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth\nover, and is confident.\n\n14:17. The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is\nhateful.\n\n14:18. The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent shall look for\nknowledge.\n\n14:19. The evil shall fall down before the good: and the wicked before\nthe gates of the just.\n\n14:20. The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the\nfriends of the rich are many.\n\n14:21. He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that sheweth\nmercy to the poor, shall be blessed. He that believeth in the Lord,\nloveth mercy.\n\n14:22. They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good\nthings.\n\n14:23. In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many\nwords, there is oftentimes want.\n\n14:24. The crown of the wise, is their riches: the folly of fools,\nimprudence.\n\n14:25. A faithful witness delivereth souls: and the double dealer\nuttereth lies.\n\n14:26. In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there\nshall be hope for his children.\n\n14:27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the\nruin of death.\n\n14:28. In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in\nthe small number of the people the dishonour of the prince.\n\n14:29. He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is\nimpatient, exalteth his folly.\n\n14:30. Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the\nrottenness of the bones.\n\n14:31. He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth his maker: but he that\nhath pity on the poor, honoureth him.\n\n14:32. The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the\njust hath hope in his death.\n\n14:33. In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall\ninstruct all the ignorant.\n\n14:34. Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.\n\n14:35. A wise servant is acceptable to the king: he that is good for\nnothing shall feel his anger.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 15\n\n15:1. A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word stirreth up fury.\n\n15:2. The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: but the mouth of fools\nbubbleth out folly.\n\n15:3. The eyes of the Lord in every place behold the good and the evil.\n\n15:4. A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is\nimmoderate, shall crush the spirit.\n\n15:5. A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that\nregardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is\nthe greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted\nout.\n\n15:6. The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of\nthe wicked is trouble.\n\n15:7. The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools\nshall be unlike.\n\n15:8. The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of\nthe just are acceptable.\n\n15:9. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that\nfolloweth justice is beloved by him.\n\n15:10. Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life:\nhe that hateth reproof shall die.\n\n15:11. Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the\nhearts of the children of men?\n\n15:12. A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go\nto the wise.\n\n15:13. A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by grief of mind\nthe spirit is cast down.\n\n15:14. The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of\nfools feedeth on foolishness.\n\n15:15. All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is like a\ncontinual feast.\n\n15:16. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great\ntreasures without content.\n\n15:17. It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted\ncalf with hatred.\n\n15:18. A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient\nappeaseth those that are stirred up.\n\n15:19. The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the\njust is without offence.\n\n15:20. A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth\nhis mother.\n\n15:21. Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his\nsteps.\n\n15:22. Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but\nwhere there are many counsellors, they are established.\n\n15:23. A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due\ntime is best.\n\n15:24. The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from\nthe lowest hell.\n\n15:25. The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will\nstrengthen the borders of the widow.\n\n15:26. Evil thoughts are an abomination to the Lord: and pure words\nmost beautiful shall be confirmed by him.\n\n15:27. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that\nhateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and\nby the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.\n\n15:28. The mind of the just studieth obedience: the mouth of the wicked\noverfloweth with evils.\n\n15:29. The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of\nthe just.\n\n15:30. The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a good name maketh the\nbones fat.\n\n15:31. The ear that heareth the reproofs of life, shall abide in the\nmidst of the wise.\n\n15:32. He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he\nthat yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding.\n\n15:33. The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth\nbefore glory.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 16\n\n16:1. It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to\ngovern the tongue.\n\nIt is the part of man, etc.... That is, a man should prepare in his\nheart and soul what he is to say: but after all, it must be the Lord\nthat must govern his tongue, to speak to the purpose. Not that we can\nthink any thing of good without God\u2019s grace; but that after we have\n(with God\u2019s grace) thought and prepared within our souls what we would\nspeak, if God does not govern our tongue, we shall not succeed in what\nwe speak.\n\n16:2. All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the\nweigher of spirits.\n\n16:3. Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be\ndirected.\n\n16:4. The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for\nthe evil day.\n\n16:5. Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord: though hand should\nbe joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is\nto do justice: and this is more acceptable with God, than to offer\nsacrifices.\n\n16:6. By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the\nLord men depart from evil.\n\n16:7. When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even\nhis enemies to peace.\n\n16:8. Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with\niniquity.\n\n16:9. The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his\nsteps.\n\n16:10. Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err\nin judgment.\n\n16:11. Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all\nthe weights of the bag.\n\n16:12. They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the\nthrone is established by justice.\n\n16:13. Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right\nthings shall be loved.\n\n16:14. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man\nwill pacify it.\n\n16:15. In the cheerfulness of the king\u2019s countenance is life: and his\nclemency is like the latter rain.\n\n16:16. Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase\nprudence, for it is more precious than silver.\n\n16:17. The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his\nsoul keepeth his way.\n\n16:18. Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up\nbefore a fall.\n\n16:19. It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils\nwith the proud.\n\n16:20. The learned in word shall find good things: and he that trusteth\nin the Lord is blessed.\n\n16:21. The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet\nin words, shall attain to greater things.\n\n16:22. Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the\ninstruction of fools is foolishness.\n\n16:23. The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth: and shall add\ngrace to his lips.\n\n16:24. Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and\nhealth to the bones.\n\n16:25. There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof\nlead to death.\n\n16:26. The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because\nhis mouth hath obliged him to it.\n\n16:27. The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.\n\n16:28. A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words\nseparateth princes.\n\n16:29. An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way\nthat is not good.\n\n16:30. He that with fixed eyes deviseth wicked things, biting his lips,\nbringeth evil to pass.\n\n16:31. Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of\njustice.\n\n16:32. The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth\nhis spirit, than he that taketh cities.\n\n16:33. Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the\nLord.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 17\n\n17:1. Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims\nwith strife.\n\n17:2. A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the\ninheritance among the brethren.\n\n17:3. As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord\ntrieth the hearts.\n\n17:4. The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful\nhearkeneth to lying lips.\n\n17:5. He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that\nrejoiceth at another man\u2019s ruin, shall not be unpunished.\n\n17:6. Children\u2019s children are the crown of old men: and the glory of\nchildren are their fathers.\n\n17:7. Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.\n\n17:8. The expectation of him that expecteth is a most acceptable jewel:\nwhithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.\n\n17:9. He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh friendships: he that\nrepeateth it again, separateth friends.\n\n17:10. A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes\nwith a fool.\n\n17:11. An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be\nsent against him.\n\n17:12. It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool\ntrusting in his own folly.\n\n17:13. He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his\nhouse.\n\n17:14. The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and\nbefore he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.\n\n17:15. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,\nboth are abominable before God.\n\n17:16. What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy\nwisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that\nrefuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.\n\n17:17. He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved\nin distress.\n\n17:18. A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.\n\n17:19. He that studieth discords, loveth quarrels: and he that exalteth\nhis door, seeketh ruin.\n\n17:20. He that is of a perverse heart, shall not find good: and he that\nperverteth his tongue, shall fall into evil.\n\n17:21. A fool is born to his own disgrace: and even his father shall\nnot rejoice in a fool.\n\n17:22. A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth\nup the bones.\n\n17:23. The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may\npervert the paths of judgment.\n\n17:24. Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in\nthe ends of the earth.\n\n17:25. A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the\nmother that bore him.\n\n17:26. It is no good thing to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the\nprince, who judgeth right.\n\n17:27. He that setteth bounds to his words, is knowing and wise: and\nthe man of understanding is of a precious spirit.\n\n17:28. Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall be counted wise:\nand if he close his lips, a man of understanding.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 18\n\n18:1. He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions:\nhe shall ever be subject to reproach.\n\n18:2. A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those\nthings which are in his heart.\n\n18:3. The wicked man, when he is come into the depth of sins,\ncontemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.\n\n18:4. Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain\nof wisdom is an overflowing stream.\n\n18:5. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline\nfrom the truth of judgment.\n\n18:6. The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth\nprovoketh quarrels.\n\n18:7. The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin\nof his soul.\n\n18:8. The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and\nthey reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the\nslothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.\n\n18:9. He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him\nthat wasteth his own works.\n\n18:10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it,\nand shall be exalted.\n\n18:11. The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and\nas a strong wall compassing him about.\n\n18:12. Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he\nbe glorified, it is humbled.\n\n18:13. He that answereth before he heareth, sheweth himself to be a\nfool, and worthy of confusion.\n\n18:14. The spirit of a man upholdeth his infirmity: but a spirit that\nis easily angered, who can bear?\n\n18:15. A wise heart shall acquire knowledge: and the ear of the wise\nseeketh instruction.\n\n18:16. A man\u2019s gift enlargeth his way, and maketh him room before\nprinces.\n\n18:17. The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and\nshall search him.\n\n18:18. The lot suppresseth contentions, and determineth even between\nthe mighty.\n\n18:19. A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city:\nand judgments are like the bars of cities.\n\n18:20. Of the fruit of a man\u2019s mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and\nthe offspring of his lips shall fill him.\n\n18:21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love\nit, shall eat the fruits thereof.\n\n18:22. He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and\nshall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good\nwife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is\nfoolish and wicked.\n\n18:23. The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak\nroughly.\n\n18:24. A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 19\n\n19:1. Better is the poor man, that walketh in his simplicity, than a\nrich man that is perverse in his lips and unwise.\n\n19:2. Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he\nthat is hasty with his feet shall stumble.\n\n19:3. The folly of a man supplanteth his steps: and he fretteth in his\nmind against God.\n\n19:4. Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom\nhe had, depart.\n\n19:5. A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh\nlies, shall not escape.\n\n19:6. Many honour the person of him that is mighty, and are friends of\nhim that giveth gifts.\n\n19:7. The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends\nhave departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall\nhave nothing.\n\n19:8. But he that possesseth a mind, loveth his own soul, and he that\nkeepeth prudence, shall find good things.\n\n19:9. A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh\nlies, shall perish.\n\n19:10. Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have\nrule over princes.\n\n19:11. The learning of a man is known by patience: and his glory is to\npass over wrongs.\n\n19:12. As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and\nhis cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.\n\n19:13. A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife\nis like a roof continually dropping through.\n\n19:14. House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is\nproperly from the Lord.\n\n19:15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall\nsuffer hunger.\n\n19:16. He that keepeth the commandment, keepeth his own soul: but he\nthat neglecteth his own way, shall die.\n\n19:17. He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will\nrepay him.\n\n19:18. Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not\nthy soul.\n\n19:19. He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall\ntake away, he shall add another thing.\n\n19:20. Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise\nin thy latter end.\n\n19:21. There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of\nthe Lord shall stand firm.\n\n19:22. A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying\nman.\n\n19:23. The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in the\nfulness without being visited with evil.\n\n19:24. The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so\nmuch as bring it to his mouth.\n\n19:25. The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if\nthou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.\n\n19:26. He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is\ninfamous and unhappy.\n\n19:27. Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of\nthe words of knowledge.\n\n19:28. An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked\ndevoureth iniquity.\n\n19:29. Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for\nthe bodies of fools.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 20\n\n20:1. Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is\ndelighted therewith, shall not be wise.\n\n20:2. As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that\nprovoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.\n\n20:3. It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but\nall fools are meddling with reproaches.\n\n20:4. Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg\ntherefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.\n\n20:5. Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man\nwill draw it out.\n\n20:6. Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?\n\n20:7. The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him\nblessed children.\n\n20:8. The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away\nall evil with his look.\n\n20:9. Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?\n\n20:10. Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before\nGod.\n\n20:11. By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and\nright.\n\n20:12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them\nboth.\n\n20:13. Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be\nfilled with bread.\n\n20:14. It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is\ngone away, then he will boast.\n\n20:15. There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of\nknowledge are a precious vessel.\n\n20:16. Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and\ntake a pledge from him for strangers.\n\n20:17. The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth\nshall be filled with gravel.\n\n20:18. Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed\nby governments.\n\n20:19. Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh\ndeceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.\n\n20:20. He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put\nout in the midst of darkness.\n\n20:21. The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end\nshall be without a blessing.\n\n20:22. Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will\ndeliver thee.\n\n20:23. Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful\nbalance is not good.\n\n20:24. The steps of men are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that\ncan understand his own way?\n\n20:25. It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to\nretract.\n\n20:26. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the\nwheel.\n\n20:27. The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all\nthe hidden things of the bowels.\n\n20:28. Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is\nstrengthened by clemency.\n\n20:29. The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old\nmen, their grey hairs.\n\n20:30. The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in\nthe more inward parts of the belly.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 21\n\n21:1. As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the\nhand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.\n\n21:2. Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord\nweigheth the hearts.\n\n21:3. To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.\n\n21:4. Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp\nof the wicked is sin.\n\n21:5. The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but\nevery sluggard is always in want.\n\n21:6. He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and\nfoolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.\n\n21:7. The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they\nwould not do judgment.\n\n21:8. The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is\npure, his work is right.\n\n21:9. It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a\nbrawling woman, and in a common house.\n\n21:10. The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on\nhis neighbour.\n\n21:11. When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser:\nand if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.\n\n21:12. The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he\nmay withdraw the wicked from evil.\n\n21:13. He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also\ncry himself, and shall not be heard.\n\n21:14. A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom, the\ngreatest wrath.\n\n21:15. It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that\nwork iniquity.\n\n21:16. A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide\nin the company of the giants.\n\n21:17. He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth\nwine, and fat things, shall not be rich.\n\n21:18. The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the\nrighteous.\n\n21:19. It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome\nand passionate woman.\n\n21:20. There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of\nthe just: and the foolish man shall spend it.\n\n21:21. He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice,\nand glory.\n\n21:22. The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast\ndown the strength of the confidence thereof.\n\n21:23. He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from\ndistress.\n\n21:24. The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger\nworketh pride.\n\n21:25. Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at\nall.\n\n21:26. He longeth and desireth all the day: but he that is just, will\ngive, and will not cease.\n\n21:27. The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are\noffered of wickedness.\n\n21:28. A lying witness shall perish: an obedient man shall speak of\nvictory.\n\n21:29. The wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but he that is\nrighteous, correcteth his way.\n\n21:30. There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel\nagainst the Lord.\n\n21:31. The horse is prepared for the day of battle: but the Lord giveth\nsafety.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 22\n\n22:1. A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above\nsilver and gold.\n\n22:2. The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of\nthem both.\n\n22:3. The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed\non, and suffered loss.\n\n22:4. The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory\nand life.\n\n22:5. Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that\nkeepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.\n\n22:6. It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he\nis old, he will not depart from it.\n\n22:7. The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him\nthat lendeth.\n\n22:8. He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of\nhis anger he shall be consumed.\n\n22:9. He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed: for of his bread\nhe hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents, shall purchase\nvictory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.\n\n22:10. Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and\nquarrels and reproaches shall cease.\n\n22:11. He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips\nshall have the king for his friend.\n\n22:12. The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the\nunjust are overthrown.\n\n22:13. The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be\nslain in the midst of the streets.\n\n22:14. The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is\nangry with, shall fall into it.\n\n22:15. Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of\ncorrection shall drive it away.\n\n22:16. He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall\nhimself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.\n\n22:17. Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy\nheart to my doctrine:\n\n22:18. Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy\nbowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:\n\n22:19. That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn\nit to thee this day.\n\n22:20. Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in\nthoughts and knowledge:\n\n22:21. That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to\nanswer out of these to them that sent thee.\n\n22:22. Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not\noppress the needy in the gate:\n\n22:23. Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them\nthat have afflicted his soul.\n\n22:24. Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious\nman:\n\n22:25. Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.\n\n22:26. Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer\nthemselves sureties for debts:\n\n22:27. For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there\nthat he should take the covering from thy bed?\n\n22:28. Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.\n\n22:29. Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before\nkings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 23\n\n23:1. When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently\nwhat is set before thy face:\n\n23:2. And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy\nsoul in thy own power.\n\n23:3. Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.\n\n23:4. Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.\n\n23:5. Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because\nthey shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly\ntowards heaven.\n\n23:6. Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:\n\n23:7. Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which\nhe knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not\nwith thee.\n\n23:8. The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt\nloose thy beautiful words.\n\n23:9. Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the\ninstruction of thy speech.\n\n23:10. Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the\nfield of the fatherless:\n\n23:11. For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause\nagainst thee.\n\n23:12. Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words\nof knowledge.\n\n23:13. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him\nwith the rod, he shall not die.\n\n23:14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from\nhell.\n\n23:15. My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:\n\n23:16. And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is\nright.\n\n23:17. Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the\nLord all the day long:\n\n23:18. Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy\nexpectation shall not be taken away.\n\n23:19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.\n\n23:20. Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings,\nwho contribute flesh to eat:\n\n23:21. Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club\ntogether, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.\n\n23:22. Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy\nmother when she is old.\n\n23:23. Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and\nunderstanding.\n\n23:24. The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten\na wise son, shall have joy in him.\n\n23:25. Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice\nthat bore thee.\n\n23:26. My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.\n\n23:27. For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow\npit.\n\n23:28. She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall\nsee unwary, she will kill.\n\n23:29. Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who\nfalls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of\neyes?\n\n23:30. Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off\ntheir cups.\n\n23:31. Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour\nthereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,\n\n23:32. But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread\nabroad poison like a basilisk.\n\n23:33. Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter\nperverse things.\n\n23:34. And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and\nas a pilot fast asleep when the stern is lost.\n\n23:35. And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible\nof pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine\nagain?\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 24\n\n24:1. Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:\n\n24:2. Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak\ndeceits.\n\n24:3. By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be\nstrengthened.\n\n24:4. By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious\nand most beautiful wealth.\n\n24:5. A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.\n\n24:6. Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety\nwhere there are many counsels.\n\n24:7. Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his\nmouth.\n\n24:8. He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.\n\n24:9. The thought of a fool is sin: and the detractor is the\nabomination of men.\n\n24:10. If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy\nstrength shall be diminished.\n\n24:11. Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to\ndeath, forbear not to deliver.\n\n24:12. If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the\nheart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul,\nand he shall render to a man according to his works.\n\n24:13. Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most\nsweet to thy throat.\n\n24:14. So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou\nhast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not\nperish.\n\n24:15. Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the\njust, nor spoil his rest.\n\n24:16. For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but\nthe wicked shall fall down into evil.\n\n24:17. When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not\nthy heart rejoice:\n\n24:18. Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his\nwrath from him.\n\n24:19. Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.\n\n24:20. For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the\nwicked shall be put out.\n\n24:21. My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and have nothing to do with\ndetractors.\n\n24:22. For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the\nruin of both?\n\n24:23. These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to\npersons in judgment.\n\n24:24. They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed\nby the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.\n\n24:25. They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come\nupon them.\n\n24:26. He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.\n\n24:27. Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that\nafterward thou mayst build thy house.\n\n24:28. Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive\nnot any man with thy lips.\n\n24:29. Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render\nto every one according to his work.\n\n24:30. I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard\nof the foolish man:\n\n24:31. And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had\ncovered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.\n\n24:32. Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the\nexample I received instruction.\n\n24:33. Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little,\nthou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.\n\n24:34. And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an\narmed man.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 25\n\n25:1. These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias,\nking of Juda, copied out.\n\n25:2. It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of\nkings to search out the speech.\n\n25:3. The heaven above and the earth beneath, and the heart of kings is\nunsearchable.\n\n25:4. Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a most\npure vessel:\n\n25:5. Take away wickedness from the face of the king, and his throne\nshall be established with justice.\n\n25:6. Appear not glorious before the king, and stand not in the place\nof great men.\n\n25:7. For it is better that it should be said to thee: Come up hither;\nthan that thou shouldst be humbled before the prince.\n\n25:8. The things which thy eyes have seen, utter not hastily in a\nquarrel: lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when\nthou hast dishonoured thy friend.\n\n25:9. Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a\nstranger:\n\n25:10. Lest he insult over thee, when he hath heard it, and cease not\nto upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver a man: keep these for\nthyself, lest thou fall under reproach.\n\n25:11. To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of\nsilver.\n\n25:12. As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that\nreproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.\n\n25:13. As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful\nmessenger to him that sent him, for he refresheth his soul.\n\n25:14. As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that\nboasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.\n\n25:15. By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall\nbreak hardness.\n\n25:16. Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest\nbeing glutted therewith thou vomit it up.\n\n25:17. Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having\nhis fill he hate thee.\n\n25:18. A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like\na dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.\n\n25:19. To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a\nrotten tooth, and weary foot,\n\n25:20. And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar\nupon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth\ndoth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man\nconsumeth the heart.\n\n25:21. If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him\nwater to drink:\n\n25:22. For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will\nreward thee.\n\n25:23. The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a\nbackbiting tongue.\n\n25:24. It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a\nbrawling woman, and in a common house.\n\n25:25. As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good tidings from a far\ncountry.\n\n25:26. A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain\ntroubled with the foot and a corrupted spring.\n\n25:27. As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a\nsearcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.\n\nMajesty.... Viz., of God. For to search into that incomprehensible\nMajesty, and to pretend to sound the depths of the wisdom of God, is\nexposing our weak understanding to be blinded with an excess of light\nand glory, which it cannot comprehend.\n\n25:28. As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is\na man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 26\n\n26:1. As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly\nfor a fool.\n\n26:2. As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or\nthere: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.\n\nAs a bird, etc.... The meaning is, that a curse uttered without cause\nshall do no harm to the person that is cursed, but will return upon him\nthat curseth, as whithersoever a bird flies, it returns to its own\nnest.\n\n26:3. A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the\nback of fools.\n\n26:4. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like\nhim.\n\nAnswer not a fool, etc.... Viz., so as to imitate him but only so as to\nreprove his folly.\n\n26:5. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he imagine himself to\nbe wise.\n\n26:6. He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and\ndrinketh iniquity.\n\n26:7. As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in\nthe mouth of fools.\n\n26:8. As he that casteth a stone into the heap of Mercury: so is he\nthat giveth honour to a fool.\n\n26:9. As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a drunkard: so is a\nparable in the mouth of fools.\n\n26:10. Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to\nsilence, appeaseth anger.\n\n26:11. As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that\nrepeateth his folly.\n\n26:12. Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be\nmore hope of a fool than of him.\n\n26:13. The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a\nlioness in the roads.\n\n26:14. As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon\nhis bed.\n\n26:15. The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth\nhim to turn it to his mouth.\n\n26:16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that\nspeak sentences.\n\n26:17. As he that taketh a dog by the ears, so is he that passeth by in\nanger, and meddleth with another man\u2019s quarrel.\n\n26:18. As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death.\n\n26:19. So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he\nis taken, saith: I did it in jest.\n\n26:20. When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the\ntalebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.\n\n26:21. As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so an angry man\nstirreth up strife.\n\n26:22. The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach\nto the innermost parts of the belly.\n\n26:23. Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen\nvessel adorned with silver dross.\n\n26:24. An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth\ndeceit.\n\n26:25. When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven\nmischiefs in his heart.\n\n26:26. He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid\nopen in the public assembly.\n\n26:27. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a\nstone, it shall return to him.\n\n26:28. A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth\nworketh ruin.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 27\n\n27:1. Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not what the day to\ncome may bring forth.\n\n27:2. Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and\nnot thy own lips.\n\n27:3. A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is\nheavier than them both.\n\n27:4. Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who\ncan bear the violence of one provoked?\n\n27:5. Open rebuke is better than hidden love.\n\n27:6. Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of\nan enemy.\n\n27:7. A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul\nthat is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet.\n\n27:8. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth\nhis place.\n\n27:9. Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of\na friend are sweet to the soul.\n\n27:10. Thy own friend, and thy father\u2019s friend, forsake not: and go not\ninto thy brother\u2019s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a\nneighbour that is near than a brother afar off.\n\n27:11. Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst\ngive an answer to him that reproacheth.\n\n27:12. The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing\non have suffered losses.\n\n27:13. Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and\ntake from him a pledge for strangers.\n\n27:14. He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the\nnight, shall be like to him that curseth.\n\n27:15. Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman\nare alike.\n\n27:16. He that retaineth her, is as he that would hold the wind, and\nshall call the oil of his right hand.\n\n27:17. Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his\nfriend.\n\n27:18. He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and\nhe that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.\n\n27:19. As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so\nthe hearts of men are laid open to the wise.\n\n27:20. Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are\nnever satisfied.\n\n27:21. As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace:\nso a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the\nwicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after\nknowledge.\n\n27:22. Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle\nstriketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.\n\n27:23. Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider\nthy own flocks:\n\n27:24. For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given\nto generation and generation.\n\n27:25. The meadows are open, and the green herbs have appeared, and the\nhay is gathered out of the mountains.\n\n27:26. Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for the price of the field.\n\n27:27. Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the\nnecessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 28\n\n28:1. The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold\nas a lion, shall be without dread.\n\n28:2. For the sins of the land many are the princes thereof: and for\nthe wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said,\nthe life of the prince shall be prolonged.\n\n28:3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower,\nwhich bringeth a famine.\n\n28:4. They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep\nit, are incensed against him.\n\n28:5. Evil men think not on judgment: but they that seek after the\nLord, take notice of all things.\n\n28:6. Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich\nin crooked ways.\n\n28:7. He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth\ngluttons, shameth his father.\n\n28:8. He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them\nfor him that will be bountiful to the poor.\n\n28:9. He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer\nshall be an abomination.\n\n28:10. He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his\nown destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.\n\n28:11. The rich man seemeth to himself wise: but the poor man that is\nprudent shall search him out.\n\n28:12. In the joy of the just there is great glory: when the wicked\nreign, men are ruined.\n\n28:13. He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall\nconfess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.\n\n28:14. Blessed is the man that is always fearful: but he that is\nhardened in mind shall fall into evil.\n\n28:15. As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over\nthe poor people.\n\n28:16. A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he\nthat hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days.\n\n28:17. A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee\neven to the pit, no man will stay him.\n\n28:18. He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse\nin his ways, shall fall at once.\n\n28:19. He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he\nthat followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.\n\n28:20. A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste\nto be rich, shall not be innocent.\n\n28:21. He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well:\nsuch a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.\n\n28:22. A man that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is\nignorant that poverty shall come upon him.\n\n28:23. He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him,\nmore than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.\n\n28:24. He that stealeth any thing from his father, or from his mother:\nand saith, This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer.\n\n28:25. He that boasteth and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels:\nbut he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.\n\n28:26. He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool: but he that\nwalketh wisely, he shall be saved.\n\n28:27. He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his\nentreaty, shall suffer indigence.\n\n28:28. When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they\nperish, the just shall be multiplied.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 29\n\n29:1. The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him,\nshall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.\n\n29:2. When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked\nshall bear rule, the people shall mourn.\n\n29:3. A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that\nmaintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.\n\n29:4. A just king setteth up the land: a covetous man shall destroy it.\n\n29:5. A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling\nwords, spreadeth a net for his feet.\n\n29:6. A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the\njust shall praise and rejoice.\n\n29:7. The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is\nvoid of knowledge.\n\n29:8. Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.\n\n29:9. If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh,\nhe shall find no rest.\n\n29:10. Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.\n\n29:11. A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth\nit till afterwards.\n\n29:12. A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants\nwicked.\n\n29:13. The poor man and the creditor have met one another: the Lord is\nthe enlightener of them both.\n\n29:14. The king that judgeth the poor in truth, his throne shall be\nestablished for ever.\n\n29:15. The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to\nhis own will, bringeth his mother to shame.\n\n29:16. When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but\nthe just shall see their downfall.\n\n29:17. Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee, and shall give\ndelight to thy soul.\n\n29:18. When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad:\nbut he that keepeth the law, is blessed.\n\n29:19. A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth\nwhat thou sayest, and will not answer.\n\n29:20. Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be\nlooked for, than his amendment.\n\n29:21. He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood,\nafterwards shall find him stubborn.\n\n29:22. A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily\nstirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.\n\n29:23. Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the\nhumble of spirit.\n\n29:24. He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he\nheareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.\n\n29:25. He that feareth man shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the\nLord, shall be set on high.\n\n29:26. Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one\ncometh forth from the Lord.\n\n29:27. The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are\nin the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from\ndestruction.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 30\n\nThe wise man thinketh humbly of himself. His prayer and sentiments upon\ncertain virtues and vices.\n\n30:1. The words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision which the\nman spoke, with whom God is, and who being strengthened by God, abiding\nwith him, said:\n\nGatherer, etc.... Or, as it is in the Latin, Congregans the son of\nVomens. The Latin interpreter has given us in this place the\nsignification of the Hebrew names, instead of the names themselves,\nwhich are in the Hebrew, Agur the son of Jakeh. But whether this Agur\nbe the same person as Solomon, as many think, or a different person,\nwhose doctrine was adopted by Solomon, and inserted among his parables\nor proverbs, is uncertain.\n\n30:2. I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with\nme.\n\n30:3. I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of\nsaints.\n\n30:4. Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held\nthe wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a\ngarment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his\nname, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?\n\n30:5. Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that\nhope in him.\n\nIs fire tried.... That is, most pure, like gold purified by fire.\n\n30:6. Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a\nliar:\n\n30:7. Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I\ndie.\n\n30:8. Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither\nbeggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:\n\n30:9. Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say:\nWho is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and\nforswear the name of my God.\n\n30:10. Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou\nfall.\n\n30:11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not\nbless their mother.\n\n30:12. A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not\nwashed from their filthiness.\n\n30:13. A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up\non high.\n\n30:14. A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their\njaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from\namong men.\n\n30:15. The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There\nare three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith:\nIt is enough.\n\nThe horseleech.... Concupiscence, which hath two daughters that are\nnever satisfied, viz., lust and avarice.\n\n30:16. Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not\nsatisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.\n\n30:17. The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the\nlabour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick\nit out, and the young eagles eat it.\n\n30:18. Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly\nignorant of.\n\n30:19. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a\nrock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man\nin youth.\n\n30:20. Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and\nwipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.\n\n30:21. By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot\nbear.\n\n30:22. By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with\nmeat:\n\n30:23. By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when\nshe is heir to her mistress.\n\n30:24. There are four very little things of the earth, and they are\nwiser than the wise.\n\n30:25. The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the\nharvest:\n\n30:26. The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:\n\n30:27. The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands:\n\n30:28. The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings\u2019\nhouses.\n\nThe stellio.... A kind of house lizard marked with spots like stars,\nfrom whence it has its name.\n\n30:29. There are three things, which go well, and the fourth that\nwalketh happily:\n\n30:30. A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath no fear of any thing\nhe meeteth:\n\n30:31. A cock girded about the loins: and a ram: and a king, whom none\ncan resist.\n\n30:32. There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on\nhigh: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his\nmouth.\n\n30:33. And he that strongly squeezeth the paps to bring out milk,\nstraineth out butter: and he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth\nout blood: and he that provoketh wrath, bringeth forth strife.\n\n\nProverbs Chapter 31\n\nAn exhortation to chastity, temperance, and works of mercy; with the\npraise of a wise woman.\n\n31:1. The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother\ninstructed him.\n\nLamuel.... This name signifies God with him, and is supposed to have\nbeen one of the names of Solomon.\n\n31:2. What, O my beloved, what, O the beloved of my womb, what, O the\nbeloved of my vows?\n\n31:3. Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings.\n\n31:4. Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because\nthere is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:\n\n31:5. And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause\nof the children of the poor.\n\n31:6. Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are\ngrieved in mind:\n\n31:7. Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow\nno more.\n\n31:8. Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the\nchildren that pass.\n\n31:9. Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the\nneedy and poor.\n\n31:10. Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost\ncoasts is the price of her.\n\n31:11. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no\nneed of spoils.\n\n31:12. She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life.\n\n31:13. She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel\nof her hands.\n\n31:14. She is like the merchant\u2019s ship, she bringeth her bread from\nafar.\n\n31:15. And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her\nhousehold, and victuals to her maidens.\n\n31:16. She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of\nher hands she hath planted a vineyard.\n\n31:17. She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened\nher arm.\n\n31:18. She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp\nshall not be put out in the night.\n\n31:19. She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have\ntaken hold of the spindle.\n\n31:20. She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her\nhands to the poor.\n\n31:21. She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all\nher domestics are clothed with double garments.\n\n31:22. She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and\npurple, is her covering.\n\n31:23. Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among\nthe senators of the land.\n\n31:24. She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the\nChanaanite.\n\nThe Chanaanite.... The merchant, for Chanaanite, in Hebrew, signifies a\nmerchant.\n\n31:25. Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the\nlatter day.\n\n31:26. She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is\non her tongue.\n\n31:27. She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not\neaten her bread idle.\n\n31:28. Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and\nhe praised her.\n\n31:29. Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast\nsurpassed them all.\n\n31:30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth\nthe Lord, she shall be praised.\n\n31:31. Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her\nin the gates.\n\n\n\n\nECCLESIASTES\n\n\nThis Book is called Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, (in Hebrew,\nCoheleth,) because in it, Solomon, as an excellent preacher, setteth\nforth the vanity of the things of this world: to withdraw the hearts\nand affections of men from such empty toys.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 1\n\nThe vanity of all temporal things.\n\n1:1. The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.\n\n1:2. Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all\nis vanity.\n\n1:3. What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the\nsun?\n\n1:4. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but\nthe earth standeth for ever.\n\n1:5. The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and\nthere rising again,\n\n1:6. Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the\nspirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to\nhis circuits.\n\n1:7. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow:\nunto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.\n\n1:8. All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is\nnot filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.\n\n1:9. What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is\nit that hath been done? the same that shall be done.\n\n1:10. Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say:\nBehold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that\nwere before us.\n\n1:11. There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those\nthings which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with\nthem that shall be in the latter end.\n\n1:12. I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in Jerusalem,\n\n1:13. And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely\nconcerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful\noccupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised\ntherein.\n\n1:14. I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold\nall is vanity, and vexation of spirit.\n\n1:15. The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is\ninfinite.\n\n1:16. I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold I am become great, and\nhave gone beyond all in wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and\nmy mind hath contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.\n\n1:17. And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and\nerrors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was\nlabour, and vexation of spirit,\n\n1:18. Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that\naddeth knowledge, addeth also labour.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 2\n\nThe vanity of pleasures, riches, and worldly labours.\n\n2:1. I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy\ngood things. And I saw that this also was vanity.\n\n2:2. Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly\ndeceived?\n\n2:3. I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I\nmight turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see\nwhat was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do\nunder the sun, all the days of their life.\n\n2:4. I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,\n\n2:5. I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all\nkinds,\n\n2:6. And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the\nyoung trees,\n\n2:7. I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family:\nand herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were\nbefore me in Jerusalem:\n\n2:8. I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of\nkings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the\ndelights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out\nwine:\n\n2:9. And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my\nwisdom also remained with me.\n\n2:10. And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I\nwithheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting\nitself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my\nportion, to make use of my own labour.\n\n2:11. And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had\nwrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in\nall things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting\nunder the sun.\n\n2:12. I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is\nman, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)\n\n2:13. And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth\nfrom darkness.\n\n2:14. The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in\ndarkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.\n\n2:15. And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall\nbe one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the\nstudy of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this\nalso was vanity.\n\n2:16. For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the\nfool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together\nwith oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.\n\n2:17. And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things\nunder the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.\n\n2:18. Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly\nlaboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,\n\n2:19. Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he\nshall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been\nsolicitous: and is there anything so vain?\n\n2:20. Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring anymore\nunder the sun.\n\n2:21. For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and\ncarefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this\nalso is vanity, and a great evil.\n\n2:22. For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation\nof spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?\n\n2:23. All his days are full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night\nhe doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?\n\n2:24. Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good\nthings of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.\n\n2:25. Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?\n\n2:26. God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and\nknowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and\nsuperfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to\nhim that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless\nsolicitude of the mind.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 3\n\nAll human things are liable to perpetual changes. We are to rest on\nGod\u2019s providence, and cast away fruitless cares.\n\n3:1. All things have their season, and in their times all things pass\nunder heaven.\n\n3:2. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time\nto pluck up that which is planted.\n\n3:3. A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time\nto build.\n\n3:4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time\nto dance.\n\n3:5. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace,\nand a time to be far from embraces.\n\n3:6. A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to\ncast away.\n\n3:7. A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a\ntime to speak.\n\n3:8. A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of\npeace.\n\n3:9. What hath man more of his labour?\n\n3:10. I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to\nbe exercised in it.\n\n3:11. He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered\nthe world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work\nwhich God hath made from the beginning to the end.\n\n3:12. And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice,\nand to do well in this life.\n\n3:13. For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his\nlabour, this is the gift of God.\n\n3:14. I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue\nfor ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things\nwhich God hath made that he may be feared.\n\n3:15. That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that\nshall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.\n\n3:16. I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in\nthe place of justice iniquity.\n\n3:17. And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the\nwicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.\n\n3:18. I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would\nprove them, and shew them to be like beasts.\n\n3:19. Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the\ncondition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all\nthings breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things\nare subject to vanity.\n\nMan hath nothing more, etc.... Viz., as to the life of the body.\n\n3:20. And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into\nearth they return together.\n\n3:21. Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward,\nand if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?\n\nWho knoweth, etc.... Viz., experimentally: since no one in this life\ncan see a spirit. But as to the spirit of the beasts, which is merely\nanimal, and become extinct by the death of the beast, who can tell the\nmanner it acts so as to give life and motion, and by death to descend\ndownward, that is, to be no more?\n\n3:22. And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice\nin his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to\nknow the things that shall be after him?\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 4\n\nOther instances of human miseries.\n\n4:1. I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that\nare done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no\ncomforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being\ndestitute of help from any.\n\n4:2. And I praised the dead rather than the living:\n\n4:3. And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor\nhath seen the evils that are done under the sun.\n\n4:4. Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that\ntheir industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this\nalso there is vanity, and fruitless care.\n\n4:5. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh,\nsaying:\n\n4:6. Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour,\nand vexation of mind.\n\n4:7. Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:\n\n4:8. There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother,\nand yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with\nriches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and\ndefraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous\nvexation.\n\n4:9. It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for\nthey have the advantage of their society:\n\n4:10. If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that\nis alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up.\n\n4:11. And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall\none alone be warmed?\n\n4:12. And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a\nthreefold cord is not easily broken.\n\n4:13. Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old\nand foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.\n\n4:14. Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to\na kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.\n\n4:15. I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second\nyoung man, who shall rise up in his place.\n\n4:16. The number of the people, of all that were before him is\ninfinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in\nhim: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.\n\n4:17. Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw\nnigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools,\nwho know not what evil they do.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 5\n\nCaution in words. Vows are to be paid. Riches are often pernicious: the\nmoderate use of them is the gift of God.\n\n5:1. Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to\nutter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth:\ntherefore let thy words be few.\n\n5:2. Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.\n\n5:3. If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an\nunfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou\nhast vowed, pay it.\n\n5:4. And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform\nthe things promised.\n\n5:5. Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before\nthe angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and\ndestroy all the works of thy hands.\n\n5:6. Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words\nwithout number: but do thou fear God.\n\n5:7. If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent\njudgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this\nmatter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others\nstill higher than these:\n\n5:8. Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject\nto him.\n\n5:9. A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that\nloveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.\n\n5:10. Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them.\nAnd what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with\nhis eyes?\n\n5:11. Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much:\nbut the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.\n\n5:12. There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the\nsun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.\n\n5:13. For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a\nson, who shall be in extremity of want.\n\n5:14. As he came forth naked from his mother\u2019s womb, so shall he\nreturn, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.\n\n5:15. A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then\ndoth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?\n\n5:16. All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many\ncares, and in misery, and sorrow.\n\n5:17. This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and\ndrink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured\nunder the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and\nthis is his portion.\n\n5:18. And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and\nhath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to\nrejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.\n\n5:19. For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God\nentertaineth his heart with delight.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 6\n\nThe misery of the covetous man.\n\n6:1. There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and\nthat frequent among men:\n\n6:2. A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour,\nand his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not\ngive him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is\nvanity and a great misery.\n\n6:3. If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain\nto a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance,\nand he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely\nborn is better than he.\n\n6:4. For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be\nwholly forgotten.\n\n6:5. He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:\n\n6:6. Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good\nthings: do not all make haste to one place?\n\n6:7. All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be\nfilled.\n\n6:8. What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man,\nbut to go thither, where there is life?\n\n6:9. Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that\nwhich thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of\nspirit.\n\n6:10. He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known,\nthat he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is\nstronger than himself.\n\n6:11. There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 7\n\nPrescriptions against worldly vanities: mortification, patience, and\nseeking wisdom.\n\n7:1. What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he\nknoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of\nhis pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can\ntell him what shall be after him under the sun?\n\n7:2. A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of\ndeath than the day of one\u2019s birth.\n\n7:3. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of\nfeasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the\nliving thinketh what is to come.\n\n7:4. Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the\ncountenance the mind of the offender is corrected.\n\nAnger.... That is, correction, or just wrath and zeal against evil.\n\n7:5. The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of\nfools where there is mirth.\n\n7:6. It is better to be rebuked by a wise man, than to be deceived by\nthe flattery of fools.\n\n7:7. For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the\nlaughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.\n\n7:8. Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall destroy the strength of\nhis heart.\n\n7:9. Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the\npatient man than the presumptuous.\n\n7:10. Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.\n\n7:11. Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were\nbetter than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.\n\n7:12. Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more\nadvantage to them that see the sun.\n\n7:13. For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning\nand wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth\nthem.\n\n7:14. Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath\ndespised.\n\n7:15. In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the\nevil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may\nnot find against him any just complaint.\n\n7:16. These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man\nperisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his\nwickedness.\n\n7:17. Be not over just: and be not more wise than is necessary, lest\nthou become stupid.\n\nOver just.... Viz., By an excessive rigour in censuring the ways of God\nin bearing with the wicked.\n\n7:18. Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before\nthy time.\n\nBe not overmuch wicked.... That is, lest by the greatness of your sin\nyou leave no room for mercy.\n\n7:19. It is good that thou shouldst hold up the just, yea and from him\nwithdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.\n\n7:20. Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the\ncity.\n\n7:21. For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth\nnot.\n\n7:22. But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest\nperhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.\n\n7:23. For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil\nof others.\n\n7:24. I have tried all things in wisdom. I have said: I will be wise:\nand it departed farther from me,\n\n7:25. Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it\nout?\n\n7:26. I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider,\nand seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool,\nand the error of the imprudent:\n\n7:27. And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the\nhunter\u2019s snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He\nthat pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall\nbe caught by her.\n\n7:28. Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after\nanother, that I might find out the account,\n\n7:29. Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among\na thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.\n\n7:30. Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath\nentangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise\nman? and who hath known the resolution of the word?\n\nOf the word.... That is, of this obscure and difficult matter.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 8\n\nTrue wisdom is to observe God\u2019s commandments. The ways of God are\nunsearchable.\n\n8:1. The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most\nmighty will change his face.\n\n8:2. I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath\nof God.\n\n8:3. Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an\nevil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:\n\n8:4. And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why\ndost thou so?\n\n8:5. He that keepeth the commandment, shall find no evil. The heart of\na wise man understandeth time and answer.\n\n8:6. There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great\naffliction for man:\n\n8:7. Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he\ncannot know by any messenger.\n\n8:8. It is not in man\u2019s power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power\nin the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at\nhand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.\n\n8:9. All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all\nthe works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over\nanother to his own hurt.\n\n8:10. I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were\nin the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works:\nbut this also is vanity.\n\n8:11. For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil,\nthe children of men commit evils without any fear.\n\n8:12. But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be\nborne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that\nfear God, who dread his face.\n\n8:13. But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be\nprolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of\nthe Lord.\n\n8:14. There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There\nare just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of\nthe wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they\nhad the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.\n\n8:15. Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man\nunder the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should\ntake nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which\nGod hath given him under the sun.\n\nNo good for a man, etc.... Some commentators think the wise man here\nspeaks in the person of the libertine: representing the objections of\nthese men against divine providence, and the inferences they draw from\nthence, which he takes care afterwards to refute. But it may also be\nsaid, that his meaning is to commend the moderate use of the goods of\nthis world, preferably to the cares and solicitudes of worldlings,\ntheir attachment to vanity and curiosity, and presumptuously diving\ninto the unsearchable ways of divine providence.\n\n8:16. And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the\ndistraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night\ntake no sleep with their eyes.\n\n8:17. And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works\nof God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to\nseek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall\nsay, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 9\n\nMan knows not certainty that he is in God\u2019s grace. After death no more\nwork or merit.\n\n9:1. All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might\ncarefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their\nworks are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be\nworthy of love, or hatred:\n\n9:2. But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because\nall things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good\nand to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth\nvictims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also\nis the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.\n\n9:3. This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the\nsun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of\nthe children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they\nlive, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.\n\n9:4. There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a\nliving dog is better than a dead lion.\n\n9:5. For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing\nmore, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is\nforgotten.\n\nKnow nothing more.... Viz., as to the transactions of this world, in\nwhich they have now no part, unless it be revealed to them; neither\nhave they any knowledge or power now of doing any thing to secure their\neternal state, (if they have not taken care of it in their lifetime:)\nnor can they now procure themselves any good, as the living always may\ndo, by the grace of God.\n\n9:6. Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all\nperished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work\nthat is done under the sun.\n\n9:7. Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with\ngladness: because thy works please God.\n\n9:8. At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart\nfrom thy head.\n\n9:9. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy\nunsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of\nthy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour\nwherewith thou labourest under the sun.\n\n9:10. Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither\nwork, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither\nthou art hastening.\n\n9:11. I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the\nrace is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to\nthe wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but\ntime and chance in all.\n\n9:12. Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the\nhook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the\nevil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.\n\n9:13. This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me\nto be very great:\n\n9:14. A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great\nking, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege\nwas perfect.\n\n9:15. Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered\nthe city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.\n\n9:16. And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the\nwisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?\n\n9:17. The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of\na prince among fools.\n\n9:18. Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend\nin one, shall lose many good things.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 10\n\nObservations on wisdom and folly, ambition and detraction.\n\n10:1. Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory\nis more precious than a small and shortlived folly.\n\n10:2. The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a\nfool is in his left hand.\n\n10:3. Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself\nis a fool, esteemeth all men fools.\n\n10:4. If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not\nthy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.\n\n10:5. There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an\nerror proceeding from the face of the prince:\n\n10:6. A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.\n\n10:7. I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the\nground as servants.\n\n10:8. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a\nhedge, a serpent shall bite him.\n\n10:9. He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that\ncutteth trees, shall be wounded by them.\n\n10:10. If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt,\nwith much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow\nwisdom.\n\n10:11. If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that\nbackbiteth secretly.\n\n10:12. The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of\na fool shall throw him down headlong.\n\n10:13. The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is\na mischievous error.\n\n10:14. A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been\nbefore him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?\n\n10:15. The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go\nto the city.\n\n10:16. Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the\nprinces eat in the morning.\n\n10:17. Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat\nin due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.\n\n10:18. By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through\nthe weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.\n\n10:19. For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may\nfeast: and all things obey money.\n\n10:20. Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil\nof the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the\nair will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou\nhast said.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 11\n\nExhortation to works of mercy, while we have time, to diligence in\ngood, and to the remembrance of death and judgment.\n\n11:1. Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time\nthou shalt find it again.\n\n11:2. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight: for thou knowest not\nwhat evil shall be upon the earth.\n\n11:3. If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If\nthe tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it\nshall fall, there shall it be.\n\nIf the tree fall, etc.... The state of the soul is unchangeable when\nonce she comes to heaven or hell: and a soul that departs this life in\nthe state of grace, shall never fall from grace: as on the other side,\na soul that dies out of the state of grace, shall never come to it. But\nthis does not exclude a place of temporal punishments for such souls as\ndie in the state of grace: yet not so as to be entirely pure: and\ntherefore they shall be saved, indeed, yet so as by fire. 1 Cor. 3.13,\n14, 15.\n\n11:4. He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that\nconsidereth the clouds, shall never reap.\n\n11:5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the\nbones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so\nthou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.\n\n11:6. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thy hand\ncease: for thou knowest not which may rather spring up, this or that:\nand if both together, it shall be the better.\n\n11:7. The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the\nsun.\n\n11:8. If a man live many years, and have rejoiced in them all, he must\nremember the darksome time, and the many days: which when they shall\ncome, the things past shall be accused of vanity.\n\n11:9. Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart\nbe in that which is good in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways\nof thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and know that for all these\nGod will bring thee into judgment.\n\n11:10. Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh.\nFor youth and pleasure are vain.\n\n\nEcclesiastes Chapter 12\n\nThe Creator is to be remembered in the days of our youth: all worldly\nthings are vain: we should fear God and keep his commandments.\n\n12:1. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of\naffliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They\nplease me not:\n\n12:2. Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be\ndarkened, and the clouds return after the rain:\n\nBefore the sun, etc.... That is, before old age: the effects of which\nupon all the senses and faculties are described in the following\nverses, under a variety of figures.\n\n12:3. When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men\nshall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and\nthey that look through the holes shall be darkened:\n\n12:4. And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder\u2019s\nvoice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird,\nand all the daughters of music shall grow deaf.\n\n12:5. And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the\nway, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and\nthe caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house\nof his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.\n\n12:6. Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink\nback, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be\nbroken upon the cistern,\n\n12:7. And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the\nspirit return to God, who gave it.\n\n12:8. Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.\n\n12:9. And whereas Ecclesiastes was very wise, he taught the people, and\ndeclared the things that he had done: and seeking out, he set forth\nmany parables.\n\n12:10. He sought profitable words, and wrote words most right, and full\nof truth.\n\n12:11. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened\nin, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.\n\n12:12. More than these, my son, require not. Of making many books there\nis no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.\n\n12:13. Let us all hear together the conclusion of the discourse. Fear\nGod, and keep his commandments: for this is all man:\n\nAll man.... The whole business and duty of man.\n\n12:14. And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for\nevery error, whether it be good or evil.\n\nError.... Or, hidden and secret thing.\n\n\n\n\nSOLOMON\u2019S CANTICLE OF CANTICLES\n\n\nThis Book is called the Canticle of Canticles, that is to say, the most\nexcellent of all canticles: because it is full of high mysteries,\nrelating to the happy union of Christ and his spouse: which is here\nbegun by love; and is to be eternal in heaven. The spouse of Christ is\nthe church: more especially as to the happiest part of it, viz.,\nperfect souls, every one of which is his beloved, but, above all\nothers, the immaculate and ever blessed virgin mother.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 1\n\nThe spouse aspires to an union with Christ, their mutual love for one\nanother.\n\n1:1. Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are\nbetter than wine,\n\nLet him kiss me.... The church, the spouse of Christ, prays that he may\nlove and have peace with her, which the spouse prefers to every thing\ndelicious: and therefore expresses (ver. 2) that young maidens, that is\nthe souls of the faithful, have loved thee.\n\n1:2. Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured\nout: therefore young maidens have loved thee.\n\n1:3. Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The\nking hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice\nin thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the righteous love\nthee.\n\nDraw me.... That is, with thy grace: otherwise I should not be able to\ncome to thee. This metaphor shews that we cannot of ourselves come to\nChrist our Lord, unless he draws us by his grace, which is laid up in\nhis storerooms: that is, in the mysteries of Faith, which God in his\ngoodness and love for mankind hath revealed, first by his servant Moses\nin the Old Law in figure only, and afterwards in reality by his only\nbegotten Son Jesus Christ.\n\n1:4. I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the\ntents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.\n\nI am black but beautiful.... That is, the church of Christ founded in\nhumility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and\ncontemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair\nand beautiful.\n\n1:5. Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered\nmy colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made\nme the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.\n\n1:6. Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where\nthou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of\nthy companions.\n\n1:7. If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and\nfollow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the\ntents of the shepherds.\n\nIf thou know not thyself, etc.... Christ encourages his spouse to\nfollow and watch her flock: and though she know not entirely the power\nat hand to assist her, he tells her, ver. 8, my company of horsemen,\nthat is, his angels, are always watching and protecting her. And in the\nfollowing verses he reminds her of the virtues and gifts with which he\nhas endowed her.\n\n1:8. To my company of horsemen, in Pharao\u2019s chariots, have I likened\nthee, O my love.\n\n1:9. Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove\u2019s, thy neck as jewels.\n\n1:10. We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.\n\n1:11. While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the\nodour thereof.\n\n1:12. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my\nbreasts.\n\n1:13. A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of\nEngaddi.\n\n1:14. Behold thou art fair, O my love, behold thou art fair, thy eyes\nare as those of doves.\n\n1:15. Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is\nflourishing.\n\n1:16. The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress\ntrees.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 2\n\nChrist caresses his spouse: he invites her to him.\n\n2:1. I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys.\n\nI am the flower of the field.... Christ professes himself the flower of\nmankind, yea, the Lord of all creatures: and, ver. 2, declares the\nexcellence of his spouse, the true church above all other societies,\nwhich are to be considered as thorns.\n\n2:2. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.\n\n2:3. As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved\namong the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his\nfruit was sweet to my palate.\n\n2:4. He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in\nme.\n\n2:5. Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I\nlanguish with love.\n\n2:6. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace\nme.\n\n2:7. I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the\nharts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to\nawake, till she please.\n\n2:8. The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the\nmountains, skipping over the hills.\n\nThe voice of my beloved: that is, the preaching of the gospel\nsurmounting difficulties figuratively here expressed by mountains and\nlittle hills.\n\n2:9. My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth\nbehind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the\nlattices.\n\n2:10. Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my\ndove, my beautiful one, and come.\n\n2:11. For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone.\n\n2:12. The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is\ncome: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:\n\n2:13. The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower\nyield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come:\n\n2:14. My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the\nwall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice\nis sweet, and thy face comely.\n\n2:15. Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our\nvineyard hath flourished.\n\nCatch us the little foxes.... Christ commands his pastors to catch\nfalse teachers, by holding forth their fallacy and erroneous doctrine,\nwhich like foxes would bite and destroy the vines.\n\n2:16. My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies,\n\n2:17. Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my\nbeloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 3\n\nThe spouse seeks Christ. The glory of his humanity.\n\n3:1. In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him,\nand found him not.\n\nIn my bed by night, etc.... The Gentiles as in the dark, and seeking in\nheathen delusion what they could not find, the true God, until Christ\nrevealed his doctrine to them by his watchmen, (ver. 3,) that is, by\nthe apostles, and teachers by whom they were converted to the true\nfaith; and holding that faith firmly, the spouse (the Catholic Church)\ndeclares, ver. 4, That she will not let him go, till she bring him into\nher mother\u2019s house, etc., that is, till at last, the Jews also shall\nfind him.\n\n3:2. I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the\nbroad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I\nfound him not.\n\n3:3. The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom\nmy soul loveth?\n\n3:4. When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul\nloveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my\nmother\u2019s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.\n\n3:5. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts\nof the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she\nplease.\n\n3:6. Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of\naromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders\nof the perfumer?\n\n3:7. Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel,\nsurrounded the bed of Solomon?\n\n3:8. All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man\u2019s sword upon\nhis thigh, because of fears in the night.\n\n3:9. King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:\n\n3:10. The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the\ngoing up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters\nof Jerusalem.\n\n3:11. Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the\ndiadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals,\nand in the day of the joy of his heart.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 4\n\nChrist sets forth the graces of his spouse: and declares his love for\nher.\n\n4:1. How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes\nare doves\u2019 eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of\ngoats, which come up from mount Galaad.\n\nHow beautiful art thou.... Christ again praises the beauties of his\nchurch, which through the whole of this chapter are exemplified by a\nvariety of metaphors, setting forth her purity, her simplicity, and her\nstability.\n\n4:2. Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn, which come up from\nthe washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.\n\n4:3. Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks\nare as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.\n\n4:4. Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks:\na thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.\n\n4:5. Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed\namong the lilies.\n\nThy two breasts, etc.... Mystically to be understood: the love of God\nand the love of our neighbour, which are so united as twins which feed\namong the lilies: that is, the love of God and our neighbour, feeds on\nthe divine mysteries and the holy sacraments, left by Christ to his\nspouse to feed and nourish her children.\n\n4:6. Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the\nmountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.\n\n4:7. Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee.\n\n4:8. Come from Libanus, my spouse, come from Libanus, come: thou shalt\nbe crowned from the top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Hermon,\nfrom the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.\n\n4:9. Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast\nwounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.\n\n4:10. How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts\nare more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments\nabove all aromatical spices.\n\n4:11. Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk\nare under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of\nfrankincense.\n\n4:12. My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a\nfountain sealed up.\n\nMy sister, etc., a garden enclosed.... Figuratively the church is\nenclosed, containing only the faithful. A fountain sealed up.... That\nnone can drink of its waters, that is, the graces and spiritual\nbenefits of the holy sacraments, but those who are within its walls.\n\n4:13. Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the\norchard. Cypress with spikenard.\n\n4:14. Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the\ntrees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.\n\n4:15. The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run\nwith a strong stream from Libanus.\n\n4:16. Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my\ngarden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 5\n\nChrist calls his spouse: she languishes with love: and describes him by\nhis graces.\n\n5:1. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his\napple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have\ngathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the\nhoneycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O\nfriends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.\n\nLet my beloved come into his garden, etc.... Garden, mystically the\nchurch of Christ, abounding with fruit, that is, the good works of the\nelect.\n\n5:2. I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking:\nOpen to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is\nfull of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.\n\n5:3. I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my\nfeet, how shall I defile them?\n\n5:4. My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were\nmoved at his touch.\n\nMy beloved put his hand through the key hole, etc.... The spouse of\nChrist, his church, at times as it were penned up by its persecutors,\nand in fears, expecting the divine assistance, here signified by his\nhand: and ver. 6, but he had turned aside and was gone, that is, Christ\npermitting a further trial of suffering: and again, ver. 7, the\nkeepers, etc., signifying the violent and cruel persecutors of the\nchurch taking her veil, despoiling the church of its places of worship\nand ornaments for the divine service.\n\n5:5. I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and\nmy fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.\n\n5:6. I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned\naside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and\nfound him not: I called, and he did not answer me.\n\n5:7. The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and\nwounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.\n\n5:8. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved,\nthat you tell him that I languish with love.\n\n5:9. What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most\nbeautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the\nbeloved, that thou hast so adjured us?\n\n5:10. My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands.\n\nMy beloved, etc.... In this and the following verses, the church\nmystically describes Christ to those who know him not, that is, to\ninfidels in order to convert them to the true faith.\n\n5:11. His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm\ntrees, black as a raven.\n\n5:12. His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with\nmilk, and sit beside the plentiful streams.\n\n5:13. His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers.\nHis lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.\n\n5:14. His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly\nas of ivory, set with sapphires.\n\n5:15. His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold.\nHis form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars.\n\n5:16. His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved,\nand he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.\n\n5:17. Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women?\nwhither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee?\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 6\n\nThe spouse of Christ is but one: she is fair and terrible.\n\n6:1. My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical\nspices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.\n\nMy beloved is gone down into his garden.... Christ, pleased with the\ngood works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is\nalways present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be\nunderstood, that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he\ncomes to her assistance and she rejoices at his coming.\n\n6:2. I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the\nlilies.\n\n6:3. Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem\nterrible as an army set in array.\n\n6:4. Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy\nhair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.\n\n6:5. Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all\nwith twins, and there is none barren among them.\n\n6:6. Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden\nwithin thee.\n\n6:7. There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young\nmaidens without number.\n\n6:8. One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of\nher mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and\ndeclared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised\nher.\n\nOne is my dove, etc.... That is, my church is one, and she only is\nperfect and blessed.\n\n6:9. Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the\nmoon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?\n\nWho is she, etc.... Here is a beautiful metaphor describing the church\nfrom the beginning. As, the morning rising, signifying the church\nbefore the written law; fair as the moon, shewing her under the light\nof the gospel: and terrible as an army, the power of Christ\u2019s church\nagainst its enemies.\n\n6:10. I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the\nvalleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the\npomegranates budded.\n\n6:11. I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.\n\n6:12. Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, return that we may behold\nthee.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 7\n\nA further description of the graces of the church the spouse of Christ.\n\n7:1. What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps?\nHow beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince\u2019s daughter! The joints\nof thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful\nworkman.\n\nHow beautiful are thy steps, etc.... By these metaphors are signified\nthe power and mission of the church in propagating the true faith.\n\n7:2. Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is\nlike a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.\n\n7:3. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.\n\n7:4. Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in\nHesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy\nnose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.\n\n7:5. Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple\nof the king bound in the channels.\n\nThy head is like Carmel.... Christ, the invisible head of his church,\nis here signified.\n\n7:6. How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!\n\n7:7. Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of\ngrapes.\n\n7:8. I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the\nfruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine:\nand the odour of thy mouth like apples.\n\n7:9. Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and\nfor his lips and his teeth to ruminate.\n\n7:10. I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me.\n\n7:11. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in\nthe villages.\n\n7:12. Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vineyard\nflourish, if the flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if the\npomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my breasts.\n\n7:13. The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new\nand the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.\n\n\nCanticle of Canticles Chapter 8\n\nThe love of the church to Christ: his love to her.\n\n8:1. Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of\nmy mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man\nmay despise me?\n\n8:2. I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother\u2019s house:\nthere thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine\nand new wine of my pomegranates.\n\n8:3. His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.\n\nHis left hand, etc.... Words of the church to Christ. His left hand,\nsignifying the Old Testament, and his right hand, the New.\n\n8:4. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor\nawake my love till she please.\n\n8:5. Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights,\nleaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there\nthy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.\n\nWho is this, etc.... The angels with admiration behold the Gentiles\nconverted to the faith: coming up from the desert, that is, coming from\nheathenism and false worship: flowing with delights, that is, abounding\nwith good works which are pleasing to God: leaning on her beloved, on\nthe promise of Christ to his Church, that the gates of hell should not\nprevail against it; and supported by his grace conferred by the\nsacraments. Under the apple tree I raised thee up; that is, that Christ\nredeemed the Gentiles at the foot of the cross, where the synagogue of\nthe Jews (the mother church) was corrupted by their denying him, and\ncrucifying him.\n\n8:6. Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love\nis strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are\nfire and flames.\n\n8:7. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown\nit: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he\nshall despise it as nothing.\n\n8:8. Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our\nsister in the day when she is to be spoken to?\n\nOur sister is little, etc.... Mystically signifies the Jews, who are to\nbe spoken to: that is, converted towards the end of the world: and then\nshall become a wall, that is, a part of the building, the church of\nChrist.\n\n8:9. If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she\nbe a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.\n\n8:10. I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in\nhis presence as one finding peace.\n\n8:11. The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let\nout the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a\nthousand pieces of silver.\n\n8:12. My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable,\nand two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.\n\n8:13. Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me\nhear thy voice.\n\n8:14. Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young\nhart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF WISDOM\n\n\nThis Book is so called, because it treats of the excellence of WISDOM,\nthe means to obtain it, and the happy fruits it produces. It is written\nin the person of Solomon, and contains his sentiments. But it is\nuncertain who was the writer. It abounds with instructions and\nexhortations to kings and all magistrates to minister justice in the\ncommonwealth, teaching all kinds of virtues under the general names of\njustice and wisdom. It contains also many prophecies of Christ\u2019s\ncoming, passion, resurrection, and other Christian mysteries. The whole\nmay be divided into three parts. In the first six chapters, the author\nadmonishes all superiors to love and exercise justice and wisdom. In\nthe next three, he teacheth that wisdom proceedeth only from God, and\nis procured by prayer and a good life. In the other ten chapters, he\nsheweth the excellent effects and utility of wisdom and justice.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 1\n\nAn exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and\ndesireth not our death.\n\n1:1. Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the\nLord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart:\n\n1:2. For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself\nto them that have faith in him.\n\n1:3. For perverse thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is\ntried, reproveth the unwise:\n\n1:4. For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a\nbody subject to sins.\n\n1:5. For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful,\nand will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding,\nand he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.\n\n1:6. For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the\nevil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is\na true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.\n\n1:7. For the Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that\nwhich containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.\n\n1:8. Therefore he that speaketh unjust things, cannot be hid, neither\nshall the chastising judgment pass him by.\n\n1:9. For inquisition shall be made into the thoughts of the ungodly,\nand the hearing of his words shall come to God, to the chastising of\nhis iniquities.\n\n1:10. For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of\nmurmuring shall not be hid.\n\n1:11. Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth\nnothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech\nshall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul.\n\n1:12. Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye\ndestruction by the works of your hands.\n\n1:13. For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the\ndestruction of the living.\n\n1:14. For he created all things that they might be: and he made the\nnations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction\nin them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.\n\n1:15. For justice is perpetual and immortal.\n\n1:16. But the wicked with works and words have called it to them: and\nesteeming it a friend, have fallen away and have made a covenant with\nit: because they are worthy to be of the part thereof.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 2\n\nThe vain reasonings of the wicked: their persecuting the just,\nespecially the Son of God.\n\n2:1. For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The\ntime of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is\nno remedy, and no man hath been known to have returned from hell:\n\n2:2. For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we\nhad not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a\nspark to move our heart,\n\n2:3. Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall\nbe poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace\nof a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by\nthe beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:\n\n2:4. And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any\nremembrance of our works.\n\n2:5. For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going\nback of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:\n\n2:6. Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are\npresent, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.\n\n2:7. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not\nthe flower of the time pass by us.\n\n2:8. Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no\nmeadow escape our riot.\n\n2:9. Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where\nleave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.\n\n2:10. Let us oppress the poor just man, and not spare the widow, nor\nhonour the ancient grey hairs of the aged.\n\n2:11. But let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is\nfeeble is found to be nothing worth.\n\n2:12. Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not\nfor our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with\ntransgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way\nof life.\n\n2:13. He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth\nhimself the son of God.\n\n2:14. He is become a censurer of our thoughts.\n\n2:15. He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like\nother men\u2019s, and his ways are very different.\n\n2:16. We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our\nways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just,\nand glorieth that he hath God for his father.\n\n2:17. Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall\nhappen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.\n\n2:18. For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will\ndeliver him from the hands of his enemies.\n\n2:19. Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his\nmeekness, and try his patience.\n\n2:20. Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be\nrespect had unto him by his words.\n\n2:21. These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own\nmalice blinded them.\n\n2:22. And they knew not the secrets of God, nor hoped for the wages of\njustice, nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.\n\n2:23. For God created man incorruptible, and to the image of his own\nlikeness he made him.\n\n2:24. But by the envy of the devil, death came into the world:\n\n2:25. And they follow him that are of his side.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 3\n\nThe happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked.\n\n3:1. But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment\nof death shall not touch them.\n\n3:2. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure\nwas taken for misery:\n\n3:3. And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are\nin peace.\n\n3:4. And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope\nis full of immortality.\n\n3:5. Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded:\nbecause God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.\n\n3:6. As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a\nholocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect\nhad to them.\n\n3:7. The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among\nthe reeds.\n\n3:8. They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord\nshall reign for ever.\n\n3:9. They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that\nare faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his\nelect.\n\n3:10. But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices:\nwho have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.\n\n3:11. For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and\ntheir hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works\nunprofitable.\n\n3:12. Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.\n\n3:13. Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the\nundefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the\nvisitation of holy souls.\n\n3:14. And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands,\nnor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith\nshall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.\n\n3:15. For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom\nnever faileth.\n\n3:16. But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and\nthe seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.\n\n3:17. And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their\nlast old age shall be without honour.\n\n3:18. And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of\ncomfort in the day of trial.\n\n3:19. For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 4\n\nThe difference between the chaste and the adulterous generations: and\nbetween the death of the just and the wicked.\n\n4:1. How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory\nthereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.\n\n4:2. When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it\nhath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the\nreward of undefiled conflicts.\n\n4:3. But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and\nbastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.\n\n4:4. And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not\nfast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of\nwinds they shall be rooted out.\n\n4:5. For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their\nfruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing.\n\n4:6. For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of\nwickedness against their parents in their trial.\n\n4:7. But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.\n\n4:8. For venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the\nnumber of years: but the understanding of a man is grey hairs.\n\n4:9. And a spotless life is old age.\n\n4:10. He pleased God, and was beloved, and living among sinners, he was\ntranslated.\n\n4:11. He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his\nunderstanding, or deceit beguile his soul.\n\n4:12. For the bewitching of vanity obscureth good things, and the\nwandering of concupiscence overturneth the innocent mind.\n\n4:13. Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time.\n\n4:14. For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out\nof the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand\nnot, nor lay up such things in their hearts:\n\n4:15. That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that\nhe hath respect to his chosen.\n\n4:16. But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living,\nand youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.\n\n4:17. For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not\nunderstand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set\nhim in safety.\n\n4:18. They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall\nlaugh them to scorn.\n\n4:19. And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach\namong the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and\nspeechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall\nbe utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall\nperish.\n\n4:20. They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their\niniquities shall stand against them to convict them.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 5\n\nThe fruitless repentance of the wicked in another world: the reward of\nthe just.\n\n5:1. Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that\nhave afflicted them, and taken away their labours.\n\n5:2. These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall\nbe amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation,\n\n5:3. Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of\nspirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a\nparable of reproach.\n\n5:4. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without\nhonour.\n\n5:5. Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their\nlot is among the saints.\n\n5:6. Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of\njustice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not\nrisen upon us.\n\n5:7. We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and\nhave walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not\nknown.\n\n5:8. What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting\nof riches brought us?\n\n5:9. All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post\nthat runneth on,\n\n5:10. And as a ship that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is\ngone by, the trace cannot be found, nor the path of its keel in the\nwaters:\n\n5:11. Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which\nno mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light\nair, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings,\nand hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her\nway:\n\n5:12. Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly\ncometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known:\n\n5:13. So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able\nto shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness.\n\n5:14. Such things as these the sinners said in hell:\n\n5:15. For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with\nthe wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a\nsmoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a\nguest of one day that passeth by.\n\n5:16. But the just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with\nthe Lord, and the care of them with the most High.\n\n5:17. Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of glory, and a crown of\nbeauty at the hand of the Lord: for with his right hand he will cover\nthem, and with his holy arm he will defend them.\n\n5:18. And his zeal will take armour, and he will arm the creature for\nthe revenge of his enemies.\n\n5:19. He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true\njudgment instead of a helmet:\n\n5:20. He will take equity for an invincible shield:\n\n5:21. And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole\nworld shall fight with him against the unwise.\n\n5:22. Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as\nfrom a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the\nmark.\n\n5:23. And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting\nwrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers\nshall run together in a terrible manner.\n\n5:24. A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind\nshall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a\ndesert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 6\n\nAn address to princes to seek after wisdom: she is easily found by\nthose that seek her.\n\n6:1. Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a\nstrong man.\n\n6:2. Hear, therefore, ye kings, and understand, learn ye that are\njudges of the ends of the earth.\n\n6:3. Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in\nmultitudes of nations:\n\n6:4. For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High,\nwho will examine your works: and search out your thoughts:\n\n6:5. Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged\nrightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will\nof God.\n\n6:6. Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe\njudgment shall be for them that bear rule.\n\n6:7. For to him that is little, mercy is granted: but the mighty shall\nbe mightily tormented.\n\n6:8. For God will not except any man\u2019s person, neither will he stand in\nawe of any man\u2019s greatness: for he made the little and the great, and\nhe hath equally care of all.\n\n6:9. But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.\n\n6:10. To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may\nlearn wisdom, and not fall from it.\n\n6:11. For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified:\nand they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.\n\n6:12. Covet ye, therefore, my words, and love them, and you shall have\ninstruction.\n\n6:13. Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away, and is easily seen by\nthem that love her, and is found by them that seek her.\n\n6:14. She preventeth them that covet her, so that she first sheweth\nherself unto them.\n\n6:15. He that awaketh early to seek her, shall not labour: for he shall\nfind her sitting at his door.\n\n6:16. To think, therefore, upon her, is perfect understanding: and he\nthat watcheth for her, shall quickly be secure.\n\n6:17. For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, and she\nsheweth herself to them cheerfully in the ways, and meeteth them with\nall providence.\n\n6:18. For the beginning of her is the most true desire of discipline.\n\n6:19. And the care of discipline is love: and love is the keeping of\nher laws: and the keeping of her laws is the firm foundation of\nincorruption:\n\n6:20. And incorruption bringeth near to God.\n\n6:21. Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to the everlasting\nkingdom.\n\n6:22. If then your delight be in thrones, and sceptres, O ye kings of\nthe people, love wisdom, that you may reign for ever.\n\n6:23. Love the light of wisdom, all ye that bear rule over peoples.\n\n6:24. Now what wisdom is, and what was her origin, I will declare: and\nI will not hide from you the mysteries of God, but will seek her out\nfrom the beginning of her birth, and bring the knowledge of her to\nlight, and will not pass over the truth:\n\n6:25. Neither will I go with consuming envy: for such a man shall not\nbe partaker of wisdom.\n\n6:26. Now the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the whole world:\nand a wise king is the upholding of the people.\n\n6:27. Receive, therefore, instruction by my words, and it shall be\nprofitable to you.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 7\n\nThe excellence of wisdom: how she is to be found.\n\n7:1. I myself also am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of\nhim, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb of my mother I\nwas fashioned to be flesh.\n\n7:2. In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of\nman, and the pleasure of sleep concurring.\n\n7:3. And being born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth,\nthat is made alike, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as\nall others do.\n\n7:4. I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with great cares.\n\n7:5. For none of the kings had any other beginning of birth.\n\n7:6. For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.\n\n7:7. Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called\nupon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me:\n\n7:8. And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed\nriches nothing in comparison of her.\n\n7:9. Neither did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold,\nin comparison of her, is as a little sand; and silver, in respect to\nher, shall be counted as clay.\n\n7:10. I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her\ninstead of light: for her light cannot be put out.\n\n7:11. Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable\nriches through her hands,\n\n7:12. And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and\nI knew not that she was the mother of them all.\n\n7:13. Which I have learned without guile, and communicate without envy,\nand her riches I hide not.\n\n7:14. For she is an infinite treasure to men: which they that use,\nbecome the friends of God, being commended for the gifts of discipline.\n\n7:15. And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive\nthoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the\nguide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:\n\n7:16. For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and\nthe knowledge and skill of works.\n\n7:17. For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are:\nto know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the\nelements,\n\n7:18. The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the\nalterations of their courses, and the changes of seasons,\n\n7:19. The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,\n\n7:20. The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the\nforce of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and\nthe virtues of roots,\n\n7:21. And all such things as are hid, and not foreseen, I have learned:\nfor wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me.\n\n7:22. For in her is the spirit of understanding; holy, one, manifold,\nsubtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is\ngood, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,\n\n7:23. Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power,\noverseeing all things, and containing all spirits: intelligible, pure,\nsubtile:\n\n7:24. For wisdom is more active than all active things; and reacheth\neverywhere, by reason of her purity.\n\n7:25. For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure\nemmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled\nthing cometh into her.\n\n7:26. For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted\nmirror of God\u2019s majesty, and the image of his goodness.\n\n7:27. And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in\nherself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations\nconveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and\nprophets.\n\n7:28. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.\n\n7:29. For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order\nof the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.\n\n7:30. For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 8\n\nFurther praises of wisdom: and her fruits.\n\n8:1. She reacheth, therefore, from end to end mightily, and ordereth\nall things sweetly.\n\n8:2. Her have I loved, and have sought her out from my youth, and have\ndesired to take for my spouse, and I became a lover of her beauty.\n\n8:3. She glorifieth her nobility by being conversant with God: yea, and\nthe Lord of all things hath loved her.\n\n8:4. For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of God and is the\nchooser of his works.\n\n8:5. And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom,\nwhich maketh all things?\n\n8:6. And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of\nthose things that are?\n\n8:7. And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she\nteacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which\nare such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.\n\n8:8. And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and\njudgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and\nthe solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they\nbe done, and the events of times and ages.\n\n8:9. I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing\nthat she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a\ncomfort in my cares and grief.\n\n8:10. For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour\nwith the ancients, though I be young:\n\n8:11. And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be\nadmired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall\nwonder at me.\n\n8:12. They shall wait for me when I hold my peace, and they shall look\nupon me when I speak; and if I talk much, they shall lay their hands on\ntheir mouth.\n\n8:13. Moreover, by the means of her I shall have immortality: and shall\nleave behind me an everlasting memory to them that come after me.\n\n8:14. I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to\nme.\n\n8:15. Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of me: among the\nmultitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war.\n\n8:16. When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her\nconversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but\njoy and gladness.\n\n8:17. Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my\nheart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,\n\n8:18. And that there is great delight in her friendship, and\ninexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of\nconference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her\nwords: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself.\n\n8:19. And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul.\n\n8:20. And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled.\n\n8:21. And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God\ngave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it\nwas, I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole\nheart:\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 9\n\nSolomon\u2019s prayer for wisdom.\n\n9:1. God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things\nwith thy word,\n\n9:2. And by thy wisdom hast appointed man, that he should have dominion\nover the creature that was made by thee,\n\n9:3. That he should order the world according to equity and justice,\nand execute justice with an upright heart:\n\n9:4. Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne, and cast me not off\nfrom among thy children:\n\n9:5. For I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid, a weak man, and\nof short time, and falling short of the understanding of judgment and\nlaws.\n\n9:6. For if one be perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom\nbe not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.\n\n9:7. Thou hast chosen me to be king of thy people, and a judge of thy\nsons and daughters:\n\n9:8. And hast commanded me to build a temple on thy holy mount, and an\naltar in the city of thy dwelling place, a resemblance of thy holy\ntabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning:\n\n9:9. And thy wisdom with thee, which knoweth thy works, which then also\nwas present when thou madest the world, and knew what was agreeable to\nthy eyes, and what was right in thy commandments.\n\n9:10. Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from the throne of thy\nmajesty, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may\nknow what is acceptable with thee:\n\n9:11. For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and shall lead me\nsoberly in my works, and shall preserve me by her power.\n\n9:12. So shall my works be acceptable, and I shall govern thy people\njustly, and shall be worthy of the throne of my father.\n\n9:13. For who among men is he that can know the counsel of God? or who\ncan think what the will of God is?\n\n9:14. For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels\nuncertain.\n\n9:15. For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, and the earthly\nhabitation presseth down the mind that museth upon many things.\n\n9:16. And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth: and\nwith labour do we find the things that are before us. But the things\nthat are in heaven, who shall search out?\n\n9:17. And who shall know thy thought, except thou give wisdom, and send\nthy holy Spirit from above:\n\n9:18. And so the ways of them that are upon earth may be corrected, and\nmen may learn the things that please thee?\n\n9:19. For by wisdom they were healed, whosoever have pleased thee, O\nLord, from the beginning.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 10\n\nWhat wisdom did for Adam, Noe, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, and the\npeople of Israel.\n\n10:1. She preserved him, that was first formed by God, the father of\nthe world, when he was created alone,\n\n10:2. And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern\nall things.\n\n10:3. But when the unjust went away from her in his anger, he perished\nby the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.\n\nThe unjust.... Cain.\n\n10:4. For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it\nagain, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.\n\nFor whose cause.... Viz., for the wickedness of the race of Cain.\u2014Ibid.\nThe just.... Noe.\n\n10:5. Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to\nwickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God,\nand kept him strong against the compassion for his son.\n\nShe knew the just.... She found out and approved Abraham. Ibid. And\nkept him strong, etc.... Gave him strength to stand firm against the\nefforts of his natural tenderness, when he was ordered to sacrifice his\nson.\n\n10:6. She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were\nperishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:\n\nThe just man.... Lot.\u2014Ibid. Pentapolis.... The land of the five cities,\nSodom, Gomorrha, etc.\n\n10:7. Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and\nsmoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a\nstanding pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.\n\n10:8. For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that\nthey were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a\nmemorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned,\nthey could not so much as lie hid.\n\n10:9. But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her.\n\n10:10. She conducted the just, when he fled from his brother\u2019s wrath,\nthrough the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him\nthe knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours,\nand accomplished his labours.\n\nThe just.... Jacob.\n\n10:11. In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him,\nand made him honourable.\n\n10:12. She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from\nseducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and\nknow that wisdom is mightier than all.\n\nConflict.... Viz., with the angel.\n\n10:13. She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him\nfrom sinners: she went down with him into the pit.\n\nThe just when he was sold.... Viz., Joseph.\n\n10:14. And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre\nof the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed\nthem to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.\n\n10:15. She delivered the just people, and blameless seed, from the\nnations that oppressed them.\n\n10:16. She entered into the soul of the servant of God and stood\nagainst dreadful kings in wonders and signs.\n\nThe servant of God.... Viz., Moses.\n\n10:17. And she rendered to the just the wages of their labours, and\nconducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by\nday, and for the light of stars by night:\n\n10:18. And she brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them over\nthrough a great water.\n\n10:19. But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of\nhell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the\nwicked.\n\n10:20. And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with\none accord thy victorious hand.\n\n10:21. For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of\ninfants eloquent.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 11\n\nOther benefits of wisdom to the people of God.\n\n11:1. She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet.\n\nThe holy prophet.... Moses.\n\n11:2. They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in\ndesert places they pitched their tents.\n\n11:3. They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of\ntheir adversaries.\n\nTheir enemies.... The Amalecites.\n\n11:4. They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given\nthem out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the\nhard stone.\n\n11:5. For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink\nfailed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and\nrejoiced:\n\nBy what things, etc.... The meaning is, that God, who wrought a miracle\nto punish the Egyptians by thirst, when he turned all their waters into\nblood, (at which time the Israelites, who were exempt from those\nplagues, had plenty of water,) wrought another miracle in favour of his\nown people in their thirst, by giving them water out of the rock.\n\n11:6. By the same things they in their need were benefited.\n\n11:7. For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest\nhuman blood to the unjust.\n\n11:8. And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their\nmurdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked\nfor:\n\n11:9. Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine,\nand didst kill their adversaries.\n\n11:10. For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew\nhow the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented.\n\n11:11. For thou didst admonish and try them as a father: but the\nothers, as a severe king, thou didst examine and condemn.\n\n11:12. For whether absent or present, they were tormented alike.\n\n11:13. For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the\nremembrance of things past.\n\n11:14. For when they heard that by their punishments the others were\nbenefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was\ncome to pass.\n\nBy their punishments, etc.... That is, that the Israelites had been\nbenefited and miraculously favoured in the same kind, in which they had\nbeen punished.\n\n11:15. For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time\nof his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end,\nwhen they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the\njust.\n\n11:16. But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some\nbeing deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou\ndidst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance:\n\nDumb beasts.... Viz., frogs, sciniphs, flies, and locusts.\n\n11:17. That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the\nsame also he is tormented.\n\n11:18. For thy almighty hand, which made the world of matter without\nform, was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce\nlions,\n\n11:19. Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage; either breathing\nout a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting\nhorrible sparks out of their eyes:\n\n11:20. Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but\nalso the very sight might kill them through fear.\n\n11:21. Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one\nblast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of\nthy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and\nweight.\n\n11:22. For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall\nresist the strength of thy arm?\n\n11:23. For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the\nbalance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon the\nearth.\n\n11:24. But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things,\nand overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.\n\n11:25. For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the\nthings which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any\nthing hating it.\n\n11:26. And how could any thing endure, if thou wouldst not? or be\npreserved, if not called by thee?\n\n11:27. But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest\nsouls.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 12\n\nGod\u2019s wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with the Chanaanites.\n\n12:1. O how good and sweet is thy Spirit, O Lord, in all things!\n\n12:2. And therefore thou chastisest them that err, by little and\nlittle: and admonishest them, and speakest to them, concerning the\nthings wherein they offend: that leaving their wickedness, they may\nbelieve in thee, O Lord.\n\n12:3. For those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst\nabhor,\n\n12:4. Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and\nwicked sacrifices,\n\n12:5. And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters\nof men\u2019s bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy\nconsecration,\n\nFrom the midst of thy consecration.... Literally, sacrament. That is,\nthe land sacred to thee, in which thy temple was to be established, and\nman\u2019s redemption to be wrought.\n\n12:6. And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless\nsouls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,\n\n12:7. That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a\nworthy colony of the children of God.\n\n12:8. Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps\nforerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.\n\n12:9. Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by\nwar, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at\nonce:\n\n12:10. But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place\nof repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation,\nand their malice natural, and that their thought could never be\nchanged.\n\n12:11. For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou\nfor fear of any one give pardon to their sins.\n\n12:12. For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall\nwithstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger\nof wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which\nthou hast made?\n\n12:13. For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that\nthou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly.\n\n12:14. Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight inquire about them\nwhom thou hast destroyed.\n\n12:15. For so much then, as thou art just, thou orderest all things\njustly: thinking it not agreeable to the power, to condemn him who\ndeserveth not to be punished.\n\n12:16. For thy power is the beginning of justice: and because thou art\nLord of all, thou makest thyself gracious to all.\n\n12:17. For thou shewest thy power, when men will not believe thee to be\nabsolute in power, and thou convincest the boldness of them that know\nthee not.\n\n12:18. But thou being master of power, judgest with tranquillity, and\nwith great favour disposest of us: for thy power is at hand when thou\nwilt.\n\n12:19. But thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be\njust and humane, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope:\nbecause in judging, thou givest place for repentance for sins.\n\n12:20. For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy servants, and that\ndeserved to die, with so great deliberation, giving them time and place\nwhereby they might be changed from their wickedness:\n\n12:21. With what circumspection hast thou judged thy own children, to\nwhose parents thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?\n\n12:22. Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou scourgest our enemies\nvery many ways, to the end that when we judge we may think on thy\ngoodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy.\n\n12:23. Wherefore thou hast also greatly tormented them, who, in their\nlife, have lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same things which they\nworshipped.\n\n12:24. For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error,\nholding those things for gods which are the most worthless among\nbeasts, living after the manner of children without understanding.\n\n12:25. Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless\nchildren, to mock them.\n\n12:26. But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions,\nexperienced the worthy judgment of God.\n\n12:27. For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very\nthings which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same,\nthey acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that\nthey knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon\nthem.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 13\n\nIdolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all that worship for gods\nthe works of the hands of men.\n\n13:1. But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God:\nand who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him\nthat is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was\nthe workman:\n\n13:2. But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air,\nor the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to\nbe the gods that rule the world.\n\n13:3. With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be\ngods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than\nthey: for the first author of beauty made all those things.\n\n13:4. Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them\nunderstand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:\n\n13:5. For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the\ncreator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.\n\n13:6. But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps\nerr, seeking God, and desirous to find him.\n\n13:7. For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are\npersuaded that the things are good which are seen.\n\n13:8. But then again they are not to be pardoned.\n\n13:9. For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of\nthe world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?\n\n13:10. But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have\ncalled gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the\ninventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable\nstone the work of an ancient hand.\n\n13:11. Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for\nhis use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and\nwith his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common\nuses of life,\n\n13:12. And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:\n\n13:13. And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing,\nbeing a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently\nwhen he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth\nit, and maketh it like the image of a man:\n\n13:14. Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion,\nand painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it:\n\n13:15. And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in\na wall, and fastening it with iron,\n\n13:16. Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable\nto help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help.\n\n13:17. And then maketh prayer to it, enquiring concerning his\nsubstance, and his children, or his marriage. And he is not ashamed to\nspeak to that which hath no life:\n\n13:18. And for health he maketh supplication to the weak, and for life\nprayeth to that which is dead, and for help calleth upon that which is\nunprofitable:\n\n13:19. And for a good journey he petitioneth him that cannot walk: and\nfor getting, and for working, and for the event of all things he asketh\nhim that is unable to do any thing.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 14\n\nThe beginning of worshipping idols: and the effects thereof.\n\n14:1. Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his\nvoyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more\nfrail than the wood that carrieth him.\n\n14:2. For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by\nhis skill.\n\n14:3. But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a\nway even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,\n\n14:4. Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea, though\na man went to sea without art.\n\n14:5. But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men\nalso trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea\nby ship, are saved.\n\n14:6. And from the beginning also, when the proud giants perished, the\nhope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand,\nleft to the world seed of generation.\n\n14:7. For blessed is the wood, by which justice cometh\n\n14:8. But the idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he\nthat made it: he because he made it; and it because being frail it is\ncalled a god.\n\n14:9. But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike.\n\n14:10. For that which is made, together with him that made it, shall\nsuffer torments.\n\n14:11. Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the\nGentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination,\nand a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the\nunwise.\n\n14:12. For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and\nthe invention of them is the corruption of life.\n\n14:13. For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be\nfor ever.\n\n14:14. For by the vanity of men they came into the world: and therefore\nthey shall be found to come shortly to an end.\n\n14:15. For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself\nthe image of his son, who was quickly taken away: and him who then had\ndied as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him\nrites and sacrifices among his servants.\n\n14:16. Then, in process of time, wicked custom prevailing, this error\nwas kept as a law, and statues were worshipped by the commandment of\ntyrants.\n\n14:17. And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they\ndwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an\nexpress image of the king, whom they had a mind to honour: that by this\ntheir diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent.\n\n14:18. And to the worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of\nthe artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.\n\n14:19. For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured\nwith all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.\n\n14:20. And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the\nwork, took him now for a god, that little before was but honoured as a\nman.\n\n14:21. And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men\nserving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable\nname to stones and wood.\n\n14:22. And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of\nGod, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so\nmany and so great evils peace.\n\n14:23. For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden\nsacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,\n\n14:24. So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but\none killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:\n\n14:25. And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and\ndissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury,\ndisquieting of the good,\n\n14:26. Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature,\ndisorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness.\n\n14:27. For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the\nbeginning and end of all evil.\n\n14:28. For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy\nlies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.\n\n14:29. For whilst they trust in idols, which are without life, though\nthey swear amiss, they look not to be hurt.\n\n14:30. But for both these things they shall be justly punished, because\nthey have thought not well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn\nunjustly, in guile despising justice.\n\n14:31. For it is not the power of them, by whom they swear, but the\njust vengeance of sinners always punisheth the transgression of the\nunjust.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 15\n\nThe servants of God praise him who hath delivered them from idolatry;\ncondemning both the makers and the worshippers of idols.\n\n15:1. But thou, our God, art gracious and true, patient, and ordering\nall things in mercy.\n\n15:2. For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy greatness: and if we sin\nnot, we know that we are counted with thee.\n\n15:3. For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and\nthy power, is the root of immortality.\n\n15:4. For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor\nthe shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with\ndivers colours,\n\n15:5. The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he\nloveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.\n\n15:6. The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to\ntrust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they\nthat worship them.\n\n15:7. The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth\nevery vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both\nvessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the\ncontrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the\njudge.\n\n15:8. And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a\nlittle before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth\nto the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent\nhim, shall be called for again.\n\n15:9. But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is\nshort, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he\nendeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory\nto make vain things.\n\n15:10. For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life\nmore base than clay:\n\n15:11. Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into\nhim the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit.\n\n15:12. Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business\nof life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of\nevil.\n\n15:13. For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of\nearthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods.\n\n15:14. But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection,\nare foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:\n\n15:15. For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods,\nwhich neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath,\nnor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their\nfeet, they are slow to walk.\n\n15:16. For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath,\nfashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself.\n\n15:17. For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his\nwicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because\nhe indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.\n\n15:18. Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things\nwithout sense, compared to these, are worse than they.\n\n15:19. Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But\nthey have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 16\n\nGod\u2019s different dealings with the Egyptians and with his own people.\n\n16:1. For these things, and by the like things to these, they were\nworthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.\n\n16:2. Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou\ngavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing\nfor them quails for their meat:\n\n16:3. To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those\nthings that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which\nwas necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want\nfor a short time, tasted a new meat.\n\nThey indeed desiring food, etc.... He means the Egyptians; who were\nrestrained even from that food which was necessary, by the frogs and\nthe flies that were sent amongst them, and spoiled all their\nmeats.\u2014Ibid. But these.... Viz., the Israelites.\n\n16:4. For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon\nthem that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how\ntheir enemies were destroyed.\n\n16:5. For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were\ndestroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents.\n\n16:6. But thy wrath endured not for ever, but they were troubled for a\nshort time for their correction, having a sign of salvation, to put\nthem in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.\n\nSign of salvation.... The brazen serpent, an emblem of Christ our\nSaviour.\n\n16:7. For he that turned to it, was not healed by that which he saw,\nbut by thee, the Saviour of all.\n\n16:8. And in this thou didst shew to our enemies, that thou art he who\ndeliverest from all evil.\n\n16:9. For the bitings of locusts, and of flies, killed them, and there\nwas found no remedy for their life: because they were worthy to be\ndestroyed by such things.\n\n16:10. But not even the teeth of venomous serpents overcame thy\nchildren: for thy mercy came and healed them.\n\n16:11. For they were examined for the remembrance of thy words, and\nwere quickly healed, lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might\nnot be able to use thy help.\n\n16:12. For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster, that healed\nthem, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.\n\n16:13. For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and\nleadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:\n\n16:14. A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone\nforth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is\nreceived:\n\n16:15. But it is impossible to escape thy hand:\n\n16:16. For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the\nstrength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and\nrain, and consumed by fire.\n\n16:17. And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all\nthings, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just.\n\nThe fire had more force.... Viz., when the fire and hail mingled\ntogether laid waste the land of Egypt. Ex. 9.\n\n16:18. For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which\nwere sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might\nsee, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.\n\n16:19. And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the\nmidst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.\n\n16:20. Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the\nfood of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without\nlabour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every\ntaste.\n\n16:21. For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and\nserving every man\u2019s will, it was turned to what every man liked.\n\n16:22. But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that\nthey might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the\nrain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.\n\n16:23. But this same again, that the just might be nourished, did even\nforget its own strength.\n\n16:24. For the creature serving thee, the Creator, is made fierce\nagainst the unjust for their punishment: and abateth its strength for\nthe benefit of them that trust in thee.\n\n16:25. Therefore even then it was transformed into all things, and was\nobedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all, according to the will of\nthem that desired it of thee:\n\n16:26. That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it\nis not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word\npreserveth them that believe in thee.\n\n16:27. For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with\na little sunbeam, presently melted away:\n\n16:28. That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun\nto bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.\n\n16:29. For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter\u2019s\nice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 17\n\nThe Egyptian darkness.\n\n17:1. For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be\nexpressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.\n\n17:2. For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the\nholy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness,\nand a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the\neternal providence.\n\n17:3. And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they\nwere scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly\nafraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.\n\n17:4. For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for\nnoises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them,\naffrighted them.\n\n17:5. And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the\nbright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.\n\n17:6. But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and\nbeing struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they\nthought the things which they saw to be worse:\n\n17:7. And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their\nboasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.\n\n17:8. For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a\nsick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.\n\n17:9. For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared\nwith the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for\nfear and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be\navoided.\n\n17:10. For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its\ncondemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous\nthings.\n\n17:11. For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from\nthought.\n\n17:12. And while there is less expectation from within, the greater\ndoth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.\n\n17:13. But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done,\nand which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the\nsame sleep,\n\n17:14. Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes\nfainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for\nfear was come upon them.\n\n17:15. Moreover, if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in\nprison without irons.\n\n17:16. For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer\nin the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from\nwhich he could not fly.\n\n17:17. For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness.\nWhether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds,\namong the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down\nwith violence,\n\n17:18. Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that\ncould not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of\nwild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these\nthings made them to swoon for fear.\n\n17:19. For the whole world was enlightened, with a clear light, and\nnone were hindered in their labours.\n\n17:20. But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that\ndarkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more\ngrievous than the darkness.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 18\n\nThe slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt: the efficacy of Aaron\u2019s\nintercession, in the sedition on occasion of Core.\n\n18:1. But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice\nindeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not\nsuffer the same things, they glorified thee:\n\n18:2. And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they\nwere not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a\ndifference.\n\n18:3. Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of\nthe way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a\ngood entertainment.\n\nA harmless sun.... A light that should not hurt or molest them; but\nthat should be an agreeable guest to them.\n\n18:4. The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and\nimprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure\nlight of the law was to be given to the world.\n\n18:5. And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child\nbeing cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a\nmultitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a\nmighty water.\n\nOne child.... Viz., Moses.\n\n18:6. For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly\nknowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better\ncourage.\n\n18:7. So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction\nof the unjust.\n\n18:8. For as thou didst punish the adversaries so thou didst also\nencourage and glorify us.\n\n18:9. For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice\nsecretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just\nshould receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the\nfathers.\n\nOf good men.... Viz., of the patriarchs. Their children, the\nIsraelites, offered in private the sacrifice of the paschal lamb; and\nwere regulating what they were to do in their journey, when that last\nand most dreadful plague was coming upon their enemies.\n\n18:10. But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the\nenemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were\nbewailed.\n\n18:11. And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and\na common man suffered in like manner as the king.\n\n18:12. So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death.\nNeither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the\nnoblest offspring of them was destroyed.\n\nThe noblest offspring.... That is, the firstborn.\n\n18:13. For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of\nthe enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn,\nthey acknowledged the people to be of God.\n\n18:14. For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in\nthe midst of her course,\n\n18:15. Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne,\nas a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction,\n\n18:16. With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he\nstood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth,\nreached even to heaven.\n\n18:17. Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears\nunlooked for came upon them.\n\n18:18. And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause\nof his death.\n\n18:19. For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest\nthey should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils.\n\n18:20. But the just also were afterwards touched by an assault of\ndeath, and there was a disturbance of the multitude in the wilderness:\nbut thy wrath did not long continue;\n\n18:21. For a blameless man made haste to pry for the people, bringing\nforth the shield of his ministry, prayer, and by incense making\nsupplication, withstood the wrath, and put an end to the calamity,\nshewing that he was thy servant.\n\n18:22. And he overcame the disturbance, not by strength of body nor\nwith force of arms, but with a word he subdued him that punished them,\nalleging the oath and covenant made with the fathers.\n\n18:23. For when they were now fallen down dead by heaps one upon\nanother, he stood between and stayed the assault, and cut off the way\nto the living.\n\n18:24. For in the priestly robe which he wore, was the whole world: and\nin the four rows of the stones, the glory of the fathers was graven,\nand thy majesty was written upon the diadem of his head.\n\n18:25. And to these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them:\nfor the proof only of wrath was enough.\n\n\nWisdom Chapter 19\n\nWhy God shewed no mercy to the Egyptians. His favour to the Israelites.\nAll creatures obey God\u2019s orders for the service of the good, and the\npunishment of the wicked.\n\n19:1. But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath\nwithout mercy. For he knew before also what they would do:\n\n19:2. For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them\naway with great care, they repented and pursued after them.\n\n19:3. For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of\nthe dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as\nfugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:\n\n19:4. For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this\nend: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened,\nthat their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:\n\n19:5. And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they\nmight find a new death.\n\n19:6. For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as\nfrom the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might\nbe kept without hurt.\n\n19:7. For a cloud overshadowed their camps and where water was before,\ndry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hindrance, and out\nof the great deep a springing field:\n\n19:8. Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy\nhand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.\n\n19:9. For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like\nlambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.\n\n19:10. For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in\nthe time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies\ninstead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs\ninstead of fishes.\n\n19:11. And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led\nby their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.\n\n19:12. For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the\nsea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs\nby the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their\nown wickedness.\n\n19:13. For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any:\nothers indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought\ntheir guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.\n\n19:14. And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse:\nfor the others against their will received the strangers.\n\n19:15. But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with\njoy, and who lived under the same laws.\n\n19:16. But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the\ndoors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and\nevery one sought the passage of his own door.\n\n19:17. For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an\ninstrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their\nsound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.\n\nElements are changed, etc.... The meaning is, that whatever changes God\nwrought in the elements by miracles in favour of his people, they still\nkept their harmony by obeying his will.\n\n19:18. For the things of the land were turned into things of the water:\nand the things that before swam in the water passed upon the land.\n\n19:19. The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water\nforgot its quenching nature.\n\n19:20. On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of\ncorruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good\nfood, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst\nmagnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not\ndespise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place.\n\nThat good food.... The manna.\n\n\n\n\nECCLESIASTICUS\n\n\nThis Book is so called from a Greek word that signifies a preacher:\nbecause, like an excellent preacher, it gives admirable lessons of all\nvirtues. The author was Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem, who\nflourished about two hundred years before Christ. As it was written\nafter the time of Esdras, it is not in the Jewish canon; but is\nreceived as canonical and divine by the Catholic Church, instructed by\napostolical tradition, and directed by the spirit of God. It was first\nwritten in the Hebrew, but afterwards translated into Greek, by another\nJesus, the grandson of the author, whose prologue to this book is the\nfollowing:\n\nTHE PROLOGUE.\n\nThe knowledge of many and great things hath been shewn us by the law,\nand the prophets, and others that have followed them: for which things\nIsrael is to be commended for doctrine and wisdom, because not only\nthey that speak must needs be skilful, but strangers also, both\nspeaking and writing, may by their means become most learned. My\ngrandfather Jesus, after he had much given himself to a diligent\nreading of the law, and the prophets, and other books, that were\ndelivered to us from our fathers, had a mind also to write something\nhimself, pertaining to doctrine and wisdom; that such as are desirous\nto learn, and are made knowing in these things, may be more and more\nattentive in mind, and be strengthened to live according to the law. I\nentreat you therefore to come with benevolence, and to read with\nattention, and to pardon us for those things wherein we may seem, while\nwe follow the image of wisdom, to come short in the composition of\nwords; for the Hebrew words have not the same force in them when\ntranslated into another tongue. And not only these, but the law also\nitself, and the prophets, and the rest of the books, have no small\ndifference, when they are spoken in their own language. For in the\neight and thirtieth year coming into Egypt, when Ptolemy Evergetes was\nking, and continuing there a long time, I found there books left, of no\nsmall nor contemptible learning. Therefore I thought it good, and\nnecessary for me to bestow some diligence and labour to interpret this\nbook; and with much watching and study in some space of time, I brought\nthe book to an end, and set it forth for the service of them that are\nwilling to apply their mind, and to learn how they ought to conduct\nthemselves, who purpose to lead their life according to the law of the\nLord.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 1\n\nAll wisdom is from God, and is given to them that fear and love God.\n\n1:1. All wisdom is from the Lord God, and hath been always with him,\nand is before all time.\n\n1:2. Who hath numbered the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and\nthe days of the world? Who hath measured the height of heaven, and the\nbreadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss?\n\n1:3. Who hath searched out the wisdom of God that goeth before all\nthings?\n\n1:4. Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding\nof prudence from everlasting.\n\n1:5. The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom, and her ways\nare everlasting commandments.\n\n1:6. To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed, and who hath known\nher wise counsels?\n\n1:7. To whom hath the discipline of wisdom been revealed and made\nmanifest? and who hath understood the multiplicity of her steps?\n\n1:8. There is one most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and\ngreatly to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of\ndominion.\n\n1:9. He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her,\nand measured her.\n\n1:10. And he poured her out upon all his works, and upon all flesh\naccording to his gift, and hath given her to them that love him.\n\n1:11. The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a\ncrown of joy.\n\n1:12. The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart, and shall give joy,\nand gladness, and length of days.\n\n1:13. With him that feareth the Lord, it shall go well in the latter\nend, and in the day of his death he shall be blessed.\n\n1:14. The love of God is honourable wisdom.\n\n1:15. And they to whom she shall shew herself love her by the sight,\nand by the knowledge of her great works.\n\n1:16. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and was created\nwith the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and is\nknown with the just and faithful.\n\n1:17. The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of knowledge.\n\n1:18. Religiousness shall keep and justify the heart, it shall give joy\nand gladness.\n\n1:19. It shall go well with him that feareth the Lord, and in the days\nof his end he shall be blessed.\n\n1:20. To fear God is the fulness of wisdom, and fulness is from the\nfruits thereof.\n\n1:21. She shall fill all her house with her increase, and the\nstorehouses with her treasures.\n\n1:22. The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, filling up peace and\nthe fruit of salvation:\n\n1:23. And it hath seen, and numbered her: but both are the gifts of\nGod.\n\n1:24. Wisdom shall distribute knowledge, and understanding of prudence:\nand exalteth the glory of them that hold her.\n\n1:25. The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord: and the branches thereof\nare long-lived.\n\n1:26. In the treasures of wisdom is understanding, and religiousness of\nknowledge: but to sinners wisdom is an abomination.\n\n1:27. The fear of the Lord driveth out sin:\n\n1:28. For he that is without fear, cannot be justified: for the wrath\nof his high spirits is his ruin.\n\n1:29. A patient man shall bear for a time, and afterwards joy shall be\nrestored to him.\n\n1:30. A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips\nof many shall declare his wisdom.\n\n1:31. In the treasures of wisdom is the signification of discipline:\n\n1:32. But the worship of God is an abomination to a sinner.\n\n1:33. Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep justice, and God will give her\nto thee.\n\n1:34. For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and discipline: and that which\nis agreeable to him,\n\n1:35. Is faith, and meekness: and he will fill up his treasures.\n\n1:36. Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord: and come not to him\nwith a double heart.\n\n1:37. Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and let not thy lips be a\nstumblingblock to thee.\n\n1:38. Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy\nsoul,\n\n1:39. And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of\nthe congregation.\n\n1:40. Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full\nof guile and deceit.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 2\n\nGod\u2019s servants must look for temptations: and must arm themselves with\npatience and confidence in God.\n\n2:1. Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and\nin fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.\n\n2:2. Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy ear, and receive the\nwords of understanding: and make not haste in the time of clouds.\n\n2:3. Wait on God with patience: join thyself to God, and endure, that\nthy life may be increased in the latter end.\n\n2:4. Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow\nendure, and in thy humiliation keep patience.\n\n2:5. For gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in\nthe furnace of humiliation.\n\n2:6. Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and\ntrust in him. Keep his fear, and grow old therein.\n\n2:7. Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy: and go not aside from\nhim lest ye fall.\n\n2:8. Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your reward shall not be\nmade void.\n\n2:9. Ye that fear the Lord hope in him, and mercy shall come to you for\nyour delight.\n\n2:10. Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be\nenlightened.\n\n2:11. My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no\none hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.\n\n2:12. For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been\nforsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him?\n\n2:13. For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in\nthe day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in\ntruth.\n\n2:14. Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to\nthe hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two\nways.\n\n2:15. Woe to them that are fainthearted, who believe not God: and\ntherefore they shall not be protected by him.\n\n2:16. Woe to them that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the\nright ways, and have gone aside into crooked ways.\n\n2:17. And what will they do, when the Lord shall begin to examine?\n\n2:18. They that fear the Lord, will not be incredulous to his word: and\nthey that love him, will keep his way.\n\n2:19. They that fear the Lord, will seek after the things that are well\npleasing to him: and they that love him, shall be filled with his law.\n\n2:20. They that fear the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and in his\nsight will sanctify their souls,\n\n2:21. They that fear the Lord, keep his commandments, and will have\npatience even until his visitation,\n\n2:22. Saying: If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of the\nLord, and not into the hands of men.\n\n2:23. For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 3\n\nLessons concerning the honour of parents, and humility, and avoiding\ncuriosity.\n\n3:1. The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their\ngeneration, obedience and love.\n\n3:2. Children, hear the judgment of your father, and so do that you may\nbe saved.\n\n3:3. For God hath made the father honourable to the children: and\nseeking the judgment of the mothers, hath confirmed it upon the\nchildren.\n\n3:4. He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer,\nand shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer\nof days.\n\n3:5. And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a\ntreasure.\n\n3:6. He that honoureth his father shall have joy in his own children,\nand in the day of his prayer he shall be heard.\n\n3:7. He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that\nobeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother.\n\n3:8. He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve\nthem as his masters that brought him into the world.\n\n3:9. Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,\n\n3:10. That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may\nremain in the latter end.\n\n3:11. The father\u2019s blessing establisheth the houses of the children:\nbut the mother\u2019s curse rooteth up the foundation.\n\n3:12. Glory not in the dishonour of thy father: for his shame is no\nglory to thee.\n\n3:13. For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father, and a\nfather without honour is the disgrace of the son.\n\n3:14. Son, support the old age of thy father, and grieve him not in his\nlife;\n\n3:15. And if his understanding fail, have patience with him, and\ndespise him not when thou art in thy strength: for the relieving of the\nfather shall not be forgotten.\n\n3:16. For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother.\n\n3:17. And in justice thou shalt be built up, and in the day of\naffliction thou shalt be remembered: and thy sins shall melt away as\nthe ice in the fair warm weather.\n\n3:18. Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is\ncursed of God that angereth his mother.\n\n3:19. My son, do thy works in meekness, and thou shalt be beloved above\nthe glory of men.\n\n3:20. The greater thou art, the more humble thyself in all things, and\nthou shalt find grace before God:\n\n3:21. For great is the power of God alone, and he is honoured by the\nhumble.\n\n3:22. Seek not the things that are too high for thee, and search not\ninto things above thy ability: but the things that God hath commanded\nthee, think on them always, and in many of his works be not curious.\n\n3:23. For it is not necessary for thee to see with thy eyes those\nthings that are hid.\n\n3:24. In unnecessary matters be not over curious, and in many of his\nworks thou shalt not be inquisitive.\n\n3:25. For many things are shewn to thee above the understanding of men.\n\n3:26. And the suspicion of them hath deceived many, and hath detained\ntheir minds in vanity.\n\n3:27. A hard heart shall fear evil at the last: and he that loveth\ndanger shall perish in it.\n\n3:28. A heart that goeth two ways shall not have success, and the\nperverse of heart shall be scandalized therein.\n\n3:29. A wicked heart shall be laden with sorrows, and the sinner will\nadd sin to sin.\n\n3:30. The congregation of the proud shall not be healed: for the plant\nof wickedness shall take root in them, and it shall not be perceived.\n\n3:31. The heart of the wise is understood in wisdom, and a good ear\nwill hear wisdom with all desire.\n\n3:32. A wise heart, and which hath understanding, will abstain from\nsins, and in the works of justice shall have success.\n\n3:33. Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sins:\n\n3:34. And God provideth for him that sheweth favour: he remembereth him\nafterwards, and in the time of his fall he shall find a sure stay.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 4\n\nAn exhortation to works of mercy, and to the love of wisdom.\n\n4:1. Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from\nthe poor.\n\n4:2. Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his want.\n\n4:3. Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to give to him\nthat is in distress.\n\n4:4. Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not away thy\nface from the needy.\n\n4:5. Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave\nnot to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back.\n\n4:6. For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his\nsoul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him.\n\n4:7. Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble\nthy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man.\n\n4:8. Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest,\nand answer him peaceable words with mildness.\n\n4:9. Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and\nbe not fainthearted in thy soul.\n\n4:10. In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a\nhusband to their mother.\n\n4:11. And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he\nwill have mercy on thee more than a mother.\n\n4:12. Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that\nseek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice.\n\n4:13. And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her,\nshall embrace her sweetness.\n\n4:14. They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever\nshe entereth, God will give a blessing.\n\n4:15. They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God\nloveth them that love her.\n\n4:16. He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that\nlooketh upon her, shall remain secure.\n\n4:17. If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation\nshall be in assurance.\n\n4:18. For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she\nchooseth him.\n\nIn temptation, etc.... The meaning is, that before wisdom will choose\nany for her favourite, she will try them by leading them through\ncontradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual noviceship of\nthe children of God.\n\n4:19. She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will\nscourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by\nher laws, and trust his soul.\n\n4:20. Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and\ngive him joy,\n\n4:21. And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him\ntreasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.\n\n4:22. But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into\nthe hands of his enemy.\n\n4:23. Son, observe the time, and fly from evil.\n\n4:24. For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth.\n\n4:25. For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that\nbringeth glory and grace.\n\n4:26. Accept no person against thy own person, nor against thy soul a\nlie.\n\n4:27. Reverence not thy neighbour in his fall:\n\n4:28. And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy\nwisdom in her beauty.\n\n4:29. For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and\nknowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in\nthe works of justice.\n\n4:30. In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of\nthy ignorance.\n\n4:31. Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to\nevery man for sin.\n\n4:32. Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive\nagainst the stream of the river.\n\n4:33. Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for\njustice, and God will overthrow thy enemies for thee.\n\n4:34. Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and remiss in thy works.\n\n4:35. Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household,\nand oppressing them that are under thee.\n\n4:36. Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou\nshouldst give.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 5\n\nWe must not presume of our wealth or strength: nor of the mercy of God,\nto go on in sin: we must be steadfast in virtue and truth.\n\n5:1. Set not thy heart upon unjust possessions, and say not: I have\nenough to live on: for it shall be of no service in the time of\nvengeance and darkness.\n\n5:2. Follow not in thy strength the desires of thy heart:\n\n5:3. And say not: How mighty am I? and who shall bring me under for my\ndeeds? for God will surely take revenge.\n\n5:4. Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath befallen me? for the\nmost High is a patient rewarder.\n\n5:5. Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and add not sin upon sin:\n\n5:6. And say not: The mercy of the Lord is great, he will have mercy on\nthe multitude of my sins.\n\n5:7. For mercy and wrath quickly come from him, and his wrath looketh\nupon sinners.\n\n5:8. Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and defer it not from day\nto day.\n\n5:9. For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and in the time of vengeance\nhe will destroy thee.\n\n5:10. Be not anxious for goods unjustly gotten: for they shall not\nprofit thee in the day of calamity and revenge.\n\n5:11. Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so is\nevery sinner proved by a double tongue.\n\n5:12. Be steadfast in the way of the Lord, and in the truth of thy\njudgment, and in knowledge, and let the word of peace and justice keep\nwith thee.\n\n5:13. Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst understand: and return\na true answer with wisdom.\n\n5:14. If thou have understanding, answer thy neighbour: but if not, let\nthy hand be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful\nword, and be confounded.\n\n5:15. Honour and glory is in the word of the wise, but the tongue of\nthe fool is his ruin.\n\n5:16. Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and\nconfounded.\n\n5:17. For confusion and repentance is upon a thief, and an evil mark of\ndisgrace upon the double tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and\nenmity, and reproach.\n\n5:18. Justify alike the small and the great.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 6\n\nOf true and false friends: and of the of the fruits of wisdom.\n\n6:1. Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy neighbour: for an\nevil man shall inherit reproach and shame, so shall every sinner that\nis envious and double tongued.\n\n6:2. Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest\nthy strength be quashed by folly,\n\n6:3. And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left\nas a dry tree in the wilderness.\n\n6:4. For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him\nto be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the\nwicked.\n\n6:5. A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a\ngracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.\n\n6:6. Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy\ncounsellor.\n\n6:7. If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and\ndo not credit him easily.\n\n6:8. For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide\nin the day of thy trouble.\n\n6:9. And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a\nfriend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.\n\n6:10. And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not\nabide in the day of distress.\n\n6:11. A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be to thee as thyself,\nand shall act with confidence among them of thy household.\n\n6:12. If he humble himself before thee, and hide himself from thy face,\nthou shalt have unanimous friendship for good.\n\n6:13. Separate thyself from thy enemies, and take heed of thy friends.\n\n6:14. A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found\nhim, hath found a treasure.\n\n6:15. Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of\ngold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity.\n\n6:16. A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and\nthey that fear the Lord, shall find him.\n\n6:17. He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because\naccording to him shall his friend be.\n\n6:18. My son, from thy youth up receive instruction, and even to thy\ngrey hairs thou shalt find wisdom.\n\n6:19. Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her\ngood fruits:\n\n6:20. For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt\nquickly eat of her fruits.\n\n6:21. How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise\nwill not continue with her.\n\n6:22. She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will\ncast her from them before it be long.\n\n6:23. For the wisdom of doctrine is according to her name, and she is\nnot manifest unto many, but with them to whom she is known, she\ncontinueth even to the sight of God.\n\n6:24. Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel, and cast not away my\nadvice.\n\n6:25. Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains:\n\n6:26. Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her\nbands.\n\n6:27. Come to her with all thy mind, and keep her ways with all thy\npower.\n\n6:28. Search for her, and she shall be made known to thee, and when\nthou hast gotten her, let her not go:\n\n6:29. For in the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall\nbe turned to thy joy.\n\n6:30. Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm\nfoundation, and her chain a robe of glory:\n\n6:31. For in her is the beauty of life, and her bands are a healthful\nbinding.\n\n6:32. Thou shalt put her on as a robe of glory, and thou shalt set her\nupon thee as a crown of joy.\n\n6:33. My son, if thou wilt attend to me, thou shalt learn: and if thou\nwilt apply thy mind, thou shalt be wise.\n\n6:34. If thou wilt incline thy ear, thou shalt receive instruction: and\nif thou love to hear, thou shalt be wise.\n\n6:35. Stand in the multitude of ancients that are wise, and join\nthyself from thy heart to their wisdom, that thou mayst hear every\ndiscourse of God, and the sayings of praise may not escape thee.\n\n6:36. And if thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the\nmorning, and let thy foot wear the steps of his doors.\n\n6:37. Let thy thoughts be upon the precepts of God, and meditate\ncontinually on his commandments: and he will give thee a heart, and the\ndesire of wisdom shall be given to thee.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 7\n\nReligious and moral duties.\n\n7:1. Do no evils, and no evils shall lay hold of thee.\n\n7:2. Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee.\n\n7:3. My son, sow not evils in the furrows of injustice, and thou shalt\nnot reap them sevenfold.\n\n7:4. Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of the king the seat of\nhonour.\n\n7:5. Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and\ndesire not to appear wise before the king.\n\n7:6. Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to\nextirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and\nlay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.\n\n7:7. Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself\nin upon the people,\n\n7:8. Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.\n\n7:9. Be not fainthearted in thy mind:\n\n7:10. Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.\n\n7:11. Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and\nwhen I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.\n\n7:12. Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is\none that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth all.\n\n7:13. Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against\nthy friend.\n\n7:14. Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof\nis not good.\n\n7:15. Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not\nthe word in thy prayer.\n\nRepeat not, etc.... Make not much babbling by repetition of words: but\naim more at fervour of heart.\n\n7:16. Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most\nHigh.\n\n7:17. Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly.\n\n7:18. Remember wrath, for it will not tarry long.\n\n7:19. Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of\nthe ungodly is fire and worms.\n\n7:20. Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise\nthy dear brother for the sake of gold.\n\n7:21. Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in\nthe fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold.\n\n7:22. Hurt not the servant that worketh faithfully, nor the hired man\nthat giveth thee his life.\n\n7:23. Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy own soul, defraud him\nnot of liberty, nor leave him needy.\n\n7:24. Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy\nprofit, keep them with thee.\n\n7:25. Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from\ntheir childhood.\n\n7:26. Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thy\ncountenance gay towards them.\n\n7:27. Marry thy daughter well, and thou shalt do a great work, and give\nher to a wise man.\n\n7:28. If thou hast a wife according to thy soul, cast her not off: and\nto her that is hateful, trust not thyself. With thy whole heart,\n\n7:29. Honour thy father, and forget not the groanings of thy mother:\n\n7:30. Remember that thou hadst not been born but through them: and make\na return to them as they have done for thee.\n\n7:31. With all thy soul fear the Lord, and reverence his priests.\n\n7:32. With all thy strength love him that made thee: and forsake not\nhis ministers.\n\n7:33. Honour God with all thy soul and give honour to the priests, and\npurify thyself with thy arms.\n\nThy arms.... That is, with all thy power: or else by arms (brachiis)\nare here signified the right shoulders of the victims, which by the law\nfell to the priests. See ver. 35.\n\n7:34. Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the\nfirstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify\nthyself with a few.\n\n7:35. Offer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders, and the sacrifice of\nsanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things:\n\n7:36. And stretch out thy hand to the poor, that thy expiation and thy\nblessing may be perfected.\n\n7:37. A gift hath grace in the sight of all the living, and restrain\nnot grace from the dead.\n\nAnd restrain not grace from the dead.... That is, withhold not from\nthem the benefit of alms, prayers, and sacrifices. Such was the\ndoctrine and practice of the church of God even in the time of the Old\nTestament. And the same has always been continued from the days of the\napostles in the church of the New Testament.\n\n7:38. Be not wanting in comforting them that weep, and walk with them\nthat mourn.\n\n7:39. Be not slow to visit the sick: for by these things thou shalt be\nconfirmed in love.\n\n7:40. In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 8\n\nOther lessons of wisdom and virtue.\n\n8:1. Strive not with a powerful man, lest thou fall into his hands.\n\n8:2. Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring an action against thee.\n\n8:3. For gold and silver hath destroyed many, and hath reached even to\nthe heart of kings, and perverted them.\n\n8:4. Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood\nupon his fire.\n\n8:5. Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest he speak ill of thy\nfamily.\n\n8:6. Despise not a man that turneth away from sin, nor reproach him\ntherewith: remember that we are all worthy of reproof.\n\n8:7. Despise not a man in his old age; for we also shall become old.\n\n8:8. Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy; knowing that we all die,\nand are not willing that others should rejoice at our death.\n\n8:9. Despise not the discourse of them that are ancient and wise, but\nacquaint thyself with their proverbs.\n\n8:10. For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of\nunderstanding, and to serve great men without blame.\n\n8:11. Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have\nlearned of their fathers:\n\n8:12. For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer\nin time of need.\n\n8:13. Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking them, lest thou be\nburnt with the flame of the fire of their sins.\n\n8:14. Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as\na spy to entrap thee in thy words.\n\n8:15. Lend not to a man that is mightier than thyself: and if thou\nlendest, count it as lost.\n\n8:16. Be not surety above thy power: and if thou be surety, think as if\nthou wert to pay it.\n\n8:17. Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth according to that which\nis just.\n\n8:18. Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his\nevils: for he goeth according to his own will, and thou shalt perish\ntogether with his folly.\n\n8:19. Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go not into the desert\nwith a bold man: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there\nis no help he will overthrow thee.\n\n8:20. Advise not with fools, for they cannot love but such things as\nplease them.\n\n8:21. Before a stranger do no matter of counsel: for thou knowest not\nwhat he will bring forth.\n\n8:22. Open not thy heart to every man: lest he repay thee with an evil\nturn, and speak reproachfully to thee.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 9\n\nCautions with regard to women, and dangerous conversations.\n\n9:1. Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest she shew in thy\nregard the malice of a wicked lesson.\n\n9:2. Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enter upon thy\nstrength, and thou be confounded.\n\n9:3. Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall\ninto her snares.\n\n9:4. Use not much the company of her that is a dancer, and hearken not\nto her, lest thou perish by the force of her charms.\n\n9:5. Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be a stumblingblock to\nthee.\n\n9:6. Give not thy soul to harlots in any point: lest thou destroy\nthyself and thy inheritance.\n\n9:7. Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up\nand down in the streets thereof.\n\n9:8. Turn away thy face from a woman dressed up, and gaze not about\nupon another\u2019s beauty.\n\n9:9. For many have perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust\nis enkindled as a fire.\n\n9:10. Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trodden upon as dung in\nthe way.\n\n9:11. Many by admiring the beauty of another man\u2019s wife, have become\nreprobate, for her conversation burneth as fire.\n\n9:12. Sit not at all with another man\u2019s wife, nor repose upon the bed\nwith her:\n\n9:13. And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards\nher and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.\n\n9:14. Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.\n\n9:15. A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt\ndrink it with pleasure.\n\n9:16. Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not\nwhat his ruin shall be.\n\n9:17. Be not pleased with the wrong done by the unjust, knowing that\neven to hell the wicked shall not please.\n\n9:18. Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill, so thou shalt\nnot suspect the fear of death.\n\n9:19. And if thou come to him, commit no fault, lest he take away thy\nlife.\n\n9:20. Know it to be a communication with death: for thou art going in\nthe midst of snares, and walking upon the arms of them that are\ngrieved.\n\n9:21. According to thy power beware of thy neighbour, and treat with\nthe wise and prudent.\n\n9:22. Let just men be thy guests, and let thy glory be in the fear of\nGod.\n\n9:23. And let the thought of God be in thy mind, and all thy discourse\non the commandments of the Highest.\n\n9:24. Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the\nprince of the people for the wisdom of his speech, but the word of the\nancients for the sense.\n\n9:25. A man full of tongue is terrible in his city, and he that is rash\nin his word shall be hateful.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 10\n\nThe virtues and vices of men in power: the great evil of pride.\n\n10:1. A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a\nprudent man shall be steady.\n\nJudge his people.... In the Greek it is, instruct his people.\n\n10:2. As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers:\nand what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that\ndwell therein.\n\n10:3. An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall\nbe inhabited through the prudence of the rulers.\n\n10:4. The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he\nwill raise up a profitable ruler over it.\n\n10:5. The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person\nof the scribe he shall lay his honour.\n\nThe scribe.... That is, the man that is wise and learned in the law.\n\n10:6. Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou\nnothing by deeds of injury.\n\n10:7. Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations\nis execrable.\n\n10:8. A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of\ninjustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits.\n\n10:9. But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth,\nand ashes proud?\n\n10:10. There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a\none setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath\ncast away his bowels.\n\n10:11. All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to\nthe physician.\n\n10:12. The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to\nday, and to morrow he shall die.\n\n10:13. For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts,\nand worms.\n\n10:14. The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:\n\n10:15. Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride\nis the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with\nmaledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.\n\n10:16. Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked,\nand hath utterly destroyed them.\n\n10:17. God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set\nup the meek in their stead.\n\n10:18. God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath\nplanted the humble of these nations.\n\n10:19. The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath\ndestroyed them even to the foundation.\n\n10:20. He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed\nthem, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.\n\n10:21. God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved\nthe memory of them that are humble in mind.\n\n10:22. Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.\n\n10:23. That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that\nseed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the\nLord.\n\n10:24. In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall\nthey that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.\n\n10:25. The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable,\nand of the poor.\n\n10:26. Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful\nman that is rich.\n\n10:27. The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and\nthere is none greater than he that feareth God.\n\n10:28. They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man\nthat is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is\nreproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.\n\n10:29. Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time\nof distress;\n\n10:30. Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than\nhe that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.\n\n10:31. My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according\nto its desert.\n\n10:32. Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who\nwill honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?\n\n10:33. The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there\nis a man that is honoured for his wealth.\n\n10:34. But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth?\nand he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 11\n\nLessons of humility and moderation in all things.\n\n11:1. The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him\nsit in the midst of great men.\n\n11:2. Praise not a man for his beauty, neither despise a man for his\nlook.\n\n11:3. The bee is small among flying things but her fruit hath the\nchiefest sweetness.\n\n11:4. Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not exalted in the day\nof thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderful, and his\nworks are glorious, and secret, and hidden.\n\n11:5. Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would\nthink on, hath worn the crown.\n\n11:6. Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious\nhave been delivered into the hand of others.\n\n11:7. Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired,\nreprove justly.\n\n11:8. Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in\nthe midst of their discourse.\n\n11:9. Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not\nin judgment with sinners.\n\n11:10. My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou\nshalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not\novertake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.\n\n11:11. There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is\nin sorrow, and is so much the more in want.\n\n11:12. Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak\nin ability, and full of poverty:\n\n11:13. Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath\nlifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many\nhave wondered at him, and have glorified God.\n\n11:14. Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are\nfrom God.\n\n11:15. Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with\nGod. Love and the ways of good things are with him.\n\n11:16. Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory\nin evil things, grow old in evil.\n\n11:17. The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall\nhave success for ever.\n\n11:18. There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is\nthe portion of his reward.\n\n11:19. In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my\ngoods alone:\n\n11:20. And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death\napproacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die.\n\n11:21. Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and\ngrow old in the work of thy commandments.\n\n11:22. Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in\nthy place,\n\n11:23. For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor\nman rich.\n\n11:24. The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a\nswift hour his blessing beareth fruit.\n\n11:25. Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?\n\n11:26. Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made\nworse by this?\n\n11:27. In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the\nday of evils be not unmindful of good things:\n\n11:28. For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every\none according to his ways.\n\n11:29. The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and\nin the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.\n\n11:30. Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his\nchildren.\n\n11:31. Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of\nthe deceitful.\n\n11:32. For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the\npartridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so\nalso is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall\nof his neighbour.\n\n11:33. For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the\nelect he will lay a blot.\n\n11:34. Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much\nblood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.\n\n11:35. Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils:\nlest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.\n\n11:36. Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a\nwhirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 12\n\nWe are to be liberal to the just: and not to trust the wicked.\n\n12:1. If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and there shall be\nmuch thanks for thy good deeds.\n\n12:2. Do good to the just, and thou shalt find great recompense: and if\nnot of him, assuredly of the Lord.\n\n12:3. For there is no good for him that is always occupied in evil, and\nthat giveth no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on\nthe penitent.\n\n12:4. Give to the merciful and uphold not the sinner: God will repay\nvengeance to the ungodly and to sinners, and keep them against the day\nof vengeance.\n\n12:5. Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.\n\n12:6. Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy\nbread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee.\n\n12:7. For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou\nshalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will\nrepay vengeance to the ungodly.\n\n12:8. A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not\nbe hidden in adversity.\n\n12:9. In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend\nis known in his adversity.\n\n12:10. Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth:\n\n12:11. Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed\nand beware of him.\n\n12:12. Set him not by thee, neither let him sit on thy right hand, lest\nhe turn into thy place, and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou\nacknowledge my words, and be pricked with my sayings.\n\n12:13. Who will pity an enchanter struck by a serpent, or any that come\nnear wild beasts? so is it with him that keepeth company with a wicked\nman, and is involved in his sins.\n\n12:14. For an hour he will abide with thee: but if thou begin to\ndecline, he will not endure it.\n\n12:15. An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he\nlieth in wait, to throw thee into a pit.\n\n12:16. An enemy weepeth with his eyes: but if he find an opportunity he\nwill not be satisfied with blood:\n\n12:17. And if evils come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first.\n\n12:18. An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help\nthee, will undermine thy feet.\n\n12:19. He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much,\nand change his countenance.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 13\n\nCautions in the choice of company.\n\n13:1. He that toucheth pitch, shall be defiled with it: and he that\nhath fellowship with the proud, shall put on pride.\n\n13:2. He shall take a burden upon him that hath fellowship with one\nmore honourable than himself. And have no fellowship with one that is\nricher than thyself.\n\n13:3. What agreement shall the earthen pot have with the kettle? for if\nthey knock one against the other, it shall be broken.\n\n13:4. The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he will fume: but the poor\nis wronged and must hold his peace.\n\n13:5. If thou give, he will make use of thee: and if thou have nothing,\nhe will forsake thee.\n\n13:6. If thou have any thing, he will live with thee, and will make\nthee bare, and he will not be sorry for thee.\n\n13:7. If he have need of thee he will deceive thee, and smiling upon\nthee will put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and will say: What\nwantest thou?\n\n13:8. And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry\ntwice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when\nhe seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.\n\n13:9. Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands.\n\n13:10. Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.\n\n13:11. Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived\ninto folly.\n\n13:12. If thou be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw thyself:\nfor so he will invite thee the more.\n\n13:13. Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be put back: and keep not\nfar from him, lest thou be forgotten.\n\n13:14. Affect not to speak with him as an equal, and believe not his\nmany words: for by much talk he will sift thee, and smiling will\nexamine thee concerning thy secrets.\n\n13:15. His cruel mind will lay up thy words: and he will not spare to\ndo thee hurt, and to cast thee into prison.\n\n13:16. Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently to what thou\nhearest: for thou walkest in danger of thy ruin.\n\n13:17. When thou hearest those things, see as it were in sleep, and\nthou shalt awake.\n\n13:18. Love God all thy life, and call upon him for thy salvation.\n\n13:19. Every beast loveth its like: so also every man him that is\nnearest to himself.\n\n13:20. All flesh shall consort with the like to itself, and every man\nshall associate himself to his like.\n\n13:21. If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship with the lamb, so\nthe sinner with the just.\n\n13:22. What fellowship hath a holy man with a dog, or what part hath\nthe rich with the poor?\n\n13:23. The wild ass is the lion\u2019s prey in the desert: so also the poor\nare devoured by the rich.\n\n13:24. And as humility is an abomination to the proud: so also the rich\nman abhorreth the poor.\n\n13:25. When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by his friends: but\nwhen a poor man is fallen down, he is thrust away even by his\nacquaintance.\n\n13:26. When a rich man hath been deceived, he hath many helpers: he\nhath spoken proud things, and they have justified him.\n\n13:27. The poor man was deceived, and he is rebuked also: he hath\nspoken wisely, and could have no place.\n\n13:28. The rich man spoke, and all held their peace, and what he said\nthey extol even to the clouds.\n\n13:29. The poor man spoke, and they say: Who is this? and if he\nstumble, they will overthrow him.\n\n13:30. Riches are good to him that hath no sin in his conscience: and\npoverty is very wicked in the mouth of the ungodly.\n\n13:31. The heart of a man changeth his countenance, either for good, or\nfor evil.\n\n13:32. The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt\nhardly find, and with labour.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 14\n\nThe evil of avarice: works of mercy are recommended, and the love of\nwisdom.\n\n14:1. Blessed is the man that hath not slipped by a word out of his\nmouth, and is not pricked with the remorse of sin.\n\n14:2. Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his mind, and who is not\nfallen from his hope.\n\n14:3. Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what\nshould an envious man do with gold?\n\n14:4. He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth\nfor others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting.\n\n14:5. He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? and he shall\nnot take pleasure in his goods.\n\n14:6. There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is the\nreward of his wickedness:\n\n14:7. And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly, and unwillingly: and at\nthe last he discovereth his wickedness.\n\n14:8. The eye of the envious is wicked: and he turneth away his face,\nand despiseth his own soul.\n\n14:9. The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of\niniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying\nit up.\n\n14:10. An evil eye is towards evil things: and he shall not have his\nfill of bread, but shall be needy and pensive at his own table.\n\n14:11. My son, if thou have any thing, do good to thyself, and offer to\nGod worthy offerings.\n\n14:12. Remember that death is not slow, and that the covenant of hell\nhath been shewn to thee: for the covenant of this world shall surely\ndie.\n\nCovenant of hell.... The decree by which all are to go down to the\nregions of death.\n\n14:13. Do good to thy friend before thou die, and according to thy\nability, stretching out thy hand give to the poor.\n\n14:14. Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a\ngood gift overpass thee.\n\n14:15. Shalt thou not leave to others to divide by lot thy sorrows and\nlabours?\n\n14:16. Give and take, and justify thy soul.\n\n14:17. Before thy death work justice: for in hell there is no finding\nfood.\n\n14:18. All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springeth\nout on a green tree.\n\n14:19. Some grow, and some fall off: so is the generation of flesh and\nblood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.\n\n14:20. Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the\nworker thereof shall go with it.\n\n14:21. And every excellent work shall be justified: and the worker\nthereof shall be honoured therein.\n\n14:22. Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom, and that shall\nmeditate in his justice, and in his mind shall think of the all seeing\neye of God.\n\n14:23. He that considereth her ways in his heart, and hath\nunderstanding in her secrets, who goeth after her as one that traceth,\nand stayeth in her ways.\n\n14:24. He who looketh in at her windows, and hearkeneth at her door.\n\n14:25. He that lodgeth near her house, and fastening a pin in her walls\nshall set up his tent high unto her, where good things shall rest in\nhis lodging for ever.\n\n14:26. He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge\nunder her branches:\n\n14:27. He shall be protected under her covering from the heat, and\nshall rest in her glory.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 15\n\nWisdom embraceth them that fear God. God is not the author of sin.\n\n15:1. He that feareth God, will do good: and he that possesseth\njustice, shall lay hold on her,\n\n15:2. And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive\nhim as a wife married of a virgin.\n\n15:3. With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and\ngive him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made\nstrong in him, and he shall not be moved.\n\n15:4. And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and\nshe shall exalt him among his neighbours.\n\n15:5. And in the midst of the church she shall open his mouth, and\nshall fill him with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and shall\nclothe him with a robe of glory.\n\n15:6. She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall\ncause him to inherit an everlasting name.\n\n15:7. But foolish men shall not obtain her, and wise men shall meet\nher, foolish men shall not see her: for she is far from pride and\ndeceit.\n\n15:8. Lying men shall be mindful of her: but men that speak truth shall\nbe found with her, and shall advance, even till they come to the sight\nof God.\n\n15:9. Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner:\n\n15:10. For wisdom came forth from God: for praise shall be with the\nwisdom of God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth, and the sovereign\nLord will give praise unto it.\n\n15:11. Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not\nthou the things that he hateth.\n\n15:12. Say not: He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of wicked\nmen.\n\n15:13. The Lord hateth all abomination of error, and they that fear him\nshall not love it.\n\n15:14. God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his\nown counsel.\n\n15:15. He added his commandments and precepts.\n\n15:16. If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable\nfidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee.\n\n15:17. He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand\nto which thou wilt.\n\n15:18. Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall\nchoose shall be given him:\n\n15:19. For the wisdom of God is great, and he is strong in power,\nseeing all men without ceasing.\n\n15:20. The eyes of the Lord are towards them that fear him, and he\nknoweth al the work of man.\n\n15:21. He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, and he hath given no\nman license to sin;\n\n15:22. For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable\nchildren.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 16\n\nIt is better to have none than many wicked children. Of the justice and\nmercy of God. His ways are unsearchable.\n\n16:1. Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither\nbe delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them.\n\n16:2. Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.\n\n16:3. For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly\nchildren.\n\n16:4. And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly\nchildren.\n\n16:5. By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of\nthe ungodly shall become desolate.\n\n16:6. Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these\nmy ear hath heard.\n\n16:7. In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an\nunbelieving nation wrath shall flame out.\n\n16:8. The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were\ndestroyed trusting to their own strength:\n\n16:9. And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred\nthem for the pride of their word.\n\n16:10. He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that\nextolled themselves in their sins.\n\n16:11. So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were\ngathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been\nstiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished:\n\nSix hundred thousand footmen, etc.... Viz., the children of Israel,\nwhom he sentenced to die in the wilderness. Num. 14.\n\n16:12. For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and\nto pour out indignation:\n\n16:13. According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man\naccording to his works.\n\n16:14. The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of\nhim that sheweth mercy shall not be put off.\n\n16:15. All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the\nmerit of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment.\n\n16:16. Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and who shall remember me\nfrom on high?\n\n16:17. In such a multitude I shall not be known: for what is my soul in\nsuch an immense creation?\n\n16:18. Behold the heaven, and the heavens of heavens, the deep, and all\nthe earth, and the things that are in them, shall be moved in his\nsight,\n\n16:19. The mountains also, and the hills, and the foundations of the\nearth: when God shall look upon them, they shall be shaken with\ntrembling.\n\n16:20. And in all these things the heart is senseless: and every heart\nis understood by him.\n\n16:21. And his ways who shall understand, and the storm, which no eye\nof man shall see?\n\n16:22. For many of his works are hidden, but the works of his justice\nwho shall declare? or who shall endure? for the testament is far from\nsome, and the examination of all is in the end.\n\n16:23. He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the\nfoolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things.\n\n16:24. Hearken to me, my son, and learn the discipline of\nunderstanding, and attend to my words in thy heart.\n\n16:25. And I will shew forth good doctrine in equity, and will seek to\ndeclare wisdom: and attend to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity\nof spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put upon his works from\nthe beginning, and I shew forth in truth his knowledge.\n\n16:26. The works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and\nfrom the making of them he distinguished their parts, and their\nbeginnings in their generations.\n\n16:27. He beautified their works for ever, they have neither hungered,\nnor laboured, and they have not ceased from their works.\n\n16:28. Nor shall any of them straiten his neighbour at any time.\n\n16:29. Be not thou incredulous to his word.\n\n16:30. After this God looked upon the earth, and filled it with his\ngoods.\n\n16:31. The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face\nthereof, and into it they return again.\n\nShewn forth.... Viz., the glory and power of God upon the earth.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 17\n\nThe creation and favour of God to man. An exhortation to turn to God.\n\n17:1. God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.\n\n17:2. And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength\naccording to himself.\n\n17:3. He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power\nover all things that are upon the earth.\n\n17:4. He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over\nbeasts and fowls.\n\n17:5. He created of him a helpmate like to himself, he gave them\ncounsel, and a tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart to devise: and\nhe filled them with the knowledge of understanding.\n\n17:6. He created in them the science of the spirit, he filled their\nheart with wisdom, and shewed them both good and evil.\n\n17:7. He set his eye upon their hearts to shew them the greatness of\nhis works:\n\n17:8. That they might praise the name which he hath sanctified: and\nglory in his wondrous acts that they might declare the glorious things\nof his works.\n\n17:9. Moreover he gave them instructions, and the law of life for an\ninheritance.\n\n17:10. He made an everlasting covenant with them, and he shewed them\nhis justice and judgments.\n\n17:11. And their eye saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard\nhis glorious voice, and he said to them: Beware of all iniquity.\n\nTheir eye saw, etc.... Viz., when he gave the law on mount Sinai.\n\n17:12. And he gave to every one of them commandment concerning his\nneighbour.\n\n17:13. Their ways are always before him, they are not hidden from his\neyes.\n\n17:14. Over every nation he set a ruler.\n\n17:15. And Israel was made the manifest portion of God.\n\n17:16. And all their works are as the sun in the sight of God: and his\neyes are continually upon their ways.\n\n17:17. Their covenants were not hid by their iniquity, and all their\niniquities are in the sight of God.\n\n17:18. The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and shall preserve\nthe grace of a man as the apple of the eye:\n\n17:19. And afterward he shall rise up, and shall render them their\nreward, to every one upon their own head, and shall turn them down into\nthe bowels of the earth.\n\n17:20. But to the penitent he hath given the way of justice, and he\nhath strengthened them that were fainting in patience, and hath\nappointed to them the lot of truth.\n\n17:21. Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins:\n\n17:22. Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less.\n\nOffend less.... Minue offendicula. That is, remove sins and the\noccasions of sins.\n\n17:23. Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and\ngreatly hate abomination.\n\n17:24. And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in\nthe lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God.\n\n17:25. Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give\npraise to God.\n\nGo to the side, etc.... Fly from the side of Satan and sin, and join\nwith the holy ones, that follow God and godliness.\n\n17:26. Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death.\nPraise perisheth from the dead as nothing.\n\n17:27. Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in\nhealth thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in\nhis mercies.\n\n17:28. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them\nthat turn to him!\n\n17:29. For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not\nimmortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.\n\n17:30. What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what\nis more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this\nshall be reproved.\n\n17:31. He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are\nearth and ashes.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 18\n\nGod\u2019s works are wonderful: we must serve him, and not our lusts.\n\n18:1. He that liveth for ever created all things together. God only\nshall be justified, and he remaineth an invincible king for ever.\n\n18:2. Who is able to declare his works?\n\n18:3. For who shall search out his glorious acts?\n\n18:4. And who shall show forth the power of his majesty? or who shall\nbe able to declare his mercy?\n\n18:5. Nothing may be taken away, nor added, neither is it possible to\nfind out the glorious works of God.\n\n18:6. When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth\noff, he shall be at a loss.\n\nThen shall he begin.... God is so great and incomprehensible, that when\nman has done all that he can to find out his greatness and boundless\nperfections, he is still to begin: for what he has found out, is but a\nmere nothing in comparison with his infinity.\n\n18:7. What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what\nis his evil?\n\n18:8. The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as\na drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the\nsand, so are a few years compared to eternity.\n\n18:9. Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy\nupon them.\n\n18:10. He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked,\nand hath known their end that it is evil.\n\n18:11. Therefore hath he filled up his mercy in their favour, and hath\nshewn them the way of justice.\n\n18:12. The compassion of man is toward his neighbour: but the mercy of\nGod is upon all flesh.\n\n18:13. He hath mercy, and teacheth, and correcteth, as a shepherd doth\nhis flock.\n\n18:14. He hath mercy on him that receiveth the discipline of mercy, and\nthat maketh haste in his judgments.\n\n18:15. My son, in thy good deeds, make no complaint, and when thou\ngivest any thing, add not grief by an evil word.\n\n18:16. Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also the good word is\nbetter than the gift.\n\n18:17. Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a\njustified man.\n\n18:18. A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of one ill taught\nconsumeth the eyes.\n\n18:19. Before judgment prepare thee justice, and learn before thou\nspeak.\n\n18:20. Before sickness take a medicine, and before judgment examine\nthyself, and thou shalt find mercy in the sight of God.\n\n18:21. Humble thyself before thou art sick, and in the time of sickness\nshew thy conversation.\n\n18:22. Let nothing hinder thee from praying always, and be not afraid\nto be justified even to death: for the reward of God continueth for\never.\n\n18:23. Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not as a man that\ntempteth God.\n\n18:24. Remember the wrath that shall be at the last day, and the time\nof repaying when he shall turn away his face.\n\n18:25. Remember poverty in the time of abundance, and the necessities\nof poverty in the day of riches.\n\n18:26. From the morning until the evening the time shall be changed,\nand all these are swift in the eyes of God.\n\n18:27. A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the days of sins\nwill beware of sloth.\n\n18:28. Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise\nto him that findeth her.\n\n18:29. They that were of good understanding in words, have also done\nwisely themselves: and have understood truth and justice, and have\npoured forth proverbs and judgments.\n\n18:30. Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will.\n\n18:31. If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy\nto thy enemies.\n\n18:32. Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be they ever so small:\nfor their concertation is continual.\n\n18:33. Make not thyself poor by borrowing to contribute to feasts when\nthou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own\nlife.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 19\n\nAdmonition against sundry vices.\n\n19:1. A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that\ncontemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.\n\n19:2. Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the\nprudent:\n\n19:3. And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked.\nRottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a\ngreater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number.\n\n19:4. He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be\nlessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised.\n\n19:5. He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that\nhateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling,\nextinguisheth evil.\n\n19:6. He that sinneth against his own soul, shall repent: and he that\nis delighted with wickedness, shall be condemned.\n\n19:7. Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not\nfare the worse.\n\n19:8. Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with\nthee, disclose it not.\n\n19:9. For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were\ndefending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee\nalways.\n\n19:10. Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within\nthee, trusting that it will not burst thee.\n\n19:11. At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman\ngroaning in the bringing forth a child.\n\n19:12. As an arrow that sticketh in a man\u2019s thigh: so is a word in the\nheart of a fool.\n\n19:13. Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I\ndid it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.\n\n19:14. Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if\nhe hath said it, that he may not say it again.\n\n19:15. Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed.\n\n19:16. And believe not every word. There is one, that slippeth with the\ntongue, but not from his heart.\n\n19:17. For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue?\nAdmonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him.\n\n19:18. And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God\nis all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the\nlaw is in all wisdom.\n\n19:19. But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of\nsinners is not prudence.\n\n19:20. There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and\nthere is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.\n\n19:21. Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth\nunderstanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in\nunderstanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.\n\n19:22. There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.\n\n19:23. And there is one that uttereth an exact word telling the truth.\nThere is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full\nof deceit:\n\n19:24. And there is one that submitteth himself exceedingly with a\ngreat lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenance,\nand maketh as if he did not see that which is unknown:\n\n19:25. And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he\nshall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it.\n\n19:26. A man is known by his look, and a wise man, when thou meetest\nhim, is known by his countenance.\n\n19:27. The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the\ngait of the man, shew what he is.\n\n19:28. There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and\nthere is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one\nthat holdeth his peace, he is wise.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 20\n\nRules with regard to correction, discretion, and avoiding lies.\n\n20:1. How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to\nhinder him that confesseth in prayer.\n\n20:2. The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden:\n\n20:3. So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise.\n\n20:4. How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for\nso thou shalt escape wilful sin.\n\n20:5. There is one that holdeth his peace, that is found wise: and\nthere is another that is hateful, that is bold in speech.\n\n20:6. There is one that holdeth his peace, because he knoweth not what\nto say: and there is another that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper\ntime.\n\n20:7. A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity: but a\nbabbler, and a fool, will regard no time.\n\n20:8. He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that\ntaketh authority to himself unjustly shall be hated.\n\n20:9. There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and\nthere is a finding that turneth to loss.\n\n20:10. There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the\nrecompense of which is double.\n\n20:11. There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that\nshall lift up his head from a low estate.\n\n20:12. There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the\nsame sevenfold.\n\n20:13. A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces\nof fools shall be poured out.\n\n20:14. The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are\nsevenfold.\n\n20:15. He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of\nhis mouth is the kindling of a fire.\n\n20:16. To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he asketh it again: such a\nman as this is hateful.\n\n20:17. A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for\nhis good deeds.\n\n20:18. For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often,\nand how many will laugh him to scorn!\n\n20:19. For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which\nwas to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had.\n\n20:20. The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the\npavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.\n\n20:21. A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually\nin the mouth of the unwise.\n\n20:22. A parable coming out of a fool\u2019s mouth shall be rejected: for he\ndoth not speak it in due season.\n\n20:23. There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his\nrest he shall be pricked.\n\n20:24. There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness,\nand by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect\nof person he will destroy himself.\n\n20:25. There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and\nmaketh him his enemy for nothing.\n\n20:26. A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in\nthe mouth of men without discipline.\n\n20:27. A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of\nthem shall inherit destruction.\n\n20:28. The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion\nis with them without ceasing.\n\n20:29. A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent\nman shall please the great ones.\n\n20:30. He that tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he\nthat worketh justice shall be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men\nshall escape iniquity.\n\n20:31. Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb\nin the mouth, so that they cannot correct.\n\n20:32. O Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is not seen: what profit\nis there in them both?\n\n20:33. Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his\nwisdom.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 21\n\nCautions against sin in general, and some sins in particular.\n\n21:1. My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but for thy former sins\nalso pray that they may be forgiven thee.\n\n21:2. Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest\nnear them, they will take hold of thee.\n\n21:3. The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of\nmen.\n\n21:4. All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for\nthe wound thereof.\n\n21:5. Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and the house that is very\nrich shall be brought to nothing by pride: so the substance of the\nproud shall be rooted out.\n\n21:6. The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of\nGod, and judgment shall come for him speedily.\n\n21:7. He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner:\nand he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.\n\n21:8. He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise\nman knoweth to slip by him.\n\n21:9. He that buildeth his house at other men\u2019s charges, is as he that\ngathereth himself stones to build in the winter.\n\n21:10. The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the\nend of them is a flame of fire.\n\n21:11. The way of sinners is made plain with stones, and in their end\nis hell, and darkness, and pains.\n\n21:12. He that keepeth justice shall get the understanding thereof.\n\n21:13. The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom and understanding.\n\n21:14. He that is not wise in good, will not be taught.\n\n21:15. But there is a wisdom that aboundeth in evil: and there is no\nunderstanding where there is bitterness.\n\n21:16. The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood, and his\ncounsel continueth like a fountain of life.\n\n21:17. The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, and no wisdom at\nall shall it hold.\n\n21:18. A man of sense will praise every wise word he shall hear, and\nwill apply it to himself: the luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall\ndisplease him, and he will cast it behind his back.\n\n21:19. The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but in the\nlips of the wise, grace shall be found.\n\n21:20. The mouth of the prudent is sought after in the church, and they\nwill think upon his words in their hearts.\n\n21:21. As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the\nknowledge of the unwise is as words without sense.\n\n21:22. Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles\non the right hand.\n\n21:23. A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but a wise man will\nscarce laugh low to himself.\n\n21:24. Learning to the prudent is as an ornament of gold, and like a\nbracelet upon his right arm.\n\n21:25. The foot of a fool is soon in his neighbour\u2019s house: but a man\nof experience will be abashed at the person of the mighty.\n\n21:26. A fool will peep through the window into the house: but he that\nis well taught will stand without.\n\n21:27. It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man\nwill be grieved with the disgrace.\n\n21:28. The lips of the unwise will be telling foolish things: but the\nwords of the wise shall be weighed in a balance.\n\n21:29. The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men\nis in their heart.\n\n21:30. While the ungodly curseth the devil, he curseth his own soul.\n\nWhile the ungodly, etc.... He condemneth and curseth himself: inasmuch\nas by sin he takes part with the devil, and is, as it were, his member\nand subject.\n\n21:31. The talebearer shall defile his own soul, and shall be hated by\nall: and he that shall abide with him shall be hateful: the silent and\nwise man shall be honoured.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 22\n\nWise sayings on divers subjects.\n\n22:1. The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and all men will speak\nof his disgrace.\n\n22:2. The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen: and every one that\ntoucheth him will shake his hands.\n\n22:3. A son ill taught is the confusion of the father: and a foolish\ndaughter shall be to his loss.\n\n22:4. A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but\nshe that confoundeth, becometh a disgrace to her father.\n\n22:5. She that is bold shameth both her father and husband, and will\nnot be inferior to the ungodly: and shall be disgraced by them both.\n\n22:6. A tale out of time is like music in mourning: but the stripes and\ninstruction of wisdom are never out of time.\n\n22:7. He that teacheth a fool, is like one that glueth a potsherd\ntogether.\n\n22:8. He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that\nwaketh a man out of a deep sleep.\n\n22:9. He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a\nfool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this?\n\n22:10. Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the\nfool, for his understanding faileth.\n\nFor the fool.... In the language of the Holy Ghost, he is styled a\nfool, that turns away from God to follow vanity and sin. And what is\nsaid by the wise man against fools is meant of such fools as these.\n\n22:11. Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.\n\n22:12. For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.\n\n22:13. The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an\nungodly man all the days of their life.\n\n22:14. Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no\nsense.\n\n22:15. Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst not have trouble, and\nthou shalt not be defiled with his sin.\n\n22:16. Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be\nwearied out with his folly.\n\n22:17. What is heavier than lead? and what other name hath he but fool?\n\n22:18. Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man\nwithout sense, that is both foolish and wicked.\n\n22:19. A frame of wood bound together in the foundation of a building,\nshall not be loosed: so neither shall the heart that is established by\nadvised counsel.\n\n22:20. The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be\ndepraved by fear.\n\n22:21. As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost,\nwill not stand against the face of the wind:\n\n22:22. So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not\nresist against the violence of fear.\n\n22:23. As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool at all times will\nnot fear, so neither shall he that continueth always in the\ncommandments of God.\n\n22:24. He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out tears: and he that\npricketh the heart, bringeth forth resentment.\n\n22:25. He that flingeth a stone at birds, shall drive them away: so he\nthat upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship.\n\n22:26. Although thou hast drawn a sword at a friend, despair not: for\nthere may be a returning. To a friend,\n\n22:27. If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not, for there may be a\nreconciliation: except upbraiding, and reproach, and pride, and\ndisclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all these cases a\nfriend will flee away.\n\n22:28. Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his\nprosperity also thou mayst rejoice.\n\n22:29. In the time of his trouble continue faithful to him, that thou\nmayst also be heir with him in his inheritance.\n\n22:30. As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke of the fire goeth up\nbefore the fire: so also injurious words, and reproaches, and threats,\nbefore blood.\n\n22:31. I will not be ashamed to salute a friend, neither will I hide\nmyself from his face: and if any evil happen to me by him, I will bear\nit.\n\n22:32. But every one that shall hear it, will beware of him.\n\n22:33. Who will set a guard before my mouth, and a sure seal upon my\nlips, that I fall not by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 23\n\nA prayer for grace to flee sin: cautions against profane swearing and\nother vices.\n\n23:1. O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to\ntheir counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them.\n\nBy them.... Viz., the tongue and the lips, mentioned in the last verse\nof the foregoing chapter.\n\n23:2. Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of\nwisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and\nthat their sins may not appear:\n\nThat they spare me not in their ignorances, etc.... That is, that the\nscourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is,\nthe slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and\nthe lips.\n\n23:3. Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and\nmy sins abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice\nover me?\n\n23:4. O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their\ndevices.\n\n23:5. Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all\ncoveting.\n\n23:6. Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts\nof the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and\nfoolish mind.\n\n23:7. Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that\nwill keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into\nmost wicked works.\n\n23:8. A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil\nspeakers shall fall thereby.\n\n23:9. Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are\nmany falls.\n\n23:10. And let not the naming of God be usual in thy mouth, and meddle\nnot with the names of saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them.\n\n23:11. For as a slave daily put to the question, is never without a\nblue mark: so every one that sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly\npure from sin.\n\n23:12. A man that sweareth much, shall be filled with iniquity, and a\nscourge shall not depart from his house.\n\n23:13. And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon him, and if he\ndissemble it, he offendeth double:\n\n23:14. And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his\nhouse shall be filled with his punishment.\n\n23:15. There is also another speech opposite to death, let it not be\nfound in the inheritance of Jacob.\n\n23:16. For from the merciful all these things shall be taken away, and\nthey shall not wallow in sins.\n\n23:17. Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for\ntherein is the word of sin.\n\n23:18. Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the\nmidst of great men:\n\n23:19. Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily\ncustom be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not\nbeen born, and curse the day of thy nativity.\n\n23:20. The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be\ncorrected all the days of his life.\n\n23:21. Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and\ndestruction.\n\n23:22. A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it\ndevour some thing.\n\n23:23. And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not\nleave off till he hath kindled a fire.\n\n23:24. To a man that is a fornicator all bread is sweet, he will not be\nweary of sinning unto the end.\n\n23:25. Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own\nsoul, and saying: Who seeth me?\n\n23:26. Darkness compasseth me about, and the walls cover me, and no man\nseeth me: whom do I fear? the most High will not remember my sins.\n\n23:27. And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such\na man\u2019s fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men\nfearing him:\n\n23:28. And he knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are far brighter\nthan the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom\nof the deep, and looking into the hearts of men, into the most hidden\nparts.\n\n23:29. For all things were known to the Lord God, before they were\ncreated: so also after they were perfected he beholdeth all things.\n\n23:30. This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and he\nshall be chased as a colt: and where he suspected not, he shall be\ntaken.\n\n23:31. And he shall be in disgrace with all men, because he understood\nnot the fear of the Lord.\n\n23:32. So every woman also that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an\nheir by another:\n\n23:33. For first she hath been unfaithful to the law of the most High:\nand secondly, she hath offended against her husband: thirdly, she hath\nfornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her children of another man.\n\n23:34. This woman shall be brought into the assembly, and inquisition\nshall be made of her children.\n\n23:35. Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring\nforth no fruit.\n\n23:36. She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her infamy shall\nnot be blotted out.\n\n23:37. And they that remain shall know, that there is nothing better\nthan the fear of God: and that there is nothing sweeter than to have\nregard to the commandments of the Lord.\n\n23:38. It is great glory to follow the Lord: for length of days shall\nbe received from him.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 24\n\nWisdom praiseth herself: her origin, her dwelling, her dignity, and her\nfruits.\n\n24:1. Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God,\nand shall glory in the midst of her people,\n\n24:2. And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and\nshall glorify herself in the sight of his power,\n\n24:3. And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and\nshall be admired in the holy assembly.\n\n24:4. And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and\namong the blessed she shall be blessed, saying:\n\n24:5. I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before\nall creatures:\n\n24:6. I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never\nfaileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth:\n\n24:7. I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a\ncloud.\n\n24:8. I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated\ninto the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea,\n\n24:9. And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,\n\n24:10. And in every nation I have had the chief rule:\n\n24:11. And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all\nthe high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in\nthe inheritance of the Lord.\n\n24:12. Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he\nthat made me, rested in my tabernacle,\n\n24:13. And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy\ninheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.\n\n24:14. From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and\nunto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy\ndwelling place I have ministered before him.\n\n24:15. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise\nI rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.\n\n24:16. And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of\nmy God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.\n\n24:17. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on\nmount Sion.\n\n24:18. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in\nJericho:\n\n24:19. As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the\nwater in the streets, was I exalted.\n\n24:20. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I\nyielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:\n\n24:21. And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx,\nand aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the\npurest balm.\n\n24:22. I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my\nbranches are of honour and grace.\n\n24:23. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my\nflowers are the fruit of honour and riches.\n\n24:24. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and\nof holy hope.\n\n24:25. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all\nhope of life and of virtue.\n\n24:26. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my\nfruits.\n\n24:27. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above\nhoney and the honeycomb.\n\n24:28. My memory is unto everlasting generations.\n\n24:29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me,\nshall yet thirst.\n\n24:30. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that\nwork by me, shall not sin.\n\n24:31. They that explain me shall have life everlasting.\n\n24:32. All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the\nmost High, and the knowledge of truth.\n\n24:33. Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an\ninheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.\n\n24:34. He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most\nmighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever.\n\nA most mighty king.... Viz., Christ, who by his gospel, like an\noverflowing river, has enriched the earth with heavenly wisdom.\n\n24:35. Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the\ndays of the new fruits.\n\n24:36. Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who\nmultiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest.\n\n24:37. Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in\nthe time of the vintage.\n\n24:38. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not\nsearch her out.\n\nWho first hath perfect knowledge of her.... Christ was the first that\nhad perfect knowledge of heavenly wisdom.\n\n24:39. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels\nmore deep than the great ocean.\n\n24:40. I, wisdom, have poured out rivers.\n\n24:41. I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a\nchannel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise.\n\n24:42. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water\nabundantly the fruits of my meadow.\n\n24:43. And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near\nto a sea:\n\n24:44. For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light,\nand I will declare it afar off.\n\n24:45. I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will\nbehold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord.\n\n24:46. I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to\nthem that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring\neven to the holy age.\n\n24:47. See ye that I have not laboured myself only, but for all that\nseek out the truth.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 25\n\nDocuments of wisdom on several subjects.\n\n25:1. With three things my spirit is pleased, which are approved before\nGod and men:\n\n25:2. The concord of brethren, and the love of neighbours, and man and\nwife that agree well together.\n\n25:3. Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly grieved at their\nlife:\n\n25:4. A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man\nthat is a fool, and doting.\n\n25:5. The things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt\nthou find them in thy old age?\n\n25:6. O how comely is judgment for a grey head, and for ancients to\nknow counsel!\n\n25:7. O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and understanding and\ncounsel to men of honour!\n\n25:8. Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is\ntheir glory.\n\n25:9. Nine things that are not to be imagined by the heart have I\nmagnified, and the tenth I will utter to men with my tongue.\n\n25:10. A man that hath joy of his children: and he that liveth and\nseeth the fall of his enemies.\n\n25:11. Blessed is he that dwelleth with a wise woman, and that hath not\nslipped with his tongue, and that hath not served such as are unworthy\nof him.\n\n25:12. Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth\njustice to an ear that heareth.\n\n25:13. How great is he that findeth wisdom and knowledge! but there is\nnone above him that feareth the Lord.\n\n25:14. The fear of God hath set itself above all things:\n\n25:15. Blessed is the man, to whom it is given to have the fear of God:\nhe that holdeth it, to whom shall he be likened?\n\n25:16. The fear of God is the beginning of his love: and the beginning\nof faith is to be fast joined unto it.\n\n25:17. The sadness of the heart is every plague: and the wickedness of\na woman is all evil.\n\n25:18. And a man will choose any plague, but the plague of the heart:\n\n25:19. And any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:\n\n25:20. And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate him:\n\n25:21. And any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.\n\n25:22. There is no head worse than the head of a serpent:\n\n25:23. And there is no anger above the anger of a woman. It will be\nmore agreeable to abide with a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a\nwicked woman.\n\n25:24. The wickedness of a woman changeth her face: and she darkeneth\nher countenance as a bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst\nof her neighbours,\n\n25:25. Her husband groaned, and hearing he sighed a little.\n\n25:26. All malice is short to the malice of a woman, let the lot of\nsinners fall upon her.\n\n25:27. As the climbing of a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is\na wife full of tongue to a quiet man.\n\n25:28. Look not upon a woman\u2019s beauty, and desire not a woman for\nbeauty.\n\n25:29. A woman\u2019s anger, and impudence, and confusion is great.\n\n25:30. A woman, if she have superiority, is contrary to her husband.\n\n25:31. A wicked woman abateth the courage, and maketh a heavy\ncountenance, and a wounded heart.\n\n25:32. Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a woman that doth not make\nher husband happy.\n\n25:33. From the woman came the beginning of sin, and by her we all die.\n\n25:34. Give no issue to thy water, no, not a little: nor to a wicked\nwoman liberty to gad abroad.\n\n25:35. If she walk not at thy hand, she will confound thee in the sight\nof thy enemies.\n\n25:36. Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she always abuse thee.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 26\n\nOf good and bad women.\n\n26:1. Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years\nis double.\n\n26:2. A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and shall fulfil the\nyears of his life in peace.\n\n26:3. A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion\nof them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds.\n\n26:4. Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be\ncheerful at all times.\n\n26:5. Of three things my heart hath been afraid, and at the fourth my\nface hath trembled:\n\n26:6. The accusation of a city, and the gathering together of the\npeople:\n\n26:7. And a false calumny, all are more grievous than death.\n\n26:8. A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.\n\n26:9. With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which\ncommunicateth with all.\n\n26:10. As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked\nwoman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a\nscorpion.\n\n26:11. A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame\nshall not be hid.\n\n26:12. The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of\nher eyes and by her eyelids.\n\n26:13. On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch:\nlest finding an opportunity she abuse herself.\n\n26:14. Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she\nslight thee.\n\n26:15. She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain,\nand will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every\nhedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.\n\n26:16. The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and\nshall fat his bones.\n\n26:17. Her discipline is the gift of God.\n\n26:18. Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much\nworth as a well instructed soul.\n\n26:19. A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace.\n\n26:20. And no price is worthy of a continent soul.\n\n26:21. As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of\nGod, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house.\n\n26:22. As the lamp shining upon the holy candlestick, so is the beauty\nof the face in a ripe age,\n\n26:23. As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are the firm feet\nupon the soles of a steady woman.\n\n26:24. As everlasting foundations upon a solid rock, so the\ncommandments of God in the heart of a holy woman.\n\n26:25. At two things my heart is grieved, and the third bringeth anger\nupon me.\n\n26:26. A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense\ndespised:\n\n26:27. And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared\nsuch an one for the sword.\n\n26:28. Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a\nmerchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be\njustified from the sins of the lips.\n\nFrom negligence.... That is, from the neglect of the service of God:\nbecause the eager pursuit of the mammon of this world, is apt to make\nmen of that calling forget the great duties of loving God above all\nthings, and their neighbours as themselves.\u2014Ibid. A huckster.... Or, a\nretailer of wine. Men of that profession are both greatly exposed to\ndanger of sin themselves, and are too often accessary to the sins of\nothers.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 27\n\nDangers of sin from several heads: the fear of God is the best\npreservative. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it.\n\n27:1. Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be\nenriched, turneth away his eye.\n\n27:2. As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones,\nso also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.\n\n27:3. Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.\n\n27:4. Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy\nhouse shall quickly be overthrown.\n\n27:5. As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will\nthe perplexity of a man in his thoughts.\n\n27:6. The furnace trieth the potter\u2019s vessels, and the trial of\naffliction just men.\n\n27:7. As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word\nout of the thought of the heart of man.\n\n27:8. Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of\nmen.\n\n27:9. If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put\nher on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she\nshall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou\nshalt find a strong foundation.\n\n27:10. Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that\npractise her.\n\n27:11. The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that\nwork iniquities.\n\n27:12. A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is\nchanged as the moon.\n\n27:13. In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but\nbe continually among men that think.\n\n27:14. The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at\nthe pleasures of sin.\n\n27:15. The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head\nstand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.\n\n27:16. In the quarrels of the proud is the shedding of blood: and their\ncursing is a grievous hearing.\n\n27:17. He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and\nshall never find a friend to his mind.\n\n27:18. Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.\n\n27:19. But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.\n\n27:20. For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that\ndestroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.\n\n27:21. And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou\nlet thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.\n\n27:22. Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled,\nas a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.\n\n27:23. Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is\nreconciliation:\n\nAnd of a curse there is reconciliation.... That is, it is easier to\nobtain a reconciliation after a curse, than after disclosing a secret.\n\n27:24. But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an\nunhappy soul.\n\n27:25. He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man\nwill cast him off:\n\n27:26. In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will\nadmire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy\nwords he will lay a stumblingblock.\n\n27:27. I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will\nhate him.\n\n27:28. If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and\nthe deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.\n\n27:29. He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a\nstone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a\nsnare for another, shall perish in it.\n\n27:30. A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and\nhe shall not know from whence it cometh to him.\n\n27:31. Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion\nshall lie in wait for him.\n\n27:32. They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of\nthe just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.\n\n27:33. Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man\nshall be subject to them.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 28\n\nLessons against revenge and quarrels. The evils of the tongue.\n\n28:1. He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the\nLord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance.\n\n28:2. Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy\nsins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest.\n\n28:3. Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God?\n\n28:4. He hath no mercy on a man like himself, and doth he entreat for\nhis own sins?\n\n28:5. He that is but flesh, nourisheth anger, and doth he ask\nforgiveness of God? who shall obtain pardon for his sins?\n\n28:6. Remember thy last things, and let enmity cease:\n\n28:7. For corruption and death hang over in his commandments.\n\nIn his commandments.... Supply the sentence out of the Greek thus:\nRemember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.\n\n28:8. Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour.\n\n28:9. Remember the covenant of the most High, and overlook the\nignorance of thy neighbour.\n\n28:10. Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins.\n\n28:11. For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a sinful man will\ntrouble his friends, and bring in debate in the midst of them that are\nat peace.\n\n28:12. For as the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a\nman\u2019s strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches\nhe shall increase his anger.\n\n28:13. A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth\nblood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death.\n\n28:14. If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou\nspit upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth.\n\n28:15. The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath\ntroubled many that were at peace.\n\n28:16. The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered\nthem from nation to nation.\n\n28:17. It hath destroyed the strong cities of the rich, and hath\noverthrown the houses of great men.\n\n28:18. It hath cut in pieces the forces of people, and undone strong\nnations.\n\n28:19. The tongue of a third person hath cast out valiant women, and\ndeprived them of their labours.\n\n28:20. He that hearkeneth to it, shall never have rest, neither shall\nhe have a friend in whom he may repose.\n\n28:21. The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark: but the stroke of the\ntongue will break the bones.\n\n28:22. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as\nhave perished by their own tongue.\n\n28:23. Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath\nnot passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke\nthereof, and hath not been bound in its bands.\n\n28:24. For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of\nbrass.\n\n28:25. The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable\nto it.\n\n28:26. Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall\npossess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with\nits flame.\n\n28:27. They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in\nthem, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a\nlion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.\n\n28:28. Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a wicked tongue, and\nmake doors and bars to thy mouth.\n\n28:29. Melt down thy gold and silver, and make a balance for thy words,\nand a just bridle for thy mouth:\n\n28:30. And take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue, and fall in the\nsight of thy enemies who lie in wait for thee, and thy fall be\nincurable unto death.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 29\n\nOf charity in lending money, and justice in repaying. Of alms, and of\nbeing surety.\n\n29:1. He that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his neighbour: and he that is\nstronger in hand, keepeth the commandments.\n\nAnd he that is stronger in hand.... That is, he that is hearty and\nbountiful in lending to his neighbour in his necessity.\n\n29:2. Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his need, and pay thou thy\nneighbour again in due time.\n\n29:3. Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him: and thou shalt\nalways find that which is necessary for thee.\n\n29:4. Many have looked upon a thing lent as a thing found, and have\ngiven trouble to them that helped them.\n\n29:5. Till they receive, they kiss the hands of the lender, and in\npromises they humble their voice:\n\n29:6. But when they should repay, they will ask time, and will return\ntedious and murmuring words, and will complain of the time:\n\n29:7. And if he be able to pay, he will stand off, he will scarce pay\none half, and will count it as if he had found it:\n\n29:8. But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get\nhim for an enemy without cause.\n\n29:9. And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of\nhonour and good turn will repay him injuries.\n\n29:10. Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were\nafraid to be defrauded without cause.\n\n29:11. But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to\nshew him mercy.\n\n29:12. Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away\nempty handed because of his poverty.\n\n29:13. Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not\nunder a stone to be lost.\n\n29:14. Place thy treasure in the commandments of the most High, and it\nshall bring thee more profit than gold.\n\n29:15. Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and it shall obtain help\nfor thee against all evil.\n\n29:16. Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear:\n\n29:17. It shall fight for thee against thy enemy.\n\n29:18. A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost\nshame, will leave him to himself.\n\n29:19. Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for he hath given his\nlife for thee.\n\n29:20. The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.\n\n29:21. A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he\nthat is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him.\n\n29:22. A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all\nshame, he shall forsake him.\n\n29:23. Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed\nthem as a wave of the sea.\n\n29:24. It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about,\nand they have wandered in strange countries.\n\n29:25. A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall\nfall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things,\nshall fall into judgment.\n\n29:26. Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to\nthyself that thou fall not.\n\n29:27. The chief thing for man\u2019s life is water and bread, and clothing,\nand a house to cover shame.\n\n29:28. Better is the poor man\u2019s fare under a roof of boards, than\nsumptuous cheer abroad in another man\u2019s house.\n\n29:29. Be contented with little instead of much, and thou shalt not\nhear the reproach of going abroad.\n\n29:30. It is a miserable life to go as a guest from house to house: for\nwhere a man is a stranger, he shall not deal confidently, nor open his\nmouth.\n\n29:31. He shall entertain and feed, and give drink to the unthankful,\nand moreover he shall hear bitter words.\n\n29:32. Go, stranger, and furnish the table, and give others to eat what\nthou hast in thy hand.\n\n29:33. Give place to the honourable presence of my friends: for I want\nmy house, my brother being to be lodged with me.\n\n29:34. These things are grievous to a man of understanding: the\nupbraiding of houseroom, and the reproaching of the lender.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 30\n\nOf correction of children. Health is better than wealth. Excessive\ngrief is hurtful.\n\n30:1. He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him, that he may\nrejoice in his latter end, and not grope after the doors of his\nneighbours.\n\n30:2. He that instructeth his son shall be praised in him, and shall\nglory in him in the midst of them of his household.\n\n30:3. He that teacheth his son, maketh his enemy jealous, and in the\nmidst of his friends he shall glory in him.\n\n30:4. His father is dead, and he is as if he were not dead: for he hath\nleft one behind him that is like himself.\n\n30:5. While he lived he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died he\nwas not sorrowful, neither was he confounded before his enemies.\n\n30:6. For he left behind him a defender of his house against his\nenemies, and one that will requite kindness to his friends.\n\n30:7. For the souls of his sons he shall bind up his wounds, and at\nevery cry his bowels shall be troubled.\n\n30:8. A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and a child left to himself\nwill become headstrong.\n\n30:9. Give thy son his way, and he shall make thee afraid: play with\nhim, and he shall make thee sorrowful.\n\n30:10. Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow, and at the last thy\nteeth be set on edge.\n\n30:11. Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink not at his devices.\n\n30:12. Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat his sides while he\nis a child, lest he grow stubborn, and regard thee not, and so be a\nsorrow of heart to thee.\n\n30:13. Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour\nbe an offence to thee.\n\n30:14. Better is a poor man who is sound, and strong of constitution,\nthan a rich man who is weak and afflicted with evils.\n\n30:15. Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all\ngold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues.\n\n30:16. There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body:\nand there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart.\n\n30:17. Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than\ncontinual sickness.\n\n30:18. Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as\nmesses of meat set about a grave.\n\n30:19. What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither\neat, nor smell:\n\n30:20. So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of\nhis iniquity:\n\n30:21. He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a\nvirgin, and sighing.\n\n30:22. Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy\nown counsel.\n\n30:23. The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of a man, and a never\nfailing treasure of holiness: and the joy of a man is length of life.\n\n30:24. Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God, and contain thyself:\ngather up thy heart in his holiness: and drive away sadness far from\nthee.\n\n30:25. For sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it.\n\n30:26. Envy and anger shorten a man\u2019s days, and pensiveness will bring\nold age before the time.\n\n30:27. A cheerful and good heart is always feasting: for his banquets\nare prepared with diligence.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 31\n\nOf the desire of riches, and of moderation in eating and drinking.\n\n31:1. Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof\ndriveth away sleep.\n\n31:2. The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a\ngrievous sickness maketh the soul sober.\n\n31:3. The rich man hath laboured in gathering riches together, and when\nhe resteth he shall be filled with his goods.\n\n31:4. The poor man hath laboured in his low way of life, and in the end\nhe is still poor.\n\n31:5. He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that\nfolloweth after corruption, shall be filled with it.\n\n31:6. Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof\nhath been their ruin.\n\n31:7. Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to\nthem that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it.\n\n31:8. Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that\nhath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures.\n\n31:9. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful\nthings in his life.\n\n31:10. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have\nglory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not\ntransgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them:\n\n31:11. Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the\nchurch of the saints shall declare his alms.\n\n31:12. Art thou set at a great table? be not the first to open thy\nmouth upon it.\n\n31:13. Say not: There are many things which are upon it.\n\n31:14. Remember that a wicked eye is evil.\n\n31:15. What is created more wicked than an eye? therefore shall it weep\nover all the face when it shall see.\n\n31:16. Stretch not out thy hand first, lest being disgraced with envy\nthou be put to confusion.\n\n31:17. Be not hasty in a feast.\n\n31:18. Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour by thyself.\n\n31:19. Use as a frugal man the things that are set before thee: lest if\nthou eatest much, thou be hated.\n\n31:20. Leave off first, for manners\u2019 sake: and exceed not, lest thou\noffend.\n\n31:21. And if thou sittest among many, reach not thy hand out first of\nall, and be not the first to ask for drink.\n\n31:22. How sufficient is a little wine for a man well taught, and in\nsleeping thou shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou shalt feel no pain.\n\n31:23. Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man:\n\n31:24. Sound and wholesome sleep with a moderate man: he shall sleep\ntill morning, and his soul shall be delighted with him.\n\n31:25. And if thou hast been forced to eat much, arise, go out, and\nvomit: and it shall refresh thee, and thou shalt not bring sickness\nupon thy body.\n\n31:26. Hear me, my son, and despise me not: and in the end thou shalt\nfind my words.\n\n31:27. In all thy works be quick, and no infirmity shall come to thee.\n\n31:28. The lips of many shall bless him that is liberal of his bread,\nand the testimony of his truth is faithful.\n\n31:29. Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will\nmurmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true.\n\n31:30. Challenge not them that love wine: for wine hath destroyed very\nmany.\n\n31:31. Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to excess shall rebuke the\nhearts of the proud.\n\n31:32. Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to men: if thou drink it\nmoderately, thou shalt be sober.\n\n31:33. What is his life, who is diminished with wine?\n\n31:34. What taketh away life? death.\n\n31:35. Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not\nto make them drunk.\n\n31:36. Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the soul and the\nheart.\n\n31:37. Sober drinking is health to soul and body.\n\n31:38. Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels, and wrath, and many\nruins.\n\n31:39. Wine drunken with excess is bitterness of the soul.\n\n31:40. The heat of drunkenness is the stumblingblock of the fool,\nlessening strength and causing wounds.\n\n31:41. Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of wine: and despise him\nnot in his mirth.\n\n31:42. Speak not to him words of reproach: and press him not in\ndemanding again.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 32\n\nLessons for superiors and inferiors. Advantages of fearing God, and\ndoing nothing without counsel.\n\n32:1. Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one\nof them.\n\n32:2. Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted\nthyself of all thy charge, take thy place:\n\n32:3. That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an\nornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution.\n\n32:4. Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,\n\n32:5. To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not\nmusic.\n\n32:6. Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted\nup out of season with thy wisdom.\n\n32:7. A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in\ngold.\n\n32:8. As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of\nmusic with pleasant and moderate wine.\n\n32:9. Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to\nthee.\n\n32:10. Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause.\n\n32:11. If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be short.\n\n32:12. In many things be as if thou wert ignorant, and hear in silence\nand withal seeking.\n\n32:13. In the company of great men take not upon thee: and when the\nancients are present, speak not much.\n\n32:14. Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth\nfavour: and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.\n\n32:15. And at the time of rising be not slack: but be first to run home\nto thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there take thy pastime.\n\n32:16. And do what thou hast a mind, but not in sin or proud speech.\n\n32:17. And for all these things bless the Lord, that made thee, and\nthat replenisheth thee with all his good things.\n\n32:18. He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they\nthat will seek him early, shall find a blessing.\n\n32:19. He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that\ndealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.\n\n32:20. They that fear the Lord, shall find just judgment, and shall\nkindle justice as a light.\n\n32:21. A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse\naccording to his will.\n\n32:22. A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and\nproud man will not dread fear:\n\n32:23. Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be\ncontrolled by the things of his own seeking.\n\n32:24. My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not\nrepent when thou hast done.\n\n32:25. Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against\nthe stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a\nstumblingblock to thy soul.\n\n32:26. And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy\nhousehold.\n\n32:27. In every work of thine regard thy soul in faith: for this is the\nkeeping of the commandments.\n\nIn faith.... That is, follow sincerely thy soul in her faith and\nconscience.\n\n32:28. He that believeth God, taketh heed to the commandments: and he\nthat trusteth in him, shall fare never the worse.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 33\n\nThe fear of God is the best security. Times and men are in the hands of\nGod. Take care of thyself as long as thou livest, and look to thy\nservants.\n\n33:1. No evils shall happen to him that feareth the Lord, but in\ntemptation God will keep him and deliver him from evils.\n\n33:2. A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall\nnot be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.\n\n33:3. A man of understanding is faithful to the law of God, and the law\nis faithful to him.\n\n33:4. He that cleareth up a question, shall prepare what to say, and so\nhaving prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he\nshall answer.\n\n33:5. The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart: and his thoughts are\nlike a rolling axletree.\n\n33:6. A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth\nunder every one that sitteth upon him.\n\n33:7. Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one\nyear another year, when all come of the sun?\n\n33:8. By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun\nbeing made, and keeping his commandment.\n\n33:9. And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them\nthey celebrated festivals at an hour.\n\n33:10. Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he\nput in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground,\nand out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.\n\n33:11. With much knowledge the Lord hath divided them and diversified\ntheir ways.\n\n33:12. Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath\nhe sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed\nand brought low, and turned them from their station.\n\n33:13. As the potter\u2019s clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:\n\n33:14. All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the\nhand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his\njudgment.\n\n33:15. Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the\nsinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most\nHigh. Two and two, and one against another.\n\n33:16. And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the\ngrapegatherers.\n\n33:17. In the blessing of God I also have hoped: and as one that\ngathereth grapes, have I filled the winepress.\n\n33:18. See that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all that\nseek discipline.\n\n33:19. Hear me, ye great men, and all ye people, and hearken with your\nears, ye rulers of the church.\n\n33:20. Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee\nwhile thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou\nrepent, and thou entreat for the same.\n\n33:21. As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man\nchange thee.\n\nChange thee.... That is, so as to have this power over thee.\n\n33:22. For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that\nthou look toward the hands of thy children.\n\n33:23. In all thy works keep the pre-eminence.\n\nThe pre-eminence.... That is, be master in thy own house, and part not\nwith thy authority.\n\n33:24. Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end\nthe days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy\ninheritance.\n\n33:25. Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and\ncorrection, and work for a slave.\n\n33:26. He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands\nbe idle, and he seeketh liberty.\n\n33:27. The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours\nbow a slave.\n\n33:28. Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work,\nthat he be not idle:\n\n33:29. For idleness hath taught much evil.\n\n33:30. Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not\nobedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any\none, and do no grievous thing without judgment.\n\n33:31. If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own\nsoul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou\nhast gotten him.\n\n33:32. If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:\n\n33:33. And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and\nin what way to seek him.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 34\n\nThe vanity of dreams. The advantage of experience, and of the fear of\nGod.\n\n34:1. The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and\ndeceitful: and dreams lift up fools.\n\n34:2. The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that\ncatcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.\n\n34:3. The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another:\nas when a man\u2019s likeness is before the face of a man.\n\n34:4. What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come\nfrom that which is false?\n\n34:5. Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of\nevildoers, are vanity:\n\n34:6. And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it\nbe a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them.\n\n34:7. For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put\ntheir trust in them.\n\n34:8. The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom\nshall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful.\n\n34:9. What doth he know, that hath not been tried? A man that hath much\nexperience, shall think of many things: and he that hath learned many\nthings, shall shew forth understanding.\n\n34:10. He that hath no experience, knoweth little: and he that hath\nbeen experienced in many things, multiplieth prudence.\n\n34:11. He that hath not been tried, what manner of things doth he know?\nhe that hath been surprised, shall abound with subtlety.\n\n34:12. I have seen many things by travelling, and many customs of\nthings.\n\n34:13. Sometimes I have been in danger of death for these things, and I\nhave been delivered by the grace of God.\n\n34:14. The spirit of those that fear God, is sought after, and by his\nregard shall be blessed.\n\n34:15. For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God\nare upon them that love him.\n\n34:16. He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not\nbe afraid: for he is his hope.\n\n34:17. The soul of him that feareth the Lord is blessed.\n\n34:18. To whom doth he look, and who is his strength?\n\n34:19. The eyes of the Lord are upon them that fear him, he is their\npowerful protector, and strong stay, a defence from the heat, and a\ncover from the sun at noon,\n\n34:20. A preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling: he\nraiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and\nlife, and blessing.\n\n34:21. The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully\ngotten, is stained, and the mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable.\n\n34:22. The Lord is only for them that wait upon him in the way of truth\nand justice.\n\n34:23. The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither\nhath he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified\nfor sins by the multitude of their sacrifices.\n\n34:24. He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one\nthat sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.\n\n34:25. The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that\ndefraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood.\n\n34:26. He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that\nkilleth his neighbour.\n\n34:27. He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of\nhis hire, are brothers.\n\n34:28. When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have\nthey but the labour?\n\n34:29. When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God\nhear?\n\n34:30. He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth\nhim again, what doth his washing avail?\n\n34:31. So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again,\nwhat doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 35\n\nWhat sacrifices are pleasing to God.\n\n35:1. He that keepeth the law, multiplieth offerings.\n\n35:2. It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and\nto depart from all iniquity.\n\n35:3. And to depart from injustice, is to offer a propitiatory\nsacrifice for injustices, and a begging of pardon for sins.\n\n35:4. He shall return thanks, that offereth fine flour: and he that\ndoth mercy, offereth sacrifice.\n\n35:5. To depart from iniquity is that which pleaseth the Lord, and to\ndepart from injustice, is an entreaty for sins.\n\n35:6. Thou shalt not appear empty in the sight of the Lord.\n\n35:7. For all these things are to be done because of the commandment of\nGod.\n\n35:8. The oblation of the just maketh the altar fat, and is an odour of\nsweetness in the sight of the most High.\n\n35:9. The sacrifice of the just is acceptable, and the Lord will not\nforget the memorial thereof.\n\n35:10. Give glory to God with a good heart: and diminish not the\nfirstfruits of thy hands.\n\n35:11. In every gift shew a cheerful countenance, and sanctify thy\ntithes with joy.\n\n35:12. Give to the most High according to what he hath given to thee,\nand with a good eye do according to the ability of thy hands:\n\n35:13. For the Lord maketh recompense, and will give thee seven times\nas much.\n\n35:14. Do not offer wicked gifts, for such he will not receive.\n\n35:15. And look not upon an unjust sacrifice, for the Lord is judge,\nand there is not with him respect of person.\n\n35:16. The Lord will not accept any person against a poor man, and he\nwill hear the prayer of him that is wronged.\n\n35:17. He will not despise the prayers of the fatherless: nor the\nwidow, when she poureth out her complaint.\n\n35:18. Do not the widow\u2019s tears run down the cheek, and her cry against\nhim that causeth them to fall?\n\n35:19. For from the cheek they go up even to heaven, and the Lord that\nheareth will not be delighted with them.\n\n35:20. He that adoreth God with joy, shall be accepted, and his prayer\nshall approach even to the clouds.\n\n35:21. The prayer of him that humbleth himself, shall pierce the\nclouds: and till it come nigh he will not be comforted: and he will not\ndepart till the most High behold.\n\n35:22. And the Lord will not be slack, but will judge for the just, and\nwill do judgment: and the Almighty will not have patience with them,\nthat he may crush their back:\n\n35:23. And he will repay vengeance to the Gentiles, till he have taken\naway the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptres of the unjust,\n\n35:24. Till he have rendered to men according to their deeds: and\naccording to the works of Adam, and according to his presumption,\n\n35:25. Till he have judged the cause of his people, and he shall\ndelight the just with his mercy.\n\n35:26. The mercy of God is beautiful in the time of affliction, as a\ncloud of rain in the time of drought.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 36\n\nA prayer for the church of God. Of a good heart, and a good wife.\n\n36:1. Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the\nlight of thy mercies:\n\n36:2. And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after\nthee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that\nthey may shew forth thy wonders.\n\n36:3. Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy\npower.\n\n36:4. For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou\nshalt be magnified among them in our presence,\n\n36:5. That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there\nis no God beside thee, O Lord.\n\n36:6. Renew thy signs, and work new miracles.\n\n36:7. Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.\n\n36:8. Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath.\n\n36:9. Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy.\n\n36:10. Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy\nwonderful works.\n\n36:11. Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and\nlet them perish that oppress thy people.\n\n36:12. Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is\nno other beside us.\n\n36:13. Gather together all the tribes of Jacob: that they may know that\nthere no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works: and thou\nshalt inherit them as from the beginning.\n\n36:14. Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and\nupon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.\n\n36:15. Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which thou hast sanctified,\nthe city of thy rest.\n\n36:16. Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy\nglory.\n\n36:17. Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the\nbeginning, and raise up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke\nin thy name.\n\n36:18. Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may\nbe found faithful: and hear the prayers of thy servants,\n\n36:19. According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct\nus into the way of justice, and let all know that dwell upon the earth,\nthat thou art God the beholder of all ages.\n\n36:20. The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another.\n\n36:21. The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches.\n\n36:22. A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will\nresist it.\n\n36:23. A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than\nanother.\n\nA woman will receive every man.... That is, any man that her parents\npropose to her to marry, though she does not like him, but marries in\nobedience to her parents, who make the choice for her.\n\n36:24. The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband,\nand a man desireth nothing more.\n\n36:25. If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and\nshew mercy: her husband is not like other men.\n\n36:26. He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a\nhelp like to himself, and a pillar of rest.\n\n36:27. Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and\nwhere there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.\n\n36:28. Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth\nwheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that\nskippeth from city to city.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 37\n\nOf the choice of friends and counsellors.\n\n37:1. Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a\nfriend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to\ndeath?\n\n37:2. But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.\n\n37:3. O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with\nthy malice, and deceitfulness?\n\n37:4. There is a companion who rejoiceth with his friend in his joys,\nbut in the time of trouble, he will be against him.\n\n37:5. There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his\nbelly\u2019s sake, and he will take up a shield against the enemy.\n\n37:6. Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in\nthy riches.\n\n37:7. Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy\ncounsel from them that envy thee.\n\n37:8. Every counsellor giveth out counsel, but there is one that is a\ncounsellor for himself.\n\n37:9. Beware of a counsellor. And know before what need he hath: for he\nwill devise to his own mind:\n\n37:10. Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee:\n\n37:11. Thy way is good; and then stand on the other side to see what\nshall befall thee.\n\n37:12. Treat not with a man without religion concerning holiness, nor\nwith an unjust man concerning justice, nor with a woman touching her of\nwhom she is jealous, nor with a coward concerning war, nor with a\nmerchant about traffic, nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an\nenvious man of giving thanks,\n\n37:13. Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the dishonest of\nhonesty, nor with the field laborer of every work,\n\n37:14. Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the\nyear, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these\nin any matter of counsel.\n\n37:15. But be continually with a holy man, whomsoever thou shalt know\nto observe the fear of God,\n\n37:16. Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou\nshalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee.\n\n37:17. And establish within thyself a heart of good counsel: for there\nis no other thing of more worth to thee than it.\n\n37:18. The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more\nthan seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch.\n\n37:19. But above all these things pray to the most High, that he may\ndirect thy way in truth.\n\n37:20. In all thy works let the true word go before thee, and steady\ncounsel before every action.\n\n37:21. A wicked word shall change the heart: out of which four manner\nof things arise, good and evil, life and death: and the tongue is\ncontinually the ruler of them. There is a man that is subtle and a\nteacher of many, and yet is unprofitable to his own soul.\n\n37:22. A skilful man hath taught many, and is sweet to his own soul.\n\n37:23. He that speaketh sophistically, is hateful: he shall be\ndestitute of every thing.\n\n37:24. Grace is not given him from the Lord: for he is deprived of all\nwisdom.\n\n37:25. There is a wise man that is wise to his own soul: and the fruit\nof his understanding is commendable.\n\n37:26. A wise man instructeth his own people, and the fruits of his\nunderstanding are faithful.\n\n37:27. A wise man shall be filled with blessings, and they that see\nshall praise him.\n\n37:28. The life of a man is in the number of his days: but the days of\nIsrael are innumerable.\n\n37:29. A wise man shall inherit honour among his people, and his name\nshall live for ever.\n\n37:30. My son, prove thy soul in thy life: and if it be wicked, give it\nno power:\n\n37:31. For all things are not expedient for all, and every kind\npleaseth not every soul.\n\n37:32. Be not greedy in any feasting, and pour not out thyself upon any\nmeat:\n\n37:33. For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will\nturn to choler.\n\n37:34. By surfeiting many have perished, but he that is temperate,\nshall prolong life.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 38\n\nOf physicians and medicines: what is to be done in sickness, and how we\nare to mourn for the dead. Of the employments of labourers and\nartificers.\n\n38:1. Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most\nHigh hath created him.\n\n38:2. For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the\nking.\n\n38:3. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the\nsight of great men he shall be praised.\n\n38:4. The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise\nman will not abhor them.\n\n38:5. Was not bitter water made sweet with wood?\n\n38:6. The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and\nthe most High hath given knowledge to men, that he may be honoured in\nhis wonders.\n\n38:7. By these he shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these\nthe apothecary shall make sweet confections, and shall make up\nointments of health, and of his works there shall be no end.\n\n38:8. For the peace of God is over all the face of the earth.\n\n38:9. My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but pray to the\nLord, and he shall heal thee.\n\n38:10. Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy\nheart from all offence.\n\n38:11. Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a\nfat offering, and then give place to the physician.\n\n38:12. For the Lord created him: and let him not depart from thee, for\nhis works are necessary.\n\n38:13. For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands:\n\n38:14. And they shall beseech the Lord, that he would prosper what they\ngive for ease and remedy, for their conversation.\n\n38:15. He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker, shall fall into the\nhands of the physician.\n\n38:16. My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou\nhadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover his\nbody, and neglect not his burial.\n\n38:17. And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and\nthen comfort thyself in thy sadness.\n\n38:18. And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or\ntwo, for fear of detraction.\n\n38:19. For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength,\nand the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.\n\n38:20. In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the\npoor is according to his heart.\n\n38:21. Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and\nremember the latter end.\n\n38:22. Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him\nno good, and shalt hurt thyself.\n\n38:23. Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so: yesterday for\nme, and to day for thee.\n\n38:24. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort\nhim in the departing of his spirit.\n\n38:25. The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he\nthat is less in action, shall receive wisdom.\n\nA scribe.... That is, a doctor of the law, or, a learned man.\n\n38:26. With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough,\nand that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is\noccupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of\nbulls?\n\n38:27. He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to\ngive the kine fodder.\n\n38:28. So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day,\nhe who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the\nfigure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and\nby his watching shall finish the work.\n\n38:29. So doth the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the iron\nwork. The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with\nthe heat of the furnace.\n\n38:30. The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is\nupon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.\n\n38:31. He setteth his mind to finish his work, and his watching to\npolish them to perfection.\n\n38:32. So doth the potter sitting at his work, turning the wheel about\nwith his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all\nhis work by number:\n\n38:33. He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his\nstrength before his feet:\n\n38:34. He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching\nto make clean the furnace.\n\n38:35. All these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his own\nart.\n\n38:36. Without these a city is not built.\n\n38:37. And they shall not dwell, nor walk about therein, and they shall\nnot go up into the assembly.\n\n38:38. Upon the judges\u2019 seat they shall not sit, and the ordinance of\njudgment they shall not understand, neither shall they declare\ndiscipline and judgment, and they shall not be found where parables are\nspoken:\n\n38:39. But they shall strengthen the state of the world, and their\nprayer shall be in the work of their craft, applying their soul, and\nsearching in the law of the most High.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 39\n\nThe exercises of the wise man. The Lord is to be glorified for his\nworks.\n\n39:1. The wise man will seek out the wisdom of all the ancients, and\nwill be occupied in the prophets.\n\n39:2. He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal\ninto the subtilties of parables.\n\n39:3. He will search out the hidden meanings of proverbs, and will be\nconversant in the secrets of parables.\n\n39:4. He shall serve among great men, and appear before the governor.\n\n39:5. He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and\nevil among men.\n\n39:6. He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him,\nand he will pray in the sight of the most High.\n\n39:7. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for\nhis sins.\n\n39:8. For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the\nspirit of understanding:\n\n39:9. And he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in\nhis prayer he will confess to the Lord.\n\n39:10. And he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge, and in his\nsecrets shall he meditate.\n\n39:11. He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall\nglory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n39:12. Many shall praise his wisdom, and it shall never be forgotten.\n\n39:13. The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be\nin request from generation to generation.\n\n39:14. Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the church shall shew\nforth his praise.\n\n39:15. If he continue, he shall leave a name above a thousand: and if\nhe rest, it shall be to his advantage.\n\n39:16. I will yet meditate that I may declare: for I am filled as with\na holy transport.\n\n39:17. By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth\nas the rose planted by the brooks of waters.\n\nYe divine offspring.... He speaks to the children of Israel, the people\nof God: whom he exhorts to bud forth and flourish with virtue.\n\n39:18. Give ye a sweet odour as frankincense.\n\n39:19. Send forth flowers, as the lily, and yield a smell, and bring\nforth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in\nhis works.\n\n39:20. Magnify his name, and give glory to him with the voice of your\nlips, and with the canticles of your mouths, and with harps, and in\npraising him, you shall say in this manner:\n\n39:21. All the works of the Lord are exceeding good.\n\n39:22. At his word the waters stood as a heap: and at the words of his\nmouth the receptacles of waters:\n\n39:23. For at his commandment favour is shewn, and there is no\ndiminishing of his salvation.\n\n39:24. The works of all flesh are before him, and there is nothing hid\nfrom his eyes.\n\n39:25. He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing\nwonderful before him.\n\n39:26. There is no saying: What is this, or what is that? for all\nthings shall be sought in their time.\n\n39:27. His blessing hath overflowed like a river.\n\n39:28. And as a flood hath watered the earth; so shall his wrath\ninherit the nations, that have not sought after him.\n\n39:29. Even as he turned the waters into a dry land, and the earth was\nmade dry: and his ways were made plain for their journey: so to sinners\nthey are stumblingblocks in his wrath.\n\n39:30. Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for\nthe wicked, good and evil things.\n\n39:31. The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water,\nfire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the\ncluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing.\n\n39:32. All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the\nsinners and the ungodly they shall be turned into evil.\n\n39:33. There are spirits that are created for vengeance, and in their\nfury they lay on grievous torments.\n\n39:34. In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and\nthey shall appease the wrath of him that made them.\n\n39:35. Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were created for\nvengeance.\n\n39:36. The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and serpents, and the sword\ntaking vengeance upon the ungodly unto destruction.\n\n39:37. In his commandments they shall feast, and they shall be ready\nupon earth when need is, and when their time is come they shall not\ntransgress his word.\n\n39:38. Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and I have\nmeditated, and thought on these things and left them in writing,\n\n39:39. All the works of the Lord are good, and he will furnish every\nwork in due time.\n\n39:40. It is not to be said: This is worse than that: for all shall be\nwell approved in their time.\n\n39:41. Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and\nbless the name of the Lord.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 40\n\nThe miseries of the life of man are relieved by the grace of God and\nhis fear.\n\n40:1. Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the\nchildren of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother\u2019s\nwomb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all.\n\n40:2. Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of\nthings to come, and the day of their end:\n\n40:3. From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is\nhumbled in earth and ashes:\n\n40:4. From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him\nthat is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness,\nand the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,\n\n40:5. And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night\nchangeth his knowledge.\n\n40:6. A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as\nin the day of keeping watch.\n\n40:7. He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped\nin the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and\nwondereth that there is no fear.\n\n40:8. Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon\nsinners are sevenfold more.\n\n40:9. Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, oppressions,\nfamine, and affliction, and scourges:\n\n40:10. All these things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes\ncame the flood.\n\n40:11. All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth\nagain, and all waters shall return to the sea.\n\n40:12. All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity\nshall stand for ever.\n\n40:13. The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and\nshall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.\n\n40:14. While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors\nshall pine away in the end.\n\n40:15. The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many\nbranches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.\n\n40:16. The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river,\nshall be pulled up before all grass.\n\n40:17. Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for\never.\n\n40:18. The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall\nbe sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure.\n\n40:19. Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but\na blameless wife shall be counted above them both.\n\n40:20. Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is\nabove them both.\n\n40:21. The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant\ntongue is above them both.\n\n40:22. Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green\nsown fields.\n\n40:23. A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above\nthem both is a wife with her husband.\n\n40:24. Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall\ndeliver more than they.\n\n40:25. Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is\nabove them both.\n\n40:26. Riches and strength lift up the heart: but above these is the\nfear of the Lord.\n\n40:27. There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to\nseek for help.\n\n40:28. The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they\nhave covered it above all glory.\n\n40:29. My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die\nthan to want.\n\n40:30. The life of him that looketh toward another man\u2019s table is not\nto be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man\u2019s meat.\n\n40:31. But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.\n\n40:32. Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his\nbelly there shall burn a fire.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 41\n\nOf the remembrance of death: of an evil and of a good name: of what\nthings we ought to be ashamed.\n\n41:1. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath\npeace in his possessions!\n\n41:2. To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all\nthings, and that is yet able to take meat!\n\n41:3. O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and\nto him whose strength faileth:\n\n41:4. Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things,\nand to the distrustful that loseth patience!\n\n41:5. Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been\nbefore thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the\nLord upon all flesh.\n\n41:6. And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most\nHigh? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.\n\n41:7. For among the dead there is no accusing of life.\n\n41:8. The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they\nthat converse near the houses of the ungodly.\n\n41:9. The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with\ntheir posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.\n\n41:10. The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his\nsake they are in reproach.\n\n41:11. Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most\nhigh Lord.\n\n41:12. And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you\ndie, in malediction shall be your portion.\n\n41:13. All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth:\nso the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.\n\n41:14. The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the\nungodly shall be blotted out.\n\n41:15. Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee,\nmore than a thousand treasures precious and great.\n\n41:16. A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall\ncontinue for ever.\n\n41:17. My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid,\nand a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?\n\n41:18. Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that\nhideth his wisdom.\n\n41:19. Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak\nof.\n\nHave a shame, etc.... That is to say, be ashamed of doing any of these\nthings, which I am now going to mention; for though sometimes\nshamefacedness is not to be indulged: yet it is often good and\nnecessary: as in the following cases.\n\n41:20. For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do\nnot please all men in opinion.\n\n41:21. Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie\nbefore a governor and a man in power:\n\n41:22. Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a\ncongregation and a people:\n\n41:23. Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the\nplace where thou dwellest,\n\n41:24. Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning\nwith thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:\n\n41:25. Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a\nharlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.\n\n41:26. Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a\nportion and not restoring.\n\n41:27. Gaze not upon another man\u2019s wife, and be not inquisitive after\nhis handmaid, and approach not her bed.\n\n41:28. Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou\nhast given, upbraid not.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 42\n\nOf what things we ought not to be ashamed. Cautions with regard to\nwomen. The works and greatness of God.\n\n42:1. Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the\nthing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and\nshalt find favour before all men: be not ashamed of any of these\nthings, and accept no person to sin thereby:\n\n42:2. Of the law of the most High, and of his covenant, and of judgment\nto justify the ungodly:\n\n42:3. Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of\nthe inheritance of friends:\n\n42:4. Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:\n\n42:5. Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much\ncorrection of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to\nbleed.\n\n42:6. Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.\n\n42:7. Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in\nnumber, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or\nreceivest in.\n\n42:8. Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged,\nthat are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all\nthings, and well approved in the sight of all men living.\n\n42:9. The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the\ncare for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass\naway the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be\nhateful:\n\n42:10. In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found\nwith child in her father\u2019s house: and having a husband, lest she should\nmisbehave herself, or at the least become barren.\n\n42:11. Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she\nmake thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the\ncity, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before\nall the multitude.\n\n42:12. Behold not everybody\u2019s beauty: and tarry not among women.\n\n42:13. For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity\nof a man.\n\n42:14. For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good\nturn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.\n\nBetter is the iniquity, etc.... That is, there is, commonly speaking,\nless danger to be apprehended to the soul from the churlishness, or\ninjuries we receive from men, than from the flattering favours and\nfamiliarity of women.\n\n42:15. I will now remember the works of the Lord, and I will declare\nthe things I have seen. By the words of the Lord are his works.\n\n42:16. The sun giving light hath looked upon all things, and full of\nthe glory of the Lord is his work.\n\n42:17. Hath not the Lord made the saints to declare all his wonderful\nworks, which the Lord Almighty hath firmly settled to be established\nfor his glory?\n\n42:18. He hath searched out the deep, and the heart of men: and\nconsidered their crafty devices.\n\n42:19. For the Lord knoweth all knowledge, and hath beheld the signs of\nthe world, he declareth the things that are past, and the things that\nare to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden things.\n\n42:20. No thought escapeth him, and no word can hide itself from him.\n\n42:21. He hath beautified the glorious works of his wisdom: and he is\nfrom eternity to eternity, and to him nothing may be added,\n\n42:22. Nor can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.\n\n42:23. O how desirable are all his works, and what we can know is but\nas a spark!\n\n42:24. All these things live, and remain for ever, and for every use\nall things obey him.\n\n42:25. All things are double, one against another, and he hath made\nnothing defective.\n\n42:26. He hath established the good things of every one. And who shall\nbe filled with beholding his glory?\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 43\n\nThe works of God are exceedingly glorious and wonderful: no man is able\nsufficiently to praise him.\n\n43:1. The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with\nits glorious shew.\n\n43:2. The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an\nadmirable instrument, the work of the most High.\n\n43:3. At noon he burneth the earth, and who can abide his burning heat?\nAs one keeping a furnace in the works of heat:\n\n43:4. The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out\nfiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.\n\n43:5. Great is the Lord that made him, and at his words he hath\nhastened his course.\n\n43:6. And the moon in all in her season, is for a declaration of times\nand a sign of the world.\n\n43:7. From the moon is the sign of the festival day, a light that\ndecreaseth in her perfection.\n\n43:8. The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her\nperfection.\n\n43:9. Being an instrument of the armies on high, shining gloriously in\nthe firmament of heaven.\n\n43:10. The glory of the stars is the beauty of heaven; the Lord\nenlighteneth the world on high.\n\n43:11. By the words of the holy one they stand in judgment, and shall\nnever fall in their watches.\n\n43:12. Look upon the rainbow, and bless him that made it: it is very\nbeautiful in its brightness.\n\n43:13. It encompasseth the heaven about with the circle of its glory,\nthe hands of the most High have displayed it.\n\n43:14. By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth\nforth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.\n\n43:15. Through this are the treasures opened, and the clouds fly out\nlike birds.\n\n43:16. By his greatness he hath fixed the clouds, and the hailstones\nare broken.\n\n43:17. At his sight shall the mountains be shaken, and at his will the\nsouth wind shall blow.\n\n43:18. The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the\nnorthern storm, and the whirlwind:\n\n43:19. And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow,\nand the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.\n\n43:20. The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the\nheart is astonished at the shower thereof.\n\n43:21. He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it\nfreezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.\n\n43:22. The cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into\ncrystal; upon every gathering together of waters it shall rest, and\nshall clothe the waters as a breastplate.\n\n43:23. And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and\nconsume all that is green as with fire.\n\n43:24. A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a\ndew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.\n\n43:25. At his word the wind is still, and with his thought he appeaseth\nthe deep, and the Lord hath planted islands therein.\n\n43:26. Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and\nwhen we hear with our ears, we shall admire.\n\n43:27. There are great and wonderful works: a variety of beasts, and of\nall living things, and the monstrous creatures of whales.\n\n43:28. Through him is established the end of their journey, and by his\nword all things are regulated.\n\n43:29. We shall say much, and yet shall want words: but the sum of our\nwords is, He is all.\n\n43:30. What shall we be able to do to glorify him? for the Almighty\nhimself is above all his works.\n\n43:31. The Lord is terrible, and exceeding great, and his power is\nadmirable.\n\n43:32. Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can, for he will yet far\nexceed, and his magnificence is wonderful.\n\n43:33. Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can; for he is above\nall praise.\n\n43:34. When you exalt him put forth all your strength, and be not\nweary: for you can never go far enough.\n\n43:35. Who shall see him, and declare him? and who shall magnify him as\nhe is from the beginning?\n\n43:36. There are many things hidden from us that are greater than\nthese: for we have seen but a few of his works.\n\n43:37. But the Lord hath made all things, and to the godly he hath\ngiven wisdom.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 44\n\nThe praises of the holy fathers, in particular of Enoch, Noe, Abraham,\nIsaac, and Jacob.\n\n44:1. Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers in their\ngeneration.\n\n44:2. The Lord hath wrought great glory through his magnificence from\nthe beginning.\n\n44:3. Such as have borne rule in their dominions, men of great power,\nand endued with their wisdom, shewing forth in the prophets the dignity\nof prophets,\n\n44:4. And ruling over the present people, and by the strength of wisdom\ninstructing the people in most holy words.\n\n44:5. Such as by their skill sought out musical tunes, and published\ncanticles of the scriptures.\n\n44:6. Rich men in virtue, studying beautifulness: living at peace in\ntheir houses.\n\n44:7. All these have gained glory in their generations, and were\npraised in their days.\n\n44:8. They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that\ntheir praises might be related:\n\n44:9. And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are\nperished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had\nnever been born, and their children with them.\n\n44:10. But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:\n\n44:11. Good things continue with their seed,\n\n44:12. Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath\nstood in the covenants.\n\n44:13. And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed\nand their glory shall not be forsaken.\n\n44:14. Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto\ngeneration and generation.\n\n44:15. Let the people shew forth their wisdom, and the church declare\ntheir praise.\n\n44:16. Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he\nmay give repentance to the nations.\n\n44:17. Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was\nmade a reconciliation.\n\n44:18. Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood\ncame.\n\n44:19. The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh\nshould no more be destroyed with the flood.\n\n44:20. Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and\nthere was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the\nmost High, and was in covenant with him.\n\n44:21. In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he\nwas found faithful.\n\n44:22. Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he\nshould increase as the dust of the earth,\n\n44:23. And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should\ninherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.\n\n44:24. And he did in like manner with Isaac for the sake of Abraham his\nfather.\n\n44:25. The Lord gave him the blessing of all nations, and confirmed his\ncovenant upon the head of Jacob.\n\n44:26. He acknowledged him in his blessings, and gave him an\ninheritance, and divided him his portion in twelve tribes.\n\n44:27. And he preserved for him men of mercy, that found grace in the\neyes of all flesh.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 45\n\nThe praises of Moses, of Aaron, and of Phinees.\n\n45:1. Moses was beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in\nbenediction.\n\n45:2. He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the\nfear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease.\n\n45:3. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments\nin the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory.\n\n45:4. He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out\nof all flesh.\n\n45:5. For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud.\n\n45:6. And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life\nand instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his\njudgments.\n\n45:7. He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of\nLevi:\n\n45:8. He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the\npriesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory,\n\n45:9. And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him\nwith a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire.\n\n45:10. He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an\nephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round\nabout,\n\n45:11. That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that\nmight be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his\npeople.\n\n45:12. He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven\nwork of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth:\n\n45:13. Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones\ncut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a\nmemorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.\n\n45:14. And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved\nHoliness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the\neyes for its beauty.\n\n45:15. Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the\nbeginning.\n\n45:16. No stranger was ever clothed with them, but only his children\nalone, and his grandchildren for ever.\n\n45:17. His sacrifices were consumed with fire every day.\n\n45:18. Moses filled his hands and anointed him with holy oil.\n\n45:19. This was made to him for an everlasting testament, and to his\nseed as the days of heaven, to execute the office of the priesthood,\nand to have praise, and to glorify his people in his name.\n\n45:20. He chose him out of all men living, to offer sacrifice to God,\nincense, and a good savour, for a memorial to make reconciliation for\nhis people:\n\n45:21. And he gave him power in his commandments, in the covenants of\nhis judgments, that he should teach Jacob his testimonies, and give\nlight to Israel in his law.\n\n45:22. And strangers stood up against him, and through envy the men\nthat were with Dathan and Abiron, compassed him about in the\nwilderness, and the congregation of Core in their wrath.\n\n45:23. The Lord God saw and it pleased him not, and they were consumed\nin his wrathful indignation.\n\n45:24. He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of\nfire.\n\n45:25. And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and\ndivided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth.\n\n45:26. He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the\nsacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and\nto his seed.\n\n45:27. But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he\nhath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and\ninheritance.\n\n45:28. Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, by imitating\nhim in the fear of the Lord:\n\n45:29. And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the\ngoodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.\n\n45:30. Therefore he made to him a covenant of peace, to be the prince\nof the sanctuary, and of his people, that the dignity of priesthood\nshould be to him and to his seed for ever.\n\n45:31. And a covenant to David the king, the son of Jesse of the tribe\nof Juda, an inheritance to him and to his seed, that he might give\nwisdom into our heart to judge his people in justice, that their good\nthings might not be abolished, and he made their glory in their nation\neverlasting.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 46\n\nThe praise of Josue, of Caleb, and of Samuel.\n\n46:1. Valiant in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of\nMoses among the prophets, who was great according to his name,\n\nJesus the son of Nave.... So Josue is named in the Greek Bibles. For\nJosue and Jesus signify the same thing, viz., a saviour.\n\n46:2. Very great for the saving the elect of God, to overthrow the\nenemies that rose up against them, that he might get the inheritance\nfor Israel.\n\n46:3. How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and\nstretched out swords against the cities?\n\n46:4. Who before him hath so resisted? for the Lord himself brought the\nenemies.\n\n46:5. Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and one day made as two?\n\n46:6. He called upon the most high Sovereign when the enemies assaulted\nhim on every side, and the great and holy God heard him by hailstones\nof exceeding great force.\n\n46:7. He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and\nin the descent he destroyed the adversaries.\n\nAnd in the descent.... Of Beth-horon (Jos. 10.).\n\n46:8. That the nations might know his power, that it is not easy to\nfight against God. And he followed the mighty one:\n\n46:9. And in the days of Moses he did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the\nson of Jephone, in standing against the enemy, and withholding the\npeople from sins, and appeasing the wicked murmuring.\n\n46:10. And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger\nfrom among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring\nthem into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and\nhoney.\n\n46:11. And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength\ncontinued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of\nthe land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance:\n\n46:12. That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to\nobey the holy God.\n\n46:13. Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not\ncorrupted: who turned not away from the Lord,\n\n46:14. That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up\nout of their place,\n\n46:15. And their name continue for ever, the glory of the holy men\nremaining unto their children.\n\n46:16. Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the beloved of the Lord his God,\nestablished a new government, and anointed princes over his people.\n\n46:17. By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the God\nof Jacob beheld, and by his fidelity he was proved a prophet.\n\n46:18. And he was known to be faithful in his words, because he saw the\nGod of light:\n\n46:19. And called upon the name of the Lord Almighty, in fighting\nagainst the enemies who beset him on every side, when he offered a lamb\nwithout blemish.\n\n46:20. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made\nhis voice to be heard.\n\n46:21. And he crushed the princes of the Tyrians, and all the lords of\nthe Philistines:\n\n46:22. And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he\nprotested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else,\neven to a shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man did accuse him.\n\n46:23. And after this he slept, and he made known to the king, and\nshewed him the end of his life, and he lifted up his voice from the\nearth in prophecy to blot out the wickedness of the nation.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 47\n\nThe praise of Nathan, of David, and of Solomon: Of his fall and\npunishment.\n\n47:1. Then Nathan the prophet arose in the days of David.\n\n47:2. And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen\nfrom among the children of Israel.\n\n47:3. He played with lions as with lambs: and with bears he did in like\nmanner as with the lambs of the flock, in his youth.\n\n47:4. Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his\npeople?\n\n47:5. In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the sling he beat down\nthe boasting of Goliath:\n\n47:6. For he called upon the Lord the Almighty, and he gave strength in\nhis right hand, to take away the mighty warrior, and to set up the horn\nof his nation.\n\n47:7. So in ten thousand did he glorify him, and praised him in the\nblessings of the Lord, in offering to him a crown of glory:\n\n47:8. For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and extirpated the\nPhilistines the adversaries unto this day: he broke their horn for\never.\n\n47:9. In all his works he gave thanks to the holy one, and to the most\nHigh, with words of glory.\n\n47:10. With his whole heart he praised the Lord, and loved God that\nmade him: and he gave him power against his enemies:\n\n47:11. And he set singers before the altar, and by their voices he made\nsweet melody.\n\n47:12. And to the festivals he added beauty, and set in order the\nsolemn times even to the end of his life, that they should praise the\nholy name of the Lord, and magnify the holiness of God in the morning.\n\n47:13. The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: and\nhe gave him a covenant of the kingdom, and a throne of glory in Israel.\n\n47:14. After him arose up a wise son, and for his sake he cast down all\nthe power of the enemies.\n\n47:15. Solomon reigned in days of peace, and God brought all his\nenemies under him, that he might build a house in his name, and prepare\na sanctuary for ever: O how wise wast thou in thy youth!\n\n47:16. And thou wast filled as a river with wisdom, and thy soul\ncovered the earth.\n\n47:17. And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went\nabroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace.\n\n47:18. The countries wondered at thee for thy canticles, and proverbs,\nand parables, and interpretations,\n\n47:19. And at the name of the Lord God, whose surname is, God of\nIsrael.\n\n47:20. Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as\nlead,\n\n47:21. And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast\nbrought under subjection.\n\n47:22. Thou hast stained thy glory, and defiled thy seed so as to bring\nwrath upon thy children, and to have thy folly kindled,\n\n47:23. That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of\nEphraim a rebellious kingdom to rule.\n\n47:24. But God will not leave off his mercy, and he will not destroy,\nnor abolish his own works, neither will he cut up by the roots the\noffspring of his elect: and he will not utterly take away the seed of\nhim that loveth the Lord.\n\n47:25. Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and to David of the same\nstock.\n\n47:26. And Solomon had an end with his fathers.\n\n47:27. And he left behind him of his seed, the folly of the nation,\n\n47:28. Even Roboam that had little wisdom, who turned away the people\nthrough his counsel:\n\n47:29. And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin, and\nshewed Ephraim the way of sin, and their sins were multiplied\nexceedingly.\n\n47:30. They removed them far away from their land.\n\n47:31. And they sought out all iniquities, till vengeance came upon\nthem, and put an end to all their sins.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 48\n\nThe praise of Elias, of Eliseus, of Ezechias, and of Isaias.\n\n48:1. And Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt\nlike a torch.\n\n48:2. He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked him in\ntheir envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure\nthe commandments of the Lord.\n\n48:3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he brought\ndown fire from heaven thrice.\n\n48:4. Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And who can glory\nlike to thee?\n\n48:5. Who raisedst up a dead man from below, from the lot of death, by\nthe word of the Lord God.\n\n48:6. Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest easily\ntheir power in pieces, and the glorious from their bed.\n\n48:7. Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the judgments of\nvengeance.\n\n48:8. Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets successors\nafter thee.\n\n48:9. Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery\nhorses.\n\n48:10. Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the\nwrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and\nto restore the tribes of Jacob.\n\n48:11. Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy\nfriendship.\n\n48:12. For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not\nbe such.\n\n48:13. Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was\nfilled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man\nwas more powerful than he.\n\n48:14. No word could overcome him, and after death his body prophesied.\n\n48:15. In his life he did great wonders, and in death he wrought\nmiracles.\n\n48:16. For all this the people repented not, neither did they depart\nfrom their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were\nscattered through all the earth.\n\n48:17. And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house\nof David.\n\n48:18. Some of these did that which pleased God: but others committed\nmany sins.\n\n48:19. Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst\nthereof, and he digged a rock with iron, and made a well for water.\n\n48:20. In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted\nup his hand against them, and he stretched out his hand against Sion,\nand became proud through his power.\n\n48:21. Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were in pain as\nwomen in travail.\n\n48:22. And they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and spreading\ntheir hands, they lifted them up to heaven: and the holy Lord God\nquickly heard their voice.\n\n48:23. He was not mindful of their sins, neither did he deliver them up\nto their enemies, but he purified them by the hand of Isaias, the holy\nprophet.\n\n48:24. He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the angel of the\nLord destroyed them.\n\n48:25. For Ezechias did that which pleased God, and walked valiantly in\nthe way of David his father, which Isaias, the great prophet, and\nfaithful in the sight of God, had commanded him.\n\n48:26. In his days the sun went backward, and he lengthened the king\u2019s\nlife.\n\n48:27. With a great spirit he saw the things that are to come to pass\nat last, and comforted the mourners in Sion.\n\n48:28. He showed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things\nbefore they came.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 49\n\nThe praise of Josias, of Jeremias, Ezechiel, and the twelve prophets.\nAlso of Zorobabel, Jesus the son of Josedech, Nehemias, Enoch, Joseph,\nSeth, Sem, and Adam.\n\n49:1. The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell\nmade by the art of a perfumer:\n\n49:2. His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, and as\nmusic at a banquet of wine.\n\n49:3. He was directed by God unto the repentance of the nation, and he\ntook away the abominations of wickedness.\n\n49:4. And he directed his heart towards the Lord, and in the days of\nsinners he strengthened godliness.\n\n49:5. Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all committed sin.\n\n49:6. For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the most High, and\ndespised the fear of God.\n\n49:7. So they gave their kingdom to others, and their glory to a\nstrange nation,\n\n49:8. They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets\nthereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.\n\n49:9. For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his\nmother\u2019s womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build\nagain, and renew.\n\n49:10. It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vision, which was shewn\nhim upon the chariot of cherubims.\n\n49:11. For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of rain, and\nof doing good to them that shewed right ways.\n\n49:12. And may the bones of the twelve prophets spring up out of their\nplace: for they strengthened Jacob, and redeemed themselves by strong\nfaith.\n\n49:13. How shall we magnify Zorobabel? for he was as a signet on the\nright hand;\n\n49:14. In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec who in their days built\nthe house, and set up a holy temple to the Lord, prepared for\neverlasting glory.\n\n49:15. And let Nehemias be a long time remembered, who raised up for us\nour walls that were cast down, and set up the gates and the bars, who\nrebuilt our houses.\n\n49:16. No man was born upon earth like Henoch: for he also was taken up\nfrom the earth.\n\n49:17. Nor as Joseph, who was a man born prince of his brethren, the\nsupport of his family, the ruler of his brethren, the stay of the\npeople:\n\n49:18. And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied.\n\nThey prophesied.... That is, by their being carried out of Egypt they\nverified the prophetic prediction of Joseph. Gen. 50.\n\n49:19. Seth and Sem obtained glory among men: and above every soul Adam\nin the beginning.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 50\n\nThe praises of Simon the high priest. The conclusion.\n\n50:1. Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped\nup the house, and in his days fortified the temple.\n\n50:2. By him also the height of the temple was founded, the double\nbuilding and the high walls of the temple.\n\n50:3. In his days the wells of water flowed out, and they were filled\nas the sea above measure.\n\n50:4. He took care of his nation, and delivered it from destruction.\n\n50:5. He prevailed to enlarge the city, and obtained glory in his\nconversation with the people: and enlarged the entrance of the house\nand the court.\n\n50:6. He shone in his days as the morning star in the midst of a cloud,\nand as the moon at the full.\n\n50:7. And as the sun when it shineth, so did he shine in the temple of\nGod.\n\n50:8. And as the rainbow giving light in bright clouds, and as the\nflower of roses in the days of the spring, and as the lilies that are\non the brink of the water, and as the sweet smelling frankincense in\nthe time of summer.\n\n50:9. As a bright fire, and frankincense burning in the fire.\n\n50:10. As a massy vessel of gold, adorned with every precious stone.\n\n50:11. As an olive tree budding forth, and a cypress tree rearing\nitself on high, when he put on the robe of glory, and was clothed with\nthe perfection of power.\n\nClothed with the perfection of power.... That is, with all the\nvestments denoting his dignity and authority.\n\n50:12. When he went up to the holy altar, he honoured the vesture of\nholiness.\n\n50:13. And when he took the portions out of the hands of the priests,\nhe himself stood by the altar. And about him was the ring of his\nbrethren: and as the cedar planted in mount Libanus,\n\n50:14. And as branches of palm trees, they stood round about him, and\nall the sons of Aaron in their glory.\n\n50:15. And the oblation of the Lord was in their hands, before all the\ncongregation of Israel: and finishing his service, on the altar, to\nhonour the offering of the most high King,\n\n50:16. He stretched forth his hand to make a libation, and offered of\nthe blood of the grape.\n\n50:17. He poured out at the foot of the altar a divine odour to the\nmost high Prince.\n\n50:18. Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten\ntrumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before\nGod.\n\n50:19. Then all the people together made haste, and fell down to the\nearth upon their faces, to adore the Lord their God, and to pray to the\nAlmighty God the most High.\n\n50:20. And the singers lifted up their voices, and in the great house\nthe sound of sweet melody was increased.\n\n50:21. And the people in prayer besought the Lord the most High, until\nthe worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished their\noffice.\n\n50:22. Then coming down, he lifted up his hands over all the\ncongregation of the children of Israel, to give glory to God with his\nlips, and to glory in his name:\n\n50:23. And he repeated his prayer, willing to shew the power of God.\n\n50:24. And now pray ye to the God of all, who hath done great things in\nall the earth, who hath increased our days from our mother\u2019s womb, and\nhath done with us according to his mercy.\n\n50:25. May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and that there be peace in\nour days in Israel for ever:\n\n50:26. That Israel may believe that the mercy of God is with us, to\ndeliver us in his days.\n\n50:27. There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is\nno nation: which I hate:\n\nAbhorreth.... Viz., with a holy indignation, as enemies of God and\npersecutors of his people. Such were then the Edomites who abode in\nmount Seir, the Philistines, and the Samaritans who dwelt in Sichem,\nand had their schismatical temple in that neighbourhood.\n\n50:28. They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the\nfoolish people that dwell in Sichem.\n\n50:29. Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath written in this book\nthe doctrine of wisdom and instruction, who renewed wisdom from his\nheart.\n\n50:30. Blessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he\nthat layeth them up in his heart, shall be wise always.\n\n50:31. For if he do them, he shall be strong to do all things: because\nthe light of God guideth his steps.\n\n\nEcclesiasticus Chapter 51\n\nA prayer of praise and thanksgiving.\n\n51:1. A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will give glory to thee, O\nLord, O King, and I will praise thee, O God my Saviour.\n\n51:2. I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast been a helper and\nprotector to me.\n\n51:3. And hast preserved my body from destruction, from the snare of an\nunjust tongue, and from the lips of them that forge lies, and in the\nsight of them that stood by, thou hast been my helper.\n\n51:4. And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the\nmercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour.\n\n51:5. Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates\nof afflictions, which compassed me about:\n\n51:6. From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the\nmidst of the fire I was not burnt.\n\n51:7. From the depth of the belly of hell, and from an unclean tongue,\nand from lying words, from an unjust king, and from a slanderous\ntongue:\n\n51:8. My soul shall praise the Lord even to death.\n\n51:9. And my life was drawing near to hell beneath.\n\n51:10. They compassed me on every side, and there was no one that would\nhelp me. I looked for the succour of men, and there was none.\n\n51:11. I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from\nthe beginning of the world.\n\n51:12. How thou deliverest them that wait for thee, O Lord, and savest\nthem out of the hands of the nations.\n\n51:13. Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon the earth and I have\nprayed for death to pass away.\n\n51:14. I called upon the Lord, the father of my Lord, that he would not\nleave me in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the proud without\nhelp.\n\n51:15. I will praise thy name continually, and will praise it with\nthanksgiving, and my prayer was heard.\n\n51:16. And thou hast saved me from destruction, and hast delivered me\nfrom the evil time.\n\n51:17. Therefore I will give thanks, and praise thee, and bless the\nname of the Lord.\n\n51:18. When I was yet young, before I wandered about, I sought for\nwisdom openly in my prayer.\n\n51:19. I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will\nseek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe.\n\n51:20. My heart delighted in her, my foot walked in the right way, from\nmy youth up I sought after her.\n\n51:21. I bowed down my ear a little, and received her.\n\n51:22. I found much wisdom in myself, and profited much therein.\n\n51:23. To him that giveth me wisdom, will I give glory.\n\n51:24. For I have determined to follow her: I have had a zeal for good,\nand shall not be confounded.\n\n51:25. My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing it I have been\nconfirmed.\n\n51:26. I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bewailed my ignorance\nof her.\n\n51:27. I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.\n\n51:28. I possessed my heart with her from the beginning: therefore I\nshall not be forsaken.\n\n51:29. My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I\npossess a good possession.\n\n51:30. The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward: and with it I\nwill praise him.\n\n51:31. Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together\ninto the house of discipline.\n\n51:32. Why are ye slow and what do you say of these things? your souls\nare exceeding thirsty.\n\n51:33. I have opened my mouth, and have spoken: buy her for yourselves\nwithout silver,\n\n51:34. And submit your neck to the yoke, and let your soul receive\ndiscipline: for she is near at hand to be found.\n\n51:35. Behold with your eyes how I have laboured a little, and have\nfound much rest to myself.\n\n51:36. Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess\nabundance of gold by her.\n\n51:37. Let your soul rejoice in his mercy and you shall not be\nconfounded in his praise.\n\n51:38. Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward\nin his time.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS\n\n\nThis inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, the great prophet,\n(Ecclesiasticus 48.25,) from the greatness of his prophetic spirit, by\nwhich he hath foretold so long before, and in so clear a manner, the\ncoming of Christ, the mysteries of our redemption, the calling of the\nGentiles, and the glorious establishment, and perpetual flourishing of\nthe church of Christ: insomuch that he may seem to have been rather an\nevangelist than a prophet. His very name is not without mystery; for\nIsaias in Hebrew signifies the salvation of the Lord, or Jesus is the\nLord. He was, according to the tradition of the Hebrews, of the blood\nroyal of the kings of Juda: and after a most holy life, ended his days\nby a glorious martyrdom; being sawed in two, at the command of his\nwicked son in law, King Manasses, for reproving his evil ways.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet complains of the sins of Juda and Jerusalem, and exhorts\nthem to a sincere conversion.\n\n1:1. The vision of Isaias the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda\nand Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings\nof Juda.\n\n1:2. Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath\nspoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have\ndespised me.\n\n1:3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master\u2019s crib: but\nIsrael hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.\n\n1:4. Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked\nseed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have\nblasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.\n\n1:5. For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase\ntransgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.\n\n1:6. From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no\nsoundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not\nbound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.\n\n1:7. Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your\ncountry strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as\nwhen wasted by enemies.\n\n1:8. And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard,\nand as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid\nwaste.\n\n1:9. Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom,\nand we should have been like to Gomorrha.\n\n1:10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the\nlaw of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.\n\n1:11. To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims,\nsaith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of\nfatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.\n\n1:12. When you came to appear before me, who required these things at\nyour hands, that you should walk in my courts?\n\n1:13. Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me.\nThe new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide,\nyour assemblies are wicked.\n\n1:14. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are\nbecome troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.\n\n1:15. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes\nfrom you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands\nare full of blood.\n\n1:16. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices\nfrom my eyes, cease to do perversely,\n\n1:17. Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for\nthe fatherless, defend the widow.\n\n1:18. And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as\nscarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as\ncrimson, they shall be white as wool.\n\n1:19. If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good\nthings of the land.\n\n1:20. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword\nshall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n1:21. How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a\nharlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.\n\n1:22. Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.\n\n1:23. Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love\nbribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and\nthe widow\u2019s cause cometh not in to them.\n\n1:24. Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of\nIsrael: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be\nrevenged of my enemies.\n\n1:25. And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy\ndross, and I will take away all thy tin.\n\n1:26. And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy\ncounsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the\njust, a faithful city.\n\n1:27. Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back\nin justice.\n\n1:28. And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and\nthey that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.\n\n1:29. For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have\nsacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have\nchosen.\n\n1:30. When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a\ngarden without water.\n\n1:31. And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as\na spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to\nquench it.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 2\n\nAll nations shall flow to the church of Christ. The Jews shall be\nrejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed.\n\n2:1. The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and\nJerusalem.\n\n2:2. And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall\nbe prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the\nhills, and all nations shall flow unto it.\n\nThe last days.... The whole time of the new law, from the coming of\nChrist till the end of the world, is called in the scripture the last\ndays; because no other age or time shall come after it, but only\neternity.\u2014Ibid. On the top of mountains, etc.... This shews the\nperpetual visibility of the church of Christ: for a mountain upon the\ntop of mountains cannot be hid.\n\n2:3. And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the\nmountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will\nteach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall\ncome forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.\n\n2:4. And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they\nshall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into\nsickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall\nthey be exercised any more to war.\n\n2:5. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the\nLord.\n\n2:6. For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because\nthey are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the\nPhilistines, and have adhered to strange children.\n\n2:7. Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of\ntheir treasures.\n\n2:8. And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are\ninnumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the\nwork of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.\n\n2:9. And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased:\ntherefore forgive them not.\n\n2:10. Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face\nof the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.\n\n2:11. The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men\nshall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that\nday.\n\n2:12. Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that\nis proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he\nshall be humbled.\n\n2:13. And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all\nthe oaks of Basan.\n\n2:14. And upon all the high mountains and upon all the elevated hills.\n\n2:15. And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.\n\n2:16. And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to\nbehold.\n\n2:17. And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness\nof men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that\nday.\n\n2:18. And idols shall be utterly destroyed.\n\nIdols shall be utterly destroyed.... or utterly pass away. This was\nverified by the establishment of Christianity. And by this and other\ntexts of the like nature, the wild system of some modern sectaries is\nabundantly confuted, who charge the whole Christian church with\nworshipping idols, for many ages.\n\n2:19. And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of\nthe earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of\nhis majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.\n\n2:20. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his\nidols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.\n\n2:21. And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of\nstones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his\nmajesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.\n\n2:22. Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils,\nfor he is reputed high.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 3\n\nThe confusion and other evils that shall come upon the Jews for their\nsins. The pride of their women shall be punished.\n\n3:1. For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from\nJerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength\nof bread, and the whole strength of water.\n\n3:2. The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and\nthe cunning man, and the ancient.\n\n3:3. The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the\ncounsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.\n\n3:4. And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate\nshall rule over them.\n\n3:5. And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against\nhis neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and\nthe base against the honourable.\n\n3:6. For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his\nfather, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this\nruin be under thy hand.\n\n3:7. In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my\nhouse there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.\n\n3:8. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue,\nand their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his\nmajesty.\n\n3:9. The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have\nproclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to\ntheir souls, for evils are rendered to them.\n\n3:10. Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit\nof his doings.\n\n3:11. Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be\ngiven him.\n\n3:12. As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women\nhave ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the\nsame deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.\n\n3:13. The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the\npeople.\n\n3:14. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his\npeople, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the\nspoil of the poor is in your house.\n\n3:15. Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor?\nsaith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n3:16. And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and\nhave walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes,\nand made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set\npace:\n\n3:17. The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of\nSion, and the Lord will discover their hair.\n\n3:18. In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and\nlittle moons,\n\n3:19. And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,\n\n3:20. And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet\nballs, and earrings,\n\n3:21. And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,\n\n3:22. And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and\ncrisping pins,\n\n3:23. And lookingglasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.\n\n3:24. And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead\nof a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead\nof a stomacher, haircloth.\n\n3:25. Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant\nones in battle.\n\n3:26. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate\non the ground.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 4\n\nAfter an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the Jews, a remnant\nshall be comforted by Christ.\n\n4:1. And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We\nwill eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called\nby thy name, take away our reproach.\n\n4:2. In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and\nglory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to\nthem that shall have escaped of Israel.\n\nThe bud of the Lord.... That is, Christ.\n\n4:3. And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in\nSion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every\none that is written in life in Jerusalem.\n\n4:4. If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion,\nand shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by\nthe spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.\n\n4:5. And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where\nhe is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a\nflaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a\nprotection.\n\n4:6. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from\nthe heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from\nrain.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 5\n\nThe reprobation of the Jews is foreshewn under the parable of a\nvineyard. A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall\nsend against them.\n\n5:1. I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his\nvineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.\n\nMy cousin.... So the prophet calls Christ, as being of his family and\nkindred, by descending from the house of David. Ibid. On a hill,\netc.... Literally, in the horn, the son of oil.\n\n5:2. And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted\nit with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and\nset up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth\ngrapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.\n\n5:3. And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge\nbetween me and my vineyard.\n\n5:4. What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have\nnot done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes,\nand it hath brought forth wild grapes?\n\n5:5. And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take\naway the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the\nwall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.\n\n5:6. And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall\nnot be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command\nthe clouds to rain no rain upon it.\n\n5:7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and\nthe man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do\njudgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.\n\n5:8. Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even\nto the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the\nearth?\n\n5:9. These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many\ngreat and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.\n\n5:10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and\nthirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.\n\n5:11. Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow\ndrunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.\n\n5:12. The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine\nare in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you\nconsider the works of his hands.\n\n5:13. Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not\nknowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their\nmultitude were dried up with thirst.\n\n5:14. Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth\nwithout any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their\nhigh and glorious ones shall go down into it.\n\n5:15. And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the\neyes of the lofty shall be brought low.\n\n5:16. And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy\nGod shall be sanctified in justice.\n\n5:17. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers\nshall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.\n\n5:18. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as\nthe rope of a cart.\n\n5:19. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that\nwe may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that\nwe may know it.\n\n5:20. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness\nfor light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet\nfor bitter.\n\n5:21. Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your\nown conceits.\n\n5:22. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at\ndrunkenness.\n\n5:23. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of\nthe just from him.\n\n5:24. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and\nthe heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes,\nand their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of\nthe Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of\nIsrael.\n\n5:25. Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people,\nand he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the\nmountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the\nmidst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but\nhis hand is stretched out still.\n\n5:26. And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will\nwhistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come\nwith speed swiftly.\n\n5:27. There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall\nnot slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be\nloosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.\n\n5:28. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of\ntheir horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the\nviolence of a tempest.\n\n5:29. Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young\nlions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall\nkeep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.\n\n5:30. And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the\nroaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness\nof tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 6\n\nA glorious vision, in which the prophet\u2019s lips are cleansed: he\nforetelleth the obstinacy of the Jews.\n\n6:1. In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a\nthrone high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.\n\n6:2. Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other\nhad six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they\ncovered his feet, and with two they flew.\n\n6:3. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the\nLord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory,\n\n6:4. And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that\ncried, and the house was filled with smoke.\n\n6:5. And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am\na man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath\nunclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.\n\n6:6. And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live\ncoal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.\n\n6:7. And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy\nlips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be\ncleansed.\n\n6:8. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and\nwho shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.\n\n6:9. And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear,\nand understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.\n\n6:10. Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and\nshut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their\nears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal\nthem.\n\n6:11. And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be\nwasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land\nshall be left desolate.\n\n6:12. And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be\nmultiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.\n\n6:13. And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn,\nand shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that\nspreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy\nseed.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 7\n\nThe prophet assures king Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not\ntake Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the\nson of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son\nof Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it:\nbut they could not prevail over it.\n\n7:2. And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon\nEphraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the\ntrees of the woods are moved with the wind.\n\n7:3. And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and\nJasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way\nof the fuller\u2019s field.\n\n7:4. And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let\nnot thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking\nwith the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of\nRomelia.\n\n7:5. Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of\nEphraim and the son of Romelia, saying:\n\n7:6. Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and\nmake the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.\n\n7:7. Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not\nbe.\n\n7:8. But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is\nRasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be\na people:\n\n7:9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the\nson of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.\n\n7:10. And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:\n\n7:11. Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of\nhell, or unto the height above.\n\n7:12. And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord.\n\n7:13. And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small\nthing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God\nalso?\n\n7:14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin\nshall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.\n\n7:15. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the\nevil, and to choose the good.\n\n7:16. For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the\ngood, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of\nher two kings.\n\n7:17. The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the\nhouse of thy father, days that have not come since the time of the\nseparation of Ephraim from Juda with the king of the Assyrians.\n\n7:18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss\nfor the fly, that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and\nfor the bee that is in the land of Assyria.\n\n7:19. And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the torrents\nof the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all places set\nwith shrubs, and in all hollow places.\n\n7:20. In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by\nthem that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head\nand the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.\n\n7:21. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a\nyoung cow, and two sheep.\n\n7:22. And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and\nhoney shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.\n\n7:23. And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where\nthere were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall\nbecome thorns and briers.\n\n7:24. With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers\nand thorns shall be in all the land.\n\n7:25. And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the\nfear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for\nthe ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 8\n\nThe name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the\nJews for their sins.\n\n8:1. And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it\nwith a man\u2019s pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the\nprey.\n\n8:2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and\nZacharias the son of Barachias.\n\n8:3. And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son.\nAnd the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils:\nMake hast to take away the prey.\n\n8:4. For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the\nstrength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away\nbefore the king of the Assyrians.\n\n8:5. And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:\n\n8:6. Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that\ngo with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:\n\n8:7. Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the\nriver strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory:\nand he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his\nbanks.\n\n8:8. And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall\nreach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill\nthe breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.\n\n8:9. Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give\near, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome,\ngird yourselves, and be overcome.\n\n8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word,\nand it shall not be done: because God is with us.\n\n8:11. For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a\nstrong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:\n\n8:12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a\nconspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.\n\n8:13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and\nlet him be your dread.\n\n8:14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of\nstumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a\nsnare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n8:15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken\nin pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.\n\n8:16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.\n\n8:17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the\nhouse of Jacob, and I will look for him.\n\n8:18. Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign,\nand for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in\nmount Sion.\n\n8:19. And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners,\nwho mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their\nGod, for the living of the dead?\n\nSeek of pythons.... That is, people pretending to tell future things by\na prophesying spirit.\u2014Ibid. Should not the people seek of their God,\nfor the living of the dead?.... Here is signified, that it is to God we\nshould pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of\nfortune-tellers dead in sin,) for the health of the living.\n\n8:20. To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not\naccording to this word, they shall not have the morning light.\n\n8:21. And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and\nwhen they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king,\nand their God, and look upwards.\n\n8:22. And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and\ndarkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they\ncannot fly away from their distress.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 9\n\nWhat joy shall come after afflictions by the birth and kingdom of\nChrist; which shall flourish for ever. Judgments upon Israel for their\nsins.\n\n9:1. At the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephtali\nwas lightly touched: and at the last the way of the sea beyond the\nJordan of the Galilee of the Gentiles was heavily loaded.\n\n9:2. The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to\nthem that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen.\n\n9:3. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy.\nThey shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as\nconquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.\n\n9:4. For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and\nthe sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of\nMadian.\n\n9:5. For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and garment\nmingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire.\n\n9:6. For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the\ngovernment is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called\nWonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come,\nthe Prince of Peace.\n\n9:7. His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of\npeace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to\nestablish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from\nhenceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform\nthis.\n\n9:8. The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.\n\n9:9. And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of\nSamaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart:\n\n9:10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones:\nthey have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.\n\n9:11. And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and\nshall bring on his enemies in a crowd:\n\n9:12. The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west:\nand they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his\nindignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.\n\n9:13. And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and\nhave not sought after the Lord of hosts.\n\n9:14. And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail,\nhim that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.\n\n9:15. The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that\nteacheth lies, he is the tail.\n\n9:16. And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err:\nand they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.\n\n9:17. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men: neither\nshall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a\nhypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this\nhis indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out\nstill.\n\n9:18. For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier\nand the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it\nshall be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.\n\n9:19. By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the\npeople shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother.\n\n9:20. And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and\nshall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall\neat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses,\nand they together shall be against Juda.\n\n9:21. After all these things his indignation is not turned away, but\nhis hand is stretched out still.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 10\n\nWoe to the makers of wicked laws. The Assyrian shall be a rod for\npunishing Israel: but for their pride they shall be destroyed: and a\nremnant of Israel saved.\n\n10:1. Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write\ninjustice:\n\n10:2. To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of\nthe humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they\nmight rob the fatherless.\n\n10:3. What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity\nwhich cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will\nye leave your glory?\n\n10:4. That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the\nslain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand\nis stretched out still.\n\n10:5. Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and\nmy indignation is in their hands.\n\n10:6. I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a\ncharge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to\nlay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the\nstreets.\n\n10:7. But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so:\nbut his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a\nfew.\n\n10:8. For he shall say:\n\n10:9. Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis:\nand Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?\n\n10:10. As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their\nidols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.\n\n10:11. Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to\nJerusalem and her idols?\n\n10:12. And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have\nperformed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit\nthe fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of\nthe haughtiness of his eyes.\n\n10:13. For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it,\nand by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds\nof the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a\nmighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.\n\n10:14. And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and\nas eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth:\nand there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made\nthe least noise.\n\n10:15. Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or\nshall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod\nshould lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt\nitself, which is but wood.\n\n10:16. Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send\nleanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a\nburning, as it were the burning of a fire.\n\n10:17. And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One\nthereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire,\nand shall be devoured in one day.\n\n10:18. And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be\nconsumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through\nfear.\n\n10:19. And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few,\nthat they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.\n\n10:20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of\nIsrael, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no\nmore upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the\nHoly One of Israel, in truth.\n\n10:21. The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to\nthe mighty God.\n\n10:22. For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a\nremnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall\noverflow with justice.\n\nA remnant of them shall be converted.... This was partly verified in\nthe children of Israel who remained after the devastations of the\nAssyrians, in the time of king Ezechias: and partly in the conversion\nof a remnant of the Jews to the faithful of Christ.\u2014Ibid. The\nconsumption abridged, etc.... That is, the number of them cut short,\nand reduced to few, shall flourish in abundance of justice.\n\n10:23. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an\nabridgment in the midst of all the land.\n\n10:24. Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people\nthat dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike\nthee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way\nof Egypt.\n\n10:25. For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation\nshall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.\n\n10:26. And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him,\naccording to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod\nover the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.\n\n10:27. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be\ntaken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and\nthe yoke shall putrify at the presence of the oil.\n\nAt the presence of the oil.... That is, by the sweet unction of divine\nmercy.\n\n10:28. He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas\nhe shall lay up his carriages.\n\nInto Aiath, etc.... Here the prophet describes the march of the\nAssyrians under Sennacherib; and the terror they should carry with\nthem; and how they should suddenly be destroyed.\n\n10:29. They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was\nastonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.\n\n10:30. Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor\nAnathoth.\n\n10:31. Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.\n\n10:32. It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand\nagainst the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.\n\n10:33. Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen\nvessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the\nlofty shall be humbled.\n\n10:34. And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and\nLibanus with its high ones shall fall.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 11\n\nOf the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair.\n\n11:1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a\nflower shall rise up out of his root.\n\n11:2. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of\nwisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude,\nthe spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.\n\n11:3. And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord,\nHe shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove\naccording to the hearing of the ears.\n\n11:4. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with\nequity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with\nthe rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the\nwicked.\n\n11:5. And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the\ngirdle of his reins.\n\n11:6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie\ndown with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide\ntogether, and a little child shall lead them.\n\n11:7. The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest\ntogether: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.\n\n11:8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp: and the\nweaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.\n\n11:9. They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain,\nfor the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering\nwaters of the sea.\n\n11:10. In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the\npeople, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be\nglorious.\n\n11:11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set\nhis hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which\nshall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and\nfrom Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and\nfrom the islands of the sea.\n\n11:12. And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall\nassemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the\ndispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.\n\n11:13. And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of\nJuda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not\nfight against Ephraim.\n\n11:14. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the\nsea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, and Moab\nshall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall\nbe obedient.\n\n11:15. And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and\nshall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit:\nand he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass\nthrough it in their shoes.\n\n11:16. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people, which\nshall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for Israel in the day\nthat he came up out of the land of Egypt.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 12\n\nA canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.\n\n12:1. And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O\nLord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou\nhast comforted me.\n\n12:2. Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not\nfear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become\nmy salvation.\n\n12:3. Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour\u2019s fountains:\n\n12:4. And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon\nhis name: make his works known among the people: remember that his name\nis high.\n\n12:5. Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew this\nforth in all the earth.\n\n12:6. Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he\nthat is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 13\n\nThe desolation of Babylon.\n\n13:1. The burden of Babylon which Isaias the son of Amos saw.\n\nThe burden of Babylon.... That is, a prophecy against Babylon.\n\n13:2. Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift\nup the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.\n\n13:3. I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong\nones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.\n\n13:4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many\npeople, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together:\nthe Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.\n\n13:5. To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of\nheaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole\nland.\n\n13:6. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a\ndestruction from the Lord.\n\n13:7. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall\nmelt,\n\n13:8. And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them,\nthey shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed\nat his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.\n\n13:9. Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of\nindignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to\ndestroy the sinners thereof out of it.\n\n13:10. For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display\ntheir light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon\nshall not shine with her light.\n\n13:11. And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked\nfor their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and\nwill bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.\n\n13:12. A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the\nfinest of gold.\n\n13:13. For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved\nout of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the\nday of his fierce wrath.\n\n13:14. And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and\nthere shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to\nhis own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.\n\n13:15. Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one\nthat shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.\n\n13:16. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their\nhouses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.\n\n13:17. Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek\nsilver, nor desire gold:\n\n13:18. But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall\nhave no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not\nspare their sons.\n\n13:19. And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of\nthe Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.\n\n13:20. It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be\nfounded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch\nhis tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.\n\n13:21. But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be\nfilled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy\nones shall dance there:\n\n13:22. And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof,\nand sirens in the temples of pleasure.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 14\n\nThe restoration of Israel after their captivity. The parable or song\ninsulting over the king of Babylon. A prophecy against the Philistines.\n\n14:1. Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged.\nFor the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of\nIsrael, and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger\nshall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.\n\n14:2. And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place:\nand the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for\nservants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had\ntaken them, and shall subdue their oppressors.\n\n14:3. And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give\nthee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard\nbondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,\n\n14:4. Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and\nshalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath\nceased?\n\n14:5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the\nrulers,\n\n14:6. That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that\nbrought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.\n\n14:7. The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.\n\n14:8. The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of\nLibanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut\nus down.\n\n14:9. Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it\nstirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen\nup from their thrones, all the princes of nations.\n\n14:10. All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well\nas we, thou art become like unto us.\n\n14:11. Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down:\nunder thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.\n\n14:12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in\nthe morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the\nnations?\n\nO Lucifer.... O day star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken\nof the king of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense,\nto Lucifer the prince of devils, who was created a bright angel, but\nfell by pride and rebellion against God.\n\n14:13. And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will\nexalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of\nthe covenant, in the sides of the north.\n\n14:14. I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the\nmost High.\n\n14:15. But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of\nthe pit.\n\n14:16. They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold\nthee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,\n\n14:17. That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities\nthereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?\n\n14:18. All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory,\nevery one in his own house.\n\n14:19. But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch\ndefiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and\nart gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.\n\n14:20. Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou\nhast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the\nwicked shall not be named for ever.\n\n14:21. Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their\nfathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the\nface of the world with cities.\n\n14:22. And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I\nwill destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the\noffspring, saith the Lord.\n\n14:23. And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of\nwaters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the\nLord of hosts.\n\n14:24. The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought,\nso shall it be: and as I have purposed,\n\n14:25. So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my\nland, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be\ntaken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.\n\n14:26. This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth,\nand this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.\n\n14:27. For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and\nhis hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?\n\n14:28. In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:\n\n14:29. Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that\nstruck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent\nshall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.\n\n14:30. And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall\nrest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and\nI will kill thy remnant.\n\n14:31. Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a\nsmoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape\nhis troop.\n\n14:32. And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations?\nThat the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope\nin him.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 15\n\nA prophecy of the desolation of the Moabites.\n\n15:1. The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid\nwaste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the\nnight, it is silent.\n\n15:2. The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over\nNabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be\nbaldness, and every beard shall be shaven.\n\n15:3. In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of\ntheir houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down\nweeping.\n\n15:4. Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa.\nFor this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl\nto itself.\n\n15:5. My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto\nSegor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they\nshall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry\nof destruction.\n\n15:6. For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is\nwithered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.\n\n15:7. According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation\nalso: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.\n\nTorrent of the willows.... That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon:\nothers render it, a valley of the Arabians.\n\n15:8. For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling\nthereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.\n\n15:9. For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will bring\nmore upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee of Moab, and upon\nthe remnant of the land.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 16\n\nThe prophet prayeth for Christ\u2019s coming. The affliction of the Moabites\nfor their pride.\n\n16:1. Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra\nof the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.\n\n16:2. And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as\nyoung ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in\nthe passage of Arnon.\n\n16:3. Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in\nthe midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.\n\n16:4. My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to\nthem from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the\nwretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot.\n\n16:5. And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon\nit in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment\nand quickly rendering that which is just.\n\n16:6. We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his\npride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength.\n\n16:7. Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them\nthat rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.\n\n16:8. For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the\nnations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof\nhave reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the\nbranches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea.\n\n16:9. Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of\nSabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the\nvoice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy\nharvest.\n\n16:10. And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there\nshall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread\nout wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the\ntreaders I have taken away.\n\nCarmel.... This name is often taken to signify a fair and fruitful hill\nor field, such as mount Carmel is.\n\n16:11. Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my\ninward parts for the brick wall.\n\n16:12. And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied\non his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and\nshall not prevail.\n\n16:13. This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time:\n\n16:14. And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the\nyears of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the\nmultitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not\nmany.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 17\n\nJudgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians.\n\n17:1. The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city,\nand shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.\n\n17:2. The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest\nthere, and there shall be none to make them afraid.\n\n17:3. And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus:\nand the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory of the children of\nIsrael: saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n17:4. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob\nshall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.\n\n17:5. And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that which\nremaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of corn: and it shall be\nas he that seeketh ears in the vale of Raphaim.\n\n17:6. And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one\ncluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three\nberries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the\ntree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n17:7. In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes\nshall look to the Holy One of Israel.\n\n17:8. And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he\nshall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as\ngroves and temples.\n\n17:9. In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs,\nand the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel,\nand thou shalt be desolate.\n\nThat were left.... Viz., by the Chanaanites, when the children of\nIsrael came into their land.\n\n17:10. Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not\nremembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants,\nand shalt sow strange seed.\n\n17:11. In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the\nmorning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day\nof inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.\n\n17:12. Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the\nroaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.\n\nThe multitude, etc.... This and all that follows to the end of the\nchapter, relates to the Assyrian army under Sennacherib.\n\n17:13. Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing,\nbut he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be\ncarried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a\nwhirlwind before a tempest.\n\n17:14. In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the\nmorning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them\nthat have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 18\n\nA woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain hopes, their future\nconversion.\n\n18:1. Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of\nEthiopia,\n\n18:2. That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes\nupon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in\npieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a\nnation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have\nspoiled.\n\nAngels.... Or messengers.\n\n18:3. All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the\nsign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall\nhear the sound of the trumpet.\n\n18:4. For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider\nin my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the\nday of harvest.\n\n18:5. For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud\nwithout perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with\npruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out.\n\n18:6. And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains,\nand the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the\nsummer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.\n\n18:7. At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts,\nfrom a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after\nwhich there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and\ntrodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of\nthe name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 19\n\nThe punishment of Egypt: their call to the church.\n\n19:1. The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift\ncloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved\nat his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst\nthereof.\n\n19:2. And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and\nthey shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend,\ncity against city, kingdom against kingdom.\n\n19:3. And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof,\nand I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols,\nand their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.\n\n19:4. And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a\nstrong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n19:5. And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall\nbe wasted and dry.\n\n19:6. And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be\ndiminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither\naway.\n\n19:7. The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain,\nand every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither\naway, and shall be no more.\n\n19:8. The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the\nriver shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall\nlanguish away.\n\n19:9. They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and\nweaving fine linen.\n\n19:10. And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that\nmade pools to take fishes.\n\n19:11. The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of\nPharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the\nson of the wise, the son of ancient kings?\n\n19:12. Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what\nthe Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.\n\n19:13. The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis\nare gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people\nthereof.\n\n19:14. The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of\ngiddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a\ndrunken man staggereth and vomiteth.\n\n19:15. And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him\nthat bendeth down, or that holdeth back.\n\n19:16. In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall be\namazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of\nhosts, which he shall move over it.\n\n19:17. And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: everyone that\nshall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of\nhosts, which he hath determined concerning it.\n\n19:18. In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt,\nspeaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts:\none shall be called the city of the sun.\n\n19:19. In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of\nthe land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof:\n\n19:20. It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts\nin the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the\noppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver\nthem.\n\n19:21. And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall\nknow the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and\nofferings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and perform them.\n\n19:22. And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal\nit, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards\nthem, and heal them.\n\n19:23. In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians,\nand the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the\nAssyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.\n\n19:24. In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the\nAssyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,\n\n19:25. Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my\npeople of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel\nis my inheritance.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 20\n\nThe ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.\n\n20:1. In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the\nking of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus,\nand had taken it:\n\n20:2. At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the son of\nAmos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take\noff thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and\nbarefoot.\n\n20:3. And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked and\nbarefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt,\nand upon Ethiopia,\n\n20:4. So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners of\nEgypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and\nbarefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.\n\n20:5. And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and\nof Egypt their glory.\n\n20:6. And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this\nwas our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of\nthe king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 21\n\nThe destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy\nagainst the Edomites and the Arabians.\n\n21:1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the\nsouth, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.\n\nThe desert of the sea.... So Babylon is here called, because from a\ncity as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a\ndesert.\n\n21:2. A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth\nunfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam,\nbesiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.\n\nO Elam.... That is, O Persia.\n\n21:3. Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold\nof me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing\nof it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.\n\n21:4. My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become\na wonder to me.\n\n21:5. Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and\ndrink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.\n\n21:6. For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and\nwhatsoever he shall see, let him tell.\n\n21:7. And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and\na rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.\n\nA rider upon an ass, etc.... These two riders are the kings of the\nPersians and Medes.\n\n21:8. And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord,\nstanding continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole\nnights.\n\nAnd a lion cried out.... That is, I Isaias seeing the approaching ruin\nof Babylon, have cried out as a lion roaring.\n\n21:9. Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two\nhorsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen,\nand all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.\n\n21:10. O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have\nheard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto\nyou.\n\n21:11. The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of\nthe night? watchman, what of the night?\n\nDuma.... That is, Idumea, or Edom.\n\n21:12. The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you\nseek, seek: return, come.\n\n21:13. The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep,\nin the paths of Dedanim.\n\n21:14. Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land\nof the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.\n\n21:15. For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that\nhung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.\n\n21:16. For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the\nyears of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.\n\nCedar.... Arabia.\n\n21:17. And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children\nof Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath\nspoken it.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 22\n\nThe prophet laments the devastation of Juda. He foretells the\ndeprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of\nChrist.\n\n22:1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that\nthou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?\n\nThe valley of vision.... Jerusalem. The temple of Jerusalem was built\nupon mount Moria, or the mountain of vision. But the city is here\ncalled the valley of vision; either because it was lower than the\ntemple, or because of the low condition to which it was to be reduced.\n\n22:2. Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are\nnot slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.\n\n22:3. All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that\nwere found, are bound together, they are fled far off.\n\n22:4. Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly:\nlabour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my\npeople.\n\n22:5. For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping\nto the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the\nwall, and magnificent upon the mountain.\n\n22:6. And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the\nshield was taken down from the wall.\n\n22:7. And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the\nhorsemen shall place themselves in the gate.\n\n22:8. And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see\nin that day the armoury of the house of the forest.\n\n22:9. And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they\nare many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,\n\n22:10. And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down\nhouses to fortify the wall.\n\n22:11. And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the\nold pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded\nhim even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.\n\n22:12. And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to\nweeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:\n\n22:13. And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams,\neating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we\nshall die.\n\n22:14. And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears:\nSurely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the\nLord God of hosts.\n\n22:15. Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that\ndwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou\nshalt say to him:\n\n22:16. What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou\nhast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument\ncarefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.\n\n22:17. Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is\ncarried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.\n\n22:18. He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss\nthee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou\ndie, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the\nhouse of thy Lord.\n\n22:19. And I will drive thee out from thy station, and depose thee from\nthy ministry.\n\n22:20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my\nservant Eliacim the son of Helcias,\n\n22:21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him\nwith thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be\nas a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.\n\n22:22. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder:\nand he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none\nshall open.\n\n22:23. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be\nfor a throne of glory to the house of his father.\n\n22:24. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father\u2019s\nhouse, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels\nof cups even to every instrument of music.\n\n22:25. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed,\nthat was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall\nfall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath\nspoken it.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 23\n\nThe destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy\nyears.\n\n23:1. The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is\ndestroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim\nit is revealed to them.\n\n23:2. Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon\npassing over the sea, have filled thee.\n\n23:3. The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is\nher revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.\n\n23:4. Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the strength\nof the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought\nforth, nor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins.\n\n23:5. When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they\nshall hear of Tyre:\n\n23:6. Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.\n\n23:7. Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her\nantiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.\n\n23:8. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly\ncrowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of\nthe earth?\n\n23:9. The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all\nglory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.\n\n23:10. Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a\ngirdle no more.\n\n23:11. He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms:\nthe Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong\nones thereof.\n\n23:12. And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter of\nSidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to Cethim, there also\nthou shalt have no rest.\n\n23:13. Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people,\nthe Assyrians founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof\ninto captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have,\nbrought it to ruin.\n\n23:14. Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste.\n\n23:15. And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt\nbe forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but\nafter seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot.\n\n23:16. Take a harp, go about the city, harlot that hast been forgotten:\nsing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered.\n\n23:17. And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord\nwill visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she\nshall commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon\nthe face of the earth.\n\n23:18. And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the\nLord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise\nshall be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat\nunto fulness, and be clothed for a continuance.\n\nSanctified to the Lord.... This alludes to the conversion of the\nGentiles.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 24\n\nThe judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall\njoyfully praise him.\n\n24:1. Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it,\nand shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants\nthereof.\n\n24:2. And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as\nwith the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her\nmistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so\nwith the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him\nthat oweth.\n\n24:3. With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be\nutterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.\n\n24:4. The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world\nfaded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.\n\n24:5. And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because\nthey have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they\nhave broken the everlasting covenant.\n\n24:6. Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants\nthereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad,\nand few men shall be left.\n\n24:7. The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the\nmerry-hearted have sighed.\n\n24:8. The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice\nis ended, the melody of the harp is silent.\n\n24:9. They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter\nto them that drink it.\n\n24:10. The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no\nman cometh in.\n\n24:11. There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is\nforsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.\n\n24:12. Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the\ngates.\n\n24:13. For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of\nthe people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of\nthe olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.\n\n24:14. These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the\nLord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.\n\n24:15. Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the\nLord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.\n\n24:16. From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of\nthe just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe\nis me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication\nof transgressors they have prevaricated.\n\n24:17. Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou\ninhabitant of the earth.\n\n24:18. And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the\nnoise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid\nhimself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the\nflood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth\nshall be shaken.\n\n24:19. With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the\nearth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.\n\n24:20. With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and\nshall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof\nshall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.\n\n24:21. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit\nupon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on\nthe earth.\n\nThe host of heaven on high.... The stars, which in many places of the\nScripture are so called. Some commentators explain that these words\nhere signify the demons of the air.\n\n24:22. And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one\nbundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and\nafter many days they shall be visited.\n\n24:23. And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the\nLord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be\nglorified in the sight of his ancients.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 25\n\nA canticle of thanksgiving for God\u2019s judgments and benefits.\n\n25:1. O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory to thy\nname: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful,\namen.\n\n25:2. For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to\nruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up\nfor ever.\n\n25:3. Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty\nnations shall fear thee.\n\n25:4. Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the\nneedy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the\nheat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a\nwall.\n\n25:5. Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in thirst:\nand as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch of\nthe mighty to wither away.\n\n25:6. And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this\nmountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of\nmarrow, of wine purified from the lees.\n\n25:7. And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with\nwhich all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations.\n\n25:8. He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God\nshall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people\nhe shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken\nit.\n\n25:9. And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have\nwaited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have\npatiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his\nsalvation.\n\n25:10. For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab\nshall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the\nwain.\n\nMoab.... That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which\nthey can no way escape, is described under these figures.\n\n25:11. And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that\nswimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down\nhis glory with the dashing of his hands.\n\n25:12. And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought\nlow, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 26\n\nA canticle of thanks for the deliverance of God\u2019s people.\n\n26:1. In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion\nthe city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set\ntherein.\n\n26:2. Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the\ntruth, enter in.\n\n26:3. The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace,\nbecause we have hoped in thee.\n\n26:4. You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty\nfor ever.\n\n26:5. For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he\nshall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull\nit down even to the dust.\n\n26:6. The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of\nthe needy.\n\n26:7. The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to\nwalk in.\n\n26:8. And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited\nfor thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.\n\n26:9. My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit\nwithin me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do\nthy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn\njustice.\n\n26:10. Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice:\nin the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not\nsee the glory of the Lord.\n\n26:11. Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the\nenvious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.\n\n26:12. Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our\nworks for us.\n\n26:13. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over\nus, only in thee let us remember thy name.\n\n26:14. Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore\nhast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.\n\n26:15. Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been\nfavourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the\nends of the earth far off.\n\n26:16. Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the\ntribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.\n\n26:17. As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her\ndelivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in\nthy presence, O Lord.\n\n26:18. We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have\nbrought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth,\ntherefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.\n\n26:19. Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and\ngive praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the\nlight: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.\n\n26:20. Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon\nthee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass\naway.\n\n26:21. For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the\niniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth\nshall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.\n\nShall cover her slain no more.... This is said with relation to the\nmartyrs, and their happy resurrection.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 27\n\nThe punishment of the oppressors of God\u2019s people. The Lord\u2019s favour to\nhis church.\n\n27:1. In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword\nshall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked\nserpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.\n\nLeviathan.... That is, the devil, the great enemy of the people of God.\nHe is called the bar serpent from his strength, and the crooked serpent\nfrom his wiles; and the whale of the sea, from the tyranny he exercises\nin the sea of this world. He was spiritually slain by the death of\nChrist, when his power was destroyed.\n\n27:2. In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.\n\nThe vineyard, etc.... The church of Christ.\n\n27:3. I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest\nany hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.\n\nI will suddenly give it drink.... Or, as the Hebrew may also be\nrendered, I will continually water it.\n\n27:4. There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a\nbrier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire\ntogether?\n\nNo indignation in me, etc.... Viz., against the church: nor shall I\nbecome as a thorn or brier in its regard; or march against it, or set\nit on fire: but it shall always take fast hold of me, and keep an\neverlasting peace with me.\n\n27:5. Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace\nwith me, shall it make peace with me?\n\n27:6. When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud,\nand they shall fill the face of the world with seed.\n\nWhen they shall rush in, etc.... Some understand this of the enemies of\nthe true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual\ninvasion made by the apostles of Christ.\n\n27:7. Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck\nhim? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?\n\nHath he struck him, etc.... Hath God punished the carnal persecuting\nJews, in proportion to their doings against Christ and his saints?\n\n27:8. In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt\njudge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.\n\nWhen it shall be cast off, etc.... When the synagogue shall be cast\noff, thou shalt judge it in measure, and in proportion to its\ncrimes.\u2014Ibid. He hath meditated, etc.... God hath designed severe\npunishments in the day of his wrath.\n\n27:9. Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be\nforgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be\ntaken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as\nburnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.\n\nOf the house of Jacob.... Viz., of such of them as shall be converted.\n\n27:10. For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall\nbe forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall\nfeed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.\n\nThe strong city.... Jerusalem.\n\n27:11. Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come\nand teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it,\nshall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.\n\n27:12. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike\nfrom the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you\nshall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.\n\n27:13. And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be\nmade with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the\nland of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of\nEgypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.\n\nA great trumpet.... The preaching of the gospel for the conversion of\nthe Jews.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 28\n\nThe punishment of the Israelites, for their pride, intemperance, and\ncontempt of religion. Christ the cornerstone.\n\n28:1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to\nthe fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat\nvalley, staggering with wine.\n\nEphraim.... That is, the kingdom of the ten tribes.\u2014Ibid. The head of\nthe fat valley.... Samaria, situate on a hill, having under it a most\nfertile valley.\n\n28:2. Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a\ndestroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and\nsent forth upon a spacious land.\n\n28:3. The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden\nunder feet.\n\n28:4. And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of\nthe fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of\nautumn: which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh\nit in his hand, he will eat it up.\n\n28:5. In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a\ngarland of joy to the residue of his people:\n\n28:6. And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and\nstrength to them that return out of the battle to the gate.\n\n28:7. But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through\ndrunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant\nthrough drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone\nastray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have\nbeen ignorant of judgment.\n\nThese also.... The kingdom of Juda.\n\n28:8. For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there\nwas no more place.\n\n28:9. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to\nunderstand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are\ndrawn away from the breasts.\n\n28:10. For command, command again; command, command again; expect,\nexpect again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there.\n\nCommand, command again, etc.... This is said in the person of the Jews,\nresisting the repeated commands of God, and still putting him off.\n\n28:11. For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will\nspeak to this people.\n\n28:12. To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is\nmy refreshing: and they would not hear.\n\n28:13. And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command\nagain; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a\nlittle there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and\nsnared, and taken.\n\n28:14. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule\nover my people that is in Jerusalem.\n\n28:15. For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and\nwe have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall\npass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in\nlies, and by falsehood we are protected.\n\n28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in\nthe foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious\nstone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not\nhasten.\n\nA stone in the foundations.... Viz., Christ.\u2014Ibid. Let him not hasten,\netc.... Let him expect his coming with patience.\n\n28:17. And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and\nhail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow\nits protection.\n\n28:18. And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant\nwith hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you\nshall be trodden down by it.\n\n28:19. Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away:\nbecause in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in\nthe night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.\n\n28:20. For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a\nshort covering cannot cover both.\n\nThe bed is straitened, etc.... It is too narrow to hold two: God will\nhave the bed of our heart all to himself.\n\n28:21. For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he\nshall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his\nwork, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is\nstrange to him.\n\nAs in the mountain, etc.... As the Lord fought against the Philistines\nin Baal Pharasim, 2 Kings 5., and against the Chanaanites, in the\nvalley of Gabaon, Jos. 10.\n\n28:22. And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have\nheard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short\nupon all the earth.\n\n28:23. Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.\n\n28:24. Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and\nharrow his ground?\n\n28:25. Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow\ngith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and\nmillet, and vetches in their bounds?\n\n28:26. For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him.\n\n28:27. For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart\nwheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod,\nand cumin with a staff.\n\n28:28. But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not\nthrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it\nwith its teeth.\n\n28:29. This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his\ncounsel wonderful, and magnify justice.\n\nThis also, etc.... Such also is the proceeding of the Lord with his\nland, and the divers seeds he throws therein.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 29\n\nGod\u2019s heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their obstinacy: with a\nprophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles.\n\n29:1. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added\nto year: the solemnities are at an end.\n\nAriel.... This word signifies, the lion of God, and here is taken for\nthe strong city of Jerusalem.\n\n29:2. And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow\nand mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.\n\n29:3. And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a\nrampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.\n\n29:4. Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of the earth,\nand thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be\nfrom the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech\nshall mutter.\n\n29:5. And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small\ndust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have\nprevailed against thee.\n\n29:6. And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come\nfrom the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a\ngreat noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring\nfire.\n\n29:7. And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel,\nshall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought,\nand besieged and prevailed against it.\n\n29:8. And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is\nawake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and\ndrinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul\nis empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have\nfought against mount Sion.\n\n29:9. Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not\nwith wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.\n\n29:10. For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he\nwill shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that\nsee visions.\n\n29:11. And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book\nthat is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned,\nthey shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is\nsealed.\n\n29:12. And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and\nit shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters.\n\n29:13. And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with\ntheir mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far\nfrom me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of\nmen:\n\n29:14. Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in this\npeople, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from\ntheir wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be\nhid.\n\n29:15. Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the\nLord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and\nwho knoweth us?\n\n29:16. This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think\nagainst the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou\nmadest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it:\nThou understandest not.\n\n29:17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned\ninto charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?\n\nCharmel.... This word signifies a fruitful field.\n\n29:18. And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and\nout of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.\n\n29:19. And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor\nmen shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.\n\n29:20. For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed,\nand they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:\n\n29:21. That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them\nin the gate, and declined in vain from the just.\n\n29:22. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he that\nredeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded, neither shall his\ncountenance now be ashamed:\n\n29:23. But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the\nmidst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One\nof Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel:\n\n29:24. And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding, and\nthey that murmured, shall learn the law.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 30\n\nThe people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt. God\u2019s mercies\ntowards his church. The punishment of sinners.\n\n30:1. Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would\ntake counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my\nspirit, that you might add sin upon sin:\n\n30:2. Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth,\nhoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow\nof Egypt.\n\n30:3. And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the\nconfidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.\n\n30:4. For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to\nHanes.\n\n30:5. They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them:\nthey were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.\n\n30:6. The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and\ndistress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the\nflying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts,\nand their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall\nnot be able to profit them.\n\n30:7. For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I\ncried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.\n\n30:8. Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it\ndiligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a\ntestimony for ever.\n\n30:9. For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children,\nchildren that will not hear the law of God.\n\n30:10. Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold\nnot for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things,\nsee errors for us.\n\n30:11. Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the\nHoly One of Israel cease from before us.\n\n30:12. Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have\nrejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have\nleaned upon it:\n\n30:13. Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that\nfalleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction\nthereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.\n\n30:14. And it shall be broken small, as the potter\u2019s vessel is broken\nall to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall not a sherd be\nfound of the pieces thereof, wherein a little fire may be carried from\nthe hearth, or a little water be drawn out of the pit.\n\n30:15. For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you\nreturn and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall\nyour strength be. And you would not:\n\n30:16. But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore shall\nyou flee. And we will mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be\nswifter that shall pursue after you.\n\n30:17. A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five\nshall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a\nmountain, and as an ensign upon a hill.\n\n30:18. Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and\ntherefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God\nof judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.\n\n30:19. For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou\nshalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy\ncry, as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee.\n\n30:20. And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and\nwill not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy\neyes shall see thy teacher.\n\n30:21. And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind\nthy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to\nthe right hand, nor to the left.\n\n30:22. And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver,\nand the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away\nas the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get\nthee hence.\n\n30:23. And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow\nin the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most\nplentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy\npossession:\n\n30:24. And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat\nmingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.\n\n30:25. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every\nelevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of\nmany, when the tower shall fall.\n\n30:26. And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and\nthe light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in\nthe day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall\nheal the stroke of their wound.\n\n30:27. Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth,\nand is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his\ntongue as a devouring fire.\n\n30:28. His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the\nneck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that\nwas in the jaws of the people.\n\n30:29. You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified\nsolemnity, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe, to come\ninto the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.\n\n30:30. And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard, and\nshall shew the terror of his arm, in the threatening of wrath, and the\nflame of devouring fire: he shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and\nhailstones.\n\n30:31. For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being\nstruck with the rod.\n\n30:32. And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded, which the\nLord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels and harps, and in great\nbattles he shall overthrow them.\n\n30:33. For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king,\ndeep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the\nbreath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.\n\nTopheth.... It is the same as Gehenna, and is taken for hell.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 31\n\nThe folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for\nhis people against the Assyrians.\n\n31:1. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses,\nand putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in\nhorsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the\nHoly One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord.\n\n31:2. But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not\nremoved his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked,\nand against the aid of them that work iniquity.\n\n31:3. Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not\nspirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall\nfall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be\nconfounded together.\n\n31:4. For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the\nlion\u2019s whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall\ncome against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of\ntheir multitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon\nmount Sion, and upon the hill thereof.\n\n31:5. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem,\nprotecting and delivering, passing over and saving.\n\n31:6. Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.\n\n31:7. For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and\nhis idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin.\n\n31:8. And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the\nsword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face\nof the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.\n\n31:9. And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes\nfleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion,\nand his furnace in Jerusalem.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 32\n\nThe blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and\nprosperity of the church of Christ.\n\n32:1. Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in\njudgment.\n\n32:2. And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth\nhimself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of\na rock that standeth out in a desert land.\n\n32:3. The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them\nthat hear shall hearken diligently.\n\n32:4. And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue\nof stammerers shall speak readily and plain.\n\n32:5. The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the\ndeceitful be called great:\n\n32:6. For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work\niniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and\nto make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the\nthirsty.\n\n32:7. The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed\ndevices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man\nspeaketh judgment.\n\n32:8. But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince,\nand he shall stand above the rulers.\n\n32:9. Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident\ndaughters, give ear to my speech.\n\n32:10. For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be\ntroubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no\nmore.\n\n32:11. Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones:\nstrip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.\n\n32:12. Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the\nfruitful vineyard.\n\n32:13. Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how\nmuch more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?\n\n32:14. For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left,\ndarkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild\nasses, the pastures of flocks.\n\n32:15. Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert\nshall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.\n\n32:16. And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall\nsit in charmel.\n\n32:17. And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of\njustice quietness, and security for ever.\n\n32:18. And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the\ntabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.\n\n32:19. But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city\nshall be made very low.\n\n32:20. Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the\nfoot of the ox and the ass.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 33\n\nGod\u2019s revenge against the enemies of his church. The happiness of the\nheavenly Jerusalem.\n\n33:1. Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be\nspoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised?\nwhen thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled:\nwhen being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.\n\nThat spoilest, etc.... This is particularly directed to Sennacherib.\n\n33:2. O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou\nour arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble.\n\n33:3. At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up\nthyself the nations are scattered.\n\n33:4. And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are\ngathered, as when the ditches are full of them.\n\n33:5. The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath filled\nSion with judgment and justice.\n\n33:6. And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of salvation,\nwisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.\n\n33:7. Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of peace shall\nweep bitterly.\n\nThe angels of peace.... The messengers or deputies sent to negotiate a\npeace.\n\n33:8. The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the\ncovenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he hath not\nregarded the men.\n\n33:9. The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and\nbecome foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are\nshaken.\n\n33:10. Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now\nwill I lift up myself.\n\n33:11. You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your\nbreath as fire shall devour you.\n\n33:12. And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of\nthorns they shall be burnt with fire.\n\n33:13. Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that are\nnear know my strength.\n\n33:14. The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the\nhypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you\nshall dwell with everlasting burnings?\n\n33:15. He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth\naway avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that\nstoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may\nsee no evil.\n\n33:16. He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his\nhighness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.\n\n33:17. His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the\nland far off.\n\n33:18. Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he\nthat pondereth the words of the law? where is the teacher of little\nones?\n\n33:19. The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound\nspeech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue,\nin whom there is no wisdom.\n\n33:20. Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see\nJerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed:\nneither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall\nany of the cords thereof be broken.\n\n33:21. Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers,\nvery broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it,\nneither shall the great galley pass through it.\n\nOf rivers.... He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from\nthe throne of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, where no enemy\u2019s\nship can come, etc.\n\n33:22. For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is\nour king: he will save us.\n\n33:23. Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no strength: thy\nmast shall be in such condition, that thou shalt not be able to spread\nthe flag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall\ntake the spoil.\n\nThy tacklings.... He speaks of the enemies of the church, under the\nallegory of a ship that is disabled.\n\n33:24. Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that\ndwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 34\n\nThe general judgment of the wicked.\n\n34:1. Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the\nearth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that\ncometh forth of it.\n\n34:2. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury\nupon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to\nslaughter.\n\n34:3. Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall\nrise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.\n\n34:4. And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens\nshall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall down\nas the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the fig tree.\n\nAnd all the host of the heavens.... That is, the sun, moon, and stars.\n\n34:5. For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down\nupon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.\n\nIdumea.... Under the name of Idumea, or Edom a people that were enemies\nof the Jews, are here understood the wicked in general, the enemies of\nGod and his church.\n\n34:6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with\nthe blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of\nmarrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great\nslaughter in the land of Edom.\n\n34:7. And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the\nmighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with\nthe fat of fat ones.\n\nThe unicorns.... That is, the great and mighty.\n\n34:8. For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of\nrecompenses of the judgment of Sion.\n\nThe year of recompenses, etc.... When the persecutors of Sion, that is,\nof the church, shall receive their reward.\n\n34:9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the\nground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become\nburning pitch.\n\n34:10. Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall\ngo up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none\nshall pass through it for ever and ever.\n\n34:11. The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the\nraven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to\nbring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.\n\n34:12. The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather\nupon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.\n\n34:13. And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the\nthistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of\ndragons, and the pasture of ostriches.\n\n34:14. And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry\nout one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for\nherself.\n\n34:15. There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young\nones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow\nthereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.\n\n34:16. Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one\nof them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which\nproceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath\ngathered them.\n\n34:17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it\nto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to\ngeneration they shall dwell therein.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 35\n\nThe joyful flourishing of Christ\u2019s kingdom: in his church shall be a\nholy and secure way.\n\n35:1. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the\nwilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily.\n\n35:2. It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and\npraise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and\nSaron, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God.\n\n35:3. Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.\n\n35:4. Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your\nGod will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and\nwill save you.\n\n35:5. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the\ndeaf shall be unstopped.\n\n35:6. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the\ndumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and\nstreams in the wilderness.\n\n35:7. And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty\nland springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall\nrise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush.\n\n35:8. And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the\nholy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto\nyou a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.\n\n35:9. No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by\nit, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be\ndelivered.\n\n35:10. And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come into\nSion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they\nshall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 36\n\nSennacherib invades Juda: his blasphemies.\n\n36:1. And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, that\nSennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against all the fenced cities\nof Juda, and took them.\n\n36:2. And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to\nJerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he stood by the\nconduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller\u2019s field.\n\n36:3. And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was\nover the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the\nrecorder.\n\n36:4. And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great\nking, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou\ntrustest?\n\n36:5. Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for war? on\nwhom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from me?\n\n36:6. Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt:\nupon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so\nis Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him.\n\n36:7. But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it\nnot he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath\nsaid to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar?\n\n36:8. And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians,\nand I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on\nthy part to find riders for them.\n\n36:9. And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one\nplace, of the least of my master\u2019s servants? But if thou trust in\nEgypt, in chariots and in horsemen:\n\n36:10. And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to\ndestroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land, and destroy\nit.\n\n36:11. And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak to thy\nservants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in\nthe Jews\u2019 language in the hearing of the people, that are upon the\nwall.\n\n36:12. And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master\nand to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that\nsit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their\nurine with you?\n\n36:13. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the\nJews\u2019 language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of\nthe Assyrians.\n\n36:14. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he shall\nnot be able to deliver you.\n\n36:15. And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The\nLord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the\nhands of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n36:16. Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the\nAssyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to\nme, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree,\nand drink ye every one the water of his cistern,\n\n36:17. Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a\nland of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.\n\n36:18. Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver\nus. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the\nhand of the king of the Assyrians?\n\n36:19. Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of\nSepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?\n\n36:20. Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath\ndelivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver\nJerusalem out of my hand?\n\n36:21. And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the\nking had commanded, saying: Answer him not.\n\n36:22. And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and\nSobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to\nEzechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 37\n\nEzechias, his mourning and prayer. God\u2019s promise of protection. The\nAssyrian army is destroyed. Sennacherib is slain.\n\n37:1. And it came to pass, when king Ezechias had heard it, that he\nrent his garments and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\n37:2. And he sent Eliacim who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe,\nand the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaias the\nson of Amos the prophet.\n\n37:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of\ntribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come\nto the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.\n\n37:4. It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom\nthe king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living\nGod, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard:\nwherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left.\n\n37:5. And the servants of Ezechias came to Isaias.\n\n37:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with\nwhich the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.\n\n37:7. Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a\nmessage, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to\nfall by the sword in his own country.\n\n37:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians\nbesieging Lobna. For he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.\n\n37:9. And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is come\nforth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers\nto Ezechias, saying:\n\n37:10. Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let\nnot thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem\nshall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n37:11. Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have\ndone to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be\ndelivered?\n\n37:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have\ndestroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that\nwere in Thalassar?\n\n37:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king\nof the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava?\n\n37:14. And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers,\nand read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread\nit before the Lord.\n\n37:15. And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:\n\n37:16. Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sittest upon the cherubims,\nthou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made\nheaven and earth.\n\n37:17. Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and\nsee, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to\nblaspheme the living God.\n\n37:18. For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid\nwaste lands, and their countries.\n\n37:19. And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not\ngods, but the works of men\u2019s hands, of wood and stone: and they broke\nthem in pieces.\n\n37:20. And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let all\nthe kingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the Lord.\n\n37:21. And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith\nthe Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me\nconcerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians:\n\n37:22. This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin\nthe daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the\ndaughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee.\n\n37:23. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and\nagainst whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on\nhigh? Against the Holy One of Israel.\n\n37:24. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord: and\nhast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the\nheight of the mountains, to the top of Libanus: and I will cut down its\ntall cedars, and its choice fir trees, and will enter to the top of its\nheight, to the forest of its Carmel.\n\nCarmel.... See these figurative expressions explained in the\nannotations on the nineteenth chapter of the fourth book of Kings.\n\n37:25. I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole\nof my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.\n\n37:26. Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from the\ndays of old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and\nit hath come to pass that hills fighting together, and fenced cities\nshould be destroyed.\n\n37:27. The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and\nwere confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb\nof the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered\nbefore it was ripe.\n\n37:28. I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and\nthy rage against me.\n\n37:29. When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears:\ntherefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips,\nand I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.\n\n37:30. But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things that\nspring of themselves, and in the second year eat fruits: but in the\nthird year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of\nthem.\n\n37:31. And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is\nleft, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:\n\n37:32. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and salvation\nfrom mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.\n\n37:33. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the\nAssyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into\nit, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.\n\n37:34. By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he\nshall not come, saith the Lord.\n\n37:35. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake,\nand for the sake of David my servant.\n\n37:36. And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the\nAssyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the\nmorning, and behold they were all dead corpses.\n\n37:37. And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed,\nand returned, and dwelt in Ninive.\n\n37:38. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of\nNesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the\nsword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son\nreigned in his stead.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 38\n\nEzechias being advertised that he shall die, obtains by prayer a\nprolongation of his life: in confirmation of which the sun goes back.\nThe canticle of Ezechias.\n\n38:1. In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son\nof Amos the prophet came unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the\nLord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.\n\n38:2. And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the\nLord,\n\n38:3. And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked\nbefore thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that\nwhich is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.\n\n38:4. And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:\n\n38:5. Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy\nfather: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I\nwill add to thy days fifteen years:\n\n38:6. And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king\nof the Assyrians, and I will protect it.\n\n38:7. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord\nwill do this word which he hath spoken:\n\n38:8. Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is\nnow gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines\nbackward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was\ngone down.\n\n38:9. The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and\nwas recovered of his sickness.\n\n38:10. I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell:\nI sought for the residue of my years.\n\nHell.... Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead.\n\n38:11. I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living.\nI shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.\n\n38:12. My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a\nshepherd\u2019s tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet\nbut beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make\nan end of me.\n\n38:13. I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones:\nfrom morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.\n\n38:14. I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my\neyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou\nfor me.\n\n38:15. What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he\nhimself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the\nbitterness of my soul.\n\n38:16. O Lord, if man\u2019s life be such, and the life of my spirit be in\nsuch things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.\n\n38:17. Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast\ndelivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins\nbehind thy back.\n\n38:18. For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise\nthee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.\n\n38:19. The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do\nthis day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.\n\n38:20. O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our\nlife in the house of the Lord.\n\n38:21. Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and\nlay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.\n\n38:22. And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up\nto the house of the Lord?\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 39\n\nEzechias shews all his treasures to the ambassadors of Babylon: upon\nwhich Isaias foretells the Babylonish captivity.\n\n39:1. At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of\nBabylon, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that\nhe had been sick and was recovered.\n\n39:2. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the\nstorehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the silver, and of the\ngold, and of the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, and all\nthe storehouses of his furniture, and all things that were found in his\ntreasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that\nEzechias shewed them not.\n\n39:3. Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him:\nWhat said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias\nsaid: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon.\n\n39:4. And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All\nthings that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing\nwhich I have not shewn them in my treasures.\n\n39:5. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord of hosts.\n\n39:6. Behold the days shall come that all that is in thy house, and\nthat thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried\naway into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord.\n\n39:7. And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt\nbeget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of\nthe king of Babylon.\n\n39:8. And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which he hath\nspoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 40\n\nThe prophet comforts the people with the promise of the coming of\nChrist to forgive their sins. God\u2019s almighty power and majesty.\n\n40:1. Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.\n\n40:2. Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil\nis come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the\nhand of the Lord double for all her sins.\n\n40:3. The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the\nLord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.\n\n40:4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall\nbe made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways\nplain.\n\n40:5. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh\ntogether shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.\n\n40:6. The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All\nflesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.\n\n40:7. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the\nspirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:\n\n40:8. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of\nour Lord endureth for ever.\n\n40:9. Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings\nto Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good\ntidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda:\nBehold your God:\n\n40:10. Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall\nrule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.\n\n40:11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather\ntogether the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom,\nand he himself shall carry them that are with young.\n\n40:12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and\nweighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers\nthe bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the\nhills in a balance?\n\n40:13. Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his\ncounsellor, and hath taught him?\n\n40:14. With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and\ntaught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed\nhim the way of understanding?\n\n40:15. Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted\nas the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little\ndust.\n\n40:16. And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof\nsufficient for a burnt offering.\n\n40:17. All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and\nare counted to him as nothing, and vanity.\n\n40:18. To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make\nfor him?\n\n40:19. Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith\nformed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?\n\n40:20. He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful\nworkman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved.\n\n40:21. Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told\nyou from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the\nearth?\n\n40:22. It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the\ninhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens\nas nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.\n\n40:23. He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath\nmade the judges of the earth as vanity.\n\n40:24. And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted\nin the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered,\nand a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.\n\n40:25. And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy\nOne?\n\n40:26. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these\nthings: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by\ntheir names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power,\nnot one of them was missing.\n\n40:27. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid\nfrom the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?\n\n40:28. Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the\neverlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not\nfaint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.\n\n40:29. It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force\nand might to them that are not.\n\n40:30. Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by\ninfirmity.\n\n40:31. But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they\nshall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall\nwalk and not faint.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 41\n\nThe reign of the just one: the vanity of idols.\n\n41:1. Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new\nstrength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to\njudgment together.\n\n41:2. Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to\nfollow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule\nover kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble\ndriven by the wind, to his bow.\n\n41:3. He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall\nappear after his feet.\n\n41:4. Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations\nfrom the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.\n\n41:5. The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were\nastonished, they drew near, and came.\n\n41:6. Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother:\nBe of good courage.\n\n41:7. The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that\nforged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he\nstrengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.\n\n41:8. But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the\nseed of Abraham my friend:\n\n41:9. In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from\nthe remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art\nmy servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away.\n\n41:10. Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God:\nI have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of\nmy just one hath upheld thee.\n\n41:11. Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and\nashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive\nagainst thee.\n\n41:12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist\nthee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that\nwar against thee.\n\n41:13. For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to\nthee: Fear not, I have helped thee.\n\n41:14. Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I\nhave helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of\nIsrael.\n\n41:15. I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw:\nthou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt\nmake the hills as chaff.\n\n41:16. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the\nwhirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in\nthe Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.\n\n41:17. The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none:\ntheir tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I\nthe God of Israel will not forsake them.\n\n41:18. I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst\nof the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the\nimpassable land into streams of waters.\n\n41:19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the\nmyrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the\nelm, and the box tree together:\n\nThe thorn.... In Hebrew, the shitta, or setim, a tree resembling the\nwhite thorn.\n\n41:20. That they may see and know, and consider, and understand\ntogether that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of\nIsrael hath created it.\n\n41:21. Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have\nany thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.\n\n41:22. Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us\nthe former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them\nand shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are\nto come.\n\n41:23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know\nthat ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us\nspeak, and see together.\n\n41:24. Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no\nbeing: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.\n\n41:25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the\nrising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make\nprinces to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.\n\n41:26. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from\ntime of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that\nsheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.\n\n41:27. The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to\nJerusalem I will give an evangelist.\n\n41:28. And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or\nwho, when I asked, could answer a word.\n\n41:29. Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain:\ntheir idols are wind and vanity.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 42\n\nThe office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. The\nblindness and reprobation of the Jews.\n\n42:1. Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul\ndelighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring\nforth judgment to the Gentiles.\n\nMy servant.... Christ, who according to his humanity, is the servant of\nGod.\n\n42:2. He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his\nvoice be heard abroad.\n\n42:3. The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall\nnot quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.\n\n42:4. He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the\nearth, and the islands shall wait for his law.\n\n42:5. Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched\nthem out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of\nit: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that\ntread thereon.\n\n42:6. I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the\nhand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the\npeople, for a light of the Gentiles:\n\n42:7. That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth\nthe prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the\nprison house.\n\n42:8. I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another,\nnor my praise to graven things.\n\n42:9. The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things\ndo I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.\n\n42:10. Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of\nthe earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye\nislands, and ye inhabitants of them.\n\n42:11. Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall\ndwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry\nfrom the top of the mountains.\n\nPetra.... A city that gives name to Arabia Petraea.\n\n42:12. They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise\nin the islands.\n\n42:13. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall\nhe stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his\nenemies.\n\n42:14. I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been\npatient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and\nswallow up at once.\n\n42:15. I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all\ntheir grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will\ndry up the standing pools.\n\n42:16. And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and\nin the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will\nmake darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these\nthings have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.\n\n42:17. They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust\nin a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.\n\n42:18. Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.\n\n42:19. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have\nsent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind,\nbut the servant of the Lord?\n\n42:20. Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou\nthat hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?\n\n42:21. And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the\nlaw, and exalt it.\n\n42:22. But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the\nsnare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are\nmade a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is\nnone that saith: Restore.\n\n42:23. Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will\nattend and hearken for times to come?\n\n42:24. Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath\nnot the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not\nwalk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.\n\n42:25. And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and\na strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and\nset him on fire, and he understood not.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 43\n\nGod comforts his church, promising to protect her for ever: he\nexpostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude.\n\n43:1. And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and\nformed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called\nthee by thy name: thou art mine.\n\n43:2. When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and\nthe rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou\nshalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:\n\n43:3. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I\nhave given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee.\n\n43:4. Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I\nhave loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life.\n\n43:5. Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the\neast, and gather thee from the west.\n\n43:6. I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not\nback: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the\nearth.\n\n43:7. And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for\nmy glory. I have formed him, and made him.\n\n43:8. Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are\ndeaf, and have ears.\n\n43:9. All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are\ngathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the\nformer things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be\njustified, and hear, and say: It is truth.\n\n43:10. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have\nchosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself\nam. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be\nnone.\n\n43:11. I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.\n\n43:12. I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there\nwas no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and\nI am God.\n\n43:13. And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can\ndeliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall turn it away?\n\n43:14. Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For\nyour sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and\nthe Chaldeans glorying in their ships.\n\n43:15. I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.\n\n43:16. Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in\nthe mighty waters.\n\n43:17. Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the\nstrong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again:\nthey are broken as flax, and are extinct.\n\n43:18. Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.\n\n43:19. Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily\nyou shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in\nthe desert.\n\n43:20. The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the\nostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the\ndesert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.\n\n43:21. This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my\npraise.\n\n43:22. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, neither hast thou\nlaboured about me, O Israel.\n\n43:23. Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou\nglorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with\noblations, nor wearied thee with incense.\n\n43:24. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou\nfilled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve\nwith thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.\n\n43:25. I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and\nI will not remember thy sins.\n\n43:26. Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou\nhast any thing to justify thyself.\n\n43:27. Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed\nagainst me.\n\n43:28. And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to\nslaughter, and Israel to reproach.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 44\n\nGod\u2019s favour to his church. The folly of idolatry. The people shall be\ndelivered from captivity.\n\n44:1. And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.\n\n44:2. Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from\nthe womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I\nhave chosen.\n\n44:3. For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams\nupon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my\nblessing upon thy stock.\n\n44:4. And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the\nrunning waters.\n\n44:5. One shall say: I am the Lord\u2019s, and another shall call himself by\nthe name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand, To the\nLord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.\n\n44:6. Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord\nof hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no\nGod.\n\n44:7. Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set\nbefore me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the\nthings to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them.\n\n44:8. Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made\nthee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God\nbesides me, a maker, whom I have not known?\n\n44:9. The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best\nbeloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that\nthey do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.\n\n44:10. Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is\nprofitable for nothing?\n\n44:11. Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the\nmakers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and\nfear, and shall be confounded together.\n\n44:12. The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with\nhammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his\narm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be\nweary.\n\n44:13. The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it\nwith a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round\nwith the compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a\nbeautiful man dwelling in a house.\n\n44:14. He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood\namong the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the\nrain hath nourished.\n\n44:15. And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and warmed\nhimself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made a\ngod, and adored it: he made a graven thing, and bowed down before it.\n\n44:16. Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed\nhis meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said:\nAha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.\n\n44:17. But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for\nhimself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it,\nsaying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.\n\n44:18. They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered\nthat they may not see, and that they may not understand with their\nheart.\n\n44:19. They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the\nthought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked\nbread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and\nof the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before\nthe stock of a tree?\n\n44:20. Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will\nnot save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.\n\n44:21. Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my\nservant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me\nnot.\n\n44:22. I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a\nmist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.\n\n44:23. Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout\nwith joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise,\nthou, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed\nJacob, and Israel shall be glorified.\n\n44:24. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb:\nI am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the\nheavens, that establish the earth, and there is none with me.\n\n44:25. That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers\nmad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge\nfoolish.\n\n44:26. That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of\nmy messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to\nthe cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes\nthereof.\n\n44:27. Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy\nrivers.\n\n44:28. Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform\nall my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the\ntemple: Thy foundations shall be laid.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 45\n\nA prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great deliverer of\nGod\u2019s people.\n\n45:1. Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have\ntaken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs\nof kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be\nshut.\n\n45:2. I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the\nearth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the\nbars of iron.\n\n45:3. And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches\nof secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call\nthee by thy name, the God of Israel.\n\n45:4. For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have\neven called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou\nhast not known me.\n\n45:5. I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides\nme: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:\n\n45:6. That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they\nwho are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord,\nand there is none else:\n\n45:7. I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create\nevil: I the Lord that do all these things.\n\nCreate evil, etc.... The evils of afflictions and punishments, but not\nthe evil of sin.\n\n45:8. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain\nthe just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let\njustice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.\n\n45:9. Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen\npots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou\nmaking, and thy work is without hands?\n\n45:10. Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to\nthe woman: Why dost thou bring forth?\n\n45:11. Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of\nthings to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my\nhands give ye charge to me.\n\n45:12. I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched\nforth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host.\n\n45:13. I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways:\nhe shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for\npresents, saith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n45:14. Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of\nEthiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and\nshall be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with\nmanacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to\nthee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.\n\n45:15. Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.\n\n45:16. They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are\ngone together into confusion.\n\n45:17. Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall\nnot be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.\n\n45:18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself\nthat formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not\ncreate it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and\nthere is no other.\n\n45:19. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I\nhave not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that\nspeak justice, that declare right things.\n\n45:20. Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that\nare saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood\nof their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.\n\n45:21. Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this\nfrom the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I\nthe Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a\nsaviour, there is none besides me.\n\n45:22. Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the\nearth: for I am God, and there is no other.\n\n45:23. I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my\nmouth, and shall not return:\n\n45:24. For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall\nswear.\n\n45:25. Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire:\nthey shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded.\n\n45:26. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and\npraised.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 46\n\nThe idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation is promised through\nChrist.\n\n46:1. Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts\nand cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.\n\n46:2. They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save\nhim that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.\n\n46:3. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house\nof Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.\n\n46:4. Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will\ncarry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will\nsave.\n\n46:5. To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me,\nand made me like?\n\n46:6. You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in\nthe scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and\nworship.\n\n46:7. They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in\nhis place, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place.\nYea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not\nsave them from tribulation.\n\n46:8. Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the\nheart.\n\n46:9. Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God\nbeside, neither is there the like to me:\n\n46:10. Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last,\nand from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My\ncounsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:\n\n46:11. Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of\nmy own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have\ncreated, and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from\njustice.\n\n46:12. I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my\nsalvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory\nin Israel.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 47\n\nGod\u2019s judgment upon Babylon.\n\n47:1. Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on\nthe ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for\nthou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.\n\n47:2. Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy\nshoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.\n\n47:3. Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I\nwill take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.\n\n47:4. Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of\nIsrael.\n\n47:5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the\nChaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms.\n\n47:6. I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and\nhave given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon\nthe ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.\n\n47:7. And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not\nlaid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter\nend.\n\n47:8. And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest\nconfidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else\nbesides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know\nbarrenness.\n\n47:9. These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day,\nbarrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the\nmultitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy\nenchanters.\n\n47:10. And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is\nnone that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived\nthee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no\nother.\n\n47:11. Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising\nthereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst\nnot keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt\nnot know.\n\n47:12. Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy\nsorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may\nprofit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.\n\n47:13. Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the\nastrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and\ncounted the months, that from them they might tell the things that\nshall come to thee.\n\n47:14. Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not\ndeliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals\nwherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.\n\n47:15. Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast\nlaboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own\nway, there is none that can save thee.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 48\n\nHe reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of\ntheir captivity, for his own name\u2019s sake.\n\n48:1. Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by\nthe name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you\nwho swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of\nIsrael, but not in truth, nor in justice.\n\n48:2. For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon\nthe God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.\n\n48:3. The former things of old, I have declared, and they went forth\nout of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly\nand they came to pass.\n\n48:4. For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron\nsinew, and thy forehead as brass.\n\n48:5. I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee,\nlest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven\nand molten things have commanded them.\n\n48:6. See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you\ndeclared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things\nare kept which thou knowest not:\n\n48:7. They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when\nthou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.\n\n48:8. Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of\nold. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have\ncalled thee a transgressor from the womb.\n\n48:9. For my name\u2019s sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my\npraise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.\n\n48:10. Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen\nthee in the furnace of poverty.\n\n48:11. For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be\nblasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.\n\n48:12. Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I\nam the first, and I am the last.\n\n48:13. My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath\nmeasured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.\n\n48:14. Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them\nhath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his\npleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.\n\n48:15. I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and\nhis way is made prosperous.\n\n48:16. Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret\nfrom the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and\nnow the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.\n\n48:17. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am\nthe Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in\nthe way that thou walkest.\n\n48:18. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had\nbeen as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,\n\n48:19. And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy\nbowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor\nhave been destroyed from before my face.\n\n48:20. Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare\nit with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even\nto the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant\nJacob.\n\n48:21. They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he\nbrought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock,\nand the waters gushed out.\n\n48:22. There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 49\n\nChrist shall bring the Gentiles to salvation. God\u2019s love to his church\nis perpetual.\n\n49:1. Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord\nhath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been\nmindful of my name.\n\n49:2. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of\nhis hand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in\nhis quiver he hath hidden me.\n\n49:3. And he said to me: Thou art my servant Israel, for in thee will I\nglory.\n\n49:4. And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength\nwithout cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and\nmy work with my God.\n\n49:5. And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his\nservant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be\ngathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord, and my\nGod is made my strength.\n\n49:6. And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant\nto raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel.\nBehold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou\nmayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.\n\n49:7. Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the\nsoul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant\nof rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for\nthe Lord\u2019s sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of\nIsrael, who hath chosen thee.\n\n49:8. Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and\nin the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee,\nand given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise\nup the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:\n\n49:9. That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth: and to\nthem that are in darkness: Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the\nways, and their pastures shall be in every plain.\n\n49:10. They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor\nthe sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their\nshepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink.\n\n49:11. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my paths shall be\nexalted.\n\n49:12. Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the\nnorth and from the sea, and these from the south country.\n\n49:13. Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains,\ngive praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his\npeople, and will have mercy on his poor ones.\n\n49:14. And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath\nforgotten me.\n\n49:15. Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son\nof her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.\n\n49:16. Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always\nbefore my eyes.\n\n49:17. Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee\nwaste shall go out of thee.\n\n49:18. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered\ntogether, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be\nclothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt\nput them about thee.\n\n49:19. For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy\ndestruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and\nthey that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away.\n\n49:20. The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The\nplace is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.\n\n49:21. And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was\nbarren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath\nbrought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were\nthey?\n\n49:22. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to the\nGentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall\nbring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters upon their\nshoulders.\n\n49:23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses:\nthey shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they\nshall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the\nLord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.\n\n49:24. Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which was\ntaken by the mighty, be delivered?\n\n49:25. For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, even the captivity shall be\ntaken away from the strong: and that which was taken by the mighty,\nshall be delivered. But I will judge those that have judged thee, and\nthy children I will save.\n\n49:26. And I will feed thy enemies with their own flesh: and they shall\nbe made drunk with their own blood, as with new wine: and all flesh\nshall know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and thy Redeemer the\nMighty One of Jacob.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 50\n\nThe synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. Christ for her sake\nwill endure ignominious afflictions.\n\n50:1. Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your\nmother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom\nI sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your\nwicked deeds have I put your mother away.\n\n50:2. Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was\nnone that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I\ncannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my\nrebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry\nland: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.\n\n50:3. I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth\ntheir covering.\n\n50:4. The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how\nto uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the\nmorning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.\n\n50:5. The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not\ngone back.\n\n50:6. I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that\nplucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me,\nand spit upon me.\n\n50:7. The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded:\ntherefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I\nshall not be confounded.\n\n50:8. He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us\nstand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.\n\n50:9. Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn\nme? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat\nthem up.\n\n50:10. Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the\nvoice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light?\nlet him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.\n\n50:11. Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk\nin the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled:\nthis is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 51\n\nAn exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect the children of his\nchurch.\n\n51:1. Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that\nseek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole\nof the pit from which you are dug out.\n\n51:2. Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I\ncalled him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.\n\n51:3. The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the\nruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and\nher wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be\nfound therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.\n\n51:4. Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes:\nfor a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a\nlight of the nations.\n\n51:5. My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my\narms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall\npatiently wait for my arm.\n\n51:6. Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath:\nfor the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn\naway like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like\nmanner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not\nfail.\n\n51:7. Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my\nlaw in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid\nof their blasphemies.\n\n51:8. For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall\nconsume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my\njustice from generation to generation.\n\n51:9. Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as\nin the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck\nthe proud one, and wounded the dragon?\n\n51:10. Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep,\nwho madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass\nover?\n\n51:11. And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and\nshall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon\ntheir heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning\nshall flee away.\n\n51:12. I, I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst\nbe afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away\nlike grass?\n\n51:13. And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out\nthe heavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid\ncontinually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee,\nand had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the\noppressor?\n\n51:14. He shall quickly come that is going to open unto you, and he\nshall not kill unto utter destruction, neither shall his bread fail.\n\n51:15. But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves\nthereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.\n\n51:16. I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the\nshadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the\nearth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.\n\n51:17. Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the\nhand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the\nbottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.\n\n51:18. There is none that can uphold her among all the children that\nshe hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand\namong all the children that she hath brought up.\n\n51:19. There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be\nsorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the\nsword, who shall comfort thee?\n\n51:20. Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all\nthe ways, as the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the\nLord, of the rebuke of thy God.\n\n51:21. Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art\ndrunk but not with wine.\n\n51:22. Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord, and thy God, who will fight\nfor his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of dead\nsleep, the dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not drink it\nagain any more.\n\n51:23. And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee,\nand have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast\nlaid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 52\n\nUnder the figure of the deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, the\nchurch is invited to rejoice for her redemption from sin. Christ\u2019s\nkingdom shall be exalted.\n\n52:1. Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of\nthy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the\nuncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee.\n\n52:2. Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose\nthe bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.\n\n52:3. For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be\nredeemed, without money.\n\n52:4. For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at\nthe beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them\nwithout any cause at all.\n\n52:5. And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken\naway gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the\nLord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.\n\n52:6. Therefore my people shall know my name in that day: for I myself\nthat spoke, behold I am here.\n\n52:7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that\nbringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him that sheweth\nforth good, that preacheth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy God shall\nreign!\n\n52:8. The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their voice, they\nshall praise together: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord\nshall convert Sion.\n\n52:9. Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of Jerusalem: for\nthe Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem.\n\n52:10. The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the\nGentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our\nGod.\n\n52:11. Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing:\ngo out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of\nthe Lord.\n\n52:12. For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make\nhaste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel\nwill gather you together.\n\n52:13. Behold my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted, and\nextolled, and shall be exceeding high.\n\n52:14. As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be\ninglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.\n\n52:15. He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at\nhim: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that\nheard not, have beheld.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 53\n\nA prophecy of the passion of Christ.\n\n53:1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord\nrevealed?\n\n53:2. And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root\nout of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and\nwe have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be\ndesirous of him:\n\n53:3. Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and\nacquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and\ndespised, whereupon we esteemed him not.\n\n53:4. Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and\nwe have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and\nafflicted.\n\n53:5. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our\nsins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we\nare healed.\n\n53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside\ninto his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.\n\n53:7. He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his\nmouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb\nas a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.\n\n53:8. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall\ndeclare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the\nliving: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.\n\n53:9. And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for\nhis death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit\nin his mouth.\n\n53:10. And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall\nlay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will\nof the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.\n\n53:11. Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by\nhis knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall\nbear their iniquities.\n\n53:12. Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall\ndivide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul\nunto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins\nof many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 54\n\nThe Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multiply in the church of\nChrist: from which God\u2019s mercy shall never depart.\n\n54:1. Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise,\nand make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for\nmany are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a\nhusband, saith the Lord.\n\n54:2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy\ntabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.\n\n54:3. For thou shalt pass on to the right hand, and to the left: and\nthy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit the desolate\ncities.\n\n54:4. Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou\nshalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy\nyouth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood.\n\n54:5. For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is\nhis name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the\nGod of all the earth.\n\n54:6. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and mourning in\nspirit, and as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God.\n\n54:7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies\nwill I gather thee.\n\n54:8. In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from\nthee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the\nLord thy Redeemer.\n\n54:9. This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that\nI would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I\nsworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee.\n\n54:10. For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble;\nbut my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace\nshall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.\n\n54:11. O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort,\nbehold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations\nwith sapphires,\n\n54:12. And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven\nstones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.\n\n54:13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be\nthe peace of thy children.\n\n54:14. And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from\noppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not\ncome near thee.\n\n54:15. Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he that\nwas a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to thee.\n\n54:16. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the\nfire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created\nthe killer to destroy.\n\n54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every\ntongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the\ninheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 55\n\nGod promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall\nbelieve in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him.\n\n55:1. All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no\nmoney make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without\nmoney, and without any price.\n\n55:2. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your\nlabour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me,\nand eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in\nfatness.\n\n55:3. Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live,\nand I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies\nof David.\n\n55:4. Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader\nand a master to the Gentiles.\n\n55:5. Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the\nnations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy\nGod, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.\n\n55:6. Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he\nis near.\n\n55:7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts,\nand let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to\nour God: for he is bountiful to forgive.\n\n55:8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n55:9. For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways\nexalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.\n\n55:10. And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return\nno more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to\nspring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:\n\n55:11. So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it\nshall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and\nshall prosper in the things for which I sent it.\n\n55:12. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the\nmountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees\nof the country shall clap their hands.\n\n55:13. Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of\nthe nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named\nfor an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 56\n\nGod invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them\nshall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.\n\n56:1. Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my\nsalvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.\n\n56:2. Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall\nlay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that\nkeepeth his hands from doing any evil.\n\n56:3. And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord,\nspeak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people.\nAnd let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.\n\n56:4. For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my\nsabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold\nfast my covenant:\n\n56:5. I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place,\nand a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an\neverlasting name which shall never perish.\n\n56:6. And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to\nworship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that\nkeepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my\ncovenant:\n\n56:7. I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful\nin my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please\nme upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for\nall nations.\n\n56:8. The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I\nwill still gather unto him his congregation.\n\n56:9. All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the\nforest.\n\n56:10. His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not\nable to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.\n\n56:11. And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds\nthemselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own\nway, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.\n\n56:12. Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it\nshall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 57\n\nThe infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble\npenitents.\n\n57:1. The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of\nmercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the\njust man is taken away from before the face of evil.\n\n57:2. Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his\nuprightness.\n\n57:3. But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the\nadulterer, and of the harlot.\n\n57:4. Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth\nwide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false\nseed,\n\n57:5. Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree,\nsacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?\n\n57:6. In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and\nthou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice.\nShall I not be angry at these things?\n\n57:7. Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast\ngone up thither to offer victims.\n\n57:8. And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy\nremembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast\nreceived an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant\nwith them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.\n\n57:9. And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and\nhast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off,\nand wast debased even to hell.\n\n57:10. Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou\nsaidst not: I will rest: thou hast found life of thy hand, therefore\nthou hast not asked.\n\n57:11. For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou hast\nlied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart?\nfor I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and thou hast forgotten me.\n\n57:12. I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.\n\n57:13. When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the\nwind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he\nthat putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess\nmy holy mount.\n\n57:14. And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the\npath, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.\n\n57:15. For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth\neternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy\nplace, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of\nthe humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.\n\n57:16. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto\nthe end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings\nI will make.\n\n57:17. For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck\nhim: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering\nin his own heart.\n\n57:18. I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and\nrestored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.\n\n57:19. I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far\noff, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.\n\n57:20. But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and\nthe waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.\n\n57:21. There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 58\n\nGod rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews: recommends works of\nmercy, and sincere godliness.\n\n58:1. Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my\npeople their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.\n\n58:2. For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as\na nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of\ntheir God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to\napproach to God.\n\n58:3. Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled\nour souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your\nfast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.\n\n58:4. Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist\nwickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry\nto be heard on high.\n\n58:5. Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his\nsoul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and\nto spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day\nacceptable to the Lord?\n\n58:6. Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands\nof wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken\ngo free, and break asunder every burden.\n\n58:7. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the\nharbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him,\nand despise not thy own flesh.\n\n58:8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health\nshall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the\nglory of the Lord shall gather thee up.\n\n58:9. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry,\nand he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of\nthe midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak\nthat which profiteth not.\n\n58:10. When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt\nsatisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness,\nand thy darkness shall be as the noonday.\n\n58:11. And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy\nsoul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a\nwatered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not\nfail.\n\n58:12. And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built\nin thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation and\ngeneration: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences,\nturning the paths into rest.\n\n58:13. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own\nwill in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of\nthe Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways,\nand thy own will is not found, to speak a word:\n\n58:14. Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee\nup above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the\ninheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken\nit.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 59\n\nThe dreadful evil of sin is displayed, as the great obstacle to all\ngood from God: yet he will send a Redeemer, and make an everlasting\ncovenant with his church.\n\n59:1. Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save,\nneither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.\n\n59:2. But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and\nyour sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.\n\n59:3. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with\niniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth\niniquity.\n\n59:4. There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one\nthat judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak\nvanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.\n\n59:5. They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of\nspiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is\nbrought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.\n\n59:6. Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover\nthemselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and\nthe work of iniquity is in their hands.\n\n59:7. Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood:\ntheir thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are\nin their ways.\n\n59:8. They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in\ntheir steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that\ntreadeth in them knoweth no peace.\n\n59:9. Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake\nus. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have\nwalked in the dark.\n\n59:10. We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped\nas if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we\nare in dark places, as dead men.\n\n59:11. We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful\ndoves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation,\nand it is far from us.\n\n59:12. For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have\ntestified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and we have\nknown our iniquities:\n\n59:13. In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away\nso that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression:\nwe have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.\n\n59:14. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far\noff: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not\ncome in.\n\n59:15. And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil,\nlay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his\neyes, because there is no judgment.\n\n59:16. And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished,\nbecause there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought\nsalvation to him, and his own justice supported him.\n\n59:17. He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation\nupon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with\nzeal as with a cloak.\n\n59:18. As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries,\nand a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.\n\n59:19. And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and\nthey from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a\nviolent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:\n\n59:20. And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return\nfrom iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.\n\n59:21. This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is\nin thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart\nout of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the\nmouth of thy seed\u2019s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.\n\nThis is my covenant, etc.... Note here a clear promise of perpetual\northodoxy to the church of Christ.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 60\n\nThe light of true faith shall shine forth in the church of Christ, and\nshall be spread through all nations, and continue for all ages.\n\n60:1. Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and\nthe glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.\n\n60:2. For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people:\nbut the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon\nthee.\n\n60:3. And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the\nbrightness of thy rising.\n\n60:4. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered\ntogether, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy\ndaughters shall rise up at thy side.\n\n60:5. Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and\nbe enlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee,\nthe strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee.\n\n60:6. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of\nMadian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and\nfrankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord.\n\n60:7. All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the\nrams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my\nacceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.\n\n60:8. Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?\n\n60:9. For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the\nbeginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their\ngold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of\nIsrael, because he hath glorified thee.\n\n60:10. And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and\ntheir kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee,\nand in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.\n\n60:11. And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut\nday nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to\nthee, and their kings may be brought.\n\n60:12. For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall\nperish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation.\n\n60:13. The glory of Libanus shall come to thee, the fir tree, and the\nbox tree, and the pine tree together, to beautify the place of my\nsanctuary: and I will glorify the place of my feet.\n\n60:14. And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing\ndown to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of\nthy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the\nHoly One of Israel.\n\n60:15. Because thou wast forsaken, and hated, and there was none that\npassed through thee, I will make thee to be an everlasting glory, a joy\nunto generation and generation:\n\n60:16. And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and thou shalt be\nnursed with the breasts of kings: and thou shalt know that I am the\nLord thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.\n\n60:17. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver:\nand for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make thy visitation\npeace, and thy overseers justice.\n\n60:18. Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor\ndestruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and\npraise thy gates.\n\n60:19. Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither\nshall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be\nunto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.\n\n\nThou shalt no more, etc.... In this latter part of the Chapter, the\nprophet passes from the illustrious promises made to the church\nmilitant on earth, to the glory of the church triumphant in heaven.\n\n60:20. Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy moon shall not decrease:\nfor the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days\nof thy mourning shall be ended.\n\n60:21. And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land\nfor ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.\n\n60:22. The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most\nstrong nation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in its time.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 61\n\nThe office of Christ: the mission of the Apostles; the happiness of\ntheir converts.\n\n61:1. The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed\nme: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of\nheart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them\nthat are shut up.\n\n61:2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of\nvengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:\n\n61:3. To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for\nashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit\nof grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice,\nthe planting of the Lord to glorify him.\n\n61:4. And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old,\nand shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities,\nthat were destroyed for generation and generation.\n\n61:5. And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the\nsons of strangers shall be your husbandmen, and the dressers of your\nvines.\n\n61:6. But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall\nbe said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the\nGentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.\n\n61:7. For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their\npart: therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting\njoy shall be unto them.\n\n61:8. For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a\nholocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a\nperpetual covenant with them.\n\n61:9. And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their\noffspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know\nthem, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.\n\n61:10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful\nin my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and\nwith the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked\nwith a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.\n\n61:11. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden\ncauseth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to\nspring forth, and praise before all the nations.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 62\n\nThe prophet will not cease from preaching Christ: to whom all nations\nshall be converted: and whose church shall continue for ever.\n\n62:1. For Sion\u2019s sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of\nJerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness,\nand her saviour be lighted as a lamp.\n\n62:2. And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy\nglorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth\nof the Lord shall name.\n\n62:3. And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a\nroyal diadem in the hand of thy God.\n\n62:4. Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more\nbe called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and\nthy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee:\nand thy land shall be inhabited.\n\n62:5. For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children\nshall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride,\nand thy God shall rejoice over thee.\n\n62:6. Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the\nday, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are\nmindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,\n\n62:7. And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make\nJerusalem a praise in the earth.\n\n62:8. The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his\nstrength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy\nenemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for\nwhich thou hast laboured.\n\n62:9. For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord:\nand they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.\n\n62:10. Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the\npeople, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the\nstandard to the people.\n\n62:11. Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the\nearth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his\nreward is with him, and his work before him.\n\n62:12. And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the\nLord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 63\n\nChrist\u2019s victory over his enemies: his mercies to his people: their\ncomplaint.\n\n63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra,\nthis beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his\nstrength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.\n\nEdom.... Edom and Bosra (a strong city of Edom) are here taken in a\nmystical sense for the enemies of Christ and his church.\n\n63:2. Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that\ntread in the winepress?\n\n63:3. I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is\nnot a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have\ntrodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my\ngarments, and I have stained all my apparel.\n\n63:4. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my\nredemption is come.\n\n63:5. I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there\nwas none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my\nindignation itself hath helped me.\n\n63:6. And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made\nthem drunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to\nthe earth.\n\n63:7. I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the\nLord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed upon us, and for\nthe multitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he hath\ngiven them according to his kindness, and according to the multitude of\nhis mercies.\n\n63:8. And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not\ndeny: so he became their saviour.\n\n63:9. In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his\npresence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them,\nand he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.\n\n63:10. But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy\nOne: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.\n\n63:11. And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people:\nWhere is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of\nhis flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his\nHoly One?\n\n63:12. He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his\nmajesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an\neverlasting name.\n\n63:13. He that led them out through the deep, as a horse in the\nwilderness that stumbleth not.\n\n63:14. As a beast that goeth down in the field, the spirit of the Lord\nwas their leader: so didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a\nglorious name.\n\n63:15. Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and\nthe place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the\nmultitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back\nthemselves from me.\n\nThey have held back, etc.... This is spoken by the prophet in the\nperson of the Jews at the time when, for their sins, they were given up\nto their enemies.\n\n63:16. For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and\nIsrael hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our\nredeemer, from everlasting is thy name.\n\nAbraham hath not know us, etc.... That is, Abraham will not now\nacknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou,\nO Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be\ncalled our parent in comparison with thee.\n\n63:17. Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast\nthou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the\nsake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.\n\nMade us to err, etc. Hardened our heart, etc.... The meaning is, that\nGod in punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long\nabuse of his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and\nso given them up to error and hardness of heart.\n\n63:18. They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have\ntrodden down thy sanctuary.\n\n63:19. We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over\nus, and when we were not called by thy name.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 64\n\nThe prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission\nof their sins.\n\n64:1. O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the\nmountains would melt away at thy presence.\n\n64:2. They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn\nwith fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the\nnations might tremble at thy presence.\n\n64:3. When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou\ndidst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.\n\n64:4. From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor\nperceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee,\nwhat things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.\n\n64:5. Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways\nthey shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in\nthem we have been always, and we shall be saved.\n\n64:6. And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the\nrag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our\niniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.\n\nOur justices, etc.... That is, the works by which we pretended to make\nourselves just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices,\nsacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the death of Christ, and\nthe promulgation of the new law.\n\n64:7. There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and\ntaketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed\nus in the hand of our iniquity.\n\n64:8. And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou\nart our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.\n\n64:9. Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity:\nbehold, see we are all thy people.\n\n64:10. The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a\ndesert, Jerusalem is desolate.\n\n64:11. The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers\npraised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned\ninto ruins.\n\n64:12. Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou\nhold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 65\n\nThe Gentiles shall seek and find Christ, but the Jews will persecute\nhim, and be rejected, only a remnant shall be reserved. The church\nshall multiply, and abound with graces.\n\n65:1. They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found\nme that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that\ndid not call upon my name.\n\n65:2. I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving\npeople, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.\n\n65:3. A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face,\nthat immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.\n\n65:4. That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that\neat swine\u2019s flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.\n\n65:5. That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art\nunclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.\n\n65:6. Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will\nrender and repay into their bosom.\n\n65:7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,\nsaith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have\nreproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work\nin their bosom.\n\n65:8. Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it\nbe said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the\nsake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.\n\n65:9. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a\npossessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my\nservants shall dwell there.\n\n65:10. And the plains shall be turned to folds of flocks, and the\nvalley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my\npeople that have sought me.\n\n65:11. And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my\nholy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it,\n\n65:12. I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by\nslaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you\ndid not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the\nthings that displease me.\n\n65:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat,\nand you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall\nbe thirsty.\n\n65:14. Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded:\nbehold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall\ncry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.\n\n65:15. And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and\nthe Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.\n\n65:16. In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in\nGod, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen:\nbecause the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid\nfrom my eyes.\n\n65:17. For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former\nthings shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the\nheart.\n\n65:18. But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things,\nwhich I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the\npeople thereof joy.\n\n65:19. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the\nvoice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of\ncrying.\n\n65:20. There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man\nthat shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred\nyears old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.\n\n65:21. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall\nplant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.\n\n65:22. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,\nand another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my\npeople, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.\n\n65:23. My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble;\nfor they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity\nwith them.\n\n65:24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hear;\nas they are yet speaking, I will hear.\n\n65:25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox\nshall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent\u2019s food: they shall not\nhurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 66\n\nMore of the reprobation of the Jews, and of the call of the Gentiles.\n\n66:1. Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my\nfootstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is\nthis place of my rest?\n\nWhat is this house, etc.... This is a prophecy that the temple should\nbe cast off.\n\n66:2. My hand made all these things, and all these things were made,\nsaith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is\npoor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my\nwords?\n\n66:3. He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that\nkilleth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that\noffereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine\u2019s blood; he that\nremembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things\nhave they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their\nabominations.\n\nHe that sacrificeth an ox, etc.... This is a prophecy that the\nsacrifices which were offered in the old law should be abolished in the\nnew; and that the offering of them should be a crime.\u2014Ibid. Remembereth\nincense.... Viz., to offer it in the way of a sacrifice.\n\n66:4. Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon\nthem the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that\nwould answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done\nevil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.\n\nI will choose their mockeries.... I will turn their mockeries upon\nthemselves; and will cause them to be mocked by their enemies.\n\n66:5. Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your\nbrethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name\u2019s sake, have said:\nLet the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall\nbe confounded.\n\n66:6. A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the temple, the\nvoice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.\n\n66:7. Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came\nto be delivered, she brought forth a man child.\n\nBefore she was in labour, etc.... This relates to the conversion of the\nGentiles, who were born, as it were, all on a sudden to the church of\nGod.\n\n66:8. Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to\nthis? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be\nbrought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath\nbrought forth her children?\n\n66:9. Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, myself\nbring forth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give generation to others,\nbe barren, saith the Lord thy God?\n\n66:10. Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love\nher: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her.\n\n66:11. That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her\nconsolations: that you may milk out, and flow with delights, from the\nabundance of her glory.\n\n66:12. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were\na river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the\nGentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts,\nand upon the knees they shall caress you.\n\n66:13. As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you\nshall be comforted in Jerusalem.\n\n66:14. You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall\nflourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his\nservants, and he shall be angry with his enemies.\n\n66:15. For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are\nlike a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke\nwith flames of fire.\n\n66:16. For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all\nflesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.\n\n66:17. They that were sanctified, and thought themselves clean in the\ngardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine\u2019s flesh, and\nthe abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n66:18. But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may\ngather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come\nand shall see my glory.\n\n66:19. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that\nshall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia\nthem that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar\noff, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And\nthey shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:\n\n66:20. And they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations for a\ngift to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on\nmules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord,\nas if the children of Israel should bring an offering in a clean vessel\ninto the house of the Lord.\n\n66:21. And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the\nLord.\n\n66:22. For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to\nstand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your\nname.\n\n66:23. And there shall be month after month, and sabbath after sabbath:\nand all flesh shall come to adore before my face, saith the Lord.\n\n66:24. And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that\nhave transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire\nshall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all\nflesh.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS\n\n\nJeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city in the\ntribe of Benjamin: and was sanctified from his mother\u2019s womb, to be a\nprophet of God; which office he began to execute when he was yet a\nchild in age. He was in his whole life, according to the signification\nof his name, Great before the Lord; and a special figure of Jesus\nChrist, in the persecutions he underwent for discharging his duty; in\nhis charity for his persecutors; and in the violent death he suffered\nat their hands: it being an ancient tradition of the Hebrews, that he\nwas stoned to death by the remnant of the Jews who had retired into\nEgypt.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 1\n\nThe time, and the calling, of Jeremias: his prophetical visions. God\nencourages him.\n\n1:1. The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were\nin Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.\n\n1:2. The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the\nson of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.\n\n1:3. And which came to him in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king\nof Juda, unto the end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of\nJosias king of Juda, even unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive,\nin the fifth month.\n\n1:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n1:5. Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and\nbefore thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made\nthee a prophet unto the nations.\n\n1:6. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am\na child.\n\n1:7. And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go\nto all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee,\nthou shalt speak.\n\n1:8. Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver\nthee, saith the Lord.\n\n1:9. And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the\nLord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:\n\n1:10. Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms,\nto root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to\nbuild, and to plant.\n\n1:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou,\nJeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.\n\n1:12. And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen well: for I will watch\nover my word to perform it.\n\n1:13. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What\nseest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof\nfrom the face of the north.\n\n1:14. And the Lord said to me: From the north shall an evil break forth\nupon all the inhabitants of the land.\n\n1:15. For behold I will call together all the families of the kingdoms\nof the north, saith the Lord: and they shall come, and shall set every\none his throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all\nthe walls thereof round about, and upon all the cities of Juda.\n\n1:16. And I will pronounce my judgments against them, touching all\ntheir wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, and have adored the work of their own hands.\n\n1:17. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them\nall that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will\nmake thee not to fear their countenance.\n\n1:18. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a\npillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of\nJuda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of\nthe land.\n\n1:19. And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I\nam with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 2\n\nGod expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and infidelity.\n\n2:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n2:2. Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord:\nI have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy\nespousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not\nsown.\n\n2:3. Israel is holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase: all\nthey that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the\nLord.\n\n2:4. Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye\nfamilies of the house of Israel:\n\n2:5. Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me,\nthat they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are\nbecome vain?\n\n2:6. And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up\nout of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a\nland uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the\nimage of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man\ndwelt?\n\n2:7. And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit\nthereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you\ndefiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.\n\nCarmel.... That is, a fruitful, plentiful land.\n\n2:8. The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the\nlaw knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the\nprophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.\n\n2:9. Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord,\nand I will plead with your children.\n\n2:10. Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar,\nand consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like\nthis.\n\n2:11. If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not\ngods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.\n\n2:12. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be\nvery desolate, saith the Lord.\n\n2:13. For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the\nfountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns,\nbroken cisterns, that can hold no water.\n\n2:14. Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a\nprey?\n\n2:15. The lions have roared upon him, and have made a noise, they have\nmade his land a wilderness: his cities are burnt down, and there is\nnone to dwell in them.\n\n2:16. The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee,\neven to the crown of the head.\n\n2:17. Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the\nLord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?\n\n2:18. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the\ntroubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians,\nto drink the water of the river?\n\n2:19. Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall\nrebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing\nfor thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with\nthee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n2:20. Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands,\nand thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under\nevery green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.\n\n2:21. Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then\nart thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange\nvineyard?\n\n2:22. Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the\nherb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord\nGod.\n\nBorith.... An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt.\n\n2:23. How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after\nBaalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a\nswift runner pursuing his course.\n\n2:24. A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his\nheart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all\nthat seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.\n\n2:25. Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But\nthou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved\nstrangers, and I will walk after them.\n\n2:26. As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of\nIsrael confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their\npriests, and their prophets.\n\n2:27. Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and to a stone: Thou hast\nbegotten me: they have turned their back to me, and not their face: and\nin the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us.\n\n2:28. Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and\ndeliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number\nof thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.\n\n2:29. Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken\nme, saith the Lord.\n\n2:30. In vain have I struck your children, they have not received\ncorrection: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is\nlike a ravaging lion.\n\n2:31. See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel,\nor a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are\nrevolted, we will come to thee no more?\n\n2:32. Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but\nmy people hath forgotten me days without number.\n\n2:33. Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love,\nthou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,\n\n2:34. And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and\ninnocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I\nmentioned before.\n\n2:35. And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and\ntherefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend\nwith thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.\n\n2:36. How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over\nagain! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of\nAssyria.\n\n2:37. For from thence thou shalt go, and thy hand shall be upon thy\nhead: for the Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have\nnothing prosperous therein.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 3\n\nGod invites the rebel Jews to return to him, with a promise to receive\nthem: he foretells the conversion of the Gentiles.\n\n3:1. It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from\nhim, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not\nthat woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself\nto many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will\nreceive thee.\n\n3:2. Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted\nthyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in\nthe wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications,\nand with thy wickedness.\n\n3:3. Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward\nrain: thou hadst a harlot\u2019s forehead, thou wouldst not blush.\n\n3:4. Therefore at the least from this time call to me: Thou art my\nfather, the guide of my virginity:\n\n3:5. Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue unto the end?\nBehold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been\nable.\n\n3:6. And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen\nwhat rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every\nhigh mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot\nthere.\n\n3:7. And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and\nshe did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,\n\n3:8. That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had\nput her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous\nsister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also\nherself.\n\n3:9. And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and\nplayed the harlot with stones and with stocks.\n\n3:10. And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned\nto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath justified her\nsoul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda.\n\n3:12. Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt\nsay: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn\naway my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be\nangry for ever.\n\n3:13. But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed\nagainst the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers\nunder every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.\n\n3:14. Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your\nhusband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and\nwill bring you into Sion.\n\n3:15. And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they\nshall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.\n\n3:16. And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in\nthose days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither\nshall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that\nbe done any more.\n\n3:17. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord:\nand all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of\nthe Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of\ntheir most wicked heart.\n\n3:18. In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel,\nand they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land\nwhich I gave to your fathers.\n\n3:19. But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give\nthee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the\nGentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to\nwalk after me.\n\n3:20. But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of\nIsrael despised me, saith the Lord.\n\n3:21. A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the\nchildren of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have\nforgotten the Lord their God.\n\n3:22. Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions.\nBehold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.\n\n3:23. In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the\nmountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.\n\n3:24. Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth,\ntheir flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.\n\n3:25. We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us,\nbecause we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers\nfrom our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice\nof the Lord our God.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 4\n\nAnd admonition to sincere repentance, and circumcision of the heart,\nwith threats of grievous punishment to those that persist in sin.\n\n4:1. If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if\nthou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not\nbe moved.\n\n4:2. And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in\njudgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall\npraise him.\n\n4:3. For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up\nanew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:\n\n4:4. Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your\nhearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my\nindignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can\nquench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.\n\n4:5. Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in Jerusalem: speak, and\nsound with the trumpet in the land: cry aloud, and say: Assemble\nyourselves, and let us go into strong cities.\n\n4:6. Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for\nI bring evil from the north, and great destruction.\n\n4:7. The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath\nroused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy land\ndesolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an\ninhabitant.\n\n4:8. For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the\nfierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.\n\n4:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the\nheart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the\npriests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.\n\n4:10. And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived\nthis people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the\nsword reacheth even to the soul?\n\n4:11. At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A\nburning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the\ndaughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.\n\n4:12. A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will\nspeak my judgments with them.\n\n4:13. Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a\ntempest: his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are\nlaid waste.\n\n4:14. Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be\nsaved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?\n\n4:15. For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the\nidol from mount Ephraim.\n\n4:16. Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that\nguards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against\nthe cities of Juda.\n\n4:17. They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she\nhath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.\n\n4:18. Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee:\nthis is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched\nthy heart.\n\n4:19. My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are\ntroubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard\nthe sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.\n\n4:20. Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is\nlaid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a\nmoment.\n\n4:21. How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the\nsound of the trumpet?\n\n4:22. For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and\nsenseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have\nno knowledge.\n\n4:23. I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the\nheavens, and there was no light in them.\n\n4:24. I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all\nthe hills were troubled.\n\n4:25. I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all the birds of the air\nwere gone.\n\n4:26. I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and all its cities\nwere destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the\nwrath of his indignation.\n\n4:27. For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet\nI will not utterly destroy.\n\n4:28. The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above:\nbecause I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented,\nneither am I turned away from it.\n\n4:29. At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is\nfled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks:\nall the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.\n\n4:30. But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest\nthyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,\nand paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out\nin vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.\n\n4:31. For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as\nof a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion,\ndying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted\nbecause of them that are slain.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 5\n\nThe judgments of God shall fall upon the Jews for their manifold sins.\n\n5:1. Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider,\nand seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that\nexecuteth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.\n\n5:2. And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear\nfalsely.\n\n5:3. O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they\nhave not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to\nreceive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock,\nand they have refused to return.\n\n5:4. But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the\nway of the Lord, the judgment of their God.\n\n5:5. I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for\nthey have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and\nbehold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the\nbonds.\n\n5:6. Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the\nevening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every\none that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their\ntransgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.\n\n5:7. How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and\nswear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they\ncommitted adultery, and rioted in the harlot\u2019s house.\n\n5:8. They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed\nafter his neighbour\u2019s wife.\n\n5:9. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not\nmy soul take revenge on such a nation?\n\n5:10. Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly\ndestroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the\nLord\u2019s.\n\n5:11. For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly\ntransgressed against me, saith the Lord.\n\n5:12. They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil\nshall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.\n\n5:13. The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of\nGod in them: these things therefore shall befall them.\n\n5:14. Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: because you have spoken\nthis word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this\npeople as wood, and it shall devour them.\n\n5:15. Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of\nIsrael, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation\nwhose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.\n\n5:16. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.\n\n5:17. And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour\nthy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy\nherds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword\nthey shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.\n\n5:18. Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you\nto utter destruction.\n\n5:19. And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these\nthings to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and\nserved a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in\na land that is not your own.\n\n5:20. Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda,\nsaying:\n\n5:21. Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes,\nand see not: and ears, and hear not.\n\n5:22. Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not\nrepent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an\neverlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves\nthereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell,\nand shall not pass over it.\n\n5:23. But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and\nprovoking, they are revolted and gone away.\n\n5:24. And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our\nGod, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who\npreserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.\n\n5:25. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have\nwithholden good things from you.\n\n5:26. For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as\nfowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.\n\n5:27. As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit:\ntherefore are they become great and enriched.\n\n5:28. They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed\nmy words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not\nmanaged the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the\njudgment of the poor.\n\n5:29. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not\nmy soul take revenge on such a nation?\n\n5:30. Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in the land.\n\n5:31. The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their\nhands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the\nend thereof?\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 6\n\nThe evils that threaten Jerusalem. She is invited to return, and walk\nin the good way, and not to rely on sacrifices without obedience.\n\n6:1. Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of\nJerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard\nover Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great\ndestruction.\n\n6:2. I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate\nwoman.\n\n6:3. The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have\npitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them\nthat are under his hand.\n\n6:4. Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe\nunto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are\ngrown longer.\n\n6:5. Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.\n\n6:6. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a\ntrench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression\nis in the midst of her.\n\n6:7. As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her\nwickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity\nand stripes are continually before me.\n\n6:8. Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee,\nlest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.\n\n6:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of\nIsrael, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a\ngrapegatherer into the basket.\n\n6:10. To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may\nhear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear:\nbehold the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and they\nwill not receive it.\n\n6:11. Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with\nholding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of\nthe young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient\nand he that is full of days.\n\n6:12. And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands\nand their wives together: for I will stretch forth my hand upon the\ninhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.\n\n6:13. For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to\ncovetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty\nof deceit.\n\n6:14. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people\ndisgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.\n\n6:15. They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea,\nrather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how\nto blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time\nof their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.\n\n6:16. Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for\nthe old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall\nfind refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.\n\n6:17. And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the\nsound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.\n\n6:18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great\nthings I will do to them.\n\n6:19. Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the\nfruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and\nthey have cast away my law.\n\n6:20. To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the\nsweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not\nacceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.\n\n6:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction\nupon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall,\nneighbour and kinsman shall perish.\n\n6:22. Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the\nnorth, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.\n\n6:23. They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will\nhave no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall\nmount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of\nSion.\n\n6:24. We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish\nhath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.\n\n6:25. Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the\nsword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.\n\n6:26. Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle\nthee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter\nlamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.\n\n6:27. I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou\nshalt know, and prove their way.\n\n6:28. All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they\nare brass and iron: they are all corrupted.\n\n6:29. The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the\nfounder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.\n\n6:30. Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 7\n\nThe temple of God shall not protect a sinful people, without a sincere\nconversion. The Lord will not receive the prayers of the prophet for\nthem: because they are obstinate in their sins.\n\n7:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n7:2. Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there\nthis word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda,\nthat enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.\n\n7:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and\nyour doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.\n\n7:4. Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the\ntemple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:5. For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will\nexecute judgment between a man and his neighbour,\n\n7:6. If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,\nand shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange\ngods to your own hurt,\n\n7:7. I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to\nyour fathers from the beginning and for evermore.\n\n7:8. Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit\nyou:\n\n7:9. To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to\noffer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.\n\n7:10. And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my\nname is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have\ndone all these abominations.\n\n7:11. Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in\nyour eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n7:12. Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the\nbeginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people\nIsrael:\n\n7:13. And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord:\nand I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have\nnot heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:\n\n7:14. I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in\nwhich you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your\nfathers, as I did to Silo.\n\n7:15. And I will cast you away from before my face, as I have cast away\nall your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.\n\n7:16. Therefore do not thou pray for this people, nor take to thee\npraise and supplication for them: and do not withstand me: for I will\nnot hear thee.\n\n7:17. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the\nstreets of Jerusalem?\n\n7:18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and\nthe women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to\noffer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.\n\nQueen of heaven.... That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that\nname.\n\n7:19. Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not\nthemselves, to the confusion of their own countenance?\n\n7:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my wrath and my\nindignation is enkindled against this place, upon men and upon beasts,\nand upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruits of the land, and\nit shall burn, and shall not be quenched.\n\n7:21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt\nofferings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.\n\n7:22. For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the\nday that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter\nof burnt offerings and sacrifices.\n\nI commanded them not.... Viz., such sacrifices as the Jews at this time\noffered, without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded:\nso that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts and\nsacrifices was of small account.\n\n7:23. But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and\nI will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the\nway that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.\n\n7:24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in\ntheir own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went\nbackward and not forward,\n\n7:25. From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt,\neven to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets,\nfrom day to day, rising up early and sending.\n\n7:26. And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but\nhave hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.\n\n7:27. And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not\nhearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer\nthee.\n\n7:28. And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not\nhearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction:\nfaith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.\n\n7:29. Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on\nhigh: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his\nwrath,\n\n7:30. Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the\nLord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is\ncalled upon, to pollute it;\n\n7:31. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the\nvalley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in\nthe fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.\n\n7:32. Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it\nshall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom:\nbut the valley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth, because\nthere is no place.\n\n7:33. And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of\nthe air, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to\ndrive them away.\n\n7:34. And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of\nthe streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness,\nthe voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land\nshall be desolate.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 8\n\nOther evils that shall fall upon the Jews for their impenitence.\n\n8:1. At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the\nkings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of\nthe priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.\n\n8:2. And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and\nall the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have\nserved, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and\nadored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they\nshall be as dung upon the face of the earth.\n\n8:3. And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall\nremain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I\nhave cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n8:4. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not he that\nfalleth, rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn\nagain?\n\n8:5. Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn\nrevolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return.\n\n8:6. I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is\nnone that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are\nall turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to the battle.\n\n8:7. The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the\nswallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my\npeople have not known the judgment of the Lord.\n\n8:8. How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?\nIndeed the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.\n\n8:9. The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for\nthey have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in\nthem.\n\n8:10. Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to\nothers for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest\nall follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal\ndeceitfully.\n\n8:11. And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people\ndisgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: when there was no peace.\n\n8:12. They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea\nrather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known\nhow to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the\ntime of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.\n\n8:13. Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is\nno grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf\nis fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.\n\n8:14. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into\nthe fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath\nput us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we\nhave sinned against the Lord.\n\n8:15. We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and\nbehold fear.\n\n8:16. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was\nmoved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and\ndevoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its\ninhabitants.\n\n8:17. For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against\nwhich there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.\n\n8:18. My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.\n\n8:19. Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country:\nIs not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they\nprovoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?\n\n8:20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.\n\n8:21. For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted,\nand made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.\n\n8:22. Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why\nthen is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 9\n\nThe prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which\nare the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance.\n\n9:1. Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my\neyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my\npeople.\n\n9:2. Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring\nmen, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are\nall adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.\n\n9:3. And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for\ntruth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have\nproceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the\nLord.\n\n9:4. Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in\nany brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every\nfriend will walk deceitfully.\n\n9:5. And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the\ntruth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have\nlaboured to commit iniquity.\n\n9:6. Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have\nrefused to know me, saith the Lord.\n\n9:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and\ntry them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?\n\n9:8. Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his\nmouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait\nfor him.\n\n9:9. Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall\nnot my soul be revenged on such a nation?\n\n9:10. For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for\nthe beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt\nup, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they\nhave not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the\nbeasts they are gone away and departed.\n\n9:11. And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of\ndragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an\ninhabitant.\n\n9:12. Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the\nword of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why\nthe land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none\npasseth through?\n\n9:13. And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I\ngave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.\n\n9:14. But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and\nafter Baalim, which their fathers taught them.\n\n9:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to\ndrink.\n\n9:16. And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their\nfathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they\nbe consumed.\n\n9:17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and\ncall for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that\nare wise women, and let them make haste:\n\n9:18. Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes\nshed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.\n\n9:19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted\nand greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our\ndwellings are cast down.\n\n9:20. Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears\nreceive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and\nevery one her neighbour mourning.\n\n9:21. For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our\nhouses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the\nstreets.\n\n9:22. Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as\ndung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the\nmower, and there is none to gather it.\n\n9:23. Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,\nand let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich\nman glory in his riches:\n\n9:24. But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth\nand knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment,\nand justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.\n\n9:25. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon\nevery one that hath the foreskin circumcised.\n\n9:26. Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children\nof Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled\nround, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised\nin the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the\nheart.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 10\n\nNeither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the great Creator of all\nthings. The chastisement of Jerusalem for her sins.\n\n10:1. Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O\nhouse of Israel.\n\n10:2. Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the\nGentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens\nfear:\n\n10:3. For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of\nthe workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.\n\n10:4. He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together\nwith nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.\n\n10:5. They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not\nspeak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go.\nTherefore fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.\n\n10:6. There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is\nthy name in might.\n\n10:7. Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations? for thine is the\nglory: among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms\nthere is none like unto thee.\n\n10:8. They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish:\nthe doctrine of their vanity is wood.\n\n10:9. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tharsis, and gold from\nOphaz: the work of the artificer, and of the hand of the coppersmith:\nviolet and purple is their clothing: all these things are the work of\nartificers.\n\n10:10. But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the\neverlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations\nshall not be able to abide his threatening.\n\n10:11. Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made\nheaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those\nplaces that are under heaven.\n\n10:12. He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world\nby his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.\n\n10:13. At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and\nlifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings\nfor rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.\n\n10:14. Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is\nconfounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and\nthere is no spirit in them.\n\n10:15. They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of\ntheir visitation they shall perish.\n\n10:16. The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed\nall things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts\nis his name.\n\n10:17. Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a\nsiege.\n\n10:18. For thus saith he Lord: Behold I will cast away far off the\ninhabitants of the land at this time: and I will afflict them, so that\nthey may be found.\n\n10:19. Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is very grievous. But I\nsaid: Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.\n\n10:20. My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my\nchildren are gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to\nstretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.\n\n10:21. Because the pastors have done foolishly, and have not sought the\nLord: therefore have they not understood, and all their flock is\nscattered.\n\n10:22. Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the\nland of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling\nfor dragons.\n\n10:23. I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it\nin a man to walk, and to direct his steps.\n\nThe way of a man is not his.... The meaning is, that notwithstanding\nman\u2019s free will, yet he can do no good without God\u2019s help, nor evil\nwithout his permission. So that, in the present case, all the evils\nwhich Nabuchodonosor was about to bring upon Jerusalem, could not have\ncome but by the will of God.\n\n10:24. Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury,\nlest thou bring me to nothing.\n\n10:25. Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known\nthee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name:\nbecause they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him,\nand have destroyed his glory.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 11\n\nThe prophet proclaims the covenant of God: and denounces evils to the\nobstinate transgressors of it. The conspiracy of the Jews against him,\na figure of their conspiracy against Christ.\n\n11:1. The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, saying:\n\n11:2. Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Juda,\nand to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\n\n11:3. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of\nIsrael: Cursed is the man that shall not hearken to the words of this\ncovenant,\n\n11:4. Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out\nof the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice,\nand do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I\nwill be your God:\n\n11:5. That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to\ngive them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I\nanswered and said: Amen, O Lord.\n\n11:6. And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in the\ncities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the\nwords of the covenant, and do them:\n\n11:7. For protesting I conjured your fathers in the day that I brought\nthem out of the land of Egypt even to this day: rising early I conjured\nthem, and said: Hearken ye to my voice:\n\n11:8. And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked every one\nin the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and I brought upon them\nall the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they\ndid them not.\n\n11:9. And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men of\nJuda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n11:10. They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who\nrefused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange\ngods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have\nmade void my covenant, which I made with their fathers.\n\n11:11. Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon\nthem, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me,\nand I will not hearken to them.\n\n11:12. And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall\ngo, and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice, and they shall\nnot save them in the time of their affliction.\n\n11:13. For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda:\nand according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set\nup altars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim.\n\n11:14. Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up\npraise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of\ntheir cry to me, in the time of their affliction.\n\n11:15. What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness\nin my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in\nwhich thou hast boasted?\n\n11:16. The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair,\nfruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was\nkindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.\n\n11:17. And the Lord of hosts that planted thee, hath pronounced evil\nagainst thee: for the evils of the house of Israel, and of the house of\nJuda, which they have done to themselves, to provoke me, offering\nsacrifice to Baalim.\n\n11:18. But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I have known: then thou\nshewedst me their doings.\n\n11:19. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I\nknew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put\nwood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let\nhis name be remembered no more.\n\n11:20. But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest justly, and triest the\nreins and the hearts, let me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have\nI revealed my cause.\n\nSabaoth.... That is, of hosts or armies, a name frequently given to God\nin the scriptures.\u2014Ibid. Thy revenge.... This was rather a prediction\nof what was to happen, with an approbation of the divine justice, than\nan imprecation.\n\n11:21. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who seek\nthy life, and say: Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and\nthou shalt not die in our hands.\n\n11:22. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will visit upon\nthem: their young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their\ndaughters shall die by famine.\n\n11:23. And there shall be no remains of them: for I will bring in evil\nupon the men of Anathoth, the year of their visitation.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 12\n\nThe prosperity of the wicked shall be but for a short time. The\ndesolation of the Jews for their sins. Their return from their\ncaptivity.\n\n12:1. Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I\nwill speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked\nprosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?\n\n12:2. Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper\nand bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their\nreins.\n\n12:3. And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my\nheart with thee: gather them together as sheep for a sacrifice, and\nprepare them for the day of slaughter.\n\n12:4. How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither\nfor the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds\nare consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.\n\n12:5. If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst\nthou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of\npeace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?\n\n12:6. For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they\nhave fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice:\nbelieve them not when they speak good things to thee.\n\n12:7. I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have\ngiven my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.\n\n12:8. My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath\ncried out against me, therefore have I hated it.\n\n12:9. Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed\nthroughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth,\nmake haste to devour.\n\n12:10. Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my\nportion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a\ndesolate wilderness.\n\n12:11. They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With\ndesolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that\nconsidereth in the heart.\n\n12:12. The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for\nthe sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the\nother end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.\n\n12:13. They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an\ninheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your\nfruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.\n\n12:14. Thus saith the Lord against all my wicked neighbours, that touch\nthe inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I\nwill pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda\nout of the midst of them.\n\n12:15. And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have\nmercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance,\nand every man into his land.\n\n12:16. And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and will\nlearn the ways of my people, to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as\nthey have taught my people to swear by Baal: that they shall be built\nup in the midst of my people.\n\n12:17. But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy\nthat nation, saith the Lord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 13\n\nUnder the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the\nJews. Their obstinacy in sin brings all miseries upon them.\n\n13:1. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and\nthou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water.\n\n13:2. And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it\nabout my loins.\n\n13:3. And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying:\n\n13:4. Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins,\nand arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the\nrock.\n\n13:5. And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had\ncommanded me.\n\n13:6. And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me:\nArise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I\ncommanded thee to hide there.\n\n13:7. And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out\nof the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so\nthat it was fit for no use.\n\n13:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n13:9. Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of\nJuda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.\n\n13:10. This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk\nin the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to\nserve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle, which\nis fit for no use.\n\n13:11. For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have\nI brought close to me all the house of Israel, and all the house of\nJuda, saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and\nfor a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.\n\n13:12. Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the\nLord the God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And\nthey shall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be\nfilled with wine?\n\n13:13. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will\nfill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of\nDavid that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and\nall the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.\n\n13:14. And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers\nand sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will\nnot pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them.\n\n13:15. Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.\n\n13:16. Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and\nbefore your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for\nlight, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.\n\n13:17. But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for\nyour pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with\ntears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.\n\n13:18. Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down:\nfor the crown of your glory is come down from your head.\n\n13:19. The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open\nthem: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.\n\n13:20. Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where\nis the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?\n\n13:21. What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast\ntaught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head:\nshall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour?\n\n13:22. And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come\nupon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is\ndiscovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.\n\n13:23. If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots:\nyou also may do well, when you have learned evil.\n\n13:24. And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the\nwind in the desert.\n\n13:25. This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith\nthe Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in\nfalsehood.\n\n13:26. Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy\nshame hath appeared.\n\n13:27. I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of\nthy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe\nto thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 14\n\nA grievous famine: and the prophet\u2019s prayer on that occasion. Evils\ndenounced to false prophets. The prophet mourns for his people.\n\n14:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words\nof the drought.\n\n14:2. Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are\nbecome obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.\n\n14:3. The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to\ndraw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they\nwere confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.\n\n14:4. For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon\nthe earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they covered their heads.\n\n14:5. Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it,\nbecause there was no grass.\n\n14:6. And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind\nlike dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.\n\n14:7. If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it\nfor thy name\u2019s sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned\nagainst thee.\n\n14:8. O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble:\nwhy wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man\nturning in to lodge?\n\n14:9. Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot\nsave? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by\nus, forsake us not.\n\n14:10. Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move\ntheir feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will\nnow remember their iniquities, and visit their sins.\n\n14:11. And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this people for their\ngood.\n\n14:12. When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer\nholocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume\nthem by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence.\n\n14:13. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the prophets say to them:\nYou shall not see the sword, and there shall be no famine among you,\nbut he will give you true peace in this place.\n\n14:14. And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy falsely in my\nname: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, nor have I spoken\nto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination and\ndeceit, and the seduction of their own heart.\n\n14:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that\nprophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine\nshall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be\nconsumed.\n\n14:16. And the people to whom they prophesy, shall be cast out in the\nstreets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and there\nshall be none to bury them: they and their wives, their sons and their\ndaughters, and I will pour out their own wickedness upon them.\n\n14:17. And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down\ntears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin\ndaughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an\nexceeding grievous evil.\n\n14:18. If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword:\nand if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with\nfamine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they\nknew not.\n\n14:19. Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred\nSion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us?\nwe have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of\nhealing, and behold trouble.\n\n14:20. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our\nfathers, because we have sinned against thee.\n\n14:21. Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name\u2019s sake, and do not\ndisgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy\ncovenant with us.\n\n14:22. Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can\nsend rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our\nGod, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 15\n\nGod is determined to punish the Jews for their sins. The prophet\u2019s\ncomplaint, and God\u2019s promise to him.\n\n15:1. And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before\nme, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight,\nand let them go forth.\n\n15:2. And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth? thou\nshalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to\ndeath: and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for\nfamine, to famine: and such as are for captivity, to captivity.\n\n15:3. And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword\nto kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts\nof the earth, to devour and to destroy.\n\n15:4. And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the\nearth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for\nall that he did in Jerusalem.\n\n15:5. For who shall have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan\nthee? or who shall go to pray for thy peace?\n\n15:6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward:\nand I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I\nam weary of entreating thee.\n\n15:7. And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I\nhave killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from\ntheir ways.\n\n15:8. Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I\nhave brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at\nnoonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.\n\n15:9. She that hath borne seven is become weak, her soul hath fainted\naway: her sun is gone down, while it was yet day: she is confounded,\nand ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up to the sword in the\nsight of their enemies, saith the Lord.\n\n15:10. Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a\nman of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither\nhath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.\n\n15:11. The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall be well with thy\nremnant, assuredly I shall help thee in the time of affliction, and in\nthe time of tribulation against the enemy.\n\n15:12. Shall iron be allied with the iron from the north, and the\nbrass?\n\nShall iron be allied, etc.... Shall the iron, that is, the strength of\nJuda, stand against the stronger iron of the north, that is, of\nBabylon: or enter into an alliance upon equal footing with it? No\ncertainly: but it must be broken by it.\n\n15:13. Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing,\nbecause of all thy sins, even in all thy borders.\n\n15:14. And I will bring thy enemies out of a land, which thou knowest\nnot: for a fire is kindled in my rage, it shall burn upon you.\n\n15:15. O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me\nfrom them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know\nthat for thy sake I have suffered reproach.\n\nDo not defend me in thy patience.... That is, let not thy patience and\nlongsuffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making\nhaste to my assistance.\n\n15:16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me\na joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord\nGod of hosts.\n\n15:17. I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of\nthe presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with\nthreats.\n\n15:18. Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as\nto refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of\ndeceitful waters that cannot be trusted.\n\n15:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted, I will\nconvert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face; and if thou wilt\nseparate the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they\nshall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them.\n\n15:20. And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass:\nand they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with\nthee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.\n\n15:21. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I\nwill redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 16\n\nThe prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be utterly ruined for\ntheir idolatry: but shall at length be released from their captivity,\nand the Gentiles shall be converted.\n\n16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n16:2. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and\ndaughters in this place.\n\n16:3. For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that\nare born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them:\nand concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land:\n\n16:4. They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not\nbe lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon\nthe face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and\nwith famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the\nair, and for the beasts of the earth.\n\n16:5. For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting,\nneither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken\naway my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and\ncommiserations.\n\n16:6. Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall\nnot be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make\nthemselves bald for them.\n\n16:7. And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth,\nto comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them to drink of\nthe cup, to comfort them for their father and mother.\n\n16:8. And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them,\nand to eat and drink:\n\n16:9. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I\nwill take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the\nvoice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,\nand the voice of the bride.\n\n16:10. And when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they\nshall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced against us all\nthis great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our sin, that we\nhave sinned against the Lord our God?\n\n16:11. Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook me, saith\nthe Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored\nthem: and they forsook me, and kept not my law.\n\n16:12. And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every\none of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not\nto hearken to me.\n\n16:13. So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land which you\nknow not, nor your fathers: and there you shall serve strange gods day\nand night, which shall not give you any rest.\n\n16:14. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when it shall be\nsaid no more: The Lord liveth, that brought forth the children of\nIsrael out of the land of Egypt.\n\n16:15. But, The Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel out of\nthe land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast them\nout: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their\nfathers.\n\n16:16. Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall\nfish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall\nhunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes\nof the rocks.\n\n16:17. For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my\nface, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.\n\n16:18. And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins:\nbecause they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols,\nand they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.\n\n16:19. O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of\ntribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the\nearth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity\nwhich hath not profited them.\n\n16:20. Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?\n\n16:21. Therefore behold I will this once cause them to know, I will\nshew them my hand and my power: and they shall know that my name is the\nLord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 17\n\nFor their obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led captive. He is cursed\nthat trusteth in flesh. God alone searcheth the heart, giving to every\none as he deserves. The prophet prayeth to be delivered from his\nenemies, and preacheth up the observance of the sabbath.\n\n17:1. The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of\na diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns\nof their altars.\n\n17:2. When their children shall remember their altars, and their\ngroves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,\n\n17:3. Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength, and all thy\ntreasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.\n\n17:4. And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave\nthee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou\nknowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall\nburn for ever.\n\n17:5. Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and\nmaketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.\n\n17:6. For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see\nwhen good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a\nsalt land, and not inhabited.\n\nTamaric.... A barren shrub that grows in the driest parts of the\nwilderness.\n\n17:7. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall\nbe his confidence.\n\n17:8. And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that\nspreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when\nthe heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time\nof drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any\ntime to bring forth fruit.\n\n17:9. The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can\nknow it?\n\n17:10. I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who\ngive to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of\nhis devices.\n\n17:11. As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is\nhe that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his\ndays he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.\n\n17:12. A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the place of\nour sanctification.\n\n17:13. O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be\nconfounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth:\nbecause they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.\n\n17:14. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and I shall be\nsaved: for thou art my praise.\n\n17:15. Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it\ncome.\n\n17:16. And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor, and I have\nnot desired the day of man, thou knowest. That which went out of my\nlips, hath been right in thy sight.\n\n17:17. Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of\naffliction.\n\n17:18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be\nconfounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon\nthem the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy\nthem.\n\nLet them be confounded, etc.... Such expressions as these in the\nwritings of the prophets, are not to be understood as imprecations\nproceeding from malice or desire of revenge: but as prophetic\npredictions of evils that were about to fall upon impenitent sinners,\nand approbations of the ways of divine justice.\n\n17:19. Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the\nchildren of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out,\nand in all the gates of Jerusalem:\n\n17:20. And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings\nof Juda, and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter\nin by these gates.\n\n17:21. Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no\nburdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of\nJerusalem.\n\n17:22. And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day,\nneither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your\nfathers.\n\n17:23. But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their\nneck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.\n\n17:24. And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the\nLord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath\nday: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:\n\n17:25. Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and\nprinces, sitting upon the throne of David, and riding in chariots and\non horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants\nof Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.\n\n17:26. And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from the places\nround about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the\nplains, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing\nholocausts, and victims, and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they\nshall bring in an offering into the house of the Lord.\n\n17:27. But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day,\nand not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of\nJerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates\nthereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not\nbe quenched.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 18\n\nAs the clay in the hand of the potter, so is Israel in God\u2019s hand. He\npardoneth penitents, and punisheth the obstinate. They conspire against\nJeremias, for which he denounceth to them the miseries that hang over\nthem.\n\n18:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n18:2. Arise, and go down into the potter\u2019s house, and there thou shalt\nhear my words.\n\n18:3. And I went down into the potter\u2019s house, and behold he was doing\na work on the wheel.\n\n18:4. And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his\nhands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his\neyes to make it.\n\n18:5. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n18:6. Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith\nthe Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my\nhand, O house of Israel.\n\n18:7. I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to\nroot out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.\n\n18:8. If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their\nevil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.\n\n18:9. And I will suddenly speak of a nation and of a kingdom, to build\nup and plant it.\n\n18:10. If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I\nwill repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.\n\n18:11. Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of\nJerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against\nyou, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from\nhis evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.\n\n18:12. And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own\nthoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his\nevil heart.\n\n18:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath\nheard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to\nexcess?\n\n18:14. Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or\ncan the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?\n\n18:15. Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and\nstumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not\ntrodden:\n\n18:16. That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a\nperpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be\nastonished, and wag his head.\n\n18:17. As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will\nshew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.\n\n18:18. And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias:\nfor the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the\nwise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with\nthe tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.\n\n18:19. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.\n\n18:20. Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit\nfor my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good for\nthem, and to turn away thy indignation from them.\n\nRemember, etc.... This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by\nthe Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon\nthem in punishment of their crimes.\n\n18:21. Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them\ninto the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children\nand widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young\nmen be stabbed with the sword in battle.\n\n18:22. Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for thou shalt bring the\nrobber upon them suddenly: because they have digged a pit to take me,\nand have hid snares for my feet.\n\n18:23. But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto\ndeath: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out\nfrom thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of\nthy wrath do thou destroy them.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 19\n\nUnder the type of breaking a potter\u2019s vessel, the prophet foresheweth\nthe desolation of the Jews for their sins.\n\n19:1. Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter\u2019s earthen bottle, and\ntake of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests:\n\n19:2. And go forth into the valley of the son of Ennom, which is by the\nentry of the earthen gate: and there thou shalt proclaim the words that\nI shall tell thee.\n\n19:3. And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of\nJuda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts,\nthe God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place:\nso that whosoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:\n\n19:4. Because they have forsaken me, and have profaned this place: and\nhave sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom neither they nor their\nfathers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have filled this place\nwith the blood of innocents.\n\n19:5. And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their\nchildren with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command,\nnor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.\n\n19:6. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place\nshall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom,\nbut the valley of slaughter.\n\n19:7. And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this\nplace: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their\nenemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will\ngive their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the\nbeasts of the earth.\n\n19:8. And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every\none that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because\nof all the plagues thereof.\n\n19:9. And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the\nflesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his\nfriend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and\nthey that seek their lives, shall straiten them.\n\n19:10. And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that\nshall go with thee.\n\n19:11. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even\nso will I break this people, and this city, as the potter\u2019s vessel is\nbroken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in\nTopheth, because there is no other place to bury in.\n\n19:12. Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the\ninhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.\n\n19:13. And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda\nshall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose\nroofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured\nout drink offerings to strange gods.\n\n19:14. Then Jeremias came from Topheth, whither the Lord had sent him\nto prophesy, and he stood in the court of the house of the Lord, and\nsaid to all the people:\n\n19:15. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will\nbring in upon this city, and upon all the cities thereof all the evils\nthat I have spoken against it: because they have hardened their necks,\nthat they might not hear my words.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 20\n\nThe prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity to his persecutors,\nand bemoans himself.\n\n20:1. Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief\nin the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.\n\n20:2. And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in the\nstocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the\nLord.\n\n20:3. And when it was light the next day, Phassur brought Jeremias out\nof the stocks. And Jeremias said to him: The Lord hath not called thy\nname Phassur, but fear on every side.\n\nPhassur.... This name signifies increase and principality: and\ntherefore is here changed to Magor-Missabib, or fear on every side: to\ndenote the evils that should come upon him in punishment of his\nopposing the word of God.\n\n20:4. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver thee up to fear,\nthee and all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their\nenemies, and thy eyes shall see it, and I will give all Juda into the\nhand of the king of Babylon: and he shall carry them away to Babylon,\nand shall strike them with the sword.\n\n20:5. And I will give all the substance of this city, and all its\nlabour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the treasures of the\nkings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies: and they\nshall pillage them, and take them away, and carry them to Babylon.\n\n20:6. But thou Phassur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into\ncaptivity, and thou shalt go to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and\nthere thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends, to whom thou hast\nprophesied a lie.\n\n20:7. Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been\nstronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock\nall the day, all scoff at me.\n\nThou hast deceived, etc.... The meaning of the prophet, is not to\ncharge God with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the\nconcealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission,\nthe greatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was\nto bring upon him.\n\n20:8. For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against\niniquity, and I often proclaim devastation: and the word of the Lord is\nmade a reproach to me, and a derision all the day.\n\n20:9. Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more\nin his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in\nmy bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.\n\n20:10. For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side:\nPersecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my\nfamiliars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be\ndeceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.\n\n20:11. But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that\npersecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly\nconfounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach,\nwhich never shall be effaced.\n\n20:12. And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the just, who seest the\nreins and the heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them:\nfor to thee I have laid open my cause.\n\nLet me see, etc.... This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill will,\nbut zeal of justice.\n\n20:13. Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he hath delivered\nthe soul of the poor out of the hand of the wicked.\n\n20:14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which\nmy mother bore me, be blessed.\n\nCursed be the day, etc.... In these, and the following words of the\nprophet, there is a certain figure of speech to express with more\nenergy the greatness of the evils to which his birth had exposed him.\n\n20:15. Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying:\nA man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.\n\n20:16. Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown,\nand hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling\nat noontide:\n\n20:17. Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my\ngrave, and her womb an everlasting conception.\n\n20:18. Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that\nmy days should be spent in confusion?\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 21\n\nThe prophet\u2019s answer to the messengers of Sedecias, when Jerusalem was\nbesieged.\n\n21:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias\nsent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of\nMaasias the priest, saying:\n\n21:2. Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon\nmaketh war against us: if so be the Lord will deal with us according to\nall his wonderful works, that he may depart from us.\n\n21:3. And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you say to Sedecias:\n\n21:4. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold I will turn back\nthe weapons of war that are in your hands, and with which you fight\nagainst the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, that besiege you round\nabout the walls: and I will gather them together in the midst of this\ncity.\n\n21:5. And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand,\nand with a strong arm, and in fury, and in indignation, and in great\nwrath.\n\n21:6. And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts\nshall die of a great pestilence.\n\n21:7. And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of\nJuda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this\ncity from the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, into the hand\nof Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their\nenemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall\nstrike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to\npity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy to them.\n\n21:8. And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I\nset before you the way of life, and the way of death.\n\n21:9. He that shall abide in this city, shall die by the sword, and by\nthe famine, and by the pestilence: but he that shall go out and flee\nover to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, shall live, and his life shall\nbe to him as a spoil.\n\n21:10. For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for\ngood, saith the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of\nBabylon, and he shall burn it with fire.\n\n21:11. And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear ye the word of the\nLord,\n\n21:12. O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the\nmorning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand\nof the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be\nkindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your\nways.\n\n21:13. Behold I come to thee that dwellest in a valley upon a rock\nabove a plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall strike us and who\nshall enter into our houses?\n\nTo thee that dwellest, etc.... He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the\nstrength of her situation upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley.\n\n21:14. But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings,\nsaith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it\nshall devour all things round about it.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 22\n\nAn exhortation both to king and people to return of God. The sentence\nof God upon Joachaz, Joakim, and Jechonias.\n\n22:1. Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of the king of Juda,\nand there thou shalt speak this word,\n\nGo down, etc.... The contents of this chapter are of a more ancient\ndate than those of the foregoing chapter: for the order of time is not\nalways observed in the writings of the prophets.\n\n22:2. And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Juda, that\nsittest upon the throne of David: thou and thy servants, and thy\npeople, who enter in by these gates.\n\n22:3. Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver\nhim that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not\nthe stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly:\nand shed not innocent blood in this place.\n\n22:4. For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in\nby the gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his\nthrone, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants,\nand their people.\n\n22:5. But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself,\nsaith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.\n\n22:6. For thus saith the Lord to the house of the king of Juda: Thou\nart to me Galaad the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a\nwilderness, and cities not habitable.\n\nGalaad the head of Libanus.... By Galaad, a rich and fruitful country,\nis here signified the royal palace of the kings of the house of David:\nby Libanus, a high mountain abounding in cedar trees, the populous city\nof Jerusalem.\n\n22:7. And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons:\nand they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong\ninto the fire.\n\nPrepare.... Literally, sanctify.\n\n22:8. And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say\nevery man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great\ncity?\n\n22:9. And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of\nthe Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them.\n\n22:10. Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your tears:\nlament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his\nnative country.\n\nWeep not for him that is dead, etc.... He means the good king Josias,\nwho by death was taken away, so as not to see the miseries of his\ncountry.\u2014Ibid. Him that goeth away.... Viz., sellum, alias Joachaz, who\nwas carried captive into Egypt.\n\n22:11. For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son of Josias the king of\nJuda, who reigned instead of his father, who went forth out of this\nplace: He shall return hither no more:\n\n22:12. But in the place, to which I have removed him, there shall he\ndie, and he shall not see this land any more.\n\n22:13. Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his\nchambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause,\nand will not pay him his wages.\n\n22:14. Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who\nopeneth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth\nthem with vermilion.\n\n22:15. Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar?\ndid not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it\nwas then well with him?\n\n22:16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was\nit not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?\n\n22:17. But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon\nshedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil\nworks.\n\n22:18. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of\nJosias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother,\nand, Alas, sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord, or,\nAlas, the noble one.\n\n22:19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast\nforth without the gates of Jerusalem.\n\n22:20. Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy voice in Basan, and\ncry to them that pass by, for all thy lovers are destroyed.\n\n22:21. I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou saidst: I will not\nhear: this hath been thy way from thy youth, because thou hast not\nheard my voice.\n\n22:22. The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go\ninto captivity and then shalt thou be confounded, and ashamed of all\nthy wickedness.\n\n22:23. Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars,\nhow hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a\nwoman in labour?\n\n22:24. As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the\nking of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.\n\n22:25. And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life,\nand into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.\n\n22:26. And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a\nstrange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die:\n\n22:27. And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up\ntheir mind to return thither.\n\n22:28. Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a\nvessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed,\nand are cast into a land which they know not?\n\n22:29. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.\n\n22:30. Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not\nprosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that\nshall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.\n\nWrite this man barren.... That is, childless: not that he had no\nchildren, but that his children should never sit on the throne of Juda.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 23\n\nGod reproves evil governors; and promises to send good pastors; and\nChrist himself the prince of the pastors. He inveighs against false\nprophets preaching without being sent.\n\n23:1. Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my\npasture, saith the Lord.\n\n23:2. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors\nthat feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away,\nand have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of\nyour doings, saith the Lord.\n\n23:3. And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all\nthe lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return\nto their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.\n\n23:4. And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them:\nthey shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall\nbe wanting of their number, saith the Lord.\n\n23:5. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to\nDavid a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and\nshall execute judgment and justice in the earth.\n\n23:6. In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell\nconfidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord\nour just one.\n\n23:7. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and they shall\nsay no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out\nof the land of Egypt:\n\n23:8. But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither\nthe seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of\nall the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in\ntheir own land.\n\n23:9. To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones\ntremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at\nthe presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his holy words.\n\n23:10. Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath\nmourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up:\nand their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.\n\n23:11. For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I\nhave found their wickedness, saith the Lord.\n\n23:12. Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for\nthey shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon\nthem, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.\n\n23:13. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they\nprophesied in Baal and deceived my people Israel.\n\n23:14. And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying\nin the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the\nwicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all\nbecome unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.\n\n23:15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I\nwill feed them with wormwood, and will give them gall to drink: for\nfrom the prophets of Jerusalem corruption is gone forth into all the\nland.\n\n23:16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the\nprophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of\ntheir own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.\n\n23:17. They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You\nshall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of\nhis own heart, they have said: No evil shall come upon you.\n\n23:18. For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and\nheard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?\n\n23:19. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord\u2019s indignation shall come forth,\nand a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.\n\n23:20. The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and\ntill he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you\nshall understand his counsel.\n\n23:21. I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to\nthem, yet they prophesied.\n\n23:22. If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to\nmy people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from\ntheir wicked doings.\n\n23:23. Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God\nafar off?\n\n23:24. Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith\nthe Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?\n\n23:25. I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my\nname, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.\n\n23:26. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that\nprophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?\n\n23:27. Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams,\nwhich they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my\nname for Baal.\n\n23:28. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that\nhath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to\ndo with the wheat, saith the Lord?\n\n23:29. Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that\nbreaketh the rock in pieces?\n\n23:30. Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who\nsteal my words every one from his neighbour.\n\n23:31. Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their\ntongues, and say: The Lord saith it.\n\n23:32. Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith\nthe Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and\nby their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have\nnot profited this people at all, saith the Lord.\n\n23:33. If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall\nask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to\nthem: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.\n\n23:34. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that\nshall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon\nhis house.\n\nBurden of the Lord.... This expression is here rejected and disallowed,\nat least for those times: because it was then used in mockery and\ncontempt by the false prophets, and unbelieving people, who ridiculed\nthe repeated threats of Jeremias under the name of his burdens.\n\n23:35. Thus shall you say every one to his neighbour, and to his\nbrother, What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?\n\n23:36. And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every\nman\u2019s word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the\nliving God, of the Lord of hosts our God.\n\n23:37. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered\nthee? and what hath the Lord spoken?\n\n23:38. But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus\nsaith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the\nLord: and I have sent to you, saying: Say not, The burden of the Lord:\n\n23:39. Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will\nforsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out\nof my presence.\n\nOut of my presence.... That is, the Lord declares that out of his\npresence he will cast them, and bring them to captivity for their\ntransgressions.\n\n23:40. And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a\nperpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 24\n\nUnder the type of good and bad figs, he foretells the restoration of\nthe Jews that had been carried away captive with Jechonias, and the\ndesolation of those that were left behind.\n\n24:1. The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set\nbefore the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of\nBabylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda,\nand his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and\nhad brought them to Babylon.\n\n24:2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season:\nand the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten,\nbecause they were bad.\n\n24:3. And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said:\nFigs, the good figs, very good: and the bad figs, very bad, which\ncannot be eaten because they are bad.\n\n24:4. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n24:5. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so\nwill I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this\nplace into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.\n\n24:6. And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring\nthem again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them\ndown: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.\n\n24:7. And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and\nthey shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall\nreturn to me with their whole heart.\n\n24:8. And as the very bad figs, that cannot be eaten, because they are\nbad: thus saith the Lord: So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and\nhis princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have remained in this\ncity, and that dwell in the land of Egypt.\n\n24:9. And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all\nthe kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a\nproverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them\nout.\n\n24:10. And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the\npestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them,\nand their fathers.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 25\n\nThe prophet foretells the seventy years captivity; after that the\ndestruction of Babylon, and other nations.\n\n25:1. The word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda,\nin the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, (the same\nis the first year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,)\n\n25:2. Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all the people of Juda, and\nto all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:\n\n25:3. From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda\nuntil this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the\nLord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and\nspeaking, and you have not hearkened.\n\n25:4. And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets,\nrising early, and sending, and you have not hearkened, nor inclined\nyour ears to hear.\n\n25:5. When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from\nyour wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord\nhath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.\n\n25:6. And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore them: nor\nprovoke me to wrath by the works of your hands, and I will not afflict\nyou.\n\n25:7. And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke\nme to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.\n\n25:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not\nheard my words:\n\n25:9. Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith\nthe Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will\nbring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and\nagainst all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy\nthem, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual\ndesolations.\n\nMy servant.... So this wicked king is here called; because God made him\nhis instrument in punishing the sins of his people.\n\n25:10. And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice\nof gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,\nthe sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.\n\n25:11. And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment:\nand all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.\n\n25:12. And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the\nking of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity,\nand the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual\ndesolations.\n\nPunish.... Literally, visit upon.\n\n25:13. And I will bring upon that land all my words, that I have spoken\nagainst it, all that is written in this book, all that Jeremias hath\nprophesied against all nations:\n\n25:14. For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and\ngreat kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and\naccording to the works of their hands.\n\n25:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup\nof wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to\ndrink thereof, into which I shall send thee.\n\n25:16. And they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad because of the\nsword, which I shall send among them.\n\n25:17. And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it\nto all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me:\n\n25:18. To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings\nthereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an\nastonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.\n\n25:19. Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and\nall his people,\n\n25:20. And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and\nall the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza,\nand Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.\n\n25:21. And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.\n\n25:22. And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon: and the\nkings of the land of the islands that are beyond the sea.\n\n25:23. And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all that have their hair cut\nround.\n\n25:24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the west, that\ndwell in the desert.\n\n25:25. And all the kings of Zambri, and all the kings of Elam, and all\nthe kings of the Medes:\n\n25:26. And all the kings of the north far and near, every one against\nhis brother: and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face\nthereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after them.\n\nSesac.... That is, Babel, or Babylon; which after bringing all these\npeople under her yoke, should quickly fall and be destroyed herself.\n\n25:27. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God\nof Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no\nmore, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.\n\n25:28. And if they refuse to take the cup at thy hand to drink, thou\nshalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall\ndrink:\n\n25:29. For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is\ncalled upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall\nnot escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants\nof the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n25:30. And thou shalt prophesy unto them all these words, and thou\nshalt say to them: The Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter\nhis voice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall roar upon the\nplace of his beauty: the shout as it were of them that tread grapes\nshall be given out against all the inhabitants of the earth.\n\n25:31. The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord\nentereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with\nall flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord.\n\n25:32. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil shall go forth from\nnation to nation: and a great whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of\nthe earth.\n\n25:33. And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of\nthe earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented,\nand they shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung\nupon the face of the earth.\n\n25:34. Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes,\nye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your\ndispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels.\n\n25:35. And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of\nthe flock to save themselves.\n\n25:36. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the\nprincipal of the flock: because the Lord hath wasted their pastures.\n\n25:37. And the fields of peace have been silent because of the fierce\nanger of the Lord.\n\n25:38. He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for the land is laid\nwaste because of the wrath of the dove, and because of the fierce anger\nof the Lord.\n\nThe dove.... This is commonly understood of Nabuchodonosor, whose\nmilitary standard, it is said, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah,\nwhich is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or oppressor,\nwhich name better agrees to that unmerciful prince; or by comparison,\nas a dove\u2019s flight is the swiftest, so would their destruction come\nupon them.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 26\n\nThe prophet is apprehended and accused by the priests: but discharged\nby the princes.\n\n26:1. In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of\nJuda, came this word from the Lord, saying:\n\n26:2. Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of the house of the Lord,\nand speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore\nin the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to\nspeak unto them: leave not out one word.\n\n26:3. If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his\nevil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them\nfor the wickedness of their doings.\n\n26:4. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not\nhearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:\n\n26:5. To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent\nto you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened:\n\n26:6. I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a\ncurse to all the nations of the earth.\n\n26:7. And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard\nJeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.\n\n26:8. And when Jeremias had made an end of speaking all that the Lord\nhad commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests, and the\nprophets, and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put\nto death.\n\n26:9. Why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: This\nhouse shall be like Silo; and this city shall be made desolate, without\nan inhabitant? And all the people were gathered together against\nJeremias in the house of the Lord.\n\n26:10. And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went up from\nthe king\u2019s house into the house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of\nthe new gate of the house of the Lord.\n\n26:11. And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to\nall the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because\nhe hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.\n\n26:12. Then Jeremias spoke to all the princes, and to all the people,\nsaying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and\nconcerning this city all the words that you have heard.\n\n26:13. Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to\nthe voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will repent him of the\nevil that he hath spoken against you.\n\n26:14. But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what is\ngood and right in your eyes:\n\n26:15. But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you\nwill shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this\ncity, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to\nyou, to speak all these words in your hearing.\n\n26:16. Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests, and to\nthe prophets: There is no judgment of death for this man: for he hath\nspoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.\n\n26:17. And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they spoke to\nall the assembly of the people, saying:\n\n26:18. Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king\nof Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the\nLord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall\nbe a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of\nwoods.\n\n26:19. Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda, condemn him to death?\ndid they not fear the Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the\nLord repented of the evil that he had spoken against them? therefore we\nare doing a great evil against our souls.\n\n26:20. There was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord,\nUrias the son of Semei of Cariathiarim: and he prophesied against this\ncity, and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremias.\n\n26:21. And Joakim, and all his men in power, and his princes heard\nthese words: and the king sought to put him to death. And Urias heard\nit, and was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.\n\n26:22. And king Joakim sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of\nAchobor, and men with him into Egypt.\n\n26:23. And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and brought him to king\nJoakim, and he slew him with the sword: and he cast his dead body into\nthe graves of the common people.\n\n26:24. So the hand of Ahicam the son of Saphan was with Jeremias, that\nhe should not be delivered into the hands of the people, to put him to\ndeath.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 27\n\nThe prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must\nbend their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon. The vessels of\nthe temple shall not be brought back till all the rest are carried\naway.\n\n27:1. In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of\nJuda, this word came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\nJoakim.... This revelation was made to the prophet in the beginning of\nthe reign of Joakim: but the bands were not sent to the princes here\nnamed before the reign of Sedecias, ver. 3.\n\n27:2. Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou\nshalt put them on thy neck.\n\n27:3. And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of\nMoab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of\nTyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are\ncome to Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda.\n\n27:4. And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters: Thus saith\nthe Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your\nmasters:\n\n27:5. I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the\nface of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and\nI have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.\n\n27:6. And now I have given all these lands into the hand of\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of\nthe field I have given him to serve him.\n\n27:7. And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son\u2019s son:\ntill the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great\nkings shall serve him.\n\nHis son.... Viz., Evilmerodach; and his son\u2019s son, Nabonydus, or\nNabonadius, the Baltassar of Daniel, chap. 5., and the last of the\nChaldean kings.\n\n27:8. But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of\nthe king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and\nwith famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them\nby his hand.\n\n27:9. Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and\ndreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall\nnot serve the king of Babylon.\n\n27:10. For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your\ncountry, and cast you out, and to make you perish.\n\n27:11. But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the yoke of\nthe king of Babylon, and shall serve him: I will let them remain in\ntheir own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in\nit.\n\n27:12. And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these\nwords, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of\nBabylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.\n\n27:13. Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by\nfamine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the\nnation that will not serve the king of Babylon?\n\n27:14. Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you: You\nshall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie.\n\n27:15. For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy in\nmy name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both you,\nand the prophets that prophesy to you.\n\n27:16. I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that\nprophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a\nshort time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto\nyou.\n\n27:17. Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon,\nthat you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?\n\n27:18. But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them:\nlet them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the\nvessels which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of\nthe king of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.\n\n27:19. For thus saith the Lord of hosts to the pillars, and to the sea,\nand to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in this\ncity:\n\n27:20. Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he\ncarried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from\nJerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n27:21. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to the\nvessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the\nking of Juda and Jerusalem:\n\n27:22. They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until\nthe day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to\nbe brought, and to be restored in this place.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 28\n\nThe false prophecy of Hananias: he dies that same year, as Jeremias\nforetold.\n\n28:1. And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign\nof Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that\nHananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house\nof the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:\n\n28:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the\nyoke of the king of Babylon.\n\n28:3. As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the\nhouse of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried\nthem to Babylon.\n\n28:4. And I will bring back to this place Jechonias the son of Joakim\nking of Juda, and all the captives of Juda, that are gone to Babylon,\nsaith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.\n\n28:5. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet in the\npresence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that\nstood in the house of the Lord:\n\n28:6. And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the Lord do so: the Lord\nperform thy words, which thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be\nbrought again into the house of the Lord, and all the captives may\nreturn out of Babylon to this place.\n\n28:7. Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in thy ears, and in the\nears of all the people:\n\n28:8. The prophets that have been before me, and before thee from the\nbeginning, and have prophesied concerning many countries, and\nconcerning great kingdoms, of war, and of affliction, and of famine.\n\n28:9. The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to\npass, the prophet shall be known, whom the Lord hath sent in truth.\n\n28:10. And Hananias the prophet took the chain from the neck of\nJeremias the prophet, and broke it.\n\n28:11. And Hananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying:\nThus saith the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor\nthe king of Babylon after two full years from off the neck of all the\nnations.\n\n28:12. And Jeremias the prophet went his way. And the word of the Lord\ncame to Jeremias, after that Hananias the prophet had broken the chain\nfrom off the neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying:\n\n28:13. Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken\nchains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron.\n\n28:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put a\nyoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, to serve\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover also\nI have given him the beasts of the earth.\n\n28:15. And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias the prophet: Hear now,\nHananias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and thou hast made this people\nto trust in a lie.\n\n28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from\noff the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast\nspoken against the Lord.\n\n28:17. And Hananias the prophet died in that year, in the seventh\nmonth.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 29\n\nJeremias writeth to the captives in Babylon, exhorting them to be easy\nthere, and not to hearken to false prophets. That they shall be\ndelivered after seventy years. But those that remain in Jerusalem shall\nperish by the sword, famine, and pestilence. And that Achab, Sedecias,\nand Semeias, false prophets, shall die miserably.\n\n29:1. Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias the prophet\nsent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried\ninto captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the\npeople, whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:\n\n29:2. After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs,\nand the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the\nengravers were departed out of Jerusalem:\n\n29:3. By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the son of\nHelcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon, saying:\n\n29:4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are\ncarried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from\nJerusalem to Babylon:\n\n29:5. Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat\nthe fruit of them.\n\n29:6. Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for\nyour sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons\nand daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.\n\n29:7. And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be\ncarried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace\nthereof shall be your peace.\n\n29:8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Let not your\nprophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you:\nand give no heed to your dreams which you dream:\n\n29:9. For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent\nthem, saith the Lord.\n\n29:10. For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to\nbe accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my\ngood word in your favour, to bring you again to this place.\n\n29:11. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the\nLord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and\npatience.\n\n29:12. And you shall call upon me, and you shall go: and you shall pray\nto me, and I will hear you.\n\n29:13. You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me\nwith all your heart.\n\n29:14. And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring\nback your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from\nall the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I\nwill bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried\naway captive.\n\n29:15. Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in\nBabylon:\n\n29:16. For thus saith the Lord to the king that sitteth upon the throne\nof David, and to all the people that dwell in this city, to your\nbrethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity.\n\n29:17. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will send upon them the\nsword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and I will make them like\nbad figs that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.\n\n29:18. And I will persecute them with the sword, and with famine, and\nwith the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the\nkingdoms of the earth: to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a\nhissing, and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them\nout:\n\n29:19. Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord:\nwhich I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising by night, and\nsending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord.\n\n29:20. Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity,\nwhom I have sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon.\n\n29:21. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to Achab the son\nof Colias, and to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you in\nmy name falsely: Behold I will deliver them up into the hands of\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your\neyes.\n\n29:22. And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of\nJuda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias,\nand like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire:\n\n29:23. Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed\nadultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words\nin my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n29:24. And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt say:\n\n29:25. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because thou\nhast sent letters in thy name to all the people that are in Jerusalem,\nand to Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to all the priests,\nsaying:\n\n29:26. The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest,\nthat thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man\nthat raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.\n\n29:27. And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who\nprophesieth to you?\n\n29:28. For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long\ntime: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat\nthe fruits of them.\n\n29:29. So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing of\nJeremias the prophet.\n\n29:30. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n29:31. Send to all them of the captivity, saying: Thus saith the Lord\nto Semeias the Nehelamite: Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and\nI sent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a lie:\n\n29:32. Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias\nthe Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in\nthe midst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do\nto my people, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against\nthe Lord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 30\n\nGod will deliver his people from their captivity: Christ shall be their\nking: and his church shall be glorious for ever.\n\n30:1. This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n30:2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all\nthe words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.\n\n30:3. For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again\nthe captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will\ncause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and\nthey shall possess it.\n\n30:4. And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and\nto Juda:\n\n30:5. For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there\nis fear and no peace.\n\n30:6. Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen\nevery man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all\nfaces are turned yellow?\n\n30:7. Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and\nit is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of\nit.\n\n30:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,\nthat I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands:\nand strangers shall no more rule over him:\n\n30:9. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king,\nwhom I will raise up to them.\n\nDavid.... That is, Christ of the house of David.\n\n30:10. Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord,\nneither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a\ncountry afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and\nJacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things,\nand there shall be none whom he may fear:\n\n30:11. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will\nutterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but\nI will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment,\nthat thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.\n\n30:12. For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is\nvery grievous.\n\n30:13. There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no\nhealing medicines.\n\n30:14. All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after\nthee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel\nchastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins\nare hardened.\n\n30:15. Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for\nthe multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done\nthese things to thee.\n\n30:16. Therefore all they that devour thee, shall be devoured: and all\nthy enemies shall be carried into captivity: and they that waste thee\nshall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.\n\n30:17. For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds,\nsaith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This\nis she that hath none to seek after her.\n\n30:18. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring back the captivity of\nthe pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city\nshall be built in her high place, and the temple shall be founded\naccording to the order thereof.\n\n30:19. And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them\nthat play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few:\nand I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.\n\n30:20. And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their\nassembly shall be permanent before me: and I will visit against all\nthat afflict them.\n\n30:21. And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall\ncome forth from the midst of them: and I will bring him near, and he\nshall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to\nme, saith the Lord?\n\n30:22. And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.\n\n30:23. Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a\nviolent storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked.\n\n30:24. The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till\nhe have executed and performed the thought of his heart: in the latter\ndays you shall understand these things.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 31\n\nThe restoration of Israel. Rachel shall cease from morning. The new\ncovenant. The church shall never fail.\n\n31:1. At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the\nfamilies of Israel, and they shall be my people.\n\n31:2. Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from\nthe sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.\n\n31:3. The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee\nwith an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on\nthee.\n\n31:4. And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of\nIsrael: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go\nforth in the dances of them that make merry.\n\n31:5. Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the\nplanters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the\ntime.\n\n31:6. For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim,\nshall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.\n\n31:7. For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob, and\nneigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say:\nSave, O Lord, thy people, the remnant of Israel.\n\n31:8. Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather\nthem from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and\nthe lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth,\ntogether, a great company of them returning hither.\n\n31:9. They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in\nmercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right\nway, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and\nEphraim is my firstborn.\n\n31:10. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the\nislands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will\ngather him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.\n\n31:11. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of the\nhand of one that was mightier than he.\n\n31:12. And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and\nthey shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn,\nand wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul\nshall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.\n\n31:13. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and\nold men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will\ncomfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.\n\n31:14. And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my\npeople shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.\n\n31:15. Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation,\nof mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and\nrefusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.\n\n31:16. Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy\neyes from tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord:\nand they shall return out of the land of the enemy.\n\n31:17. And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the\nchildren shall return to their own borders.\n\n31:18. Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast\nchastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to\nthe yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord\nmy God.\n\n31:19. For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou\ndidst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed,\nbecause I have borne the reproach of my youth.\n\n31:20. Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender\nchild: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore\nare my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the\nLord.\n\n31:21. Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy\nheart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of\nIsrael, return to these thy cities.\n\n31:22. How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering\ndaughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN\nSHALL COMPASS A MAN.\n\n31:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall\nthey say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when\nI shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of\njustice, the holy mountain.\n\n31:24. And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the\nhusbandmen and they that drive the flocks.\n\n31:25. For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every\nhungry soul.\n\n31:26. Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and\nmy sleep was sweet to me.\n\n31:27. Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house\nof Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed\nof beasts.\n\n31:28. And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down,\nand to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to\nbuild up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.\n\n31:29. In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a\nsour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.\n\n31:30. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that\nshall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.\n\n31:31. Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a\nnew covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:\n\n31:32. Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers,\nin the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land\nof Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over\nthem, saith the Lord.\n\n31:33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house\nof Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in\ntheir bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their\nGod, and they shall be my people.\n\n31:34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every\nman his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the\nleast of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive\ntheir iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.\n\n31:35. Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the\nday, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the\nnight: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of\nhosts is his name.\n\n31:36. If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then\nalso the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me\nfor ever.\n\n31:37. Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and\nthe foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast\naway all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the\nLord.\n\n31:38. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be\nbuilt to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the\ncorner.\n\n31:39. And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon\nthe hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,\n\n31:40. And the whole valley of dead bodies, and of ashes, and all the\ncountry of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the\nhorse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be\nplucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 32\n\nJeremias by God\u2019s commandment purchases a field of his kinsman: and\nprophesies the return of the people out of captivity: and the\neverlasting covenant God will make with his church.\n\n32:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of\nSedecias king of Juda: the same is the eighteenth year of\nNabuchodonosor.\n\n32:2. At that time the army of the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem:\nand Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which\nwas in the house of the king of Juda.\n\n32:3. For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou\nprophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city\ninto the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?\n\n32:4. And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape out of the hand of the\nChaldeans: but he shall be delivered into the hands of the king of\nBabylon: and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall\nsee his eyes.\n\n32:5. And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and he shall be there till\nI visit him, saith the Lord. But if you will fight against the\nChaldeans, you shall have no success.\n\n32:6. And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n32:7. Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee,\nsaying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to\nbuy it, being next akin.\n\n32:8. And Hanameel my uncle\u2019s son came to me, according to the word of\nthe Lord, to the entry of the prison, and said to me: Buy my field,\nwhich is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the right of\ninheritance is thine, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I\nunderstood that this was the word of the Lord.\n\n32:9. And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle\u2019s son, that is in\nAnathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of\nsilver.\n\n32:10. And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and\nI weighed him the money in the balances.\n\n32:11. And I took the deed of the purchase that was sealed, and the\nstipulations, and the ratifications with the seals that were on the\noutside.\n\n32:12. And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neri\nthe son of Maasias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle\u2019s son, in the\npresence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, and\nbefore all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.\n\n32:13. And I charged Baruch before them, saying:\n\n32:14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take these\nwritings, this deed of the purchase that is sealed up, and this deed\nthat is open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue\nmany days.\n\n32:15. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Houses, and\nfields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.\n\n32:16. And after I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch the son\nof Neri, I prayed to the Lord, saying:\n\n32:17. Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and\nearth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be\nhard to thee:\n\n32:18. Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of\nthe fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty,\ngreat, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.\n\n32:19. Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes\nare open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto\nevery one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his\ndevices.\n\n32:20. Who hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even until\nthis day, and in Israel, and amongst men, and hast made thee a name as\nat this day.\n\n32:21. And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of\nEgypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a\nstretched out arm, and with great terror.\n\n32:22. And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their\nfathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.\n\n32:23. And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy\nvoice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those\nthings that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come\nupon them.\n\n32:24. Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the\ncity is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by\nthe sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast\nspoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.\n\n32:25. And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money, and\ntake witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the\nChaldeans?\n\n32:26. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n32:27. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: shall any thing be\nhard for me?\n\n32:28. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver this city\ninto the hands of the Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of\nBabylon, and they shall take it.\n\n32:29. And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and\nset it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they\noffered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange\ngods, to provoke me to wrath.\n\n32:30. For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have\ncontinually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of\nIsrael who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n32:31. For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from\nthe day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken\nout of my sight.\n\n32:32. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the\nchildren of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and\ntheir kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the\nmen of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n32:33. And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces:\nwhen I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they\nwould not hearken to receive instruction.\n\n32:34. And they have set their idols in the house, in which my name is\ncalled upon, to defile it.\n\n32:35. And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the\nvalley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their\ndaughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it\ninto my heart, that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to\nsin.\n\n32:36. And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to\nthis city, whereof you say that it shall be delivered into the hands of\nthe king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence:\n\n32:37. Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which\nI have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great\nindignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will\ncause them to dwell securely.\n\n32:38. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.\n\n32:39. And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear\nme all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children\nafter them.\n\n32:40. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not\ncease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that\nthey may not revolt from me.\n\n32:41. And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I\nwill plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with\nall my soul.\n\n32:42. For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all\nthis great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now\nspeak to them.\n\n32:43. And fields shall be purchased in this land: whereof you say that\nit is desolate, because there remaineth neither man nor beast, and it\nis given into the hands of the Chaldeans.\n\n32:44. Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be written,\nand sealed, and witnesses shall be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and\nround about Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in the cities on the\nmountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are\ntowards the south: for I will bring back their captivity, saith the\nLord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 33\n\nGod promises reduction from captivity, and other blessings: especially\nthe coming of Christ, whose reign in his church shall be glorious and\nperpetual.\n\n33:1. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, while\nhe was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying:\n\n33:2. Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will form it, and prepare\nit, the Lord is his name.\n\n33:3. Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great\nthings, and sure things which thou knowest not.\n\n33:4. For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of this\ncity, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which are destroyed, and\nto the bulwarks, and to the sword.\n\n33:5. Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them\nwith the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and in\nmy indignation, hiding my face from this city because of all their\nwickedness.\n\n33:6. Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will\ncure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.\n\nThe prayer of peace.... That is, the peace and welfare which they pray\nfor.\n\n33:7. And I will bring back the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of\nJerusalem: and I will build them as from the beginning.\n\n33:8. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they\nhave sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities,\nwhereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.\n\n33:9. And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and a praise, and a\ngladness before all the nations of the earth, that shall hear of all\nthe good things which I will do to them: and they shall fear and be\ntroubled for all the good things, and for all the peace that I will\nmake for them.\n\n33:10. Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard again in this place\n(which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast: in\nthe cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are desolate without\nman, and without inhabitant, and without beast)\n\n33:11. The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the\nbridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall\nsay: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his\nmercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into\nthe house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land\nas at the first, saith the Lord.\n\n33:12. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place\nthat is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities\nthereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.\n\n33:13. And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the\nplains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land\nof Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall\nthe flocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n33:14. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform the\ngood word that I have spoken to the house of Israel, and to the house\nof Juda.\n\n33:15. In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice\nto spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the\nearth.\n\n33:16. In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell\nsecurely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our\njust one.\n\n33:17. For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a\nman to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.\n\nThere shall not be cut off from David, etc.... This was verified in\nChrist, who is of the house of David; and whose kingdom in his church\nshall have no end.\n\n33:18. Neither shall there be cut off from the priests and Levites a\nman before my face to offer holocausts, and to burn sacrifices, and to\nkill victims continually.\n\nNeither shall there be cut off from the priests, etc.... This promise\nrelates to the Christian priesthood; which shall also continue for\never: the functions of which (more especially the great sacrifice of\nthe altar) are here expressed by the name of holocausts, and other\nofferings of the law, which were so many figures of the Christian\nsacrifice.\n\n33:19. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n33:20. Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made\nvoid, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and\nnight in their season:\n\n33:21. Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void, that he\nshould not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites\nand priests my ministers.\n\n33:22. As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the\nsea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and\nthe Levites my ministers.\n\n33:23. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n33:24. Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two\nfamilies which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have\ndespised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?\n\nTwo families, etc.... Viz., the families of the kings and priests.\n\n33:25. Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day\nand night, and laws to heaven and earth:\n\n33:26. Surely I will also cast off the seed of Jacob, and of David my\nservant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers of the seed of\nAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their captivity, and\nwill have mercy on them.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 34\n\nThe prophet foretells that Sedecias shall fall into the hands of\nNabuchodonosor: God\u2019s sentence upon the princes and people that had\nbroken his covenant.\n\n34:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth,\nthat were under the power of his hand, and all the people fought\nagainst Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof, saying:\n\n34:2. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to Sedecias\nking of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will\ndeliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall\nburn it with fire.\n\n34:3. And thou shalt not escape out of his hand: but thou shalt surely\nbe taken, and thou shalt be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes shall\nsee the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak with thy\nmouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.\n\n34:4. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda: Thus\nsaith the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword.\n\n34:5. But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy\nfathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn\nthee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have\nspoken the word, saith the Lord.\n\nDie in peace.... That is, by a natural death.\n\n34:6. And Jeremias the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias the\nking of Juda in Jerusalem.\n\n34:7. And the army of the king of Babylon fought against Jerusalem, and\nagainst all the cities of Juda that were left, against Lachis, and\nagainst Azecha: for these remained of the cities of Juda, fenced\ncities.\n\n34:8. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that king\nSedecias had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem making a\nproclamation:\n\n34:9. That every man should let his manservant, and every man his\nmaidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that\nthey should not lord it over them, to wit, over the Jews their\nbrethren.\n\n34:10. And all the princes, and all the people who entered into the\ncovenant, heard that every man should let his manservant, and every man\nhis maidservant go free, and should no more have dominion over them:\nand they obeyed, and let them go free.\n\n34:11. But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their\nservants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought\nthem into subjection as menservants and maidservants.\n\n34:12. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:\n\n34:13. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with\nyour fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,\nout of the house of bondage, saying:\n\n34:14. At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being\na Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years:\nand thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not\nhearken to me, nor did they incline their ear.\n\n34:15. And you turned to day, and did that which was right in my eyes,\nin proclaiming liberty every one to his brother: and you made a\ncovenant in my sight, in the house upon which my name is invocated.\n\n34:16. And you are fallen back, and have defiled my name: and you have\nbrought back again every man his manservant, and every man his\nmaidservant, whom you had let go free, and set at liberty: and you have\nbrought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.\n\n34:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to me, in\nproclaiming liberty every man to his brother and every man to his\nfriend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the\nsword, to the pestilence, and to the famine: and I will cause you to be\nremoved to all the kingdoms of the earth.\n\n34:18. And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, and\nhave not performed the words of the covenant which they agreed to in my\npresence, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts\nthereof:\n\n34:19. The princes of Juda, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,\nand the priests, and all the people of the land that passed between the\nparts of the calf:\n\n34:20. And I will give them into the hands of their enemies, and into\nthe hands of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be\nfor meat to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth.\n\n34:21. And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his princes, I will give into\nthe hands of their enemies, and into the hands of them that seek their\nlives, and into the hands of the armies of the king of Babylon, which\nare gone from you.\n\n34:22. Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and I will bring them\nagain to this city, and they shall fight against it, and take it, and\nburn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Juda a desolation,\nwithout an inhabitant.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 35\n\nThe obedience of the Rechabites condemns the disobedience of the Jews.\nThe reward of the Rechabites.\n\n35:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days of\nJoakim the son of Josias king of Juda, saying:\n\n35:2. Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring\nthem into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the\ntreasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.\n\nRechabites.... These were of the race of Jethro, father in law to\nMoses.\n\n35:3. And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the son of Habsanias, and\nhis brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.\n\n35:4. And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure\nhouse of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which\nwas by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias\nthe son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.\n\n35:5. And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots\nfull of wine, and cups: and I said to them: Drink ye wine.\n\n35:6. And they answered: We will not drink wine: because Jonadab the\nson of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying: You shall drink no\nwine, neither you, nor your children, for ever:\n\n35:7. Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards,\nnor have any: but you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you may\nlive many days upon the face of the earth, in which you are strangers.\n\n35:8. Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,\nour father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine\nall our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our\ndaughters:\n\n35:9. Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have vineyard, or field,\nor seed:\n\n35:10. But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to\nall that Jonadab our father commanded us.\n\n35:11. But when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up to our land, we\nsaid: Come, let us go into Jerusalem from the face of the army of the\nChaldeans, and from the face of the army of Syria: and we have remained\nin Jerusalem.\n\n35:12. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:\n\n35:13. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to\nthe men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not\nreceive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord?\n\n35:14. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, by which he commanded\nhis sons not to drink wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none to\nthis day, because they have obeyed the commandment of their father: but\nI have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you have not\nobeyed me.\n\n35:15. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising\nearly, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way,\nand make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them,\nand you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and\nyou have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.\n\n35:16. So the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have constantly kept\nthe commandment of their father, which he commanded them: but this\npeople hath not obeyed me.\n\n35:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will bring upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all\nthe evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to\nthem, and they have not heard: I have called to them, and they have not\nanswered me.\n\n35:18. And Jeremias said to the house of the Rechabites: Thus saith the\nLord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the\ncommandment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all his precepts, and\nhave done all that he commanded you:\n\n35:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: There\nshall not be wanting a man of the race of Jonadab the son of Rechab,\nstanding before me for ever.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 36\n\nJeremias sends Baruch to read his prophecies in the temple; the book is\nbrought to king Joakim, who burns it. The prophet denounces his\njudgment, and causes Baruch to write a new copy.\n\n36:1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim the son of\nJosias king of Juda, that this word came to Jeremias by the Lord,\nsaying:\n\n36:2. Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the\nwords that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against\nall the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of\nJosias even to this day.\n\n36:3. If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear all the evils that I\npurpose to do unto them, that they may return every man from his wicked\nway: and I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.\n\n36:4. So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and Baruch wrote\nfrom the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he spoke to\nhim, upon the roll of a book.\n\n36:5. And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying: I am shut up, and cannot\ngo into the house of the Lord.\n\nShut up.... Not that the prophet was now in prison; for the contrary\nappears from ver. 19, but that he kept himself shut up, by reason of\nthe persecutions he had lately met with. See chap. 26.\n\n36:6. Go thou in therefore, and read out of the volume, which thou hast\nwritten from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of all the\npeople in the house of the Lord on the fasting day: and also thou shalt\nread them in the hearing of all Juda that come out of their cities:\n\n36:7. If so be they may present their supplication before the Lord, and\nmay return every one from his wicked way: for great is the wrath and\nindignation which the Lord hath pronounced against this people.\n\n36:8. And Baruch the son of Nerias did according to all that Jeremias\nthe prophet had commanded him, reading out of the volume the words of\nthe Lord in the house of the Lord.\n\n36:9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Joakim the son of Josias\nking of Juda, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before\nthe Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that\nwere come together out of the cities of Juda to Jerusalem.\n\n36:10. And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias in the\nhouse of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the\nscribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house\nof the Lord, in the hearing of all the people.\n\n36:11. And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan had heard\nout of the book all the words of the Lord,\n\n36:12. He went down into the king\u2019s house to the secretary\u2019s chamber:\nand behold all the princes sat there, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaias\nthe son of Semeias, and Elnathan the son of Achobor, and Gamarias the\nson of Saphan, and Sedecias the son of Hananias, and all the princes.\n\n36:13. And Micheas told them all the words that he had heard when\nBaruch read out of the volume in the hearing of the people.\n\n36:14. Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son of Nathanias, the\nson of Selemias, the son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying: Take in thy hand\nthe volume in which thou hast read in the hearing of the people, and\ncome. So Baruch the son of Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came\nto them.\n\n36:15. And they said to him: Sit down and read these things in our\nhearing. And Baruch read in their hearing.\n\n36:16. And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon one\nanother with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell the\nking all these words.\n\n36:17. And they asked him, saying: Tell us how didst thou write all\nthese words from his mouth.\n\n36:18. And Baruch said to them: With his mouth he pronounced all these\nwords as if he were reading to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink.\n\n36:19. And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and hide thee, both thou and\nJeremias, and let no man know where you are.\n\n36:20. And they went in to the king into the court: but they laid up\nthe volume in the chamber of Elisama the scribe: and they told all the\nwords in the hearing of the king.\n\n36:21. And the king sent Judi that he should take the volume: who\nbringing it out of the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read it in the\nhearing of the king, and of all the princes that stood about the king.\n\n36:22. Now the king sat in the winter house, in the ninth month: and\nthere was a hearth before him full of burning coals.\n\n36:23. And when Judi had read three or four pages, he cut it with the\npenknife, and he cast it into the fire, that was upon the hearth, till\nall the volume was consumed with the fire that was on the hearth.\n\n36:24. And the king and all his servants that heard all these words\nwere not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.\n\n36:25. But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the king,\nnot to burn the book: and he heard them not.\n\n36:26. And the king commanded Jeremiel the son of Amelech, and Saraias\nthe son of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch\nthe scribe, and Jeremias the prophet: but the Lord hid them.\n\n36:27. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, after\nthat the king had burnt the volume, and the words that Baruch had\nwritten from the mouth of Jeremias, saying:\n\n36:28. Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former\nwords that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda hath\nburnt.\n\n36:29. And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the\nLord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written\ntherein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall\nlay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and\nbeast?\n\n36:30. Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of Juda:\nHe shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body\nshall be cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night.\n\nHe shall have none, etc.... Because his son Joachin or Jechonias,\nwithin three months after the death of his father, was carried away to\nBabylon, so that his reign is not worthy of notice.\n\n36:31. And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their\niniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of\nJerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced\nagainst them, but they have not heard.\n\n36:32. And Jeremias took another volume, and gave it to Baruch the son\nof Nerias the scribe: who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremias all\nthe words of the book which Joakim the king of Juda had burnt with\nfire: and there were added besides many more words than had been\nbefore.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 37\n\nJeremias prophesies that the Chaldeans, who had departed from\nJerusalem, would return and burn the city. He is cast into prison. His\nconference with Sedecias.\n\n37:1. Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned instead of Jechonias\nthe son of Joakim: whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in the\nland of Juda.\n\n37:2. But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land did\nobey the words of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias the\nprophet.\n\n37:3. And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias\nthe son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to\nthe Lord our God for us.\n\n37:4. Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people: for they\nhad not as yet cast him into prison. And the army of Pharao was come\nout of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem, hearing these\ntidings, departed from Jerusalem.\n\n37:5. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, saying:\n\n37:6. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the\nking of Juda, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold the army of Pharao,\nwhich is come forth to help you, shall return into their own land, into\nEgypt.\n\n37:7. And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city,\nand take it, and burn it with fire.\n\n37:8. Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The\nChaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not\ngo away.\n\n37:9. But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that\nfight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men:\nthey shall rise up, every man from his tent, and burn this city with\nfire.\n\n37:10. Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem,\nbecause of Pharao\u2019s army,\n\n37:11. Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of\nBenjamin: and to divide a possession there in the presence of the\ncitizens,\n\n37:12. And when he was come to the gate of Benjamin, the captain of the\ngate, who was there in his turn, was one named Jerias, the son of\nSelemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of Jeremias the\nprophet, saying: Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans.\n\n37:13. And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am not fleeing to the\nChaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and\nbrought him to the princes.\n\n37:14. Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they beat\nhim, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the\nscribe: for he was chief over the prison.\n\n37:15. So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the\ndungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.\n\n37:16. Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him: and asked him\nsecretly in his house, and said: Is there, thinkest thou, any word from\nthe Lord? And Jeremias said. There is. And he said: Thou shalt be\ndelivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.\n\n37:17. And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In what have I offended\nagainst thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me\ninto prison?\n\n37:18. Where are your prophets that prophesied to you, and said: The\nking of Babylon shall not come against you, and against this land?\n\n37:19. Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my\npetition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house\nof Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.\n\n37:20. Then king Sedecias commanded that Jeremias should be committed\ninto the entry of the prison: and that they should give him daily a\npiece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread in the city were\nspent: and Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 38\n\nThe prophet at the instance of the great men is cast into a filthy\ndungeon: he is drawn out by Abdemelech, and has another conference with\nthe king.\n\n38:1. Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of Phassur,\nand Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard\nthe words that Jeremias spoke to all the people, saying:\n\n38:2. Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shall remain in this city, shall\ndie by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: but he that shall\ngo forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and\nhe shall live.\n\n38:3. Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be delivered into the\nhand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.\n\n38:4. And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man\nmay be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men\nof war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking\nto them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to\nthis people, but evil.\n\n38:5. And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it is not\nlawful for the king to deny you any thing.\n\n38:6. Then they took Jeremias and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias\nthe son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let\ndown Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water,\nbut mire. And Jeremias sunk into the mire.\n\n38:7. Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king\u2019s\nhouse, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon: but the king\nwas sitting in the gate of Benjamin.\n\n38:8. And Abdemelech went out of the king\u2019s house, and spoke to the\nking, saying:\n\n38:9. My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have\ndone against Jeremias the prophet, casting him into the dungeon to die\nthere with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.\n\n38:10. Then the king commanded Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying: Take\nfrom hence thirty men with thee, and draw up Jeremias the prophet out\nof the dungeon, before he die.\n\n38:11. So Abdemelech taking the men with him, went into the king\u2019s\nhouse that was under the storehouse: and he took from thence old rags,\nand old rotten things, and he let them down by cords to Jeremias into\nthe dungeon.\n\n38:12. And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these old\nrags and these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the\ncords: and Jeremias did so.\n\n38:13. And they drew up Jeremias with the cords, and brought him forth\nout of the dungeon. And Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.\n\n38:14. And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias the prophet to him to\nthe third gate, that was in the house of the Lord: and the king said to\nJeremias: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing from me.\n\n38:15. Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall declare it to thee,\nwilt thou not put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt\nnot hearken to me.\n\n38:16. Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in private, saying: As the\nLord liveth, that, made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor\nwill I deliver thee into the hands of these men that seek thy life.\n\n38:17. And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the\nGod of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the princes\nof the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be\nburnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe, and thy house.\n\n38:18. But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of the king of\nBabylon, this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans,\nand they shall burn it with fire: and thou shalt not escape out of\ntheir hand.\n\n38:19. And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am afraid because of the\nJews that are fled over to the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered\ninto their hands, and they should abuse me.\n\n38:20. But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I\nbeseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to thee, and it\nshall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.\n\n38:21. But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord\nhath shewn me:\n\n38:22. Behold all the women that are left in the house of the king of\nJuda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and\nthey shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed\nagainst thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery\nplace and they have departed from thee.\n\nThy men of peace.... Viri pacifici tui. That is thy false friends\npromising thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels\ninvolving thee in misery.\n\n38:23. And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought out to the\nChaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but thou shalt be\ntaken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall burn this city\nwith fire.\n\n38:24. Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no man know these words, and\nthou shalt not die.\n\n38:25. But if the princes shall hear that I have spoken with thee, and\nshall come to thee, and say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said to the\nking, hide it not from us, and we will not kill thee: and also what the\nking said to thee:\n\n38:26. Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the\nking, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of\nJonathan, to die there.\n\n38:27. So all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he spoke\nto them according to all the words that the king had commanded him: and\nthey left him: for nothing had been heard.\n\n38:28. But Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison, until the day\nthat Jerusalem was taken: and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 39\n\nAfter two years\u2019 siege Jerusalem is taken. Sedecias is carried before\nNabuchodonosor, who kills his sons in his sight, and then puts out his\neyes. Jeremias is set at liberty.\n\n39:1. In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month,\ncame Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and\nthey besieged it.\n\n39:2. And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the\nfifth day of the month, the city was opened.\n\n39:3. And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in\nthe middle gate: Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rabsares,\nNeregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king\nof Babylon.\n\n39:4. And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw\nthem, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by\nthe way of the king\u2019s garden, and by the gate that was between the two\nwalls, and they went out to the way of the desert.\n\n39:5. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took\nSedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken\nhim, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha,\nwhich is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.\n\n39:6. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha,\nbefore his eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda.\n\n39:7. He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters,\nto be carried to Babylon.\n\n39:8. And the Chaldeans burnt the king\u2019s house, and the houses of the\npeople with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem.\n\n39:9. And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to\nBabylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the\nfugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that\nremained.\n\n39:10. But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had\nnothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and\ncisterns at that time.\n\n39:11. Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had given charge to\nNabuzardan the general concerning Jeremias, saying:\n\n39:12. Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and do him no harm: but as\nhe hath a mind, so do with him.\n\n39:13. Therefore Nabuzardan the general sent, and Nabuzardan, and\nRabsares, and Neregel, and Sereser, and Rebmag, and all the nobles of\nthe king of Babylon,\n\n39:14. Sent and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and\ncommitted him to Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, that he\nmight go home, and dwell among the people.\n\n39:15. But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet shut\nup in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the\nEthiopian, saying:\n\n39:16. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will\nbring my words upon this city unto evil, and not unto good: and they\nshall be accomplished in thy sight in that day.\n\n39:17. And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou\nshalt not be given into the hands of the men whom thou fearest:\n\n39:18. But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by\nthe sword: but thy life shall be saved for thee, because thou hast put\nthy trust in me, saith the Lord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 40\n\nJeremias remains with Godolias the governor; who receives all the Jews\nthat resort to him.\n\n40:1. The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, after that\nNabuzardan the general had let him go from Rama, when he had taken him,\nbeing bound with chains, among all them that were carried away from\nJerusalem and Juda, and were carried to Babylon.\n\n40:2. And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The\nLord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,\n\n40:3. And he hath brought it: and the Lord hath done as he hath said:\nbecause you have sinned against the Lord, and have not hearkened to his\nvoice, and this word is come upon you.\n\n40:4. Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which\nwere upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon,\ncome: and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to\ncome with me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee,\nas thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither\ngo.\n\n40:5. And come not with me: but dwell with Godolias the son of Ahicam\nthe son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the\ncities of Juda: dwell therefore with him in the midst of the people: or\nwhithersoever it shall please thee to go, go. And the general of the\narmy gave him victuals and presents, and let him go.\n\n40:6. And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and\ndwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.\n\n40:7. And when all the captains of the army that were scattered through\nthe countries, they and their companions, had heard that the king of\nBabylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam governor of the country,\nand that he had committed unto him men and women, and children, and of\nthe poor of the land, them that had not been carried away captive to\nBabylon:\n\n40:8. They came to Godolias to Masphath: and Ismahel the son of\nNathanias, and Johanan, and Jonathan, the sons of Caree, and Sareas the\nson of Thanehumeth, and the children of Ophi, that were of Netophathi,\nand Jezonias the son of Maachati, they and their men.\n\n40:9. And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan swore to them\nand to their companions, saying: Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell\nin the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with\nyou.\n\n40:10. Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the commandment of\nthe Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the\nvintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it up in your vessels,\nand abide in your cities which you hold.\n\n40:11. Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children\nof Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that\nthe king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made\nGodolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:\n\n40:12. All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the places to which\nthey had fled, and they came into the land of Juda to Godolias to\nMasphath: and they gathered wine, and a very great harvest.\n\n40:13. Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the army,\nthat had been scattered about in the countries, came to Godolias to\nMasphath.\n\n40:14. And they said to him: Know that Baalis the king of the children\nof Ammon hath sent Ismahel the son of Nathanias to kill thee. And\nGodolias the son of Ahicam believed them not.\n\n40:15. But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to Godolias privately in\nMasphath, saying: I will go, and I will kill Ismahel the son of\nNathanias, and no man shall know it, lest he kill thee, and all the\nJews be scattered, that are gathered unto thee, and the remnant of Juda\nperish.\n\n40:16. And Godolias the son of Ahicam said to Johanan the son of Caree:\nDo not this thing: for what thou sayst of Ismahel is false.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 41\n\nGodolias is slain: the Jews that were with him are apprehensive of the\nChaldeans.\n\n41:1. And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the son of\nNathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood, and the nobles of the\nking, and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son of Ahicam into\nMasphath: and they ate bread there together in Masphath.\n\n41:2. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and the ten men that were\nwith him, and they struck Godolias the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan\nwith the sword, and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor\nover the land.\n\n41:3. Ismahel slew also all the Jews that were with Godolias in\nMasphath, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the soldiers.\n\n41:4. And on the second day after he had killed Godolias, no man yet\nknowing it,\n\n41:5. There came some from Sichem, and from Silo, and from Samaria,\nfourscore men, with their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and\nmourning: and they had offerings and incense in their hand, to offer in\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n41:6. And Ismahel the son of Nathanias went forth from Masphath to meet\nthem, weeping all along as he went: and when he had met them, he said\nto them: Come to Godolias, the son of Ahicam.\n\n41:7. And when they were come to the midst of the city, Ismahel the son\nof Nathanias, slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he\nand the men that were with him.\n\n41:8. But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel: Kill us\nnot: for we have stores in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil,\nand honey. And he forbore, and slew them not with their brethren.\n\n41:9. And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the dead bodies of the\nmen whom he slew because of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made,\nfor fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did Ismahel the son of\nNathanias fill with them that were slain.\n\n41:10. Then Ismahel carried away captive all the remnant of the people\nthat were in Masphath: the king\u2019s daughters, and all the people that\nremained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan the general of the army had\ncommitted to Godolias the son of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of\nNathanias took them, and he departed, to go over to the children of\nAmmon.\n\n41:11. But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the\nfighting men that were with him, heard of the evil that Ismahel the son\nof Nathanias had done.\n\n41:12. And taking all the men, they went out to fight against Ismahel\nthe son of Nathanias, and they found him by the great waters that are\nin Gabaon.\n\n41:13. And when all the people that were with Ismahel, had seen Johanan\nthe son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were\nwith him, they rejoiced.\n\n41:14. And all the people whom Ismahel had taken, went back to\nMasphath: and they returned and went to Johanan the son of Caree.\n\n41:15. But Ismahel the son of Nathanias fled with eight men, from the\nface of Johanan, and went to the children of Ammon.\n\n41:16. Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the\nsoldiers that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom\nthey had recovered from Ismahel the son of Nathanias, from Masphath,\nafter that he had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam: valiant men for\nwar, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs whom he had\nbrought back from Gabaon.\n\n41:17. And they departed, and sat as sojourners in Chamaam, which is\nnear Bethlehem: in order to go forward, and enter into Egypt,\n\n41:18. From the face of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,\nbecause Ismahel the son of Nathanias had slain Godolias the son of\nAhicam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land of Juda.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 42\n\nJeremias assures the remnant of the people, that if they will stay in\nJuda, they shall be safe; but if they go down into Egypt, they shall\nperish.\n\n42:1. Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of\nCaree, and Jezonias, the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from\nthe least to the greatest came near:\n\n42:2. And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall\nbefore thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this\nremnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.\n\n42:3. And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk,\nand the thing that we must do.\n\n42:4. And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I\nwill pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever\nthing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide\nnothing from you.\n\n42:5. And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us of\ntruth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which\nthe Lord thy God shall send thee to us.\n\n42:6. Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord\nour God, to whom we send thee: that it may be well with us when we\nshall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.\n\nGood or evil.... That is, agreeable or disagreeable.\n\n42:7. Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.\n\n42:8. And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of\nthe fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least\nto the greatest.\n\n42:9. And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to\nwhom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:\n\n42:10. If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you\nup, and not pull you down: I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for\nnow I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.\n\nI am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.... That is, I am\nappeased, as I have sufficiently punished you, and now I am reconciled\nwith you.\n\n42:11. Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly\nafraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you,\nand to deliver you from his hand.\n\n42:12. And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and\nwill cause you to dwell in your own land.\n\n42:13. But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we\nhearken to the voice of the Lord our God,\n\n42:14. Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where we\nshall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger:\nand there we will dwell.\n\n42:15. For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus\nsaith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go\ninto Egypt, and enter in to dwell there:\n\n42:16. The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land\nof Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you\nin Egypt, and there you shall die.\n\n42:17. And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell\nthere, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none\nof them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will\nbring upon them.\n\n42:18. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger\nand my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of\nJerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you\nshall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an\nastonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place\nno more.\n\n42:19. This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of\nJuda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this\nday.\n\n42:20. For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the\nLord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to\nall that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we\nwill do it.\n\n42:21. And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not\nobeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things\nfor which he hath sent me to you.\n\n42:22. Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword,\nand by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go\nto dwell there.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 43\n\nThe Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the prophet, go into Egypt,\ncarrying Jeremias with them. He foretells the devastation of that land\nby the king of Babylon.\n\n43:1. And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of\nspeaking to the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which\nthe Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words:\n\n43:2. Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all\nthe proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the\nLord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell\nthere.\n\n43:3. But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee on against us, to\ndeliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to cause us\nto be carried away captives to Babylon.\n\n43:4. So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the\nsoldiers, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to\nremain in the land of Juda.\n\n43:5. But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the\nsoldiers took all the remnant of Juda, that were returned out of all\nnations, to which they had before been scattered, to dwell in the land\nof Juda:\n\n43:6. Men, and women, and children, and the king\u2019s daughters, and every\nsoul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of\nAhicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son\nof Nerias.\n\n43:7. And they went into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the\nvoice of the Lord: and they came as far as Taphnis.\n\n43:8. And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnis, saying:\n\n43:9. Take great stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the\nvault that is under the brick wall at the gate of Pharao\u2019s house in\nTaphnis: in the sight of the men of Juda.\n\n43:10. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God\nof Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I\nhave hid, and he shall set his throne over them.\n\n43:11. And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for\ndeath, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such\nas are for the sword, to the sword.\n\n43:12. And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt,\nand he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he\nshall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on\nhis garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.\n\n43:13. And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are\nin the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall\nburn with fire.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 44\n\nThe prophet\u2019s admonition to the Jews in Egypt against idolatry is not\nregarded: he denounces to them their destruction.\n\n44:1. The word that came to Jeremias, concerning all the Jews that\ndwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in\nMemphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:\n\n44:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all\nthis evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities\nof Juda: and behold they are desolate this day, and there is not an\ninhabitant in them:\n\n44:3. Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke\nme to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods,\nwhich neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.\n\n44:4. And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and\nsending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.\n\n44:5. But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their\nevil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.\n\n44:6. Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was\nkindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and\nthey are turned to desolation and waste, as at this day.\n\n44:7. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do\nyou commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should\ndie of you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda,\nand no remnant should be left you:\n\n44:8. In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by\nsacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come\nto dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a\nreproach to all the nations of the earth?\n\n44:9. Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of\nthe kings of Juda, and the evils of their wives, and your evils, and\nthe evils of your wives, that they have done in the land of Juda, and\nin the streets of Jerusalem?\n\n44:10. They are not cleansed even to this day: neither have they\nfeared, nor walked in the law of the Lord, nor in my commandments,\nwhich I set before you and your fathers.\n\n44:11. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.\n\n44:12. And I will take the remnant of Juda that have set their faces to\ngo into the land of Egypt, and to dwell there; and they shall be all\nconsumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by the sword, and by the\nfamine: and they shall be consumed from the least even to the greatest,\nby the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and they shall be for\nan execration, and for a wonder, and for a curse, and for a reproach.\n\n44:13. And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have\nvisited Jerusalem by the sword, and by famine and by pestilence.\n\n44:14. And there shall be none that shall escape, and remain of the\nremnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt: and\nthat shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to\nreturn to dwell there: there shall none return but they that shall\nflee.\n\n44:15. Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other\ngods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and\nall the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures,\nanswered Jeremias, saying:\n\n44:16. As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the\nLord, we will not hearken to thee:\n\n44:17. But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of\nour own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out\ndrink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and\nour princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and\nwe were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.\n\nThe queen of heaven.... The moon, which they worshipped under this\nname.\n\n44:18. But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven,\nand to pour out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and\nhave been consumed by the sword, and by famine.\n\n44:19. And if we offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and pour out\ndrink offerings to her: did we make cakes to worship her, to pour out\ndrink offerings to her, without our husbands?\n\n44:20. And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to the men, and to the\nwomen, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying:\n\n44:21. Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda,\nand in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and\nyour princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath\nremembered, and hath it not entered into his heart?\n\n44:22. So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of\nyour doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed:\ntherefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a\ncurse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.\n\n44:23. Because you have sacrificed to idols, and have sinned against\nthe Lord: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not\nwalked in his law, and in his commandments, and in his testimonies:\ntherefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day.\n\n44:24. And Jeremias said to all the people and to all the women: Hear\nye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:\n\n44:25. Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and\nyour wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands,\nsaying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice\nto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you\nhave fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed.\n\n44:26. Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell\nin the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the\nLord: that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of\nJuda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.\n\n44:27. Behold I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and\nall the men of Juda that are in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed,\nby the sword, and by famine, till there be an end of them.\n\n44:28. And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out\nof the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda\nthat are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose\nword shall stand, mine, or theirs.\n\n44:29. And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will\npunish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be\naccomplished indeed against you for evil.\n\n44:30. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Efree king of\nEgypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek\nhis life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the hand of\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 45\n\nThe prophet comforts Baruch in his affliction.\n\n45:1. The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of\nNerias, when he had written these words in a book, out of the mouth of\nJeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda,\nsaying:\n\n45:2. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch:\n\n45:3. Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath\nadded sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no\nrest.\n\n45:4. Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them\nwhom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do\npluck up, and all this land.\n\n45:5. And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold\nI will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee\nthy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 46\n\nA prophecy against Egypt. The Jews shall return from captivity.\n\n46:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against\nthe Gentiles,\n\n46:2. Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt,\nwhich was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor the\nking of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of\nJosias king of Juda.\n\n46:3. Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.\n\n46:4. Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with\nhelmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.\n\n46:5. What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs,\ntheir valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back:\nterror was round about, saith the Lord.\n\n46:6. Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they\nare overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river\nEuphrates.\n\n46:7. Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like\nthose of rivers?\n\n46:8. Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the waves thereof shall be\nmoved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the\nearth: I will destroy the city, and its inhabitants.\n\n46:9. Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant\nmen come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield,\nand the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.\n\n46:10. For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of\nvengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall\ndevour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for\nthere is a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by\nthe river Euphrates.\n\n46:11. Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in\nvain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.\n\n46:12. The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling hath\nfilled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and\nboth are fallen together.\n\n46:13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of\nEgypt:\n\n46:14. Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be\nknown in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare\nthyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.\n\n46:15. Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because\nthe Lord hath overthrown them.\n\n46:16. He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon\nanother, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own\npeople, and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove.\n\nThe dove.... See the annotation on chap. 25., ver. 38.\n\n46:17. Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath\nbrought.\n\n46:18. As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as\nThabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he\ncome.\n\n46:19. Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant\nof Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and\nuninhabited.\n\n46:20. Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from\nthe north one that shall goad her.\n\n46:21. Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted\ncalves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not\nstand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of\ntheir visitation.\n\n46:22. Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an\narmy, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.\n\n46:23. They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be\ncounted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.\n\n46:24. The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand\nof the people of the north.\n\n46:25. The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will\nvisit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt,\nand upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them\nthat trust in him.\n\nVisit upon.... That is, punish.\u2014Ibid. Alexandria.... In the Hebrew, No,\nwhich was the ancient name of the city, to which Alexander gave\nafterwards the name of Alexandria.\n\n46:26. And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their\nlives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into\nthe hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in\nthe days of old, saith the Lord.\n\n46:27. And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O\nIsrael: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of\nthe land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and\nprosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.\n\n46:28. And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I\nam with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast\nthee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in\njudgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 47\n\nA prophecy of the desolation of the Philistines, of Tyre, Sidon, Gaza,\nand Ascalon.\n\n47:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against\nthe people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.\n\n47:2. Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the\nnorth, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall\ncover the land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants\nthereof: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land\nshall howl,\n\n47:3. At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the\nrushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers\nhave not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,\n\n47:4. Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines\nshall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all\nthe rest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines,\nthe remnant of the isle of Cappadocia.\n\n47:5. Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the\nremnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself?\n\n47:6. O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go\ninto thy scabbard, rest, and be still.\n\n47:7. How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge\nagainst Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and\nthere hath made an appointment for it?\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 48\n\nA prophecy of the desolation of Moab for their pride: but their\ncaptivity shall at last be released.\n\n48:1. Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe\nto Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the\nstrong city is confounded and hath trembled.\n\n48:2. There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have\ndevised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.\nTherefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall\nfollow thee.\n\n48:3. A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.\n\n48:4. Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.\n\n48:5. For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping:\nfor in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of\ndestruction.\n\n48:6. Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.\n\n48:7. For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy\ntreasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into\ncaptivity, his priests, and his princes together.\n\nChamos.... The idol of the Moabites.\n\n48:8. And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall\nescape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be\ndestroyed, for the Lord hath spoken:\n\n48:9. Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the\ncities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.\n\n48:10. Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and\ncursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.\n\nDeceitfully.... In the Greek, negligently. The work of God here spoken\nof, is the punishment of the Moabites.\n\n48:11. Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his\nlees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone\ninto captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent\nis not changed.\n\nMoab hath been fruitful.... That is, rich and flourishing. And hath\nrested upon his lees.... That is, remained in its bad morals; as wine\nnot decanted has its lees mixed and remains muddy.\n\n48:12. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send\nhim men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast\nhim down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one\nagainst another.\n\n48:13. And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was\nashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.\n\nOf Bethel.... That is, of their golden calf which they worshipped in\nBethel.\n\n48:14. How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle?\n\n48:15. Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her\nchoice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose\nname is the Lord of hosts.\n\n48:16. The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof\nshall come on exceeding swiftly.\n\n48:17. Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that\nknow his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod?\n\n48:18. Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the\ndaughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he\nhath destroyed thy bulwarks.\n\n48:19. Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire\nof him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done?\n\n48:20. Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry,\ntell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted.\n\n48:21. And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and\nupon Jasa, and upon Mephaath.\n\n48:22. And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim,\n\n48:23. And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon,\n\n48:24. And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the\nland of Moab, far or near.\n\n48:25. The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the\nLord.\n\nThe horn of Moab is cut off.... That is, the strength of Moab is cut\noff. A metaphor drawn from animals whose strength is in their horns.\n\n48:26. Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord:\nand Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in\nderision.\n\n48:27. For Israel hath been a derision unto them: as though thou hadst\nfound him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast\nspoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.\n\n48:28. Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab:\nand be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole\nin the highest place.\n\n48:29. We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his\nhaughtiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his\nheart.\n\n48:30. I know, saith the Lord, his boasting, and that the strength\nthereof is not according to it, neither hath it endeavoured to do\naccording as it was able.\n\n48:31. Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all\nMoab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn.\n\n48:32. O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for thee, with the mourning of\nJazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they are come even to the\nsea of Jazer: the robber hath rushed in upon thy harvest and thy\nvintage.\n\n48:33. Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of\nMoab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of\nthe grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.\n\n48:34. From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale, and to Jasa, they have\nuttered their voice: from Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years\nold: the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.\n\n48:35. And I will take away from Moab, saith the Lord, him that\noffereth in the high places, and that sacrificeth to his gods.\n\n48:36. Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart\nshall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath\ndone more than he could, therefore they have perished.\n\n48:37. For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven:\nall hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be\nhaircloth.\n\n48:38. Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof\ngeneral mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n48:39. How is it overthrown, and they have howled! How hath Moab bowed\ndown the neck, and is confounded! And Moab shall be a derision, and an\nexample to all round about him.\n\n48:40. Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall\nstretch forth his wings to Moab.\n\n48:41. Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of\nthe valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in\nlabour.\n\n48:42. And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried\nagainst the Lord.\n\n48:43. Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of\nMoab, saith the Lord.\n\nFear.... That is, the sword of the enemy. The pit.... That is,\nunforeseen calamities. The snare.... That is, the ambushes laid by the\nenemy.\n\n48:44. He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit: and\nhe that shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I\nwill bring upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.\n\n48:45. They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of Hesebon:\nbut there came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame out of the midst of\nSeon, and it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown of the head of\nthe children of tumult.\n\n48:46. Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast persisted, O people of Chamos: for\nthy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives.\n\n48:47. And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days,\nsaith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 49\n\nThe like desolation of Ammon, of Idumea, of the Syrians, of the\nAgarenes, and of the Elamites.\n\n49:1. Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel\nno sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and\nhis people dwelt in his cities?\n\nMelchom.... The idol of the Ammonites.\n\n49:2. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will cause\nthe noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and\nit shall be destroyed into a heap, and her daughters shall be burnt\nwith fire, and Israel shall possess them that have possessed him, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n49:3. Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath,\ngird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for\nMelchom shall be carried into captivity, his priests, and his princes\ntogether.\n\n49:4. Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O\ndelicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said:\nWho shall come to me?\n\n49:5. Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of\nhosts, from all that are round about thee: and you shall be scattered\nevery one out of one another\u2019s sight, neither shall there be any to\ngather together them that flee.\n\n49:6. And afterwards I will cause the captives of the children of Ammon\nto return, saith the Lord.\n\n49:7. Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in\nTheman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become\nunprofitable.\n\n49:8. Flee and turn your backs, go down into the deep hole, ye\ninhabitants of Dedan: for I have brought the destruction of Esau upon\nhim, the time of his visitation.\n\n49:9. If grapegatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a\nbunch? if thieves in the night, they would have taken what was enough\nfor them.\n\n49:10. But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed his secrets, and he\ncannot be hid: his seed is laid waste, and his brethren, and his\nneighbours, and he shall not be.\n\n49:11. Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy\nwidows shall hope in me.\n\n49:12. For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to\ndrink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as\ninnocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt\ndrink.\n\n49:13. For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall\nbecome a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all\nher cities shall be everlasting wastes.\n\n49:14. I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent\nto the nations: Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and\nlet us rise up to battle.\n\n49:15. For behold I have made thee a little one among the nations,\ndespicable among men.\n\n49:16. Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O\nthou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay\nhold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest\nas high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the\nLord.\n\n49:17. And Edom shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by it,\nshall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.\n\n49:18. As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours\nthereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there\nshall no son of man inhabit it.\n\n49:19. Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the\nJordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run\nsuddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint\nover her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is\nthat shepherd that can withstand my countenance?\n\n49:20. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken\nconcerning Edom: and his thoughts which he hath thought concerning the\ninhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of the flock shall cast\nthem down, of a truth they shall destroy them with their habitation.\n\n49:21. The earth is moved at the noise of their fall: the cry of their\nvoice is heard in the Red Sea.\n\n49:22. Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall\nspread his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant\nones of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.\n\n49:23. Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have\nheard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care\nthey could not rest.\n\n49:24. Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized\non her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour.\n\n49:25. How have they forsaken the city of renown, the city of joy!\n\n49:26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets: and all the\nmen of war shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n49:27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall\ndevour the strong holds of Benadad.\n\n49:28. Against Cedar and against the kingdoms of Asor, which\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the Lord: Arise,\nand go ye up to Cedar, and waste the children of the east.\n\nCedar and Asor.... Were parts of Arabia; which with Moab, Ammon, Edom,\netc., were all brought under the yoke of Nabuchodonosor.\n\n49:29. They shall take their tents, and their flocks: and shall carry\noff for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their\ncamels: and they shall call fear upon them round about.\n\n49:30. Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes, you that inhabit\nAsor, saith the Lord: for Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath taken\ncounsel against you, and hath conceived designs against you.\n\n49:31. Arise, and go up to a nation that is at ease, and that dwelleth\nsecurely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell\nalone.\n\n49:32. And their camels shall be for a spoil and the multitude of their\ncattle for a booty, and I will scatter into every wind them that have\ntheir hair cut round, and I will bring destruction upon them from all\ntheir confines, saith the Lord.\n\n49:33. And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for ever:\nno man shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.\n\n49:34. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against\nElam, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, saying:\n\nElam.... A part of Persia.\n\n49:35. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of\nElam, and their chief strength.\n\n49:36. And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters\nof heaven: and I will scatter them into all these winds: and there\nshall be no nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall not come.\n\n49:37. And I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and in\nthe sight of them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon\nthem, my fierce wrath, saith the Lord: and I will send the sword after\nthem, till I consume them.\n\n49:38. And I will set my throne in Elam, and destroy kings and princes\nfrom thence, saith the Lord.\n\n49:39. But in the latter days I will cause the captives of Elam, to\nreturn, saith the Lord.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 50\n\nBabylon, which hath afflicted the Israelites, after their restoration,\nshall be utterly destroyed.\n\n50:1. The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against\nthe land of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.\n\n50:2. Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard:\nproclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,\nMerodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols\nare overthrown.\n\nBel, etc.... Bel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of\nBabylon.\n\n50:3. For a nation is come up against her out of the north, which shall\nmake her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein, from\nman even to beast: yea they are removed, and gone away.\n\nA nation, etc.... Viz., the Medes.\n\n50:4. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of\nIsrael shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and\nweeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.\n\n50:5. They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They\nshall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant,\nwhich shall never be forgotten.\n\n50:6. My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have caused\nthem to go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they\nhave gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting\nplace.\n\n50:7. All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said:\nWe have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the\nLord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their\nfathers.\n\n50:8. Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land\nof the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head of the flock.\n\n50:9. For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly\nof great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared\nagainst her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like\nthose of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.\n\n50:10. And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her shall be\nfilled, saith the Lord.\n\n50:11. Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my\ninheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass,\nand have bellowed as bulls.\n\n50:12. Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is\nmade even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the\nnations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry.\n\n50:13. Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but\nshall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall\nbe astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.\n\n50:14. Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that\nbend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath\nsinned against the Lord.\n\n50:15. Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her\nfoundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the\nvengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do\nto her.\n\n50:16. Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the\nsickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every\nman shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own\nland.\n\nThe dove.... Or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the\none or the other.\n\n50:17. Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away:\nfirst the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor\nking of Babylon hath broken his bones.\n\n50:18. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold\nI will visit the king of Babylon and his land, as I have visited the\nking of Assyria.\n\n50:19. And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and he shall\nfeed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall be satisfied in mount\nEphraim, and Galaad.\n\n50:20. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of\nIsrael shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of\nJuda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them,\nwhom I shall leave.\n\n50:21. Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants\nthereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do\naccording to all that I have commanded thee.\n\n50:22. A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.\n\n50:23. How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how\nis Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!\n\n50:24. I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O\nBabylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught,\nbecause thou hast provoked the Lord.\n\n50:25. The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the\nweapons of his wrath: for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be\ndone in the land of the Chaldeans.\n\n50:26. Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open that they\nmay go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the way,\nand make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left.\n\n50:27. Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter:\nwoe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.\n\n50:28. The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped out\nof the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord our\nGod, the revenge of his temple.\n\n50:29. Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the bow: stand\ntogether against her round about, and let none escape; pay her\naccording to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to\nher: for she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy\nOne of Israel.\n\n50:30. Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and all her\nmen of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.\n\n50:31. Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord the God\nof hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.\n\n50:32. And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and there\nshall be none to lift him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities,\nand it shall devour all round about him.\n\n50:33. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel, and the\nchildren of Juda are oppressed together: all that have taken them\ncaptives, hold them fast, they will not let them go.\n\n50:34. Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name: he will\ndefend their cause in judgment, to terrify the land, and to disquiet\nthe inhabitants of Babylon.\n\n50:35. A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the\ninhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.\n\n50:36. A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword\nupon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.\n\n50:37. A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all\nthe people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as\nwomen: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.\n\n50:38. A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because\nit is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.\n\n50:39. Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and\nostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for\never, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.\n\nFig fauns.... Monsters of the desert, or demons in monstrous shapes:\nsuch as the ancients called fauns and satyrs; and as they imagined them\nto live upon wild figs, they called them fauni ficarii or fig fauns.\n\n50:40. As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their neighbour\ncities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son\nof man inhabit it.\n\n50:41. Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation, and\nmany kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.\n\n50:42. They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel and\nunmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride\nupon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of\nBabylon.\n\n50:43. The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands\nare grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in\nlabour.\n\n50:44. Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the\nJordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly\nupon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her?\nfor who is like to me? and who shall bear up against me? and who is\nthat shepherd that can withstand my countenance?\n\n50:45. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he hath taken\nagainst Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the\nland of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull\nthem down, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them.\n\n50:46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and\nthe cry is heard amongst the nations.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 51\n\nThe miseries that shall fall upon Babylon from the Medes: the\ndestruction of her idols.\n\n51:1. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a\npestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof,\nwho have lifted up their heart against me.\n\n51:2. And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and\nshall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the\nday of her affliction.\n\n51:3. Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up\nthat is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all\nher army.\n\n51:4. And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the\nwounded in the regions thereof.\n\n51:5. For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord\nof hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One\nof Israel.\n\n51:6. Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own\nlife: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge\nfrom the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.\n\n51:7. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made\nall the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore\nthey have staggered.\n\n51:8. Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take\nbalm for her pain, if so she may be healed.\n\n51:9. We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us\nforsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her\njudgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the\nclouds.\n\n51:10. The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us\ndeclare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.\n\n51:11. Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up\nthe spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon\nto destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance\nof his temple.\n\n51:12. Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the\nwatch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath\nboth purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of\nBabylon.\n\n51:13. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy\nend is come for thy entire destruction.\n\n51:14. The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill\nthee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout\nagainst thee.\n\n51:15. He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the\nworld by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his\nunderstanding.\n\n51:16. When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven:\nhe lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he hath turned\nlightning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind out of his\ntreasures.\n\n51:17. Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is\nconfounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no\nbreath in them.\n\n51:18. They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of\ntheir visitation they shall perish.\n\n51:19. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all\nthings he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord\nof hosts is his name.\n\n51:20. Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I\nwill dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:\n\n51:21. And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider,\nand with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth\nup into it:\n\n51:22. And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with\nthee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I\nwill break in pieces the young man and the virgin:\n\n51:23. And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock,\nand with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of\noxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers.\n\n51:24. And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of\nChaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n51:25. Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the\nLord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand\nupon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a\nburnt mountain.\n\n51:26. And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a\nstone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the\nLord.\n\n51:27. Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among\nthe nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her\nthe kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her,\nbring the horse as the stinging locust.\n\n51:28. Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their\ncaptains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.\n\n51:29. And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for\nthe design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of\nBabylon desert and uninhabitable.\n\n51:30. The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have\ndwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as\nwomen: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.\n\n51:31. One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet\nmessenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one\nend to the other:\n\n51:32. And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with\nfire, and the men of war are affrighted.\n\n51:33. For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter\nof Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing:\nyet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.\n\n51:34. Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath\ndevoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me\nup like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and\nhe hath cast me out.\n\n51:35. The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the\nhabitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith\nJerusalem.\n\n51:36. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause,\nand will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, and\nwill dry up her spring.\n\n51:37. And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for\ndragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.\n\n51:38. They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their\nmanes like young lions.\n\n51:39. In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk,\nthat they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no\nmore, saith the Lord.\n\n51:40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like\nrams with kids.\n\n51:41. How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth\nsurprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?\n\n51:42. The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the\nmultitude of the waves thereof.\n\n51:43. Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and\ndesolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through\nit.\n\n51:44. And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth\nout of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations\nshall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall\nfall.\n\n51:45. Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save\nhis life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.\n\n51:46. And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that\nshall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and\nafter this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler\nupon ruler.\n\n51:47. Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of\nBabylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain\nshall fall in the midst of her.\n\n51:48. And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them\nshall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the\nnorth, saith the Lord.\n\n51:49. And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so\nof Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.\n\n51:50. You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still:\nremember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.\n\n51:51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath\ncovered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n51:52. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit\nher graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:\n\n51:53. If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength\non high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.\n\n51:54. The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the\nland of the Chaldeans:\n\n51:55. Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of\nher the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their\nvoice hath made a noise:\n\n51:56. Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and\nher valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord,\nwho is a strong revenger, will surely repay.\n\n51:57. And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her\ncaptains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an\neverlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name\nis Lord of hosts.\n\n51:58. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall\nbe utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire,\nand the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations\nshall go to the fire, and shall perish.\n\n51:59. The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of\nNerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon,\nin the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the\nprophecy.\n\n51:60. And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come\nupon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.\n\n51:61. And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon,\nand shalt see, and shalt read all these words,\n\n51:62. Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to\ndestroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell\ntherein, and that it should be desolate for ever.\n\n51:63. And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou\nshalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the\nEuphrates:\n\n51:64. And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not\nrise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall\nbe utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.\n\n\nJeremias Chapter 52\n\nA recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the destruction of\nJerusalem. The number of the captives.\n\n52:1. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.\n\n52:2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according\nto all that Joakim had done.\n\n52:3. For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against\nJuda, till he cast them out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted\nfrom the king of Babylon.\n\n52:4. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged\nit, and built forts against it round about.\n\n52:5. And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king\nSedecias.\n\n52:6. And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine\noverpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.\n\n52:7. And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out\nof the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two\nwalls, and leadeth to the king\u2019s garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the\ncity round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the\nwilderness.\n\n52:8. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they\novertook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his\ncompanions were scattered from him.\n\n52:9. And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the king of\nBabylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave\njudgment upon him.\n\n52:10. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his\neyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.\n\n52:11. And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters,\nand the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in\nprison till the day of his death.\n\n52:12. And in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, the same is\nthe nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan\nthe general of the army, who stood before the king of Babylon in\nJerusalem.\n\n52:13. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king\u2019s house, and\nall the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.\n\n52:14. And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the general\nbroke down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.\n\n52:15. But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the\npoor people, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the\ncity, and of the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon,\nand the rest of the multitude.\n\n52:16. But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some\nfor vinedressers, and for husbandmen.\n\n52:17. The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were\nin the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was\nin the house of the Lord: and they carried all the brass of them to\nBabylon.\n\n52:18. And they took the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and the\npsalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the brazen\nvessels that had been used in the ministry: and\n\n52:19. The general took away the pitchers, and the censers, and the\npots, and the basins, and the candlesticks, and the mortars, and the\ncups: as many as were of gold, in gold: and as many as were of silver,\nin silver:\n\n52:20. And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that\nwere under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the\nLord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels.\n\n52:21. And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high:\nand a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but the thickness\nthereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within.\n\n52:22. And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of one\nchapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates were upon the\nchapiters round about, all of brass. The same of the second pillar, and\nthe pomegranates.\n\n52:23. And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down: and the\npomegranates being a hundred in all, were compassed with network.\n\n52:24. And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the\nsecond priest, and the three keepers of the entry.\n\n52:25. He also took out of the city one eunuch that was chief over the\nmen of war: and seven men of them that were near the king\u2019s person,\nthat were found in the city: and a scribe, an officer of the army who\nexercised the young soldiers: and threescore men of the people of the\nland, that were found in the midst of the city.\n\n52:26. And Nabuzardan the general took them, and brought them to the\nking of Babylon, to Reblatha.\n\n52:27. And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in\nReblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out\nof his land.\n\n52:28. This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in\nthe seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.\n\n52:29. In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor, eight hundred and\nthirty-two souls from Jerusalem.\n\n52:30. In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan\nthe general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five\nsouls. So all the souls were four thousand six hundred.\n\n52:31. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the\ncaptivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the five and\ntwentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the\nfirst year of his reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda,\nand brought him forth out of prison.\n\n52:32. And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the\nthrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.\n\n52:33. And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him\nalways all the days of his life.\n\n52:34. And for his diet a continual provision was allowed him by the\nking of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all\nthe days of his life.\n\n\n\n\nTHE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS\n\n\nIn these JEREMIAS laments in a most pathetical manner the miseries of\nhis people, and the destruction of JERUSALEM and the temple, in Hebrew\nverses, beginning with different letters according to the order of the\nHebrew alphabet.\n\n\nPREFACE\n\nAnd it came to pass, after Israel was carried into captivity, and\nJerusalem was desolate, that Jeremias the prophet sat weeping, and\nmourned with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and with a sorrowful\nmind, sighing and moaning, he said:\n\nAnd it came to pass, etc.... This preface was not written by Jeremias,\nbut was added by the seventy interpreters, to give the reader to\nunderstand upon what occasion the Lamentations were published.\n\n\nLamentations Chapter 1\n\n1:1. Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how\nis the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of\nprovinces made tributary!\n\n1:2. Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on\nher cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear\nto her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.\n\n1:3. Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of her\naffliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the\nnations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken her\nin the midst of straits.\n\n1:4. Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come\nto the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh;\nher virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness.\n\n1:5. He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are\nenriched; because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of\nher iniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of\nthe oppressor.\n\n1:6. Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all her beauty is departed;\nher princes are become like rams that find no pastures; and they are\ngone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.\n\n1:7. Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and\nprevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days\nof old, when her people fell in the enemy\u2019s hand, and there was no\nhelper; the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.\n\n1:8. Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become\nunstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have\nseen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward.\n\n1:9. Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered\nher end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold,\nO Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.\n\n1:10. Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things:\nfor she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou\ngavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.\n\n1:11. Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all\ntheir precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and\nconsider, for I am become vile.\n\n1:12. Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be\nany sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the\nLord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.\n\n1:13. Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath\nchastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:\nhe hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.\n\n1:14. Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath watched: they are folded\ntogether in his hand, and put upon my neck: my strength is weakened:\nthe Lord hath delivered me into a hand, out of which I am not able to\nrise.\n\n1:15. Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men out of the\nmidst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my chosen\nmen: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of\nJuda.\n\n1:16. Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water:\nbecause the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my\nchildren are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.\n\n1:17. Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none to comfort\nher: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round about\nhim: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.\n\n1:18. Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath:\nhear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my\nyoung men are gone into captivity.\n\n1:19. Coph. I called for my friends, but they deceived me: my priests\nand my ancients pined away in the city: while they sought their food,\nto relieve their souls.\n\n1:20. Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are\ntroubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness:\nabroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.\n\n1:21. Sin. They have heard that I sigh, and there is none to comfort\nme: all my enemies have heard of my evil, they have rejoiced that thou\nhast done it: thou hast brought a day of consolation, and they shall be\nlike unto me.\n\n1:22. Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage\nof them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my\nsighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.\n\n\nLamentations Chapter 2\n\n2:1. Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of\nSion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the\nglorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the\nday of his anger.\n\n2:2. Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all\nthat was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong\nholds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he\nhath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.\n\n2:3. Ghimel. He hath broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:\nhe hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: and he hath\nkindled in Jacob as it were a flaming fire devouring round about.\n\n2:4. Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right\nhand as an adversary: and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in\nthe tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out his\nindignation like fire.\n\n2:5. He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel\nheadlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed\nhis strong holds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the\nafflicted, both men and women.\n\n2:6. Vau. And he hath destroyed his tent as a garden, he hath thrown\ndown his tabernacle: the Lord hath caused feasts and sabbaths to be\nforgotten in Sion: and hath delivered up king and priest to reproach,\nand to the indignation of his wrath.\n\n2:7. Zain. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his\nsanctuary: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into the\nhand of the enemy: they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as\nin the day of a solemn feast.\n\nHe hath cursed his sanctuary.... That is, he permitted his sanctuary to\nbe destroyed, as if it had not been consecrated, but execrable.\n\n2:8. Heth. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter\nof Sion: he hath stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn his\nhand from destroying: and the bulwark hath mourned, and the wall hath\nbeen destroyed together.\n\n2:9. Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and\nbroken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the\nlaw is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.\n\n2:10. Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground,\nthey have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust,\nthey are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down\ntheir heads to the ground.\n\n2:11. Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled:\nmy liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the\ndaughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted\naway in the streets of the city.\n\n2:12. Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when\nthey fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they\nbreathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.\n\n2:13. Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee,\nO daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort\nthee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy\ndestruction: who shall heal thee?\n\n2:14. Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee:\nand they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance:\nbut they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.\n\n2:15. Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands\nat thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of\nJerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all\nthe earth?\n\n2:16. Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they\nhave hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow\nher up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we\nhave seen it.\n\n2:17. Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled\nhis word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and\nhath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and\nhath set up the horn of thy adversaries.\n\n2:18. Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the\ndaughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give\nthyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.\n\n2:19. Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the\nwatches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord:\nlift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have\nfainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.\n\n2:20. Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with:\nshall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long?\nshall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?\n\n2:21. Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my\nvirgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them\nin the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.\n\n2:22. Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should\nterrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of\nthe Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and\nnourished, my enemy hath consumed them.\n\n\nLamentations Chapter 3\n\n3:1. Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his\nindignation.\n\n3:2. Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into\nlight.\n\n3:3. Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand\nall the day.\n\n3:4. Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my\nbones.\n\n3:5. Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with\ngall, and labour.\n\n3:6. Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for\never.\n\n3:7. Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get\nout: he hath made my fetters heavy.\n\n3:8. Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my\nprayer.\n\n3:9. Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned\nmy paths upside down.\n\n3:10. Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in\nsecret places.\n\n3:11. Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in\npieces, he hath made me desolate.\n\n3:12. Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his\narrows.\n\n3:13. He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.\n\n3:14. He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day\nlong.\n\n3:15. He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with\nwormwood.\n\n3:16. Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with\nashes.\n\n3:17. Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten\ngood things.\n\n3:18. Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.\n\n3:19. Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and\nthe gall.\n\n3:20. Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish\nwithin me.\n\n3:21. Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will\nI hope.\n\n3:22. Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because\nhis commiserations have not failed.\n\n3:23. Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.\n\n3:24. Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait\nfor him.\n\n3:25. Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that\nseeketh him.\n\n3:26. Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.\n\n3:27. Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his\nyouth.\n\n3:28. Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath\ntaken it up upon himself.\n\n3:29. Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be\nhope.\n\n3:30. Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall\nbe filled with reproaches.\n\n3:31. Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.\n\n3:32. Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according\nto the multitude of his mercies.\n\n3:33. Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the\nchildren of men.\n\n3:34. Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,\n\n3:35. Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the\nmost High,\n\n3:36. Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath\nnot approved.\n\n3:37. Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the\nLord commandeth it not?\n\n3:38. Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the\nHighest?\n\n3:39. Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?\n\n3:40. Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.\n\n3:41. Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the\nheavens.\n\n3:42. Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore\nthou art inexorable.\n\n3:43. Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou\nhast killed and hast not spared.\n\n3:44. Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may\nnot pass through.\n\n3:45. Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst\nof the people.\n\n3:46. Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.\n\n3:47. Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and\ndestruction.\n\n3:48. Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the\ndestruction of the daughter of my people.\n\n3:49. Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there\nwas no rest:\n\n3:50. Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.\n\n3:51. Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of\nmy city.\n\n3:52. Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird,\nwithout cause.\n\n3:53. Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone\nover me.\n\n3:54. Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.\n\n3:55. Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.\n\n3:56. Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my\nsighs, and cries.\n\n3:57. Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou\nsaidst: Fear not.\n\n3:58. Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the\nRedeemer of my life.\n\n3:59. Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge\nthou my judgment.\n\n3:60. Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts\nagainst me.\n\n3:61. Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their\nimaginations against me.\n\n3:62. Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices\nagainst me all the day.\n\n3:63. Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their\nsong.\n\n3:64. Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to\nthe works of their hands.\n\n3:65. Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.\n\n3:66. Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them\nfrom under the heavens, O Lord.\n\n\nLamentations Chapter 4\n\n4:1. Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed,\nthe stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street?\n\n4:2. Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the\nbest gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the\npotter\u2019s hands?\n\n4:3. Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have\ngiven suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the\nostrich in the desert.\n\n4:4. Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of\nhis mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there\nwas none to break it unto them.\n\n4:5. He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they\nthat were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.\n\n4:6. Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is made greater\nthan the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and hands took\nnothing in her.\n\n4:7. Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more\nruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.\n\n4:8. Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not\nknown in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is\nwithered, and is become like wood.\n\n4:9. Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than\nwith them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed\nfor want of the fruits of the earth.\n\n4:10. Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own\nchildren: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my\npeople.\n\n4:11. Caph. The Lord hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out\nhis fierce anger: and he hath kindled a fire in Sion, and it hath\ndevoured the foundations thereof.\n\n4:12. Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the\nworld would not have believed, that the adversary and the enemy should\nenter in by the gates of Jerusalem.\n\n4:13. Mem. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her\npriests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.\n\n4:14. Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were\ndefiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they\nheld up their skirts.\n\n4:15. Samech. Depart you that are defiled, they cried out to them:\nDepart, get ye hence, touch not: for they quarrelled, and being\nremoved, they said among the Gentiles: He will no more dwell among\nthem.\n\n4:16. Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more\nregard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had\nthey pity on the ancient.\n\n4:17. Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help\nfor us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was\nnot able to save.\n\n4:18. Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of our streets, our end\ndraweth near: our days are fulfilled, for our end is come.\n\n4:19. Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air:\nthey pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the\nwilderness.\n\n4:20. Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in our\nsins: to whom we said: Under thy shadow we shall live among the\nGentiles.\n\nChrist, etc.... This, according to the letter, is spoken of their king,\nwho is called the Christ, that is, the Anointed of the Lord. But it\nalso relates, in the spiritual sense, to Christ our Lord, suffering for\nour sins.\n\n4:21. Sin. Rejoice, and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in\nthe land of Hus: to thee also shall the cup come, thou shalt be made\ndrunk, and naked.\n\n4:22. Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Sion, he will\nno more carry thee away into captivity: he hath visited thy iniquity, O\ndaughter of Edom, he hath discovered thy sins.\n\nTHE PRAYER OF JEREMIAS THE PROPHET\n\n\nLamentations Chapter 5\n\n5:1. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our\nreproach.\n\n5:2. Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.\n\n5:3. We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.\n\n5:4. We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.\n\n5:5. We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given\nus.\n\n5:6. We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we\nmight be satisfied with bread.\n\n5:7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their\niniquities.\n\n5:8. Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of\ntheir hand.\n\n5:9. We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the\nsword in the desert.\n\n5:10. Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the\nfamine.\n\n5:11. They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities\nof Juda.\n\n5:12. The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect\nthe persons of the ancients.\n\n5:13. They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under\nthe wood.\n\n5:14. The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the\nchoir of the singers.\n\n5:15. The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into\nmourning.\n\n5:16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have\nsinned.\n\n5:17. Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become\ndim.\n\n5:18. For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon\nit.\n\n5:19. But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from\ngeneration to generation.\n\n5:20. Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a\nlong time?\n\n5:21. Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our\ndays, as from the beginning.\n\n5:22. But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry\nwith us.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF BARUCH\n\n\nBARUCH was a man of noble extraction, and learned in the law, secretary\nand disciple to the prophet JEREMIAS, and a sharer in his labours and\npersecutions: which is the reason why the ancient fathers have\nconsidered this book as a part of the prophecy of JEREMIAS, and have\nusually quoted it under his name.\n\n\nBaruch Chapter 1\n\nThe Jews of Babylon send the book of Baruch with money to Jerusalem,\nrequesting their brethren there to offer sacrifice, and to pray for the\nking and for them, acknowledging their manifold sins.\n\n1:1. And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of\nNerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Sedei, the\nson of Helcias, wrote in Babylonia.\n\n1:2. In the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time\nthat the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.\n\n1:3. And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias\nthe son of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people\nthat came to hear the book.\n\n1:4. And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of the kings, and in\nthe hearing of the ancients, and in the hearing of the people, from the\nleast even to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by the\nriver Sedi.\n\n1:5. And when they heard it they wept, and fasted, and prayed before\nthe Lord.\n\n1:6. And they made a collection of money according to every man\u2019s\npower.\n\n1:7. And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the priest, the son of\nHelcias, the son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people,\nthat were found with him in Jerusalem:\n\n1:8. At the time when he received the vessels of the temple of the\nLord, which had been taken away out of the temple, to return them into\nthe land of Juda the tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver vessels,\nwhich Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,\n\n1:9. After that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away\nJechonias, and the princes, and all the powerful men, and the people of\nthe land from Jerusalem, and brought them bound to Babylon.\n\n1:10. And they said: Behold we have sent you money, buy with it\nholocausts, and frankincense, and make meat offerings, and offerings\nfor sin at the altar of the Lord our God:\n\n1:11. And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon,\nand for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon\nearth as the days of heaven:\n\n1:12. And that the Lord may give us strength, and enlighten our eyes,\nthat we may live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and may serve them\nmany days, and may find favour in their sight.\n\n1:13. And pray ye for us to the Lord our God: for we have sinned\nagainst the Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned away from us even\nto this day.\n\n1:14. And read ye this book, which we have sent to you to be read in\nthe temple of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days.\n\n1:15. And you shall say: To the Lord our God belongeth justice, but to\nus confusion of our face: as it is come to pass at this day to all\nJuda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\n\n1:16. To our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our\nprophets, and to our fathers.\n\n1:17. We have sinned before the Lord our God, and have not believed\nhim, nor put our trust in him:\n\n1:18. And we were not obedient to him, and we have not hearkened to the\nvoice of the Lord our God, to walk in his commandments which he hath\ngiven us.\n\n1:19. From the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of\nEgypt, even to this day, we were disobedient to the Lord our God: and\ngoing astray we turned away from hearing his voice.\n\n1:20. And many evils have cleaved to us, and the curses which the Lord\nforetold by Moses his servant: who brought our fathers out of the land\nof Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this\nday.\n\n1:21. And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God\naccording to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us:\n\n1:22. And we have gone away every man after the inclinations of his own\nwicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the\nLord our God.\n\n\nBaruch Chapter 2\n\nA further confession of the sins of the people, and of the justice of\nGod.\n\n2:1. Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke\nto us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and\nto our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:\n\n2:2. That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never\nhappened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem,\naccording to the things that are written in the law of Moses:\n\n2:3. That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of\nhis own daughter.\n\n2:4. And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the\nkings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among\nall the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.\n\n2:5. And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have\nsinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.\n\n2:6. To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our\nfathers confusion of face, as at this day.\n\n2:7. For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are\ncome upon us:\n\n2:8. And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we\nmight return every one of us from our most wicked ways.\n\n2:9. And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it\nupon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath commanded\nus:\n\n2:10. And we have not hearkened to his voice to walk in the\ncommandments of the Lord which he hath set before us.\n\n2:11. And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast brought thy people out of\nthe land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders,\nand with thy great power, and with a mighty arm, and hast made thee a\nname as at this day,\n\n2:12. We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have acted unjustly, O\nLord our God, against all thy justices.\n\n2:13. Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among\nthe nations where thou hast scattered us.\n\n2:14. Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our petitions, and deliver us for\nthy own sake: and grant that we may find favour in the sight of them\nthat have led us away:\n\n2:15. That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, and\nthat thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity.\n\n2:16. Look down upon us, O Lord, from thy holy house, and incline thy\near, and hear us.\n\n2:17. Open thy eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in hell, whose\nspirit is taken away from their bowels, shall not give glory and\njustice to the Lord:\n\nJustice, etc.... They that are in hell shall not give justice to God;\nthat is, they shall not acknowledge and glorify his justice as penitent\nsinners do upon earth.\n\n2:18. But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of evil she hath\ndone, and goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the\nhungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the Lord.\n\n2:19. For it is not for the justices of our fathers that we pour out\nour prayers, and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God:\n\n2:20. But because thou hast sent out thy wrath, and thy indignation\nupon us, as thou hast spoken by the hand of thy servants the prophets,\nsaying:\n\n2:21. Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoulder, and your neck, and\nserve the king of Babylon: and you shall remain in the land which I\nhave given to your fathers.\n\n2:22. But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to\nserve the king of Babylon: I will cause you to depart out of the cities\nof Juda, and from without Jerusalem.\n\n2:23. And I will take away from you the voice of mirth, and the voice\nof joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,\nand all the land shall be without any footstep of inhabitants.\n\n2:24. And they hearkened not to thy voice, to serve the king of\nBabylon: and thou hast made good thy words, which thou spokest by the\nhands of thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings, and\nthe bones of our fathers should be removed out of their place:\n\n2:25. And behold they are cast out to the heat of the sun, and to the\nfrost of the night: and they have died in grievous pains, by famine,\nand by the sword, and in banishment.\n\n2:26. And thou hast made the temple, in which thy name was called upon,\nas it is at this day, for the iniquity of the house of Israel, and the\nhouse of Juda.\n\n2:27. And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our God, according to all thy\ngoodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine:\n\n2:28. As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, in the day when\nthou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel,\n\n2:29. Saying: If you will not hear my voice, this great multitude shall\nbe turned into a very small number among the nations, where I will\nscatter them:\n\n2:30. For I know that the people will not hear me, for they are a\npeople of a stiff neck: but they shall turn to their heart in the land\nof their captivity:\n\n2:31. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give\nthem a heart, and they shall understand: and ears, and they shall hear.\n\n2:32. And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and\nshall be mindful of my name.\n\n2:33. And they shall turn away themselves from their stiff neck, and\nfrom their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their\nfathers, that sinned against me.\n\n2:34. And I will bring them back again into the land which I promised\nwith an oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they\nshall be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and they shall not\nbe diminished.\n\n2:35. And I will make with them another covenant that shall be\neverlasting, to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will\nno more remove my people, the children of Israel, out of the land that\nI have given them.\n\n\nBaruch Chapter 3\n\nThey pray for mercy, acknowledging that they are justly punished for\nforsaking true wisdom. A prophecy of Christ.\n\n3:1. And now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the soul in anguish,\nand the troubled spirit crieth to thee:\n\n3:2. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art a merciful God, and\nhave pity on us: for we have sinned before thee.\n\n3:3. For thou remainest for ever, and shall we perish everlastingly?\n\n3:4. O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the\ndead of Israel, and of their children, that have sinned before thee,\nand have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, wherefore\nevils have cleaved fast to us.\n\n3:5. Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but think upon thy\nhand, and upon thy name at this time:\n\n3:6. For thou art the Lord our God, and we will praise thee, O Lord:\n\n3:7. Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the\nintent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our\ncaptivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who\nsinned before thee.\n\n3:8. And behold we are at this day in our captivity, whereby thou hast\nscattered us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an offence, according\nto all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed from thee, O Lord\nour God.\n\n3:9. Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear, that thou\nmayst learn wisdom.\n\n3:10. How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art in thy enemies\u2019 land?\n\n3:11. Thou art grown old in a strange country, thou art defiled with\nthe dead: thou art counted with them that go down into hell.\n\n3:12. Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom:\n\n3:13. For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou hadst surely\ndwelt in peace for ever.\n\n3:14. Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding:\nthat thou mayst know also where is length of days and life, where is\nthe light of the eyes, and peace.\n\n3:15. Who hath found out her place? and who hath gone in to her\ntreasures?\n\n3:16. Where are the princes of the nations, and they that rule over the\nbeasts that are upon the earth?\n\n3:17. That take their diversion with the birds of the air.\n\n3:18. That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no\nend of their getting? who work in silver and are solicitous, and their\nworks are unsearchable.\n\n3:19. They are cut off, and are gone down to hell, and others are risen\nup in their place.\n\n3:20. Young men have seen the light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the\nway of knowledge they have not known,\n\n3:21. Nor have they understood the paths thereof, neither have their\nchildren received it, it is far from their face.\n\n3:22. It hath not been heard of in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it\nbeen seen in Theman.\n\nTheman.... The capital city of Edom.\n\n3:23. The children of Agar also, that search after the wisdom that is\nof the earth, the merchants of Merrha, and of Theman, and the tellers\nof fables, and searchers of prudence and understanding: but the way of\nwisdom they have not known, neither have they remembered her paths.\n\nAgar.... The mother of the Ismaelites.\n\n3:24. O Israel, how great is the house of God, and how vast is the\nplace of his possession!\n\n3:25. It is great, and hath no end: it is high and immense.\n\n3:26. There were the giants, those renowned men that were from the\nbeginning, of great stature, expert in war.\n\n3:27. The Lord chose not them, neither did they find the way of\nknowledge: therefore did they perish.\n\n3:28. And because they had not wisdom, they perished through their\nfolly.\n\n3:29. Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down\nfrom the clouds?\n\n3:30. Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her\npreferably to chosen gold?\n\n3:31. There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search\nout her paths:\n\n3:32. But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her\nout with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore,\nand filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:\n\n3:33. He that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth: and hath called\nit, and it obeyeth him with trembling.\n\n3:34. And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced:\n\n3:35. They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with\ncheerfulness they have shined forth to him that made them.\n\n3:36. This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in\ncomparison of him.\n\n3:37. He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his\nservant, and to Israel his beloved.\n\n3:38. Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.\n\nWas seen upon earth, etc.... viz., by the mystery of the incarnation,\nby means of which the son of God came visibly amongst us, and conversed\nwith men. The prophets often speak of things to come as if they were\npast, to express the certainty of the event of the things foretold.\n\n\nBaruch Chapter 4\n\nThe prophet exhorts to the keeping of the law of wisdom, and encourages\nthe people to be patient, and to hope for their deliverance.\n\n4:1. This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is\nfor ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have\nforsaken it, to death.\n\n4:2. Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its\nbrightness, in the presence of the light thereof.\n\n4:3. Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange\nnation.\n\n4:4. We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to\nGod, are made known to us.\n\n4:5. Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel:\n\n4:6. You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but\nbecause you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your\nadversaries.\n\n4:7. For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering\nsacrifice to devils, and not to God.\n\n4:8. For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have\ngrieved Jerusalem that nursed you.\n\n4:9. For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give\near, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great\nmourning:\n\n4:10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my\ndaughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.\n\n4:11. For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping\nand mourning.\n\n4:12. Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken\nof many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law\nof God.\n\n4:13. And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of\nGod\u2019s commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth\nand justice.\n\n4:14. Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember the captivity\nof my sons and daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.\n\n4:15. For he hath brought a nation upon them from afar, a wicked\nnation, and of a strange tongue:\n\n4:16. Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and\nhave carried away the beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone\nwithout children.\n\n4:17. But as for me, what help can I give you?\n\n4:18. But he that hath brought the evils upon you, he will deliver you\nout of the hands of your enemies.\n\n4:19. Go your way, my children, go your way: for I am left alone.\n\n4:20. I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the\nsackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.\n\n4:21. Be of good comfort, my children, cry to the Lord, and he will\ndeliver you out of the hand of the princes your enemies.\n\n4:22. For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is\ncome upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come\nto you from our everlasting Saviour.\n\n4:23. For I sent you forth with mourning and weeping: but the Lord will\nbring you back to me with joy and gladness for ever.\n\n4:24. For as the neighbours of Sion have now seen your captivity from\nGod: so shall they also shortly see your salvation from God, which\nshall come upon you with great honour, and everlasting glory.\n\n4:25. My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you:\nfor thy enemy hath persecuted thee, but thou shalt quickly see his\ndestruction: and thou shalt get up upon his neck.\n\n4:26. My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were taken away\nas a flock made a prey by the enemies.\n\n4:27. Be of good comfort, my children, and cry to the Lord: for you\nshall be remembered by him that hath led you away.\n\n4:28. For as it was your mind to go astray from God; so when you return\nagain you shall seek him ten times as much.\n\n4:29. For he that hath brought evils upon you, shall bring you\neverlasting joy again with your salvation.\n\n4:30. Be of good heart, O Jerusalem: for he exhorteth thee, that named\nthee.\n\n4:31. The wicked that have afflicted thee, shall perish: and they that\nhave rejoiced at thy ruin, shall be punished.\n\n4:32. The cities which thy children have served, shall be punished: and\nshe that received thy sons.\n\nShe that received, etc.... viz., Babylon.\n\n4:33. For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so\nshall she be grieved for her own desolation.\n\n4:34. And the joy of her multitude shall be cut off: and her gladness\nshall be turned to mourning.\n\n4:35. For fire shall come upon her from the Eternal, long to endure,\nand she shall be inhabited by devils for a great time.\n\n4:36. Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the east, and behold the\njoy that cometh to thee from God.\n\n4:37. For behold thy children come, whom thou sentest away scattered,\nthey come gathered together from the east even to the west, at the word\nof the Holy One rejoicing for the honour of God.\n\n\nBaruch Chapter 5\n\nJerusalem is invited to rejoice and behold the return of her children\nout of their captivity.\n\n5:1. Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of thy mourning, and affliction:\nand put on the beauty, and honour of that everlasting glory which thou\nhast from God.\n\n5:2. God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will\nset a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.\n\n5:3. For God will shew his brightness in thee, to every one under\nheaven.\n\n5:4. For thy name shall be named to thee by God for ever: the peace of\njustice, and honour of piety.\n\n5:5. Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high: and look about towards the\neast, and behold thy children gathered together from the rising to the\nsetting sun, by the word of the Holy One rejoicing in the remembrance\nof God.\n\n5:6. For they went out from thee on foot, led by the enemies: but the\nLord will bring them to thee exalted with honour as children of the\nkingdom.\n\n5:7. For God hath appointed to bring down every high mountain, and the\neverlasting rocks, and to fill up the valleys to make them even with\nthe ground: that Israel may walk diligently to the honour of God.\n\n5:8. Moreover the woods, and every sweetsmelling tree have overshadowed\nIsrael by the commandment of God.\n\n5:9. For God will bring Israel with joy in the light of his majesty,\nwith mercy, and justice, that cometh from him.\n\n\nBaruch Chapter 6\n\nThe epistle of Jeremias to the captives, as a preservative against\nidolatry.\n\nA copy of the epistle that Jeremias sent to them that were to be led\naway captives into Babylon, by the king of Babylon, to declare to them\naccording to what was commanded him by God.\n\n6:1. For the sins that you have committed before God, you shall be\ncarried away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon.\n\n6:2. And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years,\nand for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will\nbring you away from thence with peace.\n\nSeven generations.... That is, seventy years.\n\n6:3. But now, you shall see in Babylon gods of gold, and of silver, and\nof stone, and of wood borne upon shoulders, causing fear to the\nGentiles.\n\n6:4. Beware therefore that you imitate not the doings of others, and be\nafraid, and the fear of them should seize upon you.\n\n6:5. But when you see the multitude behind, and before, adoring them,\nsay you in your hearts: Thou oughtest to be adored, O Lord.\n\n6:6. For my angel is with you: And I myself will demand an account of\nyour souls.\n\n6:7. For their tongue that is polished by the craftsman, and themselves\nlaid over with gold and silver, are false things, and they cannot\nspeak.\n\n6:8. And as if it were for a maiden that loveth to go gay: so do they\ntake gold and make them up.\n\n6:9. Their gods have golden crowns upon their heads: whereof the\npriests secretly convey away from them gold, and silver, and bestow it\non themselves.\n\n6:10. Yea and they give thereof to prostitutes, and they dress out\nharlots: and again when they receive it of the harlots, they adorn\ntheir gods.\n\n6:11. And these gods cannot defend themselves from the rust, and the\nmoth.\n\n6:12. But when they have covered them with a purple garment, they wipe\ntheir face because of the dust of the house, which is very much among\nthem.\n\n6:13. This holdeth a sceptre as a man, as a judge of the country, but\ncannot put to death one that offendeth him.\n\n6:14. And this hath in his hand a sword, or an axe, but cannot save\nhimself from war, or from robbers, whereby be it known to you, that\nthey are not gods.\n\n6:15. Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel that a man uses when it\nis broken becometh useless, even so are their gods:\n\n6:16. When they are placed in the house, their eyes are full of dust by\nthe feet of them that go in.\n\n6:17. And as the gates are made sure on every side upon one that hath\noffended the king, or like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the\npriests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest they be stripped by\nthieves.\n\n6:18. They light candles to them, and in great number, of which they\ncannot see one: but they are like beams in the house.\n\n6:19. And they say that the creeping things which are of the earth,\ngnaw their hearts, while they eat them and their garments, and they\nfeel it not.\n\n6:20. Their faces are black with the smoke that is made in the house.\n\n6:21. Owls, and swallows, and other birds fly upon their bodies, and\nupon their heads, and cats in like manner.\n\n6:22. Whereby you may know that they are no gods. Therefore fear them\nnot.\n\n6:23. The gold also which they have, is for shew, but except a man wipe\noff the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten,\ndid they feel it.\n\n6:24. Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them.\n\n6:25. And having not the use of feet they are carried upon shoulders,\ndeclaring to men how vile they are. Be they confounded also that\nworship them.\n\n6:26. Therefore if they fall to the ground, they rise not up again of\nthemselves, nor if a man set them upright, will they stand by\nthemselves, but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the dead.\n\n6:27. The things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and\nabuse: in like manner also their wives take part of them, but give\nnothing of it either to the sick, or to the poor.\n\n6:28. The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices:\nknowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them\nnot.\n\n6:29. For how can they be called gods? because women set offerings\nbefore the gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood:\n\n6:30. And priests sit in their temples, having their garments rent, and\ntheir heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.\n\n6:31. And they roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast\nwhen one is dead.\n\n6:32. The priests take away their garments, and clothe their wives and\ntheir children.\n\n6:33. And whether it be evil that one doth unto them, or good, they are\nnot able to recompense it: neither can they set up a king, nor put him\ndown:\n\n6:34. In like manner they can neither give riches, nor requite evil. If\na man make a vow to them, and perform it not: they cannot require it.\n\n6:35. They cannot deliver a man from death, nor save the weak from the\nmighty.\n\n6:36. They cannot restore the blind man to his sight: nor deliver a man\nfrom distress.\n\n6:37. They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.\n\n6:38. Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of gold, and of silver,\nare like the stones that are hewn out of the mountains: and they that\nworship them shall be confounded.\n\n6:39. How then is it to be supposed, or to be said, that they are gods?\n\n6:40. Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear\nof one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him,\nthat he may speak.\n\n6:41. As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves:\nand they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their\ngods themselves have no sense.\n\n6:42. The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning\nolive-stones.\n\n6:43. And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth\nwith him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as\nworthy as herself, nor her cord broken.\n\n6:44. But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it\nthen to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods?\n\n6:45. And they are made by workmen, and by goldsmiths. They shall be\nnothing else but what the priests will have them to be.\n\n6:46. For the artificers themselves that make them, are of no long\ncontinuance. Can those things then that are made by them, be gods?\n\n6:47. But they have left false things and reproach to them that come\nafter.\n\n6:48. For when war cometh upon them, or evils: the priests consult\nwith themselves, where they may hide themselves with them.\n\n6:49. How then can they be thought to be gods, that can neither deliver\nthemselves from war, nor save themselves from evils?\n\n6:50. For seeing they are but of wood, and laid over with gold, and\nwith silver, it shall be known hereafter that they are false things, by\nall nations, and kings: and it shall be manifest that they are no gods,\nbut the work of men\u2019s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.\n\n6:51. Whence, therefore, is it known that they are not gods, but the\nwork of men\u2019s hands, and no work of God is in them?\n\n6:52. They cannot set up a king over the land, nor give rain to men.\n\n6:53. They determine no causes, nor deliver countries from oppression:\nbecause they can do nothing, and are as daws between heaven and earth.\n\n6:54. For when fire shall fall upon the house of these gods of wood,\nand of silver, and of gold, their priests indeed will flee away, and be\nsaved: but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst like beams.\n\n6:55. And they cannot withstand a king and war. How then can it be\nsupposed, or admitted, that they are gods?\n\n6:56. Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with\ngold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or\nrobbers: they that are stronger than them,\n\nThey that are stronger than them.... That is, robbers and thieves are\nstronger than these idols, being things without life or motion.\n\n6:57. Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment\nwherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they\nhelp themselves.\n\n6:58. Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or\nelse a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof\nwill be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe\nthat are therein, than such false gods.\n\n6:59. The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth\nfor profitable uses, are obedient.\n\n6:60. In like manner the lightning, when it breaketh forth, is easy to\nbe seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.\n\n6:61. And the clouds, when God commandeth them to go over the whole\nworld, do that which is commanded them.\n\n6:62. The fire also being sent from above to consume mountains, and\nwoods, doth as it is commanded. But these neither in shew, nor in\npower, are like to any one of them.\n\n6:63. Wherefore it is neither to be thought, nor to be said, that they\nare gods: since they are neither able to judge causes, nor to do any\ngood to men.\n\n6:64. Knowing, therefore, that they are not gods, fear them not.\n\n6:65. For neither can they curse kings, nor bless them.\n\n6:66. Neither do they shew signs in the heaven to the nations, nor\nshine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.\n\n6:67. Beasts are better than they, which can fly under a covert, and\nhelp themselves.\n\n6:68. Therefore there is no manner of appearance that they are gods: so\nfear them not.\n\n6:69. For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so\nare their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold.\n\n6:70. They are no better than a white thorn in a garden, upon which\nevery bird sitteth. In like manner also their gods of wood, and laid\nover with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead body cast forth in\nthe dark.\n\n6:71. By the purple also and the scarlet which are motheaten upon them,\nyou shall know that they are not gods. And they themselves at last are\nconsumed, and shall be a reproach in the country.\n\n6:72. Better, therefore, is the just man that hath no idols: for he\nshall be far from reproach.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL\n\n\nEZECHIEL, whose name signifies the STRENGTH OF GOD, was of the priestly\nrace; and of the number of captives that were carried away to Babylon\nwith king JOACHIN. He was contemporary with JEREMIAS, and prophesied to\nthe same effect in Babylon, as JEREMIAS did in Jerusalem; and is said\nto have ended his days in like manner, by martyrdom.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 1\n\nThe time of Ezechiel\u2019s prophecy: he sees a glorious vision.\n\n1:1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on\nthe fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by\nthe river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of\nGod.\n\nThe thirtieth year.... Either of the age of Ezechiel; or, as others\nwill have it, from the solemn covenant made in the eighteenth year of\nthe reign of Josias. 4 Kings 23.\n\n1:2. On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the\ncaptivity of king Joachin,\n\n1:3. The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Buzi\nin the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the\nLord was there upon him.\n\n1:4. And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came out of the north: and a\ngreat cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness was about it: and\nout of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of the fire, as it\nwere the resemblance of amber:\n\n1:5. And in the midst thereof the likeness of four living creatures:\nand this was their appearance: there was the likeness of a man in them.\n\nLiving creatures.... Cherubims (as appears from Ecclesiasticus 49.10)\nrepresented to the prophet under these mysterious shapes, as supporting\nthe throne of God, and as it were drawing his chariot. All this chapter\nappeared so obscure, and so full of mysteries to the ancient Hebrews,\nthat, as we learn from St. Jerome, (Ep. ad Paulin.,) they suffered none\nto read it before they were thirty years old.\n\n1:6. Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.\n\n1:7. Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like\nthe sole of a calf\u2019s foot, and they sparkled like the appearance of\nglowing brass.\n\n1:8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four\nsides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides,\n\n1:9. And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They\nturned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.\n\n1:10. And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a\nman, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the\nface of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an\neagle over all the four.\n\n1:11. And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings\nof every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:\n\n1:12. And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse\nof the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when\nthey went.\n\n1:13. And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance\nwas like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of\nlamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the\nliving creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the\nfire.\n\n1:14. And the living creatures ran and returned like flashes of\nlightning.\n\n1:15. Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the\nearth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.\n\n1:16. And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like\nthe appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their\nappearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a\nwheel.\n\n1:17. When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned\nnot when they went.\n\nWhen they went, they went by their four parts.... That is,\nindifferently to any of their sides either forward or backward: to the\nright or to the left.\n\n1:18. The wheels had also a size, and a height, and a dreadful\nappearance: and the whole body was full of eyes round about all the\nfour.\n\n1:19. And, when the living creatures went, the wheels also went\ntogether by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the\nearth, the wheels also were lifted up with them.\n\n1:20. Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the\nwheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of\nlife was in the wheels.\n\n1:21. When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and\nwhen those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up\ntogether, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.\n\n1:22. And over the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of\nthe firmament, the appearance of crystal terrible to behold, and\nstretched out over their heads above.\n\n1:23. And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward\nthe other, every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was\ncovered in like manner.\n\n1:24. And I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many\nwaters, as it were the voice of the most high God: when they walked, it\nwas like the voice of a multitude, like the noise of an army, and when\nthey stood, their wings were let down.\n\n1:25. For when a voice came from above the firmament, that was over\ntheir heads, they stood, and let down their wings.\n\n1:26. And above the firmament that was over their heads, was the\nlikeness of a throne, as the appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon\nthe likeness of the throne, was the likeness of the appearance of a man\nabove upon it.\n\n1:27. And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber as the appearance\nof fire within it round about: from his loins and upward, and from his\nloins downward, I saw as it were the resemblance of fire shining round\nabout.\n\n1:28. As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy\nday: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 2\n\nThe prophet receives his commission.\n\n2:1. This was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the Lord, and\nI saw, and I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one that\nspoke, and he said to me: Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will\nspeak to thee.\n\n2:2. And the spirit entered into me after that he spoke to me, and he\nset me upon my feet: and I heard him speaking to me,\n\n2:3. And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to\na rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their\nfathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.\n\n2:4. And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face, and of\nan obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord\nGod:\n\n2:5. If so be they at least will hear, and if so be they will forbear,\nfor they are a provoking house: and they shall know that there hath\nbeen a prophet in the midst of them.\n\n2:6. And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid of their\nwords: for thou art among unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest\nwith scorpions. Fear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their\nlooks: for they are a provoking house.\n\n2:7. And thou shalt speak my words to them, if perhaps they will hear,\nand forbear: for they provoke me to anger.\n\n2:8. But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say to thee: and do not\nthou provoke me, as that house provoketh me: open thy mouth, and eat\nwhat I give thee.\n\n2:9. And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to me, wherein was a\nbook rolled up: and he spread it before me, and it was written within\nand without: and there were written in it lamentations, and canticles,\nand woe.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 3\n\nThe prophet eats the book, and receives further instructions: the\noffice of a watchman.\n\n3:1. And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that thou shalt find: eat\nthis book, and go speak to the children of Israel.\n\nEat this book, and go speak to the children of Israel.... By this\neating of the book was signified the diligent attention and affection\nwith which we are to receive, and embrace the word of God; and to let\nit, as it were, sink into our interior by devout meditation.\n\n3:2. And I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that book:\n\n3:3. And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly shall eat, and thy bowels\nshall be filled with this book, which I give thee, and I did eat it:\nand it was sweet as honey in my mouth.\n\n3:4. And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou\nshalt speak my words to them.\n\n3:5. For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an\nunknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:\n\n3:6. Nor to many nations of a strange speech, and of an unknown tongue,\nwhose words thou canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to them,\nthey would hearken to thee.\n\n3:7. But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they\nwill not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard\nforehead and an obstinate heart.\n\n3:8. Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy\nforehead harder than their foreheads.\n\n3:9. I have made thy face like an adamant and like flint: fear them\nnot, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a\nprovoking house.\n\n3:10. And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear\nwith thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:\n\n3:11. And go get thee in to them of the captivity, to the children of\nthy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus\nsaith the Lord: If so be they will hear, and will forbear.\n\n3:12. And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a\ngreat commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his\nplace.\n\n3:13. And the noise of the wings of the living creatures striking one\nagainst another, and the noise of the wheels following the living\ncreatures, and the noise of a great commotion.\n\n3:14. The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in\nbitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord\nwas with me, strengthening me.\n\n3:15. And I came to them of the captivity, to the heap of new corn, to\nthem that dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I\nremained there seven days mourning in the midst of them.\n\nThe heap of new corn.... It was the name of a place: in Hebrew, tel\nabib.\n\n3:16. And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me,\nsaying:\n\n3:17. Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel:\nand thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them\nfrom me.\n\n3:18. If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare\nit not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his\nwicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity,\nbut I will require his blood at thy hand.\n\n3:19. But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted\nfrom his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his\niniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.\n\n3:20. Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and\nshall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall\ndie, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin,\nand his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I\nwill require his blood at thy hand.\n\n3:21. But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he\ndoth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and\nthou hast delivered thy soul.\n\n3:22. And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and\ngo forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.\n\n3:23. And I rose up, and went forth into the plain: and behold the\nglory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river\nChobar: and I fell upon my face.\n\n3:24. And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he\nspoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of\nthy house.\n\n3:25. And thou, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon thee,\nand they shall bind thee with them: and thou shalt not go forth from\nthe midst of them.\n\n3:26. And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth,\nand thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they\nare a provoking house.\n\n3:27. But when I shall speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou\nshalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him\nhear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a provoking\nhouse.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 4\n\nA prophetic description of the siege of Jerusalem, and the famine that\nshall reign there.\n\n4:1. And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee:\nand draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem.\n\n4:2. And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount,\nand set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it.\n\n4:3. And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron\nbetween thee and the city: and set thy face resolutely against it, and\nit shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign\nto the house of Israel.\n\n4:4. And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay the\niniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of\nthe days that thou shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take upon thee\ntheir iniquity.\n\n4:5. And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according\nto the number of the days three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt\nbear the iniquity of the house of Israel.\n\n4:6. And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep again upon\nthy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house\nof Juda forty days: a day for a year, yea, a day for a year I have\nappointed to thee.\n\n4:7. And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem and thy arm\nshall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.\n\n4:8. Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt not turn\nthyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of\nthy siege.\n\n4:9. And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and\nmillet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread\nthereof according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon\nthy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.\n\n4:10. And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty\nstaters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.\n\n4:11. And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin:\nfrom time to time thou shalt drink it,\n\nHin.... That is, a measure of liquids containing about ten pints.\n\n4:12. And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and\nthou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a\nman.\n\n4:13. And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their\nbread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.\n\n4:14. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been\ndefiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing\nthat died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath\nentered into my mouth.\n\n4:15. And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat\u2019s dung for man\u2019s\ndung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.\n\n4:16. And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the\nstaff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and\nwith care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.\n\n4:17. So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his\nbrother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 5\n\nThe judgments of God upon the Jews are foreshewn under the type of the\nprophet\u2019s hair.\n\n5:1. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth the\nhair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard: and take\nthee a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair.\n\n5:2. A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city,\naccording to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt\ntake a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about:\nand the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will\ndraw out the sword after them.\n\n5:3. And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in\nthe skirt of thy cloak.\n\n5:4. And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the\nmidst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall\ncome forth a fire into all the house of Israel.\n\n5:5. Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the\nmidst of the nations, and the countries round about her.\n\n5:6. And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than\nthe Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are\nround about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not\nwalked in my commandments.\n\n5:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the\nGentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my\ncommandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done\naccording to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:\n\n5:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and\nI myself will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of\nthe Gentiles.\n\n5:9. And I will do in thee that which I have not done: and the like to\nwhich I will do no more, because of all thy abominations.\n\n5:10. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee,\nand the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in\nthee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind.\n\n5:11. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast\nviolated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with all thy\nabominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall not\nspare, and I will not have any pity.\n\n5:12. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and shall be\nconsumed with famine in the midst of thee: and a third part of thee\nshall fall by the sword round about thee: and a third part of thee will\nI scatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.\n\n5:13. And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my indignation to\nrest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the\nLord have spoken it in my zeal, when I shall have accomplished my\nindignation in them.\n\n5:14. And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations\nthat are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.\n\n5:15. And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an\nastonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I\nshall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and\nin wrathful rebukes.\n\n5:16. I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the\ngrievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will\nsend to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and\nI will break among you the staff of bread.\n\n5:17. And I will send in upon you famine, and evil beasts unto utter\ndestruction: and pestilence, and blood shall pass through thee, and I\nwill bring in the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 6\n\nThe punishment of Israel for their idolatry: a remnant shall be saved.\n\n6:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n6:2. Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and\nprophesy against them.\n\n6:3. And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God:\nThus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the\nrocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I\nwill destroy your high places.\n\n6:4. And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken\nin pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.\n\n6:5. And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before\nyour idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars,\n\n6:6. In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and\nthe high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars\nshall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall\nbe no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall\nbe defaced.\n\n6:7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know\nthat I am the Lord.\n\n6:8. And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword among the\nnations, when I shall have scattered you through the countries.\n\n6:9. And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the\nnations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken\ntheir heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes\nthat went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased\nwith themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all\ntheir abominations.\n\n6:10. And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that\nI would do this evil to them.\n\n6:11. Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy\nfoot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house\nof Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the\npestilence.\n\n6:12. He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he that is\nnear, shall fall by the sword: and he that remaineth, and is besieged,\nshall die by the famine: and I will accomplish my indignation upon\nthem.\n\n6:13. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be\namongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on\nall the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every\nthick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to\nall their idols.\n\n6:14. And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the\nland desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their\ndwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 7\n\nThe final desolation of Israel: from which few shall escape.\n\n7:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n7:2. And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of\nIsrael: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the\nland.\n\n7:3. Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee,\nand I will judge thee according to thy ways: and I will set all thy\nabominations against thee.\n\n7:4. And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no pity: but\nI will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the\nmidst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n7:5. Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is\ncome.\n\n7:6. An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against thee:\nbehold it is come.\n\n7:7. Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time\nis come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains.\n\n7:8. Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will\naccomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy\nways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes.\n\n7:9. And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will\nlay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of\nthee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike.\n\n7:10. Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the\nrod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.\n\n7:11. Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall\nremain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall\nbe no rest among them.\n\n7:12. The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice:\nnor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof.\n\n7:13. For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold,\nalthough their life be yet among the living. For the vision which\nregardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall\nman be strengthened in the iniquity of his life.\n\n7:14. Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none to go\nto the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the people thereof.\n\n7:15. The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he\nthat is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the\ncity, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine.\n\n7:16. And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in\nthe mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every\none for his iniquity.\n\n7:17. All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with\nwater.\n\n7:18. And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall\ncover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all\ntheir heads.\n\n7:19. Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a\ndunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them\nin the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul,\nand their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the\nstumblingblock of their iniquity.\n\n7:20. And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and\nhave made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore\nI have made it an uncleanness to them.\n\n7:21. And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to\nthe wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.\n\n7:22. And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my\nsecret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.\n\nSecret place, etc.... Viz., the inward sanctuary, the holy of holies.\n\n7:23. Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of\nblood, and the city is full of iniquity.\n\nMake a shutting up.... In Hebrew, a chain, viz., for imprisonment and\ncaptivity.\n\n7:24. And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess\ntheir houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and\nthey shall possess their sanctuary.\n\n7:25. When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and\nthere shall be none.\n\n7:26. Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they\nshall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the\npriest, and counsel from the ancients.\n\n7:27. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with\nsorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I\nwill do to them according to their way, and will judge them according\nto their judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 8\n\nThe prophet sees in a vision the abominations committed in Jerusalem;\nwhich determine the Lord to spare them no longer.\n\n8:1. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the\nfifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda\nsat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.\n\n8:2. And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of fire: from\nthe appearance of his loins, and downward, fire: and from his loins,\nand upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the appearance of\namber.\n\n8:3. And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of\nmy head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven,\nand brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner\ngate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy\nto provoke to jealousy.\n\n8:4. And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to\nthe vision which I had seen in the plain.\n\n8:5. And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards the way of\nthe north, and I lifted up my eyes towards the way of the north: and\nbehold on the north side of the gate of the altar the idol of jealousy\nin the very entry.\n\n8:6. And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest thou, what\nthese are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel\ncommitteth here, that I should depart far off from my sanctuary? and\nturn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations.\n\n8:7. And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and\nbehold a hole in the wall.\n\n8:8. And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had\ndigged in the wall, behold a door.\n\n8:9. And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which\nthey commit here.\n\n8:10. And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things,\nand of living creatures, the abominations, and all the idols of the\nhouse of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about.\n\n8:11. And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and\nJezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of them, that stood\nbefore the pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand: and a\ncloud of smoke went up from the incense.\n\n8:12. And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the\nancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in\nhis chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath\nforsaken the earth.\n\n8:13. And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see\ngreater abominations which these commit.\n\n8:14. And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord\u2019s house,\nwhich looked to the north: and behold women sat there mourning for\nAdonis.\n\nAdonis.... The favourite of Venus, slain by a wild boar, as feigned by\nthe heathen poets, and which being here represented by an idol, is\nlamented by the female worshippers of that goddess. In the Hebrew, the\nname is Tammuz.\n\n8:15. And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: but turn\nthee again, thou shalt see greater abominations than these.\n\n8:16. And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord:\nand behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and\nthe altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards\nthe temple of the Lord, and their faces to the east: and they adored\ntowards the rising of the sun.\n\n8:17. And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a\nlight thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these\nabominations which they have committed here: because they have filled\nthe land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and\nbehold they put a branch to their nose.\n\n8:18. Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall\nnot spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to\nmy ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 9\n\nAll are ordered to be destroyed that are not marked in their foreheads.\nGod will not be entreated for them.\n\n9:1. And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying: The visitations\nof the city are at hand, and every one hath a destroying weapon in his\nhand.\n\n9:2. And behold six men came from the way of the upper gate, which\nlooketh to the north: and each one had his weapon of destruction in his\nhand: and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with linen,\nwith a writer\u2019s inkhorn at his reins: and they went in, and stood by\nthe brazen altar.\n\n9:3. And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the cherub, upon\nwhich he was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man\nthat was clothed with linen, and had a writer\u2019s inkhorn at his loins.\n\n9:4. And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city,\nthrough the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the\nmen that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in\nthe midst thereof.\n\nMark Thau.... Thau, or Tau, is the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet,\nand signifies a sign, or a mark; which is the reason why some\ntranslators render this place set a mark, or mark a mark without\nspecifying what this mark was. But St. Jerome, and other interpreters,\nconclude it was the form of the letter Thau, which in the ancient\nHebrew character, was the form of a cross.\n\n9:5. And to the others he said in my hearing: Go ye after him through\nthe city, and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with\npity.\n\n9:6. Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but\nupon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my\nsanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house.\n\n9:7. And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with\nthe slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in\nthe city.\n\n9:8. And the slaughter being ended I was left; and I fell upon my face,\nand crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then\ndestroy all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon\nJerusalem?\n\n9:9. And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of\nJuda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the\ncity is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath\nforsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.\n\n9:10. Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I\nwill requite their way upon their head.\n\n9:11. And behold the man that was clothed with linen, that had the\ninkhorn at his back, returned the word, saying: I have done as thou\nhast commanded me.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 10\n\nFire is taken from the midst of the wheels under the cherubims, and\nscattered over the city. A description of the cherubims.\n\n10:1. And I saw and behold in the firmament that was over the heads of\nthe cherubims, there appeared over them as it were the sapphire stone,\nas the appearance of the likeness of a throne.\n\n10:2. And he spoke to the man, that was clothed with linen, and said:\nGo in between the wheels that are under the cherubims and fill thy hand\nwith the coals of fire that are between the cherubims, and pour them\nout upon the city. And he went in, in my sight:\n\n10:3. And the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the\nman went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.\n\n10:4. And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from above the cherub to\nthe threshold of the house: and the house was filled with the cloud,\nand the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.\n\n10:5. And the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard even to the\noutward court as the voice of God Almighty speaking.\n\n10:6. And when he had commanded the man that was clothed with linen,\nsaying: Take fire from the midst of the wheels that are between the\ncherubims: he went in and stood beside the wheel.\n\n10:7. And one cherub stretched out his arm from the midst of the\ncherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims: and he took, and\nput it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it\nand went forth.\n\n10:8. And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a man\u2019s hand\nunder their wings.\n\n10:9. And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims:\none wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the\nappearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone:\n\n10:10. And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel\nwere in the midst of a wheel.\n\n10:11. And when they went, they went by four ways: and they turned not\nwhen they went: but to the place whither they first turned, the rest\nalso followed, and did not turn back.\n\nBy four ways.... That is, by any of the four ways, forward, backward,\nto the right or to the left.\n\n10:12. And their whole body, and their necks, and their hands, and\ntheir wings, and the circles were full of eyes, round about the four\nwheels.\n\n10:13. And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.\n\nVoluble.... That is, rolling wheels, galgal.\n\n10:14. And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a cherub,\nand the second face, the face of a man: and in the third was the face\nof a lion: and in the fourth the face of an eagle.\n\n10:15. And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature\nthat I had seen by the river Chobar.\n\n10:16. And when the cherubims went, the wheels also went by them: and\nwhen the cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth,\nthe wheels stayed not behind, but were by them.\n\n10:17. When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up,\nthese were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.\n\n10:18. And the glory of the Lord went forth from the threshold of the\ntemple: and stood over the cherubims.\n\n10:19. And the cherubims lifting up their wings, were raised from the\nearth before me: and as they went out, the wheels also followed: and it\nstood in the entry of the east gate of the house of the Lord: and the\nglory of the God of Israel was over them.\n\n10:20. This is the living creature, which I saw under the God of Israel\nby the river Chobar: and I understood that they were cherubims.\n\n10:21. Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings: and the\nlikeness of a man\u2019s hand was under their wings.\n\n10:22. And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces\nwhich I had seen by the river Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse\nof every one to go straight forward.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 11\n\nA prophecy against the presumptuous assurance of the great ones. A\nremnant shall be saved, and receive a new spirit, and a new heart.\n\n11:1. And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east gate of\nthe house of the Lord, which looketh towards the rising of the sun: and\nbehold in the entry of the gate five and twenty men: and I saw in the\nmidst of them Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of\nBanaias, princes of the people.\n\n11:2. And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study\niniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,\n\n11:3. Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron,\nand we the flesh.\n\nWere not houses lately built, etc.... These men despised the\npredictions and threats of the prophets; who declared to them from God,\nthat the city should be destroyed, and the inhabitants carried into\ncaptivity: and they made use of this kind of argument against the\nprophets, that the city, so far from being like to be destroyed, had\nlately been augmented by the building of new houses; from whence they\nfurther inferred, by way of a proverb, using the similitude of a\ncauldron, out of which the flesh is not taken, till it is thoroughly\nboiled, and fit to be eaten, that they should not be carried away out\nof their city, but there end their days in peace.\n\n11:4. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of man.\n\n11:5. And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me: Speak:\nThus saith the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house of Israel, for I\nknow the thoughts of your heart.\n\n11:6. You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled\nthe streets thereof with the slain.\n\n11:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid\nin the midst thereof, they are the flesh, and this is the caldron: and\nI will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.\n\n11:8. You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you,\nsaith the Lord God.\n\n11:9. And I will cast you out of the midst thereof, and I will deliver\nyou into the hand of the enemies, and I will execute judgments upon\nyou.\n\n11:10. You shall fall by the sword: I will judge you in the borders of\nIsrael, and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\nIn the borders of Israel.... They pretended that they should die in\npeace in Jerusalem; God tells them it should not be so; but that they\nshould be judged and condemned, and fall by the sword in the borders of\nIsrael: viz., in Reblatha in the land of Emath, where all their chief\nmen were put to death by Nabuchodonosor. 4 Kings 25., and Jer. 52.10,\n27.\n\n11:11. This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not be as\nflesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the borders of Israel.\n\n11:12. And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not\nwalked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have\ndone according to the judgments of the nations that are round about\nyou.\n\n11:13. And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of\nBanaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud\nvoice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of\nall the remnant of Israel?\n\n11:14. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n11:15. Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and all the\nhouse of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have\nsaid: Get ye far from the Lord, the land is given in possession to us.\n\nThy brethren, etc.... He speaks of them that had been carried away\ncaptives before; who were despised by them that remained in Jerusalem:\nbut as the prophet here declares to them from God, should be in a more\nhappy condition than they, and after some time return from their\ncaptivity.\n\n11:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed them\nfar off among the Gentiles, and because I have scattered them among the\ncountries: I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries\nwhither they are come.\n\n11:17. Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the Lord God: I will gather\nyou from among the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries\nwherein you are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.\n\n11:18. And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the\nscandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.\n\n11:19. And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in\ntheir bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh,\nand will give them a heart of flesh:\n\n11:20. That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments,\nand do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God.\n\n11:21. But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals and\nabominations, I will lay their way upon their head, saith the Lord God.\n\n11:22. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels with\nthem: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.\n\n11:23. And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city,\nand stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city.\n\n11:24. And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to\nthem of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision\nwhich I had seen was taken up from me.\n\n11:25. And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the Lord,\nwhich he had shewn me.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 12\n\nThe prophet forsheweth, by signs, the captivity of Sedecias, and the\ndesolation of the people: all which shall quickly come to pass.\n\n12:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who\nhave eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they\nare a provoking house.\n\n12:3. Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all necessaries for\nremoving, and remove by day into their sight: and thou shalt remove out\nof thy place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard\nit: for they are a provoking house.\n\n12:4. And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one\nthat is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the\nevening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his\ndwelling.\n\n12:5. Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt\ngo forth through it.\n\n12:6. In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men\u2019s shoulders,\nthou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and\nshalt not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of things to\ncome to the house of Israel.\n\n12:7. I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my goods\nby day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in the evening I digged\nthrough the wall with my hand, and I went forth in the dark, and was\ncarried on men\u2019s shoulders in their sight.\n\n12:8. And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying:\n\n12:9. Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house,\nsaid to thee: What art thou doing?\n\n12:10. Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: This burden concerneth my\nprince that is in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, that are\namong them.\n\n12:11. Say: I am a sign of things to come to you: as I have done, so\nshall it be done to them: they shall be removed from their dwellings,\nand go into captivity.\n\n12:12. And the prince that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on\nshoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the\nwall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see\nthe ground with his eyes.\n\n12:13. And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my\nnet: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans,\nand he shall not see it, and there he shall die.\n\nHe shall not see it.... Because his eyes shall be put out by\nNabuchodonosor.\n\n12:14. And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I will\nscatter into every wind: and I will draw out the sword after them.\n\n12:15. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have\ndispersed them among the nations, and scattered them in the countries.\n\n12:16. And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and from the\nfamine, and from the pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked\ndeeds among the nations whither they shall go: and they shall know that\nI am the Lord.\n\n12:17. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n12:18. Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in\nhurry and sorrow.\n\n12:19. And say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord God to\nthem that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat\ntheir bread in care, and drink their water in desolation: that the land\nmay become desolate from the multitude that is therein, for the\niniquity of all that dwell therein.\n\n12:20. And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and\nthe land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n12:21. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n12:22. Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of\nIsrael? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall\nfail.\n\n12:23. Say to them therefore: Thus saith the Lord God: I will make this\nproverb to cease, neither shall it be any more a common saying in\nIsrael: and tell them that the days are at hand, and the effect of\nevery vision.\n\n12:24. For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful\ndivination in the midst of the children of Israel.\n\n12:25. For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak,\nit shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your\ndays, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith\nthe Lord God.\n\n12:26. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n12:27. Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The\nvision that this man seeth, is for many days to come: and this man\nprophesieth of times afar off.\n\n12:28. Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of\nmine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be\naccomplished, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 13\n\nGod declares against false prophets and prophetesses, that deceive the\npeople with lies.\n\n13:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n13:2. Son of man, prophesy thou against the prophets of Israel that\nprophesy: and thou shalt say to them that prophesy out of their own\nheart: Hear ye the word of the Lord:\n\n13:3. Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow\ntheir own spirit, and see nothing.\n\n13:4. Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in the deserts.\n\n13:5. You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set up a\nwall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of the\nLord.\n\n13:6. They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord\nsaith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to\nconfirm what they have said.\n\n13:7. Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination:\nand you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken.\n\n13:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain\nthings, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith\nthe Lord God.\n\n13:9. And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and\nthat divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor\nshall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither\nshall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am\nthe Lord God.\n\n13:10. Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there\nis no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with\ndirt without straw.\n\n13:11. Say to them that daub without tempering, that it shall fall: for\nthere shall be an overflowing shower, and I will cause great hailstones\nto fall violently from above, and a stormy wind to throw it down.\n\n13:12. Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not be said to you:\nWhere is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it?\n\n13:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I will cause a stormy\nwind to break forth in my indignation, and there shall be an\noverflowing shower in my anger: and great hailstones in my wrath to\nconsume.\n\n13:14. And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with\nuntempered mortar: and I will make it even with the ground, and the\nfoundation thereof shall be laid bare: and it shall fall, and shall be\nconsumed in the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n13:15. And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that\ndaub it without tempering the mortar, and I will say to you: The wall\nis no more, and they that daub it are no more.\n\n13:16. Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem, and that\nsee visions of peace for her: and there is no peace, saith the Lord\nGod.\n\n13:17. And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy\npeople that prophesy out of their own heart: and do thou prophesy\nagainst them,\n\n13:18. And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to them that sew cushions\nunder every elbow: and make pillows for the heads of persons of every\nage to catch souls: and when they caught the souls of my people, they\ngave life to their souls.\n\nSew cushions, etc.... Viz., by making people easy in their sins, and\npromising them impunity.\u2014Ibid. They gave life to their souls.... That\nis, they flattered them with promises of life, peace, and security.\n\n13:19. And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley,\nand a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save\nsouls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that\nbelieve lies.\n\nViolated me.... That is, dishonoured and discredited me. Ibid. To kill\nsouls, etc.... That is, to sentence souls to death, which are not to\ndie; and to promise life to them who are not to live.\n\n13:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I declare against your\ncushions, wherewith you catch flying souls: and I will tear them off\nfrom your arms: and I will let go the soul that you catch, the souls\nthat should fly.\n\n13:21. And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver my people out of\nyour hand, neither shall they be any more in your hands to be a prey:\nand you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n13:22. Because with lies you have made the heart of the just to mourn,\nwhom I have not made sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of the\nwicked, that he should not return from his evil way, and live.\n\n13:23. Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine divinations\nany more, and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall\nknow that I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 14\n\nGod suffers the wicked to be deceived in punishment of their\nwickedness. The evils that shall come upon them for their sins: for\nwhich they shall not be delivered by the prayers of Noe, Daniel, and\nJob. But a remnant shall be preserved.\n\n14:1. And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat before me.\n\n14:2. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n14:3. Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their\nhearts, and have set up before their face the stumblingblock of their\niniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me?\n\nUncleanness.... That is, their filthy idols, upon which they have set\ntheir hearts: and which are a stumblingblock to their souls.\n\n14:4. Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord\nGod: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place his uncleannesses\nin his heart, and set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his\nface, and shall come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord\nwill answer him according to the multitude of his uncleannesses:\n\nMan, man.... That is, every man, an Hebrew expression.\n\n14:5. That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with\nwhich they have departed from me through all their idols.\n\n14:6. Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Be\nconverted, and depart from your idols, and turn away your faces from\nall your abominations.\n\n14:7. For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger among\nthe proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself from me, and place his\nidols in his heart, and set the stumblingblock of his iniquity before\nhis face, and come to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord\nwill answer him by myself.\n\n14:8. And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an\nexample, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my\npeople: and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n14:9. And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have\ndeceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and\nwill cut him off from the midst of my people Israel.\n\nThe prophet shall err, etc.... He speaks of false prophets, answering\nout of their own heads and according to their own corrupt\ninclinations.\u2014Ibid. I have deceived that prophet.... God Almighty\ndeceives false prophets, partly by withdrawing his light from them; and\nabandoning them to their own corrupt inclinations, which push them on\nto prophesy such things as are agreeable to those who consult them: and\npartly by disappointing them, and causing all thing to happen contrary\nto what they have said.\n\n14:10. And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of\nhim that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.\n\n14:11. That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor be\npolluted with all their transgressions: but may be my people, and I may\nbe their God, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n14:12. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n14:13. Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to\ntransgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will\nbreak the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it,\nand will destroy man and beast out of it.\n\n14:14. And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it:\nthey shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of\nhosts.\n\n14:15. And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land to\nwaste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none that can pass\nbecause of the beasts:\n\n14:16. If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith the Lord,\nthey shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: but they only shall be\ndelivered, and the land shall be made desolate.\n\n14:17. Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword:\nPass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:\n\n14:18. And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith\nthe Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they\nthemselves alone shall be delivered.\n\n14:19. Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my\nindignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:\n\n14:20. And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live,\nsaith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but\nthey shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.\n\n14:21. For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem\nmy four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the\nmischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and\nbeast,\n\n14:22. Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved, who\nshall bring away their sons and daughters: behold they shall come among\nyou, and you shall see their way, and their doings: and you shall be\ncomforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in\nall things that I have brought upon it.\n\n14:23. And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways, and\ntheir doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all\nthat I have done in it, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 15\n\nAs a vine cut down is fit for nothing but the fire; so it shall be with\nJerusalem, for her sins.\n\n15:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n15:2. Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of\nall the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?\n\n15:3. Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made\nof it for any vessel to hang thereon?\n\n15:4. Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire hath consumed\nboth ends thereof, and the midst thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it\nbe useful for any work?\n\n15:5. Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less,\nwhen the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of\nit?\n\n15:6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the vine tree among the\ntrees of the forests which I have given to the fire to be consumed, so\nwill I deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n15:7. And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire,\nand fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord,\nwhen I shall have set my face against them.\n\n15:8. And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate,\nbecause they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 16\n\nUnder the figure of an unfaithful wife, God upbraids Jerusalem with her\ningratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promiseth mercy by a new\ncovenant.\n\n16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n16:2. Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.\n\nMake known to Jerusalem.... That is, by letters, for the prophet was\nthen in Babylon.\n\n16:3. And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy\nroot, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an\nAmorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.\n\n16:4. And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was\nnot cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted\nwith salt, nor swaddled with clouts.\n\n16:5. No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out\nof compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the\nearth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.\n\n16:6. And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under foot in\nthy own blood: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I\nhave said to thee: Live in thy blood.\n\n16:7. I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst\nincrease and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman\u2019s\nornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou wast\nnaked, and full of confusion.\n\n16:8. And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the\ntime of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy\nignominy, and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee,\nsaith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine.\n\n16:9. And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from\nthee: and I anointed thee with oil.\n\n16:10. And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet\ncoloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed\nthee with fine garments.\n\n16:11. I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy\nhands, and a chain about thy neck.\n\nI decked thee also with ornaments, etc.... That is, with spiritual\nbenefits, giving you a law with sacrifices, sacraments, and other holy\nrites.\n\n16:12. And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears,\nand a beautiful crown upon thy head.\n\n16:13. And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed\nwith fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat\nfine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and\nwast advanced to be a queen.\n\n16:14. And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for\nthou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith\nthe Lord God.\n\n16:15. But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of\nthy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be\nhis.\n\n16:16. And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed\ntogether on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath\nnot been done before, nor shall be hereafter.\n\n16:17. And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my\nsilver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast\ncommitted fornication with them.\n\n16:18. And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst\nthem: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them.\n\n16:19. And my bread which I gave thee, the fine flour, and oil, and\nhoney, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast set before them for a sweet\nodour; and it was done, saith the Lord God.\n\n16:20. And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast\nborne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is\nthy fornication small?\n\n16:21. Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating\nthem by fire.\n\nThou hast sacrificed, etc.... As there is nothing more base and\nabominable than the crimes mentioned throughout this chapter; so the\ninfidelities of the Israelites in forsaking God, and sacrificing even\ntheir children to idols, are strongly figured by these allegories.\n\n16:22. And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not\nremembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of\nconfusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.\n\n16:23. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee,\nsaith the Lord God)\n\n16:24. That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a\nbrothel house in every street.\n\n16:25. At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy\nprostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast\nprostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied\nthy fornications.\n\n16:26. And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy\nneighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy fornications\nto provoke me.\n\n16:27. Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will take away\nthy justification: and I will deliver thee up to the will of the\ndaughters of the Philistines that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy\nwicked way.\n\n16:28. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because\nthou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot\nwith them, even so thou wast not contented.\n\n16:29. Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of\nChanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied.\n\n16:30. Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord God: seeing\nthou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?\n\n16:31. Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every\nway, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as\na harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,\n\n16:32. But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her\nhusband.\n\n16:33. Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all\nthy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every\nside, to commit fornication with thee.\n\n16:34. And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in\nthy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication,\nfor in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, the\ncontrary hath been done in thee.\n\n16:35. Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.\n\n16:36. Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been poured out,\nand thy shame discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and\nwith the idols of thy abominations, by the blood of thy children whom\nthou gavest them:\n\n16:37. Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou\nhast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou\nhast hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side,\nand will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy\nnakedness.\n\n16:38. And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood\nare judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.\n\n16:39. And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy\nthy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee\nof thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and\nleave thee naked, and full of disgrace.\n\n16:40. And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone\nthee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.\n\n16:41. And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute\njudgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease\nfrom fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.\n\n16:42. And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy shall\ndepart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more.\n\n16:43. Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast\nprovoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned thy ways\nupon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy\nwicked deeds in all thy abominations.\n\n16:44. Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this\nagainst thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.\n\n16:45. Thou art thy mother\u2019s daughter, that cast off her husband, and\nher children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off\ntheir husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your\nfather an Amorrhite.\n\n16:46. And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that\ndwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy\nright hand is Sodom, and her daughters.\n\n16:47. But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a\nlittle less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done\nalmost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.\n\n16:48. As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her\ndaughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.\n\n16:49. Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness\nof bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters:\nand they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor.\n\nThis was the iniquity of Sodom, etc.... That is, these were the steps\nby which the Sodomites came to fall into those abominations for which\nthey were destroyed. For pride, gluttony, and idleness are the highroad\nto all kinds of lust; especially when they are accompanied with a\nneglect of the works of mercy.\n\n16:50. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me:\nand I took them away as thou hast seen.\n\n16:51. And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast surpassed\nthem with thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy\nabominations which thou hast done.\n\n16:52. Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast\nsurpassed thy sisters with thy sins, doing more wickedly than they: for\nthey are justified above thee, therefore be thou also confounded, and\nbear thy shame, thou that hast justified thy sisters.\n\n16:53. And I will bring back and restore them by bringing back Sodom,\nwith her daughters, and by bringing back Samaria, and her daughters:\nand I will bring those that return of thee in the midst of them.\n\nI will bring back, etc.... This relates to the conversion of the\nGentiles out of all nations, and of many of the Jews, to the church of\nChrist.\n\n16:54. That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded in all\nthat thou hast done, comforting them.\n\n16:55. And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their\nancient state: and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their\nancient state: and thou and thy daughters shall return to your ancient\nstate.\n\nAncient state.... That is, to their former state of liberty, and their\nancient possessions. In the spiritual sense, to the true liberty, and\nthe happy inheritance of the children of God, through faith in Christ.\n\n16:56. And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth, in the day\nof thy pride,\n\n16:57. Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time, making\nthee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all the daughters of\nPalestine round about thee, that encompass thee on all sides.\n\n16:58. Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace, saith the Lord\nGod.\n\n16:59. For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast\ndespised the oath, in breaking the covenant:\n\n16:60. And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy\nyouth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.\n\n16:61. And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when thou\nshalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give\nthem to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.\n\n16:62. And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know\nthat I am the Lord,\n\n16:63. That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more\nopen thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified\ntoward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 17\n\nThe parable of the two eagles and the vine. A promise of the cedar of\nChrist and his church.\n\n17:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n17:2. Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house\nof Israel,\n\n17:3. And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings,\nlong-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and\ntook away the marrow of the cedar.\n\nA large eagle.... Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon.\u2014Ibid. Came to\nLibanus.... That is, to Jerusalem.\u2014Ibid. Took away the marrow of the\ncedar.... King Jechonias.\n\n17:4. He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away\ninto the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.\n\nChanaan.... This name, which signifies traffic, is not taken here for\nPalestine, but for Chaldea: and the city of merchants here mentioned is\nBabylon.\n\n17:5. And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for\nseed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on\nthe surface of the earth.\n\nOf the seed of the land, etc.... Viz., Sedecias, whom he made king.\n\n17:6. And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature,\nand the branches thereof looked towards him: and the roots thereof were\nunder him. So it became a vine, and grew into branches, and shot forth\nsprigs.\n\nTowards him.... Nabuchodonosor, to whom Sedecias swore allegiance.\n\n17:7. And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and many\nfeathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were her roots towards\nhim, stretched forth her branches to him, that he might water it by the\nfurrows of her plantation.\n\nAnother large eagle.... Viz., the king of Egypt.\n\n17:8. It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might\nbring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large\nvine.\n\n17:9. Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall\nhe not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up\nall the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this\nwithout a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root?\n\n17:10. Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then? shall it not be\ndried up when the burning wind shall touch it, and shall it not wither\nin the furrows where it grew?\n\n17:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n17:12. Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean?\nTell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall\ntake away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to\nBabylon.\n\nShall take away.... Or, hath taken away, etc., for all this was now\ndone.\n\n17:13. And he shall take one of the king\u2019s seed, and make a covenant\nwith him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he shall take away the\nmighty men of the land,\n\n17:14. That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep\nhis covenant and observe it.\n\n17:15. But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt,\nthat it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath\ndone thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken\nthe covenant?\n\n17:16. As I live, saith the Lord God: In the place where the king\ndwelleth that made him king, whose oath he hath made void, and whose\ncovenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon shall he die.\n\n17:17. And not with a great army, nor with much people shall Pharao\nfight against him: when he shall cast up mounts, and build forts, to\ncut off many souls.\n\n17:18. For he had despised the oath, breaking his covenant, and behold\nhe hath given his hand: and having done all these things, he shall not\nescape.\n\n17:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As I live, I will lay upon\nhis head the oath he hath despised, and the covenant he hath broken.\n\n17:20. And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my\nnet: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for\nthe transgression by which he hath despised me.\n\n17:21. And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the\nsword: and the residue shall be scattered into every wind: and you\nshall know that I the Lord have spoken.\n\n17:22. Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow of the\nhigh cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a tender twig from the top\nof the branches thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain high and\neminent.\n\nOf the marrow of the high cedar, etc.... Of the royal stock of\nDavid.\u2014Ibid. A tender twig.... Viz., Jesus Christ, whom God hath\nplanted in mount Sion, that is, the high mountain of his church, to\nwhich all nations flow.\n\n17:23. On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall\nshoot forth into branches and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a\ngreat cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall\nmake its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof.\n\n17:24. And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have\nbrought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up\nthe green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord\nhave spoken and have done it.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 18\n\nOne man shall not bear the sins of another, but every one his own; if a\nwicked man truly repent, he shall be saved; and if a just man leave his\njustice, he shall perish.\n\n18:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What is the meaning?\n\n18:2. That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of\nIsrael, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of\nthe children are set on edge.\n\n18:3. As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no more to\nyou a proverb in Israel.\n\n18:4. Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the\nsoul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.\n\n18:5. And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,\n\n18:6. And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to\nthe idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour\u2019s\nwife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:\n\nNot eaten upon the mountains.... That is, of the sacrifices there\noffered to idols.\n\n18:7. And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the\ndebtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to\nthe hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment:\n\n18:8. Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath withdrawn\nhis hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and\nman:\n\n18:9. Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do\ntruth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.\n\nTo do truth.... That is, to act according to truth; for the Hebrews\ncalled everything that was just, truth.\n\n18:10. And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and\nthat hath done some one of these things:\n\n18:11. Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon the\nmountains, and that defileth his neighbour\u2019s wife:\n\n18:12. That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by\nviolence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes\nto idols, that committeth abomination:\n\n18:13. That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an increase: shall such\na one live? he shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these detestable\nthings, he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.\n\n18:14. But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father\u2019s sins, which\nhe hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them:\n\n18:15. That hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes\nto the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not defiled his\nneighbour\u2019s wife:\n\n18:16. And hath not grieved any man, nor withholden the pledge, nor\ntaken away with violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and\ncovered the naked with a garment:\n\n18:17. That hath turned away his hand from injuring the poor, hath not\ntaken usury and increase, but hath executed my judgments, and hath\nwalked in my commandments: this man shall not die for the iniquity of\nhis father, but living he shall live.\n\n18:18. As for his father, because he oppressed and offered violence to\nhis brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his people, behold he is\ndead in his own iniquity.\n\n18:19. And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his\nfather? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath\nkept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live.\n\n18:20. The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not\nbear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the\niniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the\nwickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.\n\n18:21. But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath\ncommitted, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice,\nliving he shall live, and shall not die.\n\n18:22. I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his\njustice which he hath wrought, he shall live.\n\n18:23. Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and\nnot that he should be converted from his ways, and live?\n\n18:24. But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do\niniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth\nto work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not\nbe remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and\nin his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.\n\n18:25. And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye,\ntherefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are\nnot rather your ways perverse?\n\n18:26. For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and\ncommitteth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he\nhath wrought he shall die.\n\n18:27. And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness,\nwhich he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save\nhis soul alive.\n\n18:28. Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his\niniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.\n\n18:29. And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not\nright. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are not rather\nyour ways perverse?\n\n18:30. Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house\nof Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all\nyour iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.\n\n18:31. Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have\ntransgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and\nwhy will you die, O house of Israel?\n\n18:32. For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord\nGod, return ye and live.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 19\n\nThe parable of the young lions, and of the vineyard that is wasted.\n\n19:1. Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,\n\n19:2. And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions,\nand bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?\n\nThy mother the lioness.... Jerusalem.\n\n19:3. And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and\nhe learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.\n\nOne of her whelps.... Viz., Joachaz, alias Sellum.\n\n19:4. And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without\nreceiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of\nEgypt.\n\n19:5. But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took\none of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.\n\nOne of her young lions.... Joakim.\n\n19:6. And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and\nhe learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.\n\n19:7. He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the\nland became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his\nroaring.\n\n19:8. And the nations came together against him on every side out of\nthe provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he\nwas taken.\n\n19:9. And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the\nking of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should\nno more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.\n\n19:10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her\nfruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.\n\n19:11. And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear\nrule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her\nheight in the multitude of her branches.\n\n19:12. But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the\nburning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and\ndried up: the fire hath devoured her.\n\n19:13. And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not\npassable, and dry.\n\n19:14. And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath\ndevoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre\nof rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 20\n\nGod refuses to answer the ancients of Israel inquiring by the prophet:\nbut by him setteth his benefits before their eyes, and their heinous\nsins: threatening yet greater punishments: but still mixed with mercy.\n\n20:1. And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the\ntenth day of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to\ninquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.\n\n20:2. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n20:3. Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel and say to them: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, I will\nnot answer you, saith the Lord God.\n\n20:4. If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O son of man, declare to\nthem the abominations of their fathers.\n\nIf thou judgest them.... Or, if thou wilt enter into the cause and\nplead against them.\n\n20:5. And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose\nIsrael, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and\nappeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them,\nsaying: I am the Lord your God:\n\n20:6. In that day I lifted up my hand for them to bring them out of the\nland of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them, flowing with\nmilk and honey, which excelled amongst all lands.\n\n20:7. And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his\neyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord\nyour God.\n\nScandals, etc.... Offensiones. That is, the abominations or idols, to\nthe worship of which they were allured by their eyes.\n\n20:8. But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not\nevery man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they\nforsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation\nupon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the\nland of Egypt.\n\n20:9. But I did otherwise for my name\u2019s sake, that it might not be\nviolated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among\nwhom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of\nEgypt.\n\n20:10. Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought\nthem into the desert.\n\n20:11. And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments,\nwhich if a man do, he shall live in them.\n\n20:12. Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me\nand them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify\nthem.\n\n20:13. But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked\nnot in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do\nhe shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said\ntherefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert,\nand would consume them.\n\n20:14. But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be\nprofaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their\nsight.\n\n20:15. So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring\nthem into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey,\nthe best of all lands.\n\n20:16. Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my\nstatutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.\n\n20:17. Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither\ndid I consume them in the desert.\n\n20:18. And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the\nstatutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye\ndefiled with their idols:\n\n20:19. I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my\njudgments, and do them.\n\n20:20. And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and\nyou: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.\n\n20:21. But their children provoked me, they walked not in my\ncommandments, nor observed my judgments to do them: which if a man do,\nhe shall live in them: and they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened\nto pour out my indignation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath in\nthem in the desert.\n\n20:22. But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name\u2019s sake, that\nit might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought\nthem forth in their sight.\n\n20:23. Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the wilderness, to\ndisperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the\ncountries:\n\n20:24. Because they had not done my judgments, and had cast off my\nstatutes, and had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after\nthe idols of their fathers.\n\n20:25. Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and\njudgments, in which they shall not live.\n\nStatutes that were not good, etc.... Viz., the laws and ordinances of\ntheir enemies; or those imposes upon them by that cruel tyrant the\ndevil, to whose power they were delivered up for their sins.\n\n20:26. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all\nthat opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am\nthe Lord.\n\nI polluted them, etc.... That is, I gave them up to such blindness in\npunishment of their offences, as to pollute themselves with the blood\nof all their firstborn, whom they offered up to their idols in\ncompliance with their wicked devices.\n\n20:27. Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to\nthem: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers\nblasphemed me, when they had despised and contemned me;\n\n20:28. And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my\nhand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree,\nand there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the\nprovocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours,\nand poured forth their libations.\n\n20:29. And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go?\nand the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.\n\n20:30. Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God:\nVerily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit\nfornication with their abominations.\n\n20:31. And you defile yourselves with all your idols unto this day, in\nthe offering of your gifts, when you make your children pass through\nthe fire: and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith\nthe Lord God, I will not answer you.\n\n20:32. Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which\nyou say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth,\nto worship stocks and stones.\n\n20:33. As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you with a\nstrong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.\n\n20:34. And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you\nout of the countries, in which you are scattered, I will reign over you\nwith a strong hand and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured\nout.\n\n20:35. And I will bring you into the wilderness of people, and there\nwill I plead with you face to face.\n\nThe wilderness of people.... That is, a desert in which there are no\npeople.\n\n20:36. As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of\nEgypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.\n\n20:37. And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you\ninto the bands of the covenant.\n\n20:38. And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the\nwicked, and will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, and\nthey shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I\nam the Lord.\n\n20:39. And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk\nye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you\nhear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with\nyour idols;\n\nWalk ye every one, etc.... It is not an allowance, much less a\ncommandment to serve idols; but a figure of speech, by which God would\nhave them to understand that if they would walk after their idols, they\nmust not pretend to serve him at the same time: for that he would by no\nmeans suffer such a mixture of worship.\n\n20:40. In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the\nLord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I\nsay, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I\nrequire your firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your\nsanctifications.\n\nIn my holy mountain, etc.... The foregoing verse, to make the sense\ncomplete, must be understood so as to condemn and reject that mixture\nof worship which the Jews then followed. In this verse, God promises to\nthe true Israelites, especially to those of the Christian church, that\nthey shall serve him in another manner, in his holy mountain, the\nspiritual Sion: and shall by accepted of by him.\n\n20:41. I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall\nhave brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out\nof the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in\nyou in the sight of the nations.\n\n20:42. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have brought\nyou into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my\nhand to give it to your fathers.\n\n20:43. And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked\ndoings with which you have been defiled; and you shall be displeased\nwith yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked deeds which you\ncommitted.\n\n20:44. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have done\nwell by you for my own name\u2019s sake, and not according to your evil\nways, nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of Israel, saith the\nLord God.\n\n20:45. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n20:46. Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop\ntowards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.\n\nOf the south.... Jerusalem lay towards the south of Babylon, (where the\nprophet then was,) and is here called the forest of the south field,\nand is threatened with utter desolation.\n\n20:47. And say to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn\nin thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire\nshall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the\nsouth even to the north.\n\n20:48. And all flesh shall see, that I the Lord have kindled it, and it\nshall not be quenched.\n\n20:49. And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not\nthis man speak by parables?\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 21\n\nThe destruction of Jerusalem by the sword is further described: the\nruin also of the Ammonites is forshewn. And finally Babylon, the\ndestroyer of others, shall be destroyed.\n\n21:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n21:2. Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech\nflow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:\n\n21:3. And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I\ncome against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath,\nand will cut off in thee the just, and the wicked.\n\n21:4. And forasmuch as I have cut off in thee the just and the wicked,\ntherefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh,\nfrom the south even to the north.\n\n21:5. That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out\nof its sheath not to be turned back.\n\n21:6. And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and\nwith bitterness sigh before them.\n\n21:7. And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt\nsay: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall\nmelt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint,\nand water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be\ndone, saith the Lord God.\n\n21:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n21:9. Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The\nsword, the sword is sharpened, and furbished.\n\n21:10. It is sharpened to kill victims: it is furbished that it may\nglitter: thou removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every\ntree.\n\nThou removest the sceptre of my son.... He speaks (according to St.\nJerome) to the sword of Nabuchodonosor: which was about to remove the\nsceptre of Israel, whom God here calls his son.\n\n21:11. And I have given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:\nthis sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, that it may be in the\nhand of the slayer.\n\n21:12. Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword is upon my people,\nit is upon all the princes of Israel, that are fled: they are delivered\nup to the sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,\n\n21:13. Because it is tried: and that when it shall overthrow the\nsceptre, and it shall not be, saith the Lord God.\n\n21:14. Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands\ntogether, and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain\nbe tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter, that maketh them\nstand amazed,\n\n21:15. And languish in heart, and that multiplieth ruins. In all their\ngates I have set the dread of the sharp sword, the sword that is\nfurbished to glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.\n\n21:16. Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand, or to the left, which\nway soever thou hast a mind to set thy face.\n\n21:17. And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my\nindignation: I the Lord have spoken.\n\n21:18. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n21:19. And thou son of man, set thee two ways, for the sword of the\nking of Babylon to come: both shall come forth out of one land: and\nwith his hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult at the head of the\nway of the city.\n\n21:20. Thou shalt make a way that the sword may come to Rabbath of the\nchildren of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city.\n\n21:21. For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two\nways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols,\nand consulted entrails.\n\n21:22. On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set\nbattering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in\nhowling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build\nforts.\n\n21:23. And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in\nvain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to\nremembrance the iniquity that they may be taken.\n\n21:24. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have remembered\nyour iniquity, and have discovered your prevarications, and your sins\nhave appeared in all your devices: because, I say, You have remembered,\nyou shall be taken with the hand.\n\n21:25. But thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come that\nhath been appointed in the time of iniquity:\n\nThou profane, etc.... He speaks to king Sedecias, who had broken his\noath, and was otherwise a wicked prince.\n\n21:26. Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown:\nis it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that\nwas high?\n\nIs it not this that hath exalted the low one.... The royal crown of\nJuda had exalted Sedecias from a private state and condition to the\nsovereign power, as the loss of it had brought down Jechonias, etc.\n\n21:27. I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniquity: but this was\nnot done till he came to whom judgment belongeth, and I will give it\nhim.\n\nI will shew it to be iniquity, etc.... Or, I will overturn it, viz.,\nthe crown of Juda for the manifold iniquities of the kings: but it\nshall not be utterly removed, till Christ come whose right it is: and\nwho shall reign in the spiritual house of Jacob, that is, in his\nchurch, for evermore.\n\n21:28. And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God\nconcerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and\nthou shalt say: O sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be\nfurbished to destroy, and to glitter,\n\nConcerning their reproach.... By which they had reproached and insulted\nover the Jews, at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem.\n\n21:29. Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies:\nto bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose\nappointed day is come in the time of iniquity.\n\n21:30. Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein\nthou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.\n\nReturn into thy sheath, etc.... The sword of Babylon, after raging\nagainst many nations, was shortly to be judged and destroyed at home by\nthe Medes and Persians.\n\n21:31. And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my\nrage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men\nthat are brutish and contrive thy destruction.\n\n21:32. Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst\nof the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 22\n\nThe general corruption of the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for which God\nwill consume them as dross in his furnace.\n\n22:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n22:2. And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the\ncity of blood?\n\n22:3. And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst\nof her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against\nherself, to defile herself.\n\n22:4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and\nthou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made\nthy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years:\ntherefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to\nall countries.\n\n22:5. Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall\ntriumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.\n\n22:6. Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in\nthee to shed blood.\n\n22:7. They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed\nthe stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and\nwidow in thee.\n\n22:8. Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.\n\n22:9. Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten\nupon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst\nof thee.\n\n22:10. They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they\nhave humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.\n\n22:11. And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour\u2019s\nwife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law,\nthe brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in\nthee.\n\n22:12. They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood: thou hast taken\nusury and increase, and hast covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and\nthou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.\n\n22:13. Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy covetousness, which thou\nhast exercised: and at the blood that hath been shed in the midst of\nthee.\n\n22:14. Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days\nwhich I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.\n\n22:15. And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee\namong the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.\n\n22:16. And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou\nshalt know that I am the Lord.\n\n22:17. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n22:18. Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these\nare brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace:\nthey are become the dross of silver.\n\n22:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you are all turned\ninto dross, therefore behold I will gather you together in the midst of\nJerusalem.\n\n22:20. As they gather silver, and brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in\nthe midst of the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in it to melt it: so\nwill I gather you together in my fury and in my wrath, and will take my\nrest, and I will melt you down.\n\n22:21. And will gather you together, and will burn you in the fire of\nmy wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst thereof.\n\n22:22. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be\nin the midst thereof: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I\nhave poured out my indignation upon you.\n\n22:23. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n22:24. Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not\nrained upon in the day of wrath.\n\n22:25. There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a\nlion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they\nhave taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst\nthereof.\n\n22:26. Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my\nsanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor\nhave distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have\nturned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the\nmidst of them.\n\n22:27. Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the\nprey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains\nthrough covetousness.\n\n22:28. And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar,\nseeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the\nLord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.\n\n22:29. The people of the land have used oppression, and committed\nrobbery: they afflicted the needy and poor, and they oppressed the\nstranger by calumny without judgment.\n\n22:30. And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and\nstand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not\ndestroy it: and I found none.\n\n22:31. And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of my\nwrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own head,\nsaith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 23\n\nUnder the names of the two harlots, Oolla and Ooliba, are described the\nmanifold disloyalties of Samaria and Jerusalem, with the punishment of\nthem both.\n\n23:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n23:2. Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.\n\n23:3. And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they\ncommitted fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the\nteats of their virginity were bruised.\n\nCommitted fornication.... That is, idolatry.\n\n23:4. And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger\nsister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for\ntheir names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.\n\nOolla and Ooliba.... God calls the kingdom of Israel Oolla, which\nsignifies their own habitation, because they separated themselves from\nhis temple: and the kingdom of Juda, Ooliba, which signifies his\nhabitation in her, because of his temple among them in Jerusalem.\n\n23:5. And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her\nlovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,\n\nOn the Assyraians, etc.... That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all\nthat is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is\nto be understood in a spiritual sense, of their disloyalty to the Lord,\nby worshipping strange gods.\n\n23:6. Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful\nyouths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.\n\n23:7. And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all\nsons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of\nall them on whom she doted.\n\n23:8. Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had\ncommitted in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they\nbruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication\nupon her.\n\n23:9. Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into\nthe hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.\n\n23:10. They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters,\nand slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they\nexecuted judgments in her.\n\n23:11. And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more\nthan she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her\nsister.\n\n23:12. Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the\nAssyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with\ndivers colours, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men\nall of great beauty.\n\n23:13. And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way.\n\n23:14. And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men\npainted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,\n\n23:15. And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans\non their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of\nthe sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were\nborn,\n\n23:16. She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent\nmessengers to them into Chaldea.\n\n23:17. And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of\nlove, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by\nthem, and her soul was glutted with them.\n\n23:18. And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her\ndisgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated\nfrom her sister.\n\n23:19. For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her\nyouth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.\n\n23:20. And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is\nas the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.\n\n23:21. And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy\nbreasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.\n\n23:22. Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise\nup against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted:\nand I will gather them together against thee round about.\n\n23:23. The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and\nthe kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young\nmen, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the\nrenowned horsemen.\n\n23:24. And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and\nwheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every\nside with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment\nbefore them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.\n\n23:25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall\nexecute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears:\nand what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and\nthy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.\n\n23:26. And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the\ninstruments of thy glory.\n\n23:27. And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy\nfornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift\nup thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.\n\n23:28. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into\nthe hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul\nhath been glutted.\n\n23:29. And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take\naway all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of\ndisgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy\nwickedness, and thy fornications.\n\n23:30. They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played\nthe harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their\nidols.\n\n23:31. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her\ncup into thy hand.\n\n23:32. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister\u2019s cup, deep\nand wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth\nvery much.\n\n23:33. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup\nof grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.\n\n23:34. And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the\ndregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy\nbreasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.\n\n23:35. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten\nme, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy\nwickedness, and thy fornications.\n\n23:36. And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge\nOolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?\n\n23:37. Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their\nhands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover\nalso their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to\nbe devoured.\n\n23:38. Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary\non the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.\n\n23:39. And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went\ninto my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things\neven in the midst of my house.\n\n23:40. They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a\nmessenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and\ndidst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women\u2019s ornaments.\n\n23:41. Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before\nthee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.\n\n23:42. And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to\nsome that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the\ndesert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on\ntheir heads.\n\n23:43. And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will\nthis woman still continue in her fornication.\n\n23:44. And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto\nOolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.\n\n23:45. They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as\nadulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because\nthey are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.\n\n23:46. For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and\ndeliver them over to tumult and rapine:\n\n23:47. And let the people stone them with stones, and let them be\nstabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters,\nand their houses they shall burn with fire.\n\n23:48. And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women\nshall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.\n\n23:49. And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall\nbear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 24\n\nUnder the parable of a boiling pot is shewn the utter destruction of\nJerusalem: for which the Jews at Babylon shall not dare to mourn.\n\n24:1. And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the\ntenth month, the tenth day of the month, saying:\n\n24:2. Son of man, write thee the name of this day, on which the king of\nBabylon hath set himself against Jerusalem to day.\n\n24:3. And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking\nhouse, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it\non, I say, and put water in it.\n\n24:4. Heap together into it the pieces thereof, every good piece, the\nthigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.\n\n24:5. Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones\nunder it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof\nare thoroughly sodden in the midst of it.\n\n24:6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the\npot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it\nout piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it.\n\n24:7. For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the\nsmooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be\ncovered with dust.\n\n24:8. And that I might bring my indignation upon her, and take my\nvengeance: I have shed her blood upon the smooth rock, that it should\nnot be covered.\n\n24:9. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, of\nwhich I will make a great bonfire.\n\n24:10. Heap together the bones, which I will burn with fire: the flesh\nshall be consumed, and the whole composition shall be sodden, and the\nbones shall be consumed.\n\n24:11. Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot, and\nthe brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of it be melted in\nthe midst thereof, and let the rust of it be consumed.\n\n24:12. Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not\ngone out, not even by fire.\n\n24:13. Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee,\nand thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be\ncleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.\n\n24:14. I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it:\nI will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee\naccording to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord.\n\n24:15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n24:16. Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with\na stroke, and thou shalt not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears\nrun down.\n\n24:17. Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of\nthy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy\nface, nor eat the meat of mourners.\n\n24:18. So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the\nevening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.\n\n24:19. And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these\nthings mean that thou doest?\n\n24:20. And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n24:21. Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I\nwill profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that\nyour eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your\ndaughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.\n\n24:22. And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces,\nnor shall you eat the meat of mourners.\n\n24:23. You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you\nshall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities,\nand every one shall sigh with his brother.\n\n24:24. And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a sign of things to come:\naccording to all that he hath done, so shall you do, when this shall\ncome to pass: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.\n\n24:25. And thou, O son of man, behold in the day wherein I will take\naway from them their strength, and the joy of their glory, and the\ndesire of their eyes, upon which their souls rest, their sons and their\ndaughters.\n\n24:26. In that day when he that escapeth shall come to thee, to tell\nthee:\n\n24:27. In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened to him that hath\nescaped, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no more: and thou\nshalt be unto them for a sign of things to come, and you shall know\nthat I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 25\n\nA prophecy against the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Philistines,\nfor their malice against the Israelites.\n\n25:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n25:2. Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou\nshalt prophesy of them.\n\n25:3. And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of\nthe Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha,\nupon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of\nIsrael, because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because\nthey are led into captivity:\n\n25:4. Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of the east for an\ninheritance, and they shall place their sheepcotes in thee, and shall\nset up their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits: and they shall\ndrink thy milk.\n\n25:5. And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the children of\nAmmon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the\nLord.\n\nRabbath.... The capital city of the Ammonites: it was afterwards called\nPhiladelphia.\n\n25:6. For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy hands\nand stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all thy heart against\nthe land of Israel:\n\n25:7. Therefore behold I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and will\ndeliver thee to be the spoil of nations, and will cut thee off from\namong the people, and destroy thee out of the lands, and break thee in\npieces: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.\n\n25:8. Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold\nthe house of Juda is like all other nations:\n\n25:9. Therefore behold I will open the shoulder of Moab from the\ncities, from his cities, I say, and his borders, the noble cities of\nthe land of Bethiesimoth, and Beelmeon, and Cariathaim,\n\n25:10. To the people of the east with the children of Ammon, and I will\ngive it them for an inheritance: that there may be no more any\nremembrance of the children of Ammon among the nations.\n\n25:11. And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know that I\nam the Lord.\n\n25:12. Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom hath taken vengeance to\nrevenge herself of the children of Juda, and hath greatly offended, and\nhath sought revenge of them:\n\n25:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will stretch forth my hand\nupon Edom, and will take away out of it man and beast, and will make it\ndesolate from the south: and they that are in Dedan shall fall by the\nsword.\n\n25:14. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people\nIsrael: and they shall do in Edom according to my wrath, and my fury:\nand they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.\n\n25:15. Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have taken\nvengeance, and have revenged themselves with all their mind, destroying\nand satisfying old enmities:\n\n25:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will stretch forth\nmy hand upon the Philistines, and will kill the killers, and will\ndestroy the remnant of the sea coast.\n\n25:17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them, rebuking them in\nfury: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my\nvengeance upon them.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 26\n\nA prophecy of the destruction of the famous city of Tyre by\nNabuchodonosor.\n\n26:1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of the\nmonth, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n26:2. Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates\nof the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now\nshe is laid waste.\n\n26:3. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O\nTyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of\nthe sea rise up.\n\n26:4. And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the\ntowers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like\na smooth rock.\n\n26:5. She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea,\nbecause I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil\nto the nations.\n\n26:6. Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain by the\nsword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n26:7. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against Tyre\nNabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with\nhorses, and chariots, and horsemen, and companies, and much people.\n\n26:8. Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the\nsword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount\nround about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee.\n\n26:9. And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy\nwalls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.\n\n26:10. By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover\nthee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels,\nand chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of\na city that is destroyed.\n\n26:11. With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy\nstreets, thy people he shall kill with the sword, and thy famous\nstatues shall fall to the ground.\n\n26:12. They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy\nmerchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine\nhouses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in\nthe midst of the waters.\n\n26:13. And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the\nsound of thy harps shall be heard no more.\n\n26:14. And I will make thee like a naked rock, thou shalt be a drying\nplace for nets, neither shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken\nit, saith the Lord God.\n\n26:15. Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at\nthe sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be\nkilled in the midst of thee?\n\n26:16. Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their\nthrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their broidered\ngarments, and be clothed with astonishment: they shall sit on the\nground, and with amazement shall wonder at thy sudden fall.\n\n26:17. And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee:\nHow art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast\nstrong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?\n\n26:18. Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and\nthe islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of\nthee.\n\n26:19. For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall make thee a desolate\ncity like the cities that are not inhabited: and shall bring the deep\nupon thee, and many waters shall cover thee:\n\n26:20. And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into\nthe pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest\nparts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are\nbrought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall\ngive glory in the land of the living,\n\n26:21. I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and if thou\nbe sought for, thou shalt not be found any more for ever, saith the\nLord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 27\n\nA description of the glory and riches of Tyre: and of her irrecoverable\nfall.\n\n27:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n27:2. Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre:\n\n27:3. And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the\nmart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre,\nthou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,\n\n27:4. And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built\nthee, have perfected thy beauty:\n\n27:5. With fir trees of Sanir they have built thee with all sea planks:\nthey have taken cedars from Libanus to make thee masts.\n\nSea planks.... That is, timber brought by sea to build the city.\n\n27:6. They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have\nmade thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from\nthe islands of Italy.\n\n27:7. Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be\nspread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were\nmade thy covering.\n\n27:8. The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy\nwise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.\n\n27:9. The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished\nmariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the\nsea, and their mariners were thy factors.\n\n27:10. The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in\nthy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy\nornament.\n\n27:11. The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about:\nthe Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy\nwalls round about: they perfected thy beauty.\n\nPygmeans.... That is, strong and valiant men. In Hebrew, Gammadim.\n\n27:12. The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a\nmultitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,\n\n27:13. Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they\nbrought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.\n\n27:14. From the house of Thogorma they brought horses, and horsemen,\nand mules to thy market.\n\n27:15. The men of Dedan were thy merchants: many islands were the\ntraffic of thy hand, they exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and\nebony.\n\n27:16. The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy\nworks, they set forth precious stones, and purple, and broidered works,\nand fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.\n\nChodchod.... It is the Hebrew name for some precious stone; but of what\nkind in particular interpreters are not agreed.\n\n27:17. Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the\nbest corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy\nfairs.\n\n27:18. The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy\nworks, in the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the\nbest colour.\n\n27:19. Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought\niron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.\n\n27:20. The men of Dedan were thy merchants in tapestry for seats.\n\n27:21. Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they were the merchants of\nthy hand: thy merchants came to thee with lambs, and rams, and kids.\n\n27:22. The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were thy merchants: with\nall the best spices, and precious stones, and gold, which they set\nforth in thy market.\n\n27:23. Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy merchants; Saba, Assur, and\nChelmad sold to thee.\n\n27:24. They were thy merchants in divers manners, with bales of blue\ncloth, and of embroidered work, and of precious riches, which were\nwrapped up and bound with cords: they had cedars also in thy\nmerchandise.\n\n27:25. The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy merchandise: and\nthou wast replenished, and glorified exceedingly in the heart of the\nsea.\n\n27:26. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind\nhath broken thee in the heart of the sea.\n\n27:27. Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy\nmariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy\npeople: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude\nthat is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the\nday of thy ruin.\n\n27:28. Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy\npilots.\n\n27:29. And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships:\nthe mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:\n\n27:30. And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry\nbitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be\nsprinkled with ashes.\n\n27:31. And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be\ngirded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of\nsoul, with most bitter weeping.\n\n27:32. And they shall take up a mournful song for thee, and shall\nlament thee: What city is like Tyre, which is become silent in the\nmidst of the sea?\n\n27:33. Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill\nmany people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people\ndidst enrich the kings of the earth.\n\n27:34. Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy riches are in the bottom\nof the waters, and all the multitude that was in the midst of thee is\nfallen.\n\n27:35. All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at thee: and\nall their kings being struck with the storm have changed their\ncountenance.\n\n27:36. The merchants of people have hissed at thee: thou art brought to\nnothing, and thou shalt never be any more.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 28\n\nThe king of Tyre, who affected to be like to God, shall fall under the\nlike sentence with Lucifer. The judgment of Sidon. The restoration of\nIsrael.\n\n28:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n28:2. Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God:\nBecause thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit\nin the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man,\nand not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.\n\n28:3. Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.\n\nThou art wiser than Daniel.... Viz., in thy own conceit. The wisdom of\nDaniel was so much celebrated in his days, that it became a proverb\namongst the Chaldeans, when any one would express an extraordinary\nwisdom, to say he was as wise as Daniel.\n\n28:4. In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself\nstrong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.\n\n28:5. By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast\nincreased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.\n\n28:6. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted\nup as the heart of God:\n\n28:7. Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest\nof the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of\nthy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.\n\n28:8. They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the\ndeath of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.\n\n28:9. Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas\nthou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?\n\n28:10. Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of\nstrangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.\n\n28:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up\na lamentation upon the king of Tyre:\n\n28:12. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of\nresemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.\n\nThou wast the seal of resemblance.... The king of Tyre, by his dignity\nand his natural perfections, bore in himself a certain resemblance to\nGod, by reason of which he might be called the seal of resemblance,\netc. But what is here said to him is commonly understood of Lucifer,\nthe king over all the children of pride.\n\n28:13. Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every\nprecious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the\njasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and\nthe carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy\npipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.\n\n28:14. Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in\nthe holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones\nof fire.\n\nA cherub stretched out.... That is, thy wings extended. This alludes to\nthe figure of the cherubims in the sanctuary, which with stretched out\nwings covered the ark.\u2014Ibid. The stones of fire.... That is, bright and\nprecious stones which sparkle like fire.\n\n28:15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation,\nuntil iniquity was found in thee.\n\n28:16. By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were filled\nwith iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee out from the\nmountain of God, and destroyed thee, O covering cherub, out of the\nmidst of the stones of fire.\n\n28:17. And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy\nwisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee\nbefore the face of kings, that they might behold thee.\n\n28:18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy\niniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring\nforth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make\nthee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee.\n\n28:19. All that shall see thee among the nations, shall be astonished\nat thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.\n\n28:20. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n28:21. Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy\nof it,\n\n28:22. And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against\nthee, Sidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they\nshall know that I am the Lord, when I shall execute judgments in her,\nand shall be sanctified in her.\n\n28:23. And I will send into her pestilence, and blood in her streets:\nand they shall fall being slain by the sword on all sides in the midst\nthereof: and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n28:24. And the house of Israel shall have no more a stumblingblock of\nbitterness, nor a thorn causing pain on every side round about them, of\nthem that are against them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.\n\n28:25. Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall have gathered together the\nhouse of Israel out of the people among whom they are scattered: I will\nbe sanctified in them before the Gentiles: and they shall dwell in\ntheir own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.\n\n28:26. And they shall dwell therein secure, and they shall build\nhouses, and shall plant vineyards, and shall dwell with confidence,\nwhen I shall have executed judgments upon all that are their enemies\nround about: and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 29\n\nThe king of Egypt shall be overthrown, and his kingdom wasted: it shall\nbe given to Nabuchodonosor for his service against Tyre.\n\n29:1. In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the\nmonth, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n29:2. Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and thou\nshalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:\n\n29:3. Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against\nthee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst\nof thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.\n\n29:4. But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of\nthy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the\nmidst of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.\n\n29:5. And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of\nthy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not\nbe taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the\nbeasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.\n\n29:6. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord:\nbecause thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel.\n\n29:7. When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and\nrent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest,\nand weakenest all their loins.\n\n29:8. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword\nupon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.\n\n29:9. And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness:\nand they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast said: The\nriver is mine, and I made it.\n\n29:10. Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I\nwill make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword,\nfrom the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.\n\n29:11. The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the\nfoot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty\nyears.\n\n29:12. And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the\nlands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the\ncities that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty years:\nand I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse\nthem through the countries.\n\n29:13. For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will\ngather the Egyptians from the people among whom they had been\nscattered.\n\n29:14. And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place\nthem in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they\nshall be there a low kingdom:\n\n29:15. It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no\nmore be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they\nshall rule no more over the nations.\n\n29:16. And they shall be no more a confidence to the house of Israel,\nteaching iniquity, that they may flee, and follow them: and they shall\nknow that I am the Lord God.\n\n29:17. And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year in the first\nmonth, in the first of the month: that the word of the Lord came to me,\nsaying:\n\n29:18. Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to\nundergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every\nshoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his\narmy for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.\n\n29:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall\ntake her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle\nthe spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army.\n\n29:20. And for the service that he hath done me against it: I have\ngiven him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured for me, saith the\nLord God.\n\n29:21. In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel, and I\nwill give thee an open mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know\nthat I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 30\n\nThe desolation of Egypt and her helpers: all her cities shall be\nwasted.\n\n30:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n30:2. Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye,\nWoe, woe to the day:\n\n30:3. For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy\nday, it shall be the time of the nations.\n\n30:4. And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in\nEthiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude\nthereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be\ndestroyed.\n\n30:5. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd,\nand Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with\nthem by the sword.\n\n30:6. Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall,\nand the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of\nSyene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of\nhosts.\n\n30:7. And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are\ndesolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities\nthat are wasted.\n\n30:8. And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have set a\nfire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed.\n\n30:9. In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to\ndestroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them\nin the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come.\n\n30:10. Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to\ncease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.\n\n30:11. He and his people with him, the strongest of nations, shall be\nbrought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords upon\nEgypt: and shall fill the land with the slain.\n\n30:12. And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver\nthe land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay waste the land and\nall that is therein by the hands of strangers, I the Lord have spoken\nit.\n\n30:13. Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I\nwill make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a\nprince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of\nEgypt.\n\n30:14. And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in\nTaphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.\n\nAlexandria.... In the Hebrew, No: which was the ancient name of that\ncity, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his\nname called Alexandria.\n\n30:15. And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium the strength of\nEgypt, and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria.\n\n30:16. And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like\na woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis\nthere shall be daily distresses.\n\n30:17. The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by the\nsword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.\n\n30:18. And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall break\nthere the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in\nher: a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led into\ncaptivity.\n\n30:19. And I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that\nI am the Lord.\n\n30:20. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in\nthe seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me,\nsaying:\n\n30:21. Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao king of Egypt: and\nbehold it is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied up with clothes,\nand swathed with linen, that it might recover strength, and hold the\nsword.\n\n30:22. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against\nPharao king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his strong arm,\nwhich is already broken: and I will cause the sword to fall out of his\nhand:\n\n30:23. And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter them\nthrough the countries.\n\n30:24. And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and will\nput my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms of Pharao, and they\nshall groan bitterly being slain before his face.\n\n30:25. And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the\narms of Pharao shall fall: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when\nI shall have given my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and\nhe shall have stretched it forth upon the land of Egypt.\n\n30:26. And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will scatter\nthem through the countries, and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 31\n\nThe Assyrian empire fell for their pride: the Egyptian shall fall in\nlike manner.\n\n31:1. And it came to pass, in the eleventh year, the third month the\nfirst day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n31:2. Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To\nwhom art thou like in thy greatness?\n\n31:3. Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches,\nand full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among\nthe thick boughs.\n\n31:4. The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the\nstreams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent, forth its\nrivulets to all the trees of the country.\n\n31:5. Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the\ncountry and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated\nbecause of many waters.\n\n31:6. And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air\nmade their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest\nbrought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many\nnations dwelt under his shadow.\n\n31:7. And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the\nspreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.\n\n31:8. The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the\nfir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be\ncompared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like\nhim in his beauty.\n\n31:9. For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and\nall the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied\nhim.\n\n31:10. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in\nheight, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted\nup in his height:\n\n31:11. I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the\nnations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his\nwickedness.\n\nI have delivered.... Here the time past is put for the future, i. e., I\nshall deliver.\u2014Ibid. The mighty one, etc.... Viz., Nabuchodonosor, who\nconquered both the Assyrians and Egyptians.\n\n31:12. And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him\ndown, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall\nin every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the\ncountry: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow,\nand leave him.\n\n31:13. All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the\nbeasts of the field were among his branches.\n\n31:14. For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt\nthemselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick\nbranches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand\nup in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest\nparts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that\ngo down into the pit.\n\n31:15. Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I\nbrought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its\nrivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and\nall the trees of the field trembled.\n\n31:16. I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought\nhim down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees\nof pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened\nwith waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.\n\n31:17. For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are\nslain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his\nshadow in the midst of the nations.\n\n31:18. To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among\nthe trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of\npleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the\nmidst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this\nis Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 32\n\nThe prophet\u2019s lamentation for the king of Egypt.\n\n32:1. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in\nthe first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me,\nsaying:\n\n32:2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt,\nand say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon\nthat is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers,\nand didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon\ntheir streams.\n\n32:3. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over\nthee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my\nnet.\n\n32:4. And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into\nthe open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon\nthee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee.\n\n32:5. And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy\nhills with thy corruption,\n\n32:6. And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the\nmountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.\n\n32:7. And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I\nwill make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud,\nand the moon shall not give her light.\n\n32:8. I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee and I\nwill cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded\nshall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.\n\n32:9. And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I\nshall have brought in thy destruction among the nations upon the lands,\nwhich thou knowest not.\n\n32:10. And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their\nkings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to\nfly upon their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every\none for his own life, in the day of their ruin.\n\n32:11. For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon\nshall come upon thee,\n\n32:12. By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude: all\nthese nations are invincible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt,\nand the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.\n\n32:13. I will destroy also all the beasts thereof that were beside the\ngreat waters: and the foot of man shall trouble them no more, neither\nshall the hoof of beasts trouble them.\n\n32:14. Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to\nrun like oil, saith the Lord God:\n\n32:15. When I shall have made the land of Egypt desolate: and the land\nshall be destitute of her fulness, when I shall have struck all the\ninhabitants thereof and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n32:16. This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith: the\ndaughters of the nations shall lament therewith for Egypt, and for the\nmultitude thereof they shall lament therewith, saith the Lord God.\n\n32:17. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of\nthe month, that the word of the Lord came to me saying:\n\n32:18. Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and\ncast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the\nlowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.\n\n32:19. Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the\nuncircumcised.\n\n32:20. They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with the\nsword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down, and all her\npeople.\n\n32:21. The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to him from\nthe midst of hell, they that went down with his helpers and slept\nuncircumcised, slain by the sword.\n\n32:22. Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves are round\nabout him, all of them slain, and that fell by the sword.\n\n32:23. Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of the pit: and his\nmultitude lay round about his grave: all of them slain, and fallen by\nthe sword, they that heretofore spread terror in the land of the\nliving.\n\n32:24. There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all\nof them slain, and fallen by the sword; that went down uncircumcised to\nthe lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror in the land of\nthe living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down into\nthe pit.\n\n32:25. In the midst of the slain they have set him a bed among all his\npeople: their graves are round about him: all these are uncircumcised,\nand slain by the sword: for they spread their terror in the land of the\nliving, and have borne their shame with them that descend into the pit:\nthey are laid in the midst of the slain.\n\n32:26. There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their multitude: their\ngraves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised and slain, and\nfallen by the sword: though they spread their terror in the land of the\nliving.\n\n32:27. And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them that fell\nuncircumcised, that went down to hell with their weapons, and laid\ntheir swords under their heads, and their iniquities were in their\nbones, because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the\nliving.\n\n32:28. So thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,\nand shalt sleep with them that are slain by the sword.\n\n32:29. There is Edom, and her kings, and all her princes, who with\ntheir army are joined with them that are slain by the sword: and have\nslept with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down into the pit.\n\n32:30. There are all the princes of the north, and all the hunters: who\nwere brought down with the slain, fearing, and confounded in their\nstrength: who slept uncircumcised with them that are slain by the\nsword, and have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.\n\n32:31. Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all his\nmultitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all his army,\nsaith the Lord God:\n\n32:32. Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, and\nhe hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are\nslain by the sword: Pharao and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 33\n\nThe duty of the watchman appointed by God: the justice of God\u2019s ways:\nhis judgments upon the Jews.\n\n33:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n33:2. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them:\nWhen I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a\nman, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them:\n\n33:3. And he sees the sword coming upon the land, and sound the\ntrumpet, and tell the people:\n\n33:4. Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be,\nand doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his\nblood shall be upon his own head.\n\n33:5. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did not look to himself,\nhis blood shall be upon him: but if he look to himself, he shall save\nhis life.\n\n33:6. And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the\ntrumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and\ncut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his\niniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman.\n\n33:7. So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house\nof Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt\ntell it them from me.\n\n33:8. When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if\nthou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked\nman shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy\nhand.\n\n33:9. But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from\nhis ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his\niniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.\n\n33:10. Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus\nyou have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and\nwe pine away in them: how then can we live?\n\n33:11. Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the\ndeath of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live.\nTurn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of\nIsrael?\n\n33:12. Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people:\nThe justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he\nshall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what\nday soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be\nable to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin.\n\n33:13. Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and\nhe, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be\nforgotten, and in his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same\nshall he die.\n\n33:14. And if I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he\ndo penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,\n\n33:15. And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he\nhad robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust\nthing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.\n\n33:16. None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be imputed to\nhim: he hath done judgment and justice, he shall surely live.\n\n33:17. And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is\nnot equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.\n\n33:18. For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit\niniquities, he shall die in them.\n\n33:19. And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall\ndo judgments, and justice, he shall live in them.\n\n33:20. And you say: The way of the Lord is not right, I will judge\nevery one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.\n\n33:21. And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the\ntenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one\nthat was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste.\n\n33:22. And the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before\nhe that was fled came: and he opened my mouth till he came to me in the\nmorning, and my mouth being opened, I was silent no more.\n\n33:23. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n33:24. Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land\nof Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land,\nbut we are many, the land is given us in possession.\n\n33:25. Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat\nwith the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that\nshed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?\n\n33:26. You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and\nevery one hath defiled his neighbour\u2019s wife; and shall you possess the\nland by inheritance?\n\n33:27. Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord God: As I live, they\nthat dwell in the ruinous places, shall fall by the sword: and he that\nis in the field, shall be given to the beasts to be devoured: and they\nthat are in holds, and caves, shall die of the pestilence.\n\n33:28. And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the\nproud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be\ndesolate, because there is none to pass by them,\n\n33:29. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made\ntheir land waste and desolate, for all their abominations which they\nhave committed.\n\n33:30. And thou son of man: the children of thy people, that talk of\nthee by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to\nanother each man to his neighbour, saying: Come, and let us hear what\nis the word that cometh forth from the Lord.\n\n33:31. And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my\npeople sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they\nturn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their\ncovetousness.\n\n33:32. And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung with a\nsweet and agreeable voice: and they hear thy words, and do them not.\n\n33:33. And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, for behold\nit is coming, then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 34\n\nEvil pastors are reproved. Christ the true pastor shall come, and\ngather together his flock from all parts of the earth, and preserve it\nfor ever.\n\n34:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n34:2. Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel:\nprophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the\nshepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed\nby the shepherds?\n\nShepherds.... That is, princes, magistrates, chief priests, and\nscribes.\n\n34:3. You ate the milk, and you clothed yourselves with the wool, and\nyou killed that which was fat: but my flock you did not feed.\n\n34:4. The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you\nhave not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that\nwhich was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you\nsought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and\nwith a high hand.\n\n34:5. And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd and\nthey became the prey of all the beasts of the field, and were\nscattered.\n\n34:6. My sheep have wandered in every mountain, and in every high hill:\nand my flocks were scattered upon the face of the earth, and there was\nnone that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them.\n\n34:7. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:\n\n34:8. As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been\nmade a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the\nfield, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek\nafter my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my\nflocks:\n\n34:9. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:\n\n34:10. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the\nshepherds, I will require my flock at their hand, and I will cause them\nto cease from feeding the flock any more, neither shall the shepherds\nfeed themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock from their mouth,\nand it shall no more be meat for them.\n\n34:11. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my sheep,\nand will visit them.\n\n34:12. As the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be\nin the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my\nsheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been\nscattered in the cloudy and dark day.\n\n34:13. And I will bring them out from the peoples, and will gather them\nout of the countries, and will bring them to their own land: and I will\nfeed them in the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the\nhabitations of the land.\n\n34:14. I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their\npastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there shall they\nrest on the green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the mountains\nof Israel.\n\n34:15. I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them to lie down, saith\nthe Lord God.\n\n34:16. I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away,\nI will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I\nwill strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong\nI will preserve, and I will feed them in judgment.\n\n34:17. And as for you, O my flocks, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I\njudge between cattle and cattle, of rams and of he goats.\n\n34:18. Was it not enough for you to feed upon good pastures? but you\nmust also tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures: and\nwhen you drank the clearest water, you troubled the rest with your\nfeet.\n\n34:19. And my sheep were fed with that which you had trodden with your\nfeet: and they drank what your feet had troubled.\n\n34:20. Therefore thus saith the Lord God to you: Behold, I myself will\njudge between the fat cattle and the lean.\n\n34:21. Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck all\nthe weak cattle with your horns, till they were scattered abroad:\n\n34:22. I will save my flock, and it shall be no more a spoil, and I\nwill judge between cattle and cattle.\n\n34:23. And I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM, and he shall feed\nthem, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their\nshepherd.\n\nDavid.... Christ, who is of the house of David.\n\n34:24. And I the Lord will be their God: and my servant David the\nprince in the midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it.\n\n34:25. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause\nthe evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the\nwilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.\n\n34:26. And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will\nsend down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.\n\n34:27. And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth\nshall yield her increase, and they shall be in their land without fear:\nand they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the\nbonds of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of\nthose that rule over them.\n\n34:28. And they shall be no more for a spoil to the nations, neither\nshall the beasts of the earth devour them: but they shall dwell\nsecurely without, any terror.\n\n34:29. And I will raise up for them a bud of renown: and they shall be\nno more consumed with famine in the land, neither shall they bear any\nmore the reproach of the Gentiles.\n\nA bud of renown.... Germen nominatum. He speaks of Christ our Lord, the\nillustrious bud of the house of David, renowned over all the earth. See\nJer. 33.15.\n\n34:30. And they shall know that I the Lord their God am with them, and\nthat they are my people the house of Israel: saith the Lord God.\n\n34:31. And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and I am\nthe Lord your God, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 35\n\nThe judgment of mount Seir, for their hatred of Israel.\n\n35:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n35:2. Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy\nconcerning it, and say to it:\n\n35:3. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir,\nand I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee\ndesolate and waste.\n\n35:4. I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou\nshalt know that I am the Lord.\n\n35:5. Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the\nchildren of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their\naffliction, in the time of their last iniquity.\n\n35:6. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up\nto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated\nblood, blood shall pursue thee.\n\n35:7. And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take\naway from it him that goeth and him that returneth.\n\n35:8. And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy\nhills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are\nslain with the sword.\n\n35:9. I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall\nnot be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.\n\n35:10. Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall\nbe mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was\nthere.\n\n35:11. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to\nthy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in\nhatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have\njudged thee.\n\n35:12. And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy\nreproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel,\nsaying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.\n\n35:13. And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated\nfrom me by your words: I have heard them.\n\n35:14. Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I\nwill make thee a wilderness.\n\n35:15. As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of\nIsrael, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be\nlaid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am\nthe Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 36\n\nThe restoration of Israel, not for their merits, but by God\u2019s special\ngrace. Christ\u2019s baptism.\n\n36:1. And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and\nsay: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:\n\n36:2. Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said of you: Aha,\nthe everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.\n\n36:3. Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you\nhave been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an\ninheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of\nthe talk, and the reproach of the people:\n\n36:4. Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God:\nThus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the\nbrooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls,\nand to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by\nthe rest of the nations round about.\n\n36:5. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have\nspoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my\nland to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the\nheart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.\n\n36:6. Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the\nmountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my\nindignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles.\n\n36:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that\nthe Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their\nshame.\n\n36:8. But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your\nbranches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at\nhand to come.\n\n36:9. For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be\nploughed and sown.\n\n36:10. And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel:\nand the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be\nrepaired.\n\n36:11. And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they\nshall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the\nbeginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the\nbeginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n36:12. And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall\npossess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their\ninheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.\n\n36:13. Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a\ndevourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:\n\n36:14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more nor destroy thy nation\nany more, saith the Lord God.\n\n36:15. Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the\nnations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor\nlose thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.\n\nNor lose thy nation any more.... This whole promise principally relates\nto the church of Christ, and God\u2019s perpetual protection of her: for as\nto the carnal Jews, they have been removed out of their land these\nsixteen hundred years.\n\n36:16. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n36:17. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land,\nthey defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was\nbefore me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.\n\n36:18. And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which\nthey had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it.\n\n36:19. And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed\nthrough the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and\ntheir devices.\n\n36:20. And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they\nprofaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of\nthe Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.\n\n36:21. And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel\nhath profaned among the nations to which they went in.\n\n36:22. Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the\nLord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of\nIsrael, but for my holy name\u2019s sake, which you have profaned among the\nnations whither you went.\n\n36:23. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the\nGentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of them: that the\nGentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts, when I\nshall be sanctified in you before their eyes.\n\n36:24. For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you\ntogether out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own\nland.\n\n36:25. And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed\nfrom all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.\n\n36:26. And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within\nyou: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will\ngive you a heart of flesh.\n\n36:27. And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause\nyou to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.\n\n36:28. And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers,\nand you shall be my people, and I will be your God.\n\n36:29. And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call\nfor corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.\n\n36:30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of\nthe field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the\nnations.\n\n36:31. And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that\nwere not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall\ndisplease you.\n\n36:32. It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the Lord\nGod, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O\nhouse of Israel.\n\n36:33. Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you\nfrom all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited,\nand shall repair the ruinous places,\n\n36:34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in\nthe sight of all that passed by,\n\n36:35. They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a\ngarden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate,\nand destroyed, are peopled and fenced.\n\n36:36. And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall know\nthat I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and planted what was\ndesolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done it.\n\n36:37. Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house of\nIsrael find me, that I will do it for them: I will multiply them as a\nflock of men,\n\n36:38. As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts:\nso shall the waste cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know\nthat I am the Lord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 37\n\nA vision of the resurrection of dry bones, foreshewing the deliverance\nof the people from their captivity. Juda and Israel shall be all one\nkingdom under Christ. God\u2019s everlasting covenant with the church.\n\n37:1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the\nspirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was\nfull of bones.\n\n37:2. And he led me about through them on every side: now they were\nvery many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry.\n\n37:3. And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall\nlive? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.\n\n37:4. And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to\nthem: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.\n\n37:5. Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send\nspirit into you, and you shall live.\n\nSpirit.... That is, soul, life, and breath.\n\n37:6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over\nyou, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you\nshall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n37:7. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied\nthere was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together,\neach one, its joint.\n\n37:8. And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon\nthem: and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit\nin them.\n\n37:9. And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of\nman, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from\nthe four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.\n\n37:10. And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came\ninto them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an\nexceeding great army.\n\n37:11. And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of\nIsrael: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we\nare cut off.\n\n37:12. Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:\nBehold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your\nsepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.\n\n37:13. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened\nyour sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my\npeople:\n\n37:14. And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I\nshall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the\nLord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God:\n\n37:15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n37:16. And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of\nJuda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another\nstick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all\nthe house of Israel, and of his associates.\n\n37:17. And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall\nbecome one in thy hand.\n\n37:18. And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying:\nWilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?\n\n37:19. Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the\nstick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of\nIsrael that are associated with him, and I will put them together with\nthe stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one\nin his hand.\n\n37:20. And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy hand,\nbefore their eyes.\n\n37:21. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I\nwill take the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither\nthey are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring\nthem to their own land.\n\n37:22. And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of\nIsrael, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no\nmore be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two\nkingdoms.\n\n37:23. Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with\ntheir abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and I will save them\nout of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse\nthem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.\n\n37:24. And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall\nhave one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my\ncommandments, and shall do them.\n\n37:25. And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant\nJacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and\ntheir children, and their children\u2019s children, for ever: and David my\nservant shall be their prince for ever.\n\n37:26. And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an\neverlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will\nmultiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.\n\n37:27. And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God,\nand they shall be my people.\n\n37:28. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of\nIsrael, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 38\n\nGog shall persecute the church in the latter days. He shall be\noverthrown.\n\n38:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n38:2. Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the\nchief prince of Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of him,\n\nGog.... This name, which signifies hidden or covered, is taken in this\nplace, either for the persecutors of the church of God in general, or\nsome arch-persecutor in particular: such as Antichrist shall be in the\nlatter days. See Apoc. 20.8. And what is said of the punishment of Gog,\nis verified by the unhappy ends of persecutors.\u2014Ibid. Magog.... Scythia\nor Tartary, from whence the Turks, and other enemies of the church of\nChrist, originally sprung.\n\n38:3. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against\nthee, O Gog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.\n\n38:4. And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and\nI will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen all\nclothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and\nshields and swords.\n\n38:5. The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields\nand helmets.\n\n38:6. Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern\nparts and all his strength, and many peoples with thee.\n\n38:7. Prepare and make thyself ready, and all thy multitude that is\nassembled about thee, and be thou commander over them.\n\n38:8. After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou\nshalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered\nout of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been\ncontinually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations,\nand they shall all of them dwell securely in it.\n\n38:9. And thou shalt go up and come like a storm, and like a cloud to\ncover the land, thou and all thy bands and many people with thee.\n\n38:10. Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into\nthy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design.\n\n38:11. And thou shalt say: I will go up to the land which is without a\nwall, I will come to them that are at rest, and dwell securely: all\nthese dwell without a wall, they have no bars nor gates:\n\n38:12. To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to lay thy hand upon\nthem that had been wasted, and afterwards restored, and upon the people\nthat is gathered together out of the nations, which hath begun to\npossess and to dwell in the midst of the earth.\n\n38:13. Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis, and all the lions\nthereof shall say to thee: Art thou come to take spoils? behold, thou\nhast gathered thy multitude to take a prey, to take silver, and gold,\nand to carry away goods and substance, and to take rich spoils.\n\n38:14. Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: Thus saith\nthe Lord God: Shalt thou not know, in that day, when my people of\nIsrael shall dwell securely?\n\n38:15. And thou shalt come out of thy place from the northern parts,\nthou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great\ncompany and a mighty army.\n\n38:16. And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to\ncover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I will bring\nthee upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be\nsanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.\n\n38:17. Thus saith the Lord God: Thou then art he, of whom I have spoken\nin the days of old, by my servants the prophets of Israel, who\nprophesied in the days of those times that I would bring thee upon\nthem.\n\n38:18. And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day of the coming\nof Gog upon the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my indignation\nshall come up in my wrath.\n\n38:19. And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the fire of my anger, that\nin that day there shall be a great commotion upon the land of Israel:\n\n38:20. So that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the\nbeasts of the field, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the\nground, and all men that are upon the face of the earth, shall be moved\nat my presence: and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the hedges\nshall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.\n\n38:21. And I will call in the sword against him in all my mountains,\nsaith the Lord God: every man\u2019s sword shall be pointed against his\nbrother.\n\n38:22. And I will judge him with pestilence, and with blood, and with\nviolent rain, and vast hailstones: I will rain fire and brimstone upon\nhim, and upon his army, and upon the many nations that are with him.\n\n38:23. And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be\nknown in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the\nLord.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 39\n\nGod\u2019s judgments upon Gog. God\u2019s people were punished for their sins:\nbut shall be favoured with everlasting kindness.\n\n39:1. And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus saith\nthe Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of\nMosoch and Thubal.\n\n39:2. And I will turn thee round, and I will lead thee out, and will\nmake thee go up from the northern parts: and will bring thee upon the\nmountains of Israel.\n\n39:3. And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy\narrows to fall out of thy right hand.\n\n39:4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy\nbands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the\nwild beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the\nearth to be devoured.\n\n39:5. Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: for I have spoken it,\nsaith the Lord God.\n\n39:6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell\nconfidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am the Lord.\n\n39:7. And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people\nIsrael, and my holy name shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles\nshall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.\n\n39:8. Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the Lord God: this is the\nday whereof I have spoken.\n\n39:9. And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and\nshall set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, and the spears,\nthe bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and the pikes: and they\nshall burn them with fire seven years.\n\n39:10. And they shall not bring wood out of the countries, nor cut down\nout of the forests: for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and\nshall make a prey of them to whom they had been a prey, and they shall\nrob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.\n\n39:11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a\nnoted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on\nthe east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass\nby: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall\nbe called the valley of the multitude of Gog.\n\n39:12. And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to\ncleanse the land.\n\n39:13. And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it shall be\nunto them a noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith the Lord God.\n\n39:14. And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to\nbury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the\nearth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall\nbegin to seek.\n\n39:15. And they shall go about passing through the land: and when they\nshall see the bone of a man, they shall set up a sign by it, till the\nburiers bury it in the valley, of the multitude of Gog.\n\n39:16. And the name of the city shall be Amona, and they shall cleanse\nthe land.\n\n39:17. And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord God, say to every fowl,\nand to all the birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Assemble\nyourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim,\nwhich I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to\neat flesh, and drink blood.\n\n39:18. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the\nblood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he\ngoats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.\n\n39:19. And you shall eat the fat till you be full, and shall drink\nblood till you be drunk of the victim which I shall slay for you.\n\n39:20. And you shall be filled at my table with horses, and mighty\nhorsemen, and all the men of war, saith the Lord God.\n\n39:21. And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations shall\nsee my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon\nthem.\n\n39:22. And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God\nfrom that day and forward.\n\n39:23. And the nations shall know that the house of Israel were made\ncaptives for their iniquity, because they forsook me, and I hid my face\nfrom them: and I delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and\nthey fell all by the sword.\n\n39:24. I have dealt with them according to their uncleanness, and\nwickedness, and hid my face from them.\n\n39:25. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now will I bring back the\ncaptivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on all the house of Israel and\nI will be jealous for my holy name.\n\n39:26. And they shall bear their confusion, and all the transgressions\nwherewith they have transgressed against me, when they shall dwell in\ntheir land securely fearing no man:\n\n39:27. And I shall have brought them back from among the nations, and\nshall have gathered them together out of the lands of their enemies,\nand shall be sanctified in them, in the sight of many nations.\n\n39:28. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I\ncaused them to be carried away among the nations; and I have gathered\nthem together unto their own land, and have not left any of them there.\n\n39:29. And I will hide my face no more from them, for I have poured out\nmy spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 40\n\nThe prophet sees in a vision the rebuilding of the temple: the\ndimensions of several parts thereof.\n\n40:1. In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning\nof the year, the tenth day of the month, the fourteenth year after the\ncity was destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon\nme, and he brought me thither.\n\n40:2. In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and\nset me upon a very high mountain: upon which there was as the building\nof a city, bending towards the south.\n\n40:3. And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance\nwas like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and\na measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.\n\n40:4. And this man said to me: Son of man, see with thy eyes, and hear\nwith thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee: for\nthou art brought hither that they may be shewn to thee: declare all\nthat thou seest, to the house of Israel.\n\n40:5. And behold there was a wall on the outside of the house round\nabout, and in the man\u2019s hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a\nhandbreadth: and he measured the breadth of the building one reed, and\nthe height one reed.\n\n40:6. And he came to the gate that looked toward the east, and he went\nup the steps thereof: and he measured the breadth of the threshold of\nthe gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed broad;\n\n40:7. And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad:\nand between the little chambers were five cubits:\n\n40:8. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within,\nwas one reed.\n\n40:9. And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and the front\nthereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate was inward.\n\n40:10. And the little chambers of the gate that looked eastward were\nthree on this side, and three on that side: all three were of one\nmeasure, and the fronts of one measure, on both parts.\n\n40:11. And he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate ten\ncubits: and the length of the gate thirteen cubits:\n\n40:12. And the border before the little chambers one cubit: and one\ncubit was the border on both sides: and the little chambers were six\ncubits on this side and that side.\n\n40:13. And he measured the gate from the roof of one little chamber to\nthe roof of another, in breadth five and twenty cubits: door against\ndoor.\n\n40:14. He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the court\nof the gate on every side round about.\n\n40:15. And before the face of the gate which reached even to the face\nof the porch of the inner gate, fifty cubits.\n\n40:16. And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their\nfronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in\nlike manner there were also in the porches windows round about within,\nand before the fronts the representation of palm trees.\n\n40:17. And he brought me into the outward court, and behold there were\nchambers, and a pavement of stone in the court round about: thirty\nchambers encompassed the pavement.\n\nThere were chambers.... Gazophylacia, so called, because the priests\nand Levites kept in them the stores and vessels that belonged to the\ntemple.\n\n40:18. And the pavement in the front of the gates according to the\nlength of the gates was lower.\n\n40:19. And he measured the breadth from the face of the lower gate to\nthe front of the inner court without, a hundred cubits to the east, and\nto the north.\n\n40:20. He measured also both the length and the breadth of the gate of\nthe outward court, which looked northward.\n\n40:21. And the little chambers thereof three on this side, and three on\nthat side: and the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to\nthe measure of the former gate, fifty cubits long, and five and twenty\ncubits broad.\n\n40:22. And the windows thereof, and the porch, and the gravings\naccording to the measure of the gate that looked to the east, and they\nwent up to it by seven steps, and a porch was before it.\n\n40:23. And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate of the\nnorth, and that of the east: and he measured from gate to gate a\nhundred cubits.\n\n40:24. And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the\ngate that looked to the south: and he measured the front thereof, and\nthe porch thereof according to the former measures.\n\n40:25. And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as the\nother windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and\ntwenty cubits.\n\n40:26. And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch before\nthe doors thereof: and there were graven palm trees, one on this side,\nand another on that side in the front thereof.\n\n40:27. And there was a gate of the inner court towards the south: and\nhe measured from gate to gate towards the south, a hundred cubits.\n\n40:28. And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate: and he\nmeasured the gate according to the former measures.\n\n40:29. The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch\nthereof with the same measures: and the windows thereof, and the porch\nthereof round about it was fifty cubits in length, and five and twenty\ncubits in breadth.\n\n40:30. And the porch round about was five and twenty cubits long, and\nfive cubits broad.\n\n40:31. And the porch thereof to the outward court, and the palm trees\nthereof in the front: and there were eight steps to go up to it.\n\n40:32. And he brought me into the inner court by the way of the east:\nand he measured the gate according to the former measures.\n\n40:33. The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch\nthereof as before: and the windows thereof, and the porches thereof\nround about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.\n\n40:34. And the porch thereof, that is, of the outward court: and the\ngraven palm trees in the front thereof on this side and on that side:\nand the going up thereof was by eight steps.\n\n40:35. And he brought me into the gate that looked to the north: and he\nmeasured according to the former measures.\n\n40:36. The little chamber thereof, and the front thereof, and the porch\nthereof, and the windows thereof round about it was fifty cubits long,\nand five and twenty cubits broad.\n\n40:37. And the porch thereof looked to the outward court: and the\ngraving of palm trees in the front thereof was on this side and on that\nside: and the going up to it was by eight steps.\n\n40:38. And at every chamber was a door in the forefronts of the gates:\nthere they washed the holocaust.\n\n40:39. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and\ntwo tables on that side: that the holocaust, and the sin offering, and\nthe trespass offering might be slain thereon.\n\n40:40. And on the outward side, which goeth up to the entry of the gate\nthat looketh toward the north, were two tables: and at the other side\nbefore the porch of the gate were two tables,\n\n40:41. Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side at\nthe sides of the gate were eight tables, upon which they slew the\nvictims.\n\n40:42. And the four tables for the holocausts were made of square\nstones: one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half broad, and\none cubit high: to lay the vessels upon, in which the holocaust and the\nvictim is slain.\n\n40:43. And the borders of them were of one handbreadth, turned inwards\nround about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.\n\n40:44. And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singing men\nin the inner court, which was on the side of the gate that looketh to\nthe north: and their prospect was towards the south, one at the side of\nthe east gate, which looketh toward the north.\n\n40:45. And he said to me: This chamber, which looketh toward the south\nshall be for the priests that watch in the wards of the temple.\n\n40:46. But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be for the\npriests that watch over the ministry of the altar. These are the sons\nof Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord, to\nminister to him.\n\n40:47. And he measured the court a hundred cubits long, and a hundred\ncubits broad foursquare: and the altar that was before the face of the\ntemple.\n\n40:48. And he brought me into the porch of the temple: and he measured\nthe porch five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and\nthe breadth of the gate three cubits on this side, and three cubits on\nthat side.\n\n40:49. And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth\neleven cubits, and there were eight steps to go up to it. And there\nwere pillars in the fronts: one on this side, and another on that side.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 41\n\nA description of the temple, and of all the parts of it.\n\n41:1. And he brought me into the temple, and he measured the fronts six\ncubits broad on this side, and six cubits on that side, the breadth of\nthe tabernacle.\n\nThe temple.... This plan of a temple, which was here shewn to the\nprophet in a vision, partly had relation to the material temple, which\nwas to be rebuilt: and partly, in a mystical sense, to the spiritual\ntemple of God, the church of Christ.\n\n41:2. And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits: and the sides of the\ngate five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he\nmeasured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty\ncubits.\n\n41:3. Then going inward he measured the front of the gate two cubits:\nand the gate six cubits, and the breadth of the gate seven cubits.\n\n41:4. And he measured the length thereof twenty cubits, and the breadth\ntwenty cubits, before the face of the temple: and he said to me: This\nis the holy of holies.\n\n41:5. And he measured the wall of the house six cubits: and the breadth\nof every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side.\n\n41:6. And the side chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three:\nand they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of\nthe house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the\nwall of the temple.\n\nOne by another.... Or one over another; literally, side to side, or\nside upon side.\n\n41:7. And there was a broad passage round about, going up by winding\nstairs, and it led into the upper loft of the temple all round:\ntherefore was the temple broader in the higher parts: and so from the\nlower parts they went to the higher by the midst.\n\n41:8. And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of\nthe side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six\ncubits:\n\n41:9. And the thickness of the wall for the side chamber without, which\nwas five cubits: and the inner house was within the side chambers of\nthe house,\n\nAnd the inner house was within the side chambers of the house....\nBecause these side chambers were in the very walls of the temple all\nround. Or, it may also be rendered (more agreeably to the Hebrew) so as\nto signify that the thickness of the wall for the side chamber within,\nwas the same as that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits.\n\n41:10. And between the chambers was the breadth of twenty cubits round\nabout the house on every side.\n\n41:11. And the door of the side chambers was turned towards the place\nof prayer: one door was toward the north, and another door was toward\nthe south: and the breadth of the place for prayer, was five cubits\nround about.\n\n41:12. And the building that was separate, and turned to the way that\nlooked toward the sea, was seventy cubits broad and the wall of the\nbuilding, five cubits thick round about: and ninety cubits long.\n\n41:13. And he measured the length of the house, a hundred cubits: and\nthe separate building, and the walls thereof, a hundred cubits in\nlength.\n\n41:14. And the breadth before the face of the house, and of the\nseparate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.\n\n41:15. And he measured the length of the building over against it,\nwhich was separated at the back of it: and the galleries on both sides\na hundred cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.\n\n41:16. The thresholds, and the oblique windows, and the galleries round\nabout on three sides, over against the threshold of every one, and\nfloored with wood all round about: and the ground was up to the\nwindows, and the windows were shut over the doors.\n\n41:17. And even to the inner house, and without all the wall round\nabout within and without, by measure.\n\n41:18. And there were cherubims and palm trees wrought, so that a palm\ntree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces.\n\n41:19. The face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the\nface of a lion was toward the palm tree on the other side: set forth\nthrough all the house round about.\n\n41:20. From the ground even to the upper parts of the gate, were\ncherubims and palm trees wrought in the wall of the temple.\n\n41:21. The threshold was foursquare, and the face of the sanctuary\nsight to sight.\n\nThe threshold was foursquare.... That is, the gate of the temple was\nfoursquare: and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary\nwithin.\n\n41:22. The altar of wood was three cubits high: and the length thereof\nwas two cubits: and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and\nthe walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me: This is the table\nbefore the Lord.\n\n41:23. And there were two doors in the temple, and in the sanctuary.\n\n41:24. And in the two doors on both sides were two little doors, which\nwere folded within each other: for there were two wickets on both sides\nof the doors.\n\n41:25. And there were cherubims also wrought in the doors of the\ntemple, and the figures of palm trees, like as were made on the walls:\nfor which cause also the planks were thicker in the front of the porch\nwithout.\n\n41:26. Upon which were the oblique windows, and the representation of\npalm trees on this side, and on that side in the sides of the porch,\naccording to the sides of the house, and the breadth of the walls.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 42\n\nA description of the courts, chambers, and other places belonging to\nthe temple.\n\n42:1. And he brought me forth into the outward court by the way that\nleadeth to the north, and he brought me into the chamber that was over\nagainst the separate building, and over against the house toward the\nnorth.\n\n42:2. In the face of the north door was the length of a hundred cubits,\nand the breadth of fifty cubits.\n\n42:3. Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over\nagainst the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone,\nwhere there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.\n\n42:4. And before the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad, looking to\nthe inner parts of a way of one cubit. And their doors were toward the\nnorth.\n\n42:5. Where were the store chambers lower above: because they bore up\nthe galleries, which appeared above out of them from he lower parts,\nand from the midst of the building.\n\n42:6. For they were of three stories, and had not pillars, as the\npillars of the courts: therefore did they appear above out of the lower\nplaces, and out of the middle places, fifty cubits from the ground.\n\n42:7. And the outward wall that went about by the chambers, which were\ntowards the outward court on the forepart of the chambers, was fifty\ncubits long.\n\n42:8. For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty\ncubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.\n\n42:9. And there was under these chambers, an entrance from the east,\nfor them that went into them out of the outward court.\n\n42:10. In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward\nthe east, over against the separate building, and there were chambers\nbefore the building.\n\n42:11. And the way before them was like the chambers which were toward\nthe north: they were as long as they, and as broad as they: and all the\ngoing in to them, and their fashions, and their doors were alike.\n\n42:12. According to the doors of the chambers that were towards the\nsouth: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before\nthe porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in.\n\n42:13. And he said to me: The chambers of the north, and the chambers\nof the south, which are before the separate building: they are holy\nchambers, in which the priests shall eat, that approach to the Lord\ninto the holy of holies: there they shall lay the most holy things, and\nthe offering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy place.\n\n42:14. And when the priests shall have entered in, they shall not go\nout of the holy places into the outward court: but there they shall lay\ntheir vestments, wherein they minister, for they are holy: and they\nshall put on other garments, and so they shall go forth to the people.\n\n42:15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he\nbrought me out by the way of the gate that looked toward the east: and\nhe measured it on every side round about.\n\n42:16. And he measured toward the east with the measuring reed, five\nhundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.\n\n42:17. And he measured toward the north five hundred reeds with the\nmeasuring reed round about.\n\n42:18. And towards the south he measured five hundred reeds with the\nmeasuring reed round about.\n\n42:19. And toward the west he measured five hundred reeds, with the\nmeasuring reed.\n\n42:20. By the four winds he measured the wall thereof on every side\nround about, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits broad,\nmaking a separation between the sanctuary and the place of the people.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 43\n\nThe glory of God returns to the new temple. The Israelites shall no\nmore profane God\u2019s name by idolatry: the prophet is commanded to shew\nthem the dimensions, and form of the temple, and of the altar, with the\nsacrifices to be offered thereon.\n\n43:1. And he brought me to the gate that looked towards the east.\n\n43:2. And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the way of\nthe east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the\nearth shone with his majesty.\n\n43:3. And I saw the vision according to the appearance which I had seen\nwhen he came to destroy the city: and the appearance was according to\nthe vision which I had seen by the river Chobar: and I fell upon my\nface.\n\n43:4. And the majesty of the Lord went into the temple by the way of\nthe gate that looked to the east.\n\n43:5. And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court:\nand behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.\n\n43:6. And I heard one speaking to me out of the house, and the man that\nstood by me,\n\n43:7. Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of\nthe soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of\nIsrael for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy\nname, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses\nof their kings, and by the high places.\n\n43:8. They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and their\nposts by my posts: and there was but a wall between me, and them: and\nthey profaned my holy name by the abominations which they committed:\nfor which reason I consumed them in my wrath.\n\n43:9. Now therefore let them put away their fornications, and the\ncarcasses of their kings far from me: and I will dwell in the midst of\nthem for ever.\n\n43:10. But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the temple,\nand let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the\nbuilding:\n\n43:11. And be ashamed of all that they have done. Shew them the form of\nthe house, and of the fashion thereof, the goings out and the comings\nin, and the whole plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and all its\norder, and all its laws, and thou shalt write it in their sight: that\nthey may keep the whole form thereof, and its ordinances, and do them.\n\n43:12. This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All\nits border round about is most holy: this then is the law of the house.\n\n43:13. And these are the measures of the altar by the truest cubit,\nwhich is a cubit and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and\nthe breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its edge, and round\nabout, one handbreadth: and this was the trench of the altar.\n\n43:14. And from the bottom of the ground to the lowest brim two cubits,\nand the breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser brim to the greater\nbrim four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit.\n\n43:15. And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward\nwere four horns.\n\nThe Ariel.... That is, the altar itself, or rather the highest part of\nit, upon which the burnt offerings were laid. In the Hebrew it is\nHarel, that is, the mountain of God: but in the following verse\nHaariel, that is, the lion of God; a figure, from its consuming, and as\nit were devouring the sacrifices, as a lion devours its prey.\n\n43:16. And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and twelve cubits broad,\nfoursquare, with equal sides.\n\n43:17. And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad\nin the four corners thereof: and the crown round about it was half a\ncubit, and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and its steps turned\ntoward the east.\n\n43:18. And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith the Lord God: These\nare the ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever it shall be made:\nthat holocausts may be offered upon it, and blood poured out.\n\n43:19. And thou shalt give to the priests, and the Levites, that are of\nthe race of Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the Lord God, to offer to\nme a calf of the herd for sin.\n\n43:20. And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt put it upon the four\nhorns thereof, and upon the four corners of the brim, and upon the\ncrown round about: and thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it.\n\n43:21. And thou shalt take the calf, that is offered for sin: and thou\nshalt burn him in a separate place of the house without the sanctuary.\n\n43:22. And in the second day thou shalt offer a he goat without blemish\nfor sin: and they shall expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the\ncalf.\n\n43:23. And when thou shalt have made an end of the expiation thereof,\nthou shalt offer a calf of the herd without blemish, and a ram of the\nflock without blemish.\n\n43:24. And thou shalt offer them in the sight of the Lord, and the\npriests shall put salt upon them, and shall offer them a holocaust to\nthe Lord.\n\n43:25. Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat for sin daily: they shall\noffer also a calf of the herd, and a ram of the flock without blemish.\n\n43:26. Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and shall cleanse it:\nand they shall consecrate it.\n\nConsecrate it.... Literally, fill its hand, that is, dedicate and apply\nit to holy service.\n\n43:27. And the days being expired, on the eighth day and thenceforward,\nthe priests shall offer your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace\nofferings: and I will be pacified towards you, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 44\n\nThe east gate of the sanctuary shall be always shut. The uncircumcised\nshall not enter into the sanctuary: nor the Levites that have served\nidols: but the sons of Sadoc shall do the priestly functions, who stood\nfirm in the worst of times.\n\n44:1. And he brought me back to the way of the gate of the outward\nsanctuary, which looked towards the east: and it was shut.\n\n44:2. And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be\nopened, and no man shall pass through it: because the Lord the God of\nIsrael hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut\n\n44:3. For the prince. The prince himself shall sit in it, to eat bread\nbefore the Lord: he shall enter in by the way of the porch of the gate,\nand shall go out by the same way.\n\n44:4. And he brought me by the way of the north gate, in the sight of\nthe house: and I saw, and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house\nof the Lord: and I fell on my face.\n\n44:5. And the Lord said to me: Son of man, attend with thy heart and\nbehold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that I say to thee\nconcerning all the ceremonies of the house of the Lord, and concerning\nall the laws thereof: and mark well the ways of the temple, with all\nthe goings out of the sanctuary.\n\n44:6. And thou shalt say to the house of Israel that provoketh me: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Let all your wicked doings suffice you, O house of\nIsrael:\n\n44:7. In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and\nuncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house:\nand you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my\ncovenant by all your wicked doings.\n\n44:8. And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you\nhave set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.\n\n44:9. Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and\nuncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that\nis in the midst of the children of Israel.\n\n44:10. Moreover the Levites that went away far from me, when the\nchildren of Israel went astray, and have wandered from me after their\nidols, and have borne their iniquity:\n\n44:11. They shall be officers in my sanctuary, and doorkeepers of the\ngates of the house, and ministers to the house: they shall slay the\nholocausts, and the victims of the people: and they shall stand in\ntheir sight, to minister to them.\n\n44:12. Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a\nstumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I\nlifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear\ntheir iniquity:\n\n44:13. And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of priest\nto me, neither shall they come near to any of my holy things that are\nby the holy of holies: but they shall bear their shame, and their\nwickednesses which they have committed.\n\n44:14. And I will make them doorkeepers of the house, for all the\nservice thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.\n\n44:15. But the priests, and Levites, the sons of Sadoc, who kept the\nceremonies of my sanctuary, when the children of Israel went astray\nfrom me, they shall come near to me, to minister to me: and they shall\nstand before me, to offer me the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord\nGod.\n\n44:16. They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to\nmy table, to minister unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.\n\n44:17. And when they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court,\nthey shall be clothed with linen garments: neither shall any woollen\ncome upon them, when they minister in the gates of the inner court and\nwithin.\n\n44:18. They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches\non their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that\ncauseth sweat.\n\n44:19. And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people,\nthey shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them\nup in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe\nthemselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people\nwith their vestments.\n\nShall not sanctify the people with their vestments.... By exposing them\nto the danger of touching the sacred vestments, which none were to\ntouch but they that were sanctified.\n\n44:20. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but\nthey shall only poll their heads.\n\n44:21. And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner\ncourt.\n\n44:22. Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is\ndivorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of\nIsrael: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.\n\n44:23. And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and\nprofane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.\n\n44:24. And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my\njudgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances\nin all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.\n\n44:25. And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled,\nonly their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and\nsister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become\nunclean.\n\n44:26. And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven\ndays.\n\n44:27. And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, to the inner\ncourt, to minister unto me in the sanctuary, he shall offer for his\nsin, saith the Lord God.\n\n44:28. And they shall have no inheritance, I am their inheritance:\nneither shall you give them any possession in Israel, for I am their\npossession.\n\n44:29. They shall eat the victim both for sin and for trespass: and\nevery vowed thing in Israel shall be theirs.\n\n44:30. And the firstfruits of all the firstborn, and all the libations\nof all things that are offered, shall be the priest\u2019s: and you shall\ngive the firstfruits of your meats to the priest, that he may return a\nblessing upon thy house.\n\n44:31. The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or\ncaught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 45\n\nPortions of land for the sanctuary, for the city, and for the prince.\nOrdinances for the prince.\n\n45:1. And when you shall begin to divide the land by lot, separate ye\nfirstfruits to the Lord, a portion of the land to be holy, in length\ntwenty-five thousand and in breadth ten thousand: it shall be holy in\nall the borders thereof round about.\n\nTwenty-five thousand.... Viz., reeds or cubits.\n\n45:2. And there shall be for the sanctuary on every side five hundred\nby five hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty cubits for the\nsuburbs thereof round about.\n\n45:3. And with this measure thou shalt measure the length of five and\ntwenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be\nthe temple and the holy of holies.\n\n45:4. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the\nministers of the sanctuary, who come near to the ministry of the Lord:\nand it shall be a place for their houses, and for the holy place of the\nsanctuary.\n\n45:5. And five and twenty thousand of length, and ten thousand of\nbreadth shall be for the Levites, that minister in the house: they\nshall possess twenty store chambers.\n\n45:6. And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand\nbroad, and five and twenty thousand long, according to the separation\nof the sanctuary, for the whole house of Israel.\n\n45:7. For the prince also on the one side and on the other side,\naccording to the separation of the sanctuary, and according to the\npossession of the city, over against the separation of the sanctuary,\nand over against the possession of the city: from the side of the sea\neven to the sea, and from the side of the east even to the east. And\nthe length according to every part from the west border to the east\nborder.\n\n45:8. He shall have a portion of the land in Israel: and the princes\nshall no more rob my people: but they shall give the land to the house\nof Israel according to their tribes:\n\n45:9. Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel:\ncease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice,\nseparate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.\n\n45:10. You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.\n\n45:11. The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that\nthe bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth\npart of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of\na core.\n\nThe ephi and the bate.... These measures were of equal capacity, but\nthe bate served for liquids, and the ephi for dry things.\n\n45:12. And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sicles, and five and\ntwenty sicles, and fifteen sicles, make a mna,\n\n45:13. And these are the firstfruits, which you shall take: the sixth\npart of an ephi of a core of wheat, and the sixth part of an ephi of a\ncore of barley.\n\n45:14. The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a\ncore: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.\n\n45:15. And one ram out of a flock of two hundred, of those that Israel\nfeedeth for sacrifice, and for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to\nmake atonement for them, saith the Lord God.\n\n45:16. All the people of the land shall be bound to these firstfruits\nfor the prince in Israel.\n\n45:17. And the prince shall give the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and\nthe libations on the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths,\nand on all the solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall offer the\nsacrifice for sin, and the holocaust, and the peace offerings to make\nexpiation for the house of Israel.\n\n45:18. Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the\nmonth, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou\nshalt expiate the sanctuary.\n\n45:19. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering: and\nhe shall put it on the posts of the house, and on the four corners of\nthe brim of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.\n\n45:20. And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of the month, for every\none that hath been ignorant, and hath been deceived by error, and thou\nshalt make expiation for the house.\n\n45:21. In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you shall\nobserve the solemnity of the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall\nbe eaten.\n\n45:22. And the prince on that day shall offer for himself, and for all\nthe people of the land, a calf for sin.\n\n45:23. And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for a\nholocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams without blemish\ndaily for seven days: and for sin a he goat daily.\n\n45:24. And he shall offer the sacrifice of an ephi for every calf, and\nan ephi for every ram: and a hin of oil for every ephi.\n\n45:25. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the\nsolemn feast, he shall do the like for the seven days: as well in\nregard to the sin offering, as to the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and\nthe oil.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 46\n\nOther ordinances for the prince and for the sacrifices.\n\n46:1. Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh\ntoward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but\non the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new\nmoon it shall be opened.\n\n46:2. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate\nfrom without, and he shall stand at the threshold of the gate: and the\npriests shall offer his holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he\nshall adore upon the threshold of the gate, and shall go out: but the\ngate shall not be shut till the evening.\n\n46:3. And the people of the land shall adore at the door of that gate\nbefore the Lord on the sabbaths, and on the new moons.\n\n46:4. And the holocaust that the prince shall offer to the Lord on the\nsabbath day, shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without\nblemish.\n\n46:5. And the sacrifice of an ephi for a ram: but for the lambs what\nsacrifice his hand shall allow: and a hin of oil for every ephi.\n\n46:6. And on the day of the new moon a calf of the herd without\nblemish: and the six lambs, and the rams shall be without blemish.\n\n46:7. And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi for a calf, an ephi also\nfor a ram: but for the lambs, as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil\nfor every ephi.\n\n46:8. And when the prince is to go in, let him go in by the way of the\nporch of the gate, and let him go out the same way.\n\n46:9. But when the people of the land shall go in before the Lord in\nthe solemn feasts, he that goeth in by the north gate to adore, shall\ngo out by the way of the south gate; and he that goeth in by the way of\nthe south gate, shall go out by the way of the north gate: he shall not\nreturn by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go out at\nthat over against it.\n\n46:10. And the prince in the midst of them, shall go in when they go\nin, and go out when they go out.\n\n46:11. And in the fairs, and in the solemnities there shall be the\nsacrifice of an ephi to a calf, and an ephi to a ram: and to the lambs,\nthe sacrifice shall be as his hand shall find: and a hin of oil to\nevery ephi.\n\n46:12. But when the prince shall offer a voluntary holocaust, or\nvoluntary peace offering to the Lord: the gate that looketh towards the\neast shall be opened to him, and he shall offer his holocaust, and his\npeace offerings, as it is wont to be done on the sabbath day: and he\nshall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he is gone forth.\n\n46:13. And he shall offer every day for a holocaust to the Lord, a lamb\nof the same year without blemish: he shall offer it always in the\nmorning.\n\n46:14. And he shall offer the sacrifice for it morning by morning, the\nsixth part of an ephi: and the third part of a hin of oil to be mingled\nwith the fine flour: a sacrifice to the Lord by ordinance continual and\neverlasting.\n\n46:15. He shall offer the lamb, and the sacrifice, and the oil morning\nby morning: an everlasting holocaust.\n\n46:16. Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince give a gift to any of his\nsons: the inheritance of it shall go to his children, they shall\npossess it by inheritance.\n\n46:17. But if he give a legacy out of his inheritance to one of his\nservants, it shall be his until the year of release, and it shall\nreturn to the prince: but his inheritance shall go to his sons.\n\n46:18. And the prince shall not take of the people\u2019s inheritance by\nviolence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he\nshall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed\nevery man from his possession.\n\n46:19. And he brought me in by the entry that was at the side of the\ngate, into the chambers of the sanctuary that were for the priests,\nwhich looked toward the north. And there was a place bending to the\nwest.\n\n46:20. And he said to me: This is the place where the priests shall\nboil the sin offering, and the trespass offering: where they shall\ndress the sacrifice, that they may not bring it out into the outward\ncourt, and the people be sanctified.\n\n46:21. And he brought me into the outward court, and he led me about by\nthe four corners of the court: and behold there was a little court in\nthe corner of the court, to every corner of the court there was a\nlittle court.\n\n46:22. In the four corners of the court were little courts disposed,\nforty cubits long, and thirty broad, all the four were of one measure.\n\n46:23. And there was a wall round about compassing the four little\ncourts, and there were kitchens built under the rows round about.\n\n46:24. And he said to me: This is the house of the kitchens wherein the\nministers of the house of the Lord shall boil the victims of the\npeople.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 47\n\nThe vision of the holy waters issuing out from under the temple: the\nborders of the land to be divided among the twelve tribes.\n\n47:1. And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold\nwaters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the\neast: for the forefront of the house looked toward the east: but the\nwaters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of\nthe altar.\n\nWaters.... These waters are not to be understood literally (for there\nwere none such that flowed from the temple); but mystically, of the\nbaptism of Christ, and of his doctrine and his grace: the trees that\ngrow on the banks are Christian virtues: the fishes are Christians,\nthat spiritually live in and by these holy waters, the fishermen are\nthe apostles, and apostolic preachers: the fenny places, where there is\nno health, are such as by being out of the church are separated from\nthese waters of life.\n\n47:2. And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me\nto turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked\ntoward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side.\n\n47:3. And when the man that had the line in his hand went out towards\nthe east, he measured a thousand cubits: and he brought me through the\nwater up to the ankles.\n\n47:4. And again he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the\nwater up to the knees.\n\n47:5. And he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water\nup to the loins. And he measured a thousand, and it was a torrent,\nwhich I could not pass over: for the waters were risen so as to make a\ndeep torrent, which could not be passed over.\n\n47:6. And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man. And he\nbrought me out, and he caused me to turn to the bank of the torrent.\n\n47:7. And when I had turned myself, behold on the bank of the torrent\nwere very many trees on both sides.\n\n47:8. And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the\nhillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert,\nshall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be\nhealed.\n\n47:9. And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent\nshall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after\nthese waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all\nthings shall live to which the torrent shall come.\n\n47:10. And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even\nto Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of\nthe fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great\nmultitude:\n\n47:11. But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not\nbe healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.\n\n47:12. And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow\nall trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their\nfruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits,\nbecause the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the\nfruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.\n\n47:13. Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall\npossess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph\nhath a double portion.\n\n47:14. And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his\nbrother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your\nfathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.\n\n47:15. And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from\nthe great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,\n\n47:16. Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is between the border of Damascus\nand the border of Emath the house of Tichon, which is by the border of\nAuran.\n\n47:17. And the border from the sea even to the court of Enan, shall be\nthe border of Damascus, and from the north to the north: the border of\nEmath, this is the north side.\n\n47:18. And the east side is from the midst of Auran, and from the midst\nof Damascus, and from the midst of Galaad, and from the midst of the\nland of Israel, Jordan making the bound to the east sea, and thus you\nshall measure the east side.\n\n47:19. And the south side southward is, from Thamar even to the waters\nof contradiction of Cades: and, the torrent even to the great sea: and\nthis is the south side southward.\n\n47:20. And the side toward the sea, is the great sea from the borders\nstraight on, till thou come to Emath: this is the side of the sea.\n\n47:21. And you shall divide this land unto you by the tribes of Israel:\n\n47:22. And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to\nthe strangers that shall come over to you, that shall beget children\namong you: and they shall be unto you as men of the same country born\namong the children of Israel: they shall divide the possession with you\nin the midst of the tribes of Israel.\n\n47:23. And in what tribe soever the stranger shall be, there shall you\ngive him possession, saith the Lord God.\n\n\nEzechiel Chapter 48\n\nThe portions of the twelve tribes, of the sanctuary, of the city, and\nof the prince. The dimensions and gates of the city.\n\n48:1. And these are the names of the tribes from the borders of the\nnorth, by the way of Hethalon, as they go to Emath, the court of Enan\nthe border of Damascus northward, by the way of Emath. And from the\neast side thereof to the sea shall be one portion for Dan.\n\n48:2. And by the border of Dan, from the east side even to the side of\nthe sea, one portion for Aser:\n\n48:3. And by the border of Aser, from the east side even to the side of\nthe sea, one portion for Nephthali.\n\n48:4. And by the border of Nephthali, from the east side even to the\nside of the sea, one portion for Manasses.\n\n48:5. And by the border of Manasses, from the east side even to the\nside of the sea, one portion for Ephraim.\n\n48:6. And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the side\nof the sea, one portion for Ruben.\n\n48:7. And by the border of Ruben, from the east side even to the side\nof the sea, one portion for Juda.\n\n48:8. And by the border of Juda, from the east side even to the side of\nthe sea, shall be the firstfruits which you shall set apart, five and\ntwenty thousand in breadth, and length, as every one of the portions\nfrom the east side to the side of the sea: and the sanctuary shall be\nin the midst thereof.\n\n48:9. The firstfruits which you shall set apart for the Lord will be\nthe length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten\nthousand.\n\n48:10. And these shall be the firstfruits of the sanctuary for the\npriests: toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and\ntoward the sea ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east also ten\nthousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in\nlength: and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof.\n\n48:11. The sanctuary shall be for the priests of the sons of Sadoc, who\nkept my ceremonies, and went not astray when the children of Israel\nwent astray, as the Levites also went astray.\n\n48:12. And for them shall be the firstfruits of the firstfruits of the\nland holy of holies, by the border of the Levites,\n\n48:13. And the Levites in like manner shall have by the borders of the\npriests five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in\nbreadth. All the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the\nbreadth ten thousand.\n\n48:14. And they shall not sell thereof, nor exchange, neither shall the\nfirstfruits of the land be alienated, because they are sanctified to\nthe Lord.\n\n48:15. But the five thousand that remain in the breadth over against\nthe five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city for\ndwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof.\n\n48:16. And these are the measures thereof: on the north side four\nthousand and five hundred: and on the south side four thousand and five\nhundred: and on the east side four thousand and five hundred: and on\nthe west side four thousand and five hundred.\n\n48:17. And the suburbs of the city shall be to the north two hundred\nand fifty, and to the south two hundred and fifty, and to the east two\nhundred and fifty, and to the sea two hundred and fifty.\n\n48:18. And the residue in length by the firstfruits of the sanctuary,\nten thousand toward the east, and ten thousand toward the west, shall\nbe as the firstfruits of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be\nfor bread to them that serve the city.\n\n48:19. And they that serve the city, shall serve it out of all the\ntribes of Israel.\n\n48:20. All the firstfruits, of five and twenty thousand, by five and\ntwenty thousand foursquare, shall be set apart for the firstfruits of\nthe sanctuary, and for the possession of the city.\n\n48:21. And the residue shall be for the prince on every side of the\nfirstfruits of the sanctuary, and of the possession of the city over\nagainst the five and twenty thousand of the firstfruits unto the east\nborder: toward the sea also over against the five and twenty thousand,\nunto the border of the sea, shall likewise be the portion of the\nprince: and the firstfruits of the sanctuary, and the sanctuary of the\ntemple shall be in the midst thereof.\n\n48:22. And from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession\nof the city which are in the midst of the prince\u2019s portions: what shall\nbe to the border of Juda, and to the border of Benjamin, shall also\nbelong to the prince.\n\n48:23. And for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west\nside, one portion for Benjamin.\n\n48:24. And over against the border of Benjamin, from the east side to\nthe west side, one portion for Simeon.\n\n48:25. And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west\nside, one portion for Issachar.\n\n48:26. And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west\nside, one portion for Zabulon.\n\n48:27. And by the border of Zabulon, from the east side to the side of\nthe sea, one portion for Gad.\n\n48:28. And by the border of Gad, the south side southward: and the\nborder shall be from Thamar, even to the waters of contradiction of\nCades, the inheritance over against the great sea.\n\n48:29. This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of\nIsrael: and these are the portions of them, saith the Lord God.\n\n48:30. And these are the goings out of the city: on the north side thou\nshalt measure four thousand and five hundred.\n\n48:31. And the gates of the city according to the names of the tribes\nof Israel, three gates on the north side, the gate of Ruben one, the\ngate of Juda one, the gate of Levi one.\n\n48:32. And at the east side, four thousand and five hundred: and three\ngates, the gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of\nDan one.\n\n48:33. And at the south side, thou shalt measure four thousand and five\nhundred: and three gates, the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar\none, the gate of Zabulon one.\n\n48:34. And at the west side, four thousand and five hundred, and their\nthree gates, the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser one, the gate of\nNephthali one.\n\n48:35. Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of the\ncity from that day, The Lord is there.\n\nThe Lord is there.... This name is here given to the city, that is, to\nthe church of Christ: because the Lord is always with her till the end\nof the world. Matt. 28.20.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF DANIEL\n\n\nDANIEL, whose name signifies THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, was of the royal\nblood of the kings of Juda: and one of those that were first of all\ncarried away into captivity. He was so renowned for wisdom and\nknowledge, that it became a proverb among the Babylonians, AS WISE AS\nDANIEL (Ezech. 28.3). And his holiness was so great from his very\nchildhood, that at the time when he was as yet but a young man, he is\njoined by the SPIRIT of GOD with NOE and JOB, as three persons most\neminent for virtue and sanctity, Ezech. 14. He is not commonly numbered\nby the Hebrews among THE PROPHETS: because he lived at court, and in\nhigh station in the world: but if we consider his many clear\npredictions of things to come, we shall find that no one better\ndeserves the name and title of A PROPHET: which also has been given him\nby the SON of GOD himself, Matt. 24, Mark 13., Luke 21.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 1\n\nDaniel and his companions are taken into the palace of the king of\nBabylon: they abstain from his meat and wine, and succeed better with\npulse and water. Their excellence and wisdom.\n\n1:1. In the third year of the reign of Joakim, king of Juda,\nNabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, and besieged it.\n\n1:2. And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda,\nand part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away\ninto the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he\nbrought into the treasure house of his god.\n\nHis god.... Bel or Belus, the principal idol of the Chaldeans.\n\n1:3. And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master of the eunuchs, that he\nshould bring in some of the children of Israel, and of the king\u2019s seed,\nand of the princes,\n\n1:4. Children in whom there was no blemish, well favoured, and skilful\nin all wisdom, acute in knowledge, and instructed in science, and such\nas might stand in the king\u2019s palace, that he might teach them the\nlearning, and tongue of the Chaldeans.\n\n1:5. And the king appointed them a daily provision, of his own meat,\nand of the wine of which he drank himself, that being nourished three\nyears, afterwards they might stand before the king.\n\n1:6. Now there were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel,\nAnanias, Misael, and Azarias.\n\n1:7. And the master of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel,\nBaltassar: to Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias,\nAbdenago.\n\n1:8. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with\nthe king\u2019s table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested\nthe master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.\n\nBe defiled, etc.... Viz., either by eating meat forbidden by the law,\nor which had before been offered to idols.\n\n1:9. And God gave to Daniel grace and mercy in the sight of the prince\nof the eunuchs.\n\n1:10. And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel: I fear my lord, the\nking, who hath appointed you meat and drink: who if he should see your\nfaces leaner than those of the other youths, your equals, you shall\nendanger my head to the king.\n\n1:11. And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had\nappointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:\n\n1:12. Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be\ngiven us to eat, and water to drink:\n\nPulse.... That is, pease, beans, and such like.\n\n1:13. And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat\nof the king\u2019s meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.\n\n1:14. And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.\n\n1:15. And after ten days, their faces appeared fairer and fatter than\nall the children that ate of the king\u2019s meat.\n\n1:16. So Malasar took their portions, and the wine that they should\ndrink: and he gave them pulse.\n\n1:17. And to these children God gave knowledge, and understanding in\nevery book, and wisdom: but to Daniel the understanding also of all\nvisions and dreams.\n\n1:18. And when the days were ended, after which the king had ordered\nthey should be brought in: the prince of the eunuchs brought them in\nbefore Nabuchodonosor.\n\n1:19. And when the king had spoken to them, there were not found among\nthem all such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: and they stood\nin the king\u2019s presence.\n\n1:20. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king\ninquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners,\nand wise men, that were in all his kingdom.\n\n1:21. And Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 2\n\nDaniel, by divine revelation, declares the dream of Nabuchodonosor, and\nthe interpretation of it. He is highly honoured by the king.\n\n2:1. In the second year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor\nhad a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream went out of\nhis mind.\n\nThe second year.... Viz., from the death of his father Nabopolassar;\nfor he had reigned before as partner with his father in the empire.\n\n2:2. Then the king commanded to call together the diviners and the wise\nmen, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king his\ndreams: so they came and stood before the king.\n\nThe Chaldeeans.... That is, the astrologers, that pretended to divine\nby stars.\n\n2:3. And the king said to them: I saw a dream: and being troubled in\nmind I know not what I saw.\n\n2:4. And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for\never: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the\ninterpretation thereof.\n\n2:5. And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone\nout of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof,\nyou shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.\n\n2:6. but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall\nreceive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me\nthe dream, and the interpretation thereof.\n\n2:7. They answered again and said: Let the king tell his servants the\ndream, and we will declare the interpretation of it.\n\n2:8. The king answered and said: I know for certain, that you seek to\ngain time, since you know that the thing is gone from me.\n\n2:9. If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence\nconcerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and\nfull of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me,\ntherefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true\ninterpretation thereof.\n\n2:10. Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is\nno man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth\nany king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or\nwise man, or Chaldean.\n\n2:11. For the thing that thou askest, O king, is difficult: nor can any\none be found that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose\nconversation is not with men.\n\n2:12. Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath,\ncommanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death.\n\n2:13. And the decree being gone forth, the wise men were slain: and\nDaniel and his companions were sought for, to be put to death.\n\n2:14. Then Daniel inquired concerning the law and the sentence, of\nArioch, the general of the king\u2019s army, who was gone forth to kill the\nwise men of Babylon.\n\n2:15. And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so\ncruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when\nArioch had told the matter to Daniel,\n\n2:16. Daniel went in, and desired of the king, that he would give him\ntime to resolve the question, and declare it to the king.\n\n2:17. And he went into his house, and told the matter to Ananias, and\nMisael, and Azarias, his companions:\n\n2:18. To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of\nheaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions\nmight not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.\n\n2:19. Then was the mystery revealed to Daniel by a vision in the night:\nand Daniel blessed the God of heaven,\n\n2:20. And speaking, he said: Blessed be the name of the Lord from\neternity and for evermore: for wisdom and fortitude are his.\n\n2:21. And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and\nestablisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them\nthat have understanding:\n\n2:22. He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in\ndarkness: and light is with him.\n\n2:23. To thee, O God of our fathers, I give thanks, and I praise thee:\nbecause thou hast given me wisdom and strength: and now thou hast shewn\nme what we desired of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king\u2019s\ndiscourse.\n\n2:24. After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to whom the king had given\norders to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him:\nDestroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I\nwill tell the solution to the king.\n\n2:25. Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel to the king, and said to\nhim: I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Juda, that\nwill resolve the question to the king.\n\n2:26. The king answered, and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltassar:\nThinkest thou indeed that thou canst tell me the dream that I saw, and\nthe interpretation thereof?\n\n2:27. And Daniel made answer before the king, and said: The secret that\nthe king desireth to know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers,\nor the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare to the king.\n\n2:28. But there is a God in heaven that revealeth mysteries, who hath\nshewn to thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to come to pass in the\nlatter times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are\nthese:\n\n2:29. Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy bed, what should come\nto pass hereafter: and he that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what\nshall come to pass.\n\n2:30. To me also this secret is revealed, not by any wisdom that I have\nmore than all men alive: but that the interpretation might be made\nmanifest to the king, and thou mightest know the thoughts of thy mind.\n\n2:31. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there was as it were a great\nstatue: this statue, which was great and high, tall of stature, stood\nbefore thee, and the look thereof was terrible.\n\n2:32. The head of this statue was of fine gold, but the breast and the\narms of silver, and the belly and the thighs of brass.\n\n2:33. And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron and part of clay.\n\n2:34. Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without\nhands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron\nand clay, and broke them in pieces.\n\n2:35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold\nbroken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer\u2019s\nthreshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was\nno place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a\ngreat mountain, and filled the whole earth.\n\n2:36. This is the dream: we will also tell the interpretation thereof\nbefore thee, O king.\n\n2:37. Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a\nkingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:\n\n2:38. And all places wherein the children of men, and the beasts of the\nfield do dwell: he hath also given the birds of the air into thy hand,\nand hath put all things under thy power: thou, therefore, art the head\nof gold.\n\n2:39. And after thee shall rise up another kingdom, inferior to thee,\nof silver: and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over\nall the world.\n\nAnother kingdom.... Viz., that of the Medes and Persians. Ibid. Third\nkingdom.... Viz., that of Alexander the Great.\n\n2:40. And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into\npieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break, and destroy all\nthese.\n\nThe fourth kingdom, etc.... Some understand this of the successors of\nAlexander, the kings of Syria and Egypt, others of the Roman empire,\nand its civil wars.\n\n2:41. And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the toes, part of potter\u2019s\nclay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall\ntake its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest the iron mixed\nwith the miry clay.\n\n2:42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay:\nthe kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.\n\n2:43. And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall\nbe mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not\nstick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay.\n\n2:44. But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up\na kingdom that shall never be destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be\ndelivered up to another people: and it shall break in pieces, and shall\nconsume all these kingdoms: and itself shall stand for ever.\n\nA kingdom.... Viz., the kingdom of Christ in the Catholic Church which\ncannot be destroyed.\n\n2:45. According as thou sawest, that the stone was cut out of the\nmountain without hands, and broke in pieces the clay and the iron, and\nthe brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God hath shewn the\nking what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the\ninterpretation thereof is faithful.\n\n2:46. Then king Nabuchodonosor fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel,\nand commanded that they should offer in sacrifice to him victims and\nincense.\n\n2:47. And the king spoke to Daniel, and said: Verily, your God is the\nGod of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of hidden things: seeing\nthou couldst discover this secret.\n\n2:48. Then the king advanced Daniel to a high station, and gave him\nmany and great gifts: and he made him governor over all the provinces\nof Babylon: and chief of the magistrates over all the wise men of\nBabylon.\n\n2:49. And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Sidrach,\nMisach, and Abdenago, over the works of the province of Babylon: but\nDaniel himself was in the king\u2019s palace.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 3\n\nNabuchodonosor set up a golden statue; which he commands all to adore:\nthe three children for refusing to do it are cast into the fiery\nfurnace; but are not hurt by the flames. Their prayer and canticle of\npraise.\n\n3:1. King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high,\nand six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura, of the\nprovince of Babylon.\n\n3:2. Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, sent to call together the nobles,\nthe magistrates, and the judges, the captains, the rulers, and\ngovernors, and all the chief men of the provinces, to come to the\ndedication of the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.\n\n3:3. Then the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains,\nand rulers, and the great men that were placed in authority, and all\nthe princes of the provinces, were gathered together to come to the\ndedication of the statue, which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. And\nthey stood before the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.\n\n3:4. Then a herald cried with a strong voice: To you it is commanded, O\nnations, tribes and languages:\n\n3:5. That in the hour that you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and\nof the flute, and of the harp, of the sackbut, and of the psaltery, and\nof the symphony, and of all kind of music, ye fall down and adore the\ngolden statue which king Nabuchodonosor hath set up.\n\n3:6. But if any man shall not fall down and adore, he shall the same\nhour be cast into a furnace of burning fire.\n\n3:7. Upon this, therefore, at the time when all the people heard the\nsound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the\npsaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, all the nations,\ntribes, and languages fell down and adored the golden statue which king\nNabuchodonosor had set up.\n\n3:8. And presently at that very time some Chaldeans came and accused\nthe Jews,\n\n3:9. And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king, live for ever:\n\n3:10. Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear\nthe sound of the trumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and\nthe psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of music, shall\nprostrate himself, and adore the golden statue:\n\n3:11. And that if any man shall not fall down and adore, he should be\ncast into a furnace of burning fire.\n\n3:12. Now there are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the works of\nthe province of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men, O\nking, have slighted thy decree: they worship not thy gods, nor do they\nadore the golden statue which thou hast set up.\n\n3:13. Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in wrath, commanded that\nSidrach, Misach, and Abdenago should be brought: who immediately were\nbrought before the king.\n\n3:14. And Nabuchodonosor, the king, spoke to them, and said: Is it\ntrue, O Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, that you do not worship my gods,\nnor adore the golden statue that I have set up?\n\n3:15. Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall\nhear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and\nsymphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the\nstatue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast\nthe same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that\nshall deliver you out of my hand?\n\n3:16. Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered, and said to king\nNabuchodonosor: We have no occasion to answer thee concerning this\nmatter.\n\n3:17. For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the\nfurnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.\n\n3:18. But if he will not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not\nworship thy gods, nor adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.\n\n3:19. Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of\nhis face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he\ncommanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it\nhad been accustomed to be heated.\n\n3:20. And he commanded the strongest men that were in his army, to bind\nthe feet of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into the\nfurnace of burning fire.\n\n3:21. And immediately these men were bound, and were cast into the\nfurnace of burning fire, with their coats, and their caps, and their\nshoes, and their garments.\n\n3:22. For the king\u2019s commandment was urgent, and the furnace was heated\nexceedingly. And the flame of the fire slew those men that had cast in\nSidrach, Misach, and Abdenago.\n\n3:23. But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell\ndown bound in the midst of the furnace of burning fire.\n\n3:24. And they walked in the midst of the flame, praising God, and\nblessing the Lord.\n\nAnd they walked, etc.... Here St. Jerome takes notice, that from this\nverse, to ver. 91, was not in the Hebrew in his time. But as it was in\nall the Greek Bibles, (which were originally translated from the\nHebrew,) it is more than probable that it had been formerly in the\nHebrew or rather in the Chaldaic, in which the book of Daniel was\nwritten. But this is certain: that it is, and has been of old, received\nby the church, and read as canonical scripture in her liturgy, and\ndivine offices.\n\n3:25. Then Azarias standing up, prayed in this manner, and opening his\nmouth in the midst of the fire, he said:\n\n3:26. Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is\nworthy of praise, and glorious for ever:\n\n3:27. For thou art just in all that thou hast done to us, and all thy\nworks are true, and thy ways right, and all thy judgments true.\n\n3:28. For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou\nhast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers:\nfor according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things\nupon us for our sins.\n\n3:29. For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee:\nand we have trespassed in all things:\n\n3:30. And we have not hearkened to thy commandments, nor have we\nobserved nor done as thou hadst commanded us, that it might go well\nwith us.\n\n3:31. Wherefore, all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing\nthat thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment:\n\n3:32. And thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies that are\nunjust, and most wicked, and prevaricators, and to a king unjust, and\nmost wicked beyond all that are upon the earth.\n\n3:33. And now we cannot open our mouths: we are become a shame, and a\nreproach to thy servants, and to them that worship thee.\n\n3:34. Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name\u2019s sake,\nand abolish not thy covenant.\n\n3:35. And take not away thy mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, thy\nbeloved, and Isaac, thy servant, and Israel, thy holy one:\n\n3:36. To whom thou hast spoken, promising that thou wouldst multiply\ntheir seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea\nshore.\n\n3:37. For we, O Lord, are diminished more than any nation, and are\nbrought low in all the earth this day for our sins.\n\n3:38. Neither is there at this time prince, or leader, or prophet, or\nholocaust, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place of first\nfruits before thee,\n\n3:39. That we may find thy mercy: nevertheless, in a contrite heart and\nhumble spirit let us be accepted.\n\n3:40. As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and as in thousands of\nfat lambs: so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight this day, that it\nmay please thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in thee.\n\n3:41. And now we follow thee with all our heart, and we fear thee, and\nseek thy face.\n\n3:42. Put us not to confusion, but deal with us according to thy\nmeekness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.\n\n3:43. And deliver us, according to thy wonderful works, and give glory\nto thy name, O Lord:\n\n3:44. And let all them be confounded that shew evils to thy servants,\nlet them be confounded in all thy might, and let their strength be\nbroken:\n\n3:45. And let them know that thou art the Lord, the only God, and\nglorious over all the world.\n\n3:46. Now the king\u2019s servants that had cast them in, ceased not to heat\nthe furnace with brimstone and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks,\n\n3:47. And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forty cubits:\n\n3:48. And it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans as it found\nnear the furnace.\n\n3:49. But the angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his\ncompanions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of\nthe furnace,\n\n3:50. And made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind\nbringing dew, and the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them,\nnor did them any harm.\n\n3:51. Then these three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and\nblessed God, in the furnace, saying:\n\n3:52. Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers; and worthy to\nbe praised, and glorified, and exalted above all for ever: and blessed\nis the holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised and exalted\nabove all, in all ages.\n\n3:53. Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy glory: and exceedingly\nto be praised and exalted above all for ever.\n\n3:54. Blessed art thou on the throne of thy kingdom, and exceedingly to\nbe praised and exalted above all for ever.\n\n3:55. Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the\ncherubims: and worthy to be praised and exalted above all for ever.\n\n3:56. Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and worthy of\npraise, and glorious for ever.\n\n3:57. All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:58. O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:59. O ye heavens, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for\never.\n\n3:60. O all ye waters that are above the heavens, bless the Lord:\npraise and exalt him above all for ever.\n\n3:61. O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:62. O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all\nfor ever.\n\n3:63. O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:64. O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:65. O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:66. O ye fire and heat, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:67. O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:68. O ye dews and hoar frost, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:69. O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:70. O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all\nfor ever.\n\n3:71. O ye nights and days, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:72. O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:73. O ye lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:74. O let the earth bless the Lord: let it praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:75. O ye mountains and hills, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:76. O all ye things that spring up in the earth, bless the Lord:\npraise and exalt him above all for ever.\n\n3:77. O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all\nfor ever.\n\n3:78. O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:79. O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless the Lord:\npraise and exalt him above all for ever.\n\n3:80. O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:81. O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:82. O ye sons of men, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all\nfor ever.\n\n3:83. O let Israel bless the Lord: let them praise and exalt him above\nall for ever.\n\n3:84. O ye priests of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:85. O ye servants of the Lord, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him\nabove all for ever.\n\n3:86. O ye spirits and souls of the just, bless the Lord: praise and\nexalt him above all for ever.\n\n3:87. O ye holy and humble of heart, bless the Lord: praise and exalt\nhim above all for ever.\n\n3:88. O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and\nexalt him above all for ever. For he hath delivered us from hell, and\nsaved us out of the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of\nthe burning flame, and saved us out of the midst of the fire.\n\n3:89. O give thanks to the Lord, because he is good: because his mercy\nendureth for ever and ever.\n\n3:90. O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God of gods: praise him,\nand give him thanks, because his mercy endureth for ever and ever.\n\n3:91. Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in\nhaste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the\nmidst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king.\n\n3:92. He answered, and said: Behold, I see four men loose, and walking\nin the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of\nthe fourth is like the son of God.\n\n3:93. Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery\nfurnace, and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the\nmost high God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach,\nand Abdenago, went out from the midst of the fire.\n\n3:94. And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the\ngreat men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men,\nthat the fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of\ntheir head had been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell\nof the fire had passed on them.\n\n3:95. Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of\nthem, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his\nangel, and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they\nchanged the king\u2019s word, and delivered up their bodies, that they might\nnot serve nor adore any god except their own God.\n\n3:96. By me, therefore, this decree is made: That every people, tribe,\nand tongue, which shall speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach,\nMisach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and their houses laid waste:\nfor there is no other God that can save in this manner.\n\n3:97. Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the\nprovince of Babylon.\n\n3:98. Nabuchodonosor, the king, to all peoples, nations, and tongues,\nthat dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied unto you.\n\nNabuchodonosor, etc.... These last three verses are a kind of preface\nto the following chapter, which is written in the style of an epistle\nfrom the king.\n\n3:99. The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me. It\nhath seemed good to me, therefore, to publish\n\n3:100. His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they\nare mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to\nall generations.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 4\n\nNabuchodonosor\u2019s dream, by which the judgments of God are denounced\nagainst him for his pride, is interpreted by Daniel, and verified by\nthe event.\n\n4:1. I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my\npalace:\n\n4:2. I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and\nthe visions of my head, troubled me.\n\n4:3. Then I set forth a decree, that all the wise men of Babylon should\nbe brought in before me, and that they should shew me the\ninterpretation of the dream.\n\n4:4. Then came in the diviners, the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the\nsoothsayers, and I told the dream before them: but they did not shew me\nthe interpretation thereof.\n\n4:5. Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before me, whose name is\nBaltassar, according to the name of my god, who hath in him the spirit\nof the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.\n\nBaltassar, according to the name of my god.... He says this, because\nthe name of Baltassar, or Belteshazzar, is derived from the name of\nBel, the chief god of the Babylonians.\n\n4:6. Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I know that thou hast\nin thee the spirit of the holy gods, and that no secret is impossible\nto thee, tell me the visions of my dreams that I have seen, and the\ninterpretation of them.\n\n4:7. This was the vision of my head in my bed: I saw, and behold a tree\nin the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was exceeding great.\n\n4:8. The tree was great and strong, and the height thereof reached unto\nheaven: the sight thereof was even to the ends of all the earth.\n\n4:9. Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and\nin it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the\nbranches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh\ndid eat of it.\n\n4:10. I saw in the vision of my head upon my bed, and behold a watcher,\nand a holy one came down from heaven.\n\nA watcher.... A vigilant angel, perhaps the guardian of Israel.\n\n4:11. He cried aloud, and said thus: Cut down the tree, and chop off\nthe branches thereof: shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruits: let\nthe beasts fly away that are under it, and the birds from its branches.\n\n4:12. Nevertheless, leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and let\nit be tied with a band of iron and of brass, among the grass, that is\nwithout, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion\nbe with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth.\n\n4:13. Let his heart be changed from man\u2019s, and let a beast\u2019s heart be\ngiven him: and let seven times pass over him.\n\nLet his heart be changed, etc.... It does not appear by scripture that\nNabuchodonosor was changed from human shape; much less that he was\nchanged into an ox; but only that he lost his reason, and became mad;\nand in this condition remained abroad in the company of beasts, eating\ngrass like an ox, till his hair grew in such manner as to resemble the\nfeathers of eagles, and his nails to be like birds\u2019 claws.\n\n4:14. This is the decree by the sentence of the watchers, and the word\nand demand of the holy ones: till the living know, that the most High\nruleth in the kingdom of men: and he will give it to whomsoever it\nshall please him, and he will appoint the basest man over it.\n\n4:15. I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream: thou, therefore, O\nBaltassar, tell me quickly the interpretation: for all the wise men of\nmy kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me: but thou\nart able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.\n\n4:16. Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar, began silently to think\nwithin himself for about one hour: and his thought troubled him. But\nthe king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the dream and the\ninterpretation thereof trouble thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My\nlord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation\nthereof to thy enemies.\n\n4:17. The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose\nheight reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth:\n\n4:18. And the branches thereof were most beautiful, and its fruit\nexceeding much, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of\nthe field dwelt, and the birds of the air had their abode in its\nbranches.\n\n4:19. It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and become mighty: for\nthy greatness hath grown, and hath reached to heaven, and thy power\nunto the ends of the earth.\n\n4:20. And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from\nheaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump\nof the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and\nbrass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of\nheaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times\npass over him.\n\n4:21. This is the interpretation of the sentence of the most High,\nwhich is come upon my lord, the king.\n\n4:22. They shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling shall\nbe with cattle, and with wild beasts, and thou shalt eat grass, as an\nox, and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven: and seven times shall pass\nover thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth over the kingdom of\nmen, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.\n\n4:23. But whereas he commanded, that the stump of the roots thereof,\nthat is, of the tree, should be left: thy kingdom shall remain to thee,\nafter thou shalt have known that power is from heaven.\n\n4:24. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and\nredeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy\nto the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy offences.\n\n4:25. All these things came upon king Nabuchodonosor.\n\n4:26. At the end of twelve months he was walking in the palace of\nBabylon.\n\n4:27. And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon,\nwhich I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of\nmy power, and in the glory of my excellence?\n\n4:28. And while the word was yet in the king\u2019s mouth, a voice came down\nfrom heaven: To thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, it is said: Thy kingdom\nshall pass from thee.\n\n4:29. And they shall cast thee out from among men, and thy dwelling\nshall be with cattle and wild beasts: thou shalt eat grass like an ox,\nand seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High\nruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.\n\n4:30. The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he\nwas driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his\nbody was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the\nfeathers of eagles, and his nails like birds\u2019 claws.\n\n4:31. Now at the end of the days, I, Nabuchodonosor, lifted up my eyes\nto heaven, and my sense was restored to me: and I blessed the most\nHigh, and I praised and glorified him that liveth for ever: for his\npower is an everlasting power, and his kingdom is to all generations.\n\n4:32. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing\nbefore him: for he doth according to his will, as well with the powers\nof heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none\nthat can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it?\n\n4:33. At the same time my sense returned to me, and I came to the\nhonour and glory of my kingdom: and my shape returned to me: and my\nnobles, and my magistrates, sought for me, and I was restored to my\nkingdom: and greater majesty was added to me.\n\n4:34. Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and\nglorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his\nways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase.\n\nI, Nabuchodonosor, do now, etc.... From this place some commentators\ninfer that this king became a true convert, and dying not long after,\nwas probably saved.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 5\n\nBaltasar\u2019s profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting\non the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.\n\n5:1. Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his\nnobles: and every one drank according to his age.\n\nBaltasar.... He is believed to be the same as Nabonydus, the last of\nthe Chaldean kings, grandson to Nabuchodonosor. He is called his son,\nver. 2, 11, etc., according to the style of the scriptures, because he\nwas a descendant from him.\n\n5:2. And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the\nvessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had\nbrought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king\nand his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them.\n\n5:3. Then were the golden and silver vessels brought, which he had\nbrought away out of the temple that was in Jerusalem: and the king and\nhis nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.\n\n5:4. They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of\nbrass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.\n\n5:5. In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of\na man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the\nwall of the king\u2019s palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand\nthat wrote.\n\n5:6. Then was the king\u2019s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled\nhim: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one\nagainst the other.\n\n5:7. And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the\nChaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the\nwise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make\nknown to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple,\nand shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man\nin my kingdom.\n\n5:8. Then came in all the king\u2019s wise men, but they could neither read\nthe writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.\n\n5:9. Wherewith king Baltasar was much troubled, and his countenance was\nchanged: and his nobles also were troubled.\n\n5:10. Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and\nhis nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O\nking, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy\ncountenance be changed.\n\nThe queen.... Not the wife, but the mother of the king.\n\n5:11. There is a man in thy kingdom that hath the spirit of the holy\ngods in him: and in the days of thy father knowledge and wisdom were\nfound in him: for king Nabuchodonosor, thy father, appointed him prince\nof the wise men, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy father, I\nsay, O king:\n\n5:12. Because a greater spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, and\ninterpretation of dreams, and shewing of secrets, and resolving of\ndifficult things, were found in him, that is, in Daniel: whom the king\nnamed Baltassar. Now, therefore, let Daniel be called for, and he will\ntell the interpretation.\n\n5:13. Then Daniel was brought in before the king. And the king spoke,\nand said to him: Art thou Daniel, of the children of the captivity of\nJuda, whom my father, the king, brought out of Judea?\n\n5:14. I have heard of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the gods, and\nexcellent knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom are found in thee.\n\n5:15. And now the wise men, the magicians, have come in before me, to\nread this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof; and they\ncould not declare to me the meaning of this writing.\n\n5:16. But I have heard of thee, that thou canst interpret obscure\nthings, and resolve difficult things: now if thou art able to read the\nwriting, and to shew me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be\nclothed with purple, and shalt have a chain of gold about thy neck, and\nshalt be the third prince in my kingdom.\n\n5:17. To which Daniel made answer, and said before the king: thy\nrewards be to thyself, and the gifts of thy house give to another: but\nthe writing I will read to thee, O king, and shew thee the\ninterpretation thereof.\n\n5:18. O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a\nkingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.\n\n5:19. And for the greatness that he gave to him, all people, tribes,\nand languages trembled, and were afraid of him: whom he would, he slew:\nand whom he would, he destroyed: and whom he would, he set up: and whom\nhe would, he brought down.\n\n5:20. But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto\npride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory\nwas taken away.\n\n5:21. And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was\nmade like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he\ndid eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven:\ntill he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that\nhe will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.\n\n5:22. Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart,\nwhereas thou knewest all these things:\n\n5:23. But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord of heaven: and the\nvessels of his house have been brought before thee: and thou, and thy\nnobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them: and\nthou hast praised the gods of silver, and of gold, and of brass, of\niron, and of wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor feel:\nbut the God who hath thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways, thou\nhast not glorified.\n\n5:24. Wherefore, he hath sent the part of the hand which hath written\nthis that is set down.\n\n5:25. And this is the writing that is written: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.\n\n5:26. And this is the interpretation of the word. MANE: God hath\nnumbered thy kingdom, and hath finished it.\n\n5:27. THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.\n\n5:28. PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is given to the Medes and\nPersians.\n\n5:29. Then by the king\u2019s command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a\nchain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that\nhe had power as the third man in the kingdom.\n\n5:30. The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.\n\n5:31. And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore\nand two years old.\n\nDarius.... He is called Cyaxares by the historians; and was the son of\nAstyages, and uncle to Cyrus.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 6\n\nDaniel is promoted by Darius: his enemies procure a law forbidding\nprayer; for the transgression of this law Daniel is cast into the\nlions\u2019 den: but miraculously delivered.\n\n6:1. It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a\nhundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom.\n\n6:2. And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the\ngovernors might give an account to them, and the king might have no\ntrouble.\n\n6:3. And Daniel excelled all the princes, and governors: because a\ngreater spirit of God was in him.\n\n6:4. And the king thought to set him over all the kingdom; whereupon\nthe princes, and the governors, sought to find occasion against Daniel,\nwith regard to the king: and they could find no cause, nor suspicion,\nbecause he was faithful, and no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.\n\n6:5. Then these men said: We shall not find any occasion against this\nDaniel, unless perhaps concerning the law of his God.\n\n6:6. Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the\nking, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever:\n\n6:7. All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors,\nthe senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial\ndecree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any\npetition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king,\nshall be cast into the den of the lions.\n\n6:8. Now, therefore, O king, confirm the sentence, and sign the decree:\nthat what is decreed by the Medes and Persians may not be altered, nor\nany man be allowed to transgress it.\n\n6:9. So king Darius set forth the decree, and established it.\n\n6:10. Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was\nmade, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper\nchamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored\nand gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.\n\n6:11. Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying\nand making supplication to his God.\n\n6:12. And they came and spoke to the king concerning the edict: O king,\nhast thou not decreed, that every man that should make a request to any\nof the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thyself, O king, should be\ncast into the den of the lions? And the king answered them, saying: The\nword is true, according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which\nit is not lawful to violate.\n\n6:13. Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of\nthe children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor\nthe decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his\nprayer.\n\n6:14. Now when the king had heard these words, he was very much\ngrieved, and in behalf of Daniel he set his heart to deliver him, and\neven till sunset he laboured to save him.\n\n6:15. But those men perceiving the king\u2019s design, said to him: Know\nthou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree\nwhich the king hath made, may be altered.\n\n6:16. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him\ninto the den of the lions. And the king said to Daniel: Thy God, whom\nthou always servest, he will deliver thee.\n\n6:17. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den:\nwhich the king sealed with his own ring, and with the ring of his\nnobles, that nothing should be done against Daniel.\n\n6:18. And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down\nwithout taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep\ndeparted from him.\n\n6:19. Then the king rising very early in the morning, went in haste to\nthe lions\u2019 den:\n\n6:20. And coming near to the den, cried with a lamentable voice to\nDaniel, and said to him: Daniel, servant of the living God, hath thy\nGod, whom thou servest always, been able, thinkest thou, to deliver\nthee from the lions?\n\n6:21. And Daniel answering the king, said: O king, live for ever:\n\n6:22. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut up the mouths of the\nlions, and they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him justice hath\nbeen found in me: yea, and before thee, O king, I have done no offence.\n\n6:23. Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and he commanded that\nDaniel should be taken out of the den: and Daniel was taken out of the\nden, and no hurt was found in him, because he believed in his God.\n\n6:24. And by the king\u2019s commandment, those men were brought that had\naccused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions\u2019 den, they and their\nchildren, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the\nden, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.\n\n6:25. Then king Darius wrote to all people, tribes, and languages,\ndwelling in the whole earth: PEACE be multiplied unto you.\n\n6:26. It is decreed by me, that in all my empire and my kingdom, all\nmen dread and fear the God of Daniel. For he is the living and eternal\nGod for ever: and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his power\nshall be for ever.\n\n6:27. He is the deliverer, and saviour, doing signs and wonders in\nheaven, and in earth: who hath delivered Daniel out of the lions\u2019 den.\n\n6:28. Now Daniel continued unto the reign of Darius, and the reign of\nCyrus, the Persian.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 7\n\nDaniel\u2019s vision of the four beasts, signifying four kingdoms: of God\nsitting on his throne: and of the opposite kingdoms of Christ and\nAntichrist.\n\n7:1. In the first year of Baltasar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a\ndream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the\ndream, he comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in\nshort, he said:\n\n7:2. I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the\nheaven strove upon the great sea.\n\n7:3. And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of\nthe sea.\n\nFour great beasts.... Viz., the Chaldean, Persian, Grecian, and Roman\nempires. But some rather choose to understand the fourth beast of the\nsuccessors of Alexander the Great, more especially of them that reigned\nin Asia and Syria.\n\n7:4. The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I\nbeheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the\nearth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was\ngiven to her.\n\n7:5. And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and\nthere were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof,\nand thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.\n\n7:6. After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had\nupon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and\npower was given to it.\n\n7:7. After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth\nbeast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron\nteeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with\nits feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before\nit, and had ten horns.\n\nTen horns.... That is, ten kingdoms, (as Apoc. 17.12,) among which the\nempire of the fourth beast shall be parcelled. Or ten kings of the\nnumber of the successors of Alexander; as figures of such as shall be\nabout the time of Antichrist.\n\n7:8. I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out\nof the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at\nthe presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in\nthis horn, and a mouth speaking great things.\n\nAnother little horn.... This is commonly understood of Antichrist. It\nmay also be applied to that great persecutor Antiochus Epiphanes, as a\nfigure of Antichrist.\n\n7:9. I beheld till thrones were placed, and the ancient of days sat:\nhis garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean\nwool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning\nfire.\n\n7:10. A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of\nthousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand\nstood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.\n\n7:11. I beheld, because of the voice of the great words which that horn\nspoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was\ndestroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt:\n\n7:12. And that the power of the other beasts was taken away: and that\ntimes of life were appointed them for a time, and a time.\n\n7:13. I beheld, therefore, in the vision of the night, and lo, one like\nthe Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the\nancient of days: and they presented him before him.\n\n7:14. And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples,\ntribes, and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power\nthat shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be\ndestroyed.\n\n7:15. My spirit trembled; I, Daniel, was affrighted at these things,\nand the visions of my head troubled me.\n\n7:16. I went near to one of them that stood by, and asked the truth of\nhim concerning all these things, and he told me the interpretation of\nthe words, and instructed me:\n\n7:17. These four great beasts, are four kingdoms, which shall arise out\nof the earth.\n\n7:18. But the saints of the most high God shall take the kingdom: and\nthey shall possess the kingdom for ever and ever.\n\n7:19. After this I would diligently learn concerning the fourth beast,\nwhich was very different from all, and exceeding terrible: his teeth\nand claws were of iron: he devoured and broke in pieces, and the rest\nhe stamped upon with his feet:\n\n7:20. And concerning the ten horns that he had on his head: and\nconcerning the other that came up, before which three horns fell: and\nof that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and was\ngreater than the rest.\n\n7:21. I beheld, and lo, that horn made war against the saints, and\nprevailed over them,\n\n7:22. Till the ancient of days came and gave judgment to the saints of\nthe most High, and the time came, and the saints obtained the kingdom.\n\n7:23. And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom\nupon earth, which shall be greater than all the kingdoms, and shall\ndevour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in\npieces.\n\n7:24. And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and\nanother shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the\nformer, and he shall bring down three kings.\n\n7:25. And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush\nthe saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change\ntimes and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time,\nand times, and half a time.\n\nA time, and times, and half a time.... That is, three years and a half;\nwhich is supposed to be the length of the duration of the persecution\nof Antichrist.\n\n7:26. And a judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and\nbe broken in pieces, and perish even to the end.\n\n7:27. And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the\nkingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the\nsaints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and\nall kings shall serve him, and shall obey him.\n\n7:28. Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled\nwith my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the\nword in my heart.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 8\n\nDaniel\u2019s vision of the ram and the he goat interpreted by the angel\nGabriel.\n\n8:1. In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared\nto me. I, Daniel, after what I had seen in the beginning,\n\n8:2. Saw in my vision when I was in the castle of Susa, which is in the\nprovince of Elam: and I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of\nUlai.\n\n8:3. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before\nthe water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and\ngrowing up. Afterward\n\nA ram.... The empire of the Medes and Persians.\n\n8:4. I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against\nthe north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him,\nnor be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will,\nand became great.\n\n8:5. And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the\nface of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat\nhad a notable horn between his eyes.\n\nA he goat.... The empire of the Greeks, or Macedonians. Ibid. He\ntouched not the ground.... He conquered all before him, with so much\nrapidity, that he seemed rather to fly, than to walk upon the\nearth.\u2014Ibid. A notable horn.... Alexander the Great.\n\n8:6. And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen\nstanding before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his\nstrength.\n\n8:7. And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged against him, and\nstruck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram could not\nwithstand him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped\nupon him, and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.\n\n8:8. And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the\ngreat horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards\nthe four winds of heaven.\n\nFour horns.... Seleucus, Antigonus, Philip, and Ptolemeus, the\nsuccessors of Alexander, who divided his empire among them.\n\n8:9. And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and it became\ngreat against the south, and against the east, and against the\nstrength.\n\nA little horn.... Antiochus Epiphanes, a descendant of Seleucus. He\ngrew against the south, and the east, by his victories over the kings\nof Egypt and Armenia: and against the strength, that is, against\nJerusalem and the people of God.\n\n8:10. And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it\nthrew down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.\n\nUnto the strength of heaven.... or, against the strength of heaven. So\nare here called the army of the Jews, the people of God.\n\n8:11. And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it\ntook away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of\nhis sanctuary.\n\n8:12. And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice,\nbecause of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he\nshall do and shall prosper.\n\n8:13. And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to\nanother I know not to whom, that was speaking: How long shall be the\nvision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the\ndesolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden\nunder foot?\n\n8:14. And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three\nhundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.\n\nUnto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days.... That is,\nsix years and almost four months: which was the whole time from the\nbeginning of the persecution of Antiochus till his death.\n\n8:15. And it came to pass when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and sought\nthe meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the\nappearance of a man.\n\n8:16. And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and\nsaid: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.\n\n8:17. And he came, and stood near where I stood: and when he was come,\nI fell on my face, trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son of\nman, for in the time of the end the vision shall be fulfilled.\n\n8:18. And when he spoke to me, I fell flat on the ground: and he\ntouched me, and set me upright.\n\n8:19. And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to\npass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.\n\n8:20. The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes\nand Persians.\n\n8:21. And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn\nthat was between his eyes, the same is the first king.\n\n8:22. But whereas when that was broken, there arose up four for it,\nfour kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength.\n\n8:23. And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there\nshall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark\nsentences.\n\n8:24. And his power shall be strengthened, but not by his own force:\nand he shall lay all things waste, and shall prosper, and do more than\ncan be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty, and the people of the\nsaints,\n\n8:25. According to his will, and craft shall be successful in his hand:\nand his heart shall be puffed up, and in the abundance of all things he\nshall kill many: and he shall rise up against the prince of princes,\nand shall be broken without hand.\n\n8:26. And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told, is\ntrue: thou, therefore, seal up the vision, because it shall come to\npass after many days.\n\n8:27. And I, Daniel, languished, and was sick for some days: and when I\nwas risen up, I did the king\u2019s business, and I was astonished at the\nvision, and there was none that could interpret it.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 9\n\nDaniel\u2019s confession and prayer: Gabriel informs him concerning the\nseventy weeks to the coming of Christ.\n\n9:1. In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of\nthe Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:\n\n9:2. The first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by books the\nnumber of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to\nJeremias, the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the\ndesolation of Jerusalem.\n\n9:3. And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make\nsupplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.\n\n9:4. And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and\nsaid: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the\ncovenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.\n\n9:5. We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly,\nand have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and\nthy judgments.\n\n9:6. We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have\nspoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to\nall the people of the land.\n\n9:7. To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this\nday to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all\nIsrael, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the\ncountries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which\nthey have sinned against thee.\n\n9:8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to\nour fathers, that have sinned.\n\n9:9. But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have\ndeparted from thee:\n\n9:10. And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, our God, to\nwalk in his law, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.\n\n9:11. And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away\nfrom hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is\nwritten in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us,\nbecause we have sinned against him.\n\n9:12. And he hath confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and\nagainst our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a\ngreat evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that\nwhich hath been done in Jerusalem.\n\n9:13. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon\nus: and we entreated not thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn\nfrom our iniquities, and think on thy truth.\n\n9:14. And the Lord hath watched upon the evil, and hath brought it upon\nus: the Lord, our God, is just in all his works which he hath done: for\nwe have not hearkened to his voice.\n\n9:15. And now, O Lord, our God, who hast brought forth thy people out\nof the land of Egypt, with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name as\nat this day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity,\n\n9:16. O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy\nindignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem,\nand from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the\niniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to\nall that are round about us.\n\n9:17. Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant,\nand his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is\ndesolate, for thy own sake.\n\n9:18. Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our\ndesolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not\nfor our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but\nfor the multitude of thy tender mercies.\n\n9:19. O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken, and do: delay not,\nfor thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy\ncity, and upon thy people.\n\n9:20. Now while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my\nsins, and the sins of my people of Israel, and presenting my\nsupplications in the sight of my God, for the holy mountain of my God:\n\n9:21. As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man, Gabriel, whom I\nhad seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me at\nthe time of the evening sacrifice.\n\nThe man Gabriel.... The angel Gabriel in the shape of a man.\n\n9:22. And he instructed me, and spoke to me, and said: O Daniel, I am\nnow come forth to teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.\n\n9:23. From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth: and I am\ncome to shew it to thee, because thou art a man of desires: therefore,\ndo thou mark the word, and understand the vision.\n\nMan of desires.... that is, ardently praying for the Jews then in\ncaptivity.\n\n9:24. Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy\ncity, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and\niniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and\nvision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the saint of saints may be\nanointed.\n\nSeventy weeks.... Viz., of years, (or seventy times seven, that is, 490\nyears,) are shortened; that is, fixed and determined, so that the time\nshall be no longer.\n\n9:25. Know thou, therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth\nof the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince,\nthere shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall\nbe built again, and the walls, in straitness of times.\n\nFrom the going forth of the word, etc.... That is, from the twentieth\nyear of king Artaxerxes, when by his commandment Nehemias rebuilt the\nwalls of Jerusalem, 2 Esd. 2. From which time, according to the best\nchronology, there were just sixty-nine weeks of years, that is, 483\nyears to the baptism of Christ, when he first began to preach and\nexecute the office of Messias.\u2014Ibid. In straitness of times ...\nangustia temporum: which may allude both to the difficulties and\nopposition they met with in building: and to the shortness of the time\nin which they finished the wall, viz., fifty-two days.\n\n9:26. And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people\nthat shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader,\nthat shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end\nthereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed\ndesolation.\n\nA people with their leader.... The Romans under Titus.\n\n9:27. And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in\nthe half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there\nshall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the\ndesolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.\n\nIn the half of the week.... or, in the middle of the week, etc. Because\nChrist preached three years and a half: and then by his sacrifice upon\nthe cross abolished all the sacrifices of the law.\u2014Ibid. The\nabomination of desolation.... Some understand this of the profanation\nof the temple by the crimes of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of\nthe zealots. Others of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standard\nof the pagan Romans. Others, in fine, distinguish three different times\nof desolation: viz., that under Antiochus; that when the temple was\ndestroyed by the Romans; and the last near the end of the world under\nAntichrist. To all which, as they suppose, this prophecy may have a\nrelation.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 10\n\nDaniel having humbled himself by fasting and penance seeth a vision,\nwith which he is much terrified; but he is comforted by an angel.\n\n10:1. In the third year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, a word was\nrevealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltassar, and a true word, and great\nstrength: and he understood the word: for there is need of\nunderstanding in a vision.\n\n10:2. In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of three weeks.\n\n10:3. I ate no desirable bread, and neither flesh, nor wine, entered\ninto my mouth, neither was I anointed with ointment: till the days of\nthree weeks were accomplished.\n\n10:4. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by\nthe great river, which is the Tigris.\n\n10:5. And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and behold a man clothed in\nlinen, and his loins were girded with the finest gold:\n\n10:6. And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the\nappearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms,\nand all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering\nbrass: and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude.\n\n10:7. And I, Daniel alone, saw the vision: for the men that were with\nme saw it not: but an exceeding great terror fell upon them, and they\nfled away, and hid themselves.\n\n10:8. And I, being left alone, saw this great vision: and there\nremained no strength in me, and the appearance of my countenance was\nchanged in me, and I fainted away, and retained no strength.\n\n10:9. And I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard I lay in a\nconsternation upon my face, and my face was close to the ground.\n\n10:10. And behold a hand touched me, and lifted me up upon my knees,\nand upon the joints of my hands.\n\n10:11. And he said to me: Daniel, thou man of desires, understand the\nwords that I speak to thee, and stand upright: for I am sent now to\nthee. And when he had said this word to me, I stood trembling.\n\n10:12. And he said to me: Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that\nthou didst set thy heart to understand, to afflict thyself in the sight\nof thy God, thy words have been heard: and I am come for thy words.\n\n10:13. But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me one\nand twenty days: and behold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to\nhelp me, and I remained there by the king of the Persians.\n\nThe prince, etc.... That is, the angel guardian of Persia: who\naccording to his office, seeking the spiritual good of the Persians was\ndesirous that many of the Jews should remain among them.\n\n10:14. But I am come to teach thee what things shall befall thy people\nin the latter days, for as yet the vision is for days.\n\n10:15. And when he was speaking such words to me, I cast down my\ncountenance to the ground, and held my peace.\n\n10:16. And behold as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my\nlips: then I opened my mouth and spoke, and said to him that stood\nbefore me: O my lord, at the sight of thee my joints are loosed, and no\nstrength hath remained in me.\n\n10:17. And how can the servant of my lord speak with my lord? for no\nstrength remaineth in me; moreover, my breath is stopped.\n\n10:18. Therefore, he that looked like a man, touched me again, and\nstrengthened me.\n\n10:19. And he said: Fear not, O man of desires, peace be to thee: take\ncourage, and be strong. And when he spoke to me, I grew strong, and I\nsaid: Speak, O my lord, for thou hast strengthened me.\n\n10:20. And he said: Dost thou know wherefore I am come to thee? And now\nI will return, to fight against the prince of the Persians. When I went\nforth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming.\n\n10:21. But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of truth:\nand none is my helper in all these things, but Michael your prince.\n\nMichael your prince.... The guardian general of the church of God.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 11\n\nThe angel declares to Daniel many things to come, with regard to the\nPersian and Grecian kings: more especially with regard to Antiochus as\na figure of Antichrist.\n\n11:1. And from the first year of Darius, the Mede, I stood up, that he\nmight be strengthened, and confirmed.\n\n11:2. And now I will shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand yet\nthree kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be enriched exceedingly\nabove them all: and when he shall be grown mighty by his riches, he\nshall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.\n\nThree kings.... Viz., Cambyses, Smerdes Magus, and Darius, the son of\nHystaspes.\u2014Ibid. The fourth.... Xerxes.\n\n11:3. But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great\npower: and he shall do what he pleaseth.\n\nA strong king.... Alexander.\n\n11:4. And when he shall come to his height, his kingdom shall be\nbroken, and it shall be divided towards the four winds of the heaven:\nbut not to his posterity, nor according to his power with which he\nruled. For his kingdom shall be rent in pieces, even for strangers,\nbesides these.\n\n11:5. And the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his\nprinces shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for\nhis dominion shall be great.\n\nThe king of the south.... Ptolemeus the son of Lagus, king of Egypt,\nwhich lies south of Jerusalem.\u2014Ibid. One of his princes.... that is,\none of Alexander\u2019s princes, shall prevail over him: that is, shall be\nstronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks of Seleucus Nicator, king of\nAsia and Syria, whose successors are here called the kings of the\nnorth, because their dominions lay to the north in respect to\nJerusalem.\n\n11:6. And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and\nthe daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the\nnorth to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the strength of the\narm, neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her\nyoung men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in these\ntimes.\n\nThe daughter of the king of the south.... Viz., Berenice, daughter of\nPtolemeus Philadelphus, given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, grandson\nof Seleucus.\n\n11:7. And a plant of the bud of her roots shall stand up: and he shall\ncome with an army, and shall enter into the province of the king of the\nnorth: and he shall abuse them, and shall prevail.\n\nA plant, etc.... Ptolemeus Evergetes, the son of Philadelphus.\n\n11:8. And he shall also carry away captive into Egypt their gods, and\ntheir graven things, and their precious vessels of gold and silver: he\nshall prevail against the king of the north.\n\nThe king of the north.... Seleucus Callinicus.\n\n11:9. And the king of the south shall enter into the kingdom, and shall\nreturn to his own land.\n\n11:10. And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a\nmultitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood:\nand he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with\nhis force.\n\nHis sons.... Seleucus Ceraunius, and Antiochus the Great, the sons of\nCallinicus.\u2014Ibid. He shall come.... Viz., Antiochus the Great.\n\n11:11. And the king of the south being provoked, shall go forth, and\nshall fight against the king of the north, and shall prepare an\nexceeding great multitude, and a multitude shall be given into his\nhand.\n\nThe king of the south.... Ptolemeus Philopator, son of Evergetes.\n\n11:12. And he shall take a multitude, and his heart shall be lifted up,\nand he shall cast down many thousands: but he shall not prevail.\n\n11:13. For the king of the north shall return, and shall prepare a\nmultitude much greater than before: and in the end of times, and years,\nhe shall come in haste with a great army, and much riches.\n\n11:14. And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the\nsouth, and the children of prevaricators of thy people shall lift up\nthemselves to fulfil the vision, and they shall fall.\n\n11:15. And the king of the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount,\nand shall take the best fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall\nnot withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up to resist, and they\nshall not have strength.\n\n11:16. And he shall come upon him, and do according to his pleasure,\nand there shall be none to stand against his face: and he shall stand\nin the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by his hand.\n\nHe shall come upon him.... Viz., Antiochus shall come upon the king of\nthe south.\u2014Ibid. The glorious land.... Judea.\n\n11:17. And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom,\nand he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a\ndaughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither\nshall she be for him.\n\nAll his kingdom.... Viz., all the kingdom of Ptolemeus Epiphanes, son\nof Philopator.\u2014Ibid. A daughter of women.... That is, a most beautiful\nwoman, viz., his daughter Cleopatra.\u2014Ibid. To overthrow it.... Viz.,\nthe kingdom of Epiphanes: but his policy shall not succeed; for\nCleopatra shall take more to heart the interest of her husband, than\nthat of her father.\n\n11:18. And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many:\nand he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his\nreproach shall be turned upon him.\n\nThe prince of his reproach.... Seipio the Roman general, called the\nprince of his reproach, because he overthrew Antiochus, and obliged him\nto submit to very dishonourable terms, before he would cease from the\nwar.\n\n11:19. And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he\nshall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.\n\n11:20. And there shall stand up in his place one most vile, and\nunworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not\nin rage nor in battle.\n\nOne most vile.... Seleucus Philopator, who sent Heliodorus to plunder\nthe temple: and was shortly after slain by the same Heliodorus.\n\n11:21. And there shall stand up in his place one despised, and the\nkingly honour shall not be given him: and he shall come privately, and\nshall obtain the kingdom by fraud.\n\nOne despised.... Viz., Antiochus Epiphanes, who at first was despised\nand not received for king. What is here said of this prince, is\naccommodated by St. Jerome and others to Antichrist; of whom this\nAntiochus was a figure.\n\n11:22. And the arms of the fighter shall be overcome before his face,\nand shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.\n\nOf the fighter.... That is, of them that shall oppose him, and shall\nfight against him.\u2014Ibid. The prince of the covenant.... or, of the\nleague. The chief of them that conspired against him: or the king of\nEgypt his most powerful adversary.\n\n11:23. And after friendships, he will deal deceitfully with him: and he\nshall go up, and shall overcome with a small people.\n\n11:24. And he shall enter into rich and plentiful cities: and he shall\ndo that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers\u2019 fathers: he shall\nscatter their spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and shall\nforecast devices against the best fenced places: and this until a time.\n\n11:25. And his strength, and his heart, shall be stirred up against the\nking of the south, with a great army: and the king of the south shall\nbe stirred up to battle with many and very strong succours: and they\nshall not stand, for they shall form designs against him.\n\nThe king.... Ptolemeus Philometor.\n\n11:26. And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his\narmy shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain.\n\n11:27. And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they\nshall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as\nyet the end is unto another time.\n\n11:28. And he shall return into his land with much riches: and his\nheart shall be against the holy covenant, and he shall succeed, and\nshall return into his own land.\n\n11:29. At the time appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the\nsouth, but the latter time shall not be like the former.\n\n11:30. And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall\nbe struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the\ncovenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return,\nand shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the\nsanctuary.\n\nThe galleys and the Romans.... Popilius, and the other Roman\nambassadors, who came in galleys, and obliged him to depart from Egypt.\n\n11:31. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the\nsanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice: and\nthey shall place there the abomination unto desolation.\n\nThey shall place there the abomination, etc.... The idol of Jupiter\nOlympius, which Antiochus ordered to be set up in the sanctuary of the\ntemple: which is here called the sanctuary of strength, from the\nAlmighty that was worshipped there.\n\n11:32. And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully\ndissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and\nsucceed.\n\n11:33. And they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and\nthey shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by\nspoil for many days.\n\n11:34. And when they shall have fallen, they shall be relieved with a\nsmall help: and many shall be joined to them deceitfully.\n\n11:35. And some of the learned shall fall, that they may be tried, and\nmay be chosen, and made white, even to the appointed time: because yet\nthere shall be another time.\n\n11:36. And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be\nlifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall\nspeak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the\nwrath be accomplished. For the determination is made.\n\n11:37. And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he\nshall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for\nhe shall rise up against all things.\n\n11:38. But he shall worship the god Maozim, in his place: and a god\nwhom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and\nprecious stones, and things of great price.\n\nThe god Maozim.... That is, the god of forces or strong holds.\n\n11:39. And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom\nhe hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give them\npower over many, and shall divide the land gratis.\n\nAnd he shall increase glory, etc.... He shall bestow honours, riches\nand lands, upon them that shall worship his god.\n\n11:40. And at the time prefixed the king of the south shall fight\nagainst him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a\ntempest, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great navy, and\nhe shall enter into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass through.\n\n11:41. And he shall enter into the glorious land, and many shall fall:\nand these only shall be saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the\nprincipality of the children of Ammon.\n\n11:42. And he shall lay his hand upon the lands: and the land of Egypt\nshall not escape.\n\n11:43. And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of\nsilver, and all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through\nLybia, and Ethiopia.\n\n11:44. And tidings out of the east, and out of the north, shall trouble\nhim: and he shall come with a great multitude to destroy and slay many.\n\n11:45. And he shall fix his tabernacle, Apadno, between the seas, upon\na glorious and holy mountain: and he shall come even to the top\nthereof, and none shall help him.\n\nApadno.... Some take it for the proper name of a place: others, from\nthe Hebrew, translate it his palace.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 12\n\nMichael shall stand up for the people of God: with other things\nrelating to Antichrist, and the end of the world.\n\n12:1. But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who\nstandeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come, such as\nnever was from the time that nations began, even until that time. And\nat that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found\nwritten in the book.\n\n12:2. And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall\nawake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it\nalways.\n\n12:3. But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the\nfirmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all\neternity.\n\nLearned.... Viz., in the law of God and true wisdom, which consists in\nknowing and loving God.\n\n12:4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to\nthe time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be\nmanifold.\n\n12:5. And I, Daniel, looked, and behold as it were two others stood:\none on this side upon the bank of the river, and another on that side,\non the other bank of the river.\n\n12:6. And I said to the man that was clothed in linen, that stood upon\nthe waters of the river: How long shall it be to the end of these\nwonders?\n\n12:7. And I heard the man that was clothed in linen, that stood upon\nthe waters of the river, when he had lifted up his right hand, and his\nleft hand to heaven, and had sworn by him that liveth for ever, that it\nshould be unto a time, and times, and half a time. And when the\nscattering of the band of the holy people shall be accomplished, all\nthese things shall be finished.\n\n12:8. And I heard, and understood not. And I said: O my lord, what\nshall be after these things?\n\n12:9. And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and\nsealed until the appointed time.\n\n12:10. Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as\nfire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall\nunderstand, but the learned shall understand.\n\n12:11. And from the time when the continual sacrifice shall be taken\naway, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up, there shall\nbe a thousand two hundred ninety days.\n\n12:12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh unto a thousand three\nhundred thirty-five days.\n\n12:13. But go thou thy ways until the time appointed: and thou shalt\nrest, and stand in thy lot unto the end of the days.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 13\n\nThe history of Susanna and the two elders.\n\nThis history of Susanna, in all the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles, was\nplaced in the beginning of the book of Daniel: till St. Jerome, in his\ntranslation, detached it from thence; because he did not find it in the\nHebrew: which is also the case of the history of Bel and the Dragon.\nBut both the one and the other are received by the Catholic Church: and\nwere from the very beginning a part of the Christian Bible.\n\n13:1. Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was\nJoakim:\n\n13:2. And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of\nHelcias, a very beautiful woman, and one that feared God.\n\n13:3. For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter\naccording to the law of Moses.\n\n13:4. Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and\nthe Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them\nall.\n\n13:5. And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges\nthat year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon,\nfrom the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.\n\n13:6. These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that had any\nmatters of judgment came to them.\n\n13:7. And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and\nwalked in her husband\u2019s orchard.\n\n13:8. And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they\nwere inflamed with lust towards her:\n\n13:9. And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes,\nthat they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.\n\n13:10. So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not\nmake known their grief one to the other.\n\n13:11. For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust,\nbeing desirous to have to do with her:\n\n13:12. And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to\nthe other:\n\n13:13. Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they\ndeparted one from another.\n\n13:14. And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and\nasking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then\nthey agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.\n\n13:15. And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a\ntime, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was\ndesirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.\n\n13:16. And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid\nthemselves, and were beholding her.\n\n13:17. So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and\nshut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.\n\n13:18. And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the\norchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded\nthem, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.\n\n13:19. Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and\nran to her, and said:\n\n13:20. Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us,\nand we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.\n\n13:21. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a\nyoung man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids\nfrom thee.\n\n13:22. Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if\nI do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not\nescape your hands.\n\n13:23. But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing\nit, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.\n\n13:24. With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders\nalso cried out against her.\n\n13:25. And one of them ran to the door of the orchard, and opened it.\n\n13:26. So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the orchard,\nthey rushed in by the back door, to see what was the matter.\n\n13:27. But after the old men had spoken, the servants were greatly\nashamed: for never had there been any such word said of Susanna. And on\nthe next day,\n\n13:28. When the people were come to Joakim, her husband, the two elders\nalso came full of wicked device against Susanna, to put her to death.\n\n13:29. And they said before the people: Send to Susanna, daughter of\nHelcias, the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent.\n\n13:30. And she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred.\n\n13:31. Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and beautiful to behold.\n\n13:32. But those wicked men commanded that her face should be\nuncovered, (for she was covered) that so at least they might be\nsatisfied with her beauty.\n\n13:33. Therefore her friends, and all her acquaintance wept.\n\n13:34. But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people, laid\ntheir hands upon her head.\n\n13:35. And she weeping, looked up to heaven, for her heart had\nconfidence in the Lord.\n\n13:36. And the elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this\nwoman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, and\nsent away the maids from her.\n\n13:37. Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and lay with\nher.\n\n13:38. But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this\nwickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.\n\n13:39. And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than\nus, and opening the doors, he leaped out:\n\n13:40. But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but\nshe would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses.\n\n13:41. The multitude believed them, as being the elders, and the judges\nof the people, and they condemned her to death.\n\n13:42. Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O eternal\nGod, who knowest hidden things, who knowest all things before they come\nto pass,\n\n13:43. Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and\nbehold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which\nthese men have maliciously forged against me.\n\n13:44. And the Lord heard her voice.\n\n13:45. And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the\nholy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel:\n\n13:46. And he cried out with a loud voice: I am clear from the blood of\nthis woman.\n\n13:47. Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said: What\nmeaneth this word that thou hast spoken?\n\n13:48. But he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish,\nye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the\ntruth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel?\n\n13:49. Return to judgment, for they have borne false witness against\nher.\n\n13:50. So all the people turned again in haste, and the old men said to\nhim: Come, and sit thou down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath\ngiven thee the honour of old age.\n\n13:51. And Daniel said to the people: Separate these two far from one\nanother, and I will examine them.\n\n13:52. So when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one\nof them, and said to him: O thou that art grown old in evil days, now\nare thy sins come out, which thou hast committed before:\n\n13:53. In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and\nletting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and\nthe just thou shalt not kill.\n\n13:54. Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest\nthem conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.\n\n13:55. And Daniel said: Well hast thou lied against thy own head: for\nbehold the angel of God having received the sentence of him, shall cut\nthee in two.\n\n13:56. And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should\ncome, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda,\nbeauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:\n\n13:57. Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear\nconversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your\nwickedness.\n\n13:58. Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree didst thou take them\nconversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.\n\n13:59. And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own\nhead: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in\ntwo, and to destroy you.\n\n13:60. With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they\nblessed God, who saveth them that trust in him.\n\n13:61. And they rose up against the two elders, (for Daniel had\nconvicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to\nthem as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbour,\n\n13:62. To fulfil the law of Moses: and they put them to death, and\ninnocent blood was saved in that day.\n\n13:63. But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for their daughter,\nSusanna, with Joakim, her husband, and all her kindred, because there\nwas no dishonesty found in her.\n\n13:64. And Daniel became great in the sight of the people from that\nday, and thence forward.\n\n13:65. And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers; and Cyrus, the\nPersian, received his kingdom.\n\n\nDaniel Chapter 14\n\nThe history of Bel, and of the great serpent worshipped by the\nBabylonians.\n\n14:1. And Daniel was the king\u2019s guest, and was honoured above all his\nfriends.\n\nThe king\u2019s guest.... It seems most probable, that the king here spoken\nof was Evilmerodach, the son and successor of Nabuchodonosor, and a\ngreat favourer of the Jews.\n\n14:2. Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel: and there was spent\nupon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty\nsheep, and six vessels of wine.\n\n14:3. The king also worshipped him, and went every day to adore him:\nbut Daniel adored his God. And the king said to him: Why dost thou not\nadore Bel?\n\n14:4. And he answered, and said to him: Because I do not worship idols\nmade with hands, but the living God, that created heaven and earth, and\nhath power over all flesh.\n\n14:5. And the king said to him: Doth not Bel seem to thee to be a\nliving god? Seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?\n\n14:6. Then Daniel smiled, and said: O king, be not deceived: for this\nis but clay within, and brass without, neither hath he eaten at any\ntime.\n\n14:7. And the king being angry, called for his priests, and said to\nthem: If you tell me not who it is that eateth up these expenses, you\nshall die.\n\n14:8. But if you can shew that Bel eateth these things, Daniel shall\ndie, because he hath blasphemed against Bel. And Daniel said to the\nking: Be it done according to thy word.\n\n14:9. Now the priests of Bel were seventy, besides their wives, and\nlittle ones, and children. And the king went with Daniel into the\ntemple of Bel.\n\n14:10. And the priests of Bel said: Behold, we go out: and do thou, O\nking, set on the meats, and make ready the wine, and shut the door\nfast, and seal it with thy own ring:\n\n14:11. And when thou comest in the morning, if thou findest not that\nBel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death, or else Daniel, that hath\nlied against us.\n\n14:12. And they little regarded it, because they had made under the\ntable a secret entrance, and they always came in by it, and consumed\nthose things.\n\n14:13. So it came to pass after they were gone out, the king set the\nmeats before Bel: and Daniel commanded his servants, and they brought\nashes, and he sifted them all over the temple before the king: and\ngoing forth, they shut the door, and having sealed it with the king\u2019s\nring, they departed.\n\n14:14. But the priests went in by night, according to their custom,\nwith their wives, and their children: and they ate and drank up all.\n\n14:15. And the king arose early in the morning, and Daniel with him.\n\n14:16. And the king said: Are the seals whole, Daniel? And he answered:\nThey are whole, O king.\n\n14:17. And as soon as he had opened the door, the king looked upon the\ntable, and cried out with a loud voice: Great art thou, O Bel, and\nthere is not any deceit with thee.\n\n14:18. And Daniel laughed: and he held the king, that he should not go\nin: and he said: Behold the pavement, mark whose footsteps these are.\n\n14:19. And the king said: I see the footsteps of men, and women, and\nchildren. And the king was angry.\n\n14:20. Then he took the priests, and their wives, and their children:\nand they shewed him the private doors by which they came in, and\nconsumed the things that were on the table.\n\n14:21. The king, therefore, put them to death, and delivered Bel into\nthe power of Daniel: who destroyed him and his temple.\n\n14:22. And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians\nworshipped him.\n\n14:23. And the king said to Daniel: Behold, thou canst not say now,\nthat this is not a living god: adore him, therefore.\n\n14:24. And Daniel said: I adore the Lord, my God: for he is the living\nGod: but that is no living god.\n\n14:25. But give me leave, O king, and I will kill this dragon without\nsword or club. And the king said, I give thee leave.\n\n14:26. Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them\ntogether: and he made lumps, and put them into the dragon\u2019s mouth, and\nthe dragon burst asunder. And he said: Behold him whom you worship.\n\n14:27. And when the Babylonians had heard this, they took great\nindignation: and being gathered together against the king, they said:\nThe king is become a Jew. He hath destroyed Bel, he hath killed the\ndragon, and he hath put the priests to death.\n\n14:28. And they came to the king, and said: Deliver us Daniel, or else\nwe will destroy thee and thy house.\n\n14:29. And the king saw that they pressed upon him violently: and being\nconstrained by necessity: he delivered Daniel to them.\n\n14:30. And they cast him into the den of lions, and he was there six\ndays.\n\nThe den of lions.... Daniel was twice cast into the den of lions; one\nunder Darius the Mede, because he had transgressed the king\u2019s edict, by\npraying three times a day: and another time under Evilmerodach by a\nsedition of the people. This time he remained six days in the lions\u2019\nden; the other time only one night.\n\n14:31. And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given to\nthem two carcasses every day, and two sheep: but then they were not\ngiven unto them, that they might devour Daniel.\n\n14:32. Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc, and he had\nboiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the\nfield, to carry it to the reapers.\n\nHabacuc.... The same, as some think whose prophecy is found among the\nlesser prophets but others believe him to be different.\n\n14:33. And the angel of the Lord said to Habacuc: Carry the dinner\nwhich thou hast into Babylon, to Daniel, who is in the lions\u2019 den.\n\n14:34. And Habacuc said: Lord, I never saw Babylon, nor do I know the\nden.\n\n14:35. And the angel of the Lord took him by the top of his head, and\ncarried him by the hair of his head, and set him in Babylon, over the\nden, in the force of his spirit.\n\n14:36. And Habacuc cried, saying: O Daniel, thou servant of God, take\nthe dinner that God hath sent thee.\n\n14:37. And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God, and thou hast\nnot forsaken them that love thee.\n\n14:38. And Daniel arose, and ate. And the angel of the Lord presently\nset Habacuc again in his own place.\n\n14:39. And upon the seventh day the king came to bewail Daniel: and he\ncame to the den, and looked in, and behold Daniel was sitting in the\nmidst of the lions.\n\n14:40. And the king cried out with a loud voice, saying: Great art\nthou, O Lord, the God of Daniel. And he drew him out of the lions\u2019 den.\n\n14:41. But those that had been the cause of his destruction, he cast\ninto the den, and they were devoured in a moment before him.\n\n14:42. Then the king said: Let all the inhabitants of the whole earth\nfear the God of Daniel: for he is the Saviour, working signs, and\nwonders in the earth: who hath delivered Daniel out of the lions\u2019 den.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF OSEE\n\n\nOSEE, or Hosea, whose name signifies A saviour, was the first in the\norder of time among those who are commonly called lesser prophets,\nbecause their prophecies are short. He prophesied in the kingdom of\nIsrael, that is, of the ten tribes, about the same time that Isaias\nprophesied in the kingdom of Juda.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 1\n\nBy marrying a harlot, and by the names of his children, the prophet\nsets forth the crimes of Israel and their punishment. He foretells\ntheir redemption by Christ.\n\n1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Osee, the son of Beeri, in the\ndays of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda, and in the\ndays of Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel.\n\n1:2. The beginning of the Lord\u2019s speaking by Osee: and the Lord said to\nOsee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of\nfornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.\n\nA wife of fornications.... That is, a wife that has been given to\nfornication. This was to represent the Lord\u2019s proceedings with his\npeople Israel, who, by spiritual fornication, were continually\noffending him.\u2014Ibid. Children of fornications.... So called from the\ncharacter of their mother, if not also from their own wicked\ndispositions.\n\n1:3. So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Debelaim: and she\nconceived, and bore him a son.\n\n1:4. And the Lord said to him: Call his name Jezrahel: for yet a little\nwhile, and I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon the house of Jehu,\nand I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.\n\n1:5. And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel in the\nvalley of Jezrahel.\n\n1:6. And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said to him:\nCall her name, Without mercy: for I will not add any more to have mercy\non the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.\n\nWithout mercy.... Lo-Ruhamah.\n\n1:7. And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will save them\nby the Lord, their God: and I will not save them by bow, nor by sword,\nnor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.\n\n1:8. And she weaned her that was called Without mercy. And she\nconceived, and bore a son.\n\n1:9. And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my\npeople, and I will not be yours.\n\nNot my people.... Lo-ammi.\n\n1:10. And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of\nthe sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it\nshall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my\npeople: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.\n\nThe number, etc.... Viz., of the true Israelites, the children of the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n1:11. And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel, shall be\ngathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and\nshall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.\n\nOne head.... viz., Christ.\u2014Ibid. Great is the day of Jezrahel.... That\nis, of the seed of God; for Jezrahel signifies the seed of God.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 2\n\nIsrael is justly punished for leaving God. The abundance of grace in\nthe church of Christ.\n\n2:1. Say ye to your brethren: You are my people: and to your sister:\nThou hast obtained mercy.\n\nSay to your brethren, etc.... or, Call your brethren, My people: and\nyour sister, Her that hath obtained mercy. This is connected with the\nlatter end of the foregoing chapter, and relates to the converts of\nIsrael.\n\n2:2. Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am\nnot her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and\nher adulteries from between her breasts.\n\nYour mother.... The synagogue.\n\n2:3. Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was\nborn: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land\nthat none can pass through and will kill her with drought.\n\n2:4. And I will not have mercy on her children, for they are the\nchildren of fornications.\n\n2:5. For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived\nthem is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers,\nthat give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and\nmy drink.\n\n2:6. Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will\nstop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.\n\n2:7. And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake\nthem: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I\nwill go, and return to my first husband: because it was better with me\nthen than now.\n\n2:8. And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and\nmultiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of\nBaal.\n\n2:9. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and\nmy wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax,\nwhich covered her disgrace.\n\n2:10. And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and\nno man shall deliver her out of my hand:\n\n2:11. And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new\nmoons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.\n\n2:12. And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she\nsaid: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will\nmake her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.\n\n2:13. And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt\nincense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels,\nand went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.\n\n2:14. Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the\nwilderness: and I will speak to her heart.\n\nI will allure her, etc.... After all her disloyalties, I will still\nallure her by my grace etc., and send her vinedressers, viz., the\napostles: originally her own children, who shall open to her the gates\nof hope; as heretofore at her coming into the land of promise, she had\nall good success after she had satisfied the divine justice by the\nexecution of Achan in the valley of Achor. Jos. 7.\n\n2:15. And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the\nvalley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there\naccording to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her\ncoming up out of the land of Egypt.\n\n2:16. And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call\nme: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.\n\nMy husband.... In Hebrew, Ishi. Baali, my lord. The meaning of this\nverse is: that whereas Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those\ndays by wives speaking to their husbands; the synagogue, whom God was\npleased to consider as his spouse, should call him only Ishi, and\nabstain from the name of Baali, because of its affinity with the idol\nBaal.\n\n2:17. And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and\nshe shall no more remember their name.\n\nBaalim.... It is the plural number of Baal: for there were divers idols\nof Baal.\n\n2:18. And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts\nof the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping\nthings of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war\nout of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.\n\n2:19. And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee\nto me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.\n\nI will espouse thee, etc.... This relates to the happy espousals of\nChrist with his church: which shall never be dissolved.\n\n2:20. And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that\nI am the Lord.\n\n2:21. And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the\nLord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.\n\nHear the heavens, etc.... All shall conspire in favour of the church,\nwhich in the following verse is called Jezrahel, that is, the seed of\nGod.\n\n2:22. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and\nthese shall hear Jezrahel.\n\n2:23. And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy on\nher that was without mercy.\n\n2:24. And I will say to that which is not my people: Thou art my\npeople: and they shall say: Thou art my God.\n\nThat which was not my people, etc.... This relates to the conversion of\nthe Gentiles.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 3\n\nThe prophet is commanded again to love an adulteress; to signify God\u2019s\nlove to the synagogue. The wretched state of the Jews for a long time,\ntill at last they shall be converted.\n\n3:1. And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of\nher friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of\nIsrael, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the\ngrapes.\n\n3:2. And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a\ncore of barley, and for half a core of barley.\n\n3:3. And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt\nnot play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man\u2019s, and I also will wait\nfor thee.\n\n3:4. For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and\nwithout prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without\nephod, and without theraphim.\n\nTheraphim.... Images or representations.\n\n3:5. And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek\nthe Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the\nLord, and his goodness, in the last days.\n\nDavid their king.... That is, Christ, who is of the house of David.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 4\n\nGod\u2019s judgment against the sins of Israel: Juda is warned not to follow\ntheir example.\n\n4:1. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord\nshall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there\nis no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in\nthe land.\n\n4:2. Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have\noverflowed, and blood hath touched blood.\n\n4:3. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it\nshall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the\nair: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.\n\n4:4. But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for\nthy people are as they that contradict the priest.\n\nLet not any man judge, etc.... As if he would say: It is in vain to\nstrive with them, or reprove them, they are so obstinate in evil.\n\n4:5. And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with\nthee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.\n\n4:6. My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because\nthou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not\ndo the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of\nthy God, I also will forget thy children.\n\n4:7. According to the multitude of them, so have they sinned against\nme: I will change their glory into shame.\n\n4:8. They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their\nsouls to their iniquity.\n\n4:9. And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their\nways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.\n\n4:10. And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed\nfornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord\nin not observing the law.\n\n4:11. Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the\nunderstanding.\n\n4:12. My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath\ndeclared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them,\nand they have committed fornication against their God.\n\n4:13. They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt\nincense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the\nturpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall\nyour daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be\nadulteresses.\n\n4:14. I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit\nfornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery:\nbecause themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with\nthe effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be\nbeaten.\n\n4:15. If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not Juda offend:\nand go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into Bethaven, and do not\nswear: The Lord liveth.\n\nGalgal and Bethaven.... Places where idols were worshipped. Bethel,\nwhich signifies the house of God, is called by the prophet, Bethaven,\nthat is, the house of vanity, from Jeroboam\u2019s golden calf that was\nworshipped there.\n\n4:16. For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer now will the\nLord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.\n\n4:17. Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.\n\n4:18. Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication:\nthey that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon\nthem.\n\n4:19. The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be\nconfounded because of their sacrifices.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 5\n\nGod\u2019s threats against the priests, the people, and princes of Israel,\nfor their idolatry.\n\n5:1. Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and\ngive ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you,\nbecause you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over\nand a net spread upon Thabor.\n\nO priests.... What is said of priests in this prophecy is chiefly\nunderstood of the priests of the kingdom of Israel; who were not true\npriests of the race of Aaron; but served the calves at Bethel and Dan.\n\n5:2. And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the\nteacher of them all.\n\n5:3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath\ncommitted fornication, Israel is defiled.\n\n5:4. They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the\nspirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known\nthe Lord.\n\n5:5. And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel, and\nEphraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.\n\n5:6. With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the\nLord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.\n\n5:7. They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten\nchildren that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their\nportions.\n\nChildren that are strangers.... That is, aliens from God: and therefore\nthey are threatened with speedy destruction.\n\n5:8. Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in\nBethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.\n\n5:9. Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the\ntribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.\n\n5:10. The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I\nwill pour out my wrath upon them like water.\n\nAs they that take up the bound.... That is, they that remove the\nboundary, encroaching on the property of their neighbors: figuratively:\ngoing beyond the boundary of the laws of God.\n\n5:11. Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he\nbegan to go after filthiness.\n\n5:12. And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the\nhouse of Juda.\n\n5:13. And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went\nto the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be\nable to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from\nyou.\n\n5:14. For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion\u2019s whelp\nto the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and\nthere is none that can rescue.\n\n5:15. I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and\nseek my face.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 6\n\nAffliction shall be a means to bring many to Christ, a complaint of the\nuntowardness of the Jews. God loves mercy more than sacrifice.\n\n6:1. In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us\nreturn to the Lord.\n\n6:2. For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he\nwill cure us.\n\n6:3. He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise\nus up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall\nfollow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as\nthe morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter\nrain to the earth.\n\n6:4. What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O\nJuda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away\nin the morning.\n\n6:5. For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain\nthem by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the\nlight.\n\n6:6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God\nmore than holocausts.\n\n6:7. But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have\nthey dealt treacherously against me.\n\n6:8. Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.\n\nSupplanted with blood.... that is, undermined and brought to ruin, for\nshedding of blood: and, as it is signified in the following verse, for\nconspiring with the priests (of Bethel) like robbers, to murder in the\nway such as passed out of Sichem to go towards the temple of Jerusalem.\nOr else ... supplanted with blood ... signifies flowing in such manner\nwith blood, as to suffer none to walk there without imbruing the soles\nof their feet in blood.\n\n6:9. And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the\npriests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they\nhave wrought wickedness.\n\n6:10. I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the\nfornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.\n\n6:11. And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring\nback the captivity of my people.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 7\n\nThe manifold sins of Israel, and of their kings, hinder the Lord from\nhealing them.\n\n7:1. When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was\ndiscovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed\nfalsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.\n\n7:2. And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their\nwickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been\ndone before my face.\n\n7:3. They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the\nprinces with their lies.\n\nMade the king glad, etc.... To please Jeroboam, and their other kings\nthey have given themselves up to the wicked worship of idols, which are\nmere falsehood and lies.\n\n7:4. They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the\ncity rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole\nwas leavened.\n\n7:5. The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he\nstretched out his hand with scorners.\n\n7:6. Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid\nsnares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he\nhimself was heated as a flaming fire.\n\n7:7. They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges:\nall their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth\nunto me.\n\n7:8. Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as\nbread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.\n\n7:9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea,\ngrey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.\n\n7:10. And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and\nthey have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him\nin all these.\n\n7:11. And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a\nheart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.\n\n7:12. And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will\nbring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their\ncongregation hath heard.\n\n7:13. Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted\nbecause they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and\nthey have spoken lies against me.\n\n7:14. And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled\nin their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed\nfrom me.\n\n7:15. And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they\nhave imagined evil against me.\n\n7:16. They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like\na deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of\ntheir tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 8\n\nThe Israelites are threatened with destruction for their impiety and\nidolatry.\n\n8:1. Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house\nof the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have\nviolated my law.\n\n8:2. They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.\n\n8:3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall\npursue him.\n\n8:4. They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I\nknew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to\nthemselves, that they might perish.\n\n8:5. Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against\nthem. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?\n\n8:6. For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and\nit is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders\u2019 webs.\n\n8:7. For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no\nstanding stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should\nyield, strangers shall eat it.\n\n8:8. Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an\nunclean vessel.\n\n8:9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:\nEphraim hath given gifts to his lovers.\n\n8:10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I\ngather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of\nthe king, and the princes.\n\n8:11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become\nto him unto sin.\n\n8:12. I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted\nas foreign.\n\n8:13. They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall\neat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their\niniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.\n\n8:14. And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and\nJuda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his\ncities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 9\n\nThe distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry.\n\n9:1. Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou\nhast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward\nupon every cornfloor.\n\n9:2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine\nshall deceive them.\n\n9:3. They shall not dwell in the Lord\u2019s land: Ephraim is returned to\nEgypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.\n\n9:4. They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please\nhim: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that\nshall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul,\nit shall not enter into the house of the Lord.\n\n9:5. What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the\nLord?\n\n9:6. For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall\ngather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit\ntheir beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.\n\n9:7. The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come:\nknow ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was\nmad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy\nmadness.\n\n9:8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a\nsnare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.\n\n9:9. They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember\ntheir iniquity, and will visit their sin.\n\n9:10. I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers\nlike the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went\nin to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and\nbecame abominable, as those things were, which they loved.\n\n9:11. As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the\nbirth, and from the womb, and from the conception.\n\n9:12. And though they should bring up their children, I will make them\nwithout children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart\nfrom them.\n\n9:13. Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim\nshall bring out his children to the murderer.\n\n9:14. Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb\nwithout children, and dry breasts.\n\n9:15. All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for\nthe wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house:\nI will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.\n\n9:16. Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no\nfruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved\nfruit of their womb.\n\n9:17. My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him:\nand they shall be wanderers among the nations.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 10\n\nAfter many benefits, great affliction shall fall upon the ten tribes,\nfor their ingratitude to God.\n\n10:1. Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it:\naccording to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars,\naccording to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.\n\n10:2. Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break\ndown their idols, he shall destroy their altars.\n\n10:3. For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the\nLord: and what shall a king do to us?\n\n10:4. You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a\ncovenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of\nthe field.\n\n10:5. The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven:\nfor the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its\ntemple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from\nit.\n\nThe kine of Bethaven.... The golden calves of Jeroboam.\n\n10:6. For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the\navenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be\nconfounded in his own will.\n\nItself also is carried, etc.... One of the golden calves was given by\nking Manahem, to Phul, king of the Assyrians, to engage him to stand by\nhim.\n\n10:7. Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the\nwater.\n\n10:8. And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be\ndestroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and\nthey shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon\nus.\n\n10:9. From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the\nbattle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall not overtake\nthem.\n\n10:10. According to my desire, I will chastise them: and the nations\nshall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised\nfor their two iniquities.\n\nTheir two iniquities.... Their two calves.\n\n10:11. Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I\npassed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda\nshall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself.\n\n10:12. Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy,\nbreak up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he\nshall come that shall teach you justice.\n\n10:13. You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have\neaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the\nmultitude of thy strong ones.\n\n10:14. A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy fortresses\nshall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the house of him that\njudged Baal in the day of battle, the mother being dashed in pieces\nupon her children.\n\nAs Salmana, king of the Midianites, was destroyed by the house, that\nis, by the followers of him that judged Baal; that is, of Gideon, who\nthrew down the altar of Baal; and was therefore called Jerubaal. See\nJudges 6 and 8.\n\n10:15. So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your\niniquities.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 11\n\nGod proceeds in threatening Israel for their ingratitude: yet he will\nnot utterly destroy them.\n\n11:1. As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away.\nBecause Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of\nEgypt.\n\nI called my son.... Viz., Israel. But as the calling of Israel out of\nEgypt, was a figure of the calling of Christ from thence; therefore\nthis text is also applicable to Christ, as we learn from Matthew 2.15.\n\n11:2. As they called them, they went away from before their face: they\noffered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.\n\nThey called.... Viz., Moses and Aaron called; but they went away after\nother gods and would not hear.\n\n11:3. And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my\narms: and they knew not that I healed them.\n\n11:4. I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love:\nand I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws:\nand I put his meat to him that he might eat.\n\n11:5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian\nshall be his king: because they would not be converted.\n\n11:6. The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his\nchosen men, and shall devour their heads.\n\n11:7. And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put\nupon them together, which shall not be taken off.\n\n11:8. How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect thee, O\nIsrael? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I set thee as Seboim? my\nheart is turned within me, my repentance is stirred up.\n\nAdama, etc.... Adama and Seboim were two cities in the neighborhood of\nSodom: and underwent the like destruction.\n\n11:9. I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return\nto destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the\nmidst of thee, and I will not enter into the city.\n\n11:10. They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because\nhe shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear.\n\n11:11. And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and like a\ndove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their\nown houses, saith the Lord.\n\n11:12. Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of\nIsrael with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is\nfaithful with the saints.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 12\n\nIsrael is reproved for sin. God\u2019s favours to them.\n\n12:1. Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all\nthe day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a\ncovenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.\n\n12:2. Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a\nvisitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and\naccording to his devices.\n\n12:3. In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had\nsuccess with an angel.\n\n12:4. And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept,\nand made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he\nspoke with us.\n\n12:5. Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.\n\n12:6. Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope\nin thy God always.\n\n12:7. He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he\nhath loved oppression.\n\n12:8. And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an\nidol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have\ncommitted.\n\n12:9. And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet\ncause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.\n\n12:10. And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied\nvisions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.\n\n12:11. If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering\nsacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the\nfurrows of the field.\n\nIf Galaad be an idol, etc.... That is, if Galaad with all its idols and\nsacrifices be like a mere idol itself, being brought to nothing by\nTheglathphalasar: how vain is it to expect, that the idols worshipped\nin Galgal shall be of any service to the tribes that remain.\n\n12:12. Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a\nwife, and was a keeper for a wife.\n\n12:13. But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he\nwas preserved by a prophet.\n\n12:14. Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his\nblood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto\nhim.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 13\n\nThe judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day\nredeem them.\n\n13:1. When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in\nBaal, and died.\n\n13:2. And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to\nthemselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the\nwhole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye\nthat adore calves.\n\n13:3. Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew\nthat passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of\nthe floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.\n\n13:4. But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt\nknow no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.\n\n13:5. I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.\n\n13:6. According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full:\nand they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.\n\n13:7. And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of\nthe Assyrians.\n\n13:8. I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I\nwill rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there\nas a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.\n\n13:9. Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me.\n\n13:10. Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy\ncities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings and princes.\n\n13:11. I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in\nmy indignation.\n\n13:12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.\n\n13:13. The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an\nunwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.\n\n13:14. I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them\nfrom death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite:\ncomfort is hidden from my eyes.\n\n13:15. Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord\nwill bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall\ndry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall\ncarry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 14\n\nSamaria shall be destroyed. An exhortation to repentance: God\u2019s favour\nthrough Christ to the penitent.\n\n14:1. Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to\nbitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be\ndashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.\n\nPerish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness.... It is not\na curse or imprecation, but a prophecy of what should come to pass.\n\n14:2. Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down\nby thy iniquity.\n\n14:3. Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take\naway all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves\nof our lips.\n\n14:4. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither\nwill we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou\nwilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.\n\n14:5. I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath\nis turned away from them.\n\n14:6. I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his\nroot shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.\n\n14:7. His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive\ntree: and his smell as that of Libanus.\n\n14:8. They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall\nlive upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall\nbe as the wine of Libanus.\n\n14:9. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will\nhear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me\nis thy fruit found.\n\n14:10. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and\nhe shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the\njust shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF JOEL\n\n\nJOEL, whose name, according to ST. JEROME, signifies THE LORD GOD: or,\nas others say, THE COMING DOWN OF GOD: prophesied about the same time\nin the kingdom of Judea, as OSEE did in the kingdom of Israel. He\nforetells under figure the great evils that were coming upon the people\nfor their sins: earnestly exhorts them to repentance: and comforts them\nwith the promise of a TEACHER OF JUSTICE, viz., CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD,\nand of the coming down of his holy SPIRIT.\n\n\nJoel Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet describes the judgments that shall fall upon the people,\nand invites them to fasting and prayer.\n\n1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Joel, the son of Phatuel.\n\n1:2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the\nland: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your\nfathers?\n\n1:3. Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their\nchildren, and their children to another generation.\n\n1:4. That which the palmerworm hath left, the locust hath eaten: and\nthat which the locust hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that which\nthe bruchus hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.\n\nThat which the palmerworm hath left, etc.... Some understand this\nliterally of the desolation of the land by these insects: others\nunderstand it of the different invasions of the Chaldeans, or other\nenemies.\n\n1:5. Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and mourn all ye that take\ndelight; in drinking sweet wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.\n\n1:6. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number:\nhis teeth are like the teeth of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a\nlion\u2019s whelp.\n\n1:7. He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath pilled off the bark of my\nfig tree: he hath stripped it bare, and cast it away; the branches\nthereof are made white.\n\n1:8. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her\nyouth.\n\n1:9. Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the\npriests, the Lord\u2019s ministers, have mourned:\n\n1:10. The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn\nis wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.\n\n1:11. The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the\nwheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is\nperished.\n\n1:12. The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the\npomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the\ntrees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the\nchildren of men.\n\n1:13. Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests, howl, ye ministers of\nthe altars: go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: because\nsacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of your God.\n\n1:14. Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather together the\nancients, all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God:\nand cry ye to the Lord:\n\n1:15. Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand,\nand it shall come like destruction from the mighty.\n\n1:16. Is not your food cut off before your eyes, joy and gladness from\nthe house of our God?\n\n1:17. The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed,\nthe storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.\n\n1:18. Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because\nthere is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are\nperished.\n\n1:19. To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the\nbeautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the\ntrees of the country.\n\n1:20. Yea, and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a\ngarden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are\ndried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the\nwilderness.\n\n\nJoel Chapter 2\n\n2:1. Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain,\nlet all the inhabitants of the land tremble: because the day of the\nLord cometh, because it is nigh at hand.\n\nThe day of the Lord.... That is, the time when he will execute justice\nupon sinners.\n\n2:2. A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and\nwhirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the\nmountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall\nbe after it, even to the years of generation and generation.\n\nA numerous and strong people.... The Assyrians, or Chaldeans. Others\nunderstand all this of an army of locusts laying waste the land.\n\n2:3. Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning\nflame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a\ndesolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.\n\n2:4. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and they\nshall run like horsemen.\n\n2:5. They shall leap like the noise of chariots upon the tops of\nmountains, like the noise of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as\na strong people prepared to battle.\n\n2:6. At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces\nshall be made like a kettle.\n\n2:7. They shall run like valiant men: like men of war they shall scale\nthe wall: the men shall march every one on his way, and they shall not\nturn aside from their ranks.\n\n2:8. No one shall press upon his brother: they shall walk every one in\nhis path: yea, and they shall fall through the windows, and shall take\nno harm.\n\n2:9. They shall enter into the city: they shall run upon the wall, they\nshall climb up the houses, they shall come in at the windows, as a\nthief.\n\n2:10. At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved:\nthe sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their\nshining.\n\n2:11. And the Lord hath uttered his voice before the face of his army:\nfor his armies are exceedingly great, for they are strong, and execute\nhis word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible: and who\ncan stand it?\n\n2:12. Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your\nheart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.\n\n2:13. And rend your hearts, and not your garments and turn to the Lord\nyour God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy,\nand ready to repent of the evil.\n\n2:14. Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing\nbehind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?\n\n2:15. Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn\nassembly,\n\n2:16. Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the\nancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the\nbreasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of\nher bridal chamber.\n\n2:17. Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord\u2019s\nministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people:\nand give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathens should rule\nover them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?\n\n2:18. The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared his\npeople.\n\n2:19. And the Lord answered, and said to his people: Behold I will send\nyou corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with them: and I\nwill no more make you a reproach among the nations.\n\n2:20. And I will remove far off from you the northern enemy: and I will\ndrive him into a land unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the\neast sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea: and his stench\nshall ascend, and his rottenness shall go up, because he hath done\nproudly.\n\nThe northern enemy.... Some understand this of Holofernes and his army:\nothers, of the locusts.\n\n2:21. Fear not, O land, be glad, and rejoice: for the Lord hath done\ngreat things.\n\n2:22. Fear not, ye beasts of the fields: for the beautiful places of\nthe wilderness are sprung, for the tree hath brought forth its fruit,\nthe fig tree, and the vine have yielded their strength.\n\n2:23. And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord\nyour God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will\nmake the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the\nbeginning.\n\n2:24. And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall\noverflow with wine, and oil.\n\n2:25. And I will restore to you the years which the locust, and the\nbruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host\nwhich I sent upon you.\n\n2:26. And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled and you shall\npraise the name of the Lord your God; who hath done wonders with you,\nand my people shall not be confounded for ever.\n\n2:27. And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: and I am the\nLord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be\nconfounded forever.\n\n2:28. And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my\nspirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy:\nyour old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.\n\n2:29. Moreover, upon my servants and handmaids in those days I will\npour forth my spirit.\n\n2:30. And I will shew wonders in heaven; and in earth, blood, and fire,\nand vapour of smoke.\n\n2:31. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood:\nbefore the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come.\n\n2:32. And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall call upon\nthe name of the Lord, shall be saved: for in Mount Sion, and in\nJerusalem shall be salvation, as the Lord hath said, and in the residue\nwhom the Lord shall call.\n\n\nJoel Chapter 3\n\n3:1. For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back\nthe captivity of Juda, and Jerusalem:\n\n3:2. I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into\nthe valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people,\nand for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the\nnations, and have parted my land.\n\n3:3. And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put\nin the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might\ndrink.\n\n3:4. But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the\ncoast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you\nrevenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon\nyour own head.\n\n3:5. For you have taken away my silver, and my gold: and my desirable,\nand most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.\n\n3:6. And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have\nsold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off\nfrom their own country.\n\n3:7. Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have\nsold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.\n\n3:8. And I will sell your sons, and your daughters, by the hands of the\nchildren of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far\noff, for the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n3:9. Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war, rouse up the\nstrong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.\n\n3:10. Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears.\nLet the weak say: I am strong.\n\n3:11. Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and\ngather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong\nones to fall down.\n\n3:12. Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of\nJosaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.\n\n3:13. Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down,\nfor the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is\nmultiplied.\n\n3:14. Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the\nLord is near in the valley of destruction.\n\n3:15. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn\ntheir shining.\n\n3:16. And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from\nJerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord\nshall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of\nIsrael.\n\n3:17. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion,\nmy holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall pass\nthrough it no more.\n\n3:18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall\ndrop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters\nshall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come\nforth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.\n\nA fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, etc.... Viz., the\nfountain of grace in the church militant, and of glory in the church\ntriumphant: which shall water the torrent or valley of thorns, that is,\nthe souls that before, like barren ground brought forth nothing but\nthorns; or that were afflicted with the thorns of crosses and\ntribulations.\n\n3:19. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed:\nbecause they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have\nshed innocent blood in their land.\n\n3:20. And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to\ngeneration and generation.\n\nJudea\u2014and Jerusalem.... That is, the spiritual Jerusalem, viz., the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n3:21. And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed: and the\nLord will dwell in Sion.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF AMOS\n\n\nAMOS prophesied in Israel about the same time as OSEE: and was called\nfrom following the cattle to denounce GOD\u2019S judgments to the people of\nIsrael, and the neighbouring nations, for their repeated crimes, in\nwhich they continued without repentance.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet threatens Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon with the\njudgments of God, for their obstinacy in sin.\n\n1:1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Thecua: which he\nsaw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the\ndays of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before the\nearthquake.\n\nThe earthquake.... Many understand this of a great earthquake, which\nthey say was felt at the time that king Ozias attempted to offer\nincense in the temple. But the best chronologists prove that the\nearthquake here spoken of must have been before that time: because\nJeroboam the second, under whom Amos prophesied, was dead long before\nthat attempt of Ozias.\n\n1:2. And he said: The Lord will roar from Sion, and utter his voice\nfrom Jerusalem: and the beautiful places of the shepherds have mourned,\nand the top of Carmel is withered.\n\n1:3. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four I\nwill not convert it: because they have thrashed Galaad with iron wains.\n\nFor three crimes\u2014and for four.... That is, for their many unrepented of\ncrimes.\u2014Ibid. I will not convert it.... That is, I will not spare them,\nnor turn away the punishments I design to inflict upon them.\n\n1:4. And I will send a fire into the house of Azael, and it shall\ndevour the houses of Benadad.\n\n1:5. And I will break the bar of Damascus: and I will cut off the\ninhabitants from the plain of the idol, and him that holdeth the\nsceptre from the house of pleasure: and the people of Syria shall be\ncarried away to Cyrene, saith the Lord.\n\n1:6. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will\nnot convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to\nshut them up in Edom.\n\n1:7. And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour\nthe houses thereof.\n\n1:8. And I will cut off the inhabitant from Azotus, and him that\nholdeth the sceptre from Ascalon: and I will turn my hand against\nAccaron, and the rest of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord\nGod.\n\n1:9. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four I will\nnot convert it: because they have shut up an entire captivity in Edom,\nand have not remembered the covenant of brethren.\n\n1:10. And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour\nthe houses thereof.\n\n1:11. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four I\nwill not convert him: because he hath pursued his brother with the\nsword, and hath cast off all pity, and hath carried on his fury, and\nhath kept his wrath to the end.\n\n1:12. I will send a fire into Theman: and it shall devour the houses of\nBosra.\n\n1:13. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon,\nand for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the\nwomen with child of Galaad to enlarge his border.\n\n1:14. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabba: and it shall\ndevour the houses thereof with shouting in the day of battle, and with\na whirlwind in the day of trouble.\n\n1:15. And Melchom shall go into captivity, both he, and his princes\ntogether, saith the Lord.\n\nMelchom.... The god or idol of the Ammonites, otherwise called Moloch,\nand Melech: which in Hebrew signifies a king, and Melchom their king.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 2\n\nThe judgments with which God threatens Moab, Juda, and Israel for their\nsins, and their ingratitude.\n\n2:1. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will\nnot convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom\neven to ashes.\n\n2:2. And I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses\nof Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the\ntrumpet:\n\n2:3. And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay\nall his princes with him, saith the Lord.\n\n2:4. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will\nnot convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and\nhath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to\nerr, after which their fathers have walked.\n\n2:5. And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses\nof Jerusalem.\n\n2:6. Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I\nwill not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and\nthe poor man for a pair of shoes.\n\n2:7. They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and\nturn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone\nto the same young woman, to profane my holy name.\n\n2:8. And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and\ndrank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.\n\n2:9. Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was\nlike the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I\ndestroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.\n\n2:10. It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led\nyou forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land\nof the Amorrhite.\n\n2:11. And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men\nfor Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?\n\n2:12. And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the\nprophets, saying: Prophesy not.\n\n2:13. Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden\nwith hay.\n\nI will screak.... Unable to bear any longer the enormous load of your\nsins, etc. The spirit of God, as St. Jerome takes notice, accommodates\nhimself to the education of the prophet and inspires him with\ncomparisons taken from country affairs.\n\n2:14. And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not\npossess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.\n\n2:15. And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of\nfoot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his\nlife.\n\n2:16. And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in\nthat day, saith the Lord.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 3\n\nThe evils that shall fall upon Israel for their sins.\n\n3:1. Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye\nchildren of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out\nof the land of Egypt, saying:\n\n3:2. You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore\nwill I visit upon you all your iniquities.\n\nVisit upon.... That is, punish.\n\n3:3. Shall two walk together except they be agreed?\n\n3:4. Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the\nlion\u2019s whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?\n\n3:5. Will the bird fall into the snare upon the earth, if there be no\nfowler? Shall the snare be taken up from the earth, before it hath\ntaken somewhat?\n\n3:6. Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid?\nShall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?\n\nEvil in a city.... He speaks of the evil of punishments of war, famine,\npestilence, desolation, etc., but not of the evil of sin, of which God\nis not the author.\n\n3:7. For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his\nservants the prophets.\n\n3:8. The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken,\nwho shall not prophesy?\n\n3:9. Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land\nof Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria,\nand behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer\noppression in the inner rooms thereof.\n\n3:10. And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord,\nstoring up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.\n\n3:11. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The land shall be in\ntribulation, and shall be compassed about: and thy strength shall be\ntaken away from thee, and thy houses shall be spoiled.\n\n3:12. Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd should get out of the\nlion\u2019s mouth two legs, or the tip of the ear: so shall the children of\nIsrael be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in a place of a bed, and in\nthe couch of Damascus.\n\n3:13. Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the\nGod of hosts:\n\n3:14. That in the day when I shall begin to visit the transgressions of\nIsrael, I will visit upon him, and upon the altars of Bethel: and the\nhorns of the altars shall be cut off, and shall fall to the ground.\n\n3:15. And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the\nhouses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith\nthe Lord.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 4\n\nThe Israelites are reproved for their oppressing the poor, for their\nidolatry, and their incorrigibleness.\n\n4:1. Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria:\nyou that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your\nmasters: Bring, and we will drink.\n\nFat kine.... He means the great ones that lived in plenty and wealth.\n\n4:2. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall\ncome upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall\nremain of you in boiling pots.\n\n4:3. And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other,\nand you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.\n\nArmon.... A foreign country; some understand it of Armenia.\n\n4:4. Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply\ntransgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in\nthree days.\n\n4:5. And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free\nofferings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel,\nsaith the Lord God.\n\n4:6. Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your\ncities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned\nto me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:7. I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet\nthree months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and\ncaused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and\nthe piece whereupon I rained not, withered.\n\n4:8. And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were\nnot filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:9. I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm\nhath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves,\nand fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:10. I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I slew your young men\nwith the sword, even to the captivity of your horses: and I made the\nstench of your camp to come up into your nostrils: yet you returned not\nto me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:11. I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and\nyou were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned\nnot to me, saith the Lord.\n\n4:12. Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I\nshall have done these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O\nIsrael.\n\n4:13. For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind,\nand declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and\nwalketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is\nhis name.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 5\n\nA lamentation for Israel: an exhortation to return to God.\n\n5:1. Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a\nlamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.\n\n5:2. The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to\nraise her up.\n\n5:3. For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of which came forth a\nthousand, there shall be left in it a hundred: and out of which there\ncame a hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house of Israel.\n\n5:4. For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and\nyou shall live.\n\n5:5. But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you\npass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel\nshall be unprofitable.\n\nBethel,\u2014Galgal,\u2014Bersabee.... The places where they worshipped their\nidols.\n\n5:6. Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with\nfire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.\n\n5:7. You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the\nland,\n\n5:8. Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth\ndarkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth\nthe waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:\nThe Lord is his name.\n\nArcturus and Orion.... Arcturus is a bright star in the north: Orion a\nbeautiful constellation in the south.\n\n5:9. He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and\nwaste upon the mighty.\n\nWith a smile.... That is, with all ease, and without making any effort.\n\n5:10. They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred\nhim that speaketh perfectly.\n\n5:11. Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey\nfrom him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell\nin them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink\nthe wine of them.\n\n5:12. Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins:\nenemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the\ngate.\n\n5:13. Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is\nan evil time.\n\n5:14. Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the\nGod of hosts will be with you, as you have said.\n\n5:15. Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it\nmay be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of\nJoseph.\n\n5:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign\nLord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that\nare without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the\nhusbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to\nlament.\n\n5:17. And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass\nthrough in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.\n\n5:18. Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it\nfor you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.\n\n5:19. As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear\nshould meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon\nthe wall, and a serpent should bite him.\n\n5:20. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and\nobscurity, and no brightness in it?\n\n5:21. I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not\nreceive the odour of your assemblies.\n\n5:22. And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not\nreceive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.\n\n5:23. Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear\nthe canticles of thy harp.\n\n5:24. But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty\ntorrent.\n\n5:25. Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for\nforty years, O house of Israel?\n\nDid you offer, etc.... Except the sacrifices that were offered at the\nfirst, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no\nsacrifices in the desert.\n\n5:26.But you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch, and the image of\nyour idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.\n\nA tabernacle, etc.... All this alludes to the idolatry which they\ncommitted, when they were drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the\nworship of their gods. Num. 25.\n\n5:27. And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith\nthe Lord, the God of hosts is his name.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 6\n\nThe desolation of Israel for their pride and luxury.\n\n6:1. Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have\nconfidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the\npeople, that go in with state into the house of Israel.\n\n6:2. Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go from thence into Emath\nthe great: and go down into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the\nbest kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than your border.\n\n6:3. You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the\nthrone of iniquity;\n\n6:4. You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches:\nthat eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of\nthe herd;\n\n6:5. You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought\nthemselves to have instruments of music like David;\n\n6:6. That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best\nointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.\n\n6:7. Wherefore now they shall go captive at the head of them that go\ninto captivity: and the faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken\naway.\n\n6:8. The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of\nhosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will\ndeliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.\n\n6:9. And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.\n\n6:10. And a man\u2019s kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that\nhe may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that\nis in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?\n\n6:11. And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him:\nHold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord.\n\n6:12. For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the\ngreater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.\n\n6:13. Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with\nbuffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of\njustice into wormwood.\n\n6:14. You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not\ntaken unto us horns by our own strength?\n\n6:15. But behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of\nIsrael, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall destroy you\nfrom the entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the desert.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 7\n\nThe prophet sees, in three visions, evils coming upon Israel: he is\naccused of treason by the false priest of Bethel.\n\n7:1. These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was\nformed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo,\nit was the latter rain after the king\u2019s mowing.\n\nThe locust, etc.... These judgments by locusts and fire, which, by the\nprophet\u2019s intercession, were moderated, signify the former invasions of\nthe Assyrians under Phul and Theglathphalasar, before the utter\ndesolation of Israel by Salmanasar.\n\n7:2. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the\ngrass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who\nshall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?\n\n7:3. The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.\n\n7:4. These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called\nfor judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a\npart at the same time.\n\n7:5. And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up\nJacob, for he is a little one?\n\n7:6. The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the\nLord God.\n\n7:7. These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was\nstanding upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason\u2019s trowel.\n\n7:8. And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A\nmason\u2019s trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel\nin the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.\n\n7:9. And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down, and the\nsanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will rise up against\nthe house of Jeroboam with the sword.\n\n7:10. And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel,\nsaying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of\nIsrael: the land is not able to bear all his words.\n\n7:11. For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel\nshall be carried away captive out of their own land.\n\nJeroboam shall die by the sword.... The prophet did not say this; but\nthat the Lord would rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the\nsword: which was verified, when Zacharias, the son and successor of\nJeroboam, was slain by the sword. 4 Kings 15.10.\n\n7:12. And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land\nof Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.\n\n7:13. But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the\nking\u2019s sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.\n\n7:14. And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am\nI the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.\n\nI am not a prophet.... That is, I am not a prophet by education: nor is\nprophesying my calling or profession: but I am a herdsman, whom God was\npleased to send hither to prophesy to Israel.\n\n7:15. And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said\nto me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.\n\n7:16. And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt\nnot prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the\nhouse of the idol.\n\nThe house of the idol.... Viz., of the calf worshipped in Bethel.\n\n7:17. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the harlot in\nthe city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and\nthy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted\nland, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 8\n\nUnder the figure of a hook, which bringeth down the fruit, the\napproaching desolation of Israel is foreshewed for their avarice and\ninjustices.\n\n8:1. These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold a hook to draw down\nthe fruit.\n\n8:2. And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw\ndown fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people\nIsrael: I will not again pass by them any more.\n\n8:3. And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the\nLord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.\n\n8:4. Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land\nto fail,\n\n8:5. Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares:\nand the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the\nmeasure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,\n\n8:6. That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair\nof shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?\n\n8:7. The Lord hath sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I will\nnever forget all their works.\n\n8:8. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that\ndwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out,\nand run down as the river of Egypt?\n\n8:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that\nthe sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the\nday of light:\n\n8:10. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs\ninto lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of\nyours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning\nof an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.\n\n8:11. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a\nfamine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but\nof hearing the word of the Lord.\n\n8:12. And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to the\neast: they shall go about seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not\nfind it.\n\n8:13. In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for\nthirst.\n\n8:14. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan,\nliveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall\nrise no more.\n\n\nAmos Chapter 9\n\nThe certainty of the desolation of Israel: the restoring of the\ntabernacle of David, and the conversion of the Gentiles to the church;\nwhich shall flourish for ever.\n\n9:1. I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the\nhinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the\nhead of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword:\nthere shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall\nflee of them shall not be delivered.\n\n9:2. Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them\nout: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.\n\n9:3. And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and\ntake them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my\neyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he\nshall bite them.\n\n9:4. And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I\ncommand the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon\nthem for evil, and not for good.\n\n9:5. And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it\nshall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise\nup as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.\n\n9:6. He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded his\nbundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth\nthem out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.\n\nHis ascension.... That is, his high throne.\u2014Ibid. His bundle.... That\nis, his church bound up together by the bands of one faith and\ncommunion.\n\n9:7. Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children\nof Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land\nof Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of\nCyrene?\n\nAs the children of the Ethiopians.... That is, as black as they, by\nyour iniquities.\n\n9:8. Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I\nwill destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly\ndestroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.\n\n9:9. For behold I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel\namong all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve: and there shall not a\nlittle stone fall to the ground.\n\n9:10. All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say:\nThe evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.\n\n9:11. In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is\nfallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and\nrepair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.\n\n9:12. That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations,\nbecause my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these\nthings.\n\n9:13. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall\novertake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed:\nand the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.\n\nShall overtake, etc.... By this is meant the great abundance of\nspiritual blessings; which, as it were, by a constant succession, shall\nenrich the church of Christ.\n\n9:14. And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel: and they\nshall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall\nplant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens,\nand eat the fruits of them. And I will plant them upon their own land:\nand I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given\nthem, saith the Lord thy God.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF ABDIAS\n\n\nABDIAS, whose name is interpreted THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, is believed\nto have prophesied about the same time as OSEE, JOEL, and AMOS: though\nsome of the Hebrews, who believe him to be the same with ACHAB\u2019s\nsteward, make him much more ancient. His prophecy is the shortest of\nany in number of words, but yields to none, says ST. JEROME, in the\nsublimity of mysteries. It contains but one chapter.\n\n\nAbdias Chapter 1\n\nThe destruction of Edom for their pride: and the wrongs they did to\nJacob: the salvation and victory of Israel.\n\n1:1. The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have\nheard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the\nnations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.\n\n1:2. Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art\nexceeding contemptible.\n\n1:3. The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the\nclefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in\nthy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?\n\n1:4. Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest\namong the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.\n\n1:5. If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst\nthou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had\nenough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have\nleft thee at the least a cluster?\n\n1:6. How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden\nthings?\n\n1:7. They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy\nconfederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed\nagainst thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee:\nthere is no wisdom in him.\n\n1:8. Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of\nEdom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?\n\n1:9. And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be\ncut off from the mount of Esau.\n\n1:10. For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother\nJacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.\n\n1:11. In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried\naway his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast\nlots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.\n\n1:12. But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day\nof his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the\nchildren of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not\nmagnify thy mouth in the day of distress.\n\nThou shalt not look, etc.... or, thou shouldst not, etc. It is a\nreprehension for what they had done, and at the same time a declaration\nthat these things should not pass unpunished.\u2014Ibid. Thou shalt not\nmagnify thy mouth.... That is, thou shalt not speak arrogantly against\nthe children of Juda as insulting them in their distress.\n\n1:13. Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of\ntheir ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of\nhis calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the\nday of his desolation.\n\n1:14. Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee:\nand thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of\ntribulation.\n\n1:15. For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast\ndone, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own\nhead.\n\n1:16. For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall\ndrink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be\nas though they were not.\n\n1:17. And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and\nthe house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.\n\n1:18. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a\nflame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in\nthem, and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house\nof Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n1:19. And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of\nEsau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall\npossess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and\nBenjamin shall possess Galaad.\n\n1:20. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the\nplaces of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of\nJerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south.\n\n1:21. And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge the mount of\nEsau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF JONAS\n\n\nJONAS prophesied in the reign of JEREBOAM the second: as we learn from\n4 Kings 14.25. To whom also he foretold his success in restoring all\nthe borders of Israel. He was of GETH OPHER in the tribe of ZABULON,\nand consequently of GALILEE: which confutes that assertion of the\nPharisees, John 7.52, that no prophet ever rose out of GALILEE. He\nprophesied and prefigured in his own person the death and resurrection\nof CHRIST: and was the only one among the prophets that was sent to\npreach to the Gentiles.\n\n\nJonas Chapter 1\n\nJonas being sent to preach in Ninive, fleeth away by sea: a tempest\nriseth: of which he being found, by lot, to be the cause, is cast into\nthe sea, which thereupon is calmed.\n\n1:1. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas, the son of Amathi, saying:\n\n1:2. Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the\nwickedness thereof is come up before me.\n\nNineve.... The capital city of the Assyrian empire.\n\n1:3. And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord,\nand he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he\npaid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to\nTharsis from the face of the Lord,\n\nTharsis.... Which some take to be Tharsus of Cilicia, others to be\nTartessus of Spain, others to be Carthage.\n\n1:4. But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea: and a great tempest\nwas raised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.\n\n1:5. And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried to their god: and\nthey cast forth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to\nlighten it of them: and Jonas went down into the inner part of the\nship, and fell into a deep sleep.\n\nA deep sleep.... This is a lively image of the insensibility of\nsinners, fleeing from God, and threatened on every side with his\njudgments: and yet sleeping as if they were secure.\n\n1:6. And the ship master came to him and said to him: Why art thou fast\nasleep? rise up call upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us\nthat we may not perish.\n\n1:7. And they said every one to his fellow: Come and let us cast lots,\nthat we may know why this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the\nlot fell upon Jonas.\n\n1:8. And they said to him: Tell us for what cause this evil is upon us,\nwhat is thy business? of what country art thou? and whither goest thou?\nor of what people art thou?\n\n1:9. And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God\nof heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.\n\n1:10. And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast\nthou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the\nLord: because he had told them.)\n\n1:11. And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea\nmay be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.\n\n1:12. And he said to them: take me up, and cast me into the sea, and\nthe sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great\ntempest is upon you.\n\n1:13. And the men rowed hard to return to land, but they were not able:\nbecause the sea tossed and swelled upon them.\n\n1:14. And they cried to the Lord, and said: We beseech thee, O Lord let\nus not perish for this man\u2019s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood:\nfor thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.\n\n1:15. And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea\nceased from raging.\n\n1:16. And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and sacrificed victims\nto the Lord, and made vows.\n\n\nJonas Chapter 2\n\nJonas is swallowed up by a great fish: he prayeth with confidence in\nGod; and the fish casteth him out on the dry land.\n\n2:1. Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas\nwas in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.\n\n2:2. And Jonas prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the\nfish.\n\n2:3. And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he\nheard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my\nvoice.\n\n2:4. And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the\nsea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have\npassed over me.\n\n2:5. And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I\nshall see thy holy temple again.\n\n2:6. The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath\nclosed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.\n\n2:7. I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the\nearth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from\ncorruption, O Lord, my God.\n\n2:8. When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord:\nthat my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.\n\n2:9. They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.\n\n2:10. But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay\nwhatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.\n\n2:11. And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the\ndry land.\n\nSpoke to the fish.... God\u2019s speaking to the fish, was nothing else but\nhis will, which all things obey.\n\n\nJonas Chapter 3\n\nJonas is sent again to preach in Ninive. Upon their fasting and\nrepentance, God recalleth the sentence by which they were to be\ndestroyed.\n\n3:1. And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time saying:\n\n3:2. Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the\npreaching that I bid thee.\n\n3:3. And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the\nLord: now Ninive was a great city of three days\u2019 journey.\n\nOf three days\u2019 journey.... By the computation of some ancient\nhistorians, Ninive was about fifty miles round: so that to go through\nall the chief streets and public places was three days\u2019 journey.\n\n3:4. And Jonas began to enter into the city one day\u2019s journey: and he\ncried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.\n\n3:5. And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast,\nand put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.\n\n3:6. And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his\nthrone, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth,\nand sat in ashes.\n\n3:7. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from\nthe mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor\nbeasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink\nwater.\n\n3:8. And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the\nLord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil\nway, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.\n\n3:9. Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away\nfrom his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?\n\n3:10. And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil\nway: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that\nhe would do to them, and he did it not.\n\n\nJonas Chapter 4\n\n4:1. And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:\n\nWas exceedingly troubled, etc.... His concern was lest he should pass\nfor a false prophet; or rather, lest God\u2019s word, by this occasion,\nmight come to be slighted and disbelieved.\n\n4:2. And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is\nnot this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I\nwent before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious\nand merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive\nevil.\n\n4:3. And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is\nbetter for me to die than to live.\n\n4:4. And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?\n\n4:5. Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of\nthe city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the\nshadow, till he might see what would befall the city.\n\n4:6. And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of\nJonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was\nfatigued): and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy.\n\nThe Lord God prepared an ivy.... Hederam. In the Hebrew it is Kikajon,\nwhich some render a gourd: others a palmerist, or palma Christi.\n\n4:7. But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following\nday: and it struck the ivy and it withered.\n\n4:8. And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning\nwind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the\nheat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is\nbetter for me to die than to live.\n\n4:9. And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be\nangry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto\ndeath.\n\n4:10. And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou\nhast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and\nin one night perished.\n\n4:11. And shall I not spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are\nmore than a hundred and twenty thousand persons, that know not how to\ndistinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF MICHEAS\n\n\nMICHEAS, of Morasti, a little town in the tribe of JUDA, was\ncontemporary with the prophet ISAIAS: whom he resembles both in his\nspirit and his style. He is different from the prophet MICHEAS\nmentioned in the third book of Kings, chap. 22. For that MICHEAS lived\nin the days of king ACHAB, one hundred and fifty years before the time\nof EZECHIAS, under whom this MICHEAS prophesied.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 1\n\nSamaria for her sins shall be destroyed by the Assyrians; they shall\nalso invade Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Micheas, the Morasthite, in the\ndays of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw\nconcerning Samaria and Jerusalem.\n\n1:2. Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give ear, and all that is\ntherein: and let the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from his\nholy temple.\n\n1:3. For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will\ncome down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.\n\n1:4. And the mountains shall be melted under him: and the valleys shall\nbe cleft, as wax before the fire, and as waters that run down a steep\nplace.\n\n1:5. For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the\nhouse of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria?\nand what are the high places of Juda? are they not Jerusalem?\n\n1:6. And I will make Samaria as a heap of stones in the field when a\nvineyard is planted: and I will bring down the stones thereof into the\nvalley, and will lay her foundations bare.\n\n1:7. And all her graven things shall be cut in pieces, and all her\nwages shall be burnt with fire, and I will bring to destruction all her\nidols: for they were gathered together of the hire of a harlot, and\nunto the hire of a harlot they shall return.\n\nHer wages.... That is, her donaries or presents offered to her idols:\nor the hire of all her traffic and labour.\u2014Ibid. Of the hire of a\nharlot, etc.... They were gathered together by one idolatrous city,\nviz., Samaria: and they shall be carried away to another idolatrous\ncity, viz., Ninive.\n\n1:8. Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go stript and naked: I\nwill make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the\nostriches.\n\n1:9. Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda,\nit hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.\n\nIt hath touched the gate, etc.... That is, the destruction of Samaria\nshall be followed by the invasion of my people of Juda, and the\nAssyrians shall come and lay all waste even to the confines of\nJerusalem.\n\n1:10. Declare ye it not in Geth, weep ye not with tears: in the house\nof Dust sprinkle yourselves with dust.\n\nDeclare ye it not in Geth.... Viz., amongst the Philistines, lest they\nrejoice at your calamity.\u2014Ibid. Weep ye not, etc.... Keep in your\ntears, that you may not give your enemies an occasion of insulting over\nyou; but in your own houses, or in your house of dust, your earthly\nhabitation, sprinkle yourselves with dust, and put on the habit of\npenitents. Some take the house of dust (in Hebrew, Aphrah) to be the\nproper name of a city.\n\n1:11. And pass away, O thou that dwellest in the beautiful place,\ncovered with thy shame: she went not forth that dwelleth in the\nconfines: the house adjoining shall receive mourning from you, which\nstood by herself.\n\nThou that dwellest in the Beautiful place, viz., in Samaria. In the\nHebrew the Beautiful place is expressed by the word Sapir, which some\ntake for the proper name of a city.\u2014Ibid. She went not forth,\netc. ... that is, they that dwelt in the confines came not forth, but\nkept themselves within, for fear.\u2014Ibid. The house adjoining, etc....\nViz., Judea and Jerusalem, neighbours to Samaria, and partners in her\nsins, shall share also in her mourning and calamity; though they have\npretended to stand by themselves, trusting in their strength.\n\n1:12. For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for\nevil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem.\n\nShe is become weak, etc.... Jerusalem is become weak unto any good;\nbecause she dwells in the bitterness of sin.\n\n1:13. A tumult of chariots hath astonished the inhabitants of Lachis:\nit is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Sion for in thee were\nfound the crimes of Israel.\n\nIt is the beginning, etc.... That is, Lachis was the first city of Juda\nthat learned from Samaria the worship of idols, and communicated it to\nJerusalem.\n\n1:14. Therefore shall she send messengers to the inheritance of Geth:\nthe houses of lying to deceive the kings of Israel.\n\nTherefore shall she send, etc.... Lachis shall send to Geth for help:\nbut in vain: for Geth, instead of helping, shall be found to be a house\nof lying and deceit to Israel.\n\n1:15. Yet will I bring an heir to thee that dwellest in Maresa: even to\nOdollam shall the glory of Israel come.\n\nAn heir, etc.... Maresa (which was the name of a city of Juda)\nsignifies inheritance: but here God by his prophet tells the Jews, that\nhe will bring them an heir to take possession of their inheritance: and\nthat the glory of Israel shall be obliged to give place, and to retire\neven to Odollam, a city in the extremity of their dominions. And\ntherefore he exhorts them to penance in the following verse.\n\n1:16. Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge\nthy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from\nthee.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 2\n\nThe Israelites by their crying injustices provoke God to punish them.\nHe shall at last restore Jacob.\n\n2:1. Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil\nin your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand\nis against God.\n\n2:2. And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and\nhouses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his\nhouse, a man and his inheritance.\n\n2:3. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against\nthis family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you\nshall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.\n\n2:4. In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall\nbe sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled:\nthe portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me,\nwhereas he is returning that will divide our land?\n\nHow shall he depart, etc.... How do you pretend to say that the\nAssyrian is departing; when indeed he is coming to divide our lands\namongst his subjects?\n\n2:5. Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot\nin the assembly of the Lord.\n\nThou shalt have none, etc.... Thou shalt have no longer any lot or\ninheritance in the land of the people of the Lord.\n\n2:6. Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion\nshall not take them.\n\nIt shall not drop, etc.... That is, the prophecy shall not come upon\nthese. Such were the sentiments of the people that were unwilling to\nbelieve the threats of the prophets.\n\n2:7. The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or\nare these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh\nuprightly?\n\n2:8. But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have\ntaken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless\nyou have turned to war.\n\nYou have taken away, etc.... You have even stripped people of their\nnecessary garments: and have treated such as were innocently passing on\nthe way, as if they were at war with you.\n\n2:9. You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in\nwhich they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their\nchildren.\n\nYou have cast out, etc.... either by depriving them of their houses:\nor, by your crimes, given occasion to their being carried away\ncaptives, and their children, by that means, never learning to praise\nthe Lord.\n\n2:10. Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that\nuncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous\ncorruption.\n\n2:11. Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I\nrather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of\ndrunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.\n\nWould God, etc.... The prophet could have wished, out of his love to\nhis people, that he might be deceived in denouncing to them these evils\nthat were to fall upon them: but by conforming himself to the will of\nGod, he declares to them, that he is sent to prophesy, literally to let\ndrop upon them, the wine of God\u2019s indignation, with which they should\nbe made drunk; that is, stupified and cast down.\n\n2:12. I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will\nbring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a\nflock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall\nmake a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.\n\n2:13. For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they\nshall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and\ntheir king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 3\n\nFor the sins of the rich oppressing the poor, of false prophets\nflattering for lucre, and of judges perverting justice, Jerusalem and\nthe temple shall be destroyed.\n\n3:1. And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the\nhouse of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,\n\n3:2. You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their\nskins from them and their flesh from their bones?\n\n3:3. Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin\noff them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle,\nand as flesh in the midst of the pot.\n\n3:4. Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he\nwill hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved\nwickedly in their devices.\n\n3:5. Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people\nerr: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give\nnot something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.\n\n3:6. Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to\nyou instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets,\nand the day shall be darkened over them.\n\n3:7. And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners\nshall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because\nthere is no answer of God.\n\n3:8. But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord,\nwith judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to\nIsrael his sin.\n\n3:9. Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the\nhouse of Israel: you that abhor judgment and pervert all that is right.\n\n3:10. You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.\n\n3:11. Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught\nfor hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the\nLord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come\nupon us.\n\n3:12. Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and\nJerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple\nas the high places of the forests.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 4\n\nThe glory of the church of Christ, by the conversion of the Gentiles.\nThe Jews shall be carried captives to Babylon, and be delivered again.\n\n4:1. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of\nthe house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains,\nand high above the hills: and people shall flow to it.\n\n4:2. And many nations shall come in haste, and say: Come, let us go up\nto the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and\nhe will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the\nlaw shall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord out of\nJerusalem.\n\n4:3. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations\nafar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their\nspears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither\nshall they learn war anymore.\n\nNeither shall they learn, etc.... The law of Christ is a law of peace;\nand all his true subjects, as much as lies in them love and keep peace\nwith all the world.\n\n4:4. And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree,\nand there shall be none to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord\nof hosts hath spoken.\n\n4:5. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god: but we\nwill walk in the name of the Lord, our God, for ever and ever.\n\n4:6. In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather up her that halteth:\nand her that I had cast out, I will gather up: and her whom I had\nafflicted.\n\n4:7. And I will make her that halted, a remnant: and her that had been\nafflicted, a mighty nation: and the Lord will reign over them in Mount\nSion, from this time now and forever.\n\n4:8. And thou, O cloudy tower of the flock, of the daughter of Sion,\nunto thee shall it come: yea the first power shall come, the kingdom to\nthe daughter of Jerusalem.\n\n4:9. Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in\nthee, or is thy counselor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a\nwoman in labour.\n\n4:10. Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that\nbringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell\nin the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be\ndelivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy\nenemies.\n\n4:11. And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they\nsay: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.\n\n4:12. But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and have not\nunderstood his counsel: because he hath gathered them together as the\nhay of the floor.\n\n4:13. Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn\niron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces\nmany peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and\ntheir strength to the Lord of the whole earth.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 5\n\nThe birth of Christ in Bethlehem: his reign and spiritual conquests.\n\n5:1. Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have\nlaid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the\njudge of Israel.\n\nDaughter of the robber.... Some understand this of Babylon; which\nrobbed and pillaged the temple of God: others understand it of\nJerusalem; by reason of the many rapines and oppressions committed\nthere.\n\n5:2. And thou Bethlehem Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands\nof Juda, out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the\nruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the\ndays of eternity.\n\nHis going forth, etc.... That is, he who as man shall be born in thee,\nas God was born of his Father from all eternity.\n\n5:3. Therefore will he give them up even till the time wherein she that\ntravaileth shall bring forth: and the remnant of his brethren shall be\nconverted to the children of Israel.\n\n5:4. And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the\nheight of the name of the Lord, his God: and they shall be converted,\nfor now shall he be magnified even to the ends of the earth.\n\n5:5. And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into\nour land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall\nraise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.\n\nThe Assyrian.... That is, the persecutors of the church: who are here\ncalled Assyrians by the prophet: because the Assyrians were at that\ntime the chief enemies and persecutors of the people of God.\u2014Ibid.\nSeven shepherds, etc.... Viz., the pastors of God\u2019s church, and the\ndefenders of the faith. The number seven in scripture is taken to\nsignify many: and when eight is joined with it, we are to understand\nthat the number will be very great.\n\n5:6. And they shall feed the land of Assyria with the sword, and the\nland of Nemrod with the spears thereof: and he shall deliver us from\nthe Assyrian when he shall come into our land, and when he shall tread\nin our borders.\n\nThey shall feed, etc.... They shall make spiritual conquests in the\nlands of their persecutors, with the word of the spirit, which is the\nword of God. Eph. 6.17.\n\n5:7. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as\na dew from the Lord, and as drops upon the grass, which waiteth not for\nman, nor tarrieth for the children of men.\n\nThe remnant of Jacob.... Viz., the apostles, and the first preachers of\nthe Jewish nation; whose doctrine, like dew, shall make the plants of\nthe converted Gentiles grow up, without waiting for any man to\ncultivate them by human learning.\n\n5:8. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst\nof many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forests, and as a\nyoung lion among the flocks of sheep: who, when he shall go through,\nand tread down, and take there is none to deliver.\n\nAs a lion, etc.... This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers;\nand their success in their spiritual enterprises.\n\n5:9. Thy hand shall be lifted up over thy enemies, and all thy enemies\nshall be cut off.\n\n5:10. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I\nwill take away thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy\nthy chariots.\n\nI will take away thy horses, etc.... Some understand this, and all that\nfollows to the end of the chapter, as addressed to the enemies of the\nchurch. But it may as well be understood of the converts to the church:\nwho should no longer put their trust in any of these things.\n\n5:11. And I will destroy the cities of thy land, and will throw down\nall thy strong holds, and I will take away sorceries out of thy hand,\nand there shall be no divinations in thee.\n\n5:12. And I will destroy thy graven things, and thy statues, out of the\nmidst of thee: and thou shalt no more adore the works of thy hands.\n\n5:13. And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will\ncrush thy cities.\n\n5:14. And I will execute vengeance in wrath, and in indignation, among\nall the nations that have not given ear.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 6\n\nGod expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and sins: for\nwhich they shall be punished.\n\n6:1. Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment\nagainst the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.\n\nThe mountains, etc.... That is, the great ones, the princes of the\npeople.\n\n6:2. Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong\nfoundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with\nhis people, and he will plead against Israel.\n\n6:3. O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested\nthee? answer thou me.\n\n6:4. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee\nout of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and\nAaron, and Mary.\n\n6:5. O my people, remember, I pray thee, what Balach, the king of Moab,\npurposed: and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from Setim to\nGalgal, that thou mightest know the justice of the Lord.\n\nFrom Setim to Galgal.... He puts them in mind of the favour he did\nthem, in not suffering them to be quite destroyed by the evil purpose\nof Balach, and the wicked counsel of Balaam: and then gives them a hint\nof the wonders he wrought, in order to bring them into the land of\nPromise, by stopping the course of the Jordan, in their march from\nSetim to Galgal.\n\n6:6. What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I\nkneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and\ncalves of a year old?\n\nWhat shall I offer, etc.... This is spoken in the person of the people,\ndesiring to be informed what they are to do to please God.\n\n6:7. May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many\nthousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness,\nthe fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?\n\n6:8. I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth\nof thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk\nsolicitous with thy God.\n\n6:9. The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be\nto them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?\n\n6:10. As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures\nof iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.\n\nFull of wrath, etc.... That is, highly provoking in the sight of God.\n\n6:11. Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the\nbag?\n\n6:12. By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the\ninhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in\ntheir mouth.\n\n6:13. And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy\nsins.\n\n6:14. Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation\nshall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not\nsave: and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword.\n\n6:15. Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives,\nbut shalt not be anointed with the oil: and the new wine, but shalt not\ndrink the wine.\n\n6:16. For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the\nhouse of Achab: and thou hast walked according to their wills, that I\nshould make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing,\nand you shall bear the reproach of my people.\n\nThe statutes of Amri, etc.... The wicked ways of Amri and Achab,\nidolatrous kings.\n\n\nMicheas Chapter 7\n\nThe prophet laments, that notwithstanding all his preaching, the\ngenerality are still corrupt in their manners: therefore their\ndesolation is at hand: but they shall be restored again and prosper;\nand all mankind shall be redeemed by Christ.\n\n7:1. Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the\ngrapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the\nfirst ripe figs.\n\n7:2. The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none\nupright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth\nhis brother to death.\n\n7:3. The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and\nthe judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of\nhis soul, and they have troubled it.\n\n7:4. He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is\nrighteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy\nvisitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.\n\n7:5. Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of\nthy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.\n\n7:6. For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up\nagainst her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and\na man\u2019s enemies are they of his own household.\n\n7:7. But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God, my saviour:\nmy God will hear me.\n\n7:8. Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall\narise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.\n\n7:9. I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against\nhim: until he judge my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will\nbring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.\n\n7:10. And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame,\nwho saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down\nupon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the\nstreets.\n\nShe shall be covered, etc.... Viz., Babylon my enemy.\n\n7:11. The day shall come, that thy walls may be built up: in that day\nshall the law be far removed.\n\nThe law.... Viz., of thy enemies, who have tyrannized over thee.\n\n7:12. In that day they shall come even from Assyria to thee, and to the\nfortified cities: and from the fortified cities even to the river, and\nfrom sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.\n\n7:13. And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants\nthereof, and for the fruit of their devices.\n\nThe land, etc.... Viz., of Babylon.\n\n7:14. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them\nthat dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed\nin Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old.\n\n7:15. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt, I\nwill shew him wonders.\n\n7:16. The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their\nstrength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be\ndeaf.\n\n7:17. They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of\nthe earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread\nthe Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.\n\n7:18. Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest\nby the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in\nno more, because he delighteth in mercy.\n\n7:19. He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our\niniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.\n\n7:20. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which\nthou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF NAHUM\n\n\nNAHUM, whose name signifies A COMFORTER, was a native of Elcese, or\nElcesai, supposed to be a little town in Galilee. He prophesied, after\nthe ten tribes were carried into captivity, and foretold the utter\ndestruction of Ninive, by the Babylonians and Medes: which happened in\nthe reign of JOSIAS.\n\n\nNahum Chapter 1\n\nThe majesty of God, his goodness to his people, and severity to his\nenemies.\n\n1:1. The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the\nElcesite.\n\n1:2. The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger,\nand hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is\nangry with his enemies.\n\n1:3. The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and\nacquit the guilty. The Lord\u2019s ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind,\nand clouds are the dust of his feet.\n\n1:4. He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers\nto be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanus\nfadeth away.\n\n1:5. The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and\nthe earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that\ndwell therein.\n\n1:6. Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall\nresist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out\nlike fire: and the rocks are melted by him.\n\n1:7. The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and\nknoweth them that hope in him.\n\n1:8. But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the\nplace thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.\n\nOf the place thereof.... Viz., of Ninive.\n\n1:9. What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end:\nthere shall not rise a double affliction.\n\n1:10. For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and\ndrinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.\n\n1:11. Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the\nLord, contriving treachery in his mind.\n\nShall come forth one, etc.... Some understand this of Sennacherib. But\nas his attempt against the people seems to have been prior to the\nprophecy of Nahum, we may better understand it of Holofernes.\n\n1:12. Thus saith the Lord: Though they were perfect: and many of them\nso, yet thus shall they be cut off, and he shall pass: I have afflicted\nthee, and I will afflict thee no more.\n\nThough they were perfect, etc.... That is, however strong or numerous\ntheir forces may be, they shall be cut off; and their prince or leader\nshall pass away and disappear.\n\n1:13. And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy\nback, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.\n\n1:14. And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no\nmore of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten\nthing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou\nart disgraced.\n\nWill give a commandment.... That is, a decree, concerning thee, O king\nof Ninive, thy seed shall fail, etc.\n\n1:15. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good\ntidings, and that preacheth peace: O Juda, keep thy festivals, and pay\nthy vows: for Belial shall no more pass through thee again, he is\nutterly cut off.\n\nBelial.... The wicked one, viz., the Assyrian.\n\n\nNahum Chapter 2\n\nGod sends his armies against Ninive to destroy it.\n\n2:1. He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep\nthe siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power\nexceedingly.\n\n2:2. For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of\nIsrael: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred\ntheir vine branches.\n\nHath rendered the pride of Jacob, etc.... He hath punished Jacob for\nhis pride; and therefore Ninive must not expect to escape. Or else,\nrendering the pride of Jacob means rewarding, that is, punishing Ninive\nfor the pride they exercised against Jacob.\n\n2:3. The shield of his mighty men is like fire, the men of the army are\nclad in scarlet, the reins of the chariot are flaming in the day of his\npreparation, and the drivers are stupefied.\n\nOf his mighty men, etc.... He speaks of the Chaldeans and Medes sent to\ndestroy Ninive.\u2014Ibid. Stupefied.... consopiti. That is, they drive on\nfuriously like men intoxicated with wine.\n\n2:4. They are in confusion in the ways, the chariots jostle one against\nanother in the streets: their looks are like torches, like lightning\nrunning to and fro.\n\n2:5. He will muster up his valiant men, they shall stumble in their\nmarch: they shall quickly get upon the walls thereof: and a covering\nshall be prepared.\n\nStumble in their march.... By running hastily on.\n\n2:6. The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down\nto the ground.\n\n2:7. And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led\naway mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.\n\n2:8. And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool: but the men\nflee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return\nback.\n\n2:9. Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for\nthere is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture.\n\n2:10. She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the\nknees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of\nthem all are as the blackness of a kettle.\n\n2:11. Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of\nthe young lions, to which the lion went, to enter in thither, the young\nlion, and there was none to make them afraid?\n\n2:12. The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his\nlionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.\n\n2:13. Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will\nburn thy chariots even to smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young\nlions: and I will cut off thy prey out of the land, and the voice of\nthy messengers shall be heard no more.\n\n\nNahum Chapter 3\n\nThe miserable destruction of Ninive.\n\n3:1. Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence:\nrapine shall not depart from thee.\n\n3:2. The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the\nwheels, and of the neighing horse; and of the running chariot, and of\nthe horsemen coming up,\n\n3:3. And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a\nmultitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of\ncarcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies.\n\n3:4. Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that\nwas beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold\nnations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts.\n\n3:5. Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will\ndiscover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the\nnations, and thy shame to kingdoms.\n\n3:6. And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee,\nand will make an example of thee.\n\n3:7. And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee,\nshall flee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall\nbemoan thee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?\n\n3:8. Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among\nthe rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches: the\nwaters are its walls.\n\nPopulous Alexandria.... No-Ammon. A populous city of Egypt destroyed by\nthe Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and called\nAlexandria. Others suppose No-Ammon to be the same as Diospolis.\n\n3:9. Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end:\nAfrica and the Libyans were thy helpers.\n\n3:10. Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young\nchildren were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they\ncast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.\n\n3:11. Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk, and shalt be despised:\nand thou shalt seek help from the enemies.\n\n3:12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green\nfigs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.\n\n3:13. Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of\nthy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour\nthy bars.\n\n3:14. Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the\nclay, and tread, work it and make brick.\n\n3:15. There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword,\nit shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the\nbruchus, make thyself many like the locust.\n\n3:16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises above the stars of heaven:\nthe bruchus hath spread himself and flown away.\n\n3:17. Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the\nlocusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the\nsun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they\nwere.\n\nLocusts of locusts.... The young locusts.\n\n3:18. Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of Assyria, thy princes\nshall be buried: thy people are hid in the mountains, and there is none\nto gather them.\n\n3:19. Thy destruction is not hidden, thy wound is grievous: all that\nhave heard the fame of thee, have clapped their hands over thee: for\nupon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF HABACUC\n\n\nHABACUC was a native of Bezocher, and prophesied in JUDA, some time\nbefore the invasion of the CHALDEANS, which he foretold. He lived to\nsee this prophecy fulfilled, and for many years after, according to the\ngeneral opinion, which supposes him to be the same that was brought by\nthe ANGEL to DANIEL in BABYLON, Dan. 14.\n\n\nHabacuc Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet complains of the wickedness of the people: God reveals to\nhim the vengeance he is going to take of them by the Chaldeans.\n\n1:1. The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.\n\nBurden.... Such prophecies more especially are called burdens, as\nthreaten grievous evils and punishments.\n\n1:2. How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry\nout to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?\n\n1:3. Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and\ninjustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more\npowerful.\n\n1:4. Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to\nthe end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore\nwrong judgment goeth forth.\n\n1:5. Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished:\nfor a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it\nshall be told.\n\n1:6. For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift\nnation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling\nplaces that are not their own.\n\n1:7. They are dreadful, and terrible: from themselves shall their\njudgment, and their burden proceed.\n\n1:8. Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening\nwolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen\nshall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to\neat.\n\n1:9. They shall all come to the prey, their face is like a burning\nwind: and they shall gather together captives as the sand.\n\n1:10. And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall be\nhis laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall\ncast up a mount, and shall take it.\n\n1:11. Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall:\nthis is his strength of his god.\n\nThen shall his spirit, etc.... Viz., the spirit of the king of Babylon.\nIt alludes to the judgment of God upon Nabuchodonosor, recorded Dan.\n4., and to the speedy fall of the Chaldean empire.\n\n1:12. Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and\nwe shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made\nhim strong for correction.\n\n1:13. Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on\niniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest\nthy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than\nhimself?\n\n1:14. And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the\ncreeping things that have no ruler.\n\n1:15. He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag,\nand gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.\n\n1:16. Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will\nsacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and\nhis meat dainty.\n\n1:17. For this cause therefore he spreadeth his net, and will not spare\ncontinually to slay the nations.\n\n\nHabacuc Chapter 2\n\nThe prophet is admonished to wait with faith. The enemies of God\u2019s\npeople shall assuredly be punished.\n\n2:1. I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I\nwill watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to\nhim that reproveth me.\n\nWill stand, etc.... Waiting to see what the Lord will answer to my\ncomplaint, viz., that the Chaldeans, who are worse than the Jews, and\nwho attribute all their success to their own strength, or to their\nidols, should nevertheless prevail over the people of the Lord. The\nLord\u2019s answer is, that the prophet must wait with patience and faith:\nthat all should be set right in due time; and the enemies of God and\nhis people punished according to their deserts.\n\n2:2. And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it\nplain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.\n\n2:3. For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end,\nand shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall\nsurely come, and it shall not be slack.\n\n2:4. Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in\nhimself: but the just shall live in his faith.\n\n2:5. And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man\nbe, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like\nhell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will\ngather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all\npeople.\n\nAs wine deceiveth, etc.... Viz., by affording only a short passing\npleasure; followed by the evils and disgrace that are the usual\nconsequences of drunkenness; so shall it be with the proud enemies of\nthe people of God; whose success affordeth them only a momentary\npleasure, followed by innumerable and everlasting evils.\n\n2:6. Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark\nspeech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth\ntogether that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself\nwith thick clay?\n\nThick clay.... Ill-gotten goods, that, like mire, both burden and\ndefile the soul.\n\n2:7. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee: and they be\nstirred up that shall tear thee, and thou shalt be a spoil to them?\n\n2:8. Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all that shall be left of\nthe people shall spoil thee: because of men\u2019s blood, and for the\niniquity of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.\n\n2:9. Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his\nhouse, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered\nout of the hand of evil.\n\n2:10. Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many\npeople, and thy soul hath sinned.\n\n2:11. For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and the timber that is\nbetween the joints of the building, shall answer.\n\n2:12. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city\nby iniquity.\n\n2:13. Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall\nlabour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.\n\nAre not these things, etc.... That is, shall not these punishments that\nare here recorded, come from the Lord upon him that is guilty of such\ncrimes.\u2014Ibid. The people shall labour, etc.... Viz., the enemies of\nGod\u2019s people.\n\n2:14. For the earth shall be filled, that men may know the glory of the\nLord, as waters covering the sea.\n\n2:15. Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his\ngall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.\n\n2:16. Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and\nfall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass\nthee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.\n\n2:17. For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of\nbeasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity\nof the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.\n\nThe iniquity of Libanus.... That is, the iniquity committed by the\nChaldeans against the temple of God, signified here by the name of\nLibanus.\n\n2:18. What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath\ngraven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath\ntrusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.\n\n2:19. Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise:\ncan it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there\nis no spirit in the bowels thereof.\n\n2:20. But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep\nsilence before him.\n\n\nHabacuc Chapter 3\n\n3:1. A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET FOR IGNORANCES.\n\nFor ignorances.... That is, for the sins of his people. In the Hebrew,\nit is Sigionoth: which some take to signify a musical instrument, or\ntune; with which this sublime prayer and canticle was to be sung.\n\n3:2. O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy\nwork, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the\nyears thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember\nmercy.\n\nThy hearing, etc.... That is, thy oracles, the great and wonderful\nthings thou hast revealed to me; and I was struck with a reverential\nfear and awe.\u2014Ibid. Thy work.... The great work of the redemption of\nman, which thou wilt bring to life and light in the midst of the years,\nwhen our calamities and miseries shall be at their height.\n\n3:3. God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan:\nHis glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.\n\nGod will come from the south, etc.... God himself will come to give us\nhis law, and to conduct us into the true land of promise: as heretofore\nhe came from the South (in the Hebrew Theman) and from mount Pharan to\ngive his law to his people in the desert. See Deut. 33.2.\n\n3:4. His brightness shall be as the light: horns are in his hands:\nThere is his strength hid:\n\nHorns, etc.... That is, strength and power, which, by a Hebrew phrase,\nare called horns. Or beams of light, which come forth from his hands.\nOr it may allude to the cross, in the horns of which the hands of\nChrist were fastened, where his strength was hidden, by which he\novercame the world, and drove out death and the devil.\n\n3:5. Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth\nbefore his feet.\n\nDeath shall go before his face, etc.... Both death and the devil shall\nbe the executioners of his justice against his enemies: as they were\nheretofore against the Egyptians and Chanaanites.\n\n3:6. He stood and measured the earth. He beheld, and melted the\nnations: and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of\nthe world were bowed down by the journeys of his eternity.\n\nHe beheld, etc.... One look of his eye is enough to melt all the\nnations, and to reduce them to nothing. For all heaven and earth\ndisappear when they come before his light. Apoc. 20.11. Ibid. The\nancient mountains, etc.... By the mountains and hills are signified the\ngreat ones of the world, that persecute the church, whose power was\nquickly crushed by the Almighty.\n\n3:7. I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, the curtains of\nthe land of Madian shall be troubled.\n\nEthiopia.... the land of the Blacks, and Madian, are here taken for the\nenemies of God and his people: who shall perish for their iniquity.\n\n3:8. Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath upon\nthe rivers? or thy indignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy\nhorses: and thy chariots are salvation.\n\nWith the rivers, etc.... He alludes to the wonders wrought heretofore\nby the Lord in favour of his people Israel, when the waters of the\nrivers, viz., of Arnon and Jordan, and of the Red Sea, retired before\ntheir face: when he came as it were with his horses and chariots to\nsave them when he took up his bow for their defence, in consequence of\nthe oath he had made to their tribes: when the mountains trembled, and\nthe deep stood with its waves raised up in a heap, as with hands lifted\nup to heaven: when the sun and the moon stood still at his command,\netc., to comply with his anger, not against the rivers and sea, but\nagainst the enemies of his people. How much more will he do in favour\nof his Son: and against the enemies of his church?\n\n3:9. Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: according to the oaths which\nthou hast spoken to the tribes. Thou wilt divide the rivers of the\nearth.\n\n3:10. The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: the great body of\nwaters passed away. The deep put forth its voice: the deep lifted up\nits hands.\n\n3:11. The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the\nlight of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering\nspear.\n\n3:12. In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: in thy wrath\nthou wilt astonish the nations.\n\n3:13. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation\nwith thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked:\nthou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.\n\nThe head of the house of the wicked.... Such was Pharao heretofore:\nsuch shall Antichrist be hereafter.\n\n3:14. Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them\nthat came out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of\nhim that devoureth the poor man in secret.\n\n3:15. Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, in the mud of many\nwaters.\n\nThou madest a way in the sea, etc.... To deliver thy people from the\nEgyptian bondage: and thou shalt work the like wonders in the spiritual\nway, to rescue the children of the church from their enemies.\n\n3:16. I have heard and my bowels were troubled: my lips trembled at the\nvoice. Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me. That I\nmay rest in the day of tribulation: that I may go up to our people that\nare girded.\n\nI have heard, etc.... Viz., the evils that are now coming upon the\nIsraelites for their sins; and that shall come hereafter upon all\nimpenitent sinners; and the foresight that I have of these miseries\nmakes me willing to die, that I may be at rest, before this general\ntribulation comes, in which all good things shall be withdrawn from the\nwicked.\u2014Ibid. That I may go up to our people, etc.... That I may join\nthe happy company in the bosom of Abraham, that are girded, that is,\nprepared for their journey, by which they shall attend their Lord, when\nhe shall ascend into heaven. To which high and happy place, my Jesus,\nthat is, my Saviour, the great conqueror of death and hell, shall one\nday conduct me rejoicing and singing psalms of praise, ver. 18 and 19.\n\n3:17. For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring\nin the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields\nshall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and\nthere shall be no herd in the stalls.\n\n3:18. But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.\n\n3:19. The Lord God is my strength: and he will make my feet like the\nfeet of harts: and he the conqueror will lead me upon my high places\nsinging psalms.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF SOPHONIAS\n\n\nSOPHONIAS, whose name, saith St. Jerome, signifies The Watchman of the\nLord, or The hidden of the Lord, prophesied in the beginning of the\nreign of Josias. He was a native of Sarabatha, and of the tribe of\nSimeon, according to the more general opinion. He prophesied the\npunishments of the Jews, for their idolatry and other crimes; also the\npunishments that were to come on divers nations; the coming of Christ,\nthe conversion of the Gentiles, the blindness of the Jews, and their\nconversion towards the end of the world.\n\n\nSophonias Chapter 1\n\nFor divers enormous sins, the kingdom of Juda is threatened with severe\njudgment.\n\n1:1. The word of the Lord that came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, the\nson of Godolias, the son of Amarias, the son of Ezechias, in the days\nof Josias, the son of Amon king of Juda.\n\n1:2. Gathering, I will gather together all things from off the face of\nthe land, saith the Lord:\n\nGathering, I will gather, etc.... That is, I will assuredly take away,\nand wholly consume, either by captivity, or death, both men and beasts\nout of this land.\n\n1:3. I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air,\nand the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I\nwill destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord.\n\n1:4. And I will stretch out my hand upon Juda, and upon all the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem: and I will destroy out of this place the\nremnant of Baal, and the names of the wardens of the temples with the\npriests:\n\nThe wardens, etc.... Viz., of the temples of the idols. AEdituos, in\nHebrew, the Chemarims, that is, such as kindle the fires, or burn\nincense.\n\n1:5. And them that worship the host of heaven upon the tops of houses,\nand them that adore, and swear by the Lord, and swear by Melchom.\n\nMelchom.... The idol of the Ammonites.\n\n1:6. And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that\nhave not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.\n\n1:7. Be silent before the face of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord\nis near, for the Lord hath prepared a victim, he hath sanctified his\nguests.\n\n1:8. And it shall come to pass in the day of the victim of the Lord,\nthat I will visit upon the princes, and upon the king\u2019s sons, and upon\nall such as are clothed with strange apparel:\n\n1:9. And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth\narrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord\ntheir God with iniquity and deceit.\n\n1:10. And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a\ncry from the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great\ndestruction from the hills.\n\nThe Second.... A part of the city so called.\n\n1:11. Howl, ye inhabitants of the Morter. All the people of Chanaan is\nhush, all are cut off that were wrapped up in silver.\n\nThe Morter.... Maktesh. A valley in or near Jerusalem. Ibid. The people\nof Chanaan.... So he calls the Jews, from their following the wicked\nways of the Chanaanites.\n\n1:12. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search\nJerusalem with lamps, and will visit upon the men that are settled on\ntheir lees: that say in their hearts: The Lord will not do good, nor\nwill he do evil.\n\nSettled on their lees.... That is, the wealthy, and such as live at\ntheir ease, resting upon their riches, like wine upon the lees.\n\n1:13. And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a\ndesert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and\nthey shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.\n\n1:14. The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and exceeding\nswift: the voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man shall\nthere meet with tribulation.\n\n1:15. That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a\nday of calamity and misery, a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of\nclouds and whirlwinds,\n\n1:16. A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and\nagainst the high bulwarks.\n\n1:17. And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men,\nbecause they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be\npoured out as earth, and their bodies as dung.\n\n1:18. Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them\nin the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by\nthe fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction\nof all them that dwell in the land.\n\n\nSophonias Chapter 2\n\nAn exhortation to repentance. The judgment of the Philistines, of the\nMoabites, and the Ammonites; of the Ethiopians and the Assyrians.\n\n2:1.Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not\nworthy to be loved:\n\n2:2. Before the decree bring forth the day as dust passing away, before\nthe fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the\nLord\u2019s indignation come upon you.\n\n2:3. Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, you that have wrought his\njudgment: seek the just, seek the meek: if by any means you may be hid\nin the day of the Lord\u2019s indignation.\n\n2:4. For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be a desert, they\nshall cast out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up.\n\n2:5. Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O nation of reprobates: the\nword of the Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and\nI will destroy thee, so that there shall not be an inhabitant.\n\n2:6. And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and\nfolds for cattle:\n\n2:7. And it shall be the portion of him that shall remain of the house\nof Juda, there they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall\nrest in the evening: because the Lord their God will visit them, and\nbring back their captivity.\n\n2:8. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the\nchildren of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have\nmagnified themselves upon their borders.\n\n2:9. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel,\nMoab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the\ndryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the\nremnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my\nnation shall possess them.\n\n2:10. This shall befall them for their pride: because they have\nblasphemed, and have been magnified against the people of the Lord of\nhosts.\n\n2:11. The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the\ngods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own\nplace, all the islands of the Gentiles.\n\n2:12. You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my sword.\n\n2:13. And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy\nAssyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a\nplace not passable, and as a desert.\n\nThe beautiful city, viz.... Ninive, which was destroyed soon after\nthis, viz., in the sixteenth year of the reign of Josias.\n\n2:14. And flocks shall lie down in the midst thereof, all the beasts of\nthe nations: and the bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the\nthreshold thereof: the voice of the singing bird in the window, the\nraven on the upper post, for I will consume her strength.\n\n2:15. This is the glorious city that dwelt in security: that said in\nher heart: I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a\ndesert, a place for beasts to lie down in? every one that passeth by\nher shall hiss, and wag his hand.\n\n\nSophonias Chapter 3\n\nA woe to Jerusalem for her sins. A prophecy of the conversion of the\nGentiles, and of the poor of Israel: God shall be with them. The Jews\nshall be converted at last.\n\n3:1. Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove.\n\n3:2. She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received\ndiscipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her\nGod.\n\n3:3. Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges\nare evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.\n\n3:4. Her prophets are senseless, men without faith: her priests have\npolluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.\n\n3:5. The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in\nthe morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it\nshall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame.\n\n3:6. I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I\nhave made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by:\ntheir cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any\ninhabitant.\n\n3:7. I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction:\nand her dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have\nvisited her: but they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.\n\n3:8. Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord, in the day of my resurrection\nthat is to come, for my judgment is to assemble the Gentiles, and to\ngather the kingdoms: and to pour upon them my indignation, all my\nfierce anger: for with the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be\ndevoured.\n\n3:9. Because then I will restore to the people a chosen lip, that all\nmay call upon the name of the Lord, and may serve him with one\nshoulder.\n\n3:10. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, shall my suppliants, the\nchildren of my dispersed people, bring me an offering.\n\n3:11. In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein\nthou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the\nmidst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up\nbecause of my holy mountain.\n\n3:12. And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people:\nand they shall hope in the name of the Lord.\n\n3:13. The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor\nshall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed,\nand shall lie down, and there shall be none to make them afraid.\n\n3:14. Give praise, O daughter of Sion: shout, O Israel: be glad, and\nrejoice with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.\n\n3:15. The Lord hath taken away thy judgment, he hath turned away thy\nenemies: the king of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee, thou\nshalt fear evil no more.\n\n3:16. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion: Let\nnot thy hands be weakened.\n\n3:17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he\nwill rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he\nwill be joyful over thee in praise.\n\n3:18. The triflers that were departed from the law, I will gather\ntogether, because they were of thee: that thou mayest no more suffer\nreproach for them.\n\n3:19. Behold I will cut off all that have afflicted thee at that time:\nand I will save her that halteth, and will gather her that was cast\nout: and I will get them praise, and a name, in all the land where they\nhad been put to confusion.\n\n3:20. At that time, when I will bring you: and at the time that I will\ngather you: for I will give you a name, and praise among all the people\nof the earth, when I shall have brought back your captivity before your\neyes, saith the Lord.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF AGGEUS\n\n\nAGGEUS was one of those that returned from the captivity of Babylon, in\nthe first year of the reign of king Cyrus. He was sent by the Lord, in\nthe second year of the reign of king Darius, the son of Hystaspes, to\nexhort Zorobabel the prince of Juda, and Jesus the high priest, to the\nbuilding of the temple; which they had begun, but left off again\nthrough the opposition of the Samaritans. In consequence of this\nexhortation they proceeded in the building and finished the temple. And\nthe prophet was commissioned by the Lord to assure them that this\nsecond temple should be more glorious than the former, because the\nMessiah should honour it with his presence: signifying withal how much\nthe church of the New Testament should excel that of the Old Testament.\n\n\nAggeus Chapter 1\n\nThe people are reproved for neglecting to build the temple. They are\nencouraged to set about the work.\n\n1:1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the\nfirst day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus\nthe prophet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, governor of Juda, and\nto Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, saying:\n\n1:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time\nis not yet come for building the house of the Lord.\n\n1:3. And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet,\nsaying:\n\n1:4. Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie\ndesolate?\n\n1:5. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider\nyour ways.\n\n1:6. You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but\nhave not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with\ndrink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he\nthat hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.\n\n1:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways:\n\n1:8. Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build the house: and it\nshall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, saith the Lord.\n\n1:9. You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you\nbrought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts?\nbecause my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own\nhouse.\n\n1:10. Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and\nthe earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:\n\n1:11. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains,\nand upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all\nthat the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon beasts, and upon\nall the labour of the hands.\n\n1:12. Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec\nthe high priest, and all the remnant of the people hearkened to the\nvoice of the Lord their God, and to the words of Aggeus the prophet, as\nthe Lord their God sent him to them: and the people feared before the\nLord.\n\n1:13. And Aggeus the messenger of the Lord, as one of the messengers of\nthe Lord, spoke, saying to the people: I am with you, saith the Lord.\n\n1:14. And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of\nSalathiel governor of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec\nthe high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people: and they\nwent in, and did the work in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God.\n\n\nAggeus Chapter 2\n\nChrist by his coming shall make the latter temple more glorious than\nthe former. The blessing of God shall reward their labour in building.\nGod\u2019s promise to Zorobabel.\n\n2:1. In the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in\nthe second year of Darius the king, they began.\n\n2:2. And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of\nAggeus the prophet, saying:\n\n2:3. Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and\nto Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the\npeople, saying:\n\n2:4. Who is left among you, that saw this house in its first glory? and\nhow do you see it now? is it not in comparison to that as nothing in\nyour eyes?\n\n2:5. Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and take\ncourage, Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and take courage,\nall ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: and perform (for I\nam with you, saith the Lord of hosts)\n\n2:6. The word that I covenanted with you when you came out of the land\nof Egypt: and my spirit shall be in the midst of you: fear not.\n\n2:7. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will\nmove the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.\n\n2:8. And I will move all nations: AND THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL\nCOME: and I will fill this house with glory: saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:9. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:10. Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the\nfirst, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace,\nsaith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:11. In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second\nyear of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Aggeus the\nprophet, saying:\n\n2:12. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:\n\n2:13. If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and\ntouch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat:\nshall it be sanctified? And the priests answered, and said: No.\n\n2:14. And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a soul\ntouch any of all these things, shall it be defiled? And the priests\nanswered, and said: It shall be defiled.\n\nBy occasion of a soul.... That is, by having touched the dead; in which\ncase, according to the prescription of the law, Num. 19.13, 22, a\nperson not only became unclean himself, but made every thing that he\ntouched unclean. The prophet applies all this to the people, whose\nsouls remained unclean by neglecting the temple of God; and therefore\nwere not sanctified by the flesh they offered in sacrifice: but rather\ndefiled their sacrifices by approaching to them in the state of\nuncleanness.\n\n2:15. And Aggeus answered, and said: So is this people, and so is this\nnation before my face, saith the Lord, and so is all the work of their\nhands: and all that they have offered there, shall be defiled.\n\n2:16. And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before\nthere was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.\n\n2:17. When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten:\nand you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they\nbecame twenty.\n\n2:18. I struck you with a blasting wind, and all the works of your hand\nwith the mildew and with hail, yet there was none among you that\nreturned to me, saith the Lord.\n\n2:19. Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the four\nand twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations\nof the temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in your hearts.\n\n2:20. Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree,\nand the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this\nday I will bless you.\n\n2:21. And the word of the Lord came a second time to Aggeus in the four\nand twentieth day of the month, saying:\n\n2:22. Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda, saying: I will move both\nheaven and earth.\n\n2:23. And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and will destroy the\nstrength of the kingdom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the\nchariot, and him that rideth therein: and the horses and their riders\nshall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.\n\n2:24. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee, O\nZorobabel the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will\nmake thee as a signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nO Zorobabel.... This promise principally relates to Christ, who was of\nthe race of Zorobabel.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF ZACHARIAS\n\n\nZACHARIAS began to prophesy in the same year as Aggeus, and upon the\nsame occasion. His prophecy is full of mysterious figures and promises\nof blessings, partly relating to the synagogue, and partly to the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet exhorts the people to return to God, and declares his\nvisions, by which he puts them in hopes of better times.\n\n1:1. In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word\nof the Lord came to Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo,\nthe prophet, saying:\n\n1:2. The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.\n\n1:3. And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye\nto me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord\nof hosts.\n\n1:4. Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried,\nsaying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and\nfrom your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they\nhearken to me, saith the Lord.\n\n1:5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live\nalways?\n\n1:6. But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my\nservants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they\nreturned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according\nto our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.\n\n1:7. In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month which is\ncalled Sabath, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came\nto Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet,\nsaying:\n\n1:8. I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he\nstood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom: and behind him\nwere horses, red, speckled, and white.\n\nA man.... An angel in the shape of a man. It was probably Michael, the\nguardian angel of the church of God.\n\n1:9. And I said: What are these, my Lord? and the angel that spoke in\nme, said to me: I will shew thee what these are:\n\n1:10. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said:\nThese are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.\n\nThese are they, etc.... The guardian angels of provinces and nations.\n\n1:11. And they answered the angel of the Lord, that stood among the\nmyrtle trees, and said: We have walked through the earth, and behold\nall the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.\n\n1:12. And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts,\nhow long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of\nJuda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.\n\nThe seventieth year.... Viz., from the beginning of the seige of\nJerusalem, in the ninth year of king Sedecias, to the second year of\nking Darius. These seventy years of the desolation of Jerusalem and the\ncities of Juda, are different from the seventy years of captivity\nforetold by Jeremias; which began in the fourth year of Joakim, and\nended in the first year of king Cyrus.\n\n1:13. And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words,\ncomfortable words.\n\n1:14. And the angel that spoke in me, said to me: Cry thou, saying:\nThus saith the Lord of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem, and Sion with\na great zeal.\n\n1:15. And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I\nwas angry a little, but they helped forward the evil.\n\n1:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in\nmercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and\nthe building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.\n\n1:17. Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: My cities shall\nyet flow with good things: and the Lord will yet comfort Sion, and he\nwill yet choose Jerusalem.\n\n1:18. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four horns.\n\nFour horns.... The four horns represent the empires, or kingdoms, that\npersecute and oppress the kingdom of God.\n\n1:19. And I said to the angel that spoke to me: What are these? And he\nsaid to me: These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel,\nand Jerusalem.\n\n1:20. And the Lord shewed me four smiths.\n\nFour smiths.... The four smiths, or carpenters ( for faber may signify\neither) represent those whom God makes his instruments in bringing to\nnothing the power of persecutors.\n\n1:21. And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying: These\nare the horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none of\nthem lifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down\nthe horns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of\nJuda to scatter it.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 2\n\nUnder the name of Jerusalem, he prophesieth the progress of the church\nof Christ, by the conversion of some Jews and many Gentiles.\n\n2:1. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a\nmeasuring line in his hand.\n\n2:2. And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure\nJerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great\nthe length thereof.\n\n2:3. And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another\nangel went out to meet him.\n\n2:4. And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying:\nJerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude\nof men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.\n\nJerusalem shall be inhabited without walls.... This must be understood\nof the spiritual Jerusalem, the church of Christ.\n\n2:5. And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about:\nand I will be in glory in the midst thereof.\n\n2:6. O, O flee ye out of the land of the north, saith the Lord, for I\nhave scattered you into the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.\n\n2:7. O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:\n\n2:8. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me\nto the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth\nthe apple of my eye:\n\n2:9. For behold, I lift up my hand upon them, and they shall be a prey\nto those that served them: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts\nsent me.\n\n2:10. Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter of Sion: for behold I come,\nand I will dwell in the midst of thee: saith the Lord.\n\n2:11. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and\nthey shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee: and\nthou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee.\n\n2:12. And the Lord shall possess Juda his portion in the sanctified\nland: and he shall yet choose Jerusalem.\n\n2:13. Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is\nrisen up out of his holy habitation.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 3\n\nIn a vision Satan appeareth accusing the high priest. He is cleansed\nfrom his sins. Christ is promised, and great fruit from his passion.\n\n3:1. And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the\nangel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his\nadversary.\n\nJesus.... Alias, Josue, the son of Josedec, the high priest of that\ntime.\n\n3:2. And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the\nLord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out\nof the fire?\n\n3:3. And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before\nthe face of the angel.\n\nWith filthy garments.... Negligences and sins.\n\n3:4. Who answered, and said to them that stood before him, saying: Take\naway the filthy garments from him. And he said to him: Behold I have\ntaken away thy iniquity, and have clothed thee with change of garments.\n\n3:5. And he said: Put a clean mitre upon his head: and they put a clean\nmitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the angel of\nthe Lord stood.\n\n3:6. And the angel of the Lord protested to Jesus, saying:\n\n3:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and\nkeep my charge, thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt keep my\ncourts, and I will give thee some of them that are now present here to\nwalk with thee.\n\nI will give thee, etc.... Angels to attend and assist thee.\n\n3:8. Hear, O Jesus thou high priest, thou and thy friends that dwell\nbefore thee, for they are portending men: for behold, I WILL BRING MY\nSERVANT THE ORIENT.\n\nPortending men.... That is, men, who by words and actions are to\nforeshew wonders that are to come.\u2014Ibid. My servant the Orient....\nChrist, who according to his humanity is the servant of God, is called\nthe Orient from his rising like the sun in the east to enlighten the\nworld.\n\n3:9. For behold the stone that I have laid before Jesus: upon one stone\nthere are seven eyes: behold I will grave the graving thereof, saith\nthe Lord of hosts: and I will take away the iniquity of that land in\none day.\n\nThe stone.... Another emblem of Christ, the rock, foundation, and\ncorner stone of his church.\u2014Ibid. Seven eyes.... The manifold\nprovidence of Christ over his church, or the seven gifts of the spirit\nof God.\u2014Ibid. One day.... Viz., the day of the passion of Christ, the\nsource of all our good: when this precious stone shall be graved, that\nis, cut and pierced, with whips, thorns, nails, and spear.\n\n3:10. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, every man shall call his\nfriend under the vine and under the fig tree.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 4\n\nThe vision of the golden candlestick and seven lamps, and of the two\nolive trees.\n\n4:1. And the angel that spoke in me came again: and he waked me, as a\nman that is wakened out of his sleep.\n\n4:2. And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I have looked, and\nbehold a candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and\nthe seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels for the lights that\nwere upon the top thereof.\n\nA candlestick, etc.... The temple of God that was then in building; and\nin a more sublime sense, the church of Christ.\n\n4:3. And two olive trees over it: one upon the right side of the lamp,\nand the other upon the left side thereof.\n\n4:4. And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying:\nWhat are these things, my lord?\n\n4:5. And the angel that spoke in me answered, and said to me: Knowest\nthou not what these things are? And I said: No, my lord.\n\n4:6. And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the\nLord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my\nspirit, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nTo Zorobabel.... This vision was in favour of Zorobabel: to assure him\nof success in the building of the temple, which he had begun, signified\nby the candlestick; the lamp of which, without any other industry, was\nsupplied with oil, dropping from the two olive trees, and distributed\nby the seven funnels or pipes, to maintain the seven lights.\n\n4:7. Who art thou, O great mountain, before Zorobabel? thou shalt\nbecome a plain: and he shall bring out the chief stone, and shall give\nequal grace to the grace thereof.\n\nGreat mountain.... So he calls the opposition made by the enemies of\nGod\u2019s people; which nevertheless, without an army or might on their\nside, was quashed by divine providence.\u2014Ibid. Shall give equal grace,\netc.... Shall add grace to grace, or beauty to beauty.\n\n4:8. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n4:9. The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundations of this house,\nand his hands shall finish it: and you shall know that the Lord of\nhosts hath sent me to you.\n\n4:10. For who hath despised little days? and they shall rejoice, and\nshall see the tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel. These are the seven\neyes of the Lord, that run to and fro through the whole earth.\n\nLittle days.... That is, these small and feeble beginnings of the\ntemple of God.\u2014Ibid. The tin plummet.... Literally, the stone of tin.\nHe means the builder\u2019s plummet, which Zorobabel shall hold in his hand\nfor the finishing the building.\u2014Ibid. The seven eyes.... The providence\nof God, that oversees and orders all things.\n\n4:11. And I answered, and said to him: What are these two olive trees\nupon the right side of the candlestick, and upon the left side thereof?\n\n4:12. And I answered again, and said to him: What are the two olive\nbranches, that are by the two golden beaks, in which are the funnels of\ngold?\n\n4:13. And he spoke to me, saying: Knowest thou not what these are? And\nI said: No, my lord.\n\n4:14. And he said: These are two sons of oil who stand before the Lord\nof the whole earth.\n\nTwo sons of oil.... That is, the two anointed ones of the Lord; viz.,\nJesus the high priest, and Zorobabel the prince.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 5\n\nThe vision of the flying volume, and of the woman in the vessel.\n\n5:1. And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume\nflying.\n\nA volume.... That is, a parchment, according to the form of the ancient\nbooks, which, from being rolled up, were called volumes.\n\n5:2. And he said to me: What seest thou? And I said: I see a volume\nflying: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof\nten cubits.\n\n5:3. And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the\nface of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written:\nand every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it.\n\n5:4. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come\nto the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth\nfalsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and\nshall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.\n\n5:5. And the angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift\nup thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth.\n\n5:6. And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth.\nAnd he said: This is their eye in all the earth.\n\nThis is their eye.... This is what they fix their eye upon: or this is\na resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners.\n\n5:7. And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman\nsitting in the midst of the vessel.\n\n5:8. And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of\nthe vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.\n\n5:9. And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two\nwomen, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings\nof a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the\nheaven.\n\n5:10. And I said to the angel that spoke in me: Whither do these carry\nthe vessel?\n\n5:11. And he said to me: That a house may be built for it in the land\nof Sennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own\nbasis.\n\nThe land of Sennaar.... Where Babel or Babylon was built, Gen. 11.,\nwhere note, that Babylon in holy writ is often taken for the city of\nthe devil: that is, for the whole congregation of the wicked: as\nJerusalem is taken for the city and people of God.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 6\n\nThe vision of the four chariots. Crowns are ordered for Jesus the high\npriest, as a type of Christ.\n\n6:1. And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold four\nchariots came out from the midst of two mountains: and the mountains\nwere mountains of brass.\n\nFour chariots.... The four great empires of the Chaldeans, Persians,\nGrecians, and Romans. Or perhaps by the fourth chariot are represented\nthe kings of Egypt and of Asia, the descendants of Ptolemeus and\nSeleucus.\n\n6:2. In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot\nblack horses.\n\n6:3. And in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot\ngrisled horses, and strong ones.\n\n6:4. And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me: What are\nthese, my lord?\n\n6:5. And the angel answered, and said to me: These are the four winds\nof the heaven, which go forth to stand before the Lord of all the\nearth.\n\n6:6. That in which were the black horses went forth into the land of\nthe north, and the white went forth after them: and the grisled went\nforth to the land of the south.\n\nThe land of the north.... So Babylon is called; because it lay to the\nnorth in respect of Jerusalem. The black horses, that is, the Medes and\nPersians: and after them Alexander and his Greeks, signified by the\nwhite horses, went thither because they conquered Babylon, executed\nupon it the judgments of God, which is signified, ver. 8, by the\nexpression of quieting his spirit.\u2014Ibid. The land of the south....\nEgypt, which lay to the south of Jerusalem, and was occupied first by\nPtolemeus, and then by the Romans.\n\n6:7. And they that were most strong, went out, and sought to go, and to\nrun to and fro through all the earth. And he said: Go, walk throughout\nthe earth: and they walked throughout the earth.\n\n6:8. And he called me, and spoke to me, saying: Behold they that go\nforth into the land of the north, have quieted my spirit in the land of\nthe north.\n\n6:9. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:\n\n6:10. Take of them of the captivity, of Holdai, and of Tobias, and of\nIdaias; thou shalt come in that day, and shalt go into the house of\nJosias, the son of Sophonias, who came out of Babylon.\n\n6:11. And thou shalt take gold and silver: and shalt make crowns, and\nthou shalt set them on the head of Jesus the son of Josedec, the high\npriest.\n\n6:12. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of\nhosts, saying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him\nshall he spring up, and shall build a temple to the Lord.\n\n6:13. Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the\nglory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a\npriest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them\nboth.\n\nBetween them both.... That is, he shall unite in himself the two\noffices or dignities of king and priest.\n\n6:14. And the crowns shall be to Helem, and Tobias, and Idaias, and to\nHem, the son of Sophonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord.\n\n6:15. And they that are far off, shall come and shall build in the\ntemple of the Lord: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me\nto you. But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will hear the voice\nof the Lord your God.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 7\n\nThe people inquire concerning fasting: they are admonished to fast from\nsin.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the\nword of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth\nmonth, which is Casleu.\n\n7:2. When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him,\nsent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:\n\n7:3. To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to\nthe prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I\nsanctify myself as I have now done for many years?\n\nThe fifth month.... They fasted on the tenth day of the fifth month;\nbecause on that day the temple was burnt. Therefore they inquire\nwhether they are to continue the fast, after the temple is rebuilt. See\nthis query answered in the 19th verse of the following chapter.\n\n7:4. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:\n\n7:5. Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying:\nWhen you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for\nthese seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?\n\n7:6. And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves,\nand drink for yourselves?\n\n7:7. Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the\nformer prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy,\nboth itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants\ntowards the south, and in the plain?\n\n7:8. And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:\n\n7:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and\nshew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.\n\n7:10. And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger,\nand the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his\nbrother.\n\n7:11. But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to\ndepart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.\n\n7:12. And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should\nhear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit\nby the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from\nthe Lord of hosts.\n\n7:13. And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so\nshall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n7:14. And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know\nnot: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed\nthrough or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a\nwilderness.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 8\n\nJoyful promises to Jerusalem: fully verified in the church of Christ.\n\n8:1. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:\n\n8:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been jealous for Sion with a\ngreat jealousy, and with a great indignation have I been jealous for\nher.\n\n8:3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will\ndwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city\nof truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified\nmountain.\n\n8:4. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old\nwomen dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff\nin his hand through multitude of days.\n\n8:5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls,\nplaying in the streets thereof.\n\n8:6. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the\nremnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes,\nsaith the Lord of hosts?\n\n8:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from\nthe land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.\n\n8:8. And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of\nJerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in\ntruth and in justice.\n\n8:9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strengthened, you\nthat hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, in\nthe day that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, that the\ntemple might be built.\n\n8:10. For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was\nthere hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor\nto him that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go\nevery one against his neighbour.\n\n8:11. But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people according\nto the former days, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n8:12. But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her\nfruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall\ngive their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess\nall these things.\n\n8:13. And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the\nGentiles, O house of Juda, and house of Israel: so will I save you, and\nyou shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be strengthened.\n\n8:14. For thus saith the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to afflict you,\nwhen your fathers had provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord,\n\n8:15. And I had no mercy: so turning again I have thought in these days\nto do good to the house of Juda, and Jerusalem: fear not.\n\n8:16. These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth\nevery one to his neighbour; judge ye truth and judgment of peace in\nyour gates.\n\n8:17. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his\nfriend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I\nhate, saith the Lord.\n\n8:18. And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:\n\n8:19. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and\nthe fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the\ntenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great\nsolemnities: only love ye truth and peace.\n\nThe fast of the fourth month, etc.... They fasted, on the ninth day of\nthe fourth month, because on that day Nabuchodonosor took Jerusalem,\nJer. 52.6. On the tenth day of the fifth month, because on that day the\ntemple was burnt, Jer. 52.12. On the third day of the seventh month,\nfor the murder of Godolias, Jer. 41.2. And on the tenth day of the\ntenth month, because on that day the Chaldeans began to besiege\nJerusalem, 4 Kings 25.1. All these fasts, if they will be obedient for\nthe future, shall be changed, as is here promised, into joyful\nsolemnities.\n\n8:20. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come and dwell in many\ncities,\n\n8:21. And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and\nentreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also\nwill go.\n\n8:22. And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord\nof hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.\n\n8:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of\nall languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the\nskirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have\nheard that God is with you.\n\nTen men, etc.... Many of the Gentiles became proselytes to the Jewish\nreligion before Christ: but many more were converted to Christ by the\napostles and other preachers of the Jewish nation.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 9\n\nGod will defend his church, and bring over even her enemies to the\nfaith. The meek coming of Christ, to bring peace, to deliver the\ncaptives by his blood, and to give us all good things.\n\n9:1. The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and of\nDamascus the rest thereof: for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of\nIsrael is the Lord\u2019s.\n\nHadrach.... Syria.\n\n9:2. Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they\nhave taken to themselves to be exceeding wise.\n\n9:3. And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together\nsilver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.\n\n9:4. Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength\nin the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.\n\n9:5. Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very\nsorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king\nshall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.\n\n9:6. And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride\nof the Philistines.\n\n9:7. And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his\nabominations from between his teeth: and even he shall be left to our\nGod, and he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.\n\nHis blood.... It is spoken of the Philistines, and particularly of\nAzotus, (where the temple of Dagon was,) and contains a prophecy of the\nconversion of that people from their bloody sacrifices and abominations\nto the worship of the true God.\n\n9:8. And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war,\ngoing and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them:\nfor now I have seen with my eyes.\n\nThat serve me in war.... Viz., the Machabees.\n\n9:9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of\nJerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he\nis poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.\n\n9:10. And I will destroy the chariot out of Ephraim, and the horse out\nof Jerusalem, and the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall speak\npeace to the Gentiles, and his power shall be from sea to sea, and from\nthe rivers even to the end of the earth.\n\n9:11. Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy\nprisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.\n\n9:12. Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render\nthee double as I declare today.\n\n9:13. Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim:\nand I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I\nwill make thee as the sword of the mighty.\n\nThy sons, O Sion, etc.... Viz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual\nway, conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ.\n\n9:14. And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go\nforth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in\nthe whirlwind of the south.\n\n9:15. The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and\nsubdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be\ninebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and\nas the horns of the altar.\n\n9:16. And the Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock\nof his people: for holy stones shall be lifted up over his land.\n\nHoly stones.... The apostles, who shall be as pillars and monuments in\nthe church.\n\n9:17. For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful\nthing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing forth virgins?\n\nThe corn, etc.... His most excellent gift is the blessed Eucharist,\ncalled here The corn, that is, the bread of the elect, and the wine\nspringing forth virgins; that is, maketh virgins to bud, or spring\nforth, as it were, like flowers among thorns; because it has a\nwonderful efficacy to give and preserve purity.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 10\n\nGod is to be sought to, and not idols. The victories of his church,\nwhich shall arise originally from the Jewish nation.\n\n10:1. Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will\nmake snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in\nthe field.\n\n10:2. For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners\nhave seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in\nvain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted,\nbecause they have no shepherd.\n\n10:3. My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit upon\nthe buck goats: for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock, the house\nof Juda, and hath made them as the horse of his glory in the battle.\n\n10:4. Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out\nof him the bow of battle, out of him ever exacter together.\n\n10:5. And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of\nthe ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with\nthem, and the riders of horses shall be confounded.\n\n10:6. And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of\nJoseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on\nthem: and they shall be as they were when I had not cast them off, for\nI am the Lord their God, and will hear them.\n\n10:7. And they shall be as the valiant men of Ephraim, and their heart\nshall rejoice as through wine: and their children shall see, and shall\nrejoice, and their heart shall be joyful in the Lord.\n\n10:8. I will whistle for them, and I will gather them together, because\nI have redeemed them: and I will multiply them as they were multiplied\nbefore.\n\n10:9. And I will sow them among peoples: and from afar they shall\nremember me: and they shall live with their children, and shall return.\n\n10:10. And I will bring them back out of the land of Egypt, and I will\ngather them from among the Assyrians: and will bring them to the land\nof Galaad, and Libanus, and place shall not be found for them.\n\n10:11. And he shall pass over the strait of the sea, and shall strike\nthe waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river shall be\nconfounded, and the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the sceptre\nof Egypt shall depart.\n\n10:12. I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk in his\nname, saith the Lord.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 11\n\nThe destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. God\u2019s dealings with the\nJews, and their reprobation.\n\n11:1. Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.\n\nO Libanus.... So Jerusalem, and more particularly the temple, is called\nby the prophets, from its height, and from its being built of the\ncedars of Libanus.\u2014Ibid. Thy cedars.... Thy princes and chief men.\n\n11:2. Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are\nlaid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut\ndown.\n\n11:3. The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is\nlaid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of\nthe Jordan is spoiled.\n\n11:4. Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,\n\n11:5. Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold\nthem, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their\nshepherds spared them not.\n\n11:6. And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the\nLord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour\u2019s\nhand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land,\nand I will not deliver it out of their hand.\n\nEvery one into his neighbour\u2019s hand, etc.... This alludes to the last\nsiege of Jerusalem, in which the different factions of the Jews\ndestroyed one another; and they that remained fell into the hands of\ntheir king, that is, of the Roman emperor, of whom they had said, John\n19.15, we have no king but Caesar.\n\n11:7. And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the\nflock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other\nI called a Cord, and I fed the flock.\n\nTwo rods.... Or shepherd\u2019s staves, meaning the different ways of God\u2019s\ndealing with his people; the one, by sweet means, called the rod of\nBeauty: the other, by bands and punishments, called the Cord. And where\nboth these rods are made of no use or effect by the obstinacy of\nsinners, the rods are broken, and such sinners are given up to a\nreprobate sense, as the Jews were.\n\n11:8. And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was\nstraitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.\n\nThree shepherds in one month.... That is, in a very short time. By\nthese three shepherds probably are meant the latter princes and high\npriests of the Jews, whose reign was short.\n\n11:9. And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die:\nand that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour\nevery one the flesh of his neighbour.\n\n11:10. And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder\nto make void my covenant, which I had made with all people.\n\n11:11. And it was made void in that day: and so the poor of the flock\nthat keep for me, understood that it is the word of the Lord.\n\n11:12. And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my\nwages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty\npieces of silver.\n\n11:13. And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome\nprice, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of\nsilver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.\n\nThe statuary.... The Hebrew word signifies also a potter.\n\n11:14. And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might\nbreak the brotherhood between Juda and Israel.\n\n11:15. And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a\nfoolish shepherd.\n\nA foolish shepherd.... This was to represent the foolish, that is, the\nwicked princes and priests that should rule the people, before their\nutter desolation.\n\n11:16. For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not\nvisit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is\nbroken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of\nthe fat ones, and break their hoofs.\n\n11:17. O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon\nhis arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and\nhis right eye shall be utterly darkened.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 12\n\nGod shall protect his church against her persecutors. The mourning of\nJerusalem.\n\n12:1. The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the\nLord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of\nthe earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:\n\n12:2. Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of surfeiting to all the\npeople round about: and Juda also shall be in the siege against\nJerusalem.\n\nA lintel of surfeiting.... That is, a door into which they shall seek\nto enter, to glut themselves with blood; but they shall stumble, and\nfall like men stupefied with wine. It seems to allude to the times of\nAntiochus, and to the victories of the Machabees.\n\n12:3. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem\na burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be\nrent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered\ntogether against her.\n\n12:4. In that day, saith the Lord, I will strike every horse with\nastonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon\nthe house of Juda, and will strike every horse of the nations with\nblindness.\n\n12:5. And the governors of Juda shall say in their heart: Let the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem be strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts,\ntheir God.\n\n12:6. In that day I will make the governors of Juda like a furnace of\nfire amongst wood, and as a firebrand amongst hay: and they shall\ndevour all the people round about, to the right hand, and to the left:\nand Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place in Jerusalem.\n\n12:7. And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda, as in the\nbeginning: that the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of\nJerusalem, may not boast and magnify themselves against Juda.\n\n12:8. In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem,\nand he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and\nthe house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their\nsight.\n\n12:9. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to\ndestroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.\n\n12:10. And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they\nshall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for\nhim as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as\nthe manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.\n\n12:11. In that day there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like\nthe lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon.\n\nAdadremmon.... A place near Mageddon, where the good king Josias was\nslain, and much lamented by his people.\n\n12:12. And the land shall mourn: families and families apart: the\nfamilies of the house of David apart, and their women apart:\n\n12:13. The families of the house of Nathan apart, and their women\napart: the families of the house of Levi apart, and their women apart:\nthe families of Semei apart, and their women apart.\n\n12:14. All the rest of the families, families and families apart, and\ntheir women apart.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 13\n\nThe fountain of Christ. Idols and false prophets shall be extirpated:\nChrist shall suffer: his people shall be tried by fire.\n\n13:1. In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David,\nand to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and\nof the unclean woman.\n\n13:2. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts,\nthat I will destroy the names of idols out of the earth, and they shall\nbe remembered no more: and I will take away the false prophets, and the\nunclean spirit out of the earth.\n\n13:3. And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any\nmore, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall\nsay to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the\nname of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall\nthrust him through, when he shall prophesy.\n\n13:4. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be\nconfounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy,\nneither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive:\n\n13:5. But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is\nmy example from my youth.\n\n13:6. And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of\nthy hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of\nthem that loved me.\n\n13:7. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that\ncleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the\nsheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.\n\n13:8. And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in\nit shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be\nleft therein.\n\n13:9. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine\nthem as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They\nshall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my\npeople: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.\n\n\nZacharias Chapter 14\n\nAfter the persecutions of the church shall follow great prosperity.\nPersecutors shall be punished: so shall all that will not serve God in\nhis church.\n\n14:1. Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be\ndivided in the midst of thee.\n\n14:2. And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle, and the\ncity shall be taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and the women\nshall be defiled: and half of the city shall go forth into captivity,\nand the rest of the people shall not be taken away out of the city.\n\nI will gather, etc.... This seems to be a prophecy of what was done by\nAntiochus.\n\n14:3. Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall fight against those\nnations, as when he fought in the day of battle.\n\n14:4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,\nwhich is over against Jerusalem towards the east: and the mount of\nOlives shall be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and to the\nwest with a very great opening, and half of the mountain shall be\nseparated to the north, and half thereof to the south.\n\n14:5. And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the\nvalley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall\nflee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias\nking of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with\nhim.\n\n14:6. And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no\nlight, but cold and frost.\n\nNo light.... Viz., in that dismal time of persecution of Antiochus,\nwhen it was neither day nor night: (ver. 7) because they neither had\nthe comfortable light of the day, nor the repose of the night.\n\n14:7. And there shall be one day, which is known to the Lord, not day\nnor night: and in the time of the evening there shall be light:\n\nIn the time of the evening there shall be light.... An unexpected light\nshall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shall seem to be\nat the worst.\n\n14:8. And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall\ngo out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them\nto the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.\n\nLiving waters.... Viz., the gospel of Christ.\n\n14:9. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there\nshall be one Lord, and his name shall be one.\n\n14:10. And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill\nto Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and\nshall dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the\nplace of the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from\nthe tower of Hananeel even to the king\u2019s winepresses.\n\nAll the land shall return, etc.... This, in some measure, was verified\nby the means of the Machabees: but is rather to be taken in a spiritual\nsense, as relating to the propagation of the church, and kingdom of\nChrist, the true Jerusalem, which alone shall never fall under the\nanathema of destruction, or God\u2019s curse.\n\n14:11. And people shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more an\nanathema: but Jerusalem shall sit secure.\n\n14:12. And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord shall strike all\nnations that have fought against Jerusalem: the flesh of every one\nshall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes\nshall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away\nin their mouth.\n\nThe flesh of every one shall consume, etc.... Such judgments as these\nhave often fallen upon the persecutors of God\u2019s church, as appears by\nmany instances in history.\n\n14:13. In that day there shall be a great tumult from the Lord among\nthem: and a man shall take the hand of his neighbour, and his hand\nshall be clasped upon his neighbour\u2019s hand.\n\n14:14. And even Juda shall fight against Jerusalem: and the riches of\nall nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver,\nand garments in great abundance.\n\nEven Juda, etc.... The carnal Jews, and other false brothers, shall\njoin in persecuting the church.\n\n14:15. And the destruction of the horse, and of the mule, and of the\ncamel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts, that shall be in those\ntents, shall be like this destruction.\n\nShall be like this destruction.... That is, the beasts shall be\ndestroyed as well as the men: the common soldiers as well as their\nleaders.\n\n14:16. And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against\nJerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord\nof hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.\n\nThey that shall be left, etc.... That is, many of them that persecuted\nthe church shall be converted to its faith and communion.\u2014Ibid. To keep\nthe feast of tabernacles.... This feast was kept by the Jews in memory\nof their sojourning forty years in the desert, in their way to the land\nof promise. And in the spiritual sense is duly kept by all such\nChristians as in their earthly pilgrimage are continually advancing\ntoward their true home, the heavenly Jerusalem; by the help of the\nsacraments and sacrifice of the church. And they that neglect this must\nnot look for the kind showers of divine grace, to give fruitfulness to\ntheir souls.\n\n14:17. And it shall come to pass, that he that shall not go up of the\nfamilies of the land to Jerusalem, to adore the King, the Lord of\nhosts, there shall be no rain upon them.\n\n14:18. And if the family of Egypt go not up nor come: neither shall it\nbe upon them, but there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord will\nstrike all nations that will not go up to keep the feast of\ntabernacles.\n\n14:19. This shall be the sin of Egypt, and this the sin of all nations,\nthat will not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.\n\n14:20. In that day that which is upon the bridle of the horse shall be\nholy to the Lord: and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as\nthe phials before the altar.\n\nThat which is upon the bridle, etc.... The golden ornaments of the\nbridles, etc., shall be turned into offerings in the house of God. And\nthere shall be an abundance of caldrons and phials for the sacrifices\nof the temple; by which is meant, under a figure, the great resort\nthere shall be to the temple, that is, to the church of Christ, and her\nsacrifice.\n\n14:21. And every caldron in Jerusalem and Juda shall be sanctified to\nthe Lord of hosts: and all that sacrifice shall come, and take of them,\nand shall seethe in them: and the merchant shall be no more in the\nhouse of the Lord of hosts in that day.\n\nThe merchant shall be no more, etc.... Or, as some render it, The\nChanaanite shall be no more, etc., that is, the profane and unbelievers\nshall have no title to be in the house of the Lord. Or there shall be\nno occasion for buyers or sellers of oxen, or sheep, or doves, in the\nhouse of God, such as Jesus Christ cast out of the temple.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF MALACHIAS\n\n\nMALACHIAS, whose name signifies The Angel of the Lord, was contemporary\nwith NEHEMIAS, and by some is believed to have been the same person as\nESDRAS. He was the last of the prophets, in the order of time, and\nflourished about four hundred years before Christ. He foretells the\ncoming of Christ; the reprobation of the Jews and their sacrifices; and\nthe calling of the Gentiles, who shall offer up to God in every place\nan acceptable sacrifice.\n\n\nMalachias Chapter 1\n\nGod reproaches the Jews with their ingratitude: and the priests for not\noffering pure sacrifices. He will accept of the sacrifice that shall be\noffered in every place among the Gentiles.\n\n1:1. The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of\nMalachias.\n\n1:2. I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast\nthou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I\nhave loved Jacob,\n\nI have loved Jacob, etc.... I have preferred his posterity, to make\nthem my chosen people, and to lead them with my blessings, without any\nmerit on their part, and though they have been always ungrateful;\nwhilst I have rejected Esau, and executed severe judgments upon his\nposterity. Not that God punished Esau, or his posterity, beyond their\ndesert: but that by his free election and grace he loved Jacob, and\nfavoured his posterity above their deserts. See the annotations upon\nRom. 9.\n\n1:3. But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness,\nand given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.\n\n1:4. But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and\nbuild up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They\nshall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the\nborders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for\never.\n\n1:5. And your eyes shall see: and you shall say: The Lord be magnified\nupon the border of Israel.\n\n1:6. The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then\nI be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my\nfear? saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n1:7. To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein\nhave we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and\nyou say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of\nthe Lord is contemptible.\n\n1:8. If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you\noffer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy prince, if\nhe will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith the\nLord of hosts.\n\n1:9. And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy on you,\n(for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any means he will receive\nyour faces, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n1:10. Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle\nthe fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord\nof hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.\n\n1:11. For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is\ngreat among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and\nthere is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great\namong the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nA clean oblation.... Viz., the precious body and blood of Christ in the\neucharistic sacrifice.\n\n1:12. And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord\nis defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the\nfire that devoureth it.\n\n1:13. And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away,\nsaith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the\nsick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands,\nsaith the Lord?\n\nBehold of our labour, etc.... You pretended labour and weariness, when\nyou brought your offering; and so made it of no value, by offering it\nwith an evil mind. Moreover, what you offered was both defective in\nitself, and gotten by rapine and extortion.\n\n1:14. Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a male, and\nmaking a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble to the Lord:\nfor I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful\namong the Gentiles.\n\n\nMalachias Chapter 2\n\nThe priests are sharply reproved for neglecting their covenant. The\nevil of marrying with idolaters: and too easily putting away their\nwives.\n\n2:1. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.\n\n2:2. If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give\nglory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon\nyou, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you\nhave not laid it to heart.\n\n2:3. Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and will scatter upon\nyour face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with\nit.\n\nI will cast the shoulder to you.... I will cast away the shoulder,\nwhich in the law was appointed to be your portion, and fling it at you\nin my anger: and will reject both you and your festivals like dung.\n\n2:4. And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my\ncovenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:5. My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear:\nand he feared me, and he was afraid before my name.\n\n2:6. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in\nhis lips: he walked with me in peace, and in equity, and turned many\naway from iniquity.\n\n2:7. For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they shall\nseek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of\nhosts.\n\nThe angel.... Viz., the minister and messenger.\n\n2:8. But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to\nstumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the\nLord of hosts.\n\n2:9. Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all\npeople, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the\nlaw.\n\n2:10. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then\ndoth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our\nfathers?\n\n2:11. Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in\nIsrael, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the\nLord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.\n\n2:12. The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this, both the\nmaster, and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that\noffereth an offering to the Lord of hosts.\n\n2:13. And this again have you done, you have covered the altar of the\nLord with tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so that I have no more a\nregard to sacrifice, neither do I accept any atonement at your hands.\n\nWith tears.... Viz., by occasion of your wives, whom you have put away:\nand who came to weep and lament before the altar.\n\n2:14. And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been\nwitness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast\ndespised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.\n\n2:15. Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And\nwhat doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and\ndespise not the wife of thy youth.\n\n2:16. When thou shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord, the God of\nIsrael: but iniquity shall cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts,\nkeep your spirit, and despise not.\n\nIniquity shall cover his garment.... Viz., of every man that putteth\naway his wife without just cause; notwithstanding that God permitted it\nin the law, to prevent the evil of murder.\n\n2:17. You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein\nhave we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good\nin the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the\nGod of judgment?\n\n\nMalachias Chapter 3\n\nChrist shall come to his temple, and purify the priesthood. They that\ncontinue in their evil ways shall be punished: but true penitents shall\nreceive a blessing.\n\n3:1. Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my\nface. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the\ntestament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he\ncometh, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\nMy angel.... Viz., John the Baptist, the messenger of God, and\nforerunner of Christ.\n\n3:2. And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who\nshall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the\nfuller\u2019s herb:\n\n3:3. And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall\npurify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver,\nand they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.\n\n3:4. And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord,\nas in the days of old, and in the ancient years.\n\n3:5. And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness\nagainst sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that\noppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and\noppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n3:6. For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are\nnot consumed.\n\n3:7. For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my\nordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to\nyou, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we\nreturn?\n\n3:8. Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have said:\nWherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.\n\n3:9. And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole\nnation of you.\n\n3:10. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat\nin my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you\nthe flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to\nabundance.\n\n3:11. And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he shall not\nspoil the fruit of your land: neither shall the vine in the field be\nbarren, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n3:12. And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a\ndelightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n3:13. Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.\n\n3:14. And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have\nsaid: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that\nwe have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before\nthe Lord of hosts?\n\n3:15. Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work\nwickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.\n\n3:16. Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his\nneighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of\nremembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and\nthink on his name.\n\n3:17. And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts,\nin the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth\nhis son that serveth him.\n\n3:18. And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the\njust and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that\nserveth him not.\n\n\nMalachias Chapter 4\n\nThe judgment of the wicked, and reward of the just. An exhortation to\nobserve the law. Elias shall come for the conversion of the Jews.\n\n4:1. For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the\nproud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that\ncometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not\nleave them root, nor branch.\n\n4:2. But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise,\nand health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like\ncalves of the herd.\n\n4:3. And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under\nthe sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of\nhosts.\n\n4:4. Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in\nHoreb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.\n\n4:5. Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of\nthe great and dreadful day of the Lord.\n\n4:6. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and\nthe heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the\nearth with anathema.\n\nHe shall turn the heart, etc.... By bringing over the Jews to the faith\nof Christ, he shall reconcile them to their fathers, viz., the\npartiarchs and prophets; whose hearts for many ages have been turned\naway from them, because of their refusing to believe in Christ.\u2014Ibid.\nWith anathema.... In the Hebrew, Cherem, that is, with utter\ndestruction.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST BOOK OF MACHABEES\n\n\nThese books are so called, because they contain the history of the\npeople of God under the command of Judas Machabeus and his brethren:\nand he, as some will have it, was surnamed Machabeus, from carrying in\nhis ensigns, or standards, those words of Exodus 15.11, Who is like to\nthee among the strong, O Lord: in which the initial letters, in the\nHebrew, are M. C. B. E. I. It is not known who is the author of these\nbooks. But as to their authority, though they are not received by the\nJews, saith St. Augustine, (lib. 18, De Civ. Dei, c. 36,) they are\nreceived by the church: who, in settling her canon of the scriptures,\nchose rather to be directed by the tradition she had received from the\napostles of Christ, than by that of the scribes and Pharisees. And as\nthe church has declared these two Books canonical, even in two general\ncouncils, viz., Florence and Trent, there can be no doubt of their\nauthenticity.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 1\n\nThe reign of Alexander and his successors: Antiochus rifles and\nprofanes the temple of God: and persecutes unto death all that will not\nforsake the law of God, and the religion of their fathers.\n\n1:1. Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son of Philip the\nMacedonian, who first reigned in Greece, coming out of the land of\nCethim, had overthrown Darius, king of the Persians and Medes:\n\n1:2. He fought many battles, and took the strong holds of all, and slew\nthe kings of the earth:\n\n1:3. And he went through even to the ends of the earth: and took the\nspoils of many nations: and the earth was quiet before him.\n\n1:4. And he gathered a power, and a very strong army: and his heart was\nexalted and lifted up:\n\n1:5. And he subdued countries of nations, and princes; and they became\ntributaries to him.\n\n1:6. And after these things, he fell down upon his bed, and knew that\nhe should die.\n\n1:7. And he called his servants, the nobles that were brought up with\nhim from his youth: and he divided his kingdom among them, while he was\nyet alive.\n\nDivided his kingdom, etc.... This is otherwise related by Q. Curtius;\nthough he acknowledges that divers were of that opinion, and that it\nhad been delivered by some authors, lib. 10. But here we find from the\nsacred text, that he was in error.\n\n1:8. And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.\n\n1:9. And his servants made themselves kings, every one in his place:\n\n1:10. And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and\ntheir sons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the\nearth.\n\n1:11. And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the\nIllustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome:\nand he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of\nthe Greeks.\n\nAntiochus the Illustrius.... Epiphanes, the younger son of Antiochus\nthe Great, who usurped the kingdom, to the prejudice of his nephew\nDemetrius, son of his elder brother Seleucus Philopater.\u2014Ibid. Of the\nkingdom of the Greeks.... Counting, not from the beginning of the reign\nof Alexander, but from the first year of Seleucus Nicator.\n\n1:12. In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they\npersuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens\nthat are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils\nhave befallen us.\n\n1:13. And the word seemed good in their eyes.\n\n1:14. And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the\nking: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the\nheathens.\n\n1:15. And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the\nlaws of the nations:\n\n1:16. And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy\ncovenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do\nevil:\n\n1:17. And the kingdom was established before Antiochus, and he had a\nmind to reign over the land of Egypt, that he might reign over two\nkingdoms.\n\n1:18. And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots,\nand elephants, and horsemen, and a great number of ships:\n\n1:19. And he made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt; but Ptolemee was\nafraid at his presence and fled, and many were wounded unto death.\n\n1:20. And he took the strong cities in the land of Egypt: and he took\nthe spoils of the land of Egypt.\n\n1:21. And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt, in the hundred and\nforty-third year, he returned and went up against Israel.\n\n1:22. And he went up to Jerusalem, with a great multitude.\n\n1:23. And he proudly entered into the sanctuary, and took away the\ngolden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels\nthereof, and the table of proposition, and the pouring vessels, and the\nvials, and the little mortars of gold, and the veil, and the crowns,\nand the golden ornament that was before the temple: and he broke them\nall in pieces.\n\n1:24. And he took the silver and gold, and the precious vessels: and he\ntook the hidden treasures, which he found: and when he had taken all\naway, he departed into his own country.\n\n1:25. And he made a great slaughter of men, and spoke very proudly.\n\n1:26. And there was great mourning in Israel, and in every place where\nthey were:\n\n1:27. And the princes, and the ancients mourned, and the virgins and\nthe young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was\nchanged.\n\n1:28. Every bridegroom took up lamentation: and the bride that sat in\nthe marriage bed, mourned:\n\n1:29. And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the\nhouse of Jacob was covered with confusion.\n\n1:30. And after two full years, the king sent the chief collector of\nhis tributes to the cities of Juda, and he came to Jerusalem with a\ngreat multitude.\n\nThe chief collector, etc.... Apollonius.\n\n1:31. And he spoke to them peaceable words in deceit; and they believed\nhim.\n\n1:32. And he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it with a great\nslaughter, and destroyed much people in Israel.\n\n1:33. And he took the spoils of the city, and burnt it with fire, and\nthrew down the houses thereof, and the walls thereof round about:\n\n1:34. And they took the women captive, and the children, and the cattle\nthey possessed.\n\n1:35. And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall,\nand with strong towers, and made it a fortress for them:\n\nThe city of David.... That is, the castle of Sion.\n\n1:36. And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they\nfortified themselves therein: and they stored up armour and victuals,\nand gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem;\n\n1:37. And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.\n\n1:38. And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an\nevil devil in Israel.\n\nAn evil devil.... That is, an adversary watching constantly to do harm,\nas the evil spirit is always watching and seeking whom he may devour.\n\n1:39. And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and\ndefiled the holy place.\n\n1:40. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away by reason of them and\nthe city was made the habitation of strangers, and she became a\nstranger to her own seed, and her children forsook her.\n\n1:41. Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days\nwere turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were\nbrought to nothing.\n\n1:42. Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her\nexcellency was turned into mourning.\n\n1:43. And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people\nshould be one: and every one should leave his own law.\n\n1:44. And all nations consented, according to the word of king\nAntiochus.\n\n1:45. And many of Israel consented to his service, and they sacrificed\nto idols, and profaned the sabbath.\n\n1:46. And the king sent letters by the hands of messengers to\nJerusalem, and to all the cities of Juda; that they should follow the\nlaw of the nations of the earth.\n\n1:47. And should forbid holocausts and sacrifices, and atonements to be\nmade in the temple of God.\n\n1:48. And should prohibit the sabbath, and the festival days to be\ncelebrated.\n\n1:49. And he commanded the holy places to be profaned, and the holy\npeople of Israel.\n\n1:50. And he commanded altars to be built, and temples, and idols, and\nswine\u2019s flesh to be immolated, and unclean beasts,\n\n1:51. And that they should leave their children uncircumcised, and let\ntheir souls be defiled with all uncleannesses, and abominations, to the\nend that they should forget the law, and should change all the\njustifications of God.\n\n1:52. And that whosoever would not do according to the word of king\nAntiochus, should be put to death.\n\n1:53. According to all these words he wrote to his whole kingdom: and\nhe appointed rulers over the people that should force them to do these\nthings.\n\n1:54. And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.\n\n1:55. Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken\nthe law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:\n\n1:56. And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and\ninto the secret places of fugitives.\n\n1:57. On the fifteenth day of the month, Casleu, in the hundred and\nforty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of\ndesolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all\nthe cities of Juda round about:\n\nThe abominable idol, etc.... Viz., the statue of Jupiter Olympius.\n\n1:58. And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses\nand in the streets.\n\n1:59. And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law\nof God:\n\n1:60. And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord\nwere found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to\ndeath, according to the edict of the king.\n\n1:61. Thus by their power did they deal with the people of Israel, that\nwere found in the cities month after month.\n\n1:62. And on the five and twentieth day of the month they sacrificed\nupon the altar of the idol that was over against the altar of God.\n\n1:63. Now the women that circumcised their children were slain\naccording to the commandment of king Antiochus,\n\n1:64. And they hanged the children about their necks in all their\nhouses: and those that had circumcised them, they put to death.\n\n1:65. And many of the people of Israel determined with themselves, that\nthey would not eat unclean things: and they chose rather to die, than\nto be defiled with unclean meats:\n\n1:66. And they would not break the holy law of God and they were put to\ndeath:\n\n1:67. And there was very great wrath upon the people.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 2\n\nThe zeal and success of Mathathias. His exhortation to his sons at his\ndeath.\n\n2:1. In those days arose Mathathias, the son of John, the son of\nSimeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and he abode in\nthe mountain of Modin:\n\n2:2. And he had five sons: John, who was surnamed Gaddis:\n\n2:3. And Simon, who was surnamed Thasi;\n\n2:4. And Judas, who was called Machabeus;\n\n2:5. And Eleazar, who was surnamed Abaron; and Jonathan, who was\nsurnamed Apphus.\n\n2:6. These saw the evils that were done in the people of Juda, and in\nJerusalem.\n\n2:7. And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore was I born to see the\nruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there,\nwhen it is given into the hands of the enemies?\n\n2:8. The holy places are come into the hands of strangers her temple is\nbecome as a man without honour.\n\n2:9. The vessels of her glory are carried away captive; her old men are\nmurdered in the streets, and her young men are fallen by the sword of\nthe enemies.\n\n2:10. What nation hath not inherited her kingdom, and gotten of her\nspoils?\n\n2:11. All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a\nslave.\n\n2:12. And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid\nwaste, and the Gentiles have defiled them.\n\n2:13. To what end then should we live any longer?\n\n2:14. And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered\nthemselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.\n\n2:15. And they that were sent from king Antiochus, came thither, to\ncompel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to\nburn incense, and to depart from the law of God.\n\n2:16. And many of the people of Israel consented and came to them: but\nMathathias and his sons stood firm.\n\n2:17. And they that were sent from Antiochus, answering, said to\nMathathias: Thou art a ruler, and an honourable, and great man in this\ncity, and adorned with sons, and brethren.\n\n2:18. Therefore, come thou first, and obey the king\u2019s commandment, as\nall nations have done, and the men of Juda, and they that remain in\nJerusalem: and thou, and thy sons shall be in the number of the king\u2019s\nfriends, and enriched with gold, and silver, and many presents.\n\n2:19. Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although\nall nations obey king Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the\nservice of the law of his fathers, and consent to his commandments:\n\n2:20. I and my sons, and my brethren will obey the law of our fathers.\n\n2:21. God be merciful unto us: it is not profitable for us to forsake\nthe law, and the justices of God:\n\n2:22. We will not hearken to the words of king Antiochus, neither will\nwe sacrifice and transgress the commandments of our law, to go another\nway.\n\n2:23. Now as he left off speaking these words, there came a certain Jew\nin the sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the\ncity of Modin, according to the king\u2019s commandment.\n\n2:24. And Mathathias saw, and was grieved, and his reins trembled, and\nhis wrath was kindled according to the judgment of the law, and running\nupon him he slew him upon the altar:\n\n2:25. Moreover the man whom king Antiochus had sent, who compelled them\nto sacrifice, he slew at the same time, and pulled down the altar,\n\n2:26. And shewed zeal for the law, as Phinees did by Zamri, the son of\nSalomi.\n\n2:27. And Mathathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying:\nEvery one that hath zeal for the law, and maintaineth the testament,\nlet him follow me.\n\n2:28. So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that\nthey had in the city.\n\n2:29. Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into\nthe desert:\n\n2:30. And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives,\nand their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them.\n\n2:31. And it was told to the king\u2019s men, and to the army that was in\nJerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the\nking\u2019s commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the\nwilderness, and that many were gone after them.\n\n2:32. And forthwith they went out towards them, and made war against\nthem on the sabbath day.\n\n2:33. And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do\naccording to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live.\n\n2:34. And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the\nking\u2019s edict, to profane the sabbath day.\n\n2:35. And they made haste to give them battle.\n\n2:36. But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at\nthem, nor stopped up the secret places,\n\n2:37. Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth\nshall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.\n\n2:38. So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain,\nwith their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number\nof a thousand persons.\n\n2:39. And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for\nthem exceedingly.\n\n2:40. And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our\nbrethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives,\nand our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.\n\n2:41. And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up\nagainst us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and\nwe will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret\nplaces.\n\n2:42. Then was assembled to them the congregation of the Assideans, the\nstoutest of Israel, every one that had a good will for the law.\n\nThe Assideans.... A set of men that led a religious life; and were\nzealous for the law and worship of God.\n\n2:43. And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them,\nand were a support to them.\n\n2:44. And they gathered an army, and slew the sinners in their wrath,\nand the wicked men in their indignation: and the rest fled to the\nnations for safety.\n\n2:45. And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw\ndown the altars:\n\n2:46. And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the\nconfines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.\n\n2:47. And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work\nprospered in their hands:\n\n2:48. And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and\nout of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the\nsinner.\n\nThey yielded not the horn, etc.... That is, they suffered not the power\nof Antiochus, that man of sin, to abolish the law and religion of God.\n\n2:49. Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to\nhis sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time\nof destruction, and the wrath of indignation:\n\n2:50. Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give\nyour lives for the covenant of your fathers.\n\n2:51. And call to remembrance the works of the fathers, which they have\ndone in their generations: and you shall receive great glory, and an\neverlasting name.\n\n2:52. Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reputed\nto him unto justice?\n\n2:53. Joseph, in the time of his distress, kept the commandment, and he\nwas made lord of Egypt.\n\n2:54. Phinees, our father, by being fervent in the zeal of God,\nreceived the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.\n\n2:55. Jesus, whilst he fulfilled the word, was made ruler in Israel.\n\nJesus.... That is, Josue.\n\n2:56. Caleb, for bearing witness before the congregation, received an\ninheritance.\n\n2:57. David, by his mercy, obtained the throne of an everlasting\nkingdom.\n\n2:58. Elias, while he is full of zeal for the law, was taken up into\nheaven.\n\n2:59. Ananias and Azarias and Misael, by believing, were delivered out\nof the flame.\n\n2:60. Daniel, in his innocency, was delivered out of the mouth of the\nlions.\n\n2:61. And thus consider, through all generations: that none that trust\nin him, fail in strength.\n\n2:62. And fear not the words of a sinful man, for his glory is dung and\nworms:\n\n2:63. Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found,\nbecause he is returned into his earth and his thought is come to\nnothing.\n\n2:64. You, therefore, my sons, take courage, and behave manfully in the\nlaw: for by it you shall be glorious.\n\n2:65. And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel:\ngive ear to him always, and he shall be a father to you.\n\n2:66. And Judas Machabeus, who is valiant and strong from his youth up,\nlet him be the leader of your army, and he shall manage the war of the\npeople.\n\n2:67. And you shall take to you all that observe the law: and revenge\nye the wrong of your people.\n\n2:68. Render to the Gentiles their reward, and take heed to the\nprecepts of the law.\n\n2:69. And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers.\n\n2:70. And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was\nburied by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all\nIsrael mourned for him with great mourning.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 3\n\nJudas Machabeus succeeds his father, and overthrows Apollonius and\nSeron. A great army is sent against him out of Syria. He prepares his\npeople for battle by fasting and prayer.\n\n3:1. Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead.\n\n3:2. And all his brethren helped him, and all they that had joined\nthemselves to his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle\nof Israel.\n\n3:3. And he got his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a\ngiant, and girt his warlike armour about him in battles, and protected\nthe camp with his sword.\n\n3:4. In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion\u2019s whelp roaring\nfor his prey.\n\n3:5. And he pursued the wicked and sought them out, and them that\ntroubled his people he burnt with fire:\n\n3:6. And his enemies were driven away for fear of him, and all the\nworkers of iniquity were troubled: and salvation prospered in his hand.\n\n3:7. And he grieved many kings, and made Jacob glad with his works, and\nhis memory is blessed for ever.\n\n3:8. And he went through the cities of Juda, and destroyed the wicked\nout of them, and turned away wrath from Israel.\n\n3:9. And he was renowned even to the utmost part of the earth, and he\ngathered them that were perishing.\n\n3:10. And Apollonius gathered together the Gentiles, and a numerous and\ngreat army from Samaria, to make war against Israel.\n\n3:11. And Judas understood it, and went forth to meet him: and he\noverthrew him, and killed him: and many fell down slain, and the rest\nfled away.\n\n3:12. And he took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius,\nand fought with it all his lifetime.\n\n3:13. And Seron, captain of the army of Syria, heard that Judas had\nassembled a company of the faithful, and a congregation with him,\n\n3:14. And he said I will get me a name, and will be glorified in the\nkingdom, and will overthrow Judas, and those that are with him, that\nhave despised the edict of the king.\n\n3:15. And he made himself ready; and the host of the wicked went up\nwith him, strong succours, to be revenged of the children of Israel.\n\n3:16. And they approached even as far as Bethoron: and Judas went forth\nto meet him, with a small company.\n\n3:17. But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to\nJudas: How shall we, being few, be able to fight against so great a\nmultitude, and so strong, and we are ready to faint with fasting today?\n\n3:18. And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in\nthe hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God\nof heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company:\n\n3:19. For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but\nstrength cometh from heaven.\n\n3:20. They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride,\nto destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.\n\n3:21. But we will fight for our lives, and our laws:\n\n3:22. And the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face, but as\nfor you, fear them not.\n\n3:23. And as soon as he had made an end of speaking, he rushed suddenly\nupon them: and Seron, and his host were overthrown before him:\n\n3:24. And he pursued him by the descent of Bethoron, even to the plain,\nand there fell of them eight hundred men, and the rest fled into the\nland of the Philistines.\n\n3:25. And the fear of Judas, and of his brethren, and the dread of\nthem, fell upon all the nations round about them.\n\n3:26. And his fame came to the king, and all nations told of the\nbattles of Judas.\n\n3:27. Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his\nmind: and he sent, and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an\nexceeding strong army.\n\n3:28. And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a\nyear: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.\n\n3:29. And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that\nthe tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and\nthe evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the\nlaws of old times:\n\n3:30. And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for\ncharges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for\nhe had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.\n\n3:31. And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into\nPersia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much\nmoney.\n\n3:32. And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal to oversee the\naffairs of the kingdom from the river Euphrates even to the river of\nEgypt:\n\n3:33. And to bring up his son, Antiochus, till he came again.\n\n3:34. And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he\ngave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning\nthe inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem.\n\n3:35. And that he should send an army against them to destroy and root\nout the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take\naway the memory of them from that place.\n\n3:36. And that he should settle strangers, to dwell in all their\ncoasts, and divide their land by lot.\n\n3:37. So the king took the half of the army that remained, and went\nforth from Antioch, the chief city of his kingdom, in the hundred and\nforty-seventh year: and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went\nthrough the higher countries.\n\n3:38. Then Lysias chose Ptolemee, the son of Dorymenus, and Nicanor,\nand Gorgias, mighty men of the king\u2019s friends.\n\n3:39. And he sent with them forty thousand men, and seven thousand\nhorsemen: to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, according to\nthe king\u2019s orders.\n\n3:40. So they went forth with all their power, and came, and pitched\nnear Emmaus, in the plain country.\n\n3:41. And the merchants of the countries heard the fame of them: and\nthey took silver and gold in abundance, and servants: and they came\ninto the camp, to buy the children of Israel for slaves: and there were\njoined to them the forces of Syria, and of the land of the strangers.\n\n3:42. And Judas, and his brethren, saw that evils were multiplied, and\nthat the armies approached to their borders: and they knew the orders\nthe king had given to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them.\n\n3:43. And they said, every man to his neighbour: Let us raise up the\nlow condition of our people, and let us fight for our people, and our\nsanctuary.\n\n3:44. And the assembly was gathered, that they might be ready for\nbattle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.\n\n3:45. Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was\nnone of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden\ndown: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the\nhabitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the\npipe and harp ceased there.\n\n3:46. And they assembled together, and came to Maspha, over against\nJerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel.\n\n3:47. And they fasted that day, and put on haircloth, and put ashes\nupon their heads: and they rent their garments:\n\n3:48. And they laid open the books of the law, in which the Gentiles\nsearched for the likeness of their idols:\n\n3:49. And they brought the priestly ornaments, and the first fruits and\ntithes, and stirred up the Nazarites that had fulfilled their days:\n\n3:50. And they cried with a loud voice toward heaven, saying: What\nshall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them?\n\n3:51. For thy holies are trodden down, and are profaned, and thy\npriests are in mourning, and are brought low.\n\n3:52. And behold the nations are come together against us, to destroy\nus: thou knowest what they intend against us.\n\n3:53. How shall we be able to stand before their face, unless thou, O\nGod, help us?\n\n3:54. Then they sounded with trumpets, and cried out with a loud voice.\n\n3:55. And after this, Judas appointed captains over the people, over\nthousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.\n\n3:56. And he said to them that were building houses, or had betrothed\nwives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, that they should\nreturn every man to his house, according to the law.\n\n3:57. So they removed the camp, and pitched on the south side of\nEmmaus.\n\n3:58. And Judas said: Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be ready\nagainst the morning, that you may fight with these nations that are\nassembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary.\n\n3:59. For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see the evils\nof our nation, and of the holies:\n\n3:60. Nevertheless, as it shall be the will of God in heaven, so be it\ndone.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 4\n\nJudas routs the king\u2019s army. Gorgias flies before him. Lysias comes\nagainst him with a great army, but is defeated. Judas cleanses the\ntemple, sets up a new altar, and fortifies the sanctuary.\n\n4:1. Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best\nhorsemen; and they removed out of the camp by night.\n\n4:2. That they might come upon the camp of the Jews and strike them\nsuddenly: and the men that were of the castle were their guides.\n\n4:3. And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and the valiant men, to\nattack the king\u2019s forces that were in Emmaus.\n\n4:4. For as yet the army was dispersed from the camp\n\nThe army was dispersed.... That is, in different divisions, not\naltogether encamped.\n\n4:5. And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no\nman; and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee\nfrom us.\n\n4:6. And when it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three\nthousand men only, who neither had armour nor swords:\n\nWho neither had armour nor swords.... Such as they wished for.\n\n4:7. And they saw the camp of the Gentiles that it was strong, and the\nmen in breastplates, and the horsemen round about them, and these were\ntrained up to war.\n\n4:8. And Judas said to the men that were with him: Fear ye not their\nmultitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.\n\n4:9. Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea,\nwhen Pharaoh pursued them with a great army.\n\n4:10. And now let us cry to heaven, and the Lord will have mercy on us,\nand will remember the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this\narmy before our face this day:\n\n4:11. And all nations shall know that there is one that redeemeth and\ndelivereth Israel.\n\n4:12. And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming\nagainst them.\n\n4:13. And they went out of the camp to battle, and they that were with\nJudas sounded the trumpet.\n\n4:14. And they joined battle: and the Gentiles were routed, and fled\ninto the plain.\n\n4:15. But all the hindmost of them fell by the sword and they pursued\nthem as far as Gezeron, and even to the plains of Idumea, and of\nAzotus, and of Jamnia: and there fell of them to the number of three\nthousand men.\n\n4:16. And Judas returned again with his army that followed him.\n\n4:17. And he said to the people: Be not greedy of the spoils; for there\nis war before us:\n\n4:18. And Gorgias and his army are near us in the mountain: but stand\nye now against our enemies, and overthrow them, and you shall take the\nspoils afterwards with safety.\n\n4:19. And as Judas was speaking these words, behold part of them\nappeared, looking forth from the mountain.\n\n4:20. And Gorgias saw that his men were put to flight, and that they\nhad set fire to the camp: for the smoke that was seen declared what was\ndone.\n\n4:21. And when they had seen this, they were seized with great fear,\nseeing at the same time Judas and his army in the plain ready to fight.\n\n4:22. So they all fled away into the land of the strangers.\n\n4:23. And Judas returned to take the spoils of the camp, and they got\nmuch gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great\nriches.\n\n4:24. And returning home, they sung a hymn, and blessed God in heaven,\nbecause he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n4:25. So Israel had a great deliverance that day.\n\n4:26. And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all\nthat had happened.\n\n4:27. And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged:\nbecause things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and\nas the king had commanded.\n\n4:28. So the year following, Lysias gathered together threescore\nthousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue\nthem.\n\n4:29. And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron,\nand Judas met them with ten thousand men.\n\n4:30. And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said:\nBlessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of\nthe mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the\ncamp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and\nof his armour bearer.\n\n4:31. Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them\nbe confounded in their host and their horsemen.\n\n4:32. Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength\nto languish, and let them quake at their own destruction.\n\n4:33. Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all\nthat know thy name praise thee with hymns.\n\n4:34. And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five\nthousand men.\n\n4:35. And when Lysias saw that his men were put to flight, and how bold\nthe Jews were, and that they were ready either to live, or to die\nmanfully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that they might come\nagain into Judea with greater numbers.\n\n4:36. Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are\ndiscomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair\nthem.\n\n4:37. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount\nSion.\n\n4:38. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and\nthe gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or\non the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.\n\n4:39. And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put\nashes on their heads:\n\n4:40. And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded\nwith the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.\n\n4:41. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the\ncastle, till they had cleansed the holy places,\n\n4:42. And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the\nlaw of God.\n\n4:43. And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that\nhad been defiled into an unclean place.\n\n4:44. And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been\nprofaned, what he should do with it.\n\n4:45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest\nit should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it;\nso they threw it down.\n\n4:46. And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple, in a\nconvenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer\nconcerning them.\n\n4:47. Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new\naltar, according to the former:\n\n4:48. And they built up the holy places, and the things that were\nwithin the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts.\n\n4:49. And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick,\nand the altar of incense, and the table, into the temple.\n\n4:50. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps\nthat were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.\n\n4:51. And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils,\nand finished all the works that they had begun to make.\n\n4:52. And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day\nof the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and\nforty-eighth year.\n\n4:53. And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new\naltar of holocausts which they had made.\n\n4:54. According to the time, and according to the day wherein the\nheathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with\ncanticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.\n\n4:55. And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed\nup to heaven, him that had prospered them.\n\n4:56. And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they\noffered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of\npraise.\n\n4:57. And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and\nescutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged\ndoors upon them.\n\n4:58. And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the\nreproach of the Gentiles was turned away.\n\n4:59. And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Israel\ndecreed, that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in\nits season from year to year for eight days, from the five and\ntwentieth day of the month of Casleu, with joy and gladness.\n\n4:60. They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and\nstrong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come,\nand tread it down, as they did before.\n\n4:61. And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it,\nto secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against\nIdumea.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 5\n\nJudas and his brethren attack the enemies of their country, and deliver\nthem that were distressed. Josephus and Azarius, attempting contrary to\norder to fight against their enemies, are defeated.\n\n5:1. Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the\naltar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were\nexceeding angry.\n\n5:2. And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were\namong them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute\nthem.\n\n5:3. Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them\nthat were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round\nabout, and he made a great slaughter of them.\n\n5:4. And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a\nsnare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in\nthe way.\n\n5:5. And they were shut up by him in towers, and he set upon them, and\ndevoted them to utter destruction, and burnt their towers with fire,\nand all that were in them.\n\n5:6. Then he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a\nmighty power, and much people, and Timotheus was their captain:\n\n5:7. And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited in\ntheir sight, and he smote them:\n\n5:8. And he took the city of Gazer and her towns, and returned into\nJudea.\n\n5:9. And the Gentiles that were in Galaad, assembled themselves\ntogether against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy\nthem: and they fled into the fortress of Datheman.\n\n5:10. And they sent letters to Judas, and his brethren, saying: The\nheathens that are round about are gathered together against us to\ndestroy us:\n\n5:11. And they are preparing to come, and to take the fortress into\nwhich we are fled: and Timotheus is the captain of their host.\n\n5:12. Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many\nof us are slain.\n\n5:13. And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are\nkilled: and they have carried away their wives, and their children,\ncaptives, and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a\nthousand men.\n\n5:14. And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came\nother messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related\naccording to these words:\n\n5:15. Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, were\nassembled against them, and all Galilee is filled with strangers, in\norder to consume us.\n\n5:16. Now when Judas and the people heard these words, a great assembly\nmet together to consider what they should do for their brethren that\nwere in trouble, and were assaulted by them.\n\n5:17. And Judas said to Simon, his brother: Choose thee men, and go,\nand deliver thy brethren in Galilee: and I, and my brother Jonathan,\nwill go into the country of Galaad:\n\n5:18. And he left Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains\nof the people, with the remnant of the army in Judea, to keep it:\n\n5:19. And he commanded them, saying: Take ye the charge of this people;\nbut make no war against the heathens, till we return.\n\n5:20. Now three thousand men were allotted to Simon, to go into\nGalilee: and eight thousand to Judas, to go into the land of Galaad.\n\n5:21. And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the\nheathens: and the heathens were discomfited before his face, and he\npursued them even to the gate of Ptolemais.\n\n5:22. And there fell of the heathens almost three thousand men, and he\ntook the spoils of them.\n\n5:23. And he took with him those that were in Galilee and in Arbatis,\nwith their wives, and children, and all that they had, and he brought\nthem into Judea with great joy.\n\n5:24. And Judas Machabeus, and Jonathan, his brother, passed over the\nJordan, and went three days\u2019 journey through the desert.\n\n5:25. And the Nabutheans met them, and received them in a peaceable\nmanner, and told them all that happened to their brethren in the land\nof Galaad,\n\n5:26. And that many of them were shut up in Barasa, and in Bosor, and\nin Alima, and in Casphor, and in Mageth, and in Carnaim; all these\nstrong and great cities.\n\n5:27. Yea, and that they were kept shut up in the rest of the cities of\nGalaad, and that they had appointed to bring their army on the morrow\nnear to these cities, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one\nday.\n\n5:28. Then Judas and his army suddenly turned their march into the\ndesert, to Bosor, and took the city: and he slew every male by the edge\nof the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt it with fire.\n\n5:29. And they removed from thence by night, and went till they came to\nthe fortress.\n\n5:30. And it came to pass that early in the morning, when they lifted\nup their eyes, behold there were people without number, carrying\nladders and engines to take the fortress, and assault them.\n\n5:31. And Judas saw that the fight was begun, and the cry of the battle\nwent up to heaven like a trumpet, and a great cry out of the city:\n\n5:32. And he said to his host: Fight ye today for your brethren.\n\n5:33. And he came with three companies behind them, and they sounded\ntheir trumpets, and cried out in prayer.\n\n5:34. And the host of Timotheus understood that it was Machabeus, and\nthey fled away before his face and they made a great slaughter of them,\nand there fell of them in that day almost eight thousand men.\n\n5:35. And Judas turned aside to Maspha, and assaulted, and took it, and\nhe slew every male thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it\nwith fire.\n\n5:36. From thence he marched, and took Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor,\nand the rest of the cities of Galaad.\n\n5:37. But after this Timotheus gathered another army, and camped over\nagainst Raphon, beyond the torrent.\n\n5:38. And Judas sent men to view the army: and they brought him word,\nsaying: All the nations, that are round about us, are assembled unto\nhim an army exceeding great:\n\n5:39. And they have hired the Arabians to help them, and they have\npitched their tents beyond the torrent, ready to come to fight against\nthee. And Judas went to meet them.\n\n5:40. And Timotheus said to the captains of his army: When Judas and\nhis army come near the torrent of water, if he pass over unto us first,\nwe shall not be able to withstand him: for he will certainly prevail\nover us.\n\n5:41. But if he be afraid to pass over, and camp on the other side of\nthe river, we will pass over to them, and shall prevail against him.\n\n5:42. Now when Judas came near the torrent of water, he set the scribes\nof the people by the torrent, and commanded them, saying: Suffer no man\nto stay behind: but let all come to the battle.\n\n5:43. And he passed over to them first, and all the people after him,\nand all the heathens were discomfited before them, and they threw away\ntheir weapons, and fled to the temple that was in Carnaim.\n\n5:44. And he took that city, and the temple he burnt with fire, with\nall things that were therein: and Carnaim was subdued, and could not\nstand against the face of Judas.\n\n5:45. And Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the\nland of Galaad, from the least even to the greatest, and their wives\nand children, and an army exceeding great, to come into the land of\nJuda.\n\n5:46. And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city,\nsituate in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn\nfrom it on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the\nmidst of it.\n\n5:47. And they that were in the city shut themselves in, and stopped up\nthe gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words,\n\n5:48. Saying: Let us pass through your land, to go into our own\ncountry, and no man shall hurt you; we will only pass through on foot.\nBut they would not open to them.\n\n5:49. Then Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the camp, that\nthey should make an assault, every man in the place where he was.\n\n5:50. And the men of the army drew near, and he assaulted that city all\nthe day, and all the night; and the city was delivered into his hands:\n\n5:51. And they slew every male with the edge of the sword, and he razed\nthe city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through all the city\nover them that were slain.\n\n5:52. Then they passed over the Jordan to the great plain that is over\nagainst Bethsan.\n\n5:53. And Judas gathered together the hindmost, and he exhorted the\npeople, all the way through, till they came into the land of Juda.\n\n5:54. And they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, and offered\nholocausts, because not one of them was slain, till they had returned\nin peace.\n\n5:55. Now in the days that Judas and Jonathan were in the land of\nGalaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee, before Ptolemais,\n\n5:56. Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captain of the\nsoldiers, heard of the good success, and the battles that were fought,\n\n5:57. And he said: Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight\nagainst the Gentiles that are round about us.\n\n5:58. And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went\ntowards Jamnia.\n\n5:59. And Gorgias and his men went out of the city, to give them\nbattle.\n\n5:60. And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued unto\nthe borders of Judea: and there fell on that day, of the people of\nIsrael, about two thousand men, and there was a great overthrow of the\npeople:\n\n5:61. Because they did not hearken to Judas and his brethren, thinking\nthat they should do manfully.\n\n5:62. But they were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was\nbrought to Israel.\n\n5:63. And the men of Juda were magnified exceedingly in the sight of\nall Israel, and of all the nations where their name was heard.\n\n5:64. And the people assembled to them with joyful acclamations.\n\n5:65. Then Judas and his brethren went forth and attacked the children\nof Esau, in the land towards the south, and he took Chebron and her\ntowns: and he burnt the walls thereof, and the towers all round it.\n\n5:66. And he removed his camp to go into the land of the aliens, and he\nwent through Samaria.\n\n5:67. In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do\nmanfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.\n\n5:68. And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and\nhe threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with\nfire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land\nof Juda.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 6\n\nThe fruitless repentance and death of Antiochus. His son comes against\nJudas with a formidable army. He besieges Sion: but at last makes peace\nwith the Jews.\n\n6:1. Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he\nheard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and\nabounding in silver and gold,\n\n6:2. And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of\ngold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of\nPhilip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.\n\n6:3. So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he\nwas not able, because the design was known to them that were in the\ncity.\n\n6:4. And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from\nthence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards\nBabylonia.\n\n6:5. And whilst he was in Persia there came one that told him how the\narmies that were in the land of Juda were put to flight:\n\n6:6. And that Lysias went with a very great power, and was put to\nflight before the face of the Jews, and that they were grown strong by\nthe armour, and power, and store of spoils which they had gotten out of\nthe camps which they had destroyed:\n\n6:7. And that they had thrown down the abomination which he had set up\nupon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the\nsanctuary with high walls as before, and Bethsura also, his city.\n\n6:8. And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, that he was\nstruck with fear, and exceedingly moved: and he laid himself down upon\nhis bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not fallen out to him\nas he imagined.\n\n6:9. And he remained there many days: for great grief came more and\nmore upon him, and he made account that he should die.\n\n6:10. And he called for all his friends, and said to them: Sleep is\ngone from my eyes, and I am fallen away, and my heart is cast down for\nanxiety:\n\n6:11. And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and\ninto what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and\nbeloved in my power!\n\n6:12. But now I remember the evils that I have done in Jerusalem, from\nwhence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that\nwere in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without\ncause.\n\n6:13. I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me:\nand behold I perish with great grief in a strange land.\n\n6:14. Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent\nover all his kingdom.\n\n6:15. And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he\nshould go to Antiochus, his son, and should bring him up for the\nkingdom.\n\n6:16. So king Antiochus died there in the year one hundred and\nforty-nine.\n\n6:17. And Lysias understood that the king was dead, and he set up\nAntiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had brought up young: and he\ncalled his name Eupator.\n\n6:18. Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites\nround about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their\nhurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.\n\n6:19. And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all\nthe people, to besiege them.\n\n6:20. And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred\nand fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.\n\n6:21. And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel\njoined themselves unto them.\n\n6:22. And they went to the king, and said: How long dost thou delay to\nexecute judgment, and to revenge our brethren?\n\n6:23. We determined to serve thy father, and to do according to his\norders, and obey his edicts:\n\n6:24. And for this they of our nation are alienated from us, and have\nslain as many of us as they could find, and have spoiled our\ninheritances.\n\n6:25. Neither have they put forth their hand against us only, but also\nagainst all our borders.\n\n6:26. And behold they have approached this day to the castle of\nJerusalem to take it, and they have fortified the strong hold of\nBethsura:\n\n6:27. And unless thou speedily prevent them, they will do greater\nthings than these, and thou shalt not be able to subdue them.\n\n6:28. Now when the king heard this, he was angry: and he called\ntogether all his friends, and the captains of his army, and them that\nwere over the horsemen.\n\n6:29. There came also to him from other realms, and from the islands of\nthe sea, hired troops.\n\n6:30. And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and\ntwenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants trained to battle.\n\n6:31. And they went through Idumea, and approached to Bethsura, and\nfought many days, and they made engines: but they sallied forth, and\nburnt them with fire, and fought manfully.\n\nBut they sallied forth.... That is, the citizens of Bethsura sallied\nforth and burnt them, that is, burnt the engines of the besiegers.\n\n6:32. And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to\nBethzacharam, over against the king\u2019s camp.\n\n6:33. And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march\non fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made\nthemselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets:\n\n6:34. And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and\nmulberries, to provoke them to fight.\n\n6:35. And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood\nby every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of\nbrass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were\nchosen for every beast.\n\n6:36. These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there:\nand whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.\n\nThese before the time.... That is, these were ready for every occasion.\n\n6:37. And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers which covered\nevery one of them: and engines upon them, and upon every one thirty-two\nvaliant men, who fought from above: and an Indian to rule the beast.\n\n6:38. And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that\nside, at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to\nhasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof.\n\n6:39. Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass,\nthe mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire.\n\n6:40. And part of the king\u2019s army was distinguished by the high\nmountains, and the other part by the low places: and they marched on\nwarily and orderly.\n\n6:41. And all the inhabitants of the land were moved at the noise of\ntheir multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of\nthe armour, for the army was exceeding great and strong.\n\n6:42. And Judas and his army drew near for battle: and there fell of\nthe king\u2019s army six hundred men.\n\n6:43. And Eleazar, the son of Saura, saw one of the beasts harnessed\nwith the king\u2019s harness: and it was higher than the other beasts; and\nit seemed to him that the king was on it:\n\n6:44. And he exposed himself to deliver his people, and to get himself\nan everlasting name.\n\n6:45. And he ran up to it boldly in the midst of the legion, killing on\nthe right hand, and on the left, and they fell by him on this side and\nthat side.\n\n6:46. And he went between the feet of the elephant, and put himself\nunder it: and slew it, and it fell to the ground upon him, and he died\nthere.\n\n6:47. Then they seeing the strength of the king and the fierceness of\nhis army, turned away from them.\n\n6:48. But the king\u2019s army went up against them to Jerusalem: and the\nking\u2019s army pitched their tents against Judea and Mount Sion.\n\n6:49. And he made peace with them that were in Bethsura: and they came\nforth out of the city, because they had no victuals, being shut up\nthere, for it was the year of rest to the land.\n\n6:50. And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to\nkeep it.\n\n6:51. And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and\nhe set up there battering slings, and engines, and instruments to cast\nfire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot\narrows, and slings.\n\n6:52. And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought\nfor many days.\n\n6:53. But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the\nseventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from\namong the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been\nstored up.\n\n6:54. And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine\nhad prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own\nplace.\n\n6:55. Now Lysias heard that Philip; whom king Antiochus while he lived\nhad appointed to bring up his son, Antiochus, and to reign,\n\n6:56. Was returned from Persia, and Media, with the army that went with\nhim and that he sought to take upon him the affairs of the kingdom:\n\n6:57. Wherefore he made haste to go, and say to the king and to the\ncaptains of the army: We decay daily, and our provision of victuals is\nsmall, and the place that we lay siege to is strong, and it lieth upon\nus to take order for the affairs of the kingdom.\n\n6:58. Now, therefore, let us come to an agreement with these men, and\nmake peace with them and with all their nation.\n\n6:59. And let us covenant with them, that they may live according to\ntheir own laws, as before. For because of our despising their laws,\nthey have been provoked, and have done all these things.\n\n6:60. And the proposal was acceptable in the sight of the king, and of\nthe princes: and he sent to them to make peace: and they accepted of\nit.\n\n6:61. And the king and the princes swore to them: and they came out of\nthe strong hold.\n\n6:62. Then the king entered into Mount Sion, and saw the strength of\nthe place: and he quickly broke the oath that he had taken, and gave\ncommandment to throw down the wall round about.\n\n6:63. And he departed in haste and returned to Antioch, where he found\nPhilip master of the city: and he fought against him, and took the\ncity.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 7\n\nDemetrius is made king, and sends Bacchides and Alcimus the priest into\nJudea, and after them Nicanor, who is slain by Judas with all his army.\n\n7:1. In the hundred and fifty-first year, Demetrius, the son of\nSeleucus, departed from the city of Rome, and came up with few men into\na city of the sea coast, and reigned there.\n\n7:2. And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of\nhis fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring\nthem unto him.\n\n7:3. And when he knew it, he said: Let me not see their face.\n\n7:4. So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his\nkingdom:\n\n7:5. And there came to him the wicked and ungodly men of Israel: and\nAlcimus was at the head of them, who desired to be made high priest.\n\n7:6. And they accused the people to the king, saying: Judas and his\nbrethren have destroyed all thy friends, and he hath driven us out of\nour land.\n\n7:7. Now, therefore, send some men whom thou trustest, and let him go,\nand see all the havoc he hath made amongst us, and in the king\u2019s lands:\nand let him punish all his friends and their helpers.\n\n7:8. Then the king chose Bacchides, one of his friends, that ruled\nbeyond the great river in the kingdom, and was faithful to the king:\nand he sent him,\n\n7:9. To see the havoc that Judas had made: and the wicked Alcimus he\nmade high priest, and commanded him to take revenge upon the children\nof Israel.\n\n7:10. And they arose, and came with a great army into the land of Juda:\nand they sent messengers, and spoke to Judas and his brethren with\npeaceable words, deceitfully.\n\n7:11. But they gave no heed to their words: for they saw that they were\ncome with a great army.\n\n7:12. Then there assembled to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of the\nscribes, to require things that are just:\n\n7:13. And first the Assideans, that were among the children of Israel,\nand they sought peace of them.\n\n7:14. For they said: One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come,\nhe will not deceive us.\n\n7:15. And he spoke to them peaceably: and he swore to them, saying: We\nwill do you no harm, nor your friends.\n\n7:16. And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew\nthem in one day, according to the word that is written:\n\n7:17. The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed\nround about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.\n\n7:18. Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said:\nThere is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the\ncovenant, and the oath which they made.\n\n7:19. And Bacchides removed the camp from Jerusalem, and pitched in\nBethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from\nhim, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit.\n\n7:20. Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him\ntroops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king.\n\n7:21. But Alcimus did what he could to maintain his chief priesthood.\n\n7:22. And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got\nthe land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Israel.\n\n7:23. And Judas saw all the evils that Alcimus, and they that were with\nhim, did to the children of Israel, much more than the Gentiles.\n\n7:24. And he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and\ntook vengeance upon the men that had revolted, and they ceased to go\nforth any more into the country.\n\n7:25. And Alcimus saw that Judas and they that were with him,\nprevailed: and he knew that he could not stand against them, and he\nwent back to the king, and accused them of many crimes.\n\n7:26. And the king sent Nicanor, one of his principal lords, who was a\ngreat enemy to Israel: and he commanded him to destroy the people.\n\n7:27. And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army, and he sent to\nJudas and to his brethren deceitfully, with friendly words,\n\n7:28. Saying: Let there be no fighting between me and you: I will come\nwith a few men, to see your faces with peace.\n\n7:29. And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably: and\nthe enemies were prepared to take away Judas by force.\n\n7:30. And the thing was known to Judas that he was come to him with\ndeceit: and he was much afraid of him, and would not see his face any\nmore.\n\n7:31. And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered: and he went out\nto fight against Judas, near Capharsalama.\n\n7:32. And there fell of Nicanor\u2019s army almost five thousand men, and\nthey fled into the city of David.\n\n7:33. And after this Nicanor went up into mount Sion: and some of the\npriests and the people came out to salute him peaceably, and to shew\nhim the holocausts that were offered for the king.\n\n7:34. But he mocked and despised them, and abused them: and he spoke\nproudly,\n\n7:35. And swore in anger, saying: Unless Judas and his army be\ndelivered into my hands, as soon as ever I return in peace, I will burn\nthis house. And he went out in a great rage.\n\n7:36. And the priests went in, and stood before the face of the altar\nand the temple: and weeping, they said:\n\n7:37. Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for thy name to be called\nupon therein, that it might be a house of prayer and supplication for\nthy people.\n\n7:38. Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the\nsword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any\nlonger.\n\n7:39. Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem, and encamped near to\nBethoron: and an army of Syria joined him.\n\n7:40. But Judas pitched in Adarsa with three thousand men: and Judas\nprayed, and said:\n\n7:41. O Lord, when they that were sent by king Sennacherib blasphemed\nthee, an angel went out, and slew of them a hundred and eighty-five\nthousand:\n\n7:42. Even so destroy this army in our sight today and let the rest\nknow that he hath spoken ill against thy sanctuary: and judge thou him\naccording to his wickedness.\n\n7:43. And the armies joined battle on the thirteenth day of the month,\nAdar: and the army of Nicanor was defeated, and he himself was first\nslain in the battle.\n\n7:44. And when his army saw that Nicanor was slain they threw away\ntheir weapons, and fled:\n\n7:45. And they pursued after them one day\u2019s journey from Adazer, even\ntill ye come to Gazara, and they sounded the trumpets after them with\nsignals.\n\n7:46. And they went forth out of all the towns of Judea round about,\nand they pushed them with the horns, and they turned again to them, and\nthey were all slain with the sword, and there was not left of them so\nmuch as one.\n\n7:47. And they took the spoils of them for a booty, and they cut off\nNicanor\u2019s head, and his right hand, which he had proudly stretched out,\nand they brought it, and hung it up over against Jerusalem.\n\n7:48. And the people rejoiced exceedingly, and they spent that day with\ngreat joy.\n\n7:49. And he ordained that this day should be kept every year, being\nthe thirteenth of the month of Adar.\n\n7:50. And the land of Juda was quiet for a short time.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 8\n\nJudas hears of the great character of the Romans: he makes a league\nwith them.\n\n8:1. Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are powerful\nand strong, and willingly agree to all things that are requested of\nthem: and that whosoever have come to them, they have made amity with\nthem, and that they are mighty in power.\n\n8:2. And they heard of their battles, and their noble acts which they\nhad done in Galatia, how they had conquered them, and brought them\nunder tribute:\n\nThey heard, etc.... What is here set down of the history and character\nof the ancient Romans, is not an assertion, or affirmation of the\nsacred writer: but only a relation of what Judas had heard of them.\n\n8:3. And how great things they had done in the land of Spain, and that\nthey had brought under their power the mines of silver and of gold that\nare there, and had gotten possession of all the place by their counsel\nand patience:\n\n8:4. And had conquered places that were very far off from them, and\nkings that came against them from the ends of the earth, and had\noverthrown them with great slaughter: and the rest pay them tribute\nevery year.\n\n8:5. And that they had defeated in battle Philip and Perses the king of\nthe Ceteans, and the rest that had borne arms against them, and had\nconquered them:\n\nCeteans.... That is, the Macedonians.\n\n8:6. And how Antiochus, the great king of Asia, who went to fight\nagainst them, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and\nchariots, and a very great army, was routed by them.\n\n8:7. And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he\nand they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and\nthat he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,\n\n8:8. And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the\nLydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken\nfrom them, they gave to king Eumenes.\n\nEumenes.... King of Pergamus.\n\n8:9. And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy\nthem: and they had knowledge thereof,\n\n8:10. And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and\nmany of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their\nchildren captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land,\nand threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto\nthis day.\n\n8:11. And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had\nresisted them, they had destroyed and brought under their power.\n\n8:12. But with their friends, and such as relied upon them, they kept\namity, and had conquered kingdoms that were near, and that were far\noff: for all that heard their name, were afraid of them.\n\n8:13. That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned:\nand whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were\ngreatly exalted.\n\n8:14. And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to\nbe magnified thereby.\n\n8:15. And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted\ndaily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in council always for the\npeople, that they might do the things that were right:\n\n8:16. And that they committed their government to one man every year,\nto rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no\nenvy nor jealousy amongst them.\n\nTo one man.... There were two consuls: but one only ruled at one time,\neach in his day.\u2014Ibid. No envy, etc.... So Judas had heard: and it was\nso far true, with regard to the ancient Romans, that as yet no envy or\njealousy had divided them into such open factions and civil wars, as\nthey afterwards experienced in the time of Marius and Sylla, etc.\n\n8:17. So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and\nJason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of\namity and confederacy with them:\n\n8:18. And that they might take off from them the yoke of the Grecians,\nfor they saw that they oppressed the kingdom of Israel with servitude.\n\n8:19. And they went to Rome, a very long journey, and they entered into\nthe senate house, and said:\n\n8:20. Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the people of the Jews,\nhave sent us to you to make alliance and peace with you, and that we\nmay be registered your confederates and friends.\n\n8:21. And the proposal was pleasing in their sight.\n\n8:22. And this is the copy of the writing that they wrote back again,\ngraven in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with\nthem there for a memorial of the peace, and alliance.\n\n8:23. GOOD SUCCESS BE TO THE ROMANS, and to the people of the Jews by\nsea, and by land, for ever: and far be the sword and enemy from them.\n\n8:24. But if there come first any war upon the Romans, or any of their\nconfederates, in all their dominions:\n\n8:25. The nation of the Jews shall help them according as the time\nshall direct, with all their heart:\n\n8:26. Neither shall they give them, whilst they are fighting, or\nfurnish them with wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed\ngood to the Romans: and they shall obey their orders, without taking\nany thing of them.\n\n8:27. In like manner also if war shall come first upon the nation of\nthe Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as\nthe time shall permit them:\n\n8:28. And there shall not be given to them that come to their aid,\neither wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to\nthe Romans: and they shall observe their orders without deceit.\n\n8:29. According to these articles did the Romans covenant with the\npeople of the Jews.\n\n8:30. And, if after this, one party or the other shall have a mind to\nadd to these articles, or take away any thing, they may do it at their\npleasure: and whatsoever they shall add, or take away, shall be\nratified.\n\n8:31. Moreover, concerning the evils that Demetrius, the king, hath\ndone against them, we have written to him, saying: Why hast thou made\nthy yoke heavy upon our friends and allies, the Jews?\n\n8:32. If, therefore, they come again to us complaining of thee, we will\ndo them justice, and will make war against thee by sea and land.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 9\n\nBacchides is sent again into Judea: Judas fights against him with eight\nhundred men and is slain. Jonathan succeeds him and revenges the murder\nof his brother John. He fights against Bacchides. Alcimus dies\nmiserably. Bacchides besieges Bethbessen. He is forced to raise the\nsiege and leave the country.\n\n9:1. In the mean time, when Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army\nwere fallen in battle, he sent again Bacchides and Alcimus into Judea;\nand the right wing of his army with them.\n\n9:2. And they took the road that leadeth to Galgal, and they camped in\nMasaloth, which is in Arabella: and they made themselves masters of it,\nand slew many people.\n\n9:3. In the first month of the hundred and fifty-second year they\nbrought the army to Jerusalem:\n\n9:4. And they arose and went to Berea, with twenty thousand men, and\ntwo thousand horsemen.\n\n9:5. Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand\nchosen men with him:\n\n9:6. And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and\nthey were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of\nthe camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men.\n\n9:7. And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed\nupon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to\ngather them together, and he was discouraged.\n\n9:8. Then he said to them that remained: Let us arise, and go against\nour enemies, if we may be able to fight against them.\n\n9:9. But they dissuaded him, saying: We shall not be able, but let us\nsave our lives now, and return to our brethren, and then we will fight\nagainst them: for we are but few.\n\n9:10. Then Judas said: God forbid we should do this thing, and flee\naway from them: but if our time be come, let us die manfully for our\nbrethren, and let us not stain our glory.\n\n9:11. And the army removed out of the camp, and they stood over against\nthem: and the horsemen were divided into two troops, and the slingers,\nand the archers, went before the army, and they that were in the front\nwere all men of valour.\n\n9:12. And Bacchides was in the right wing, and the legion drew near on\ntwo sides, and they sounded the trumpets:\n\n9:13. And they also that were on Judas\u2019s side, even they also cried\nout, and the earth shook at the noise of the armies: and the battle was\nfought from morning even unto the evening.\n\n9:14. And Judas perceived that the stronger part of the army of\nBacchides was on the right side, and all the stout of heart came\ntogether with him:\n\n9:15. And the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued them\neven to the mount Azotus.\n\n9:16. And they that were in the left wing saw that the right wing was\ndiscomfited, and they followed after Judas, and them that were with\nhim, at their back:\n\n9:17. And the battle was hard fought, and there fell many wounded of\nthe one side and of the other.\n\n9:18. And Judas was slain, and the rest fled away.\n\n9:19. And Jonathan and Simon took Judas, their brother, and buried him\nin the sepulchre of their fathers, in the city of Modin.\n\n9:20. And all the people of Israel bewailed him with great lamentation,\nand they mourned for him many days.\n\n9:21. And said: How is the mighty man fallen, that saved the people of\nIsrael!\n\n9:22. But the rest of the words of the wars of Judas, and of the noble\nacts that he did, and of his greatness, are not written: for they were\nvery many.\n\n9:23. And it came to pass, after the death of Judas, that the wicked\nbegan to put forth their heads in all the confines of Israel, and all\nthe workers of iniquity rose up.\n\n9:24. In those days there was a very great famine, and they and all\ntheir country yielded to Bacchides.\n\n9:25. And Bacchides chose the wicked men, and made them lords of the\ncountry:\n\n9:26. And they sought out, and made diligent search after the friends\nof Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance of them,\nand abused them.\n\n9:27. And there was a great tribulation in Israel, such as was not\nsince the day, that there was no prophet seen in Israel.\n\n9:28. And all the friends of Judas came together, and said to Jonathan:\n\n9:29. Since thy brother Judas died there is not a man like him to go\nforth against our enemies, Bacchides, and them that are the enemies of\nour nation.\n\n9:30. Now, therefore, we have chosen thee this day to be our prince,\nand captain, in his stead, to fight our battles.\n\n9:31. So Jonathan took upon him the government at that time, and rose\nup in the place of Judas, his brother.\n\n9:32. And Bacchides had knowledge of it, and sought to kill him.\n\n9:33. And Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, knew it, and all that were\nwith them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by\nthe water of the lake Asphar,\n\n9:34. And Bacchides understood it, and he came himself, with all his\narmy, over the Jordan, on the sabbath day.\n\n9:35. And Jonathan sent his brother, a captain of the people, to desire\nthe Nabutheans his friends, that they would lend them their equipage,\nwhich was copious.\n\n9:36. And the children of Jambri came forth out of Madaba, and took\nJohn, and all that he had, and went away with them.\n\n9:37. After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the\nchildren of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride\nout of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan,\nwith great pomp.\n\n9:38. And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they\nwent up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.\n\n9:39. And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and\ngreat preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and\nhis brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and\nmany weapons.\n\n9:40. And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in\nambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled\ninto the mountains, and they took all their spoils:\n\n9:41. And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the noise of their\nmusical instruments into lamentation.\n\n9:42. And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they\nreturned to the bank of the Jordan.\n\n9:43. And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to\nthe bank of the Jordan, with a great power.\n\n9:44. And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against\nour enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before.\n\n9:45. For behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan\non this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and\nthere is no place for us to turn aside.\n\n9:46. Now, therefore, cry ye to heaven, that ye may be delivered from\nthe hand of your enemies. And they joined battle.\n\n9:47. And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, but he\nturned away from him backwards.\n\n9:48. And Jonathan, and they that were with him, leapt into the Jordan,\nand swam over the Jordan to them.\n\n9:49. And there fell of Bacchides\u2019 side that day a thousand men: and\nthey returned to Jerusalem,\n\n9:50. And they built strong cities in Judea, the fortress that was in\nJericho, and in Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata,\nand Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates, and bars.\n\n9:51. And he placed garrisons in them, that they might wage war against\nIsrael:\n\n9:52. And he fortified the city of Bethsura, and Gazara, and the\ncastle, and set garrisons in them, and provisions of victuals:\n\n9:53. And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for\nhostages, and put them in the castle in Jerusalem in custody.\n\n9:54. Now in the year one hundred and fifty-three, the second month,\nAlcimus commanded the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to be\nthrown down, and the works of the prophets to be destroyed: and he\nbegan to destroy.\n\n9:55. At that time Alcimus was struck: and his works were hindered, and\nhis mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could\nno more speak a word, nor give order concerning his house.\n\n9:56. And Alcimus died at that time in great torment.\n\n9:57. And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead: and he returned to the\nking, and the land was quiet for two years.\n\n9:58. And all the wicked held a council, saying: Behold Jonathan, and\nthey that are with him, dwell at ease and without fear: now, therefore,\nlet us bring Bacchides hither, and he shall take them all in one night.\n\n9:59. So they went, and gave him counsel.\n\n9:60. And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly\nletters to his adherents that were in Judea to seize upon Jonathan, and\nthem that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known\nto them.\n\n9:61. And he apprehended of the men of the country, that were the\nprincipal authors of the mischief, fifty men, and he slew them.\n\n9:62. And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, retired\ninto Bethbessen, which is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches\nthereof, and they fortified it.\n\n9:63. And when Bacchides knew it, he gathered together all his\nmultitude: and sent word to them that were of Judea.\n\n9:64. And he came, and camped above Bethbessen, and fought against it\nmany days, and made engines.\n\n9:65. But Jonathan left his brother, Simon, in the city and went forth\ninto the country, and came with a number of men,\n\n9:66. And struck Odares, and his brethren, and the children of\nPhaseron, in their tents, and he began to slay, and to increase in\nforces.\n\n9:67. But Simon, and they that were with him, sallied out of the city,\nand burnt the engines,\n\n9:68. And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by\nthem: and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his\nenterprise was in vain.\n\n9:69. And he was angry with the wicked men that had given him counsel\nto come into their country, and he slew many of them: and he purposed\nto return with the rest into their country.\n\n9:70. And Jonathan had knowledge of it, and he sent ambassadors to him\nto make peace with him, and to restore to him the prisoners.\n\n9:71. And he accepted it willingly, and did according to his words, and\nswore that he would do him no harm all the days of his life.\n\n9:72. And he restored to him the prisoners which he before had taken\nout of the land of Juda: and he returned, and went away into his own\ncountry, and he came no more into their borders.\n\n9:73. So the sword ceased from Israel: and Jonathan dwelt in Machmas,\nand Jonathan began there to judge the people, and he destroyed the\nwicked out of Israel.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 10\n\nAlexander Bales sets himself up for king: both he and Demetrius seek to\nmake Jonathan their friend. Alexander kills Demetrius in battle, and\nhonours Jonathan. His victory over Apollonius.\n\n10:1. Now in the hundred and sixtieth year, Alexander, the son of\nAntiochus, surnamed the Illustrious, came up and took Ptolemais, and\nthey received him, and he reigned there.\n\n10:2. And king Demetrius heard of it, and gathered together an\nexceeding great army, and went forth against him to fight.\n\n10:3. And Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan, with peaceable words, to\nmagnify him.\n\n10:4. For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make\none with Alexander against us.\n\n10:5. For he will remember all the evils that we have done against him,\nand against his brother, and against his nation.\n\n10:6. And he gave him authority to gather together an army, and to make\narms, and that he should be his confederate: and the hostages that were\nin the castle, he commanded to be delivered to him.\n\n10:7. And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the\nhearing of all the people, and of them that were in the castle.\n\n10:8. And they were struck with great fear, because they heard that the\nking had given him authority to gather together an army.\n\n10:9. And the hostages were delivered to Jonathan, and he restored them\nto their parents.\n\n10:10. And Jonathan dwelt in Jerusalem, and began to build, and to\nrepair the city.\n\n10:11. And he ordered workmen to build the walls, and mount Sion round\nabout with square stones for fortification: and so they did.\n\n10:12. And the strangers that were in the strong holds, which Bacchides\nhad built, fled away.\n\n10:13. And every man left his place, and departed into his own country:\n\n10:14. Only in Bethsura there remained some of them, that had forsaken\nthe law, and the commandments of God: for this was a place of refuge\nfor them.\n\n10:15. And king Alexander heard of the promises that Demetrius had made\nJonathan: and they told him of the battles, and the worthy acts that he\nand his brethren had done, and the labours that they had endured.\n\n10:16. And he said: Shall we find such another man? now, therefore, we\nwill make him our friend and our confederate.\n\n10:17. So he wrote a letter, and sent it to him according to these\nwords, saying:\n\n10:18. King Alexander to his brother, Jonathan, greetings.\n\n10:19. We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power, and\nfit to be our friend:\n\n10:20. Now therefore, we make thee this day high priest of thy nation,\nand that thou be called the king\u2019s friend, (and he sent him a purple\nrobe, and a crown of gold) and that thou be of one mind with us in our\naffairs, and keep friendship with us.\n\n10:21. Then Jonathan put on the holy vestment in the seventh month, in\nthe year one hundred and threescore, at the feast day of the\ntabernacles: and he gathered together an army, and made a great number\nof arms.\n\n10:22. And Demetrius heard these words, and was exceeding sorry, and\nsaid:\n\n10:23. What is this that we have done, that Alexander hath prevented us\nto gain the friendship of the Jews to strengthen himself?\n\n10:24. I also will write to them words of request, and offer dignities,\nand gifts: that they may be with me to aid me.\n\n10:25. And he wrote to them in these words: King Demetrius to the\nnation of the Jews, greeting.\n\n10:26. Whereas you have kept covenant with us, and have continued in\nour friendship, and have not joined with our enemies, we have heard of\nit, and are glad.\n\n10:27. Wherefore now continue still to keep fidelity towards us, and we\nwill reward you with good things, for what you have done in our behalf.\n\n10:28. And we will remit to you many charges, and will give you gifts.\n\n10:29. And now I free you, and all the Jews, from tributes, and I\nrelease you from the customs of salt, and remit the crowns, and the\nthirds of the seed:\n\n10:30. And the half of the fruit of trees, which is my share, I leave\nto you from this day forward, so that it shall not be taken of the land\nof Juda, and of the three cities that are added thereto out of Samaria\nand Galilee, from this day forth, and for ever:\n\n10:31. And let Jerusalem be holy and free, with the borders thereof:\nand let the tenths, and tributes be for itself.\n\n10:32. I yield up also the power of the castle that is in Jerusalem,\nand I give it to the high priest, to place therein such men as he shall\nchoose, to keep it.\n\n10:33. And every soul of the Jews that hath been carried captive from\nthe land of Juda in all my kingdom, I set at liberty freely, that all\nbe discharged from tributes, even of their cattle.\n\n10:34. And I will that all the feasts, and the sabbaths, and the new\nmoons, and the days appointed, and three days before the solemn day,\nand three days after the solemn day, be all days of immunity and\nfreedom, for all the Jews that are in my kingdom:\n\n10:35. And no man shall have power to do any thing against them, or to\nmolest any of them, in any cause.\n\n10:36. And let there be enrolled in the king\u2019s army to the number of\nthirty thousand of the Jews: and allowance shall be made them, as is\ndue to all the king\u2019s forces and certain of them shall be appointed to\nbe in the fortresses of the great king:\n\n10:37. And some of them shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom,\nthat are of trust, and let the governors be taken from among\nthemselves, and let them walk in their own laws, as the king hath\ncommanded in the land of Juda.\n\n10:38. And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country\nof Samaria, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under\none, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest:\n\n10:39. Ptolemais and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the\nholy places that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the\nholy things.\n\n10:40. And I give every year fifteen thousand sickles of silver out of\nthe king\u2019s accounts, of what belongs to me:\n\n10:41. And all that is above, which they that were over the affairs the\nyears before, had not paid, from this time they shall give it to the\nworks of the house.\n\n10:42. Moreover, the five thousand sickles of silver, which they\nreceived from the account of the holy places, every year, shall also\nbelong to the priests that execute the ministry.\n\n10:43. And whosoever shall flee into the temple that is in Jerusalem,\nand in all the borders thereof, being indebted to the king for any\nmatter, let them be set at liberty, and all that they have in my\nkingdom, let them have it free.\n\n10:44. For the building also, or repairing the works of the holy\nplaces, the charges shall be given out of the king\u2019s revenues:\n\n10:45. For the building also of the walls of Jerusalem, and the\nfortifying thereof round about, the charges shall be given out of the\nking\u2019s account, as also for the building of the walls in Judea.\n\n10:46. Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no\ncredit to them, nor received them because they remembered the great\nevil that he had done in Israel, for he had afflicted them exceedingly.\n\n10:47. And their inclinations were towards Alexander, because he had\nbeen the chief promoter of peace in their regard, and him they always\nhelped.\n\n10:48. And king Alexander gathered together a great army, and moved his\ncamp near to Demetrius.\n\n10:49. And the two kings joined battle, and the army of Demetrius fled\naway, and Alexander pursued after him, and pressed them close.\n\n10:50. And the battle was hard fought, till the sun went down: and\nDemetrius was slain that day.\n\n10:51. And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt, with\nwords to this effect, saying:\n\nPtolemee.... Surnamed Philometer.\n\n10:52. Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the\nthrone of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have\noverthrown Demetrius and possessed our country,\n\n10:53. And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have\nbeen destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom:\n\n10:54. Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and\ngive me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I\nwill give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee.\n\n10:55. And king Ptolemee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein\nthou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne\nof their kingdom.\n\n10:56. And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at\nPtolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as\nthou hast said.\n\n10:57. So Ptolemee went out of Egypt, with Cleopatra his daughter, and\nhe came to Ptolemais, in the hundred and sixty-second year.\n\n10:58. And king Alexander met him, and he gave him his daughter,\nCleopatra: and he celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great\nglory, after the manner of kings.\n\n10:59. And king Alexander wrote to Jonathan, that he should come and\nmeet him.\n\n10:60. And he went honourably to Ptolemais, and he met there the two\nkings, and he gave them much silver, and gold, and presents: and he\nfound favour in their sight.\n\n10:61. And some pestilent men of Israel, men of a wicked life,\nassembled themselves against him, to accuse him: and the king gave no\nheed to them.\n\n10:62. And he commanded that Jonathan\u2019s garments should be taken off,\nand that he should be clothed with purple: and they did so. And the\nking made him sit by himself.\n\n10:63. And he said to his princes: Go out with him into the midst of\nthe city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of\nany matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.\n\n10:64. So when his accusers saw his glory proclaimed, and him clothed\nwith purple, they all fled away.\n\n10:65. And the king magnified him, and enrolled him amongst his chief\nfriends, and made him governor, and partaker of his dominion.\n\n10:66. And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with peace and joy.\n\n10:67. In the year one hundred and sixty-five, Demetrius, the son of\nDemetrius, came from Crete into the land of his fathers.\n\n10:68. And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and\nreturned to Antioch.\n\n10:69. And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor\nof Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to\nJamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,\n\n10:70. Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and\nreproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.\n\n10:71. Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us\ninto the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the\nstrength of war.\n\n10:72. Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say\nthat your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice\nbeen put to flight in their own land:\n\n10:73. And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so\ngreat an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor\nplace to flee to?\n\n10:74. Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in\nhis mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and\nSimon, his brother, met him to help him.\n\n10:75. And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out\nof the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid\nsiege to it.\n\n10:76. And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the\ngates to him: so Jonathan took Joppe.\n\n10:77. And Apollonius heard of it, and he took three thousand horsemen,\nand a great army.\n\n10:78. And he went to Azotus, as one that was making a journey, and\nimmediately he went forth into the plain: because he had a great number\nof horsemen, and he trusted in them. And Jonathan followed after him to\nAzotus, and they joined battle.\n\n10:79. And Apollonius left privately in the camp a thousand horsemen\nbehind them.\n\n10:80. And Jonathan knew that there was an ambush behind him, and they\nsurrounded his army, and cast darts at the people from morning till\nevening.\n\n10:81. But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and\nso their horses were fatigued.\n\n10:82. Then Simon drew forth his army, and attacked the legion: for the\nhorsemen were wearied: and they were discomfited by him, and fled.\n\n10:83. And they that were scattered about the plain fled into Azotus,\nand went into Bethdagon, their idol\u2019s temple, there to save themselves.\n\n10:84. But Jonathan set fire to Azotus, and the cities that were round\nabout it, and took the spoils of them and the temple of Dagon: and all\nthem that were fled into it, he burnt with fire.\n\n10:85. So they that were slain by the sword, with them that were burnt,\nwere almost eight thousand men.\n\n10:86. And Jonathan, removed his army from thence and camped against\nAscalon: and they went out of the city to meet him with great honour.\n\n10:87. And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with his people, having\nmany spoils.\n\n10:88. And it came to pass, when Alexander the king heard these words,\nthat he honoured Jonathan yet more.\n\n10:89. And he sent him a buckle of gold, as the custom is, to be given\nto such as are of the royal blood. And he gave him Accaron, and all the\nborders thereof, in possession.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 11\n\nPtolemee invades the kingdom of Alexander: the latter is slain: and the\nformer dies soon after. Demetrius honours Jonathan, and is rescued by\nthe Jews from his own subjects in Antioch. Antiochus the younger\nfavours Jonathan. His exploits in divers places.\n\n11:1. And the king of Egypt gathered together an army, like the sand\nthat lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships: and he sought to get the\nkingdom of Alexander by deceit, and join it to his own kingdom.\n\n11:2. And he went out into Syria with peaceable words and they opened\nto him the cities, and met him: for king Alexander had ordered them to\ngo forth to meet him, because he was his father in law.\n\n11:3. Now when Ptolemee entered into the cities, he put garrisons of\nsoldiers in every city.\n\n11:4. And when he came near to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of\nDagon that was burnt with fire, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof,\nthat were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad, and the\ngraves of them that were slain in the battle, which they had made near\nthe way.\n\n11:5. And they told the king that Jonathan had done these things, to\nmake him odious: but the king held his peace.\n\n11:6. And Jonathan came to meet the king at Joppe with glory, and they\nsaluted one another, and they lodged there.\n\n11:7. And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river, called\nEleutherus: and he returned into Jerusalem.\n\n11:8. And king Ptolemee got the dominion of the cities by the sea side,\neven to Seleucia, and he devised evil designs against Alexander.\n\n11:9. And he sent ambassadors to Demetrius, saying: Come, let us make a\nleague between us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander\nhath, and thou shalt reign in the kingdom of thy father.\n\n11:10. For I repent that I have given him my daughter: for he hath\nsought to kill me.\n\n11:11. And he slandered him, because he coveted his kingdom,\n\n11:12. And he took away his daughter, and gave her to Demetrius, and\nalienated himself from Alexander, and his enmities were made manifest.\n\n11:13. And Ptolemee entered into Antioch, and set two crowns upon his\nhead, that of Egypt, and that of Asia.\n\n11:14. Now king Alexander was in Cilicia at that time: because they\nthat were in those places had rebelled.\n\n11:15. And when Alexander heard of it, he came to give him battle: and\nking Ptolemee brought forth his army, and met him with a strong power,\nand put him to flight.\n\n11:16. And Alexander fled into Arabia, there to be protected: and king\nPtolemee was exalted.\n\n11:17. And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander\u2019s head, and sent it\nto Ptolemee.\n\n11:18. And king Ptolemee died the third day after: and they that were\nin the strong holds were destroyed by them that were within the camp.\n\n11:19. And Demetrius reigned in the hundred and sixty-seventh year.\n\n11:20. In those days Jonathan gathered together them that were in\nJudea, to take the castle that was in Jerusalem: and they made many\nengines of war against it.\n\n11:21. Then some wicked men that hated their own nation, went away to\nking Demetrius, and told him that Jonathan was besieging the castle.\n\n11:22. And when he heard it, he was angry: and forthwith he came to\nPtolemais, and wrote to Jonathan that he should not besiege the castle,\nbut should come to him in haste, and speak to him.\n\n11:23. But when Jonathan heard this, he bade them besiege it still: and\nhe chose some of the ancients of Israel, and of the priests, and put\nhimself in danger.\n\n11:24. And he took gold, and silver, and raiment, and many other\npresents, and went to the king to Ptolemais and he found favour in his\nsight.\n\n11:25. And certain wicked men of his nation made complaints against\nhim.\n\n11:26. And the king treated him as his predecessors had done before:\nand he exalted him in the sight of all his friends.\n\n11:27. And he confirmed him in the high priesthood and all the honours\nhe had before, and he made him the chief of his friends.\n\n11:28. And Jonathan requested of the king that he would make Judea free\nfrom tribute, and the three governments, and Samaria, and the confines\nthereof: and he promised him three hundred talents.\n\n11:29. And the king consented: and he wrote letters to Jonathan of all\nthese things, to this effect.\n\n11:30. King Demetrius to his brother, Jonathan, and to the nation of\nthe Jews, greeting.\n\n11:31. We send you here a copy of the letter which we have written to\nLasthenes, our parent, concerning you, that you might know it.\n\n11:32. King Demetrius to Lasthenes, his parent, greetings.\n\n11:33. We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews, who are\nour friends, and keep the things that are just with us, for their good\nwill which they bear towards us.\n\n11:34. We have ratified, therefore, unto them all the borders of Judea,\nand the three cities, Apherema, Lydda, and Ramatha, which are added to\nJudea, out of Samaria, and all their confines, to be set apart to all\nthem that sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which the\nking received of them every year, and for the fruits of the land, and\nof the trees.\n\nApherema.... is found only in the Greek version.\n\n11:35. And as for other things that belonged to us of the tithes, and\nof the tributes, from this time we discharge them of them: the saltpans\nalso, and the crowns that were presented to us.\n\n11:36. We give all to them, and nothing hereof shall be revoked from\nthis time forth and for ever.\n\n11:37. Now, therefore, see that thou make a copy of these things, and\nlet it be given to Jonathan, and set upon the holy mountain, in a\nconspicuous place.\n\n11:38. And king Demetrius, seeing that the land was quiet before him,\nand nothing resisted him, sent away all his forces, every man to his\nown place, except the foreign army, which he had drawn together from\nthe islands of the nations: so all the troops of his fathers hated him.\n\n11:39. Now there was one Tryphon who had been of Alexander\u2019s party\nbefore: who seeing that all the army murmured against Demetrius, went\nto Emalchuel, the Arabian, who brought up Antiochus, the son of\nAlexander:\n\n11:40. And he pressed him much to deliver him to him, that he might be\nking in his father\u2019s place: and he told him all that Demetrius had\ndone, and how his soldiers hated him. And he remained there many days.\n\n11:41. And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, desiring that he would cast\nout them that were in the castle in Jerusalem, and those that were in\nthe strong holds: because they fought against Israel.\n\n11:42. And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying: I will not only do this\nfor thee, and for thy people, but I will greatly honour thee, and thy\nnation, when opportunity shall serve.\n\n11:43. Now, therefore, thou shalt do well if thou send me men to help\nme: for all my army is gone from me.\n\n11:44. And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and\nthey came to the king, and the king was very glad of their coming.\n\n11:45. And they that were of the city assembled themselves together, to\nthe number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have killed\nthe king.\n\n11:46. And the king fled into the palace: and they of the city kept the\npassages of the city, and began to fight.\n\n11:47. And the king called the Jews to his assistance: and they came to\nhim all at once, and they all dispersed themselves through the city.\n\n11:48. And they slew in that day a hundred thousand men, and they set\nfire to the city, and got many spoils that day, and delivered the king.\n\n11:49. And they that were of the city saw that the Jews had got the\ncity as they would: and they were discouraged in their mind, and cried\nto the king, making supplication, and saying:\n\n11:50. Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us, and\nthe city.\n\n11:51. And they threw down their arms, and made peace, and the Jews\nwere glorified in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that\nwere in his realm, and were renowned throughout the kingdom, and\nreturned to Jerusalem with many spoils.\n\n11:52. So king Demetrius sat in the throne of his kingdom: and the land\nwas quiet before him.\n\n11:53. And he falsified all whatsoever he had said, and alienated\nhimself from Jonathan, and did not reward him according to the benefits\nhe had received from him, but gave him great trouble.\n\n11:54. And after this Tryphon returned, and with him Antiochus, the\nyoung boy, who was made king, and put on the diadem.\n\n11:55. And there assembled unto him all the hands which Demetrius had\nsent away, and they fought against Demetrius who turned his back and\nfled.\n\n11:56. And Tryphon took the elephants, and made himself master of\nAntioch.\n\n11:57. And young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying: I confirm thee in\nthe high priesthood, and I appoint thee ruler over the four cities, and\nto be one of the king\u2019s friends.\n\n11:58. And he sent him vessels of gold for his service, and he gave him\nleave to drink in gold, and to be clothed in purple, and to wear a\ngolden buckle:\n\n11:59. And he made his brother, Simon, governor, from the borders of\nTyre even to the confines of Egypt.\n\n11:60. Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities beyond\nthe river, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him to\nhelp him, and he came to Ascalon, and they met him honourably out of\nthe city.\n\n11:61. And he went from thence to Gaza: and they that were in Gaza shut\nhim out: and he besieged it, and burnt all the suburbs round about, and\ntook the spoils.\n\n11:62. And the men of Gaza made supplication to Jonathan, and he gave\nthem the right hand: and he took their sons for hostages, and sent them\nto Jerusalem: and he went through the country, as far as Damascus.\n\n11:63. And Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come\ntreacherously to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great army,\npurposing to remove him from the affairs of the kingdom.\n\n11:64. And he went against them: but left his brother, Simon, in the\ncountry.\n\n11:65. And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days,\nand shut them up.\n\n11:66. And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and\nhe cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison\nin it.\n\n11:67. And Jonathan and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and\nbefore it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor.\n\n11:68. And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and\nthey laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against\nthem.\n\n11:69. And they that lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined\nbattle.\n\n11:70. And all that were on Jonathan\u2019s side fled, and none was left of\nthem, but Mathathias, the son of Absalom, and Judas, the son of Calphi,\nchief captain of the army.\n\n11:71. And Jonathan rent his garments, and cast earth upon his head,\nand prayed.\n\n11:72. And Jonathan turned again to them to battle, and he put them to\nflight, and they fought.\n\n11:73. And they of his part that fled saw this, and they turned again\nto him, and they all with him pursued the enemies, even to Cades, to\ntheir own camp, and they came even thither.\n\n11:74. And there fell of the aliens in that day three thousand men: and\nJonathan returned to Jerusalem.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 12\n\nJonathan renews his league with the Romans and Lacedemonians. The\nforces of Demetrius flee away from him. He is deceived and made\nprisoner by Tryphon.\n\n12:1. And Jonathan saw that the time served him, and he chose certain\nmen, and sent them to Rome, to confirm and to renew the amity with\nthem:\n\n12:2. And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places,\naccording to the same form.\n\n12:3. And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and\nsaid: Jonathan, the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent\nus to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before.\n\n12:4. And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to\nconduct them into the land of Juda with peace.\n\n12:5. And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the\nSpartans:\n\n12:6. Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and\nthe priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans,\ntheir brethren, greeting.\n\n12:7. There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest, from\nArius, who reigned then among you to signify that you are our brethren,\nas the copy here underwritten doth specify.\n\n12:8. And Onias received the ambassador with honour and received the\nletters, wherein there was mention made of the alliance, and amity.\n\n12:9. We, though we needed none of these things having for our comfort\nthe holy books that are in our hands,\n\n12:10. Chose rather to send to you to renew the brotherhood and\nfriendship, lest we should become strangers to you altogether: for\nthere is a long time passed since you sent to us.\n\n12:11. We, therefore, at all times without ceasing, both in our\nfestivals, and other days wherein it is convenient, remember you in the\nsacrifices that we offer, and in our observances, as it is meet and\nbecoming to remember brethren.\n\n12:12. And we rejoice at your glory.\n\n12:13. But we have had many troubles and wars on every side; and the\nkings that are round about us have fought against us.\n\n12:14. But we would not be troublesome to you, nor to the rest of our\nallies and friends, in these wars.\n\n12:15. For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered,\nand our enemies are humbled.\n\n12:16. We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and\nAntipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew\nwith them the former amity and alliance.\n\n12:17. And we have commanded them to go also to you, and salute you,\nand to deliver you our letters, concerning the renewing of our\nbrotherhood.\n\n12:18. And now you shall do well to give us an answer hereto.\n\n12:19. And this is the copy of the letter which he had sent to Onias:\n\n12:20. Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest,\ngreeting.\n\n12:21. It is found in writing concerning the Spartans, and the Jews,\nthat they are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham.\n\n12:22. And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to\nwrite to us of your prosperity.\n\n12:23. And we also have written back to you, That our cattle, and our\npossessions, are yours: and yours, ours. We, therefore, have commanded\nthat these things should be told you.\n\n12:24. Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come\nagain with a greater army than before to fight against him.\n\n12:25. So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of\nAmath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country.\n\n12:26. And he sent spies into their camp, and they came back, and\nbrought him word that they designed to come upon them in the night.\n\n12:27. And when the sun was set, Jonathan commanded his men to watch,\nand to be in arms all night long ready to fight, and he set sentinels\nround about the camp.\n\n12:28. And the enemies heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for\nbattle: and they were struck with fear and dread in their heart: and\nthey kindled fires in their camp.\n\n12:29. But Jonathan, and they that were with him, knew it not till the\nmorning: for they saw the lights burning.\n\n12:30. And Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they\nhad passed the river Eleutherus.\n\n12:31. And Jonathan turned upon the Arabians, that are called\nZabadeans: and he defeated them, and took the spoils of them.\n\n12:32. And he went forward, and came to Damascus, and passed through\nall that country.\n\n12:33. Simon also went forth, and came as far as Ascalon, and the\nneighbouring fortresses, and he turned aside to Joppe, and took\npossession of it,\n\n12:34. (For he heard that they designed to deliver the hold to them\nthat took part with Demetrius) and he put a garrison there to keep it.\n\n12:35. And Jonathan came back, and called together the ancients of the\npeople; and he took a resolution with them to build fortresses in\nJudea,\n\n12:36. And to build up walls in Jerusalem, and raise a mount between\nthe castle and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might\nhave no communication, and that they might neither buy nor sell.\n\n12:37. And they came together to build up the city: for the wall that\nwas upon the brook, towards the east, was broken down, and he repaired\nthat which is called Caphetetha:\n\n12:38. And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and fortified it, and set up\ngates and bars.\n\n12:39. Now when Tryphon had conceived a design to make himself king of\nAsia and to take the crown, and to stretch out his hand against king\nAntiochus:\n\n12:40. Fearing lest Jonathan would not suffer him, but would fight\nagainst him: he sought to seize upon him, and to kill him. So he rose\nup and came to Bethsan.\n\n12:41. And Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand men chosen\nfor battle, and came to Bethsan.\n\n12:42. Now when Tryphon saw that Jonathan came with a great army, he\ndurst not stretch forth his hand against him.\n\n12:43. But received him with honour, and commended him to all his\nfriends, and gave him presents: and he commanded his troops to obey\nhim, as himself.\n\n12:44. And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou troubled all the people,\nwhereas we have no war?\n\n12:45. Now, therefore, send them back to their own houses: and choose\nthee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais,\nand I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and\nthe army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away:\nfor this is the cause of my coming.\n\n12:46. And Jonathan believed him, and did as he said: and sent away his\narmy, and they departed into the land of Juda:\n\n12:47. But he kept with him three thousand men: of whom he sent two\nthousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him.\n\n12:48. Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of\nPtolemais shut the gates of the city, and took him: and all them that\ncame in with him they slew with the sword.\n\n12:49. Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into\nthe great plain, to destroy all Jonathan\u2019s company.\n\n12:50. But they, when they understood that Jonathan, and all that were\nwith him, were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out\nready for battle.\n\n12:51. Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for\ntheir lives, returned back.\n\n12:52. Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda and they\nbewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and\nIsrael mourned with great lamentation.\n\n12:53. Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to\ndestroy them. For they said:\n\n12:54. They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore, let us\nmake war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst men.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 13\n\nSimon is made captain general in the room of his brother. Jonathan is\nslain by Tryphon. Simon is favoured by Demetrius: he taketh Gaza, and\nthe castle of Jerusalem.\n\n13:1. Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering together a very great\narmy to invade the land of Juda, and to destroy it.\n\n13:2. And seeing that the people was in dread and in fear, he went up\nto Jerusalem, and assembled the people,\n\n13:3. And exhorted them, saying: You know what great battles I and my\nbrethren, and the house of my father, have fought for the laws, and the\nsanctuary, and the distresses that we have seen:\n\n13:4. By reason whereof all my brethren have lost their lives for\nIsrael\u2019s sake, and I am left alone.\n\n13:5. And now far be it from me to spare my life in any time of\ntrouble: for I am not better than my brethren.\n\n13:6. I will avenge then my nation and the sanctuary, and our children,\nand wives: for all the heathens are gathered together to destroy us out\nof mere malice.\n\n13:7. And the spirit of the people was enkindled as soon as they heard\nthese words:\n\n13:8. And they answered with a loud voice, saying: Thou art our leader\nin the place of Judas, and Jonathan, thy brother:\n\n13:9. Fight thou our battles, and we will do whatsoever thou shalt say\nto us.\n\n13:10. So gathering together all the men of war, he made haste to\nfinish all the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.\n\n13:11. And he sent Jonathan, the son of Absalom, and with him a new\narmy, into Joppe, and he cast out them that were in it, and himself\nremained there.\n\n13:12. And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a great army, to invade\nthe land of Juda, and Jonathan was with him in custody.\n\n13:13. But Simon pitched in Addus, over against the plain.\n\n13:14. And when Tryphon understood that Simon was risen up in the place\nof his brother, Jonathan, and that he meant to join battle with him, he\nsent messengers to him,\n\n13:15. Saying: We have detained thy brother, Jonathan, for the money\nthat he owed in the king\u2019s account, by reason of the affairs which he\nhad the management of.\n\n13:16. But now send a hundred talents of silver, and his two sons for\nhostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and\nwe will release him.\n\n13:17. Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully to him; nevertheless,\nhe ordered the money and the children to be sent, lest he should bring\nupon himself a great hatred of the people of Israel, who might have\nsaid:\n\n13:18. Because he sent not the money and the children therefore is he\nlost.\n\n13:19. So he sent the children and the hundred talents and he lied, and\ndid not let Jonathan go.\n\n13:20. And after this, Tryphon entered within the country, to destroy\nit: and they went about by the way that leadeth to Ador: and Simon and\nhis army marched to every place whithersoever they went.\n\nSimon and his army marched to every place whithersoever they went....\nThat is, whithersoever Tryphon and his horsemen went in order to\noppose them.\n\n13:21. And they that were in the castle, sent messengers to Tryphon,\nthat he should make haste to come through the desert, and send them\nvictuals.\n\n13:22. And Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night; but\nthere fell a very great snow, and he came not into the country of\nGalaad.\n\n13:23. And when he approached to Bascama, he slew Jonathan and his sons\nthere.\n\n13:24. And Tryphon returned, and went into his own country.\n\n13:25. And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan, his brother, and\nburied them in Modin, the city of his fathers.\n\n13:26. And all Israel bewailed him with great lamentation: and they\nmourned for him many days.\n\n13:27. And Simon built over the sepulchre of his father and of his\nbrethren, a building lofty to the sight, of polished stone, behind and\nbefore:\n\n13:28. And he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his\nfather, and his mother, and his four brethren:\n\n13:29. And round about these he set great pillars; and upon the\npillars, arms, for a perpetual memory; and by the arms, ships carved,\nwhich might be seen by all that sailed on the sea.\n\n13:30. This is the sepulchre that he made in Modin, even unto this day.\n\n13:31. But Tryphon, when he was upon a journey with the young king,\nAntiochus, treacherously slew him.\n\n13:32. And he reigned in his place, and put on the crown of Asia: and\nbrought great evils upon the land.\n\n13:33. And Simon built up the strong holds of Judea, fortifying them\nwith high towers, and great walls, and gates and bars: and he stored up\nvictuals in the fortresses.\n\n13:34. And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end that\nhe should grant an immunity to the land; for all that Tryphon did, was\nto spoil.\n\n13:35. And king Demetrius, in answer to this request, wrote a letter in\nthis manner:\n\n13:36. King Demetrius to Simon, the high priest, and friend of kings,\nand to the ancients, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:\n\n13:37. The golden crown, and the palm, which you sent, we have\nreceived: and we are ready to make a firm peace with you, and to write\nto the king\u2019s chief officers to release you the things that we have\nreleased.\n\n13:38. For all that we have decreed in your favour shall stand in\nforce. The strong holds that you have built, shall be your own.\n\n13:39. And as for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we\nforgive it: and the crown which you owed: and if any other thing were\ntaxed in Jerusalem, now let it not be taxed.\n\n13:40. And if any of you be fit to be enrolled among ours, let them be\nenrolled, and let there be peace between us.\n\n13:41. In the year one hundred and seventy, the yoke of the Gentiles\nwas taken off from Israel.\n\n13:42. And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and\npublic records, The first year under Simon, the high priest, the great\ncaptain, and prince of the Jews.\n\n13:43. In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it,\nand he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower,\nand took it.\n\n13:44. And they that were within the engine leapt into the city: and\nthere was a great uproar in the city.\n\n13:45. And they that were in the city went up, with their wives and\nchildren, upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with\na loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.\n\n13:46. And they said: Deal not with us according to our evil deeds, but\naccording to thy mercy.\n\n13:47. And Simon being moved, did not destroy them but yet he cast them\nout of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein there had been idols,\nand then he entered into it with hymns, blessing the Lord:\n\n13:48. And having cast out of it all uncleanness, he placed in it men\nthat should observe the law: and he fortified it, and made it his\nhabitation.\n\n13:49. But they that were in the castle of Jerusalem were hindered from\ngoing out and coming into the country, and from buying and selling: and\nthey were straitened with hunger, and many of them perished through\nfamine.\n\n13:50. And they cried to Simon for peace, and he granted it to them:\nand he cast them out from thence and cleansed the castle from\nuncleannesses.\n\n13:51. And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the\nsecond month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with\nthanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and\npsalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was\ndestroyed out of Israel.\n\n13:52. And he ordained that these days should be kept every year with\ngladness.\n\n13:53. And he fortified the mountain of the temple that was near the\ncastle, and he dwelt there himself, and they that were with him.\n\n13:54. And Simon saw that John, his son, was a valiant man for war: and\nhe made him captain of all the forces: and he dwelt in Gazara.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 14\n\nDemetrius is taken by the king of Persia. Judea flourishes under the\ngovernment of Simon.\n\n14:1. In the year one hundred and seventy-two king Demetrius assembled\nhis army, and went into Media to get him succours to fight against\nTryphon.\n\n14:2. And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius\nwas entered within his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take\nhim alive, and bring him to him.\n\n14:3. And he went, and defeated the army of Demetrius: and took him,\nand brought him to Arsaces, and he put him into custody.\n\n14:4. And all the land of Juda was at rest all the days of Simon, and\nhe sought the good of his nation: and his power, and his glory pleased\nthem well all his days.\n\n14:5. And with all his glory he took Joppe for a haven, and made an\nentrance to the isles of the sea.\n\n14:6. And he enlarged the bounds of his nation, and made himself master\nof the country.\n\n14:7. And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the\ndominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away\nall uncleanness out of it, and there was none that resisted him.\n\n14:8. And every man tilled his land with peace, and the land of Juda\nyielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit.\n\n14:9. The ancient men sat all in the streets, and treated together of\nthe good things of the land, and the young men put on them glory, and\nthe robes of war.\n\n14:10. And he provided victuals for the cities, and he appointed that\nthey should be furnished with ammunition, so that the fame of his glory\nwas renowned even to the end of the earth.\n\n14:11. He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy.\n\n14:12. And every man sat under his vine, and under his fig tree: and\nthere was none to make them afraid.\n\n14:13. There was none left in the land to fight against them: kings\nwere discomfited in those days.\n\n14:14. And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought\nlow, and he sought the law, and took away every unjust and wicked man.\n\n14:15. He glorified the sanctuary, and multiplied the vessels of the\nholy places.\n\n14:16. And it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan\nwas dead: and they were very sorry.\n\n14:17. But when they heard that Simon, his brother, was made high\npriest in his place, and was possessed of all the country, and the\ncities therein:\n\n14:18. They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship\nand alliance which they had made with Judas and with Jonathan, his\nbrethren.\n\n14:19. And they were read before the assembly in Jerusalem. And this is\nthe copy of the letters that the Spartans sent.\n\n14:20. The princes and the cities of the Spartans, to Simon, the high\npriest, and to the ancients, and the priests, and the rest of the\npeople of the Jews, their brethren, greeting.\n\n14:21. The ambassadors that were sent to our people, have told us of\nyour glory, and honour, and joy: and we rejoiced at their coming.\n\n14:22. And we registered what was said by them in the councils of the\npeople, in this manner: Numenius, the son of Antiochus, and Antipater,\nthe son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew the\nformer friendship with us.\n\n14:23. And it pleased the people to receive the men honourably, and to\nput a copy of their words in the public records, to be a memorial to\nthe people of the Spartans. And we have written a copy of them to\nSimon, the high priest.\n\n14:24. And after this Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield\nof gold, of the weight of a thousand pounds, to confirm the league with\nthem. And when the people of Rome had heard\n\n14:25. These words, they said: What thanks shall we give to Simon, and\nhis sons?\n\n14:26. For he hath restored his brethren, and hath driven away in fight\nthe enemies of Israel from them: and they decreed him liberty, and\nregistered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in mount\nSion.\n\n14:27. And this is a copy of the writing. The eighteenth day of the\nmonth Elul, in the year one hundred and seventy-two, being the third\nyear under Simon, the high priest, at Asaramel,\n\n14:28. In a great assembly of the priests, and of the people, and the\nprinces of the nation, and the ancients of the country, these things\nwere notified: Forasmuch as there have often been wars in our country,\n\n14:29. And Simon, the son of Mathathias, of the children of Jarib, and\nhis brethren, have put themselves in danger, and resisted the enemies\nof their nation, for the maintenance of their holy places, and the law:\nand have raised their nation to great glory.\n\n14:30. And Jonathan gathered together his nation, and was made their\nhigh priest, and he was laid to his people.\n\n14:31. And their enemies desired to tread down and destroy their\ncountry, and to stretch forth their hands against their holy places.\n\n14:32. Then Simon resisted and fought for his nation, and laid out much\nof his money, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gave them\nwages.\n\n14:33. And he fortified the cities of Judea and Bethsura that lieth in\nthe borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies was before: and\nhe placed there a garrison of Jews.\n\n14:34. And he fortified Joppe, which lieth by the sea: and Gazara,\nwhich bordereth upon Azotus, wherein the enemies dwelt before, and he\nplaced Jews here: and furnished them with all things convenient for\ntheir reparation.\n\n14:35. And the people seeing the acts of Simon, and to what glory he\nmeant to bring his nation, made him their prince and high priest,\nbecause he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith\nwhich he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to\nadvance his people.\n\n14:36. And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the\nheathens were taken away out of their country, and they also that were\nin the city of David, in Jerusalem, in the castle, out of which they\nissued forth, and profaned all places round about the sanctuary, and\ndid much evil to purity.\n\n14:37. And he placed therein Jews for the defence of the country, and\nof the city, and he raised up the walls of Jerusalem.\n\n14:38. And king Demetrius confirmed him in the high priesthood.\n\n14:39. According to these things he made him his friend, and glorified\nhim with great glory.\n\n14:40. For he had heard that the Romans had called the Jews their\nfriends, and confederates, and brethren, and that they had received\nSimon\u2019s ambassadors with honour:\n\n14:41. And that the Jews, and their priests, had consented that he\nshould be their prince and high priest for ever, till there should\narise a faithful prophet:\n\n14:42. And that he should be chief over them, and that he should have\nthe charge of the sanctuary, and that he should appoint rulers over\ntheir works, and over the country, and over the armour, and over the\nstrong holds;\n\n14:43. And that he should have care of the holy places; and that he\nshould be obeyed by all, and that all the writings in the country\nshould be made in his name; and that he should be clothed with purple\nand gold:\n\n14:44. And that it should not be lawful for any of the people, or of\nthe priests, to disannul any of these things, or to gainsay his words,\nor to call together an assembly in the country without him: or to be\nclothed with purple, or to wear a buckle of gold.\n\n14:45. And whosoever shall do otherwise, or shall make void any of\nthese things, shall be punished.\n\n14:46. And it pleased all the people to establish Simon, and to do\naccording to these words.\n\n14:47. And Simon accepted thereof, and was well pleased to execute the\noffice of the high priesthood, and to be captain, and prince of the\nnation of the Jews, and of the priests, and to be chief over all.\n\n14:48. And they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of\nbrass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the\nsanctuary, in a conspicuous place:\n\n14:49. And that a copy thereof should be put in the treasury, that\nSimon, and his sons, may have it.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 15\n\nAntiochus son of Demetrius honours Simon. The Romans write to divers\nnations in favour of the Jews. Antiochus quarrels with Simon, and sends\ntroops to annoy him.\n\n15:1. And king Antiochus, the son of Demetrius, sent letters from the\nisles of the sea to Simon, the priest, and prince of the nation of the\nJews, and to all the people:\n\n15:2. And the contents were these: King Antiochus to Simon, the high\npriest, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.\n\n15:3. Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of\nour fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore\nit to its former estate; and I have chosen a great army, and have built\nships of war.\n\n15:4. And I design to go through the country, that I may take revenge\nof them that have destroyed our country, and that have made many cities\ndesolate in my realm.\n\n15:5. Now, therefore, I confirm unto thee all the oblations which all\nthe kings before me remitted to thee, and what other gifts soever they\nremitted to thee:\n\n15:6. And I give thee leave to coin thy own money in thy country:\n\n15:7. And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and all the armour that hath\nbeen made, and the fortresses which thou hast built, and which thou\nkeepest in thy hands, let them remain to thee.\n\n15:8. And all that is due to the king, and what should be the king\u2019s\nhereafter, from this present and for ever, is forgiven thee.\n\n15:9. And when we shall have recovered our kingdom, we will glorify\nthee, and thy nation, and the temple, with great glory, so that your\nglory shall be made manifest in all the earth.\n\n15:10. In the year one hundred and seventy-four, Antiochus entered into\nthe land of his fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that\nfew were left with Tryphon.\n\n15:11. And king Antiochus pursued after him, and he fled along by the\nsea coast and came to Dora.\n\n15:12. For he perceived that evils were gathered together upon him, and\nhis troops had forsaken him.\n\n15:13. And Antiochus camped above Dora with a hundred and twenty\nthousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen:\n\n15:14. And he invested the city, and the ships drew near by sea: and\nthey annoyed the city by land, and by sea, and suffered none to come\nin, or to go out.\n\n15:15. And Numenius, and they that had been with him, came from the\ncity of Rome, having letters written to the kings, and countries, the\ncontents whereof were these:\n\n15:16. Lucius, the consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemee, greeting.\n\nPtolemee.... Surnamed Physeon, brother and successor to Philometer.\n\n15:17. The ambassadors of the Jews, our friends, came to us, to renew\nthe former friendship and alliance, being sent from Simon, the high\npriest, and the people of the Jews.\n\n15:18. And they brought also a shield of gold of a thousand pounds.\n\n15:19. It hath seemed good therefore to us, to write to the kings and\ncountries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them,\ntheir cities, or countries: and that they should give no aid to them\nthat fight against them.\n\n15:20. And it hath seemed good to us to receive the shield of them.\n\n15:21. If, therefore, any pestilent men are fled out of their country\nto you, deliver them to Simon, the high priest, that he may punish them\naccording to their law.\n\n15:22. These same things were written to king Demetrius, and to\nAttalus, and to Ariarathes, and to Arsaces,\n\nAttalus, etc.... Attalus was king of Pergamus; Ariarathes was king of\nCappadocia; and Arsaces was king of the Parthians.\n\n15:23. And to all the countries: and to Lampsacus and to the Spartans,\nand to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samus, and\nPamphylia, and Lycia, and Alicarnassus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus,\nand Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus, and\nCyrene.\n\n15:24. And they wrote a copy thereof to Simon, the high priest, and to\nthe people of the Jews.\n\n15:25. But king Antiochus moved his camp to Dora the second time,\nassaulting it continually, and making engines: and he shut up Tryphon,\nthat he could not go out.\n\n15:26. And Simon sent to him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver\nalso, and gold, and abundance of furniture.\n\n15:27. And he would not receive them, but broke all the covenant that\nhe had made with him before, and alienated himself from him.\n\n15:28. And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to treat with\nhim, saying: You hold Joppe and Gazara, and the castle that is in\nJerusalem, which are cities of my kingdom:\n\n15:29. Their borders you have wasted, and you have made great havoc in\nthe land, and have got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.\n\n15:30. Now, therefore, deliver up the cities that you have taken, and\nthe tributes of the places whereof you have gotten the dominion without\nthe borders of Judea.\n\n15:31. But if not, give me for them five hundred talents of silver, and\nfor the havoc that you have made, and the tributes of the cities, other\nfive hundred talents: or else we will come and fight against you.\n\n15:32. So Athenobius, the king\u2019s friend came to Jerusalem, and saw the\nglory of Simon and his magnificence in gold, and silver, and his great\nequipage, and he was astonished, and told him the king\u2019s words.\n\n15:33. And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken\nother men\u2019s land, neither do we hold that which is other men\u2019s, but the\ninheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed\nby our enemies.\n\n15:34. But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers.\n\n15:35. And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did\ngreat harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will\ngive a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word.\n\n15:36. But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these\nwords, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the\nking was exceeding angry.\n\n15:37. And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias.\n\n15:38. And the king appointed Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and\ngave him an army of footmen and horsemen.\n\n15:39. And he commanded him to march with his army towards Judea: and\nhe commanded him to build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the\ncity, and to war against the people. But the king himself pursued after\nTryphon.\n\n15:40. And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people,\nand to ravage Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and\nto build Gedor.\n\n15:41. And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue\nforth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had\ncommanded him.\n\n\n1 Machabees Chapter 16\n\nThe sons of Simon defeat the troops of Antiochus. Simon with two of his\nsons are treacherously murdered by Ptolemee his son in law.\n\n16:1. Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what\nCendebeus had done against their people.\n\nJohn.... He was afterwards surnamed Hircanus, and succeeded his father\nin both his dignities of high priest and prince. He conquered the\nEdomites, and obliged them to a conformity with the Jews in religion;\nand destroyed the schismatical temple of the Samaritans.\n\n16:2. And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to\nthem: I and my brethren, and my father\u2019s house, have fought against the\nenemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have\nprospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel\noftentimes.\n\n16:3. And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and\ngo out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.\n\n16:4. Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men,\nand horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in\nModin.\n\n16:5. And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and\nbehold a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and\nthere was a running river between them.\n\n16:6. And he and his people pitched their camp over against them, and\nhe saw that the people were afraid to go over the river, so he went\nover first: then the men seeing him, passed over after him.\n\nHe.... Viz., John.\n\n16:7. And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of\nthe footmen: but the horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.\n\n16:8. And they sounded the holy trumpets: and Cendebeus and his army\nwere put to flight: and there fell many of them wounded, and the rest\nfled into the strong hold.\n\n16:9. At that time, Judas, John\u2019s brother, was wounded: but John\npursued after them, till he came to Cedron, which he had built:\n\nCedron.... Otherwise called Gedon, the city that Cendebeus was\nfortifying.\n\n16:10. And they fled even to the towers that were in the fields of\nAzotus, and he burnt them with fire. And there fell of them two\nthousand men, and he returned into Judea in peace.\n\n16:11. Now Ptolemee, the son of Abobus, was appointed captain in the\nplain of Jericho, and he had abundance of silver and gold.\n\n16:12. For he was son in law of the high priest.\n\n16:13. And his heart was lifted up, and he designed to make himself\nmaster of the country, and he purposed treachery against Simon and his\nsons, to destroy them.\n\n16:14. Now Simon, as he was going through the cities that were in the\ncountry of Judea, and taking care for the good ordering of them, went\ndown to Jericho, he and Mathathias and Judas, his sons, in the year one\nhundred and seventy-seven, the eleventh month: the same is the month\nSabath.\n\n16:15. And the son of Abobus received them deceitfully into a little\nfortress, that is called Doch, which he had built: and he made them a\ngreat feast, and hid men there.\n\n16:16. And when Simon and his sons had drunk plentifully, Ptolemee and\nhis men rose up, and took their weapons, and entered into the\nbanqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and some of his\nservants.\n\n16:17. And he committed a great treachery in Israel, and rendered evil\nfor good.\n\n16:18. And Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king that he\nshould send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the\ncountry, and their cities, and tributes.\n\n16:19. And he sent others to Gazara to kill John: and to the tribunes\nhe sent letters to come to him, and that he would give them silver, and\ngold, and gifts.\n\n16:20. And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the\ntemple.\n\n16:21. Now one running before, told John in Gazara, that his father and\nhis brethren were slain, and that he hath sent men to kill thee also.\n\n16:22. But when he heard it, he was exceedingly afraid: and he\napprehended the men that came to kill him, and he put them to death:\nfor he knew that they sought to make him away.\n\n16:23. And as concerning the rest of the acts of John, and his wars,\nand the worthy deeds, which he bravely achieved, and the building of\nthe walls, which he made, and the things that he did:\n\n16:24. Behold, these are written in the book of the days of his\npriesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his\nfather.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND BOOK OF MACHABEES\n\n\nThis second book of MACHABEES is not a continuation of the history\ncontained in the first: nor does is come down so low as the first does:\nbut relates many of the same facts more at large, and adds other\nremarkable particulars, omitted in the first book, relating to the\nstate of the Jews, as well before as under the persecution of\nANTIOCHUS. The author, who is not the same with that of the first book,\nhas given (as we learn from chap. 2.20, etc.) a short abstract of what\nJASON of Cyrene had written in the five volumes, concerning JUDAS and\nhis brethren. He wrote in Greek, and begins with two letters, sent by\nthe Jews of Jerusalem to their brethren in Egypt.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 1\n\nLetters of the Jews of Jerusalem to them that were in Egypt. They give\nthanks for their delivery from Antiochus: and exhort their brethren to\nkeep the feast of the dedication of the altar, and of the miraculous\nfire.\n\n1:1. To the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt; the brethren,\nthe Jews that are in Jerusalem, and in the land of Judea, send health\nand good peace.\n\n1:2. May God be gracious to you, and remember his covenant that he made\nwith Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants:\n\n1:3. And give you all a heart to worship him, and to do his will with a\ngreat heart, and a willing mind.\n\n1:4. May he open your heart in his law, and in his commandments, and\nsend you peace.\n\n1:5. May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled unto you, and never\nforsake you in the evil time.\n\n1:6. And now here we are praying for you.\n\n1:7. When Demetrius reigned, in the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we\nJews wrote to you in the trouble and violence that came upon us in\nthose years, after Jason withdrew himself from the holy land, and from\nthe kingdom.\n\n1:8. They burnt the gate, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed to\nthe Lord, and were heard, and we offered sacrifices, and fine flour,\nand lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.\n\n1:9. And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia in the month of\nCasleu.\n\nScenopegia.... Viz., the Encenia, or feast of the dedication of the\naltar, called here Scenopegia, or feast of tabernacles, from being\ncelebrated with the like solemnity.\n\n1:10. In the year one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at\nJerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the\npreceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed\npriests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.\n\n1:11. Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him\ngreat thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.\n\nSuch a king.... Viz., Antiochus Sidetes, who began to make war upon the\nJews, whilst Simon was yet alive. 1 Mac. 15.39. And afterwards besieged\nJerusalem under John Hircanus. So that the Judas here mentioned, ver.\n10, is not Judas Machabeus, who was dead long before the year 188 of\nthe kingdom of the Greeks, for he died in the year 146 of that epoch,\n(see above 1 Mac. chap. 2., ver. 70, also the note on chap. 1, ver. 2,)\nbut either Judas the eldest son of John Hircanus, or Judas the Essene,\nrenowned for the gift of prophecy, who flourished about that time.\n\n1:12. For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia, that have fought\nagainst us, and the holy city.\n\n1:13. For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very\ngreat army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the\ncounsel of the priests of Nanea.\n\nNanea.... A Persian goddess, which some have taken for Diana, others\nfor Venus.\n\n1:14. For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he\nwould marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under\nthe title of a dowry.\n\n1:15. And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a\nsmall company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the\ntemple,\n\n1:16. When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the\ntemple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with\nhim, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw\nthem forth.\n\n1:17. Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked.\n\n1:18. Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the\ntemple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought\nit necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of\nScenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias\noffered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built.\n\n1:19. For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that then\nwere worshippers of God, took privately the fire from the altar, and\nhid it in a valley where there was a deep pit without water, and there\nthey kept it safe, so that the place was unknown to all men.\n\nPersia.... Babylonia, called here Persia, from being afterwards a part\nof the Persian empire.\n\n1:20. But when many years had passed, and it pleased God that Nehemias\nshould be sent by the king of Persia, he sent some of the posterity of\nthose priests that had hid it, to seek for the fire: and as they told\nus, they found no fire, but thick water.\n\n1:21. Then he bade them draw it up, and bring it to him: and the\npriest, Nehemias, commanded the sacrifices that were laid on, to be\nsprinkled with the same water, both the wood, and the things that were\nlaid upon it.\n\n1:22. And when this was done, and the time came that the sun shone out,\nwhich before was in a cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that\nall wondered.\n\n1:23. And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was\nconsuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.\n\n1:24. And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: O Lord God,\nCreator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who\nalone art the good king,\n\n1:25. Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and\neternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the\nfathers, and didst sanctify them:\n\n1:26. Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy\nown portion, and sanctify it.\n\n1:27. Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are\nslaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and\nabhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God.\n\n1:28. Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously with\npride.\n\n1:29. Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.\n\n1:30. And the priests sung hymns till the sacrifice was consumed.\n\n1:31. And when the sacrifice was consumed, Nehemias commanded the water\nthat was left to be poured out upon the great stones.\n\n1:32. Which being done, there was kindled a flame from them: but it was\nconsumed by the light that shined from the altar.\n\n1:33. And when this matter became public, it was told to the king of\nPersia, that in the place where the priests that were led away, had hid\nthe fire, there appeared water, with which Nehemias and they that were\nwith him had purified the sacrifices.\n\n1:34. And the king considering, and diligently examining the matter,\nmade a temple for it, that he might prove what had happened.\n\nA temple.... That is, an enclosure, or a wall round about the place\nwhere the fire was hid, to separate it from profane uses, to the end\nthat it might be respected as a holy place.\n\n1:35. And when he had proved it, he gave the priests many goods, and\ndivers presents, and he took and distributed them to them with his own\nhand.\n\n1:36. And Nehemias called this place Nephthar, which is interpreted\npurification. But many call it Nephi.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 2\n\nA continuation of the second letter. Of Jeremias\u2019 hiding the ark at the\ntime of the captivity. The author\u2019s preface.\n\n2:1.Now it is found in the descriptions of Jeremias, the prophet, that\nhe commanded them that went into captivity, to take the fire, as it\nhath been signified, and how he gave charge to them that were carried\naway into captivity.\n\nThe descriptions.... That is, the records or memoirs of Jeremias, a\nwork that is now lost.\n\n2:2. And how he gave them the law, that they should not forget the\ncommandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds,\nseeing the idols of gold, and silver, and the ornaments of them.\n\n2:3. And with other such like speeches, he exhorted them that they\nwould not remove the law from their heart.\n\n2:4. It was also contained in the same writing, how the prophet, being\nwarned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should\naccompany him, till he came forth to the mountain where Moses went up,\nand saw the inheritance of God.\n\n2:5. And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he\ncarried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of\nincense, and so stopped the door.\n\n2:6. Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place:\nbut they could not find it.\n\n2:7. And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place\nshall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the\npeople, and receive them to mercy.\n\n2:8. And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the\nLord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to\nMoses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be\nsanctified to the great God.\n\n2:9. For he treated wisdom in a magnificent manner: and like a wise\nman, he offered the sacrifice of the dedication, and of the finishing\nof the temple.\n\n2:10. And as Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down from heaven,\nand consumed the holocaust: so Solomon also prayed, and fire came down\nfrom heaven and consumed the holocaust.\n\n2:11. And Moses said: Because the sin offering was not eaten, it was\nconsumed.\n\n2:12. So Solomon also celebrated the dedication eight days.\n\n2:13. And these same things were set down in the memoirs, and\ncommentaries of Nehemias: and how he made a library, and gathered\ntogether out of the countries, the books both of the prophets, and of\nDavid, and the epistles of the kings, and concerning the holy gifts.\n\n2:14. And in like manner Judas also gathered together all such things\nas were lost by the war we had, and they are in our possession.\n\n2:15. Wherefore, if you want these things, send some that may fetch\nthem to you.\n\n2:16. As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have\nwritten unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days.\n\nThe purification.... That is, the feast of the purifying or cleansing\nof the temple.\n\n2:17. And we hope that God, who hath delivered his people, and hath\nrendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood,\nand the sanctuary,\n\n2:18. As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and\nwill gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy\nplace.\n\n2:19. For he hath delivered us out of great perils, and hath cleansed\nthe place.\n\n2:20. Now as concerning Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the\npurification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar:\n\n2:21. As also the wars against Antiochus, the Illustrious, and his son,\nEupator:\n\n2:22. And the manifestations that came from heaven to them, that\nbehaved themselves manfully on the behalf of the Jews, so that, being\nbut a few they made themselves masters of the whole country, and put to\nflight the barbarous multitude:\n\n2:23. And recovered again the most renowned temple in all the world,\nand delivered the city, and restored the laws that were abolished, the\nLord with all clemency shewing mercy to them.\n\n2:24. And all such things as have been comprised in five books by\nJason, of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book.\n\n2:25. For considering the multitude of books, and the difficulty that\nthey find that desire to undertake the narrations of histories, because\nof the multitude of the matter,\n\n2:26. We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read,\nthat it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they\nmay more easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive\nprofit.\n\n2:27. And as to ourselves indeed, in undertaking this work of\nabridging, we have taken in hand no easy task; yea, rather a business\nfull of watching and sweat.\n\nNo easy task, etc.... The spirit of God, that assists the sacred\npenmen, does not exempt them from labour in seeking out the matter\nwhich they are to treat of, and the order and manner in which they are\nto deliver it. So St. Luke writ the gospel having diligently attained\nto all things. Luke 1. ver. 3.\n\n2:28. But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of\nothers: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour.\n\n2:29. Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular,\nand as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be\nbrief.\n\n2:30. For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the\nwhole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit\nthings for the adorning of it: so must it be judged of us.\n\n2:31. For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in\norder, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of\nthe author of a history:\n\n2:32. But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations\nof things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.\n\n2:33. Here then we will begin the narration: let this be enough by way\nof a preface: for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to\nbe short in the story itself.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 3\n\nHeliodorus is sent by king Seleucus to take away the treasures\ndeposited in the temple. He is struck by God, and healed by the prayers\nof the high priest.\n\n3:1. Therefore, when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and\nthe laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias,\nthe high priest and the hatred his soul had of evil,\n\n3:2. It came to pass that even the kings themselves and the princes\nesteemed the place worthy of the highest honour, and glorified the\ntemple with very great gifts:\n\n3:3. So that Seleucus, king of Asia, allowed out of his revenues all\nthe charges belonging to the ministry of the sacrifices.\n\nSeleucus.... Son of Antiochus the Great, and elder brother of Antiochus\nEpiphanes.\n\n3:4. But one Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin, who was appointed\noverseer of the temple, strove in opposition to the high priest, to\nbring about some unjust thing in the city.\n\n3:5. And when he could not overcome Onias, he went to Apollonius, the\nson of Tharseas, who at that time was governor of Celesyria, and\nPhenicia:\n\n3:6. And told him, that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of immense\nsums of money, and the common store was infinite, which did not belong\nto the account of the sacrifices: and that it was possible to bring all\ninto the king\u2019s hands.\n\n3:7. Now when Apollonius had given the king notice concerning the money\nthat he was told of, he called for Heliodorus, who had the charge over\nhis affairs, and sent him with commission to bring him the foresaid\nmoney.\n\n3:8. So Heliodorus forthwith began his journey, under a colour of\nvisiting the cities of Celesyria and Phenicia, but indeed to fulfil the\nking\u2019s purpose.\n\n3:9. And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously\nreceived in the city by the high priest, he told him what information\nhad been given concerning the money: and declared the cause for which\nhe was come: and asked if these things were so indeed.\n\n3:10. Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and\nprovisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless:\n\n3:11. And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given\nintelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great\ndignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two\nhundred of gold.\n\n3:12. But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple\nwhich is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and\nholiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.\n\n3:13. But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king,\nsaid, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.\n\n3:14. So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order\nthis matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.\n\n3:15. And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their\npriests\u2019 vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law\nconcerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe,\nfor them that had deposited them.\n\n3:16. Now whosoever saw the countenance of the high priest, was wounded\nin heart: for his face, and the changing of his colour, declared the\ninward sorrow of his mind.\n\n3:17. For the man was so compassed with sadness and horror of the body,\nthat it was manifest to them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his\nheart.\n\n3:18. Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying\nand making public supplication, because the place was like to come into\ncontempt.\n\n3:19. And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came\ntogether in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came\nforth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of\nthe windows.\n\n3:20. And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication.\n\n3:21. For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high\npriest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.\n\n3:22. And these indeed called upon almighty God, to preserve the things\nthat had been committed to them safe and sure for those that had\ncommitted them.\n\n3:23. But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself\nbeing present in the same place with his guard about the treasury.\n\n3:24. But the spirit of the Almighty God gave a great evidence of his\npresence, so that all that had presumed to obey him, falling down by\nthe power of God, were struck with fainting and dread.\n\n3:25. For there appeared to them a horse, with a terrible rider upon\nhim, adorned with a very rich covering: and he ran fiercely and struck\nHeliodorus with his fore feet, and he that sat upon him seemed to have\narmour of gold.\n\n3:26. Moreover there appeared two other young men, beautiful and\nstrong, bright and glorious, and in comely apparel: who stood by him,\non either side, and scourged him without ceasing with many stripes.\n\n3:27. And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the ground, and they took him up,\ncovered with great darkness, and having put him into a litter, they\ncarried him out.\n\n3:28. So he that came with many servants, and all his guard, into the\naforesaid treasury, was carried out, no one being able to help him, the\nmanifest power of God being known.\n\n3:29. And he indeed, by the power of God, lay speechless, and without\nall hope of recovery.\n\n3:30. But they praised the Lord, because he had glorified his place:\nand the temple, that a little before was full of fear and trouble, when\nthe Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness.\n\n3:31. Then some of the friends of Heliodorus forthwith begged of Onias,\nthat he would call upon the Most High to grant him his life, who was\nready to give up the ghost.\n\n3:32. So the high priest, considering that the king might perhaps\nsuspect that some mischief had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews,\noffered a sacrifice of health for the recovery of the man.\n\n3:33. And when the high priest was praying, the same young men in the\nsame clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to\nOnias the priest: because for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life.\n\n3:34. And thou having been scourged by God, declare unto all men the\ngreat works and the power of God. And having spoken thus, they appeared\nno more.\n\n3:35. So Heliodorus, after he had offered a sacrifice to God, and made\ngreat vows to him, that had granted him life, and given thanks to\nOnias, taking his troops with him, returned to the king.\n\n3:36. And he testified to all men the works of the great God, which he\nhad seen with his own eyes.\n\n3:37. And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be\nsent yet once more to Jerusalem, he said:\n\n3:38. If thou hast any enemy, or traitor to thy kingdom, send him\nthither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape:\nfor there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God.\n\n3:39. For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor and\nprotector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come\nto do evil to it.\n\n3:40. And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the\ntreasury, fell out in this manner.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 4\n\nOnias has recourse to the king. The ambition and wickedness of Jason\nand Menelaus. Onias is treacherously murdered.\n\n4:1. But Simon, of whom we spoke before, who was the betrayer of the\nmoney, and of his country, spoke ill of Onias, as though he had incited\nHeliodorus to do these things, and had been the promoter of evils:\n\n4:2. And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, who provided\nfor the city, and defended his nation, and was zealous for the law of\nGod.\n\n4:3. But when the enmities proceeded so far, that murders also were\ncommitted by some of Simon\u2019s friends:\n\n4:4. Onias, considering the danger of this contention, and that\nApollonius, who was the governor of Celesyria, and Phenicia, was\noutrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king,\n\n4:5. Not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but with a view to the\ncommon good of all the people.\n\n4:6. For he saw that, except the king took care, it was impossible that\nmatters should be settled in peace, or that Simon would cease from his\nfolly.\n\n4:7. But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called\nthe Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason, the\nbrother of Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood:\n\n4:8. And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty\ntalents of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents.\n\n4:9. Besides this he promised also a hundred and fifty more, if he\nmight have license to set him up a place for exercise, and a place for\nyouth, and to entitle them that were at Jerusalem, Antiochians.\n\n4:10. Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten the rule into\nhis hands, forthwith he began to bring over his countrymen to the\nfashion of the heathens.\n\n4:11. And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special\nfavour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the\nfather of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and\nalliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and\nbrought in fashions that were perverse.\n\n4:12. For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place\nof exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.\n\n4:13. Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of\nheathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of\nwickedness of Jason, that impious wretch, and no priest.\n\n4:14. Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices\nof the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices,\nhastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance\nthereof, and of the exercise of the discus.\n\n4:15. And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed\nthe Grecian glories for the best:\n\n4:16. For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and\nfollowed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to\nbe like them, who were their enemies and murderers.\n\n4:17. For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass\nunpunished: but this the time following will declare.\n\n4:18. Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at\nTyre, the king being present,\n\n4:19. The wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sinful men, to carry three\nhundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the\nbearers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices,\nbecause it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges.\n\n4:20. So the money was appointed by him that sent it to the sacrifice\nof Hercules: but because of them that carried it was employed for the\nmaking of galleys.\n\n4:21. Now when Apollonius, the son of Mnestheus was sent into Egypt to\ntreat with the nobles of king Philometor, and Antiochus understood that\nhe was wholly excluded from the affairs of the kingdom, consulting his\nown interest, he departed thence and came to Joppe, and from thence to\nJerusalem.\n\n4:22. Where he was received in a magnificent manner by Jason, and the\ncity, and came in with torch lights, and with praises, and from thence\nhe returned with his army into Phenicia.\n\n4:23. Three years afterwards Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the\naforesaid Simon, to carry money to the king, and to bring answers from\nhim concerning certain necessary affairs.\n\n4:24. But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the\nappearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by\noffering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.\n\n4:25. So having received the king\u2019s mandate, he returned, bringing\nnothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel\ntyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.\n\n4:26. Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself\nundermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the\nAmmonites.\n\n4:27. So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had\npromised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of\nthe castle, called for it.\n\n4:28. For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they\nwere both called before the king.\n\n4:29. And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his\nbrother, succeeding: and Sostratus was made governor of the Cyprians.\n\n4:30. When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of\nTharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a\ngift to Antiochus, the king\u2019s concubine.\n\n4:31. The king, therefore, went in all haste to appease them, leaving\nAndronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy.\n\n4:32. Then Menelaus supposing that he had found a convenient time,\nhaving stolen certain vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to\nAndronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and in the neighbouring\ncities:\n\n4:33. Which when Onias understood most certainly, he reproved him,\nkeeping himself in a safe place at Antioch, beside Daphne.\n\n4:34. Whereupon Menelaus coming to Andronicus, desired him to kill\nOnias. And he went to Onias, and gave him his right hand with an oath,\nand (though he were suspected by him) persuaded him to come forth out\nof the sanctuary, and immediately slew him, without any regard to\njustice.\n\n4:35. For which cause not only the Jews, but also the other nations,\nconceived indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of\nso great a man.\n\n4:36. And when the king was come back from the places of Cilicia, the\nJews that were at Antioch, and also the Greeks, went to him:\ncomplaining of the unjust murder of Onias.\n\n4:37. Antiochus, therefore, was grieved in his mind for Onias, and\nbeing moved to pity, shed tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty\nof the deceased.\n\n4:38. And being inflamed to anger, he commanded Andronicus to be\nstripped of his purple, and to be led about through all the city: and\nthat in the same place wherein he had committed the impiety against\nOnias, the sacrilegious wretch should be put to death, the Lord\nrepaying him his deserved punishment.\n\n4:39. Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the\ntemple, by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread\nabroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus,\na great quantity of gold being already carried away.\n\n4:40. Wherefore the multitude making an insurrection, and their minds\nbeing filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and\nbegan to use violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a man far gone both\nin age and in madness.\n\n4:41. But when they perceived the attempt of Lysimachus, some caught up\nstones, some strong clubs, and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus.\n\n4:42. And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the\nground, but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow\nhimself, they slew him beside the treasury.\n\n4:43. Now concerning these matters, an accusation was laid against\nMenelaus.\n\n4:44. And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the\nancients to plead the cause before him.\n\n4:45. But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much\nmoney to persuade the king to favour him.\n\nPtolemee.... The son of Dorymenus, a favourite of the king.\n\n4:46. So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as\nit were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:\n\n4:47. So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him\nof the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their\ncause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were\ncondemned to death.\n\n4:48. Thus they that prosecuted the cause for the city, and for the\npeople, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.\n\n4:49. Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved with indignation, were\nvery liberal towards their burial.\n\n4:50. And so through the covetousness of them that were in power,\nMenelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying\nof the citizens.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 5\n\nWonderful signs are seen in the air. Jason\u2019s wickedness and end.\nAntiochus takes Jerusalem, and plunders the temple.\n\n5:1. At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into\nEgypt.\n\n5:2. And it came to pass, that through the whole city of Jerusalem, for\nthe space of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air,\nin gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like bands of soldiers.\n\n5:3. And horses set in order by ranks, running one against another,\nwith the shakings of shields, and a multitude of men in helmets, with\ndrawn swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden armour,\nand of harnesses of all sorts.\n\n5:4. Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good.\n\n5:5. Now when there was gone forth a false rumour as though Antiochus\nhad been dead, Jason taking with him no fewer than a thousand men,\nsuddenly assaulted the city: and though the citizens ran together to\nthe wall, the city at length was taken, and Menelaus fled into the\ncastle.\n\n5:6. But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that\nprosperity against one\u2019s own kindred is a very great evil, thinking\nthey had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered.\n\n5:7. Yet he did not get the principality, but received confusion at the\nend, for the reward of his treachery, and fled again into the country\nof the Ammonites.\n\n5:8. At the last, having been shut up by Aretas, the king of the\nArabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated\nby all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his\ncountry and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:\n\n5:9. And he that had driven many out of their country perished in a\nstrange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have\nrefuge there:\n\n5:10. But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth\nboth unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being\npartaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.\n\n5:11. Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews\nwould forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a\nfurious mind, he took the city by force of arms,\n\n5:12. And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that\ncame in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay.\n\n5:13. Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women\nand children, and killing of virgins and infants.\n\n5:14. And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore\nthousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.\n\n5:15. But this was not enough, he presumed also to enter into the\ntemple, the most holy in all the world Menelaus, that traitor to the\nlaws, and to his country, being his guide.\n\n5:16. And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given\nby other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place,\nhe unworthily handled and profaned them.\n\n5:17. Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did not consider that God\nwas angry for a while, because of the sins of the inhabitants of the\ncity: and therefore this contempt had happened to the place:\n\n5:18. Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus,\nwho was sent by king Seleucus to rob the treasury, so this man also, as\nsoon as he had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his\npresumption.\n\n5:19. But God did not choose the people for the place\u2019s sake, but the\nplace for the people\u2019s sake.\n\n5:20. And, therefore, the place also itself was made partaker of the\nevils of the people: but afterwards shall communicate in the good\nthings thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of Almighty God,\nshall be exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be\nreconciled.\n\n5:21. So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and\neight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking\nthrough pride that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea\npassable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.\n\n5:22. He left also governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem,\nPhilip, a Phrygian by birth, but in manners more barbarous than he that\nset him there:\n\n5:23. And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy\nhand upon the citizens than the rest.\n\n5:24. And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful\nprince, Apollonius, with an army of two and twenty thousand men,\ncommanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the\nwomen and the younger sort.\n\n5:25. Who, when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till\nthe holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he\ncommanded his men to take arms.\n\n5:26. And he slew all that were come forth to see: and running through\nthe city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude.\n\n5:27. But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself\ninto a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the\nmountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that\nthey might not be partakers of the pollution.\n\nWas the tenth.... That is, he had nine others in his company.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 6\n\nAntiochus commands the law to be abolished, sets up an idol in the\ntemple, and persecutes the faithful. The martyrdom of Eleazar.\n\n6:1. But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to\ncompel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God:\n\n6:2. And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the\ntemple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis,\naccording as they were that inhabited the place.\n\nThat in Gazarim.... Viz., the temple of the Samaritans. And as they\nwere originally strangers, the name of Hospitalis (which signifies of\nor belonging to strangers) was applicable to the idol set up in their\ntemple.\n\n6:3. And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all.\n\n6:4. For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the\nGentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves\nof their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were\nnot lawful.\n\n6:5. The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were\nforbidden by the laws.\n\n6:6. And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the\nfathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a\nJew.\n\n6:7. But they were led by bitter constraint on the king\u2019s birthday to\nthe sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were\ncompelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.\n\n6:8. And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the\nGentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should\nact in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice:\n\n6:9. And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the\nGentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.\n\n6:10. For two women were accused to have circumcised their children:\nwhom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants\nhanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.\n\n6:11. And others that had met together in caves that were near, and\nwere keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip,\nwere burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves\nwith their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day.\n\nPhilip.... The governor of Jerusalem.\n\n6:12. Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not\nshocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that\nhappened, not as being for the destruction, but for the correction of\nour nation.\n\n6:13. For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not\nsuffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently\npunished.\n\n6:14. For, not as with other nations, (whom the Lord patiently\nexpecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them\nin the fulness of their sins:)\n\n6:15. Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to\ntheir height, and then take vengeance on us.\n\n6:16. And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though\nhe chastise his people with adversity he forsaketh them not.\n\n6:17. But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers.\nAnd now we must come to the narration.\n\n6:18. Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years,\nand of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat\nswine\u2019s flesh.\n\n6:19. But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful\nlife, went forward voluntarily to the torment.\n\n6:20. And considering in what manner he was to come to it, patiently\nbearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of\nlife.\n\n6:21. But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old\nfriendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh\nmight be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make\nas if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the\nsacrifice:\n\nWicked pity.... Their pity was wicked, inasmuch as it suggested that\nwicked proposal of saving his life by dissimulation.\n\n6:22. That by so doing he might be delivered from death; and for the\nsake of their old friendship with the man, they did him this courtesy.\n\n6:23. But he began to consider the dignity of his age, and his ancient\nyears, and the inbred honour of his grey head, and his good life and\nconversation from a child; and he answered without delay, according to\nthe ordinances of the holy law made by God, saying, that he would\nrather be sent into the other world.\n\n6:24. For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby\nmany young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore\nand ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens:\n\n6:25. And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a\ncorruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain\nand a curse upon my old age.\n\n6:26. For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the\npunishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty\nneither alive nor dead.\n\n6:27. Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew\nmyself worthy of my old age:\n\n6:28. And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a\nready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most\nvenerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith\ncarried to execution.\n\n6:29. And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild,\nwere changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought\nwere uttered out of arrogancy.\n\n6:30. But when he was now ready to die with the stripes, he groaned:\nand said: O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest manifestly\nthat whereas I might be delivered from death, I suffer grievous pains\nin body: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I\nfear thee.\n\n6:31. Thus did this man die, leaving not only to young men, but also to\nthe whole nation, the memory of his death, for an example of virtue and\nfortitude.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 7\n\nThe glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and their mother.\n\n7:1. It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their\nmother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine\u2019s\nflesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and\nscourges.\n\n7:2. But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou\nask, or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the\nlaws of God, received from our fathers.\n\n7:3. Then the king being angry, commanded fryingpans and brazen\ncaldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated,\n\n7:4. He commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had spoken first:\nand the skin of his head being drawn off, to chop off also the\nextremities of his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren and his\nmother looking on.\n\n7:5. And when he was now maimed in all parts, he commanded him, being\nyet alive, to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the fryingpan:\nand while he was suffering therein long torments, the rest, together\nwith the mother, exhorted one another to die manfully,\n\n7:6. Saying: The Lord God will look upon the truth, and will take\npleasure in us, as Moses declared in the profession of the canticle;\nAnd in his servants he will take pleasure.\n\n7:7. So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the\nnext to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin\nof his head with the hair, they asked him if he would eat, before he\nwere punished throughout the whole body in every limb.\n\n7:8. But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it.\nWherefore he also, in the next place, received the torments of the\nfirst:\n\n7:9. And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O\nmost wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King\nof the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the\nresurrection of eternal life.\n\n7:10. After him the third was made a mocking-stock, and when he was\nrequired, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched\nout his hands:\n\n7:11. And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the\nlaws of God I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again\nfrom him.\n\n7:12. So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the\nyoung man\u2019s courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing.\n\n7:13. And after he was thus dead, they tormented the fourth in the like\nmanner.\n\n7:14. And when he was now ready to die, he spoke thus: It is better,\nbeing put to death by men, to look for hope from God, to be raised up\nagain by him; for, as to thee, thou shalt have no resurrection unto\nlife.\n\n7:15. And when they had brought the fifth, they tormented him. But he,\nlooking upon the king,\n\n7:16. Said: Whereas thou hast power among men though thou art\ncorruptible, thou dost what thou wilt but think not that our nation is\nforsaken by God.\n\n7:17. But stay patiently a while, and thou shalt see his great power,\nin what manner he will torment thee and thy seed.\n\n7:18. After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die,\nspoke thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things\nfor ourselves, having sinned against our God, and things worthy of\nadmiration are done to us:\n\n7:19. But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou\nhast attempted to fight against God.\n\n7:20. Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be\nremembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of\none day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in\nGod:\n\n7:21. And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language,\nbeing filled with wisdom; and joining a man\u2019s heart to a woman\u2019s\nthought,\n\n7:22. She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for\nI neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the\nlimbs of every one of you.\n\n7:23. But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man,\nand that found out the origin of all, he will restore to you again, in\nhis mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise yourselves for the\nsake of his laws.\n\n7:24. Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising\nthe voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not\nonly exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he\nwould make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the\nlaws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with\nthings necessary.\n\n7:25. But when the young man was not moved with these things, the king\ncalled the mother, and counselled her to deal with the young man to\nsave his life.\n\n7:26. And when he had exhorted her with many words she promised that\nshe would counsel her son.\n\n7:27. So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she\nsaid in her own language: My son have pity upon me, that bore thee nine\nmonths in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee,\nand brought thee up unto this age.\n\n7:28. I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that\nis in them, and consider that God made them out of nothing, and mankind\nalso:\n\n7:29. So thou shalt not fear this tormentor, but being made a worthy\npartner with thy brethren, receive death, that in that mercy I may\nreceive thee again with thy brethren.\n\n7:30. While she was yet speaking these words, the young man said: For\nwhom do you stay? I will not obey the commandment of the king, but the\ncommandment of the law which was given us by Moses.\n\n7:31. But thou that hast been the author of all mischief against the\nHebrews, shalt not escape the hand of God.\n\n7:32. For we suffer thus for our sins.\n\n7:33. And though the Lord, our God, is angry with us a little while,\nfor our chastisement and correction, yet he will be reconciled again to\nhis servants.\n\n7:34. But thou, O wicked, and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted\nup without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his\nservants.\n\n7:35. For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of the Almighty God,\nwho beholdeth all things.\n\n7:36. For my brethren having now undergone a short pain, are under the\ncovenant of eternal life: but thou, by the judgment of God, shalt\nreceive just punishment for thy pride.\n\n7:37. But I, like my brethren, offer up my life and my body for the\nlaws of our fathers: calling upon God to be speedily merciful to our\nnation, and that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess that he\nalone is God.\n\n7:38. But in me, and in my brethren, the wrath of the Almighty, which\nhath justly been brought upon all our nation, shall cease.\n\n7:39. Then the king being incensed with anger, raged against him more\ncruelly than all the rest, taking it grievously that he was mocked.\n\n7:40. So this man also died undefiled, wholly trusting in the Lord.\n\n7:41. And last of all, after the sons, the mother also was consumed.\n\n7:42. But now there is enough said of the sacrifices and of the\nexcessive cruelties.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 8\n\nJudas Machabeus gathering an army gains divers victories.\n\n8:1. But Judas Machabeus, and they that were with him, went privately\ninto the towns: and calling together their kinsmen and friends, and\ntaking unto them such as continued in the Jews\u2019 religion, they\nassembled six thousand men.\n\n8:2. And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon his people\nthat was trodden down by all and would have pity on the temple, that\nwas defiled by the wicked:\n\n8:3. That he would have pity also upon the city that was destroyed,\nthat was ready to be made even with the ground, and would hear the\nvoice of the blood that cried to him:\n\n8:4. That he would remember also the most unjust deaths of innocent\nchildren, and the blasphemies offered to his name, and would shew his\nindignation on this occasion.\n\n8:5. Now when Machabeus had gathered a multitude, he could not be\nwithstood by the heathens: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into\nmercy.\n\n8:6. So coming unawares upon the towns and cities, he set them on fire,\nand taking possession of the most commodious places, he made no small\nslaughter of the enemies:\n\n8:7. And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and\nthe fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.\n\n8:8. Then Philip seeing that the man gained ground by little and\nlittle, and that things for the most part succeeded prosperously with\nhim, wrote to Ptolemee, the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, to send\naid to the king\u2019s affairs.\n\nPhilip seeing, etc.... The governor of Jerusalem found himself unable\nto contend with Judas, especially after the victories he had obtained\nover Apollonius and Seron. 1 Mac. 3.\n\n8:9. And he with all speed sent Nicanor, the son of Patroclus, one of\nhis special friends, giving him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men\nof different nations, to root out the whole race of the Jews, joining\nalso with him Gorgias, a good soldier, and of great experience in\nmatters of war.\n\nTwenty thousand.... The whole number of the forces sent at that time\ninto Judea, was 40,000 footmen, and 7000 horsemen, 1 Mac. 3.30. But\nonly 20,000 are here taken notice of, because there were no more with\nNicanor at the time of the battle.\n\n8:10. And Nicanor purposed to raise for the king the tribute of two\nthousand talents, that was to be given to the Romans, by making so much\nmoney of the captive Jews:\n\n8:11. Wherefore he sent immediately to the cities upon the sea coast,\nto invite men together to buy up the Jewish slaves, promising that they\nshould have ninety slaves for one talent, not reflecting on the\nvengeance which was to follow him from the Almighty.\n\n8:12. Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the\nJews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand.\n\n8:13. And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of\nGod, fled away.\n\n8:14. Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord,\nthat he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them\nbefore he came near them:\n\n8:15. And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made\nwith their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that\nwas invoked upon them.\n\n8:16. But Machabeus calling together seven thousand that were with him,\nexhorted them not to be reconciled to the enemies, nor to fear the\nmultitude of the enemies who came wrongfully against them, but to fight\nmanfully:\n\nSeven thousand.... In the Greek it is six thousand. But then three\nthousand of them had no arms. 1 Mac. 4.6.\n\n8:17. Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the\nholy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had\nbeen shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the\nfathers.\n\n8:18. For, said he, they trust in their weapons, and in their boldness:\nbut we trust in the Almighty Lord, who at a beck can utterly destroy\nboth them that come against us, and the whole world.\n\n8:19. Moreover, he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had\nreceived from God: and how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and\neighty-five thousand had been destroyed.\n\n8:20. And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in\nBabylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the\npoint, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a\nhundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven,\nand for this they received many favours.\n\nGalatians.... That is, the Gauls, who having ravaged Italy and Greece,\npoured themselves in upon Asia, in immense multitudes, where also they\nfounded the kingdom of Galatia or Gallo Graecia.\n\n8:21. With these words they were greatly encouraged and disposed even\nto die for the laws and their country.\n\n8:22. So he appointed his brethren captains over each division of his\narmy; Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each one fifteen\nhundred men.\n\n8:23. And after the holy book had been read to them by Esdras, and he\nhad given them for a watchword, The help of God: himself leading the\nfirst band, he joined battle with Nicanor:\n\n8:24. And the Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine\nthousand men: and having wounded and disabled the greater part of\nNicanor\u2019s army, they obliged them to fly.\n\nAbove nine thousand.... Viz., including the three thousand slain in the\npursuit.\n\n8:25. And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they\npursued them on every side.\n\n8:26. But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before\nthe sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.\n\n8:27. But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils,\nthey kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that\nday, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.\n\n8:28. Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and\nthe orphans, and the widows, and the rest they took for themselves and\ntheir servants.\n\n8:29. When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication,\nthey besought the merciful Lord, to be reconciled to his servants unto\nthe end.\n\n8:30. Moreover, they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with\nTimotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, and they made\nthemselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst\nthem many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless,\nand the widows; yea, and the aged also.\n\n8:31. And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they\nlaid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils\nthey carried to Jerusalem:\n\n8:32. They slew also Philarches, who was with Timotheus, a wicked man,\nwho had many ways afflicted the Jews.\n\n8:33. And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they\nburnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken\nrefuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his\nimpieties:\n\n8:34. But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor, who had brought a\nthousand merchants to the sale of the Jews,\n\n8:35. Being, through the help of the Lord, brought down by them, of\nwhom he had made no account, laying aside his garment of glory, fleeing\nthrough the midland country, he came alone to Antioch, being rendered\nvery unhappy by the destruction of his army.\n\nLaying aside his garment of glory.... That is, his splendid apparel,\nwhich he wore through ostentation; he now throws it off, lest he should\nbe known on his flight.\n\n8:36. And he that had promised to levy the tribute for the Romans, by\nthe means of the captives of Jerusalem, now professed that the Jews had\nGod for their protector, and therefore they could not be hurt, because\nthey followed the laws appointed by him.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 9\n\nThe wretched end, and fruitless repentance of king Antiochus.\n\n9:1. At that time Antiochus returned with dishonour out of Persia.\n\n9:2. For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and attempted\nto rob the temple, and to oppress the city, but the multitude running\ntogether to arms, put them to flight: and so it fell out that Antiochus\nbeing put to flight, returned with disgrace.\n\nPersepolis.... Otherwise called Elymais.\n\n9:3. Now when he was come about Ecbatana, he received the news of what\nhad happened to Nicanor and Timotheus.\n\n9:4. And swelling with anger, he thought to revenge upon the Jews the\ninjury done by them that had put him to flight. And therefore he\ncommanded his chariot to be driven, without stopping in his journey,\nthe judgment of heaven urging him forward, because he had spoken so\nproudly, that he would come to Jerusalem, and make it a common burying\nplace of the Jews.\n\n9:5. But the Lord, the God of Israel, that seeth all things, struck him\nwith an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended\nthese words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter\ntorments of the inner parts.\n\n9:6. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of\nothers with many and new torments, albeit he by no means ceased from\nhis malice.\n\n9:7. Moreover, being filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage\nagainst the Jews, and commanding the matter to be hastened, it happened\nas he was going with violence, that he fell from the chariot, so that\nhis limbs were much pained by a grievous bruising of the body.\n\n9:8. Thus he that seemed to himself to command even the waves of the\nsea, being proud above the condition of man, and to weigh the heights\nof the mountains in a balance, now being cast down to the ground, was\ncarried in a litter, bearing witness to the manifest power of God in\nhimself:\n\n9:9. So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he\nlived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his\nsmell was noisome to the army.\n\n9:10. And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the\nstars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable\nstench.\n\n9:11. And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began\nto come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of\nGod, his pains increasing every moment.\n\n9:12. And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke\nthus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not\nequal himself to God.\n\n9:13. Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like\nto obtain mercy.\n\nOf whom he was not like to obtain mercy.... Because his repentance was\nnot for the offence committed against God: but barely on account of his\npresent sufferings.\n\n9:14. And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with\nthe ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to\nmake free:\n\n9:15. And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so\nmuch as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and\nwild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now\npromiseth to make equal with the Athenians.\n\n9:16. The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to\nadorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow\nout of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.\n\n9:17. Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go\nthrough every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.\n\n9:18. But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of God was come\nupon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a\nsupplication, a letter in these words:\n\n9:19. To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler,\nwisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness.\n\n9:20. If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you\nto your mind, we give very great thanks.\n\n9:21. As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you,\nreturning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous\ndisease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good:\n\n9:22. Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the\nsickness.\n\n9:23. But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army\ninto the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him:\n\n9:24. To the end that if any thing contrary to expectation should fall\nout, or any bad tidings should be brought, they that were in the\ncountries, knowing to whom the whole government was left, might not be\ntroubled.\n\n9:25. Moreover, considering that neighbouring princes, and borderers,\nwait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event, I have\nappointed my son, Antiochus, king, whom I often recommended to many of\nyou, when I went into the higher provinces: and I have written to him\nwhat I have joined here below.\n\n9:26. I pray you, therefore, and request of you, that, remembering\nfavours both public and private, you will every man of you continue to\nbe faithful to me and to my son.\n\n9:27. For I trust that he will behave with moderation and humanity, and\nfollowing my intentions, will be gracious unto you.\n\n9:28. Thus the murderer and blasphemer being grievously struck, as\nhimself had treated others, died a miserable death in a strange\ncountry, among the mountains.\n\n9:29. But Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body:\nand out of fear of the son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee\nPhilometor.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 10\n\nThe purification of the temple and city. Other exploits of Judas. His\nvictory over Timotheus.\n\n10:1. But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of\nthe Lord, recovered the temple and the city again.\n\n10:2. But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the\nstreets, as also the temples of the idols.\n\n10:3. And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and\ntaking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two\nyears, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition.\n\n10:4. And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord,\nlying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such\nevils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised\nby him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and\nblasphemous men.\n\n10:5. Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the\nstrangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the\nfive and twentieth day of the month of Casleu.\n\n10:6. And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast\nof the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the\nfeast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens\nlike wild beasts.\n\n10:7. Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms,\nfor him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.\n\n10:8. And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the\nnation of the Jews should keep those days every year.\n\n10:9. And this was the end of Antiochus, that was called the\nIllustrious.\n\n10:10. But now we will repeat the acts of Eupator, the son of that\nwicked Antiochus, abridging the account of the evils that happened in\nthe wars.\n\n10:11. For when he was come to the crown, he appointed over the affairs\nof his realm one Lysias, general of the army of Phenicia and Syria.\n\n10:12. For Ptolemee, that was called Macer, was determined to be\nstrictly just to the Jews and especially by reason of the wrong that\nhad been done them, and to deal peaceably with them.\n\n10:13. But being accused for this to Eupator by his friends, and being\noftentimes called traitor, because he had left Cyprus, which Philometor\nhad committed to him, and coming over to Antiochus the Illustrious, had\nrevolted also from him, he put an end to his life by poison.\n\n10:14. But Gorgias, who was governor of the holds, taking with him the\nstrangers, often fought against the Jews.\n\n10:15. And the Jews that occupied the most commodious holds, received\nthose that were driven out of Jerusalem, and attempted to make war.\n\nThe Jews, etc.... He speaks of them that had fallen from their\nreligion, and were enemies of their country, who joining with the\nIdumeans or Edomites, kept possession of the strong holds, and from\nthence annoyed their countrymen.\n\n10:16. Then they that were with Machabeus, beseeching the Lord by\nprayers to be their helper, made a strong attack upon the strong holds\nof the Idumeans:\n\n10:17. And assaulting them with great force, won the holds, killed them\nthat came in the way, and slew altogether no fewer than twenty\nthousand.\n\n10:18. And whereas some were fled into very strong towers, having all\nmanner of provision to sustain a siege,\n\n10:19. Machabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zacheus, and them that were\nwith them, in sufficient number to besiege them, and departed to those\nexpeditions which urged more.\n\n10:20. Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were\npersuaded for the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and\ntaking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape.\n\n10:21. But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the\nrulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their\nbrethren for money, having let their adversaries escape.\n\n10:22. So he put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two\ntowers.\n\n10:23. And having good success in arms, and all things he took in hand,\nhe slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds.\n\n10:24. But Timotheus, who before had been overcome by the Jews, having\ncalled together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen\nout of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.\n\n10:25. But Machabeus, and they that were with him, when he drew near,\nprayed to the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their heads, and girding\ntheir loins with haircloth,\n\n10:26. And lying prostrate at the foot of the altar, besought him to be\nmerciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary\nto their adversaries, as the law saith.\n\n10:27. And so after prayer taking their arms, they went forth further\nfrom the city, and when they were come very near the enemies they\nrested.\n\n10:28. But as soon as the sun was risen both sides joined battle: the\none part having, with their valour, the Lord for a surety of victory,\nand success: but the other side making their rage their leader in\nbattle.\n\n10:29. But when they were in the heat of the engagement, there appeared\nto the enemies from heaven five men upon horses, comely, with golden\nbridles, conducting the Jews:\n\n10:30. Two of them took Machabeus between them, and covered him on\nevery side with their arms, and kept him safe; but cast darts and\nfireballs against the enemy, so that they fell down, being both\nconfounded with blindness, and filled with trouble.\n\n10:31. And there were slain twenty thousand five hundred, and six\nhundred horsemen.\n\n10:32. But Timotheus fled into Gazara, a strong hold where Chereas was\ngovernor.\n\n10:33. Then Machabeus, and they that were with him cheerfully laid\nsiege to the fortress four days.\n\n10:34. But they that were within, trusting to the strength of the\nplace, blasphemed exceedingly, and cast forth abominable words.\n\n10:35. But when the fifth day appeared, twenty young men of them that\nwere with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds, because of the blasphemy,\napproached manfully to the wall, and pushing forward with fierce\ncourage, got up upon it:\n\n10:36. Moreover, others also getting up after them, went to set fire to\nthe towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive.\n\n10:37. And having for two days together pillaged and sacked the\nfortress, they killed Timotheus, who was found hid in a certain place:\nthey slew also his brother Chereas, and Apollophanes.\n\nTimotheus.... This man, who was killed at the taking of Gazara, is\ndifferent from that Timotheus who is mentioned in the fifth chapter of\nthe first book of Machabees, and of whom there is mention in the\nfollowing chapter.\n\n10:38. And when this was done, they blessed the Lord with hymns and\nthanksgiving, who had done great things in Israel, and given them the\nvictory.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 11\n\nLysias is overthrown by Judas. He sues for peace.\n\n11:1. A short time after this Lysias, the king\u2019s lieutenant, and\ncousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly\ndispleased with what had happened,\n\n11:2. Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen,\nand came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a\nhabitation of the Gentiles:\n\n11:3. And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the\nGentiles and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:\n\n11:4. Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and\ntrusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of\nhis horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.\n\n11:5. So he came into Judea, and approaching to Bethsura, which was in\na narrow place, the space of five furlongs from Jerusalem, he laid\nsiege to that fortress.\n\n11:6. But when Machabeus, and they that were with him, understood that\nthe strong holds were besieged, they and all the people besought the\nLord with lamentations and tears, that he would send a good angel to\nsave Israel.\n\n11:7. Then Machabeus himself first taking his arms, exhorted the rest\nto expose themselves together with him, to the danger, and to succour\ntheir brethren.\n\n11:8. And when they were going forth together with a willing mind,\nthere appeared at Jerusalem a horseman going before them in white\nclothing, with golden armour, shaking a spear.\n\n11:9. Then they all together blessed the merciful Lord, and took great\ncourage: being ready to break through not only men, but also the\nfiercest beasts, and walls of iron.\n\n11:10. So they went on courageously, having a helper from heaven, and\nthe Lord, who shewed mercy to them.\n\n11:11. And rushing violently upon the enemy, like lions, they slew of\nthem eleven thousand footmen, and one thousand six hundred horsemen:\n\n11:12. And put all the rest to flight; and many of them being wounded,\nescaped naked: Yea, and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and\nescaped.\n\n11:13. And as he was a man of understanding, considering with himself\nthe loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be\novercome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty God, he\nsent to them:\n\n11:14. And promised that he would agree to all things that are just,\nand that he would persuade the king to be their friend.\n\n11:15. Then Machabeus consented to the request of Lysias, providing for\nthe common good in all things; and whatsoever Machabeus wrote to\nLysias, concerning the Jews, the king allowed of.\n\n11:16. For there were letters written to the Jews from Lysias, to this\neffect: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, greeting.\n\n11:17. John, and Abesalom, who were sent from you, delivering your\nwritings, requested that I would accomplish those things which were\nsignified by them.\n\n11:18. Therefore whatsoever things could be reported to the king, I\nhave represented to him: and he hath granted as much as the matter\npermitted.\n\n11:19. If, therefore, you will keep yourselves loyal in affairs,\nhereafter also I will endeavour to be a means of your good.\n\n11:20. But as concerning other particulars, I have given orders by word\nboth to these, and to them that are sent by me, to commune with you.\n\n11:21. Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the four\nand twentieth day of the month of Dioscorus.\n\nIn the year 148.... Viz., according to the computation followed by the\nGreeks; which was different from that of the Hebrews, followed by the\nwriter of the first book of Machabees. However, by this date, as well\nas by other circumstances, it appears that the expedition of Lysias,\nmentioned in this chapter, is different from that which is recorded, 1\nMac. 6.\n\n11:22. But the king\u2019s letter contained these words King Antiochus to\nLysias, his brother, greeting.\n\n11:23. Our father being translated amongst the gods we are desirous\nthat they that are in our realm should live quietly, and apply\nthemselves diligently to their own concerns.\n\n11:24. And we have heard that the Jews would not consent to my father\nto turn to the rites of the Greeks but that they would keep to their\nown manner of living and therefore that they request us to allow them\nto live after their own laws.\n\n11:25. Wherefore being desirous that this nation also should be at\nrest, we have ordained and decreed, that the temple should be restored\nto them, and that they may live according to the custom of their\nancestors.\n\n11:26. Thou shalt do well, therefore, to send to them, and grant them\npeace, that our pleasure being known, they may be of good comfort, and\nlook to their own affairs.\n\n11:27. But the king\u2019s letter to the Jews was in this manner: King\nAntiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews,\ngreeting.\n\n11:28. If you are well, you are as we desire: we ourselves also are\nwell.\n\n11:29. Menelaus came to us, saying that you desired to come down to\nyour countrymen, that are with us.\n\n11:30. We grant, therefore, a safe conduct to all that come and go,\nuntil the thirtieth day of the month of Xanthicus,\n\n11:31. That the Jews may use their own kind of meats, and their own\nlaws, as before: and that none of them any manner of ways be molested\nfor things which have been done by ignorance.\n\n11:32. And we have sent also Menelaus to speak to you.\n\n11:33. Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the\nfifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.\n\n11:34. The Romans also sent them a letter, to this effect: Quintus\nMemmius, and Titus Manilius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people\nof the Jews, greeting.\n\n11:35. Whatsoever Lysias, the king\u2019s cousin, hath granted to you, we\nalso have granted.\n\n11:36. But touching such things as he thought should be referred to the\nking, after you have diligently conferred among yourselves, send some\none forthwith, that we may decree as it is convenient for you: for we\nare going to Antioch.\n\n11:37. And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what\nmind you are.\n\n11:38. Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the\nfifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 12\n\nThe Jews are still molested by their neighbours. Judas gains divers\nvictories over them. He orders sacrifice and prayers for the dead.\n\n12:1. When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the\nJews gave themselves to husbandry.\n\n12:2. But they that were behind, namely, Timotheus, and Apollonius, the\nson of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them\nNicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in\npeace, and to be quiet.\n\n12:3. The men of Joppe also were guilty of this kind of wickedness:\nthey desired the Jews, who dwelt among them, to go with their wives and\nchildren into the boats, which they had prepared, as though they had no\nenmity to them.\n\n12:4. Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree\nof the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were\ngone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of\nthem.\n\n12:5. But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his\ncountrymen, he commanded the men that were with him: and after having\ncalled upon God, the just judge,\n\n12:6. He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the\nhaven on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword\nthem that escaped from the fire.\n\n12:7. And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as\nif he would return again, and root out all the Joppites.\n\n12:8. But when he understood that the men of Jamnia also designed to do\nin like manner to the Jews that dwelt among them,\n\n12:9. He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set the haven on\nfire, with the ships, so that the light of the fire was seen at\nJerusalem, two hundred and forty furlongs off.\n\n12:10. And when they were now gone from thence nine furlongs, and were\nmarching towards Timotheus, five thousand footmen, and five hundred\nhorsemen of the Arabians, set upon them.\n\n12:11. And after a hard fight, in which, by the help of God, they got\nthe victory, the rest of the Arabians being overcome, besought Judas\nfor peace, promising to give him pastures, and to assist him in other\nthings.\n\n12:12. And Judas thinking that they might be profitable indeed in many\nthings, promised them peace, and after having joined hands, they\ndeparted to their tents.\n\n12:13. He also laid siege to a certain strong city, encompassed with\nbridges and walls, and inhabited by multitudes of different nations,\nthe name of which is Casphin.\n\n12:14. But they that were within it, trusting in the strength of the\nwalls, and the provision of victuals, behaved in a more negligent\nmanner, and provoked Judas with railing and blaspheming, and uttering\nsuch words as were not to be spoken.\n\n12:15. But Machabeus calling upon the great Lord of the world, who\nwithout any rams or engines of war threw down the walls of Jericho, in\nthe time of Josue, fiercely assaulted the walls.\n\nRams.... That is, engines for battering walls, etc., which were used in\nsieges in those times.\n\n12:16. And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an\nunspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining, of two furlongs broad,\nseemed to run with the blood of the slain.\n\n12:17. From thence they departed seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and\ncame to Characa, to the Jews that are called Tubianites.\n\n12:18. But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for\nbefore he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very\nstrong garrison in a certain hold:\n\n12:19. But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who were captains with Machabeus,\nslew them that were left by Timotheus in the hold, to the number of ten\nthousand men.\n\n12:20. And Machabeus having set in order about him six thousand men,\nand divided them by bands, went forth against Timotheus, who had with\nhim a hundred and twenty thousand footmen, and two thousand five\nhundred horsemen.\n\n12:21. Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the coming of Judas, he sent\nthe women and children, and the other baggage, before him into a\nfortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable, and hard to come at,\nby reason of the straitness of the places.\n\n12:22. But when the first band of Judas came in sight, the enemies were\nstruck with fear, by the presence of God, who seeth all things, and\nthey were put to flight one from another, so that they were often\nthrown down by their own companions, and wounded with the strokes of\ntheir own swords.\n\n12:23. But Judas was vehemently earnest in punishing the profane, of\nwhom he slew thirty thousand men.\n\n12:24. And Timotheus himself fell into the hands of the band of\nDositheus and Sosipater, and with many prayers he besought them to let\nhim go with his life, because he had the parents and brethren of many\nof the Jews, who, by his death, might happen to be deceived.\n\n12:25. And when he had given his faith that he would restore them\naccording to the agreement, they let him go without hurt, for the\nsaving of their brethren.\n\n12:26. Then Judas went away to Carnion, where he slew five and twenty\nthousand persons.\n\n12:27. And after he had put to flight and destroyed these, he removed\nhis army to Ephron, a strong city, wherein there dwelt a multitude of\ndivers nations: and stout young men standing upon the walls, made a\nvigorous resistance: and in this place there were many engines of war,\nand a provision of darts.\n\n12:28. But when they had invocated the Almighty, who with his power\nbreaketh the strength of the enemies, they took the city: and slew five\nand twenty thousand of them that were within.\n\n12:29. From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six\nhundred furlongs from Jerusalem.\n\nScythopolis.... Formerly called Bethsan.\n\n12:30. But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that\nthey were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their\nadversity they had treated them with humanity:\n\n12:31. They gave them thanks, exhorting them to be still friendly to\ntheir nation, and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks\nbeing at hand.\n\n12:32. And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias, the governor\nof Idumea.\n\n12:33. And he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred\nhorsemen.\n\n12:34. And when they had joined battle, it happened that a few of the\nJews were slain.\n\n12:35. But Dositheus, a horseman, one of Bacenor\u2019s band, a valiant man,\ntook hold of Gorgias: and when he would have taken him alive, a certain\nhorseman of the Thracians came upon him, and cut off his shoulder: and\nso Gorgias escaped to Maresa.\n\n12:36. But when they that were with Esdrin had fought long, and were\nweary, Judas called upon the Lord to be their helper, and leader of the\nbattle:\n\n12:37. Then beginning in his own language, and singing hymns with a\nloud voice, he put Gorgias\u2019s soldiers to flight.\n\n12:38. So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city\nOdollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves\naccording to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the same place.\n\n12:39. And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away\nthe bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their\nkinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.\n\n12:40. And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the\ndonaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews:\nso that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.\n\nOf the donaries, etc.... That is, of the votive offerings, which had\nbeen hung up in the temples of the idols, which they had taken away\nwhen they burnt the port of Jamnia, ver. 9., contrary to the\nprohibition of the law, Deut. 7.25.\n\n12:41. Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had\ndiscovered the things that were hidden.\n\n12:42. And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that\nthe sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most\nvaliant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin,\nforasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of\nthe sins of those that were slain.\n\n12:43. And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of\nsilver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the\ndead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection.\n\n12:44. (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise\nagain, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)\n\n12:45. And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with\ngodliness, had great grace laid up for them.\n\nWith godliness.... Judas hoped that these men who died fighting for the\ncause of God and religion, might find mercy: either because they might\nbe excused from mortal sin by ignorance; or might have repented of\ntheir sin, at least at their death.\n\n12:46. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the\ndead, that they may be loosed from sins.\n\nIt is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead....\nHere is an evident and undeniable proof of the practice of praying for\nthe dead under the old law, which was then strictly observed by the\nJews, and consequently could not be introduced at that time by Judas,\ntheir chief and high priest, if it had not been always their custom.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 13\n\nAntiochus and Lysias again invade Judea. Menelaus is put to death. The\nking\u2019s great army is worsted twice. The peace is renewed.\n\n13:1. In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas understood that\nAntiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea,\n\n13:2. And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs\nof the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five\nthousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots\narmed with hooks.\n\nA hundred and ten thousand, etc.... The difference between the numbers\nhere set down, and those recorded, 1 Mac. 4, is easily accounted for;\nif we consider that such armies as these are liable to be at one time\nmore numerous than at another; either by sending away large\ndetachments, or being diminished by sickness; or increased by receiving\nfresh supplies of troops, according to different exigencies or\noccurrences.\n\n13:3. Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great\ndeceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country,\nbut in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler.\n\n13:4. But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against\nthe sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the\nevils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be\napprehended and put to death in the same place.\n\n13:5. Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a\nheap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.\n\n13:6. From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown\ndown into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.\n\n13:7. And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of\nthe law, was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.\n\n13:8. And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many\nsins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy:\nhe was condemned to die in ashes.\n\n13:9. But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself\nworse to the Jews than his father was.\n\n13:10. Which when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call\nupon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he\nwould help them:\n\n13:11. Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their\ncountry, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the\npeople, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again\nin subjection to blasphemous nations.\n\n13:12. So when they had all done this together, and had craved mercy of\nthe Lord with weeping and fasting, lying prostrate on the ground for\nthree days continually, Judas exhorted them to make themselves ready.\n\n13:13. But he, with the ancients, determined before the king should\nbring his army into Judea, and make himself master of the city, to go\nout, and to commit the event of the thing to the judgment of the Lord.\n\n13:14. So committing all to God, the Creator of the world, and having\nexhorted his people to fight manfully, and to stand up even to death\nfor the laws, the temple, the city, their country, and citizens: he\nplaced his army about Modin.\n\n13:15. And having given his company for a watchword, The victory of\nGod, with most valiant chosen young men, he set upon the king\u2019s quarter\nby night, and slew four thousand men in the camp, and the greatest of\nthe elephants, with them that had been upon him,\n\n13:16. And having filled the camp of the enemies with exceeding great\nfear and tumult, they went off with good success.\n\n13:17. Now this was done at the break of day, by the protection and\nhelp of the Lord.\n\n13:18. But the king having taken a taste of the hardiness of the Jews,\nattempted to take the strong places by policy:\n\n13:19. And he marched with his army to Bethsura, which was a strong\nhold of the Jews: but he was repulsed, he failed, he lost his men.\n\n13:20. Now Judas sent necessaries to them that were within\n\n13:21. But Rhodocus, one of the Jews\u2019 army, disclosed the secrets to\nthe enemies, so he was sought out, and taken up, and put in prison.\n\n13:22. Again the king treated with them that were in Bethsura: gave his\nright hand: took theirs: and went away.\n\n13:23. He fought with Judas: and was overcome. And when he understood\nthat Philip, who had been left over the affairs, had rebelled at\nAntioch, he was in a consternation of mind, and entreating the Jews,\nand yielding to them, he swore to all things that seemed reasonable,\nand, being reconciled, offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and left\ngifts.\n\n13:24. He embraced Machabeus, and made him governor and prince from\nPtolemais unto the Gerrenians.\n\n13:25. But when he was come to Ptolemais, the men of that city were\nmuch displeased with the conditions of the peace, being angry for fear\nthey should break the covenant.\n\n13:26. Then Lysias went up to the judgment seat, and set forth the\nreason, and appeased the people, and returned to Antioch: and thus\nmatters went with regard to the king\u2019s coming and his return.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 14\n\nDemetrius challenges the kingdom. Alcimus applies to him to be made\nhigh priest: Nicanor is sent into Judea: his dealings with Judas: his\nthreats. The history of Razias.\n\n14:1. But after the space of three years Judas, and they that were with\nhim, understood that Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, was come up with a\ngreat power, and a navy by the haven of Tripolis, to places proper for\nhis purpose,\n\n14:2. And had made himself master of the countries against Antiochus,\nand his general, Lysias.\n\n14:3. Now one Alcimus, who had been chief priest, but had wilfully\ndefiled himself in the time of mingling with the heathens, seeing that\nthere was no safety for him, nor access to the altar,\n\nNow Alcimus, who had been chief priest.... This Alcimus was of the\nstock of Aaron, but for his apostasy here mentioned was incapable of\nthe high priesthood, but king Antiochus Eupator appointed him in place\nof the high priest, (see above, 1 Mac. chap. 7., ver. 9,) as Menelaus\nhad been before him, set up by Antiochus (above chap. 4.), yet neither\nof them were truly high priests; for the true high priesthood was\namongst the Machabees, who were also of the stock of Aaron, and had\nstrictly held their religion, and were ordained according to the rites\ncommanded in the law of Moses.\u2014Ibid. Mingling.... with the heathens;\nthat is, in their idolatrous worship.\n\n14:4. Came to king Demetrius in the year one hundred and fifty,\npresenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and besides these,\nsome boughs that seemed to belong to the temple. And that day indeed he\nheld his peace.\n\n14:5. But having gotten a convenient time to further his madness, being\ncalled to counsel by Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon,\nand what were their counsels,\n\n14:6. He answered thereunto: They among the Jews that are called\nAssideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise\nseditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace.\n\n14:7. For I also being deprived of my ancestors\u2019 glory (I mean of the\nhigh priesthood) am now come hither:\n\n14:8. Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king\u2019s interests, but\nin the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for\nall our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men.\n\n14:9. Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take\ncare, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according\nto thy humanity which is known to all men.\n\n14:10. For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state\nshould be quiet.\n\n14:11. Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the\nking\u2019s friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against\nhim.\n\n14:12. And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants,\ngovernor into Judea:\n\n14:13. Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all\nthem that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the\ngreat temple.\n\n14:14. Then the Gentiles who had fled out of Judea, from Judas, came to\nNicanor by flocks, thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews to\nbe the welfare of their affairs.\n\n14:15. Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor\u2019s coming, and that the\nnations were assembled against them, they cast earth upon their heads,\nand made supplication to him who chose his people to keep them for\never, and who protected his portion by evident signs.\n\n14:16. Then at the commandment of their captain, they forthwith removed\nfrom the place where they were, and went to the town of Dessau, to meet\nthem.\n\n14:17. Now Simon, the brother of Judas, had joined battle with Nicanor:\nbut was frightened with the sudden coming of the adversaries.\n\n14:18. Nevertheless Nicanor hearing of the valour of Judas\u2019s\ncompanions, and the greatness of courage, with which they fought for\ntheir country, was afraid to try the matter by the sword.\n\n14:19. Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotius and Matthias before\nto present and receive the right hands.\n\n14:20. And when there had been a consultation thereupon, and the\ncaptain had acquainted the multitude with it, they were all of one mind\nto consent to covenants.\n\n14:21. So they appointed a day upon which they might come together by\nthemselves: and seats were brought out, and set for each one.\n\n14:22. But Judas ordered armed men to be ready in convenient places,\nlest some mischief might be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they\nmade an agreeable conference.\n\n14:23. And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no wrong, but sent away\nthe flocks of the multitudes that had been gathered together.\n\n14:24. And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well\naffected to the man.\n\n14:25. And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he\nmarried: he lived quietly, and they lived in common.\n\n14:26. But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the\ncovenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had assented to\nthe foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a\ntraitor to the kingdom, his successor.\n\n14:27. Then the king, being in a rage, and provoked with this man\u2019s\nwicked accusations, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was greatly\ndispleased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him\nnevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.\n\n14:28. When this was known, Nicanor was in a consternation, and took it\ngrievously that he should make void the articles that were agreed upon,\nhaving received no injury from the man.\n\n14:29. But because he could not oppose the king, he watched an\nopportunity to comply with the orders.\n\n14:30. But when Machabeus perceived that Nicanor was more stern to him,\nand that when they met together as usual he behaved himself in a rough\nmanner; and was sensible that this rough behaviour came not of good, he\ngathered together a few of his men, and hid himself from Nicanor.\n\n14:31. But he finding himself notably prevented by the man, came to the\ngreat and holy temple: and commanded the priests that were offering the\naccustomed sacrifices, to deliver him the man.\n\n14:32. And when they swore unto him, that they knew not where the man\nwas whom he sought, he stretched out his hand to the temple,\n\n14:33. And swore, saying: Unless you deliver Judas prisoner to me, I\nwill lay this temple of God even with the ground, and will beat down\nthe altar, and I will dedicate this temple to Bacchus.\n\n14:34. And when he had spoken thus, he departed. But the priests\nstretching forth their hands to heaven, called upon him that was ever\nthe defender of their nation, saying in this manner:\n\n14:35. Thou, O Lord of all things, who wantest nothing, wast pleased\nthat the temple of thy habitation should be amongst us.\n\n14:36. Therefore now, O Lord, the holy of all holies, keep this house\nfor ever undefiled, which was lately cleansed.\n\n14:37. Now Razias, one of the ancients of Jerusalem, was accused to\nNicanor, a man that was a lover of the city, and of good report, who\nfor his kindness was called the father of the Jews.\n\n14:38. This man, for a long time, had held fast his purpose of keeping\nhimself pure in the Jews\u2019 religion, and was ready to expose his body\nand life, that he might persevere therein.\n\n14:39. So Nicanor being willing to declare the hatred that he bore the\nJews, sent five hundred soldiers to take him.\n\n14:40. For he thought by ensnaring him to hurt the Jews very much.\n\n14:41. Now as the multitude sought to rush into his house, and to break\nopen the door, and to set fire to it, when he was ready to be taken, he\nstruck himself with his sword:\n\nHe struck himself, etc.... St. Augustine, (Epist. 61, ad Dulcitium, et\nlib. 2, cap. 23, ad Epist. 2, Gaud.) discussing this fact of Razias,\nsays, that the holy scripture relates it, but doth not praise it, as to\nbe admired or imitated, and that either it was not well done by him, or\nat least not proper in this time of grace.\n\n14:42. Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the\nwicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.\n\n14:43. But whereas through haste he missed of giving a sure wound, and\nthe crowd was breaking into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and\nmanfully threw himself down to the crowd:\n\n14:44. But they quickly making room for his fall, he came upon the\nmidst of the neck.\n\nHe came upon the midst of the neck.... Venit per mediam cervicem. In\nthe Greek it is keneona, which signifies a void place, where there is\nno building.\n\n14:45. And as he had yet breath in him, being inflamed in mind, he\narose: and while his blood ran down with a great stream, and he was\ngrievously wounded, he ran through the crowd:\n\n14:46. And standing upon a steep rock, when he was now almost without\nblood, grasping his bowels, with both hands he cast them upon the\nthrong, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit, to restore these to\nhim again: and so he departed this life.\n\n\n2 Machabees Chapter 15\n\nJudas encouraged by a vision gains a glorious victory over Nicanor. The\nconclusion.\n\n15:1. But when Nicanor understood that Judas was in the places of\nSamaria, he purposed to set upon him with all violence, on the sabbath\nday.\n\n15:2. And when the Jews that were constrained to follow him, said: Do\nnot act so fiercely and barbarously, but give honour to the day that is\nsanctified: and reverence him that beholdeth all things:\n\n15:3. That unhappy man asked, if there were a mighty One in heaven,\nthat had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.\n\n15:4. And when they answered: There is the living Lord himself in\nheaven, the mighty One, that commanded the seventh day to be kept.\n\n15:5. Then he said: And I am mighty upon the earth, and I command to\ntake arms, and to do the king\u2019s business. Nevertheless he prevailed not\nto accomplish his design.\n\n15:6. So Nicanor being puffed up with exceeding great pride, thought to\nset up a public monument of his victory over Judas.\n\n15:7. But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope that God would help\nthem.\n\n15:8. And he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the nations,\nbut to remember the help they had before received from heaven, and now\nto hope for victory from the Almighty.\n\n15:9. And speaking to them out of the law, and the prophets, and withal\nputting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made\nthem more cheerful:\n\n15:10. Then after he had encouraged them, he shewed withal the\nfalsehood of the Gentiles, and their breach of oaths.\n\n15:11. So he armed every one of them, not with defence of shield and\nspear, but with very good speeches, and exhortations, and told them a\ndream worthy to be believed, whereby he rejoiced them all.\n\n15:12. Now the vision was in this manner. Onias, who had been high\npriest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his\nmanners, and graceful in speech, and who from a child was exercised in\nvirtues holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews:\n\n15:13. After this there appeared also another man, admirable for age,\nand glory, and environed with great beauty and majesty:\n\n15:14. Then Onias answering, said: This is a lover of his brethren, and\nof the people of Israel: this is he that prayeth much for the people,\nand for all the holy city, Jeremias, the prophet of God.\n\n15:15. Whereupon Jeremias stretched forth his right hand, and gave to\nJudas a sword of gold, saying:\n\n15:16. Take this holy sword, a gift from God, wherewith thou shalt\noverthrow the adversaries of my people Israel.\n\n15:17. Thus being exhorted with the words of Judas, which were very\ngood, and proper to stir up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of\nthe young men, they resolved to fight, and to set upon them manfully:\nthat valour might decide the matter, because the holy city, and the\ntemple were in danger.\n\n15:18. For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and\nfor their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal\nfear was for the holiness of the temple.\n\n15:19. And they also that were in the city, had no little concern for\nthem that were to be engaged in battle.\n\n15:20. And now when all expected what judgment would be given, and the\nenemies were at hand, and the army was set in array, the beasts and the\nhorsemen ranged in convenient places,\n\n15:21. Machabeus considering the coming of the multitude, and the\ndivers preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts,\nstretching out his hands to heaven, called upon the Lord, that worketh\nwonders, who giveth victory to them that are worthy, not according to\nthe power of their arms, but according as it seemeth good to him.\n\n15:22. And in his prayer he said after this manner: Thou, O Lord, who\ndidst send thy angel in the time of Ezechias, king of Juda, and didst\nkill a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the army of Sennacherib:\n\n15:23. Send now also, O Lord of heaven, thy good angel before us, for\nthe fear and dread of the greatness of thy arm,\n\n15:24. That they may be afraid, who come with blasphemy against thy\nholy people. And thus he concluded his prayer.\n\n15:25. But Nicanor, and they that were with him came forward, with\ntrumpets and songs.\n\n15:26. But Judas, and they that were with him, encountered them,\ncalling upon God by prayers:\n\n15:27. So fighting with their hands, but praying to the Lord with their\nhearts, they slew no less than five and thirty thousand, being greatly\ncheered with the presence of God.\n\n15:28. And when the battle was over, and they were returning with joy,\nthey understood that Nicanor was slain in his armour.\n\n15:29. Then making a shout, and a great noise, they blessed the\nAlmighty Lord in their own language.\n\n15:30. And Judas, who was altogether ready, in body and mind, to die\nfor his countrymen, commanded that Nicanor\u2019s head, and his hand, with\nthe shoulder, should be cut off, and carried to Jerusalem.\n\n15:31. And when he was come thither, having called together his\ncountrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that\nwere in the castle,\n\n15:32. And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which\nhe had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the\nAlmighty God,\n\n15:33. He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor should\nbe cut out, and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious\nman to be hanged up over against the temple.\n\n15:34. Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that\nhath kept his own place undefiled.\n\n15:35. And he hung up Nicanor\u2019s head in the top of the castle, that it\nmight be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.\n\n15:36. And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let\nthis day pass without solemnity:\n\n15:37. But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called\nin the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias\u2019 day.\n\n15:38. So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from\nthat time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here\nmake an end of my narration.\n\n15:39. Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is\nwhat I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.\n\nIf not so perfectly, etc.... This is not said with regard to the truth\nof the narration; but with regard to the style and manner of writing:\nwhich in the sacred penmen is not always the most accurate. See St.\nPaul, 2 Cor. 11.6.\n\n15:40. For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but\npleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the\nspeech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers.\nBut here it shall be ended.\n\n\n\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW\n\n\nSaint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican,\nthat is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship:\nin that profession his name is Levi. (Luke 5.27, and Mark 2.14.) He was\nthe first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel, and that in Hebrew\nor Syro-Chaldaic which the Jews in Palestine spoke at that time. The\noriginal is not now extant; but it was translated in the time of the\nApostles into Greek, that version was of equal authority. He wrote\nabout six years after the Lord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 1\n\nThe genealogy of Christ: he is conceived and born of a virgin.\n\n1:1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the\nson of Abraham:\n\n1:2. Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas\nand his brethren.\n\n1:3. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron.\nAnd Esron begot Aram.\n\n1:4. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson\nbegot Salmon.\n\n1:5. And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And\nObed begot Jesse.\n\n1:6. And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon,\nof her that had been the wife of Urias.\n\n1:7. And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot\nAsa.\n\n1:8. And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot\nOzias.\n\n1:9. And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot\nEzechias.\n\n1:10. And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon\nbegot Josias.\n\n1:11. And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration\nof Babylon.\n\n1:12. And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot\nSalathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel.\n\n1:13. And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim\nbegot Azor.\n\n1:14. And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot\nEliud.\n\n1:15. And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan\nbegot Jacob.\n\n1:16. And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born\nJesus, who is called Christ.\n\nThe husband of Mary.... The Evangelist gives us rather the pedigree of\nSt. Joseph, than that of the blessed Virgin, to conform to the custom\nof the Hebrews, who in their genealogies took no notice of women; but\nas they were near akin, the pedigree of the one sheweth that of the\nother.\n\n1:17. So all the generations from Abraham to David, are fourteen\ngenerations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are\nfourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ\nare fourteen generations.\n\n1:18. Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother\nMary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found\nwith child, of the Holy Ghost.\n\n1:19. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing\npublicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.\n\n1:20. But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the\nLord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear\nnot to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in\nher, is of the Holy Ghost.\n\n1:21. And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name\nJesus. For he shall save his people from their sins.\n\n1:22. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord\nspoke by the prophet, saying:\n\n1:23. Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and\nthey shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with\nus.\n\n1:24. And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had\ncommanded him, and took unto him his wife.\n\n1:25. And he knew her not till she brought forth her first born son:\nand he called his name Jesus.\n\nTill she brought forth her firstborn son.... From these words Helvidius\nand other heretics most impiously inferred that the blessed Virgin Mary\nhad other children besides Christ; but St. Jerome shews, by divers\nexamples, that this expression of the Evangelist was a manner of\nspeaking usual among the Hebrews, to denote by the word until, only\nwhat is done, without any regard to the future. Thus it is said,\nGenesis 8. 6 and 7, that Noe sent forth a raven, which went forth, and\ndid not return till the waters were dried up on the earth. That is, did\nnot return any more. Also Isaias 46. 4, God says: I am till you grow\nold. Who dare infer that God should then cease to be: Also in the first\nbook of Machabees 5. 54, And they went up to mount Sion with joy and\ngladness, and offered holocausts, because not one of them was slain\ntill they had returned in peace. That is, not one was slain before or\nafter they had returned. God saith to his divine Son: Sit on my right\nhand till I make thy enemies thy footstool. Shall he sit no longer\nafter his enemies are subdued? Yea and for all eternity. St. Jerome\nalso proves by Scripture examples, that an only begotten son, was also\ncalled firstborn, or first begotten: because according to the law, the\nfirstborn males were to be consecrated to God; Sanctify unto me, saith\nthe Lord, every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of\nIsrael, etc. Ex. 13. 2.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 2\n\nThe offerings of the wise men: the flight into Egypt: the massacre of\nthe Innocents.\n\n2:1. When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of\nking Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem,\n\n2:2. Saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have\nseen his star in the East, and are come to adore him.\n\n2:3. And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with\nhim.\n\n2:4. And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of\nthe people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born.\n\n2:5. But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written\nby the prophet:\n\n2:6. And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among the\nprinces of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the captain that\nshall rule my people Israel.\n\n2:7. Then Herod, privately calling the wise men learned diligently of\nthem the time of the star which appeared to them;\n\n2:8. And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire\nafter the child, and when you have found him, bring me word again, that\nI also may come and adore him.\n\n2:9. Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star\nwhich they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and\nstood over where the child was.\n\n2:10. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.\n\n2:11. And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his\nmother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures,\nthey offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.\n\n2:12. And having received an answer in sleep that they should not\nreturn to Herod, they went back another way into their country.\n\n2:13. And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord\nappeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his\nmother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For\nit will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him.\n\n2:14. Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and\nretired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:\n\n2:15. That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet,\nsaying: Out of Egypt have I called my son.\n\n2:16. Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was\nexceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in\nBethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and\nunder, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the\nwise men.\n\n2:17. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet,\nsaying:\n\n2:18. A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel\nbewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are\nnot.\n\n2:19. But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in\nsleep to Joseph in Egypt,\n\n2:20. Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the\nland of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.\n\n2:21. Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the\nland of Israel.\n\n2:22. But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Judea in the room of Herod\nhis father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep\nretired into the quarters of Galilee.\n\n2:23. And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be\nfulfilled which was said by the prophets: That he shall be called a\nNazarene.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 3\n\nThe preaching of John: Christ is baptized.\n\n3:1. And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert\nof Judea.\n\n3:2. And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\n\nDo penance.... Paenitentiam agite. Which word, according to the use of\nthe scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance\nand amendment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and\nsuch like penitential exercises.\n\n3:3. For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A\nvoice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make\nstraight his paths.\n\n3:4. And the same John had his garment of camel\u2019s hair, and a leathern\ngirdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.\n\n3:5. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country\nabout Jordan:\n\n3:6. And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.\n\n3:7. And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his\nbaptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to\nflee from the wrath to come?\n\nPharisees and Sadducees.... These were two sects among the Jews: of\nwhich the former were for the most part notorious hypocrites; the\nlatter, a kind of freethinkers in matters of religion.\n\n3:8. Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.\n\n3:9. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our\nfather. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up\nchildren to Abraham.\n\n3:10. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree\ntherefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast\ninto the fire.\n\n3:11. I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall\ncome after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:\nhe shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.\n\n3:12. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his\nfloor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn\nwith unquenchable fire.\n\n3:13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be\nbaptized by him.\n\n3:14. But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and\ncomest thou to me?\n\n3:15. And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so\nit becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.\n\n3:16. And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and\nlo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God\ndescending as a dove, and coming upon him.\n\n3:17. And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in\nwhom I am well pleased.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 4\n\nChrist\u2019s fast of forty days: He is tempted. He begins to preach, to\ncall disciples to him, and to work miracles.\n\n4:1. Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by\nthe devil.\n\n4:2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he\nwas hungry.\n\n4:3. And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God,\ncommand that these stones be made bread.\n\n4:4. Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man\nlive, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.\n\n4:5. Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon\nthe pinnacle of the temple,\n\n4:6. And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for\nit is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in\ntheir hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot\nagainst a stone.\n\n4:7. Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the\nLord thy God.\n\n4:8. Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed\nhim all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,\n\nShewed him, etc.... That is, pointed out to him where each kingdom lay;\nand set forth in words what was most glorious and admirable in each of\nthem. Or also set before his eyes, as it were in a large map, a lively\nrepresentation of all those kingdoms.\n\n4:9. And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou\nwilt adore me.\n\n4:10. Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The\nLord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.\n\n4:11. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to\nhim.\n\n4:12. And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired\ninto Galilee:\n\n4:13. And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on\nthe sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim;\n\n4:14. That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet:\n\n4:15. Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond\nthe Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:\n\n4:16. The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to\nthem that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.\n\n4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for\nthe kingdom of heaven is at hand.\n\n4:18. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon\nwho is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea\n(for they were fishers).\n\n4:19. And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be\nfishers of men.\n\n4:20. And they immediately leaving their nets, followed him.\n\n4:21. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the\nson of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their\nfather, mending their nets: and he called them.\n\n4:22. And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him.\n\n4:23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,\nand preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of\nsickness and every infirmity, among the people.\n\n4:24. And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him\nall sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and\nsuch as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the\npalsy, and he cured them:\n\n4:25. And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis,\nand from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 5\n\nChrist\u2019s sermon upon the mount. The eight beatitudes.\n\n5:1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he\nwas set down, his disciples came unto him.\n\n5:2. And opening his mouth he taught them, saying:\n\n5:3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of\nheaven.\n\nThe poor in spirit.... That is, the humble; and they whose spirit is\nnot set upon riches.\n\n5:4. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.\n\n5:5. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.\n\n5:6. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they\nshall have their fill.\n\n5:7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.\n\n5:8. Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.\n\n5:9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children\nof God.\n\n5:10. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice\u2019 sake: for\ntheirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n\n5:11. Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and\nspeak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:\n\n5:12. Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For\nso they persecuted the prophets that were before you.\n\n5:13. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour,\nwherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be\ncast out, and to be trodden on by men.\n\n5:14. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain\ncannot be hid.\n\n5:15. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon\na candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.\n\n5:16. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good\nworks, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.\n\n5:17. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.\nI am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.\n\nTo fulfil.... By accomplishing all the figures and prophecies; and\nperfecting all that was imperfect.\n\n5:18. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or\none tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.\n\nAmen.... That is, assuredly of a truth.... This Hebrew word, amen, is\nhere retained by the example and authority of all the four Evangelists.\nIt is used by our Lord as a strong asseveration, and affirmation of the\ntruth.\n\n5:19. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments,\nand shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of\nheaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the\nkingdom of heaven.\n\n5:20. For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of\nthe scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of\nheaven.\n\nThe scribes and Pharisees.... The scribes were the doctors of the law\nof Moses: the Pharisees were a precise set of men, making profession of\na more exact observance of the law: and upon that account greatly\nesteemed among the people.\n\n5:21. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not\nkill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.\n\nShall be in danger of the judgment.... That is, shall deserve to be\npunished by that lesser tribunal among the Jews, called the Judgment,\nwhich took cognizance of such crimes.\n\n5:22. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall\nbe in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother,\nRaca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou\nfool, shall be in danger of hell fire.\n\nRaca.... A word expressing great indignation or contempt. Shall be in\ndanger of the council.... That is, shall deserve to be punished by the\nhighest court of judicature, called the Council, or Sanhedrim,\nconsisting of seventy-two persons, where the highest causes were tried\nand judged, which was at Jerusalem. Thou fool.... This was then looked\nupon as a heinous injury, when uttered with contempt, spite, or malice:\nand therefore is here so severely condemned. Shall be in danger of hell\nfire.... literally, according to the Greek, shall deserve to be cast\ninto the Gehenna of fire. Which words our Saviour made use of to\nexpress the fire and punishments of hell.\n\n5:23. If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou\nremember that thy brother hath anything against thee;\n\n5:24. Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be\nreconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift.\n\n5:25. Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in\nthe way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge,\nand the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into\nprison.\n\n5:26. Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou\nrepay the last farthing.\n\n5:27. You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not\ncommit adultery.\n\n5:28. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust\nafter her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.\n\n5:29. And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it\nfrom thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should\nperish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.\n\nScandalize thee.... That is, if it be a stumblingblock, or occasion of\nsin to thee. By which we are taught to fly the immediate occasions of\nsin, though they be as dear to us, or as necessary as a hand or an eye.\n\n5:30. And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it\nfrom thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should\nperish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell.\n\n5:31. And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him\ngive her a bill of divorce.\n\n5:32. But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife,\nexcepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery:\nand he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.\n\n5:33. Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt\nnot forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.\n\n5:34. But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is\nthe throne of God:\n\nNot to swear at all.... It is not forbid to swear in truth, justice and\njudgment; to the honour of God, or our own or neighbour\u2019s just defence:\nbut only to swear rashly, or profanely, in common discourse, and\nwithout necessity.\n\n5:35. Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for\nit is the city of the great king:\n\n5:36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make\none hair white or black.\n\n5:37. But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over\nand above these, is of evil.\n\n5:38. You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a\ntooth for a tooth.\n\n5:39. But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on\nthy right cheek, turn to him also the other:\n\nNot to resist evil, etc.... What is here commanded, is a Christian\npatience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer\nstill more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge: but what is\nfurther added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for\nneither did Christ nor St. Paul turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and\nActs 23.\n\n5:40. And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away\nthy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.\n\n5:41. And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two.\n\n5:42. Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow\nof thee turn not away.\n\n5:43. You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy\nneighbour, and hate thy enemy.\n\n5:44. But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate\nyou: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:\n\n5:45. That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who\nmaketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the\njust and the unjust.\n\n5:46. For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have?\ndo not even the publicans this?\n\nThe publicans.... These were the gatherers of the public taxes: a set\nof men, odious and infamous among the Jews, for their extortions and\ninjustice.\n\n5:47. And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not\nalso the heathens this?\n\n5:48. Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is\nperfect.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 6\n\nA continuation of the sermon on the mount.\n\n6:1. Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by\nthem: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in\nheaven.\n\nYour justice.... that is, works of justice; viz., fasting, prayer, and\nalmsdeeds; which ought to be performed not out of ostentation, or a\nview to please men, but solely to please God.\n\n6:2. Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before\nthee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that\nthey may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received\ntheir reward.\n\n6:3. But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right\nhand doth.\n\n6:4. That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret\nwill repay thee.\n\n6:5. And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to\nstand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they\nmay be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.\n\n6:6. But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having\nshut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth\nin secret will repay thee.\n\n6:7. And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For\nthey think that in their much speaking they may be heard.\n\n6:8. Be not you therefore like to them for your Father knoweth what is\nneedful for you, before you ask him.\n\n6:9. Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven,\nhallowed be thy name.\n\n6:10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\n\n6:11. Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.\n\nSupersubstantial bread.... In St. Luke the same word is rendered daily\nbread. It is understood of the bread of life, which we receive in the\nBlessed Sacrament.\n\n6:12. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.\n\n6:13. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.\n\nLead us not into temptation.... That is, suffer us not to be overcome\nby temptation.\n\n6:14. For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father\nwill forgive you also your offences.\n\n6:15. But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive\nyou your offences.\n\n6:16. And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they\ndisfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I\nsay to you, they have received their reward.\n\n6:17. But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face;\n\n6:18. That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in\nsecret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee.\n\n6:19. Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and\nmoth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.\n\n6:20. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the\nrust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor\nsteal.\n\n6:21. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.\n\n6:22. The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole\nbody shall be lightsome.\n\n6:23. But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then\nthe light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great\nshall it be!\n\n6:24. No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one,\nand love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other.\nYou cannot serve God and mammon.\n\nMammon.... That is, riches, worldly interest.\n\n6:25. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you\nshall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life\nmore than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?\n\n6:26. Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they\nreap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are\nnot you of much more value than they?\n\n6:27. And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one\ncubit?\n\n6:28. And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of\nthe field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.\n\n6:29. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was\narrayed as one of these.\n\n6:30. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is\ncast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of\nlittle faith?\n\n6:31. Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what\nshall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?\n\n6:32. For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father\nknoweth that you have need of all these things.\n\n6:33. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and\nall these things shall be added unto you.\n\n6:34. Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be\nsolicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 7\n\nThe third part of the sermon on the mount.\n\n7:1. Judge not, that you may not be judged.\n\n7:2. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with\nwhat measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.\n\n7:3. And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother\u2019s eye; and\nseest not the beam that is in thy own eye?\n\n7:4. Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy\neye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?\n\n7:5. Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and\nthen shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother\u2019s eye.\n\n7:6. Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls\nbefore swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and\nturning upon you, they tear you.\n\n7:7. Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock,\nand it shall be opened to you.\n\n7:8. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh,\nfindeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.\n\n7:9. Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask\nbread, will he reach him a stone?\n\n7:10. Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?\n\n7:11. If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your\nchildren: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good\nthings to them that ask him?\n\n7:12. All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to\nyou, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.\n\n7:13. Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad\nis the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in\nthereat.\n\n7:14. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to\nlife: and few there are that find it!\n\n7:15. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of\nsheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.\n\n7:16. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of\nthorns, or figs of thistles?\n\n7:17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil\ntree bringeth forth evil fruit.\n\n7:18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil\ntree bring forth good fruit.\n\n7:19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down,\nand shall be cast into the fire.\n\n7:20. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.\n\n7:21. Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the\nkingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in\nheaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n\n7:22. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we\nprophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many\nmiracles in thy name?\n\n7:23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from\nme, you that work iniquity.\n\n7:24. Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them,\nshall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,\n\n7:25. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and\nthey beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a\nrock.\n\n7:26. And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not,\nshall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,\n\n7:27. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and\nthey beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.\n\n7:28. And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the\npeople were in admiration at his doctrine.\n\n7:29. For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the\nscribes and Pharisees.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 8\n\nChrist cleanses the leper, heals the centurion\u2019s servant, Peter\u2019s\nmother-in-law, and many others: he stills the storm at sea, drives the\ndevils out of two men possessed, and suffers them to go into the swine.\n\n8:1. And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes\nfollowed him:\n\n8:2. And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou\nwilt, thou canst make me clean.\n\n8:3. And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will,\nbe thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.\n\n8:4. And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself\nto the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a\ntestimony unto them.\n\n8:5. And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a\ncenturion, beseeching him,\n\n8:6. And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and\nis grievously tormented.\n\n8:7. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him.\n\n8:8. And the centurion, making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that\nthou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my\nservant shall be healed.\n\n8:9. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me\nsoldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and\nhe cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.\n\n8:10. And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed\nhim. Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel.\n\n8:11. And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west,\nand shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of\nheaven:\n\n8:12. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the\nexterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\n\n8:13. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed,\nso be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour.\n\n8:14. And when Jesus was come into Peter\u2019s house, he saw his wife\u2019s\nmother lying, and sick of a fever;\n\n8:15. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose\nand ministered to them.\n\n8:16. And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were\npossessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and\nall that were sick he healed:\n\n8:17. That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet\nIsaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.\n\n8:18. And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass\nover the water.\n\n8:19. And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow\nthee whithersoever thou shalt go.\n\n8:20. And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of\nthe air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.\n\n8:21. And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first\nto go and bury my father.\n\n8:22. But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their\ndead.\n\n8:23. And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him:\n\n8:24. And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was\ncovered with waves, but he was asleep.\n\n8:25. And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we\nperish.\n\n8:26. And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little\nfaith? Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there\ncame a great calm.\n\n8:27. But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the\nwinds and the sea obey him?\n\n8:28. And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the\ncountry of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with\ndevils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none\ncould pass by that way.\n\n8:29. And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee,\nJesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?\n\n8:30. And there was, not far from them, a herd of many swine feeding.\n\n8:31. And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence,\nsend us into the herd of swine.\n\n8:32. And he said to them: Go. But they going out went into the swine,\nand behold the whole herd ran violently down a steep place into the\nsea: and they perished in the waters.\n\n8:33. And they that kept them fled: and coming into the city, told\nevery thing, and concerning them that had been possessed by the devils.\n\n8:34. And behold the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and when they\nsaw him, they besought him that he would depart from their coasts.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 9\n\nChrist heals one sick of palsy: calls Matthew: cures the issue of\nblood: raises to life the daughter of Jairus: gives sight to two blind\nmen: and heals a dumb man possessed by the devil.\n\n9:1. And entering into a boat, he passed over the water and came into\nhis own city.\n\n9:2. And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a\nbed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy:\nBe of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee.\n\n9:3. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He\nblasphemeth.\n\n9:4. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in\nyour hearts?\n\n9:5. Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say,\nArise, and walk?\n\n9:6. But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to\nforgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of the palsy,) Arise, take\nup thy bed, and go into thy house.\n\n9:7. And he arose, and went into his house.\n\n9:8. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave\nsuch power to men.\n\n9:9. And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the\ncustom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he\narose up and followed him.\n\n9:10. And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house,\nbehold many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his\ndisciples.\n\n9:11. And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your\nmaster eat with publicans and sinners?\n\n9:12. But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a\nphysician, but they that are ill.\n\n9:13. Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not\nsacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.\n\n9:14. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the\nPharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?\n\n9:15. And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn,\nas long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when\nthe bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.\n\nCan the children of the bridegroom.... This, by a Hebraism, signifies\nthe friends or companions of the bridegroom.\n\n9:16. And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For\nit taketh away the fulness thereof from the garment, and there is made\na greater rent.\n\n9:17. Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the\nbottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But\nnew wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved.\n\n9:18. As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler\ncame up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead;\nbut come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.\n\n9:19. And Jesus rising up followed him, with his disciples.\n\n9:20. And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve\nyears, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.\n\n9:21. For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I\nshall be healed.\n\n9:22. But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be of good heart,\ndaughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole\nfrom that hour.\n\n9:23. And when Jesus was come into the house of the ruler, and saw the\nminstrels and the multitude making a rout,\n\n9:24. He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth. And\nthey laughed him to scorn.\n\n9:25. And when the multitude was put forth, he went in, and took her by\nthe hand. And the maid arose.\n\n9:26. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that country.\n\n9:27. And as Jesus passed from thence, there followed him two blind men\ncrying out and saying, Have mercy on us, O Son of David.\n\n9:28. And when he was come to the house, the blind men came to him. And\nJesus saith to them, Do you believe, that I can do this unto you? They\nsay to him, Yea, Lord.\n\n9:29. Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be\nit done unto you.\n\n9:30. And their eyes were opened, and Jesus strictly charged them,\nsaying, See that no man know this.\n\n9:31. But they going out, spread his fame abroad in all that country.\n\n9:32. And when they were gone out, behold they brought him a dumb man,\npossessed with a devil.\n\n9:33. And after the devil was cast out, the dumb man spoke, and the\nmultitudes wondered, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel.\n\n9:34. But the Pharisees said, By the prince of devils he casteth out\ndevils.\n\n9:35. And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their\nsynagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every\ndisease, and every infirmity.\n\n9:36. And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because\nthey were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.\n\n9:37. Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but\nthe labourers are few.\n\n9:38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth\nlabourers into his harvest.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 10\n\nChrist sends out his twelve apostles, with the power of miracles. The\nlessons he gives them.\n\n10:1. And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them\npower over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of\ndiseases, and all manner of infirmities.\n\n10:2. And the names of the twelve Apostles are these: The first, Simon\nwho is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,\n\n10:3. James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and\nBartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of\nAlpheus, and Thaddeus,\n\n10:4. Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.\n\n10:5. These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into\nthe way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye\nnot.\n\n10:6. But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\n\n10:7. And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.\n\n10:8. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out\ndevils: freely have you received, freely give.\n\n10:9. Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses:\n\n10:10. Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a\nstaff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.\n\n10:11. And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire who in\nit is worthy, and there abide till you go thence.\n\n10:12. And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to\nthis house.\n\n10:13. And if that house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but\nif it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you.\n\n10:14. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words: going\nforth out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet.\n\n10:15. Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of\nSodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.\n\n10:16. Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye\ntherefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.\n\nSimple.... That is, harmless, plain, sincere, and without guile.\n\n10:17. But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and\nthey will scourge you in their synagogues.\n\n10:18. And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for\nmy sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles:\n\n10:19. But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what\nto speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak:\n\n10:20. For it is not you that speak, but the spirit of your Father that\nspeaketh in you.\n\n10:21. The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the\nfather the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents,\nand shall put them to death.\n\n10:22. And you shall be hated by all men for my name\u2019s sake: but he\nthat shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.\n\n10:23. And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into\nanother. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of\nIsrael, till the Son of man come.\n\n10:24. The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his\nlord.\n\n10:25. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the\nservant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house\nBeelzebub, how much more them of his household?\n\n10:26. Therefore fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not\nbe revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known.\n\n10:27. That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and\nthat which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.\n\n10:28. And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to\nkill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body\nin hell.\n\n10:29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them\nshall fall on the ground without your Father.\n\n10:30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.\n\n10:31. Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.\n\n10:32. Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will\nalso confess him before my Father who is in heaven.\n\n10:33. But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him\nbefore my Father who is in heaven.\n\n10:34. Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to\nsend peace, but the sword.\n\n10:35. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the\ndaughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother\nin law.\n\nI came to set a man at variance, etc.... Not that this was the end or\ndesign of the coming of our Saviour; but that his coming and his\ndoctrine would have this effect, by reason of the obstinate resistance\nthat many would make, and of their persecuting all such as should\nadhere to him.\n\n10:36. And a man\u2019s enemies shall be they of his own household.\n\n10:37. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of\nme; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of\nme.\n\n10:38. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not\nworthy of me.\n\n10:39. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose\nhis life for me, shall find it.\n\n10:40. He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me,\nreceiveth him that sent me.\n\n10:41. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall\nreceive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in\nthe name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man.\n\n10:42. And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a\ncup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he\nshall not lose his reward.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 11\n\nJohn sends his disciples to Christ, who upbraids the Jews for their\nincredulity, and calls to him such as are sensible of their burdens.\n\n11:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his\ntwelve disciples, he passed from thence, to teach and to preach in\ntheir cities.\n\n11:2. Now when John had heard in prison the works of Christ: sending\ntwo of his disciples he said to him:\n\n11:3. Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?\n\n11:4. And Jesus making answer said to them: Go and relate to John what\nyou have heard and seen.\n\n11:5. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf\nhear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.\n\n11:6. And blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me.\n\nScandalized in me.... That is, who shall not take occasion of scandal\nor offence from my humility, and the disgraceful death of the cross\nwhich I shall endure.\n\n11:7. And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the\nmultitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see? a\nreed shaken with the wind?\n\n11:8. But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments?\nBehold they that are clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of\nkings.\n\n11:9. But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea I tell you, and more\nthan a prophet.\n\n11:10. For this is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel\nbefore thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.\n\n11:11. Amen I say to you, there hath not risen among them that are born\nof women a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser in\nthe kingdom of heaven is greater than he.\n\n11:12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of\nheaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.\n\nSuffereth violence, etc.... It is not to be obtained but by main force,\nby using violence upon ourselves, by mortification and penance, and\nresisting our perverse inclinations.\n\n11:13. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John:\n\n11:14. And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.\n\nHe is Elias, etc.... Not in person, but in spirit. St. Luke 1. 17.\n\n11:15. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n11:16. But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is\nlike to children sitting in the market place.\n\n11:17. Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and\nyou have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.\n\n11:18. For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath\na devil.\n\n11:19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a\nman that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and\nsinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.\n\n11:20. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most\nof his miracles, for that they had not done penance.\n\n11:21. Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre\nand Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you,\nthey had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.\n\n11:22. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and\nSidon in the day of judgment, than for you.\n\n11:23. And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou\nshalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the\nmiracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto\nthis day.\n\n11:24. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land\nof Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.\n\n11:25. At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O\nFather, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things\nfrom the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.\n\n11:26. Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.\n\n11:27. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth\nthe Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the\nSon, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.\n\n11:28. Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will\nrefresh you.\n\n11:29. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek,\nand humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.\n\n11:30. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 12\n\nChrist reproves the blindness of the Pharisees, and confutes their\nattributing his miracles to Satan.\n\n12:1. At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his\ndisciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat.\n\n12:2. And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples\ndo that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.\n\n12:3. But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was\nhungry, and they that were with him:\n\n12:4. How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of\nproposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that\nwere with him, but for the priests only?\n\nThe loaves of proposition.... So were called the twelve loaves which\nwere placed before the sanctuary in the temple of God.\n\n12:5. Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the\npriests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?\n\n12:6. But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.\n\n12:7. And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not\nsacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.\n\n12:8. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.\n\n12:9. And when he had passed from thence, he came into their\nsynagogues.\n\n12:10. And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they\nasked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they\nmight accuse him.\n\n12:11. But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that\nhath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day,\nwill he not take hold on it and lift it up?\n\n12:12. How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to\ndo a good deed on the sabbath days.\n\n12:13. Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he\nstretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.\n\n12:14. And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how\nthey might destroy him.\n\n12:15. But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed\nhim, and he healed them all.\n\n12:16. And he charged them that they should not make him known.\n\n12:17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the\nprophet, saying:\n\n12:18. Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul\nhath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall\nshew judgment to the Gentiles.\n\n12:19. He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear\nhis voice in the streets.\n\n12:20. The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall\nnot extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.\n\n12:21. And in his name the Gentiles shall hope.\n\n12:22. Then was offered to him one possessed with a devil, blind and\ndumb: and he healed him, so that he spoke and saw.\n\n12:23. And all the multitudes were amazed, and said: Is not this the\nson of David?\n\n12:24. But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out\ndevils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.\n\n12:25. And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom\ndivided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house\ndivided against itself shall not stand.\n\n12:26. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how\nthen shall his kingdom stand?\n\n12:27. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children\ncast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.\n\n12:28. But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the\nkingdom of God come upon you.\n\n12:29. Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong, and rifle\nhis goods, unless he first bind the strong? and then he will rifle his\nhouse.\n\n12:30. He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not\nwith me, scattereth.\n\n12:31. Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be\nforgiven men, but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be forgiven.\n\nThe blasphemy of the Spirit.... The sin here spoken of is that\nblasphemy, by which the Pharisees attributed the miracles of Christ,\nwrought by the Spirit of God, to Beelzebub the prince of devils. Now\nthis kind of sin is usually accompanied with so much obstinacy, and\nsuch wilful opposing the Spirit of God, and the known truth, that men\nwho are guilty of it, are seldom or never converted: and therefore are\nnever forgiven, because they will not repent. Otherwise there is no\nsin, which God cannot or will not forgive to such as sincerely repent,\nand have recourse to the keys of the church.\n\n12:32. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it\nshall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost,\nit shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to\ncome.\n\nNor in the world to come.... From these words St. Augustine (De Civ.\nDei, lib. 21, c. 13) and St. Gregory (Dialog., 4, c. 39) gather, that\nsome sins may be remitted in the world to come; and, consequently, that\nthere is a purgatory or a middle place.\n\n12:33. Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree\nevil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.\n\n12:34. O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas\nyou are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.\n\n12:35. A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things:\nand an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.\n\n12:36. But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak,\nthey shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.\n\nEvery idle word.... This shews there must be a place of temporal\npunishment hereafter where these slighter faults shall be punished.\n\n12:37. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou\nshalt be condemned.\n\n12:38. Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying:\nMaster, we would see a sign from thee.\n\nA sign.... That is, a miracle from heaven. St. Luke 11. 16.\n\n12:39. Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation\nseeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas\nthe prophet.\n\n12:40. For as Jonas was in the whale\u2019s belly three days and three\nnights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days\nand three nights.\n\nThree days, etc.... Not complete days and nights; but part of three\ndays, and three nights taken according to the way that the Hebrews\ncounted their days and nights, viz., from evening to evening.\n\n12:41. The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation,\nand shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of\nJonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.\n\n12:42. The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this\ngeneration, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the\nearth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon\nhere.\n\n12:43. And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh\nthrough dry places seeking rest, and findeth none.\n\n12:44. Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came\nout. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.\n\n12:45. Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more\nwicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last\nstate of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to\nthis wicked generation.\n\n12:46. As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and\nhis brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.\n\n12:47. And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand\nwithout, seeking thee.\n\n12:48. But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and\nwho are my brethren?\n\nWho is my mother?.... This was not spoken by way of slighting his\nmother, but to shew that we are never to suffer ourselves to be taken\nfrom the service of God, by any inordinate affection to our earthly\nparents: and that which our Lord chiefly regarded in his mother, was\nher doing the will of his Father in heaven. It may also further allude\nto the reprobation of the Jews, his carnal kindred, and the election of\nthe Gentiles.\n\n12:49. And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said:\nBehold my mother and my brethren.\n\n12:50. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven,\nhe is my brother, and sister, and mother.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 13\n\nThe parables of the sower and the cockle: of the mustardseed, etc.\n\n13:1. The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat by the sea side.\n\n13:2. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he\nwent up into a boat and sat: and all the multitude stood on the shore.\n\n13:3. And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the\nsower went forth to sow.\n\n13:4. And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of\nthe air came and ate them up.\n\n13:5. And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much\nearth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of\nearth.\n\n13:6. And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had\nnot root, they withered away.\n\n13:7. And others fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up and choked\nthem.\n\n13:8. And others fell upon good ground: and they brought forth fruit,\nsome an hundred fold, some sixty fold, and some thirty fold.\n\n13:9. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n13:10. And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to\nthem in parables?\n\n13:11. Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to\nknow the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not\ngiven.\n\n13:12. For he that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound:\nbut he that hath not, from him shall be taken away that also which he\nhath.\n\n13:13. Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they\nsee not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.\n\n13:14. And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By\nhearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall\nsee, and shall not perceive.\n\n13:15. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears\nthey have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at\nany time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and\nunderstand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.\n\n13:16. But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears,\nbecause they hear.\n\n13:17. For, amen, I say to you, many prophets and just men have desired\nto see the things that you see, and have not seen them: and to hear the\nthings that you hear and have not heard them.\n\n13:18. Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.\n\n13:19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth\nit not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was\nsown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.\n\n13:20. And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that\nheareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.\n\n13:21. Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and\nwhen there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he\nis presently scandalized.\n\n13:22. And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth\nthe word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches\nchoketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.\n\n13:23. But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that\nheareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth\nthe one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.\n\n13:24. Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of\nheaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.\n\n13:25. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle\namong the wheat and went his way.\n\n13:26. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit,\nthen appeared also the cockle.\n\n13:27. And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to\nhim. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath\nit cockle?\n\n13:28. And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants\nsaid to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?\n\n13:29. And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root\nup the wheat also together with it.\n\n13:30. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the\nharvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind\nit into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.\n\n13:31. Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of\nheaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed\nin his field.\n\n13:32. Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up,\nit is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of\nthe air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.\n\n13:33. Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like\nto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until\nthe whole was leavened.\n\n13:34. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and\nwithout parables he did not speak to them.\n\n13:35. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,\nsaying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden\nfrom the foundation of the world.\n\n13:36. Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house,\nand his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the\ncockle of the field.\n\n13:37. Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed\nis the Son of man.\n\n13:38. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children\nof the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.\n\n13:39. And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is\nthe end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.\n\n13:40. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so\nshall it be at the end of the world.\n\n13:41. The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out\nof his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.\n\n13:42. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be\nweeping and gnashing of teeth.\n\n13:43. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their\nFather. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n13:44. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field.\nWhich a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and\nselleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.\n\n13:45. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good\npearls.\n\n13:46. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way,\nand sold all that he had, and bought it.\n\n13:47. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea,\nand gathering together of all kinds of fishes.\n\n13:48. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the\nshore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast\nforth.\n\n13:49. So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out,\nand shall separate the wicked from among the just.\n\n13:50. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be\nweeping and gnashing of teeth.\n\n13:51. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.\n\n13:52. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the\nkingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth\nforth out of his treasure new things and old.\n\n13:53. And it came to pass: when Jesus had finished these parables, he\npassed from thence.\n\n13:54. And coming into his own country, he taught them in their\nsynagogues, so that they wondered and said: How came this man by this\nwisdom and miracles?\n\n13:55. Is not this the carpenter\u2019s son? Is not his mother called Mary,\nand his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:\n\nHis brethren.... These were the children of Mary the wife of Cleophas,\nsister to our Blessed Lady, (St. Matt. 27. 56; St. John 19. 25,) and\ntherefore, according to the usual style of the Scripture, they were\ncalled brethren, that is, near relations to our Saviour.\n\n13:56. And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath\nhe all these things?\n\n13:57. And they were scandalized in his regard. But Jesus said to them:\nA prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his\nown house.\n\n13:58. And he wrought not many miracles there, because of their\nunbelief.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 14\n\nHerod puts John to death. Christ feeds five thousand in the desert. He\nwalks upon the sea, and heals all the diseased with the touch of his\ngarment.\n\n14:1. At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard the fame of Jesus.\n\nTetrarch.... This word, derived from the Greek, signifies one that\nrules over the fourth part of a kingdom: as Herod then ruled over\nGalilee, which was but the fourth part of the kingdom of his father.\n\n14:2. And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is\nrisen from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves\nin him.\n\n14:3. For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into\nprison, because of Herodias, his brother\u2019s wife.\n\n14:4. For John said to him: It is not lawful for thee to have her.\n\n14:5. And having a mind to put him to death, he feared the people:\nbecause they esteemed him as a prophet.\n\n14:6. But on Herod\u2019s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before\nthem: and pleased Herod.\n\n14:7. Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she\nwould ask of him.\n\n14:8. But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here\nin a dish the head of John the Baptist.\n\n14:9. And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for\nthem that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given.\n\n14:10. And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.\n\n14:11. And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the\ndamsel, and she brought it to her mother.\n\n14:12. And his disciples came and took the body, and buried it, and\ncame and told Jesus.\n\n14:13. Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by a boat,\ninto a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it,\nfollowed him on foot out of the cities.\n\n14:14. And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on\nthem, and healed their sick.\n\n14:15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This\nis a desert place, and the hour is now passed: send away the\nmultitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves\nvictuals.\n\n14:16. But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them\nto eat.\n\n14:17. They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two\nfishes.\n\n14:18. Who said to them: Bring them hither to me.\n\n14:19. And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the\ngrass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to\nheaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples,\nand the disciples to the multitudes.\n\n14:20. And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what\nremained, twelve full baskets of fragments.\n\n14:21. And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men,\nbesides women and children.\n\n14:22. And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the\nboat, and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the\npeople.\n\n14:23. And having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain\nalone to pray. And when it was evening, he was there alone.\n\n14:24. But the boat in the midst of the sea was tossed with the waves:\nfor the wind was contrary.\n\n14:25. And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking\nupon the sea.\n\n14:26. And they seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying:\nIt is an apparition. And they cried out for fear.\n\n14:27. And immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying: Be of good heart:\nit is I, fear ye not.\n\n14:28. And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it be thou, bid me come\nto thee upon the waters.\n\n14:29. And he said: Come. And Peter going down out of the boat walked\nupon the water to come to Jesus.\n\n14:30. But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid: and when he began to\nsink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me.\n\n14:31. And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of\nhim, and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?\n\n14:32. And when they were come up into the boat, the wind ceased.\n\n14:33. And they that were in the boat came and adored him, saying:\nIndeed thou art the Son of God.\n\n14:34. And having passed the water, they came into the country of\nGenesar.\n\n14:35. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent\ninto all that country, and brought to him all that were diseased.\n\n14:36. And they besought him that they might touch but the hem of his\ngarment. And as many as touched, were made whole.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 15\n\nChrist reproves the Scribes. He cures the daughter of the woman of\nCanaan: and many others: and feeds four thousand with seven loaves.\n\n15:1. Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying:\n\n15:2. Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients?\nFor they wash not their hands when they eat bread.\n\n15:3. But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the\ncommandment of God for your tradition? For God said:\n\n15:4. Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or\nmother, let him die the death.\n\n15:5. But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift\nwhatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.\n\nThe gift, etc.... That is, the offering that I shall make to God, shall\nbe instead of that which should be expended for thy profit. This\ntradition of the Pharisees was calculated to enrich themselves; by\nexempting children from giving any further assistance to their parents,\nif they once offered to the temple and the priests, that which should\nhave been the support of their parents. But this was a violation of the\nlaw of God, and of nature, which our Saviour here condemns.\n\n15:6. And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have\nmade void the commandment of God for your tradition.\n\n15:7. Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:\n\n15:8. This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far\nfrom me.\n\n15:9. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and\ncommandments of men.\n\nCommandments of men.... The doctrines and commandments here reprehended\nare such as are either contrary to the law of God, (as that of\nneglecting parents, under pretence of giving to God,) or at least are\nfrivolous, unprofitable, and no ways conducing to true piety, as that\nof often washing hands, etc., without regard to the purity of the\nheart. But as to the rules and ordinances of the holy church, touching\nfasts, festivals, etc., these are no ways repugnant to, but highly\nagreeable to God\u2019s holy word, and all Christian piety: neither are they\nto be counted among the doctrines and commandments of men; because they\nproceed not from mere human authority; but from that which Christ has\nestablished in his church; whose pastors he has commanded us to hear\nand obey, even as himself. St. Luke 10. 16; St. Matt. 18. 17.\n\n15:10. And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to\nthem: Hear ye and understand.\n\n15:11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what\ncometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.\n\nNot that which goeth into, etc.... No uncleanness in meat, nor any dirt\ncontracted by eating it with unwashed hands, can defile the soul: but\nsin alone; or a disobedience of the heart to the ordinance and will of\nGod. And thus when Adam took the forbidden fruit, it was not the apple,\nwhich entered into the mouth, but the disobedience to the law of God\nwhich defiled him. The same is to be said if a Jew, in the time of the\nold law, had eaten swine\u2019s flesh; or a Christian convert, in the days\nof the apostles, contrary to their ordinance, had eaten blood; or if\nany of the faithful at present should transgress the ordinance of God\u2019s\nchurch, by breaking the fasts: for in all these cases the soul would be\ndefiled; not indeed by that which goeth into the mouth; but by the\ndisobedience of the heart, in wilfully transgressing the ordinance of\nGod, or of those who have their authority from him.\n\n15:12. Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that\nthe Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?\n\n15:13. But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father\nhath not planted, shall be rooted up.\n\n15:14. Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if\nthe blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.\n\n15:15. And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.\n\n15:16. But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?\n\n15:17. Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth,\ngoeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?\n\n15:18. But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from\nthe heart, and those things defile a man.\n\n15:19. For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders,\nadulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.\n\n15:20. These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed\nhands doth not defile a man.\n\n15:21. And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre\nand Sidon.\n\n15:22. And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts,\ncrying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David:\nmy daughter is grievously troubled by a devil.\n\n15:23. Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought\nhim, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:\n\n15:24. And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that\nare lost of the house of Israel.\n\n15:25. But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.\n\n15:26. Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the\nchildren, and to cast it to the dogs.\n\n15:27. But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs\nthat fall from the table of their masters.\n\n15:28. Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith:\nbe it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that\nhour.\n\n15:29. And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea\nof Galilee: and going up into a mountain, he sat there.\n\n15:30. And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the\ndumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast\nthem down at his feet, and he healed them:\n\n15:31. So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the dumb speak, the lame\nwalk, the blind see: and they glorified the God of Israel.\n\n15:32. And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have\ncompassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three\ndays, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting,\nlest they faint in the way.\n\n15:33. And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so\nmany loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?\n\n15:34. And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said:\nSeven, and a few little fishes.\n\n15:35. And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground.\n\n15:36. And taking the seven loaves and the fishes, and giving thanks,\nhe brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples gave to the\npeople.\n\n15:37. And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven\nbaskets full, of what remained of the fragments.\n\n15:38. And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children\nand women.\n\n15:39. And having dismissed the multitude, he went up into a boat, and\ncame into the coasts of Magedan.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 16\n\nChrist refuses to shew the Pharisees a sign from heaven. Peter\u2019s\nconfession is rewarded. He is rebuked for opposing Christ\u2019s passion.\nAll his followers must deny themselves.\n\n16:1. And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and\nthey asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.\n\n16:2. But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It\nwill be fair weather, for the sky is red.\n\n16:3. And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is\nred and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and\ncan you not know the signs of the times?\n\n16:4. A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a\nsign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he\nleft them, and went away.\n\n16:5. And when his disciples were come over the water, they had\nforgotten to take bread.\n\n16:6. Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the\nPharisees and Sadducees.\n\n16:7. But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken\nno bread.\n\n16:8. And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O\nye of little faith, for that you have no bread?\n\n16:9. Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five\nloaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?\n\n16:10. Nor the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many\nbaskets you took up?\n\n16:11. Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I\nsaid to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?\n\n16:12. Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of\nthe leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and\nSadducees.\n\n16:13. And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he\nasked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?\n\n16:14. But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and\nothers Jeremias, or one of the prophets.\n\n16:15. Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?\n\n16:16. Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the\nliving God.\n\n16:17. And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon\nBar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my\nFather who is in heaven.\n\n16:18. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I\nwill build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against\nit.\n\nThou art Peter, etc.... As St. Peter, by divine revelation, here made a\nsolemn profession of his faith of the divinity of Christ; so in\nrecompense of this faith and profession, our Lord here declares to him\nthe dignity to which he is pleased to raise him: viz., that he to whom\nhe had already given the name of Peter, signifying a rock, St. John 1.\n42, should be a rock indeed, of invincible strength, for the support of\nthe building of the church; in which building he should be, next to\nChrist himself, the chief foundation stone, in quality of chief pastor,\nruler, and governor; and should have accordingly all fulness of\necclesiastical power, signified by the keys of the kingdom of heaven.\nUpon this rock, etc.... The words of Christ to Peter, spoken in the\nvulgar language of the Jews which our Lord made use of, were the same\nas if he had said in English, Thou art a Rock, and upon this rock I\nwill build my church. So that, by the plain course of the words, Peter\nis here declared to be the rock, upon which the church was to be built:\nChrist himself being both the principal foundation and founder of the\nsame. Where also note, that Christ, by building his house, that is, his\nchurch, upon a rock, has thereby secured it against all storms and\nfloods, like the wise builder, St. Matt. 7. 24, 25. The gates of hell,\netc.... That is, the powers of darkness, and whatever Satan can do,\neither by himself, or his agents. For as the church is here likened to\na house, or fortress, built on a rock; so the adverse powers are\nlikened to a contrary house or fortress, the gates of which, that is,\nthe whole strength, and all the efforts it can make, will never be able\nto prevail over the city or church of Christ. By this promise we are\nfully assured, that neither idolatry, heresy, nor any pernicious error\nwhatsoever shall at any time prevail over the church of Christ.\n\n16:19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And\nwhatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in\nheaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed\nalso in heaven.\n\nLoose on earth.... The loosing the bands of temporal punishments due to\nsins, is called an indulgence; the power of which is here granted.\n\n16:20. Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one\nthat he was Jesus the Christ.\n\n16:21. From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he\nmust go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and\nscribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise\nagain.\n\n16:22. And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it\nfar from thee, this shall not be unto thee.\n\nAnd Peter taking him.... That is, taking him aside, out of a tender\nlove, respect and zeal for his Lord and Master\u2019s honour, began to\nexpostulate with him, as it were to rebuke him, saying, Lord, far be it\nfrom thee to suffer death; but the Lord said to Peter, ver. 23, Go\nbehind me, Satan. These words may signify, Begone from me; but the holy\nFathers expound them otherwise, that is, come after me, or follow me;\nand by these words the Lord would have Peter to follow him in his\nsuffering, and not to oppose the divine will by contradiction; for the\nword satan means in Hebrew an adversary, or one that opposes.\n\n16:23. Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a\nscandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God,\nbut the things that are of men.\n\n16:24. Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me,\nlet him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.\n\n16:25. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall\nlose his life for my sake, shall find it.\n\n16:26. For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and\nsuffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for\nhis soul?\n\n16:27. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with\nhis angels: and then will he render to every man according to his\nworks.\n\n16:28. Amen I say to you, there are some of them that stand here, that\nshall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his\nkingdom.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 17\n\nThe Transfiguration of Christ: He cures the lunatic child: foretells\nhis passion; and pays the didrachma.\n\n17:1. And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and\nJohn his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart:\n\n17:2. And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as\nthe sun: and his garments became white as snow.\n\n17:3. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with\nhim.\n\n17:4. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be\nhere: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee,\nand one for Moses, and one for Elias.\n\n17:5. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed\nthem. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son,\nin whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.\n\n17:6. And the disciples hearing fell upon their face, and were very\nmuch afraid.\n\n17:7. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them: Arise, and\nfear not.\n\n17:8. And they lifting up their eyes, saw no one, but only Jesus.\n\n17:9. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them,\nsaying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from\nthe dead.\n\n17:10. And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say\nthat Elias must come first?\n\n17:11. But he answering, said to them: Elias indeed shall come, and\nrestore all things.\n\n17:12. But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him\nnot, But have done unto him whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son\nof man shall suffer from them.\n\n17:13. Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of\nJohn the Baptist.\n\n17:14. And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man\nfalling down on his knees before him saying: Lord, have pity on my son,\nfor he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the\nfire, and often into the water.\n\n17:15. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.\n\n17:16. Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse\ngeneration, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you?\nBring him hither to me.\n\n17:17. And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the\nchild was cured from that hour.\n\n17:18. Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could\nnot we cast him out?\n\n17:19. Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to\nyou, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to\nthis mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and\nnothing shall be impossible to you.\n\nAs a grain of mustard seed.... That is, a perfect faith; which in its\nproperties, and its fruits, resembles the grain of mustard seed, in the\nparable, chap. 13. 31.\n\n17:20. But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.\n\n17:21. And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The\nSon of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:\n\n17:22. And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.\nAnd they were troubled exceedingly.\n\n17:23. And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the\ndidrachmas, came to Peter, and said to him: Doth not your master pay\nthe didrachma?\n\nThe didrachmas.... A didrachma was half a sicle, or half a stater; that\nis, about 15d. English: which was a tax laid upon every head for the\nservice of the temple.\n\n17:24. He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus\nprevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the\nearth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom, of their own\nchildren, or of strangers?\n\n17:25. And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children\nare free.\n\n17:26. But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in\na hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou\nhast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it\nto them for me and thee.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 18\n\nChrist teaches humility, to beware of scandal, and to flee the\noccasions of sin: to denounce to the church incorrigible sinners, and\nto look upon such as refuse to hear the church as heathens. He promises\nto his disciples the power of binding and loosing: and that he will be\nin the midst of their assemblies. No forgiveness for them that will not\nforgive.\n\n18:1. At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest\nthou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?\n\n18:2. And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst\nof them.\n\n18:3. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become\nas little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n\n18:4. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he\nis the greater in the kingdom of heaven.\n\n18:5. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name,\nreceiveth me.\n\n18:6. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that\nbelieve in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged\nabout his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.\n\nShall scandalize.... That is, shall put a stumblingblock in their way,\nand cause them to fall into sin.\n\n18:7. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that\nscandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal\ncometh.\n\nIt must needs be, etc.... Viz., considering the wickedness and\ncorruption of the world.\n\n18:8. And if thy hand, or thy foot, scandalize thee, cut it off, and\ncast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or\nlame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting\nfire.\n\nScandalize thee.... That is, cause thee to offend.\n\n18:9. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from\nthee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than\nhaving two eyes to be cast into hell fire.\n\n18:10. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to\nyou, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who\nis in heaven.\n\n18:11. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.\n\n18:12. What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them\nshould go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains,\nand go to seek that which is gone astray?\n\n18:13. And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth\nmore for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.\n\n18:14. Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven,\nthat one of these little ones should perish.\n\n18:15. But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him\nbetween thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy\nbrother.\n\n18:16. And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more:\nthat in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.\n\n18:17. And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will\nnot hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.\n\n18:18. Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall\nbe bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth,\nshall be loosed also in heaven.\n\n18:19. Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth,\nconcerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them\nby my Father who is in heaven.\n\n18:20. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name,\nthere am I in the midst of them.\n\nThere am I in the midst of them.... This is understood of such\nassemblies only as are gathered in the name and authority of Christ;\nand in unity of the church of Christ. St. Cyprian, De Unitate\nEcclesiae.\n\n18:21. Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my\nbrother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?\n\n18:22. Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but\ntill seventy times seven times.\n\n18:23. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would\ntake an account of his servants.\n\n18:24. And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to\nhim, that owed him ten thousand talents.\n\nTalents.... A talent was seven hundred and fifty ounces of silver,\nwhich at the rate of five shillings to the ounce is a hundred and\neighty-seven pounds ten shillings sterling.\n\n18:25. And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that\nhe should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and\npayment to be made.\n\n18:26. But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have\npatience with me, and I will pay thee all.\n\n18:27. And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go\nand forgave him the debt.\n\n18:28. But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his\nfellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him,\nhe throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.\n\nPence.... The Roman penny was the eighth part of an ounce, that is,\nabout sevenpence half-penny English.\n\n18:29. And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have\npatience with me, and I will pay thee all.\n\n18:30. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he\npaid the debt.\n\n18:31. Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much\ngrieved, and they came, and told their lord all that was done.\n\n18:32. Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant,\nI forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me:\n\n18:33. Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow\nservant, even as I had compassion on thee?\n\n18:34. And his lord being angry, delivered him to the torturers until\nhe paid all the debt.\n\n18:35. So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not\nevery one his brother from your hearts.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 19\n\nChrist declares matrimony to be indissoluble: he recommends the making\none\u2019s self an eunuch for the kingdom of heaven; and parting with all\nthings for him. He shews the danger of riches, and the reward of\nleaving all to follow him.\n\n19:1. And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these words, he departed\nfrom Galilee and came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan.\n\n19:2. And great multitudes followed him: and he healed them there.\n\n19:3. And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is\nit lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?\n\n19:4. Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made\nman from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said:\n\n19:5. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall\ncleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.\n\n19:6. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God\nhath joined together, let no man put asunder.\n\n19:7. They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of\ndivorce, and to put away?\n\n19:8. He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your\nheart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it\nwas not so.\n\n19:9. And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except\nit be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery:\nand he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.\n\nExcept it be, etc.... In the case of fornication, that is, of adultery,\nthe wife may be put away: but even then the husband cannot marry\nanother as long as the wife is living.\n\n19:10. His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife\nbe so, it is not expedient to marry.\n\n19:11. Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom\nit is given.\n\nAll men take not this word.... That is, all receive not the gift of\nliving singly and chastely, unless they pray for the grace of God to\nenable them to live so, and for some it may be necessary to that end to\nfast as well as pray: and to those it is given from above.\n\n19:12. For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother\u2019s\nwomb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are\neunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He\nthat can take, let him take it.\n\nThere are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs, for the kingdom of\nheaven.... This text is not to be taken in the literal sense; but\nmeans, that there are such, who have taken a firm and commendable\nresolution of leading a single and chaste life, in order to serve God\nin a more perfect state than those who marry: as St. Paul clearly\nshews. 1 Cor. 7. 37, 38.\n\n19:13. Then were little children presented to him, that he should\nimpose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.\n\n19:14. But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid\nthem not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.\n\n19:15. And when he had imposed hands upon them, he departed from\nthence.\n\n19:16. And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good\nshall I do that I may have life everlasting?\n\n19:17. Who said to him: Why askest thou me concerning good? One is\ngood, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.\n\n19:18. He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder,\nThou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not\nbear false witness.\n\n19:19. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy\nneighbor as thyself.\n\n19:20. The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth,\nwhat is yet wanting to me?\n\n19:21. Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou\nhast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and\ncome, follow me.\n\n19:22. And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad:\nfor he had great possessions.\n\n19:23. Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a\nrich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.\n\n19:24. And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through\nthe eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of\nheaven.\n\n19:25. And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered much,\nsaying: Who then can be saved?\n\n19:26. And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible:\nbut with God all things are possible.\n\n19:27. Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all\nthings, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have?\n\n19:28. And Jesus said to them: Amen I say to you, that you who have\nfollowed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the\nseat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the\ntwelve tribes of Israel.\n\n19:29. And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or\nfather, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name\u2019s sake,\nshall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.\n\n19:30. And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be\nfirst.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 20\n\nThe parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The ambition of the two\nsons of Zebedee. Christ gives sight to two blind men.\n\n20:1. The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out\nearly in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.\n\n20:2. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent\nthem into his vineyard.\n\n20:3. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the\nmarketplace idle.\n\n20:4. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will\ngive you what shall be just.\n\n20:5. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth\nand the ninth hour, and did in like manner.\n\n20:6. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others\nstanding, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?\n\n20:7. They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them:\nGo ye also into my vineyard.\n\n20:8. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his\nsteward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the\nlast even to the first.\n\n20:9. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour,\nthey received every man a penny.\n\n20:10. But when the first also came, they thought that they should\nreceive more: And they also received every man a penny.\n\n20:11. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,\n\n20:12. Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made\nthem equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.\n\n20:13. But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no\nwrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?\n\n20:14. Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this\nlast even as to thee.\n\n20:15. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil,\nbecause I am good?\n\nWhat I will.... Viz., with my own, and in matters that depend on my own\nbounty.\n\n20:16. So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are\ncalled but few chosen.\n\n20:17. And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart\nand said to them:\n\n20:18. Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be\nbetrayed to the chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn\nhim to death.\n\n20:19. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged\nand crucified: and the third day he shall rise again.\n\n20:20. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her\nsons, adoring and asking something of him.\n\n20:21. Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that\nthese my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on\nthy left, in thy kingdom.\n\n20:22. And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you\ndrink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.\n\n20:23. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit\non my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for\nwhom it is prepared by my Father.\n\n20:24. And the ten, hearing it, were moved with indignation against the\ntwo brethren.\n\n20:25. But Jesus called them to him and said: You know that the princes\nof the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they that are the greater,\nexercise power upon them.\n\n20:26. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among\nyou, let him be your minister.\n\n20:27. And he that will be first among you shall be your servant.\n\n20:28. Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to\nminister and to give his life a redemption for many.\n\n20:29. And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed\nhim.\n\n20:30. And behold two blind men sitting by the way side heard that\nJesus passed by. And they cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David,\nhave mercy on us.\n\n20:31. And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their\npeace. But they cried out the more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David,\nhave mercy on us.\n\n20:32. And Jesus stood and called them and said: What will ye that I do\nto you?\n\n20:33. They say to him: Lord, that our eyes be opened.\n\n20:34. And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And\nimmediately they saw and followed him.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 21\n\nChrist rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and\nsellers out of the temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the\npriests and scribes.\n\n21:1. And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage,\nunto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples,\n\n21:2. Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you:\nand immediately you shall find an ass tied and a colt with her. Loose\nthem and bring them to me.\n\n21:3. And if any man shall say anything to you, say ye that the Lord\nhath need of them. And forthwith he will let them go.\n\n21:4. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken\nby the prophet, saying:\n\n21:5. Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee,\nmeek and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of her that is used\nto the yoke.\n\n21:6. And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them.\n\n21:7. And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments\nupon them and made him sit thereon.\n\n21:8. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and\nothers cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.\n\n21:9. And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried,\nsaying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the\nname of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.\n\n21:10. And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved,\nsaying: Who is this?\n\n21:11. And the people said: This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of\nGalilee.\n\n21:12. And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that\nsold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money\nchangers and the chairs of them that sold doves.\n\n21:13. And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called\nthe house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.\n\n21:14. And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple: and\nhe healed them.\n\n21:15. And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things\nthat he did and the children crying in the temple and saying: Hosanna\nto the son of David, were moved with indignation,\n\n21:16. And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to\nthem: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of\nsucklings thou hast perfected praise?\n\n21:17. And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and\nremained there.\n\n21:18. And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.\n\n21:19. And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and\nfound nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit\ngrow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree\nwithered away.\n\n21:20. And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it\npresently withered away?\n\n21:21. And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you\nshall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall\nyou do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast\nthyself into the sea, it shall be done.\n\n21:22. And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing, you\nshall receive.\n\n21:23. And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he\nwas teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By\nwhat authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this\nauthority?\n\n21:24. Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word,\nwhich if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do\nthese things.\n\n21:25. The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But\nthey thought within themselves, saying:\n\n21:26. If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did\nyou not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of\nthe multitude: for all held John as a prophet.\n\n21:27. And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to\nthem: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.\n\n21:28. But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to\nthe first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.\n\n21:29. And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved\nwith repentance, he went.\n\n21:30. And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he\nanswering said: I go, Sir. And he went not.\n\n21:31. Which of the two did the father\u2019s will? They say to him: The\nfirst. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and\nthe harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you.\n\n21:32. For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not\nbelieve him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you,\nseeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.\n\n21:33. Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who\nplanted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a\npress and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a\nstrange country.\n\n21:34. And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants\nto the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.\n\n21:35. And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and\nkilled another and stoned another.\n\n21:36. Again he sent other servants, more than the former; and they did\nto them in like manner.\n\n21:37. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will\nreverence my son.\n\n21:38. But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This\nis the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.\n\n21:39. And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard and\nkilled him.\n\n21:40. When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he\ndo to those husbandmen?\n\n21:41. They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and\nwill let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the\nfruit in due season.\n\n21:42. Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The\nstone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the\ncorner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our\neyes.\n\n21:43. Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken\nfrom you and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.\n\n21:44. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on\nwhomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.\n\n21:45. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables,\nthey knew that he spoke of them.\n\n21:46. And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes,\nbecause they held him as a prophet.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 22\n\nThe parable of the marriage feast. Christ orders tribute to be paid to\nCaesar. He confutes the Sadducees, shews which is the first commandment\nin the law and puzzles the Pharisees.\n\n22:1. And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:\n\n22:2. The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage\nfor his son.\n\n22:3. And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the\nmarriage: and they would not come.\n\n22:4. Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were\ninvited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are\nkilled, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.\n\n22:5. But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and\nanother to his merchandise.\n\n22:6. And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them\ncontumeliously, put them to death.\n\n22:7. But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his\narmies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.\n\n22:8. Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but\nthey that were invited were not worthy.\n\n22:9. Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find,\ncall to the marriage.\n\n22:10. And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together\nall that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled\nwith guests.\n\n22:11. And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man\nwho had not on a wedding garment.\n\n22:12. And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not\nhaving on a wedding garment? But he was silent.\n\n22:13. Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and\ncast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and\ngnashing of teeth.\n\n22:14. For many are called, but few are chosen.\n\n22:15. Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to\ninsnare him in his speech.\n\n22:16. And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying:\nMaster, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of\nGod in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard\nthe person of men.\n\nThe Herodians.... That is, some that belonged to Herod, and that joined\nwith him in standing up for the necessity of paying tribute to Caesar,\nthat is, to the Roman emperor. Some are of opinion that there was a\nsect among the Jews called Herodians, from their maintaining that Herod\nwas the Messias.\n\n22:17. Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give\ntribute to Caesar, or not?\n\n22:18. But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me,\nye hypocrites?\n\n22:19. Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.\n\n22:20. And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?\n\n22:21. They say to him: Caesar\u2019s. Then he saith to them: Render\ntherefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar\u2019s; and to God, the\nthings that are God\u2019s.\n\n22:22. And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their\nways.\n\n22:23. That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no\nresurrection; and asked him,\n\n22:24. Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his\nbrother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.\n\n22:25. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having\nmarried a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his\nbrother.\n\n22:26. In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the\nseventh.\n\n22:27. And last of all the woman died also.\n\n22:28. At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she\nbe? For they all had her.\n\n22:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the\nScriptures nor the power of God.\n\n22:30. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married,\nbut shall be as the angels of God in heaven.\n\n22:31. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read\nthat which was spoken by God, saying to you:\n\n22:32. I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of\nJacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.\n\n22:33. And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his\ndoctrine.\n\n22:34. But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees,\ncame together.\n\n22:35. And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:\n\n22:36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?\n\n22:37. Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy\nwhole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.\n\n22:38. This is the greatest and the first commandment.\n\n22:39. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as\nthyself.\n\n22:40. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the\nprophets.\n\n22:41. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,\n\n22:42. Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to\nhim: David\u2019s.\n\n22:43. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord,\nsaying:\n\n22:44. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy\nenemies thy footstool?\n\n22:45. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?\n\n22:46. And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man\nfrom that day forth ask him any more questions.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 23\n\nChrist admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the bad\nexample of the scribes and Pharisees. He warns his disciples not to\nimitate their ambition and denounces divers woes against them for their\nhypocrisy and blindness.\n\n23:1. Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,\n\n23:2. Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of\nMoses.\n\n23:3. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe\nand do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do\nnot.\n\n23:4. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on\nmen\u2019s shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move\nthem.\n\n23:5. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make\ntheir phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.\n\nPhylacteries.... that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten\ncommandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes:\nwhich the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem\nmore zealous for the law.\n\n23:6. And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in\nthe synagogues,\n\n23:7. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men,\nRabbi.\n\n23:8. But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you\nare brethren.\n\n23:9. And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who\nis in heaven.\n\nCall none your father\u2014Neither be ye called masters, etc.... The meaning\nis that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than\nany father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who would lead us\naway from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law\nof God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual\nfathers, (1 Cor. 4. 23:15,) and for our masters and teachers.\n\n23:10. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ.\n\n23:11. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.\n\n23:12. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that\nshall humble himself shall be exalted.\n\n23:13. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you\nshut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter\nin and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.\n\n23:14. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour\nthe houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive\nthe greater judgment.\n\n23:15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go\nround about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is\nmade, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.\n\n23:16. Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the\ntemple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the\ntemple is a debtor.\n\n23:17. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the\ntemple that sanctifieth the gold?\n\n23:18. And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but\nwhosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.\n\n23:19. Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that\nsanctifieth the gift?\n\n23:20. He therefore that sweareth by the altar sweareth by it and by\nall things that are upon it.\n\n23:21. And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by\nhim that dwelleth in it.\n\n23:22. And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and\nby him that sitteth thereon.\n\n23:23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe\nmint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the\nlaw: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done\nand not to leave those undone.\n\n23:24. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.\n\n23:25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make\nclean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full\nof rapine and uncleanness.\n\n23:26. Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and\nof the dish, that the outside may become clean.\n\n23:27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are\nlike to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but\nwithin are full of dead men\u2019s bones and of all filthiness.\n\n23:28. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly\nyou are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.\n\n23:29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the\nsepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,\n\nBuild the sepulchres, etc.... This is not blamed, as if it were in\nitself evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the\nhypocrisy of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to\nhonour the memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the\nLord of the prophets.\n\n23:30. And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not\nhave been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.\n\n23:31. Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the\nsons of them that killed the prophets.\n\n23:32. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.\n\n23:33. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the\njudgment of hell?\n\n23:34. Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and\nscribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some\nyou will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.\n\n23:35. That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed\nupon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of\nZacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and\nthe altar.\n\nThat upon you may come, etc.... Not that they should suffer more than\ntheir own sins justly deserved; but that the justice of God should now\nfall upon them with such a final vengeance, once for all, as might\ncomprise all the different kinds of judgments and punishments, that had\nat any time before been inflicted for the shedding of just blood.\n\n23:36. Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this\ngeneration.\n\n23:37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest\nthem that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together\nthy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and\nthou wouldst not?\n\n23:38. Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.\n\n23:39. For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say:\nBlessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 24\n\nChrist foretells the destruction of the temple, with the signs that\nshall come before it and before the last judgment. We must always\nwatch.\n\n24:1. And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his\ndisciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.\n\n24:2. And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen\nI say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that\nshall not be destroyed.\n\n24:3. And when he was sitting on mount Olivet, the disciples came to\nhim privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be? And what\nshall be the sign of thy coming and of the consummation of the world?\n\n24:4. And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce\nyou.\n\n24:5. For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ. And they will\nseduce many.\n\n24:6. And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be\nnot troubled. For these things must come to pass: but the end is not\nyet.\n\n24:7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against\nkingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in\nplaces.\n\n24:8. Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.\n\n24:9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall put you\nto death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name\u2019s sake.\n\n24:10. And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another\nand shall hate one another.\n\n24:11. And many false prophets shall rise and shall seduce many.\n\n24:12. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall\ngrow cold.\n\n24:13. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.\n\n24:14. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole\nworld, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation\ncome.\n\n24:15. When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation,\nwhich was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place:\nhe that readeth let him understand.\n\n24:16. Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:\n\n24:17. And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take\nany thing out of his house:\n\n24:18. And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his\ncoat.\n\n24:19. And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those\ndays.\n\n24:20. But pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the\nsabbath.\n\n24:21. For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been\nfrom the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.\n\n24:22. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be\nsaved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.\n\n24:23. Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there:\ndo not believe him.\n\n24:24. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall\nshew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even\nthe elect.\n\n24:25. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.\n\n24:26. If therefore they shall say to you, Behold he is in the desert:\ngo ye not out. Behold he is in the closets: believe it not.\n\n24:27. For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into\nthe west: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.\n\n24:28. Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be\ngathered together.\n\nWheresoever, etc.... The coming of Christ shall be sudden, and manifest\nto all the world, like lightning: and wheresoever he shall come,\nthither shall all mankind be gathered to him, as eagles are gathered\nabout a dead body.\n\n24:29. And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun\nshall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars\nshall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.\n\nThe stars.... Or flaming meteors resembling stars.\n\n24:30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven. And\nthen shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of\nman coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty.\n\nThe sign, etc.... The cross of Christ.\n\n24:31. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice:\nand they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the\nfarthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them.\n\n24:32. And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof\nis now tender and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.\n\n24:33. So you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that\nit is nigh, even at the doors.\n\n24:34. Amen I say to you that this generation shall not pass till all\nthese things be done.\n\n24:35. Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.\n\nShall pass.... Because they shall be changed at the end of the world\ninto a new heaven and new earth.\n\n24:36. But of that day and hour no one knoweth: no, not the angels of\nheaven, but the Father alone.\n\n24:37. And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son\nof man be.\n\n24:38. For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and\ndrinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which\nNoe entered into the ark:\n\n24:39. And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so\nalso shall the coming of the Son of man be.\n\n24:40. Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and one shall\nbe left.\n\n24:41. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and\none shall be left.\n\n24:42. Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord\nwill come.\n\n24:43. But this know ye, that, if the goodman of the house knew at what\nhour the thief would come, he would certainly watch and would not\nsuffer his house to be broken open.\n\n24:44. Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not\nthe Son of man will come.\n\n24:45. Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his\nlord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season?\n\n24:46. Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall\nfind so doing.\n\n24:47. Amen I say to you: he shall place him over all his goods.\n\n24:48. But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long\na coming:\n\n24:49. And shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and\ndrink with drunkards:\n\n24:50. The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not\nand at an hour that he knoweth not:\n\n24:51. And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the\nhypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 25\n\nThe parable of the ten virgins and of the talents. The description of\nthe last judgment.\n\n25:1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who\ntaking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.\n\n25:2. And five of them were foolish and five wise.\n\n25:3. But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil\nwith them.\n\n25:4. But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps.\n\n25:5. And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.\n\n25:6. And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom\ncometh. Go ye forth to meet him.\n\n25:7. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.\n\n25:8. And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our\nlamps are gone out.\n\n25:9. The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for\nus and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.\n\n25:10. Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that\nwere ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut.\n\n25:11. But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord,\nopen to us.\n\n25:12. But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.\n\n25:13. Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.\n\n25:14. For even as a man going into a far country called his servants\nand delivered to them his goods;\n\n25:15. And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to\nanother one, to every one according to his proper ability: and\nimmediately he took his journey.\n\n25:16. And he that had received the five talents went his way and\ntraded with the same and gained other five.\n\n25:17. And in like manner he that had received the two gained other\ntwo.\n\n25:18. But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the\nearth and hid his lord\u2019s money.\n\n25:19. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and\nreckoned with them.\n\n25:20. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other\nfive talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents.\nBehold I have gained other five over and above.\n\n25:21. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant,\nbecause thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee\nover many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.\n\n25:22. And he also that had received the two talents came and said:\nLord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other\ntwo.\n\n25:23. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant:\nbecause thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee\nover many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.\n\n25:24. But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I\nknow that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown\nand gatherest where thou hast not strewed.\n\n25:25. And being afraid, I went and hid thy talent in the earth. Behold\nhere thou hast that which is thine.\n\n25:26. And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful\nservant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I\nhave not strewed.\n\n25:27. Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the\nbankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.\n\n25:28. Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it him that\nhath ten talents.\n\n25:29. For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound:\nbut from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be\ntaken away.\n\n25:30. And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior\ndarkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\n\n25:31. And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the\nangels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.\n\n25:32. And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he\nshall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the\nsheep from the goats:\n\n25:33. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on\nhis left.\n\n25:34. Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand:\nCome, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you\nfrom the foundation of the world.\n\n25:35. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you\ngave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:\n\n25:36. Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in\nprison, and you came to me.\n\n25:37. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see\nthee hungry and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink?\n\n25:38. Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked\nand covered thee?\n\n25:39. Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and came to thee?\n\n25:40. And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as\nlong as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.\n\n25:41. Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand:\nDepart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared\nfor the devil and his angels.\n\n25:42. For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and\nyou gave me not to drink.\n\n25:43. I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered\nme not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me.\n\n25:44. Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see\nthee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and\ndid not minister to thee?\n\n25:45. Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long\nas you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.\n\n25:46. And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just,\ninto life everlasting.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 26\n\nThe Jews conspire against Christ. He is anointed by Mary. The treason\nof Judas. The last supper. The prayer in the garden. The apprehension\nof our Lord. His treatment in the house of Caiphas.\n\n26:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he\nsaid to his disciples:\n\n26:2. You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of\nman shall be delivered up to be crucified.\n\n26:3. Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the\npeople, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:\n\n26:4. And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend\nJesus and put him to death.\n\n26:5. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should\nbe a tumult among the people.\n\n26:6. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,\n\n26:7. There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious\nointment and poured it on his head as he was at table.\n\n26:8. And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what\npurpose is this waste?\n\n26:9. For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor.\n\n26:10. And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this\nwoman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me.\n\n26:11. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not\nalways.\n\nMe you have not always.... Viz., in a visible manner, as when\nconversant here on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may daily\nassist and relieve.\n\n26:12. For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my\nburial.\n\n26:13. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in\nthe whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a\nmemory of her.\n\n26:14. Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to\nthe chief priests.\n\n26:15. And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him\nunto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.\n\n26:16. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.\n\n26:17. And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus,\nsaying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch?\n\nAzymes.... Feast of the unleavened bread. Pasch.... The paschal lamb.\n\n26:18. But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man and say to\nhim: The master saith, My time is near at hand. With thee I make the\npasch with my disciples.\n\n26:19. And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them: and they\nprepared the pasch.\n\n26:20. But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples.\n\n26:21. And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you that one\nof you is about to betray me.\n\n26:22. And they being very much troubled began every one to say: Is it\nI, Lord?\n\n26:23. But he answering said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the\ndish, he shall betray me.\n\n26:24. The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to\nthat man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for\nhim, if that man had not been born.\n\n26:25. And Judas that betrayed him answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He\nsaith to him: Thou hast said it.\n\n26:26. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and\nbroke and gave to his disciples and said: Take ye and eat. This is my\nbody.\n\nThis is my body.... He does not say, This is the figure of my body\u2014but\nThis is my body. (2 Council of Nice, Act. 6.) Neither does he say in\nthis, or with this is my body; but absolutely, This is my body: which\nplainly implies transubstantiation.\n\n26:27. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks and gave to them, saying:\nDrink ye all of this.\n\nDrink ye all of this.... This was spoken to the twelve apostles; who\nwere the all then present; and they all drank of it, says St. Mark 14.\n23. But it no ways follows from these words spoken to the apostles,\nthat all the faithful are here commanded to drink of the chalice; any\nmore than that all the faithful are commanded to consecrate, offer and\nadminister this sacrament; because Christ upon this same occasion, and\nat the same time, bid the apostles do so; in these words, St. Luke 22.\n19, Do this for a commemoration of me.\n\n26:28. For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed\nfor many unto remission of sins.\n\nBlood of the new testament.... As the old testament was dedicated with\nthe blood of victims, by Moses, in these words: This is the blood of\nthe testament, etc., Heb. 9. 20; so here is the dedication and\ninstitution of the new testament, in the blood of Christ, here\nmystically shed by these words: This is the blood of the new testament,\netc.\n\n26:29. And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit\nof the vine until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the\nkingdom of my Father.\n\nFruit of the vine.... These words, by the account of St. Luke 26:22.\n18, were not spoken of the sacramental cup, but of the wine that was\ndrunk with the paschal lamb. Though the sacramental cup might also be\ncalled the fruit of the vine, because it was consecrated from wine, and\nretains the likeness, and all the accidents or qualities of wine.\n\n26:30. And a hymn being said, they went out unto mount Olivet.\n\n26:31. Then Jesus saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in me\nthis night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd: and the\nsheep of the flock shall be dispersed.\n\nScandalized in me, etc.... Forasmuch as my being apprehended shall make\nyou all run away and forsake me.\n\n26:32. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into\nGalilee.\n\n26:33. And Peter answering, said to him: Although all shall be\nscandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized.\n\n26:34. Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee that in this night before\nthe cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice.\n\n26:35. Peter saith to him: Yea, though I should die with thee, I will\nnot deny thee. And in like manner said all the disciples.\n\n26:36. Then Jesus came with them into a country place which is called\nGethsemani. And he said to his disciples: Sit you here, till I go\nyonder and pray.\n\n26:37. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began\nto grow sorrowful and to be sad.\n\n26:38. Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death.\nStay you here and watch with me.\n\n26:39. And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and\nsaying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me.\nNevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.\n\n26:40. And he cometh to his disciples and findeth them asleep. And he\nsaith to Peter: What? Could you not watch one hour with me?\n\n26:41. Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit\nindeed is willing, but the flesh weak.\n\n26:42. Again the second time, he went and prayed, saying: My Father, if\nthis chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done.\n\n26:43. And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping: for their eyes\nwere heavy.\n\n26:44. And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time,\nsaying the selfsame word.\n\n26:45. Then he cometh to his disciples and said to them: Sleep ye now\nand take your rest. Behold the hour is at hand: and the Son of man\nshall be betrayed into the hands of sinners.\n\n26:46. Rise: let us go. Behold he is at hand that will betray me.\n\n26:47. As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with\nhim a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief\npriests and the ancients of the people.\n\n26:48. And he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I\nshall kiss, that is he. Hold him fast.\n\n26:49. And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said: Hail, Rabbi. And he\nkissed him.\n\n26:50. And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they\ncame up and laid hands on Jesus and held him.\n\n26:51. And behold one of them that were with Jesus, stretching forth\nhis hand, drew out his sword: and striking the servant of the high\npriest, cut off his ear.\n\n26:52. Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place:\nfor all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.\n\n26:53. Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me\npresently more than twelve legions of angels?\n\n26:54. How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be\ndone?\n\n26:55. In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come\nout, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I\nsat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on\nme.\n\n26:56. Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might\nbe fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.\n\n26:57. But they holding Jesus led him to Caiphas the high priest, where\nthe scribes and the ancients were assembled.\n\n26:58. And Peter followed him afar off, even to the court of the high\npriest, And going in, he sat with the servants, that he might see the\nend.\n\n26:59. And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness\nagainst Jesus, that they might put him to death.\n\n26:60. And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in.\nAnd last of all there came two false witnesses:\n\n26:61. And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of\nGod and after three days to rebuild it.\n\n26:62. And the high priest rising up, said to him: Answerest thou\nnothing to the things which these witness against thee?\n\n26:63. But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I\nadjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ\nthe Son of God.\n\n26:64. Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to\nyou, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand\nof the power of God and coming in the clouds of heaven.\n\n26:65. Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath\nblasphemed: What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you\nhave heard the blasphemy.\n\n26:66. What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.\n\n26:67. Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others\nstruck his face with the palms of their hands,\n\n26:68. Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ. Who is he that struck thee?\n\n26:69. But Peter sat without in the court. And there came to him a\nservant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean.\n\n26:70. But he denied before them all, saying: I know not what thou\nsayest.\n\n26:71. And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him; and she\nsaith to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of\nNazareth.\n\n26:72. And again he denied with an oath: I know not the man.\n\n26:73. And after a little while, they came that stood by and said to\nPeter: Surely thou also art one of them. For even thy speech doth\ndiscover thee.\n\n26:74. Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man.\nAnd immediately the cock crew.\n\n26:75. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which he had said: Before\nthe cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. And going forth, he wept\nbitterly.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 27\n\nThe continuation of the history of the passion of Christ. His death and\nburial.\n\n27:1. And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of\nthe people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to\ndeath.\n\n27:2. And they brought him bound and delivered him to Pontius Pilate\nthe governor.\n\n27:3. Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned,\nrepenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the\nchief priests and ancients,\n\n27:4. Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said:\nWhat is that to us? Look thou to it.\n\n27:5. And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed\nand went and hanged himself with an halter.\n\n27:6. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It\nis not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of\nblood.\n\nCorbona.... A place in the temple where the people put in their gifts\nor offerings.\n\n27:7. And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the\npotter\u2019s field, to be a burying place for strangers.\n\n27:8. For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the\nfield of blood, even to this day.\n\n27:9. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet,\nsaying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him\nthat was prized, whom they prized of the children of Israel.\n\n27:10. And they gave them unto the potter\u2019s field, as the Lord\nappointed to me.\n\n27:11. And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him,\nsaying: Art thou the king of the Jews? Jesus saith to him: Thou sayest\nit.\n\n27:12. And when he was accused by the chief priests and ancients, he\nanswered nothing.\n\n27:13. Then Pilate saith to him: Dost not thou hear how great\ntestimonies they allege against thee?\n\n27:14. And he answered him to never a word, so that the governor\nwondered exceedingly.\n\n27:15. Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release\nto the people one prisoner, whom they would.\n\n27:16. And he had then a notorious prisoner that was called Barabbas.\n\n27:17. They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will\nyou that I release to You: Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ?\n\n27:18. For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.\n\n27:19. And as he was sitting in the place of judgment, his wife sent to\nhim, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have\nsuffered many things this day in a dream because of him.\n\n27:20. But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people that\nthey should ask Barabbas and make Jesus away.\n\n27:21. And the governor answering, said to them: Whether will you of\nthe two to be released unto you? But they said: Barabbas.\n\n27:22. Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is\ncalled Christ? They say all: Let him be crucified.\n\n27:23. The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they\ncried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified.\n\n27:24. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a\ntumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people,\nsaying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.\n\n27:25. And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and\nupon our children.\n\n27:26. Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus,\ndelivered him unto them to be crucified.\n\n27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the hall,\ngathered together unto him the whole band.\n\n27:28. And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him.\n\n27:29. And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a\nreed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked\nhim, saying: Hail, King of the Jews.\n\n27:30. And spitting upon him, they took the reed and struck his head.\n\n27:31. And after they had mocked him, they took off the cloak from him\nand put on him his own garments and led him away to crucify him.\n\n27:32. And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they\nforced to take up his cross.\n\n27:33. And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the\nplace of Calvary.\n\n27:34. And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he\nhad tasted, he would not drink.\n\n27:35. And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments,\ncasting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the\nprophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my\nvesture they cast lots.\n\n27:36. And they sat and watched him.\n\n27:37. And they put over his head his cause written: THIS IS JESUS THE\nKING OF THE JEWS.\n\n27:38. Then were crucified with him two thieves: one on the right hand\nand one on the left.\n\n27:39. And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,\n\n27:40. And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in\nthree days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of\nGod, come down from the cross.\n\n27:41. In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and\nancients, mocking said:\n\n27:42. He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of\nIsrael, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him.\n\n27:43. He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him.\nFor he said: I am the Son of God.\n\n27:44. And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with\nhim reproached him with.\n\n27:45. Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole\nearth, until the ninth hour.\n\n27:46. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying:\nEli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou\nforsaken me?\n\n27:47. And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth\nElias.\n\n27:48. And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it\nwith vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink.\n\n27:49. And the others said: Let be. Let us see whether Elias will come\nto deliver him.\n\n27:50. And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.\n\n27:51. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top\neven to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.\n\n27:52. And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that\nhad slept arose,\n\n27:53. And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into\nthe holy city and appeared to many.\n\n27:54. Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus,\nhaving seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore\nafraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.\n\n27:55. And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus\nfrom Galilee, ministering unto him:\n\n27:56. Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and\nJoseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.\n\n27:57. And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of\nArimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.\n\n27:58. He went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate\ncommanded that the body should be delivered.\n\n27:59. And Joseph taking the body wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth:\n\n27:60. And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a\nrock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument and went\nhis way.\n\n27:61. And there was there Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, sitting\nover against the sepulchre.\n\n27:62. And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the\nchief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,\n\nThe day of preparation.... The eve of the sabbath; so called, because\non that day they prepared all things necessary; not being allowed so\nmuch as to dress their meat on the sabbath day.\n\n27:63. Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while\nhe was yet alive: After three days I will rise again.\n\n27:64. Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third\nday: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the\npeople: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse\nthan the first.\n\n27:65. Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you\nknow.\n\n27:66. And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone\nand setting guards.\n\n\nMatthew Chapter 28\n\nThe resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples.\n\n28:1. And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the\nfirst day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see\nthe sepulchre.\n\n28:2. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord\ndescended from heaven and coming rolled back the stone and sat upon it.\n\n28:3. And his countenance was as lightning and his raiment as snow.\n\n28:4. And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror and\nbecame as dead men.\n\n28:5. And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you: for I\nknow that you seek Jesus who was crucified.\n\n28:6. He is not here. For he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the\nplace where the Lord was laid.\n\n28:7. And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen. And\nbehold he will go before you into Galilee. There you shall see him. Lo,\nI have foretold it to you.\n\n28:8. And they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great\njoy, running to tell his disciples.\n\n28:9. And behold, Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up\nand took hold of his feet and adored him.\n\n28:10. Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go, tell my brethren that\nthey go into Galilee. There they shall see me.\n\n28:11. Who when they were departed, behold, some of the guards came\ninto the city and told the chief priests all things that had been done.\n\n28:12. And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking\ncounsel, gave a great sum of money to the soldiers,\n\n28:13. Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night and stole him away\nwhen we were asleep.\n\n28:14. And if the governor shall hear of this, we will persuade him and\nsecure you.\n\n28:15. So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word\nwas spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.\n\n28:16. And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain\nwhere Jesus had appointed them.\n\n28:17. And seeing him they adored: but some doubted.\n\n28:18. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to\nme in heaven and in earth.\n\nAll power, etc.... See here the warrant and commission of the apostles\nand their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ\u2019s church. He\nreceived from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in\nvirtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St.\nJohn 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and\ninstruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in\nthe execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for\nthree or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the\nconsummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go\nastray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ\nhimself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14.\n\n28:19. Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the\nname of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n28:20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded\nyou. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the\nworld.\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. MARK\n\n\nSt. Mark, the disciple and interpreter of St. Peter (saith St. Jerome),\naccording to what he heard from Peter himself, wrote at Rome a brief\nGospel at the request of the Brethren, about ten years after our lord\u2019s\nAscension; which when Peter had heard, he approved of it and with his\nauthority published it to the church to be read. Baronius and others\nsay that the original was written in Latin: but the more general\nopinion is that the Evangelist wrote it in Greek.\n\n\nMark Chapter 1\n\nThe preaching of John the Baptist. Christ is baptized by him. He calls\nhis disciples and works many miracles.\n\n1:1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.\n\n1:2. As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel\nbefore thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee.\n\n1:3. A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the\nLord; make straight his paths.\n\n1:4. John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching the baptism of\npenance, unto remission of sins.\n\n1:5. And there went out to him all the country of Judea and all they of\nJerusalem and were baptized by him in the river of Jordan, confessing\ntheir sins.\n\n1:6. And John was clothed with camel\u2019s hair, and a leathern girdle\nabout his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.\n\n1:7. And he preached, saying: There cometh after me one mightier than\nI, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.\n\n1:8. I have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the\nHoly Ghost.\n\n1:9. And it came to pass, in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of\nGalilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.\n\n1:10. And forthwith coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens\nopened, and the Spirit as a dove descending and remaining on him.\n\n1:11. And there came a voice from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son; in\nthee I am well pleased.\n\n1:12. And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert.\n\n1:13. And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was\ntempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to\nhim.\n\n1:14. And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee,\npreaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,\n\n1:15. And saying: The time is accomplished and the kingdom of God is at\nhand. Repent and believe the gospel:\n\n1:16. And passing by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his\nbrother, casting nets into the sea for they were fishermen.\n\n1:17. And Jesus said to them: Come after me; and I will make you to\nbecome fishers of men.\n\n1:18. And immediately leaving their nets, they followed him.\n\n1:19. And going on from thence a little farther, he saw James the son\nof Zebedee and John his brother, who also were mending their nets in\nthe ship:\n\n1:20. And forthwith he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in\nthe ship with his hired men, they followed him.\n\n1:21. And they entered into Capharnaum: and forthwith upon the sabbath\ndays going into the synagogue, he taught them.\n\n1:22. And they were astonished at his doctrine. For he was teaching\nthem as one having power, and not as the scribes.\n\n1:23. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit;\nand he cried out,\n\n1:24. Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou\ncome to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.\n\n1:25. And Jesus threatened him, saying: Speak no more, and go out of\nthe man.\n\n1:26. And the unclean spirit, tearing him and crying out with a loud\nvoice, went out of him.\n\n1:27. And they were all amazed insomuch that they questioned among\nthemselves, saying: What thing is this? What is this new doctrine? For\nwith power he commandeth even the unclean spirits: and they obey him.\n\n1:28. And the fame of him was spread forthwith into all the country of\nGalilee.\n\n1:29. And immediately going out of the synagogue they came into the\nhouse of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.\n\n1:30. And Simon\u2019s wife\u2019s mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith\nthey tell him of her.\n\n1:31. And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and\nimmediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.\n\n1:32. And when it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all\nthat were ill and that were possessed with devils.\n\n1:33. And all the city was gathered together at the door.\n\n1:34. And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases. And\nhe cast out many devils: and he suffered them not to speak, because\nthey knew him.\n\n1:35. And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place:\nand there he prayed.\n\n1:36. And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.\n\n1:37. And when they had found him, they said to him: All seek for thee.\n\n1:38. And he saith to them: Let us go into the neighbouring towns and\ncities, that I may preach there also; for to this purpose am I come.\n\n1:39. And he was preaching in their synagogues and in all Galilee and\ncasting out devils.\n\n1:40. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down,\nsaid to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean.\n\n1:41. And Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched forth his hand and\ntouching him saith to him: I will. Be thou made clean.\n\n1:42. And when he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from\nhim: and he was made clean.\n\n1:43. And he strictly charged him and forthwith sent him away.\n\n1:44. And he saith to him: See thou tell no one; but go, shew thyself\nto the high priest and offer for thy cleansing the things that Moses\ncommanded, for a testimony to them.\n\n1:45. But he being gone out, began to publish and to blaze abroad the\nword: so that he could not openly go into the city, but was without in\ndesert places. And they flocked to him from all sides.\n\n\nMark Chapter 2\n\nChrist heals the sick of the palsy. He calls Matthew and excuses his\ndisciples.\n\n2:1. And again he entered into Capharnaum after some days.\n\n2:2. And it was heard that he was in the house. And many came together,\nso that there was no room: no, not even at the door. And he spoke to\nthem the word.\n\n2:3. And they came to him, bringing one sick of the palsy, who was\ncarried by four.\n\n2:4. And when they could not offer him unto him for the multitude, they\nuncovered the roof where he was: and opening it, they let down the bed\nwherein the man sick of the palsy lay.\n\n2:5. And when Jesus had seen their faith, he saith to the sick of the\npalsy: Son, thy sins are forgiven thee.\n\n2:6. And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in\ntheir hearts:\n\n2:7. Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive\nsins, but God only?\n\n2:8. Which Jesus presently knowing in his spirit that they so thought\nwithin themselves, saith to them: Why think you these things in your\nhearts?\n\n2:9. Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy: Thy sins are\nforgiven thee; or to say: Arise, take up thy bed and walk?\n\n2:10. But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to\nforgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy):\n\n2:11. I say to thee: Arise. Take up thy bed and go into thy house.\n\n2:12. And immediately he arose and, taking up his bed, went his way in\nthe sight of all: so that all wondered and glorified God, saying: We\nnever saw the like.\n\n2:13. And he went forth again to the sea side: and all the multitude\ncame to him. And he taught them.\n\n2:14. And when he was passing by, he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus,\nsitting at the receipt of custom; and he saith to him: Follow me. And\nrising up, he followed him.\n\n2:15. And it came to pass as he sat at meat in his house, many\npublicans and sinners sat down together with Jesus and his disciples.\nFor they were many, who also followed him.\n\n2:16. And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with\npublicans and sinners, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat\nand drink with publicans and sinners?\n\n2:17. Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They that are well have no\nneed of a physician, but they that are sick. For I came not to call the\njust, but sinners.\n\n2:18. And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And\nthey come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the\nPharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast?\n\n2:19. And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast,\nas long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the\nbridegroom with them, they cannot fast.\n\n2:20. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away\nfrom them: and then they shall fast in those days.\n\n2:21. No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise\nthe new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater\nrent.\n\n2:22. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the wine\nwill burst the bottles, and both the wine will be spilled and the\nbottles will be lost. But new wine must be put into new bottles.\n\n2:23. And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn\nfields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward and to\npluck the ears of corn.\n\n2:24. And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath\nday that which is not lawful?\n\n2:25. And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he\nhad need and was hungry, himself and they that were with him?\n\n2:26. How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high\npriest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to\neat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?\n\n2:27. And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man\nfor the sabbath.\n\n2:28. Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.\n\n\nMark Chapter 3\n\nChrist heals the withered hand. He chooses the twelve. He confutes the\nblasphemy of the Pharisees.\n\n3:1. And he entered again into the synagogue: and there was a man there\nwho had a withered hand.\n\n3:2. And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days,\nthat they might accuse him.\n\n3:3. And he said to the man who had the withered hand: Stand up in the\nmidst.\n\n3:4. And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days,\nor to do evil? To save life, or to destroy? But they held their peace.\n\n3:5. And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the\nblindness of their hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand.\nAnd he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored unto him.\n\n3:6. And the Pharisees going out, immediately made a consultation with\nthe Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.\n\n3:7. But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great\nmultitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,\n\n3:8. And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and from beyond the Jordan.\nAnd they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things\nwhich he did, came to him.\n\n3:9. And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on\nhim, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.\n\n3:10. For he healed many, so that they pressed upon him for to touch\nhim, as many as had evils.\n\n3:11. And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him:\nand they cried, saying:\n\n3:12. Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly charged them that they\nshould not make him known.\n\n3:13. And going up into a mountain, he called unto him whom he would\nhimself: and they came to him.\n\n3:14. And he made that twelve should be with him, and that he might\nsend them to preach.\n\n3:15. And he gave them power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out\ndevils.\n\n3:16. And to Simon he gave the name Peter:\n\n3:17. And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and\nhe named them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.\n\n3:18. And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas\nand James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus and Simon the Cananean:\n\n3:19. And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.\n\n3:20. And they come to a house, and the multitude cometh together\nagain, so that they could not so much as eat bread.\n\n3:21. And when his friends had heard of it, they went out to lay hold\non him. For they said: He is become mad.\n\n3:22. And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath\nBeelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils.\n\n3:23. And after he had called them together, he said to them in\nparables: How can Satan cast out Satan?\n\n3:24. And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot\nstand.\n\n3:25. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot\nstand.\n\n3:26. And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and\ncannot stand, but hath an end.\n\n3:27. No man can enter into the house of a strong man and rob him of\nhis goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he\nplunder his house.\n\n3:28. Amen I say to you that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons\nof men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme:\n\n3:29. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never\nhave forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.\n\n3:30. Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit.\n\n3:31. And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent\nunto him, calling him.\n\n3:32. And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy\nmother and thy brethren without seek for thee.\n\n3:33. And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren?\n\n3:34. And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith:\nBehold my mother and my brethren.\n\n3:35. For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my\nsister, and mother.\n\n\nMark Chapter 4\n\nThe parable of the sower. Christ stills the tempest at sea.\n\n4:1. And again he began to teach by the sea side; and a great multitude\nwas gathered together unto him, so that he went up into a ship and sat\nin the sea: and all the multitude was upon the land by the sea side.\n\n4:2. And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in\nhis doctrine:\n\n4:3. Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.\n\n4:4. And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of\nthe air came and ate it up.\n\n4:5. And other some fell upon stony ground, where it had not much\nearth; and it shot up immediately, because it had no depth of earth.\n\n4:6. And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no\nroot, it withered away.\n\n4:7. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked it,\nand it yielded no fruit.\n\n4:8. And some fell upon good ground; and brought forth fruit that grew\nup, and increased and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and another a\nhundred.\n\n4:9. And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n4:10. And when he was alone, the twelve that were with him asked him\nthe parable.\n\n4:11. And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of\nthe kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done\nin parables:\n\n4:12. That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may\nhear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted,\nand their sins should be forgiven them.\n\nThat seeing they may see, etc.... in punishment of their wilfully\nshutting their eyes, (St. Matt. 13. 15,) God justly withdrew those\nlights and graces, which otherwise he would have given them, for their\neffectual conversion.\n\n4:13. And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of this, parable? and how\nshall you know all parables?\n\n4:14. He that soweth, soweth the word.\n\n4:15. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and\nas soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away\nthe word that was sown in their hearts.\n\n4:16. And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground:\nwho when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.\n\n4:17. And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and\nthen when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are\npresently scandalized.\n\n4:18. And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they\nthat hear the word,\n\n4:19. And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and\nthe lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made\nfruitless.\n\n4:20. And these are they who are sown upon the good ground, who hear\nthe word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the one thirty, another\nsixty, and another a hundred.\n\n4:21. And he said to them: Doth a candle come in to be put under a\nbushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?\n\n4:22. For there is nothing hid, which shall not be made manifest:\nneither was it made secret, but that it may come abroad.\n\n4:23. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n4:24. And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you\nshall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given\nto you.\n\n4:25. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not,\nthat also which he hath shall be taken away from him.\n\n4:26. And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast\nseed into the earth,\n\n4:27. And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should\nspring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.\n\n4:28. For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade,\nthen the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.\n\n4:29. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in\nthe sickle, because the harvest is come.\n\n4:30. And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to\nwhat parable shall we compare it?\n\n4:31. It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the\nearth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth:\n\n4:32. And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all\nherbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air\nmay dwell under the shadow thereof.\n\n4:33. And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according\nas they were able to hear.\n\n4:34. And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he\nexplained all things to his disciples.\n\n4:35. And he saith to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass\nover to the other side.\n\n4:36. And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in\nthe ship: and there were other ships with him.\n\n4:37. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into\nthe ship, so that the ship was filled.\n\n4:38. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleeping upon a\npillow; and they awake him, and say to him: Master, doth, it not\nconcern thee that we perish?\n\n4:39. And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: Peace,\nbe still. And the wind ceased: and there was made a great calm.\n\n4:40. And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet?\nAnd they feared exceedingly: and they said one to another: Who is this\n(thinkest thou) that both wind and sea obey him?\n\n\nMark Chapter 5\n\nChrist casts out a legion of devils: he heals the issue of blood, and\nraises the daughter of Jairus to life.\n\n5:1. And they came over the strait of the sea, into the country of the\nGerasens.\n\n5:2. And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of\nthe monuments a man with an unclean spirit,\n\n5:3. Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him,\nnot even with chains.\n\n5:4. For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst\nthe chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame\nhim.\n\n5:5. And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the\nmountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.\n\n5:6. And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him.\n\n5:7. And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with\nthee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that\nthou torment me not.\n\n5:8. For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.\n\n5:9. And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name\nis Legion, for we are many.\n\n5:10. And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of\nthe country.\n\n5:11. And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine,\nfeeding.\n\n5:12. And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine,\nthat we may enter into them.\n\n5:13. And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits\ngoing out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was\ncarried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were\nstifled in the sea.\n\n5:14. And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the\nfields. And they went out to see what was done:\n\n5:15. And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with\nthe devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were\nafraid.\n\n5:16. And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been\ndealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine.\n\n5:17. And they began to pray him that he would depart from their\ncoasts.\n\n5:18. And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with\nthe devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him.\n\n5:19. And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to\nthy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for\nthee, and hath had mercy on thee.\n\n5:20. And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great\nthings Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.\n\n5:21. And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a\ngreat multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the\nsea.\n\n5:22. And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus:\nand seeing him, falleth down at his feet.\n\n5:23. And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of\ndeath, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.\n\n5:24. And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and\nthey thronged him.\n\n5:25. And a woman who was under an issue of blood twelve years,\n\n5:26. And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent\nall that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse,\n\n5:27. When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and\ntouched his garment.\n\n5:28. For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole.\n\n5:29. And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she\nfelt in her body that she was healed of the evil.\n\n5:30. And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had\nproceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my\ngarments?\n\n5:31. And his disciples said to him: Thou seest the multitude thronging\nthee, and sayest thou who hath touched me?\n\n5:32. And he looked about to see her who had done this.\n\n5:33. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in\nher, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.\n\n5:34. And he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go\nin peace, and be thou whole of thy disease.\n\n5:35. While he was yet speaking, some come from the ruler of the\nsynagogue\u2019s house, saying: Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble\nthe master any further?\n\n5:36. But Jesus having heard the word that was spoken, saith to the\nruler of the synagogue: Fear not, only believe.\n\n5:37. And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James,\nand John the brother of James.\n\n5:38. And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he\nseeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much.\n\n5:39. And going in, he saith to them Why make you this ado, and weep?\nthe damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.\n\n5:40. And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out,\ntaketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with\nhim, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.\n\n5:41. And taking the damsel by the hand, he saith to her: Talitha cumi,\nwhich is, being interpreted: Damsel (I say to thee) arise.\n\n5:42. And immediately the damsel rose up, and walked: and she was\ntwelve years old: and they were astonished with a great astonishment.\n\n5:43. And he charged them strictly that no man should know it: and\ncommanded that something should be given her to eat.\n\n\nMark Chapter 6\n\nChrist teaches at Nazareth: he sends forth the twelve apostles: he\nfeeds five thousand with five loaves; and walks upon the sea.\n\n6:1. And going out from thence, he went into his own country; and his\ndisciples followed him.\n\n6:2. And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue:\nand many hearing him were in admiration at his doctrine, saying: How\ncame this man by all these things? and what wisdom is this that is\ngiven to him, and such mighty works as are wrought by his hands?\n\n6:3. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James,\nand Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us?\nAnd they were scandalized in regard of him.\n\n6:4. And Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, but in\nhis own country, and in his own house, and among his own kindred.\n\n6:5. And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few\nthat were sick, laying his hands upon them.\n\nHe could not.... Not for want of power, but because he would not work\nmiracles in favour of obstinate and incredulous people, who were\nunworthy of such favours.\n\n6:6. And he wondered because of their unbelief, and he went through the\nvillages round about teaching.\n\n6:7. And he called the twelve; and began to send them two and two, and\ngave them power over unclean spirits.\n\n6:8. And he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way,\nbut a staff only; no scrip, no bread, nor money in their purse,\n\n6:9. But to be shod with sandals, and that they should not put on two\ncoats.\n\n6:10. And he said to them: Wheresoever you shall enter into an house,\nthere abide till you depart from that place.\n\n6:11. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth\nfrom thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them.\n\n6:12. And going forth they preached that men should do penance:\n\n6:13. And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that\nwere sick, and healed them.\n\n6:14. And king Herod heard, (for his name was made manifest,) and he\nsaid: John the Baptist is risen again from the dead, and therefore\nmighty works shew forth themselves in him.\n\n6:15. And others said: It is Elias. But others said: It is a prophet,\nas one of the prophets.\n\n6:16. Which Herod hearing, said: John whom I beheaded, he is risen\nagain from the dead.\n\n6:17. For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him in\nprison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because\nhe had married her.\n\n6:18. For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy\nbrother\u2019s wife.\n\n6:19. Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to\ndeath and could not.\n\n6:20. For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and\nkept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him\nwillingly.\n\nAnd kept him.... That is, from the designs of Herodias; and for fear of\nthe people, would not put him to death, though she sought it; and\nthrough her daughter she effected her wish.\n\n6:21. And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his\nbirthday, for the princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee.\n\n6:22. And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had\ndanced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the\nking said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it\nthee.\n\n6:23. And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee,\nthough it be the half of my kingdom.\n\n6:24. Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask?\nBut she said: The head of John the Baptist.\n\n6:25. And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she\nasked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head\nof John the Baptist.\n\n6:26. And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because\nof them that were with him at table, he would not displease her:\n\n6:27. But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be\nbrought in a dish.\n\n6:28. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a\ndish: and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.\n\n6:29. Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it\nin a tomb.\n\n6:30. And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all\nthings that they had done and taught.\n\n6:31. And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a\nlittle. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much\nas time to eat.\n\n6:32. And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.\n\n6:33. And they saw them going away, and many knew: and they ran\nflocking thither on foot from all the cities, and were there before\nthem.\n\n6:34. And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion\non them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began\nto teach them many things.\n\n6:35. And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him,\nsaying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:\n\n6:36. Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they\nmay buy themselves meat to eat.\n\n6:37. And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they\nsaid to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will\ngive them to eat.\n\n6:38. And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And\nwhen they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.\n\n6:39. And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by\ncompanies upon the green grass.\n\n6:40. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.\n\n6:41. And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes:\nlooking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his\ndisciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them\nall.\n\n6:42. And they all did eat, and had their fill.\n\n6:43. And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments,\nand of the fishes.\n\n6:44. And they that did eat, were five thousand men.\n\n6:45. And immediately he obliged his disciples to go up into the ship,\nthat they might go before him over the water to Bethsaida, whilst he\ndismissed the people.\n\n6:46. And when he had dismissed them, he went up to the mountain to\npray,\n\n6:47. And when it was late, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and\nhimself alone on the land.\n\n6:48. And seeing them labouring in rowing, (for the wind was against\nthem,) and about the fourth watch of the night, he cometh to them\nwalking upon the sea, and he would have passed by them.\n\n6:49. But they seeing him walking upon the sea, thought it was an\napparition, and they cried out.\n\n6:50. For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he spoke\nwith them, and said to them: Have a good heart, it is I, fear ye not.\n\n6:51. And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased: and\nthey were far more astonished within themselves:\n\n6:52. For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart\nwas blinded.\n\n6:53. And when they had passed over, they came into the land of\nGenezareth, and set to the shore.\n\n6:54. And when they were gone out of the ship, immediately they knew\nhim:\n\n6:55. And running through that whole country, they began to carry about\nin beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.\n\n6:56. And whithersoever he entered, into towns or into villages or\ncities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they\nmight touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were\nmade whole.\n\n\nMark Chapter 7\n\nChrist rebukes the Pharisees. He heals the daughter of the woman of\nChanaan; and the man that was deaf and dumb.\n\n7:1. And there assembled together unto him the Pharisees and some of\nthe scribes, coming from Jerusalem.\n\n7:2. And when they had seen some of his disciples eat bread with\ncommon, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.\n\n7:3. For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing\ntheir hands, holding the tradition of the ancients.\n\n7:4. And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they\neat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to\nthem to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels\nand of beds.\n\n7:5. And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples\nwalk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread\nwith common hands?\n\n7:6. But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you\nhypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips,\nbut their heart is far from me.\n\n7:7. And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of\nmen.\n\nDoctrines and precepts of men.... See the annotations, Matt. 15. 9, 11.\n\n7:8. For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men,\nthe washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to\nthese.\n\n7:9. And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God,\nthat you may keep your own tradition.\n\n7:10. For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that\nshall curse father or mother, dying let him die.\n\n7:11. But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban\n(which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee.\n\n7:12. And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or\nmother,\n\n7:13. Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have\ngiven forth. And many other such like things you do.\n\n7:14. And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear\nye me all and understand.\n\n7:15. There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can\ndefile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that\ndefile a man.\n\n7:16. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n7:17. And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his\ndisciples asked him the parable.\n\n7:18. And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge?\nUnderstand you not that every thing from without entering into a man\ncannot defile him:\n\n7:19. Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly,\nand goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?\n\n7:20. But he said that the things which come out from a man, they\ndefile a man.\n\n7:21. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,\nadulteries, fornications, murders,\n\n7:22. Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil\neye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.\n\n7:23. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.\n\n7:24. And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon:\nand entering into a house, he would that no man should know it. And he\ncould not be hid.\n\n7:25. For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an\nunclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.\n\n7:26. For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she\nbesought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.\n\n7:27. Who said to her: suffer first the children to be filled: for it\nis not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.\n\n7:28. But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also\neat under the table of the crumbs of the children.\n\n7:29. And he said to her: For this saying, go thy way. The devil is\ngone out of thy daughter.\n\n7:30. And when she was come into her house, she found the girl lying\nupon the bed and that the devil was gone out.\n\n7:31. And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to\nthe sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.\n\n7:32. And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him\nthat he would lay his hand upon him.\n\n7:33. And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into\nhis ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.\n\n7:34. And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta,\nwhich is, Be thou opened.\n\n7:35. And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue\nwas loosed and he spoke right.\n\n7:36. And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he\ncharged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.\n\n7:37. And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all\nthings well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.\n\n\nMark Chapter 8\n\nChrist feeds four thousand. He gives sight to a blind man. He foretells\nhis passion.\n\n8:1. In those days again, when there was a great multitude and they had\nnothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them:\n\n8:2. I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been\nwith me three days and have nothing to eat.\n\n8:3. And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will\nfaint in the way: for some of them came from afar off.\n\n8:4. And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them\nhere with bread in the wilderness?\n\n8:5. And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven.\n\n8:6. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground. And taking\nthe seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke and gave to his disciples for\nto set before them. And they set them before the people.\n\n8:7. And they had a few little fishes: and he blessed them and\ncommanded them to be set before them.\n\n8:8. And they did eat and were filled: and they took up that which was\nleft of the fragments, seven baskets.\n\n8:9. And they that had eaten were about four thousand. And he sent them\naway.\n\n8:10. And immediately going up into a ship with his disciples, he came\ninto the parts of Dalmanutha.\n\n8:11. And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him,\nasking him a sign from heaven, tempting him.\n\n8:12. And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation\nseek a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this\ngeneration.\n\n8:13. And leaving them, he went up again into the ship and passed to\nthe other side of the water.\n\n8:14. And they forgot to take bread: and they had but one loaf with\nthem in the ship.\n\n8:15. And he charged them saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of\nthe Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.\n\n8:16. And they reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no\nbread.\n\n8:17. Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because\nyou have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still\nyour heart blinded?\n\n8:18. Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not? Neither\ndo you remember?\n\n8:19. When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many\nbaskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him: Twelve.\n\n8:20. When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets\nof fragments took you up? And they say to him: Seven.\n\n8:21. And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?\n\n8:22. And they came to Bethsaida: and they bring to him a blind man.\nAnd they besought him that he would touch him.\n\n8:23. And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town.\nAnd spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he\nsaw any thing.\n\n8:24. And looking up, he said: I see men, as it were trees, walking.\n\n8:25. After that again he laid his hands upon his eyes: and he began to\nsee and was restored, so that he saw all things clearly.\n\n8:26. And he sent him into his house, saying: Go into thy house, and if\nthou enter into the town, tell nobody.\n\n8:27. And Jesus went out, and his disciples into the towns of C\u00e6sarea\nPhilippi. And in the way, he asked his disciples, saying to them: Whom\ndo men say that I am?\n\n8:28. Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist; but some Elias, and\nothers as one of the prophets.\n\n8:29. Then he saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Peter\nanswering said to him: Thou art the Christ.\n\n8:30. And he strictly charged them that they should not tell any man of\nhim.\n\n8:31. And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many\nthings and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and the\nscribes: and be killed and after three days rise again.\n\n8:32. And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him began to\nrebuke him.\n\n8:33. Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter,\nsaying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savourest not the things that\nare of God but that are of men.\n\n8:34. And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to\nthem: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his\ncross and follow me.\n\n8:35. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever\nshall lose his life for my sake and the gospel shall save it.\n\n8:36. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and\nsuffer the loss of his soul?\n\n8:37. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?\n\n8:38. For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this\nadulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed\nof him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy\nangels.\n\n8:39. And he said to them: Amen I say to you that there are some of\nthem that stand here who shall not taste death till they see the\nkingdom of God coming in power.\n\n\nMark Chapter 9\n\nChrist is transfigured. He casts out the dumb spirit. He teaches\nhumility and to avoid scandal.\n\n9:1. And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and\nJohn, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves,\nand was transfigured before them.\n\n9:2. And his garments became shining and exceeding white as snow, so as\nno fuller upon earth can make white.\n\n9:3. And there appeared to them Elias with Moses: and they were talking\nwith Jesus.\n\n9:4. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Rabbi, it is good for us to be\nhere. And let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for\nMoses, and one for Elias.\n\n9:5. For he knew not what he said: for they were struck with fear.\n\n9:6. And there was a cloud overshadowing them. And a voice came out of\nthe cloud, saying: This is my most beloved Son. Hear ye him.\n\n9:7. And immediately looking about, they saw no man any more, but Jesus\nonly with them.\n\n9:8. And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them not to\ntell any man what things they had seen, till the Son of man shall be\nrisen again from the dead.\n\n9:9. And they kept the word to themselves; questioning together what\nthat should mean, when he shall be risen from the dead.\n\n9:10. And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes\nsay that Elias must come first?\n\n9:11. Who answering, said to them: Elias, when he shall come first,\nshall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that\nhe must suffer many things and be despised.\n\n9:12. But I say to you that Elias also is come (and they have done to\nhim whatsoever they would), as it is written of him.\n\n9:13. And coming to his disciples he saw a great multitude about them\nand the scribes disputing with them.\n\n9:14. And presently all the people, seeing Jesus, were astonished and\nstruck with fear: and running to him, they saluted him.\n\n9:15. And he asked them: What do you question about among you?\n\n9:16. And one of the multitude, answering, said: Master, I have brought\nmy son to thee, having a dumb spirit.\n\n9:17. Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and\ngnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples\nto cast him out: and they could not.\n\n9:18. Who answering them, said: O incredulous generation, how long\nshall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me.\n\n9:19. And they brought him. And when he had seen him, immediately the\nspirit troubled him and being thrown down upon the ground, he rolled\nabout foaming.\n\n9:20. And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath\nhappened unto him? But he said: From his infancy.\n\n9:21. And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters\nto destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having\ncompassion on us.\n\n9:22. And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are\npossible to him that believeth.\n\n9:23. And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears\nsaid: I do believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.\n\n9:24. And when Jesus saw the multitude running together, he threatened\nthe unclean spirit, saying to him: Deaf and dumb spirit, I command\nthee, go out of him and enter not any more into him.\n\n9:25. And crying out and greatly tearing him, he went our of him. And\nhe became as dead, so that many said: He is dead.\n\n9:26. But Jesus taking him by the hand, lifted him up. And he arose.\n\n9:27. And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked\nhim: Why could not we cast him out?\n\n9:28. And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by\nprayer and fasting.\n\n9:29. And departing from thence, they passed through Galilee: and he\nwould not that any man should know it.\n\n9:30. And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man\nshall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and\nafter that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day.\n\n9:31. But they understood not the word: and they were afraid to ask\nhim.\n\n9:32. And they came to Capharnaum. And when they were in the house, he\nasked them: What did you treat of in the way?\n\n9:33. But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among\nthemselves, which of them should be the greatest.\n\n9:34. And sitting down, he called the twelve and saith to them: If any\nman desire to be first, he shall be the last of all and be minister of\nall.\n\n9:35. And taking a child, he set him in the midst of them. Whom when he\nhad embraced, he saith to them:\n\n9:36. Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name\nreceiveth me. And whosoever shall receive me receiveth not me but him\nthat sent me.\n\n9:37. John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils\nin thy name, who followeth not us: and we forbade him.\n\n9:38. But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth\na miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me.\n\n9:39. For he that is not against you is for you.\n\n9:40. For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name,\nbecause you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his\nreward.\n\n9:41. And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that\nbelieve in me: it were better for him that a millstone were hanged\nabout his neck and he were cast into the sea.\n\n9:42. And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for\nthee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell,\ninto unquenchable fire:\n\n9:43. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.\n\n9:44. And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for\nthee to enter lame into life everlasting than having two feet to be\ncast into the hell of unquenchable fire:\n\n9:45. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.\n\n9:46. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out: it is better for\nthee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God than having two eyes\nto be cast into the hell of fire:\n\n9:47. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.\n\n9:48. For every one shall be salted with fire: and every victim shall\nbe salted with salt.\n\n9:49. Salt is good. But if the salt become unsavoury, wherewith will\nyou season it? Have salt in you: and have peace among you.\n\n\nMark Chapter 10\n\nMarriage is not to be dissolved. The danger of riches. The ambition of\nthe sons of Zebedee. A blind man is restored to his sight.\n\n10:1. And rising up from thence, he cometh into the coasts of Judea\nbeyond the Jordan: and the multitude flocked to him again. And as he\nwas accustomed, he taught them again.\n\n10:2. And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it\nlawful for a man to put away his wife?\n\n10:3. But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you?\n\n10:4. Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put\nher away.\n\n10:5. To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your\nheart, he wrote you that precept.\n\n10:6. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and\nfemale.\n\n10:7. For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall\ncleave to his wife.\n\n10:8. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not\ntwo, but one flesh.\n\n10:9. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.\n\n10:10. And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the\nsame thing.\n\n10:11. And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and\nmarry another committeth adultery against her.\n\n10:12. And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to\nanother, she committeth adultery.\n\n10:13. And they brought to him young children, that he might touch\nthem. And the disciples rebuked them that brought them.\n\n10:14. Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased and saith to them:\nSuffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of\nsuch is the kingdom of God.\n\n10:15. Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of\nGod as a little child shall not enter into it.\n\n10:16. And embracing them and laying his hands upon them, he blessed\nthem.\n\n10:17. And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running\nup and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do\nthat I may receive life everlasting?\n\n10:18. And Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me good? None is good\nbut one, that is God.\n\nNone is good.... Of himself entirely and essentially, but God alone;\nmen may be good also, but only by participation of God\u2019s goodness.\n\n10:19. Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not\nkill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy\nfather and mother.\n\n10:20. But he answering, said to him: Master, all these things I have\nobserved from my youth.\n\n10:21. And Jesus, looking on him, loved him and said to him: One thing\nis wanting unto thee. Go, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the\npoor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.\n\n10:22. Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he\nhad great possessions.\n\n10:23. And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples: How\nhardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!\n\n10:24. And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again\nanswering, saith to them: Children, how hard is it for them that trust\nin riches to enter into the kingdom of God?\n\n10:25. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle\nthan for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.\n\n10:26. Who wondered the more, saying among themselves: Who then can be\nsaved?\n\n10:27. And Jesus looking on them, saith with men it is impossible; but\nnot with God. For all things are possible with God.\n\n10:28. And Peter began to say unto him: Behold, we have left all things\nand have followed thee.\n\n10:29. Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who\nhath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children\nor lands, for my sake and for the gospel,\n\n10:30. Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this\ntime: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and\nlands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.\n\n10:31. But many that are first shall be last: and the last, first.\n\n10:32. And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went\nbefore them. And they were astonished and following were afraid. And\ntaking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should\nbefall him.\n\n10:33. Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall\nbe betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes and ancients. And\nthey shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.\n\n10:34. And they shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill\nhim: and the third day he shall rise again.\n\n10:35. And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying:\nMaster, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for\nus.\n\n10:36. But he said to them: What would you that I should do for you?\n\n10:37. And they said: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right\nhand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.\n\n10:38. And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink\nof the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism\nwherewith I am baptized?\n\n10:39. But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You shall\nindeed drink of the chalice that I drink of; and with the baptism\nwherewith I am baptized you shall be baptized.\n\n10:40. But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to\nyou, but to them for whom it is prepared.\n\n10:41. And the ten, hearing it, began to be much displeased at James\nand John.\n\n10:42. But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You know that they who\nseem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them: and their princes\nhave power over them.\n\n10:43. But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater shall\nbe your minister.\n\n10:44. And whosoever will be first among you shall be the servant of\nall.\n\n10:45. For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but\nto minister and to give his life a redemption for many.\n\n10:46. And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his\ndisciples and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son\nof Timeus, sat by the way side begging.\n\n10:47. Who when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to\ncry out and to say: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.\n\n10:48. And many rebuked him, that he might hold his peace; but he cried\na great deal the more: Son of David, have mercy on me.\n\n10:49. And Jesus, standing still, commanded him to be called. And they\ncall the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort. Arise, he\ncalleth thee.\n\n10:50. Who casting off his garment leaped up and came to him.\n\n10:51. And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should\ndo to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni. That I may see.\n\n10:52. And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee\nwhole. And immediately he saw and followed him in the way.\n\n\nMark Chapter 11\n\nChrist enters into Jerusalem upon an ass. He curses the barren fig tree\nand drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.\n\n11:1. And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem and to Bethania, at\nthe mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,\n\n11:2. And saith to them: Go into the village that is over against you,\nand immediately at your coming in thither, you shall find a colt tied,\nupon which no man yet hath sat. Loose him and bring him.\n\n11:3. And if any man shall say to you: What are you doing? Say ye that\nthe Lord hath need of him. And immediately he will let him come hither.\n\n11:4. And going their way, they found the colt tied before the gate\nwithout, in the meeting of two ways. And they loose him.\n\n11:5. And some of them that stood there said to them: What do you\nloosing the colt?\n\n11:6. Who said to them as Jesus had commanded them. And they let him go\nwith them.\n\n11:7. And they brought the colt to Jesus. And they lay their garments\non him: and he sat upon him.\n\n11:8. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down\nboughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.\n\n11:9. And they that went before and they that followed cried, saying:\nHosanna: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.\n\n11:10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh: Hosanna\nin the highest.\n\n11:11. And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having\nviewed all things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went\nout to Bethania with the twelve.\n\n11:12. And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was\nhungry.\n\n11:13. And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came,\nif perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it,\nhe found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs.\n\n11:14. And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of\nthee any more for ever! And his disciples heard it.\n\n11:15. And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the\ntemple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple:\nand over threw the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of them\nthat sold doves.\n\n11:16. And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through\nthe temple.\n\n11:17. And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall\nbe called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a\nden of thieves.\n\n11:18. Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they\nsought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the\nwhole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.\n\n11:19. And when evening was come, he went forth out of the city.\n\n11:20. And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree\ndried up from the roots.\n\n11:21. And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree\nwhich thou didst curse is withered away.\n\n11:22. And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God.\n\n11:23. Amen I say to you that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be\nthou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not stagger in his\nheart, but believe that whatsoever he saith shall be done; it shall be\ndone unto him.\n\n11:24. Therefore I say unto you, all things, whatsoever you ask when ye\npray, believe that you shall receive: and they shall come unto you.\n\n11:25. And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have aught\nagainst any man: that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive\nyou your sins.\n\n11:26. But if you will not forgive, neither will your father that is in\nheaven forgive you your sins.\n\n11:27. And they come again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the\ntemple, there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the\nancients.\n\n11:28. And they say to him: By what authority dost thou these things?\nAnd who hath given thee this authority that thou shouldst do these\nthings?\n\n11:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one word.\nAnd answer you me: and I will tell you by what authority I do these\nthings.\n\n11:30. The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? Answer me.\n\n11:31. But they thought with themselves, saying: If we say, From\nheaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him?\n\n11:32. If we say, From men, we fear the people. For all men counted\nJohn that he was a prophet indeed.\n\n11:33. And they answering, say to Jesus: We know not. And Jesus\nanswering, saith to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do\nthese things.\n\n\nMark Chapter 12\n\nThe parable of the vineyard and husbandmen. Caesar\u2019s right to tribute.\nThe Sadducees are confuted. The first commandment. The widow\u2019s mite.\n\n12:1. And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted\na vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat\nand built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far\ncountry.\n\n12:2. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive\nof the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.\n\n12:3. Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.\n\n12:4. And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded\nin the head and used him reproachfully.\n\n12:5. And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others,\nof whom some they beat, and others they killed.\n\n12:6. Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him\nunto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.\n\n12:7. But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come\nlet us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.\n\n12:8. And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the\nvineyard.\n\n12:9. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and\ndestroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.\n\n12:10. And have you not read this scripture, The stone which the\nbuilders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:\n\n12:11. By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes.\n\n12:12. And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people.\nFor they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they\nwent their way.\n\n12:13. And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians:\nthat they should catch him in his words.\n\n12:14. Who coming, say to him: Master, we know that thou art a true\nspeaker and carest not for any man; for thou regardest not the person\nof men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give\ntribute to Caesar? Or shall we not give it?\n\n12:15. Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me?\nBring me a penny that I may see it.\n\n12:16. And they brought it him. And he saith to them: Whose is this\nimage and inscription? They say to him, Caesar\u2019s.\n\n12:17. And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar\nthe things that are Caesar\u2019s and to God the things that are God\u2019s. And\nthey marvelled at him.\n\n12:18. And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no\nresurrection. And they asked him, saying:\n\n12:19. Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man\u2019s brother die and\nleave his wife behind him and leave no children, his brother should\ntake his wife and raise up seed to his brother.\n\n12:20. Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife and\ndied leaving no issue.\n\n12:21. And the second took her and died: and neither did he leave any\nissue. And the third in like manner.\n\n12:22. And the seven all took her in like manner and did not leave\nissue. Last of all the woman also died.\n\n12:23. In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose\nwife shall she be of them? For the seven had her to wife.\n\n12:24. And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err,\nbecause you know not the scriptures nor the power of God?\n\n12:25. For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither\nmarry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven.\n\n12:26. And as concerning the dead that they rise again have you not\nread in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I\nam the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?\n\n12:27. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore\ndo greatly err.\n\n12:28. And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning\ntogether, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which\nwas the first commandment of all.\n\n12:29. And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O\nIsrael: the Lord thy God is one God.\n\n12:30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and\nwith thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole\nstrength. This is the first commandment.\n\n12:31. And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as\nthyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.\n\n12:32. And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in\ntruth that there is one God and there is no other besides him.\n\n12:33. And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the\nwhole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole\nstrength. And to love one\u2019s neighbour as one\u2019s self is a greater thing\nthan all holocausts and sacrifices.\n\n12:34. And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou\nart not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask\nhim any question.\n\n12:35. And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the\nscribes say that Christ is the son of David?\n\n12:36. For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost: The Lord said to my\nLord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.\n\n12:37. David therefore himself calleth him Lord. And whence is he then\nhis son? And a great multitude heard him gladly.\n\n12:38. And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who\nlove to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,\n\n12:39. And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the\nhighest places at suppers:\n\n12:40. Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long\nprayer. These shall receive greater judgment.\n\n12:41. And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the\npeople cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich cast in\nmuch.\n\n12:42. And there came a certain poor widow: and she cast in two mites,\nwhich make a farthing.\n\n12:43. And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say\nto you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast\ninto the treasury.\n\n12:44. For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want\ncast in all she had, even her whole living.\n\n\nMark Chapter 13\n\nChrist foretells the destruction of the temple and the signs that shall\nforerun the day of judgment.\n\n13:1. And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said\nto him: Master, behold what manner of stones and what buildings are\nhere.\n\n13:2. And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest thou all these great\nbuildings? There shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not\nbe thrown down.\n\n13:3. And as he sat on the mount of Olivet over against the temple,\nPeter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart:\n\n13:4. Tell us, when shall these things be and what shall be the sign\nwhen all these things shall begin to be fulfilled?\n\n13:5. And Jesus answering, began to say to them: Take heed lest any man\ndeceive you.\n\n13:6. For many shall come in my name saying, I am he: and they shall\ndeceive many.\n\n13:7. And when you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, fear ye not.\nFor such things must needs be: but the end is not yet.\n\n13:8. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom:\nand there shall be earthquakes in divers places and famines. These\nthings are the beginning of sorrows.\n\n13:9. But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to\ncouncils: and in the synagogues you shall be beaten: and you shall\nstand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto\nthem.\n\n13:10. And unto all nations the gospel must first be preached.\n\n13:11. And when they shall lead you and deliver you up, be not\nthoughtful beforehand what you shall speak: but whatsoever shall be\ngiven you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak,\nbut the Holy Ghost.\n\n13:12. And the brother shall betray his brother unto death, and the\nfather his son; and children shall rise up against their parents and\nshall work their death.\n\n13:13. And you shall be hated by all men for my name\u2019s sake. But he\nthat shall endure unto the end, he shall be saved.\n\n13:14. And when you shall see the abomination of desolation, standing\nwhere it ought not (he that readeth let him understand): then let them\nthat are in Judea flee unto the mountains.\n\n13:15. And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house\nnor enter therein to take any thing out of the house.\n\n13:16. And let him that shall be in the field not turn back to take up\nhis garment.\n\n13:17. And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those\ndays.\n\n13:18. But pray ye that these things happen not in winter.\n\n13:19. For in those days shall be such tribulations as were not from\nthe beginning of the creation which God created until now: neither\nshall be.\n\n13:20. And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be\nsaved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath\nshortened the days.\n\n13:21. And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ. Lo, he\nis here: do not believe.\n\n13:22. For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets: and\nthey shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even\nthe elect.\n\n13:23. Take you heed therefore: behold, I have foretold you all things.\n\n13:24. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be\ndarkened and the moon shall not give her light.\n\n13:25. And the stars of heaven shall be falling down and the powers\nthat are in heaven shall be moved.\n\n13:26. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds,\nwith great power and glory.\n\n13:27. And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his\nelect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the\nuttermost part of heaven.\n\n13:28. Now of the fig tree learn ye a parable. When the branch thereof\nis now tender and the leaves are come forth, you know that summer is\nvery near.\n\n13:29. So you also when you shall see these things come to pass, know\nye that it is very nigh, even at the doors.\n\n13:30. Amen, I say to you that this generation shall not pass until all\nthese things be done.\n\n13:31. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass\naway.\n\n13:32. But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in\nheaven, nor the Son, but the Father.\n\nNor the Son.... Not that the Son of God is absolutely ignorant of the\nday of judgment, but that he knoweth it not, as our teacher; that is,\nhe knoweth it not so as to teach it to us, as not being expedient.\n\n13:33. Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.\n\n13:34. Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and\ngave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter\nto watch.\n\n13:35. Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house\ncometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the\nmorning):\n\n13:36. Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.\n\n13:37. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.\n\n\nMark Chapter 14\n\nThe first part of the history of the passion of Christ.\n\n14:1. Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days:\nand the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some\nwile lay hold on him and kill him.\n\nAzymes.... That is, the feast of the unleavened bread.\n\n14:2. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a\ntumult among the people.\n\n14:3. And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and\nwas at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of\nprecious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out\nupon his head.\n\n14:4. Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and\nsaid: Why was this waste of the ointment made?\n\n14:5. For this ointment might have been sold for more than three\nhundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.\n\n14:6. But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do you molest her? She hath\nwrought a good work upon me.\n\n14:7. For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will,\nyou may do them good: but me you have not always.\n\n14:8. She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my\nbody for the burial.\n\n14:9. Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in\nthe whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a\nmemorial of her.\n\n14:10. And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief\npriests, to betray him to them.\n\n14:11. Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give\nhim money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.\n\n14:12. Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they\nsacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that\nwe go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?\n\n14:13. And he sendeth two of his disciples and saith to them: Go ye\ninto the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of\nwater. Follow him.\n\n14:14. And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the\nhouse, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the\npasch with my disciples?\n\n14:15. And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there\nprepare ye for us.\n\n14:16. And his disciples went their way and came into the city. And\nthey found as he had told them: and they prepared the pasch.\n\n14:17. And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve.\n\n14:18. And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say\nto you, one of you that eateth with me shall betray me.\n\n14:19. But they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one by one: Is\nit I?\n\n14:20. Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who dippeth with me his\nhand in the dish.\n\n14:21. And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but\nwoe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were\nbetter for him, if that man had not been born.\n\n14:22. And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing,\nbroke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body.\n\n14:23. And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them.\nAnd they all drank of it.\n\n14:24. And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament,\nwhich shall be shed for many.\n\n14:25. Amen I say to you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the\nvine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.\n\n14:26. And when they had sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of\nOlives.\n\n14:27. And Jesus saith to them: You will all be scandalized in my\nregard this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and\nthe sheep shall be dispersed.\n\n14:28. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into\nGalilee.\n\n14:29. But Peter saith to him: Although all shall be scandalized in\nthee, yet not I.\n\n14:30. And Jesus saith to him: Amen I say to thee, to-day, even in this\nnight, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.\n\nCrow twice.... The cocks crow at two different times of the night;\nviz., about midnight for the first time; and then about the time\ncommonly called the cock crowing; and this was the cock crowing our\nSaviour spoke of; and therefore the other Evangelists take no notice of\nthe first crowing.\n\n14:31. But he spoke the more vehemently: Although I should die together\nwith thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.\n\n14:32. And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his\ndisciples: Sit you here, while I pray.\n\n14:33. And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to\nfear and to be heavy.\n\n14:34. And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay\nyou here and watch.\n\n14:35. And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the\nground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from\nhim.\n\n14:36. And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee:\nremove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.\n\n14:37. And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter:\nSimon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour?\n\n14:38. Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The\nspirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\n\n14:39. And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words.\n\n14:40. And when he returned, he found them again asleep (for their eyes\nwere heavy): and they knew not what to answer him.\n\n14:41. And he cometh the third time and saith to them: Sleep ye now and\ntake your rest. It is enough. The hour is come: behold the Son of man\nshall be betrayed into the hands of sinners.\n\n14:42. Rise up: let us go. Behold, he that will betray me is at hand.\n\n14:43. And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the\ntwelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the\nchief priests and the scribes and the ancients.\n\n14:44. And he that betrayed him had given them a sign, saying:\nWhomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Lay hold on him: and lead him away\ncarefully.\n\n14:45. And when he was come, immediately going up to him he saith:\nHail, Rabbi! And he kissed him.\n\n14:46. But they laid hands on him and held him.\n\n14:47. And one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant\nof the chief priest and cut off his ear.\n\n14:48. And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a\nrobber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?\n\n14:49. I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay\nhands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.\n\n14:50. Then his disciples, leaving him, all fled away.\n\n14:51. And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth cast\nabout his naked body. And they laid hold on him.\n\n14:52. But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked.\n\n14:53. And they brought Jesus to the high priest. And all the priests\nand the scribes and the ancients assembled together.\n\n14:54. And Peter followed him afar off, even into the court of the high\npriest. And he sat with the servants at the fire and warmed himself.\n\n14:55. And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence\nagainst Jesus, that they might put him to death: and found none.\n\n14:56. For many bore false witness against him: and their evidences\nwere not agreeing.\n\n14:57. And some rising up, bore false witness against him, saying:\n\n14:58. We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands and\nwithin three days I will build another not made with hands.\n\n14:59. And their witness did not agree.\n\n14:60. And the high priest rising up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying:\nAnswerest thou nothing to the things that are laid to thy charge by\nthese men?\n\n14:61. But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high\npriest asked him and said to him: Art thou the Christ, the Son of the\nBlessed God?\n\n14:62. And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man\nsitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming with the\nclouds of heaven.\n\n14:63. Then the high priest rending his garments, saith: What need we\nany further witnesses?\n\n14:64. You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned\nhim to be guilty of death.\n\n14:65. And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to\nbuffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him\nwith the palms of their hands.\n\n14:66. Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the\nmaidservants of the high priest.\n\n14:67. And when she had seen Peter warming himself looking on him, she\nsaith: Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.\n\n14:68. But he denied, saying: I neither know nor understand what thou\nsayest. And he went forth before the court; and the cock crew.\n\n14:69. And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers\nby: This is one of them.\n\n14:70. But he denied again. And after a while they that stood by said\nagain to Peter: Surely thou art one of them; for thou art also a\nGalilean.\n\n14:71. But he began to curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man\nof whom you speak.\n\n14:72. And immediately the cock crew again. And Peter remembered the\nword that Jesus had said unto him: Before the cock crow twice, thou\nshalt thrice deny me. And he began to weep.\n\n\nMark Chapter 15\n\nThe continuation of the history of the passion.\n\n15:1. And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a\nconsultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council,\nbinding Jesus, led him away and delivered him to Pilate.\n\n15:2. And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he\nanswering, saith to him: Thou sayest it.\n\n15:3. And the chief priests accused him in many things.\n\n15:4. And Pilate again asked him, saying: Answerest thou nothing?\nBehold in how many things they accuse thee.\n\n15:5. But Jesus still answered nothing: so that Pilate wondered.\n\n15:6. Now on the festival day he was wont to release unto them one of\nthe prisoners, whomsoever they demanded.\n\n15:7. And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with\nsome seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder.\n\n15:8. And when the multitude was come up, they began to desire that he\nwould do as he had ever done unto them.\n\n15:9. And Pilate answered them and said: Will you that I release to you\nthe king of the Jews?\n\n15:10. For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up out of\nenvy.\n\n15:11. But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather\nrelease Barabbas to them.\n\n15:12. And Pilate again answering, saith to them: What will you then\nthat I do to the king of the Jews?\n\n15:13. But they again cried out: Crucify him.\n\n15:14. And Pilate saith to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they\ncried out the more: Crucify him.\n\n15:15. And so Pilate being willing to satisfy the people, released to\nthem Barabbas: and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be\ncrucified.\n\n15:16. And the soldiers led him away into the court of the palace: and\nthey called together the whole band.\n\n15:17. And they clothed him with purple: and, platting a crown of\nthorns, they put it upon him.\n\n15:18. And they began to salute him: Hail, king of the Jews.\n\n15:19. And they struck his head with a reed: and they did spit on him.\nAnd bowing their knees, they adored him.\n\n15:20. And after they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him\nand put his own garments on him: and they led him out to crucify him.\n\n15:21. And they forced one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out\nof the country, the father of Alexander and of Rufus, to take up his\ncross.\n\n15:22. And they bring him into the place called Golgotha, which being\ninterpreted is, The place of Calvary.\n\n15:23. And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh. But he took\nit not.\n\n15:24. And crucifying him, they divided his garments, casting lots upon\nthem, what every man should take.\n\n15:25. And it was the third hour: and they crucified him.\n\nThe third hour.... The ancient account divided the day into four parts,\nwhich were named from the hour from which they began; the first, third,\nsixth, and ninth hour. Our Lord was crucified a little before noon;\nbefore the third hour had quite expired; but when the sixth hour was\nnear at hand.\n\n15:26. And the inscription of his cause was written over: THE KING OF\nTHE JEWS.\n\n15:27. And with him they crucify two thieves: the one on his right\nhand, and the other on his left.\n\n15:28. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith: And with the\nwicked he was reputed.\n\n15:29. And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and\nsaying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days\nbuildest it up again:\n\n15:30. Save thyself, coming down from the cross.\n\n15:31. In like manner also the chief priests, mocking, said with the\nscribes one to another: He saved others; himself he cannot save.\n\n15:32. Let Christ the king of Israel come down now from the cross, that\nwe may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him, reviled\nhim.\n\n15:33. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the\nwhole earth until the ninth hour.\n\n15:34. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice,\nsaying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My\nGod, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?\n\n15:35. And some of the standers by hearing, said: Behold he calleth\nElias.\n\n15:36. And one running and filling a sponge with vinegar and putting it\nupon a reed, gave him to drink, saying: Stay, let us see if Elias come\nto take him down.\n\n15:37. And Jesus, having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the\nghost.\n\n15:38. And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the\nbottom.\n\n15:39. And the centurion who stood over against him, seeing that crying\nout in this manner he had given up the ghost, said: Indeed this man was\nthe son of God.\n\n15:40. And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was\nMary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph and\nSalome,\n\n15:41. Who also when he was in Galilee followed him and ministered to\nhim, and many other women that came up with him to Jerusalem.\n\n15:42. And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve,\nthat is, the day before the sabbath),\n\n15:43. Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor, who was also himself\nlooking for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and\nbegged the body of Jesus.\n\n15:44. But Pilate wondered that he should be already dead. And sending\nfor the centurion, he asked him if he were already dead.\n\n15:45. And when he had understood it by the centurion, he gave the body\nto Joseph.\n\n15:46. And Joseph, buying fine linen and taking him down, wrapped him\nup in the fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of\na rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.\n\n15:47. And Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he\nwas laid.\n\n\nMark Chapter 16\n\nChrist\u2019s resurrection and ascension.\n\n16:1. And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother\nof James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint\nJesus.\n\n16:2. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they\ncome to the sepulchre, the sun being now risen.\n\nThe sun being now risen.... They set out before it was light, to go to\nthe sepulchre; but the sun was risen when they arrived there. Or,\nfiguratively, the sun here spoken of is the sun of justice, Christ\nJesus our Lord, who was risen before their coming.\n\n16:3. And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone\nfrom the door of the sepulchre?\n\n16:4. And looking, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very\ngreat.\n\n16:5. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on\nthe right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished.\n\n16:6. Who saith to them: Be not affrighted; you seek Jesus of Nazareth,\nwho was crucified. He is risen: he is not here. Behold the place where\nthey laid him.\n\n16:7. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you\ninto Galilee. There you shall see him, as he told you.\n\n16:8. But they going out, fled from the sepulchre: for a trembling and\nfear had seized them. And they said nothing to any man: for they were\nafraid.\n\n16:9. But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to\nMary Magdalen; out of whom he had cast seven devils.\n\n16:10. She went and told them that had been with him, who were mourning\nand weeping.\n\n16:11. And they hearing that he was alive and had been seen by her, did\nnot believe.\n\n16:12. And after that he appeared in another shape to two of them\nwalking, as they were going into the country.\n\n16:13. And they going told it to the rest: neither did they believe\nthem.\n\n16:14. At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and\nhe upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because\nthey did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again.\n\n16:15. And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the\ngospel to every creature.\n\n16:16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that\nbelieveth not shall be condemned.\n\n16:17. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they\nshall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues.\n\n16:18. They shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly\nthing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hand upon the sick:\nand they shall recover.\n\n16:19. And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up\ninto heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God.\n\n16:20. But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working\nwithal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE\n\n\nSt. Luke was a native of Antioch, the capital of Syria. He was by\nprofession a physician; and some ancient writers say, that he was very\nskillful in painting. He was converted by St. Paul and became his\ndisciple and companion in his travels, and fellow-labourer in the\nministry of the Gospel. He wrote in Greek, about twenty-four years\nafter our Lord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 1\n\nThe conception of John the Baptist, and of Christ. The visitation and\ncanticle of the Blessed Virgin. The birth of the Baptist and the\ncanticle of Zachary.\n\n1:1. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a\nnarration of the things that have been accomplished among us,\n\n1:2. According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the\nbeginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:\n\n1:3. It seemed good to me also, having diligently attained to all\nthings from the beginning, to write to thee in order, most excellent\nTheophilus,\n\n1:4. That thou mayest know the verity of those words in which thou hast\nbeen instructed.\n\n1:5. There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain\npriest named Zachary, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the\ndaughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.\n\nOf the course of Abia.... that is, of the rank of Abia, which word in\nthe Greek is commonly put for the employment of one day: but here for\nthe functions of a whole week. For, by the appointment of David, 1 Par.\n24., the descendants from Aaron were divided into twenty-four families,\nof which the eighth was Abia, from whom descended this Zachary, who at\nthis time was in the week of his priestly functions.\n\n1:6. And they were both just before God, walking in all the\ncommandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.\n\n1:7. And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both\nwere well advanced in years.\n\n1:8. And it came to pass, when he executed the priestly function in the\norder of his course before God,\n\n1:9. According to the custom of the priestly office, it was his lot to\noffer incense, going into the temple of the Lord.\n\n1:10. And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the\nhour of incense.\n\n1:11. And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing on the\nright side of the altar of incense.\n\n1:12. And Zachary seeing him, was troubled: and fear fell upon him.\n\n1:13. But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is\nheard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt\ncall his name John.\n\n1:14. And thou shalt have joy and gladness: and many shall rejoice in\nhis nativity.\n\n1:15. For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor\nstrong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his\nmother\u2019s womb.\n\n1:16. And he shall convert many of the children of Israel to the Lord\ntheir God.\n\n1:17. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias: that\nhe may turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children and the\nincredulous to the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a\nperfect people.\n\n1:18. And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? For I\nam an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.\n\n1:19. And the angel answering, said to him: I am Gabriel, who stand\nbefore God and am sent to speak to thee and to bring thee these good\ntidings.\n\n1:20. And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak\nuntil the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou\nhast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.\n\n1:21. And the people were waiting for Zachary: and they wondered that\nhe tarried so long in the temple.\n\n1:22. And when he came out, he could not speak to them: and they\nunderstood that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he made signs\nto them and remained dumb.\n\n1:23. And it came to pass, after the days of his office were\naccomplished, he departed to his own house.\n\n1:24. And after those days, Elizabeth his wife conceived and hid\nherself five months, saying:\n\n1:25. Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had\nregard to take away my reproach among men.\n\n1:26. And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into\na city of Galilee, called Nazareth,\n\n1:27. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house\nof David: and the virgin\u2019s name was Mary.\n\n1:28. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace,\nthe Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.\n\n1:29. Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with\nherself what manner of salutation this should be.\n\n1:30. And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found\ngrace with God.\n\n1:31. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a\nson: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.\n\n1:32. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High.\nAnd the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father:\nand he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.\n\n1:33. And of his kingdom there shall be no end.\n\n1:34. And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I\nknow not man?\n\n1:35. And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come\nupon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And\ntherefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the\nSon of God.\n\n1:36. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also hath conceived a son in\nher old age: and this is the sixth month with her that is called\nbarren.\n\n1:37. Because no word shall be impossible with God.\n\n1:38. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me\naccording to thy word. And the angel departed from her.\n\n1:39. And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with\nhaste into a city of Juda.\n\n1:40. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth.\n\n1:41. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of\nMary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the\nHoly Ghost.\n\n1:42. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou\namong women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.\n\n1:43. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come\nto me?\n\n1:44. For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my\nears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.\n\n1:45. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things\nshall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord.\n\n1:46. And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord.\n\n1:47. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.\n\n1:48. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold\nfrom henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.\n\nShall call me blessed.... These words are a prediction of that honour\nwhich the church in all ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let\nProtestants examine whether they are any way concerned in this\nprophecy.\n\n1:49. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy\nis his name.\n\n1:50. And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that\nfear him.\n\n1:51. He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in\nthe conceit of their heart.\n\n1:52. He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the\nhumble.\n\n1:53. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath\nsent empty away.\n\n1:54. He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy.\n\n1:55. As he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed for ever.\n\n1:56. And Mary abode with her about three months. And she returned to\nher own house.\n\n1:57. Now Elizabeth\u2019s full time of being delivered was come: and she\nbrought forth a son.\n\n1:58. And her neighbors and kinsfolks heard that the Lord had shewed\nhis great mercy towards her: and they congratulated with her.\n\n1:59. And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to\ncircumcise the child: and they called him by his father\u2019s name Zachary.\n\n1:60. And his mother answering, said: Not so. But he shall be called\nJohn.\n\n1:61. And they said to her: There is none of thy kindred that is called\nby this name.\n\n1:62. And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.\n\n1:63. And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his\nname. And they all wondered.\n\n1:64. And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed: and\nhe spoke, blessing God.\n\n1:65. And fear came upon all their neighbours: and all these things\nwere noised abroad over all the hill country of Judea.\n\n1:66. And all they that had heard them laid them up in their heart,\nsaying: What an one, think ye, shall this child be? For the hand of the\nLord was with him.\n\n1:67. And Zachary his father was filled with the Holy Ghost. And he\nprophesied, saying:\n\n1:68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and\nwrought the redemption of his people.\n\n1:69. And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of\nDavid his servant.\n\nHorn of salvation.... That is, A powerful salvation, as Dr. Witham\ntranslates it. For in the Scripture, by horn is generally understood\nstrength and power.\n\n1:70. As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the\nbeginning.\n\n1:71. Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us.\n\n1:72. To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy\ntestament.\n\n1:73. The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would\ngrant to us.\n\n1:74. That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve\nhim without fear:\n\n1:75. In holiness and justice before him, all our days.\n\n1:76. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for\nthou shalt, go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:\n\n1:77. To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission\nof their sins.\n\n1:78. Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient\nfrom on high hath visited us:\n\nThe Orient.... It is one of the titles of the Messias, the true light\nof the world, and the sun of justice.\n\n1:79. To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of\ndeath: to direct our feet into the way of peace.\n\n1:80. And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit: and was in the\ndeserts until the day of his manifestation to Israel.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 2\n\nThe birth of Christ. His presentation in the temple. Simeon\u2019s prophecy.\nChrist at twelve years of age, is found amongst the doctors.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass that in those days there went out a decree\nfrom Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled.\n\n2:2. This enrolling was first made by Cyrinus, the governor of Syria.\n\n2:3. And all went to be enrolled, every one into his own city.\n\n2:4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,\ninto Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he\nwas of the house and family of David.\n\n2:5. To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child.\n\n2:6. And it came to pass that when they were there, her days were\naccomplished that she should be delivered.\n\n2:7. And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in\nswaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room\nfor them in the inn.\n\nHer firstborn.... The meaning is, not that she had afterward any other\nchild; but it is a way of speech among the Hebrews, to call them also\nthe firstborn, who are the only children. See annotation Matt. 1. 25.\n\n2:8. And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping\nthe night watches over their flock.\n\n2:9. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them and the brightness\nof God shone round about them: and they feared with a great fear.\n\n2:10. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you\ngood tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people:\n\n2:11. For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord,\nin the city of David.\n\n2:12. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant\nwrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.\n\n2:13. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly\narmy, praising God and saying:\n\n2:14. Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good\nwill.\n\n2:15. And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into\nheaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem\nand let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath\nshewed to us.\n\n2:16. And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the\ninfant lying in the manger.\n\n2:17. And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to\nthem concerning this child.\n\n2:18. And all that heard wondered: and at those things that were told\nthem by the shepherds.\n\n2:19. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.\n\n2:20. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all\nthe things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.\n\n2:21. And after eight days were accomplished, that the child should be\ncircumcised, his name was called JESUS, which was called by the angel\nbefore he was conceived in the womb.\n\n2:22. And after the days of her purification, according to the law of\nMoses, were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him\nto the Lord:\n\n2:23. As it is written in the law of the Lord: Every male opening the\nwomb shall be called holy to the Lord:\n\n2:24. And to offer a sacrifice, according as it is written in the law\nof the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons:\n\n2:25. And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this\nman was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the\nHoly Ghost was in him.\n\n2:26. And he had received an answer from the Holy Ghost, that he should\nnot see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.\n\n2:27. And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when his parents\nbrought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of\nthe law,\n\n2:28. He also took him into his arms and blessed God and said\n\n2:29. Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word\nin peace:\n\n2:30. Because my eyes have seen thy salvation,\n\n2:31. Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples:\n\n2:32. A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy\npeople Israel.\n\n2:33. And his father and mother were wondering at those things which\nwere spoken concerning him.\n\n2:34. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this\nchild is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel\nand for a sign which shall be contradicted.\n\nFor the fall, etc.... Christ came for the salvation of all men; but\nhere Simeon prophesies what would come to pass, that many through their\nown wilful blindness and obstinacy would not believe in Christ, nor\nreceive his doctrine, which therefore would be ruin to them: but to\nothers a resurrection, by their believing in him, and obeying his\ncommandments.\n\n2:35. And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts\nthoughts may be revealed.\n\n2:36. And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of\nthe tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her\nhusband seven years from her virginity.\n\n2:37. And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed\nnot from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.\n\n2:38. Now she, at the same hour, coming in, confessed to the Lord: and\nspoke of him to all that looked for the redemption of Israel.\n\n2:39. And after they had performed all things according to the law of\nthe Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their city Nazareth.\n\n2:40. And the child grew and waxed strong, full of wisdom: and the\ngrace of God was in him.\n\n2:41. And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day\nof the pasch.\n\n2:42. And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem,\naccording to the custom of the feast,\n\n2:43. And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child\nJesus remained in Jerusalem. And his parents knew it not.\n\n2:44. And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day\u2019s\njourney and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance.\n\n2:45. And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him.\n\n2:46. And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in\nthe temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and\nasking them questions.\n\n2:47. And all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom and his\nanswers.\n\n2:48. And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son,\nwhy hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee\nsorrowing.\n\n2:49. And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not\nknow that I must be about my father\u2019s business?\n\n2:50. And they understood not the word that he spoke unto them.\n\n2:51. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject\nto them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.\n\n2:52. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 3\n\nJohn\u2019s mission and preaching. Christ is baptized by him.\n\n3:1. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius\nPilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,\nand Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and the country of\nTrachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina:\n\n3:2. Under the high priests Annas and Caiphas: the word of the Lord was\nmade unto John, the son of Zachary, in the desert.\n\n3:3. And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the\nbaptism of penance for the remission of sins.\n\n3:4. As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the\nprophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of\nthe Lord, make straight his paths.\n\n3:5. Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be\nbrought low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways\nplain.\n\n3:6. And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.\n\n3:7. He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized\nby him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the\nwrath to come?\n\n3:8. Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin\nto say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is\nable of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.\n\n3:9. For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree\ntherefore that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast\ninto the fire.\n\n3:10. And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do?\n\n3:11. And he answering, said to them: He that hath two coats, let him\ngive to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like\nmanner.\n\n3:12. And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him:\nMaster, what shall we do?\n\n3:13. But he said to them: Do nothing more than that which is appointed\nyou.\n\n3:14. And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do?\nAnd he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man;\nand be content with your pay.\n\n3:15. And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their\nhearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ:\n\n3:16. John answered, saying unto all: I indeed baptize you with water:\nbut there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I\nam not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and\nwith fire;\n\n3:17. Whose fan is in his hand: and he will purge his floor and will\ngather the wheat into his barn: but the chaff he will burn with\nunquenchable fire.\n\n3:18. And many other things exhorting did he preach to the people.\n\n3:19. But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias,\nhis brother\u2019s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done:\n\n3:20. He added this also above all and shut up John in prison.\n\n3:21. Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that\nJesus also being baptized and praying, heaven was opened.\n\n3:22. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape, as a dove, upon\nhim. And a voice came from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son. In thee I\nam well pleased.\n\n3:23. And Jesus himself was beginning about the age of thirty years:\nbeing (as it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was\nof Mathat,\n\nWho was of Heli.... St. Joseph, who by nature was the son of Jacob,\n(St. Matt. 1. 16,) in the account of the law, was son of Heli. For Heli\nand Jacob were brothers, by the same mother; and Heli, who was the\nelder, dying without issue, Jacob, as the law directed, married his\nwidow: in consequence of such marriage, his son Joseph was reputed in\nthe law the son of Heli.\n\n3:24. Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi, who was of Janne, who was of\nJoseph,\n\n3:25. Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos, who was of Nahum, who was\nof Hesli, who was of Nagge,\n\n3:26. Who was of Mahath, who was of Mathathias, who was of Semei, who\nwas of Joseph, who was of Juda,\n\n3:27. Who was of Joanna, who was of Reza, who was of Zorobabel, who was\nof Salathiel, who was of Neri,\n\n3:28. Who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who was of Cosan, who was of\nHelmadan, who was of Her,\n\n3:29. Who was of Jesus, who was of Eliezer, who was of Jorim, who was\nof Mathat, who was of Levi,\n\n3:30. Who was of Simeon, who was of Judas, who was of Joseph, who was\nof Jona, who was of Eliakim,\n\n3:31. Who was of Melea, who was of Menna, who was of Mathatha, who was\nof Nathan, who was of David,\n\n3:32. Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who was of Booz, who was of\nSalmon, who was of Naasson,\n\n3:33. Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram, who was of Esron, who was\nof Phares, who was of Judas,\n\n3:34. Who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was\nof Thare, who was of Nachor,\n\n3:35. Who was of Sarug, who was of Ragau, who was of Phaleg, who was of\nHeber, who was of Sale,\n\n3:36. Who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Sem, who was\nof Noe, who was of Lamech,\n\n3:37. Who was of Mathusale, who was of Henoch, who was of Jared, who\nwas of Malaleel, who was of Cainan,\n\n3:38. Who was of Henos, who was of Seth, who was of Adam, who was of\nGod.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 4\n\nChrist\u2019s fasting and temptation. He is persecuted in Nazareth. His\nmiracles in Capharnaum.\n\n4:1. And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan\nand was led by the spirit into the desert,\n\n4:2. For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he\nate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.\n\n4:3. And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this\nstone that it be made bread.\n\n4:4. And Jesus answered him: It is written that Man liveth not by bread\nalone, but by every word of God.\n\n4:5. And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the\nkingdoms of the world in a moment of time.\n\n4:6. And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the\nglory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give\nthem.\n\n4:7. If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine.\n\n4:8. And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore\nthe Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.\n\n4:9. And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the\ntemple and said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from\nhence.\n\n4:10. For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee\nthat they keep thee.\n\n4:11. And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps\nthou dash thy foot against a stone.\n\n4:12. And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not\ntempt the Lord thy God.\n\n4:13. And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him\nfor a time.\n\n4:14. And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into Galilee: and\nthe fame of him went out through the whole country.\n\n4:15. And he taught in their synagogues and was magnified by all.\n\n4:16. And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went\ninto the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he\nrose up to read.\n\n4:17. And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as\nhe unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:\n\n4:18. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me\nto preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite\nof heart,\n\n4:19. To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to\nset at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of\nthe Lord and the day of reward.\n\n4:20. And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister\nand sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.\n\n4:21. And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture\nin your ears.\n\n4:22. And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of\ngrace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son\nof Joseph?\n\n4:23. And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this\nsimilitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard\ndone in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.\n\n4:24. And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his\nown country.\n\n4:25. In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of\nElias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months,\nwhen there was a great famine throughout all the earth.\n\n4:26. And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a\nwidow woman.\n\n4:27. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the\nprophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.\n\n4:28. And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled\nwith anger.\n\n4:29. And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought\nhim to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they\nmight cast him down headlong.\n\n4:30. But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.\n\n4:31. And he went down into Capharnaum, a city of Galilee: and there he\ntaught them on the sabbath days.\n\n4:32. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his speech was with\npower.\n\n4:33. And in the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean devil:\nand he cried out with a loud voice,\n\n4:34. Saying: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus of\nNazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the\nholy one of God.\n\n4:35. And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace and go out of him.\nAnd when the devil had thrown him into the midst, he went out of him\nand hurt him not at all.\n\n4:36. And there came fear upon all; and they talked among themselves,\nsaying: What word is this, for with authority and power he commandeth\nthe unclean spirits, and they go out?\n\n4:37. And the fame of him was published into every place of the\ncountry.\n\n4:38. And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon\u2019s\nhouse. And Simon\u2019s wife\u2019s mother was taken with a great fever: and they\nbesought him for her.\n\n4:39. And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her.\nAnd immediately rising, she ministered to them.\n\n4:40. And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers\ndiseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of\nthem, healed them.\n\n4:41. And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art\nthe son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak; for\nthey knew that he was Christ.\n\n4:42. And when it was day, going out he went into a desert place: and\nthe multitudes sought him, and came unto him. And they stayed him that\nhe should not depart from them.\n\n4:43. To whom he said: To other cities also I must preach the kingdom\nof God: for therefore am I sent.\n\n4:44. And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 5\n\nThe miraculous draught of fishes. The cure of the leper and of the\nparalytic. The call of Matthew.\n\n5:1. And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to\nhear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,\n\n5:2. And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were\ngone out of them and were washing their nets.\n\n5:3. And going into one of the ships that was Simon\u2019s, he desired him\nto draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the\nmultitudes out of the ship.\n\n5:4. Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into\nthe deep and let down your nets for a draught.\n\n5:5. And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the\nnight and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.\n\n5:6. And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude\nof fishes: and their net broke.\n\n5:7. And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship,\nthat they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the\nships, so that they were almost sinking.\n\n5:8. Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus\u2019 knees, saying:\nDepart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.\n\n5:9. For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the\ndraught of the fishes which they had taken.\n\n5:10. And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were\nSimon\u2019s partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth\nthou shalt catch men.\n\n5:11. And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they\nfollowed him.\n\n5:12. And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man\nfull of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him\nsaying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.\n\n5:13. And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be\nthou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.\n\n5:14. And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew\nthyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses\ncommanded, for a testimony to them.\n\n5:15. But the fame of him went abroad the more: and great multitudes\ncame together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.\n\n5:16. And he retired into the desert; and prayed.\n\n5:17. And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that\nthere were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were\ncome out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the\npower of the Lord was to heal them.\n\n5:18. And behold, men brought in a bed a man who had the palsy: and\nthey sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him.\n\n5:19. And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in,\nbecause of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down\nthrough the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus.\n\n5:20. Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven\nthee.\n\n5:21. And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this\nwho speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?\n\n5:22. And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them:\nWhat is it you think in your hearts?\n\n5:23. Which is easier to say: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say:\nArise and walk?\n\n5:24. But that you may know that the Son of man hath the power on earth\nto forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say to thee,\nArise, take up thy bed and go into thy house.\n\n5:25. And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on\nwhich he lay: and he went away to his own house, glorifying God.\n\n5:26. And all were astonished: and they glorified God. And they were\nfilled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to-day.\n\n5:27. And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named\nLevi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him: Follow me.\n\n5:28. And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.\n\n5:29. And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a\ngreat company of publicans and of others that were at table with them.\n\n5:30. But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples:\nWhy do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?\n\n5:31. And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not\nthe physician: but they that are sick.\n\n5:32. I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.\n\n5:33. And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and\nmake prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but\nthine eat and drink?\n\n5:34. To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast\nwhilst the bridegroom is with them?\n\n5:35. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away\nfrom them: then shall they fast in those days.\n\n5:36. And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a\npiece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth\nthe new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.\n\n5:37. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new\nwine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles\nwill be lost.\n\n5:38. But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are\npreserved.\n\n5:39. And no man drinking old hath presently a mind to new: for he\nsaith: The old is better.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 6\n\nChrist excuses his disciples. He cures upon the sabbath day, chooses\nthe twelve and makes a sermon to them.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass on the second first sabbath that, as he went\nthrough the corn fields, his disciples plucked the ears and did eat,\nrubbing them in their hands.\n\nThe second first sabbath.... Some understand this of the sabbath of\nPentecost, which was the second in course among the great feasts:\nothers, of a sabbath day that immediately followed any solemn feast.\n\n6:2. And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is\nnot lawful on the sabbath days?\n\n6:3. And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this,\nwhat David did, when himself was hungry and they that were with him:\n\n6:4. How he went into the house of God and took and ate the bread of\nproposition and gave to them that were with him, which is not lawful to\neat but only for the priests?\n\n6:5. And he said to them: The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.\n\n6:6. And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he entered into\nthe synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was\nwithered.\n\n6:7. And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the\nsabbath: that they might find an accusation against him.\n\n6:8. But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the\nwithered hand: Arise and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood\nforth.\n\n6:9. Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath\ndays to do good or to do evil? To save life or to destroy?\n\n6:10. And looking round about on them all, he said to the man: Stretch\nforth thy hand. And he stretched it forth. And his hand was restored.\n\n6:11. And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with\nanother, what they might do to Jesus.\n\n6:12. And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a\nmountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.\n\n6:13. And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples: and he\nchose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles):\n\n6:14. Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and\nJohn, Philip and Bartholomew,\n\n6:15. Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is\ncalled Zelotes,\n\n6:16. And Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the\ntraitor.\n\n6:17. And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place: and the\ncompany of his disciples and a very great multitude of people from all\nJudea and Jerusalem and the sea coast, both of Tyre and Sidon,\n\n6:18. Who were come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And\nthey that were troubled with unclean spirits were cured.\n\n6:19. And all the multitude sought to touch him: for virtue went out\nfrom him and healed all.\n\n6:20. And he, lifting up his eyes on his disciples, said: Blessed are\nye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.\n\n6:21. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed\nare ye that weep now: for you shall laugh.\n\n6:22. Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall\nseparate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for\nthe Son of man\u2019s sake.\n\n6:23. Be glad in that day and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great\nin heaven, For according to these things did their fathers to the\nprophets.\n\n6:24. But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.\n\n6:25. Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that\nnow laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.\n\n6:26. Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these\nthings did their fathers to the false prophets.\n\n6:27. But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them\nthat hate you.\n\n6:28. Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you.\n\n6:29. And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the\nother. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take\nthy coat also.\n\n6:30. Give to every one that asketh thee: and of him that taketh away\nthy goods, ask them not again.\n\n6:31. And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them\nin like manner.\n\n6:32. And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For\nsinners also love those that love them.\n\n6:33. And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to\nyou? For sinners also do this.\n\n6:34. And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks\nare to you? For sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much.\n\n6:35. But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing\nthereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of\nthe Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.\n\n6:36. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.\n\n6:37. Judge not: and you shall not be judged. Condemn not: and you\nshall not be condemned. Forgive: and you shall be forgiven.\n\n6:38. Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down\nand shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom.\nFor with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be\nmeasured to you again.\n\n6:39. And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the\nblind? Do they not both fall into the ditch?\n\n6:40. The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be\nperfect, if he be as his master.\n\n6:41. And why seest thou the mote in thy brother\u2019s eye: but the beam\nthat is in thy own eye thou considerest not?\n\n6:42. Or how canst thou say to thy brother: Brother, let me pull the\nmote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own\neye? Hypocrite, cast first the beam out of thy own eye: and then shalt\nthou see clearly to take out the mote from thy brother\u2019s eye.\n\n6:43. For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an\nevil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.\n\n6:44. For every tree is known by its fruit. For men do not gather figs\nfrom thorns: nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.\n\n6:45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth\nthat which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth\nforth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the\nmouth speaketh.\n\n6:46. And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I\nsay?\n\n6:47. Every one that cometh to me and heareth my words and doth them, I\nwill shew you to whom he is like.\n\n6:48. He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep and laid\nthe foundation upon a rock. And when a flood came, the stream beat\nvehemently upon that house: and it could not shake it: for it was\nfounded on a rock.\n\n6:49. But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his\nhouse upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream\nbeat vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house\nwas great.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 7\n\nChrist heals the centurion\u2019s servant. He raises the widow\u2019s son to\nlife, answers the messengers sent by John and absolves the penitent\nsinner.\n\n7:1. And when he had finished all his words in the hearing of the\npeople, he entered into Capharnaum.\n\n7:2. And the servant of a certain centurion who was dear to him, being\nsick, was ready to die.\n\n7:3. And when he had heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the ancients of\nthe Jews, desiring him to come and heal his servant.\n\n7:4. And when they came to Jesus, they besought him earnestly, saying\nto him: He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him.\n\n7:5. For he loveth our nation: and he hath built us a synagogue.\n\n7:6. And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the\nhouse, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not\nthyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof.\n\n7:7. For which cause neither did I think myself worthy to come to thee:\nbut say the word, and my servant shall be healed.\n\n7:8. For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me\nsoldiers: and I say to one, Go, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and\nhe cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it.\n\n7:9. Which Jesus hearing, marvelled: and turning about to the multitude\nthat followed him, he said: Amen I say to you, I have not found so\ngreat faith, not even in Israel.\n\n7:10. And they who were sent, being returned to the house, found the\nservant whole who had been sick.\n\n7:11. And it came to pass afterwards that he went into a city that is\ncalled Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great\nmultitude.\n\n7:12. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man\nwas carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a\ngreat multitude of the city was with her.\n\n7:13. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her,\nhe said to her: Weep not.\n\n7:14. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it\nstood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise.\n\n7:15. And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And he gave him\nto his mother.\n\n7:16. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God\nsaying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his\npeople.\n\n7:17. And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea and\nthroughout all the country round about.\n\n7:18. And John\u2019s disciples told him of all these things.\n\n7:19. And John called to him two of his disciples and sent them to\nJesus, saying: Art thou he that art to come? Or look we for another?\n\n7:20. And when the men were come unto him, they said: John the Baptist\nhath sent us to thee, saying: Art thou he that art to come? Or look we\nfor another?\n\n7:21. (And in that same hour, he cured many of their diseases and hurts\nand evil spirits: and to many that were blind he gave sight.)\n\n7:22. And answering, he said to them: Go and relate to John what you\nhave heard and seen: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made\nclean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the poor the gospel is\npreached.\n\n7:23. And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.\n\n7:24. And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak\nto the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to\nsee? A reed shaken with the wind?\n\n7:25. But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft garments?\nBehold they that are in costly apparel and live delicately are in the\nhouses of kings.\n\n7:26. But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and\nmore than a prophet.\n\n7:27. This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before\nthy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.\n\n7:28. For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of women, there is\nnot a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser\nin the kingdom of God is greater than he.\n\n7:29. And all the people hearing, and the publicans, justified God,\nbeing baptized with John\u2019s baptism.\n\nJustified God.... that is, praised the justice of God, feared and\nworshipped God, as just and merciful.\n\n7:30. But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God\nagainst themselves, being not baptized by him.\n\n7:31. And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this\ngeneration? And to what are they like?\n\n7:32. They are like to children sitting in the marketplace and speaking\none to another and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not\ndanced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.\n\n7:33. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine.\nAnd you say: He hath a devil.\n\n7:34. The Son of man is come eating and drinking. And you say: Behold a\nman that is a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and\nsinners.\n\n7:35. And wisdom is justified by all her children.\n\n7:36. And one of the Pharisees desired him to eat with him. And he went\ninto the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat.\n\nOne of the Pharisees: that is, Simon.\n\n7:37. And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew\nthat he sat at meat in the Pharisee\u2019s house, brought an alabaster box\nof ointment.\n\n7:38. And standing behind at his feet, she began to wash his feet with\ntears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and\nanointed them with the ointment.\n\n7:39. And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within\nhimself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely\nwho and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a\nsinner.\n\n7:40. And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say\nto thee. But he said: Master, say it.\n\n7:41. A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred\npence and the other fifty.\n\n7:42. And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both.\nWhich therefore of the two loveth him most?\n\n7:43. Simon answering, said: I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.\nAnd he said to him: Thou hast judged rightly.\n\n7:44. And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this\nwoman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet.\nBut she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped\nthem.\n\n7:45. Thou gavest me no kiss. But she, since she came in, hath not\nceased to kiss my feet.\n\n7:46. My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment\nhath anointed my feet.\n\n7:47. Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she\nhath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less.\n\nMany sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much.... In the\nscripture an effect sometimes seems attributed to one only cause, when\nthere are divers other concurring dispositions; for the sins of this\nwoman, in this verse, are said to be forgiven, because she loved much:\nbut (ver. 50) Christ tells her, Thy faith hath made thee safe. Hence in\na true conversion are joined faith, hope, love, sorrow for sin, and\nother pious dispositions.\n\n7:48. And he said to her: Thy sins are forgiven thee.\n\n7:49. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within\nthemselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also?\n\n7:50. And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath made thee safe. Go in\npeace.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 8\n\nThe parable of the seed. Christ stills the storm at sea, casts out the\nlegion, heals the issue of blood and raises the daughter of Jairus to\nlife.\n\n8:1. And it came to pass afterwards, that he travelled through the\ncities and towns, preaching and evangelizing the kingdom of God: and\nthe twelve with him:\n\n8:2. And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and\ninfirmities: Mary who is called Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were\ngone forth,\n\n8:3. And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod\u2019s steward, and Susanna and\nmany others who ministered unto him of their substance.\n\n8:4. And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened\nout of the cities, unto him, he spoke by a similitude.\n\n8:5. The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by\nthe way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air\ndevoured it.\n\n8:6. And other some fell upon a rock. And as soon as it was sprung up,\nit withered away, because it had no moisture.\n\n8:7. And other some fell among thorns. And the thorns growing up with\nit, choked it.\n\n8:8. And other some fell upon good ground and, being sprung up, yielded\nfruit a hundredfold. Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath\nears to hear, let him hear.\n\n8:9. And his disciples asked him what this parable might be.\n\n8:10. To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the\nkingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not\nsee and hearing may not understand.\n\nSeeing they may not see.... See the annotation, Mark 4. 12.\n\n8:11. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.\n\n8:12. And they by the way side are they that hear: then the devil\ncometh and taketh the word out of their heart, lest believing they\nshould be saved.\n\n8:13. Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the\nword with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while\nand in time of temptation they fall away.\n\n8:14. And that which fell among thorns are they who have heard and,\ngoing their way, are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of\nthis life and yield no fruit.\n\n8:15. But that on the good ground are they who in a good and perfect\nheart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience.\n\n8:16. Now no man lighting a candle covereth it with a vessel or putteth\nit under a bed: but setteth it upon a candlestick, that they who come\nin may see the light.\n\n8:17. For there is not any thing secret that shall not be made\nmanifest, nor hidden that shall not be known and come abroad.\n\n8:18. Take heed therefore how you hear. For whosoever hath, to him\nshall be given: and whosoever hath not, that also which he thinketh he\nhath shall be taken away from him.\n\n8:19. And his mother and brethren came unto him: and they could not\ncome at him for the crowd.\n\n8:20. And it was told him: Thy mother and thy brethren stand without,\ndesiring to see thee.\n\n8:21. Who answering, said to them: My mother and my brethren are they\nwho hear the word of God and do it.\n\n8:22. And it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a little\nship with his disciples. And he said to them: Let us go over to the\nother side of the lake. And they launched forth.\n\n8:23. And when they were sailing, he slept. And there came down a storm\nof wind upon the lake: and they were filled and were in danger.\n\n8:24. And they came and awaked him, saying: Master, we perish. But he\narising, rebuked the wind and the rage of the water. And it ceased: and\nthere was a calm.\n\n8:25. And he said to them: Where is your faith? Who being afraid,\nwondered, saying one to another: Who is this (think you), that he\ncommandeth both the winds and the sea: and they obey him?\n\n8:26. And they sailed to the country of the Gerasens, which is over\nagainst Galilee.\n\n8:27. And when he was come forth to the land, there met him a certain\nman who had a devil now a very long time. And he wore no clothes:\nneither did he abide in a house, but in the sepulchres.\n\n8:28. And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him. And crying out\nwith a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of\nthe most high God? I beseech thee, do not torment me.\n\n8:29. For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For\nmany times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in\nfetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the\ndeserts.\n\n8:30. And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said:\nLegion. Because many devils were entered into him.\n\n8:31. And they besought him that he would not command them to go into\nthe abyss.\n\n8:32. And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain:\nand they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And\nhe suffered them.\n\n8:33. The devils therefore went out of the man and entered into the\nswine. And the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and\nwere stifled.\n\n8:34. Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away and told\nit in the city and in the villages.\n\n8:35. And they went out to see what was done. And they came to Jesus\nand found the man out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at his\nfeet, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.\n\n8:36. And they also that had seen told them how he had been healed from\nthe legion.\n\n8:37. And all the multitude of the country of the Gerasens besought him\nto depart from them: for they were taken with great fear. And he, going\nup into the ship, returned back again.\n\n8:38. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him\nthat he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying:\n\n8:39. Return to thy house and tell how great things God hath done to\nthee. And he went through the whole city, publishing how great things\nJesus had done to him.\n\n8:40. And it came to pass that when Jesus was returned, the multitude\nreceived him: for they were all waiting for him.\n\n8:41. And behold there came a man whose name was Jairus: and he was a\nruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at the feet of Jesus,\nbeseeching him that he would come into his house:\n\n8:42. For he had an only daughter, almost twelve years old, and she was\ndying. And it happened as he went that he was thronged by the\nmultitudes.\n\n8:43. And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve\nyears, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians and could not\nbe healed by any.\n\n8:44. She came behind him and touched the hem of his garment: and\nimmediately the issue of her blood stopped.\n\n8:45. And Jesus said: Who is it that touched me? And all denying, Peter\nand they that were with him said: Master, the multitudes throng and\npress thee; and dost thou say, who touched me?\n\n8:46. And Jesus said: Somebody hath touched me; for I know that virtue\nis gone out from me.\n\n8:47. And the woman seeing that she was not hid, came trembling and\nfell down before his feet and declared before all the people for what\ncause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed.\n\n8:48. But he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go\nthy way in peace.\n\n8:49. As he was yet speaking, there cometh one to the ruler of the\nsynagogue, saying to him: Thy daughter is dead: trouble him not.\n\n8:50. And Jesus hearing this word, answered the father of the maid:\nFear not. Believe only: and she shall be safe.\n\n8:51. And when he was come to the house, he suffered not any man to go\nin with him, but Peter and James and John, and the father and mother of\nthe maiden.\n\n8:52. And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: Weep not. The maid\nis not dead, but sleepeth.\n\n8:53. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.\n\n8:54. But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: Maid, arise.\n\n8:55. And her spirit returned: and she arose immediately. And he bid\nthem give her to eat.\n\n8:56. And her parents were astonished, whom he charged to tell no man\nwhat was done.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 9\n\nChrist sends forth his apostles, feeds five thousand with five loaves,\nis transfigured and casts out a devil.\n\n9:1. Then calling together the twelve apostles, he gave them power and\nauthority over all devils and to cure diseases.\n\n9:2. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the\nsick.\n\n9:3. And he said to them: Take nothing for your journey, neither staff,\nnor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats.\n\n9:4. And whatsoever house you shall enter into, abide there and depart\nnot from thence.\n\n9:5. And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city,\nshake off even the dust of your feet, for a testimony against them.\n\n9:6. And going out, they went about through the towns, preaching the\ngospel and healing every where.\n\n9:7. Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all things that were done by\nhim. And he was in a doubt, because it was said\n\n9:8. By some that John was risen from the dead: but by other some, that\nElias had appeared: and by others, that one of the old prophets was\nrisen again.\n\n9:9. And Herod said: John I have beheaded. But who is this of whom I\nhear such things? And he sought to see him.\n\n9:10. And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all they had\ndone. And taking them, he went aside into a desert place, apart, which\nbelongeth to Bethsaida.\n\n9:11. Which when the people knew, they followed him: and he received\nthem and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and healed them who had\nneed of healing.\n\n9:12. Now the day began to decline. And the twelve came and said to\nhim: Send away the multitude, that, going into the towns and villages\nround about, they may lodge and get victuals; for we are here in a\ndesert place.\n\n9:13. But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have\nno more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go\nand buy food for all this multitude.\n\n9:14. Now there were about five thousand men. And he said to his\ndisciples: Make them sit down by fifties in a company.\n\n9:15. And they did so and made them all sit down.\n\n9:16. And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to\nheaven and blessed them: and he broke and distributed to his disciples,\nto set before the multitude.\n\n9:17. And they did all eat and were filled. And there were taken up of\nfragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.\n\n9:18. And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples also\nwere with him: and he asked them, saying: Whom do the people say that I\nam?\n\n9:19. But they answered and said: John the Baptist; but some say Elias:\nand others say that one of the former prophets is risen again.\n\n9:20. And he said to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter\nanswering, said: The Christ of God.\n\n9:21. But he strictly charging them, commanded they should tell this to\nno man.\n\n9:22. Saying: The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by\nthe ancients and chief priests and scribes and be killed and the third\nday rise again.\n\n9:23. And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny\nhimself and take up his cross daily and follow me.\n\n9:24. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: for he that shall\nlose his life for my sake shall save it.\n\n9:25. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world and lose\nhimself and cast away himself?\n\n9:26. For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him the\nSon of man shall be ashamed, when he shall come in his majesty and that\nof his Father and of the holy angels.\n\n9:27. But I tell you of a truth: There are some standing here that\nshall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God.\n\n9:28. And it came to pass, about eight days after these words, that he\ntook Peter and James and John and went up into a mountain to pray.\n\n9:29. And whilst he prayed, the shape of his countenance was altered\nand his raiment became white and glittering.\n\n9:30. And behold two men were talking with him. And they were Moses and\nElias,\n\n9:31. Appearing in majesty. And they spoke of his decease that he\nshould accomplish in Jerusalem.\n\n9:32. But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep. And\nwaking, they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him.\n\n9:33. And it came to pass that, as they were departing from him, Peter\nsaith to Jesus: Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make\nthree tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses; and one for Elias:\nnot knowing what he said.\n\n9:34. And as he spoke these things, there came a cloud and overshadowed\nthem. And they were afraid when they entered into the cloud.\n\n9:35. And a voice came out of the cloud; saying: This is my beloved\nson. Hear him.\n\n9:36. And whilst the voice was uttered Jesus was found alone. And they\nheld their peace and told no man in those days any of these things\nwhich they had seen.\n\n9:37. And it came to pass the day following, when they came down from\nthe mountain, there met him a great multitude.\n\n9:38. And behold a man among the crowd cried out, saying: Master, I\nbeseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only one.\n\n9:39. And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he suddenly crieth out, and he\nthroweth him down and teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising\nhim, he hardly departeth from him.\n\n9:40. And I desired thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not.\n\n9:41. And Jesus, answering, said: O faithless and perverse generation,\nhow long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son.\n\n9:42. And as he was coming to him, the devil threw him down and tore\nhim.\n\n9:43. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and cured the boy and\nrestored him to his father.\n\n9:44. And all were astonished at the mighty power of God. But while all\nwondered at all the things he did, he said to his disciples: Lay you up\nin your hearts these words, for it shall come to pass that the Son of\nman shall be delivered into the hands of men.\n\n9:45. But they understood not this word: and it was hid from them, so\nthat they perceived it not. And they were afraid to ask him concerning\nthis word.\n\n9:46. And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be\ngreater.\n\n9:47. But Jesus seeing the thoughts of their hearts, took a child and\nset him by him,\n\n9:48. And said to them: Whosoever shall receive this child in my name\nreceiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent\nme. For he that is the lesser among you all, he is the greater.\n\n9:49. And John, answering, said: Master, we saw a certain man casting\nout devils in thy name: and we forbade him, because he followeth not\nwith us.\n\n9:50. And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not: for he that is not against\nyou is for you.\n\n9:51. And it came to pass, when the days of his assumption were\naccomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.\n\n9:52. And he sent messengers before his face: and going, they entered\ninto a city of the Samaritans, to prepare for him.\n\n9:53. And they received him not, because his face was of one going to\nJerusalem.\n\n9:54. And when his disciples, James and John, had seen this, they said:\nLord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and\nconsume them?\n\n9:55. And turning, he rebuked them, saying: you know not of what spirit\nyou are.\n\n9:56. The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they\nwent into another town.\n\n9:57. And it came to pass, as they walked in the way, that a certain\nman said to him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.\n\n9:58. Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air\nnests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.\n\n9:59. But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me\nfirst to go and to bury my father.\n\n9:60. And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou\nand preach the kingdom of God.\n\n9:61. And another said: I will follow thee, Lord; but let me first take\nmy leave of them that are at my house.\n\n9:62. Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to the plough and\nlooking back is fit for the kingdom of God.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 10\n\nChrist sends forth and instructs his seventy-two disciples. The good\nSamaritan.\n\n10:1. And after these things, the Lord appointed also other\nseventy-two. And he sent them two and two before his face into every\ncity and place whither he himself was to come.\n\n10:2. And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the\nlabourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he\nsend labourers into his harvest.\n\n10:3. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves.\n\n10:4. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by\nthe way.\n\n10:5. Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house.\n\n10:6. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him:\nbut if not, it shall return to you.\n\n10:7. And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as\nthey have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from\nhouse to house.\n\n10:8. And into what city soever you enter, and they receive you, eat\nsuch things as are set before you.\n\n10:9. And heal the sick that are therein and say to them: The kingdom\nof God is come nigh unto you.\n\n10:10. But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not,\ngoing forth into the streets thereof, say:\n\n10:11. Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off\nagainst you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.\n\n10:12. I say to you, it shall be more tolerable at that day for Sodom\nthan for that city.\n\n10:13. Woe to thee, Corozain! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! For if in Tyre\nand Sidon had been wrought the mighty works that have been wrought in\nyou, they would have done penance long ago, sitting in sackcloth and\nashes.\n\n10:14. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the\njudgment than for you.\n\n10:15. And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt\nbe thrust down to hell.\n\n10:16. He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you\ndespiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.\n\n10:17. And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: Lord, the devils\nalso are subject to us in thy name.\n\n10:18. And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from\nheaven.\n\n10:19. Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and\nscorpions and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt\nyou.\n\n10:20. But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you:\nbut rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.\n\n10:21. In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I\nconfess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast\nhidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to\nlittle ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.\n\nHe rejoiced in the Holy Ghost.... That is, according to his humanity he\nrejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and gave thanks to his eternal Father.\n\n10:22. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth\nwho the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and\nto whom the Son will reveal him.\n\n10:23. And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that\nsee the things which you see.\n\n10:24. For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to\nsee the things that you see and have not seen them; and to hear the\nthings that you hear and have not heard them.\n\n10:25. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying,\nMaster, what must I do to possess eternal life?\n\n10:26. But he said to him: What is written in the law? How readest\nthou?\n\n10:27. He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy\nwhole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with\nall thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself.\n\n10:28. And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou\nshalt live.\n\n10:29. But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my\nneighbour?\n\n10:30. And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from\nJerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who also stripped him and\nhaving wounded him went away, leaving him half dead.\n\n10:31. And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way:\nand seeing him, passed by.\n\n10:32. In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw\nhim, passed by.\n\n10:33. But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near him:\nand seeing him, was moved with compassion:\n\n10:34. And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and\nwine: and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn and\ntook care of him.\n\n10:35. And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host and\nsaid: Take care of him; and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above,\nI, at my return, will repay thee.\n\n10:36. Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbour to him that\nfell among the robbers?\n\n10:37. But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him:\nGo, and do thou in like manner.\n\n10:38. Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a\ncertain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her\nhouse.\n\n10:39. And she had a sister called Mary, who, sitting also at the\nLord\u2019s feet, heard his word.\n\n10:40. But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said:\nLord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve?\nSpeak to her therefore, that she help me.\n\n10:41. And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art\ncareful and art troubled about many things:\n\n10:42. But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part,\nwhich shall not be taken away from her.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 11\n\nChrist teaches his disciples to pray. He casts out a dumb devil,\nconfutes the Pharisees, and pronounces woes against them for their\nhypocrisy.\n\n11:1. And it came to pass that as he was in a certain place praying,\nwhen he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to\npray, as John also taught his disciples.\n\n11:2. And he said to them: When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy\nname. Thy kingdom come.\n\n11:3. Give us this day our daily bread.\n\n11:4. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is\nindebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.\n\n11:5. And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend and shall\ngo to him at midnight and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three\nloaves,\n\n11:6. Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me and I have\nnot what to set before him.\n\n11:7. And he from within should answer and say: Trouble me not; the\ndoor is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and\ngive thee.\n\n11:8. Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will\nnot rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his\nimportunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.\n\n11:9. And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you\nshall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.\n\n11:10. For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh\nfindeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened:\n\n11:11. And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a\nstone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?\n\n11:12. Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?\n\n11:13. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your\nchildren, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good\nSpirit to them that ask him?\n\n11:14. And he was casting out a devil: and the same was dumb. And when\nhe had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes, were in\nadmiration at it.\n\n11:15. But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the\nprince of devils.\n\n11:16. And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven.\n\n11:17. But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom\ndivided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and house upon\nhouse shall fall.\n\n11:18. And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his\nkingdom stand? Because you say that through Beelzebub I cast out\ndevils.\n\n11:19. Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do your children\ncast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.\n\n11:20. But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, doubtless the\nkingdom of God is come upon you.\n\n11:21. When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in\npeace which he possesseth.\n\n11:22. But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he\nwill take away all his armour wherein he trusted and will distribute\nhis spoils.\n\n11:23. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not\nwith me scattereth.\n\n11:24. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through\nplaces without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will\nreturn into my house whence I came out.\n\n11:25. And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.\n\n11:26. Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more\nwicked than himself: and entering in they dwell there. And the last\nstate of that man becomes worse than the first.\n\n11:27. And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman\nfrom the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb\nthat bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck.\n\n11:28. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of\nGod and keep it.\n\n11:29. And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This\ngeneration is a wicked generation. It asketh a sign: and a sign shall\nnot be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.\n\n11:30. For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of\nman also be to this generation.\n\n11:31. The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men\nof this generation and shall condemn them: because she came from the\nends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold more than\nSolomon here.\n\n11:32. The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this\ngeneration and shall condemn it; Because they did penance at the\npreaching of Jonas. And behold more than Jonas here.\n\n11:33. No man lighteth a candle and putteth it in a hidden place, nor\nunder a bushel: but upon a candlestick, that they that come in may see\nthe light.\n\n11:34. The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy\nwhole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be\ndarksome.\n\n11:35. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not\ndarkness.\n\n11:36. If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness:\nthe whole shall be lightsome and, as a bright lamp, shall enlighten\nthee.\n\n11:37. And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him that he\nwould dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat.\n\n11:38. And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he\nwas not washed before dinner.\n\n11:39. And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the\noutside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of\nrapine and iniquity.\n\n11:40. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also\nthat which is within?\n\n11:41. But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things\nare clean unto you.\n\n11:42. But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and\nevery herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these\nthings you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.\n\n11:43. Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in\nthe synagogues and salutations in the marketplace.\n\n11:44. Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and\nmen that walk over are not aware.\n\n11:45. And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in\nsaying these things, thou reproachest us also.\n\n11:46. But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with\nburdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs\nwith one of your fingers.\n\nWoe to you lawyers.... He speaks of the doctors of the law of Moses,\ncommonly called the scribes.\n\n11:47. Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your\nfathers killed them.\n\nWoe to you who build, etc.... Not that the building of the monuments of\nthe prophets was in itself blameworthy, but only the intention of these\nunhappy men, who made use of this outward shew of religion and piety,\nas a means to carry on their wicked designs against the prince of\nprophets.\n\n11:48. Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your\nfathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.\n\n11:49. For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them\nprophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute.\n\n11:50. That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the\nfoundation of the world may be required of this generation,\n\n11:51. From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was\nslain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be\nrequired of this generation.\n\n11:52. Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of\nknowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were\nentering in, you have hindered.\n\n11:53. And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the\nlawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many\nthings,\n\n11:54. Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his\nmouth, that they might accuse him.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 12\n\nChrist warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and\ncovetousness. He admonishes all to watch.\n\n12:1. And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one\nupon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven\nof the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.\n\n12:2. For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor\nhidden that shall not be known.\n\n12:3. For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be\npublished in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in\nthe chambers shall be preached on the housetops.\n\n12:4. And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the\nbody and after that have no more that they can do.\n\n12:5. But I will shew you whom you shall fear: Fear ye him who, after\nhe hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you: Fear\nhim.\n\n12:6. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them\nis forgotten before God?\n\n12:7. Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not\ntherefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.\n\n12:8. And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him\nshall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.\n\n12:9. But he that shall deny me before men shall be denied before the\nangels of God.\n\n12:10. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall\nbe forgiven him: but to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy\nGhost, it shall not be forgiven.\n\n12:11. And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to\nmagistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer,\nor what you shall say.\n\n12:12. For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you\nmust say.\n\n12:13. And one of the multitude said to him: Master, speak to my\nbrother that he divide the inheritance with me.\n\n12:14. But he said to him: Man, who hath appointed me judge or divider\nover you?\n\n12:15. And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness:\nfor a man\u2019s life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he\npossesseth.\n\n12:16. And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain\nrich man brought forth plenty of fruits.\n\n12:17. And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because\nI have no room where to bestow my fruits?\n\n12:18. And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will\nbuild greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to\nme and my goods.\n\n12:19. And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up\nfor many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer.\n\n12:20. But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy\nsoul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?\n\n12:21. So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich\ntowards God.\n\n12:22. And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not\nsolicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what\nyou shall put on.\n\n12:23. The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the\nraiment.\n\n12:24. Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap,\nneither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much\nare you more valuable than they?\n\n12:25. And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one\ncubit?\n\n12:26. If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are\nyou solicitous for the rest?\n\n12:27. Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do\nthey spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was\nclothed like one of these.\n\n12:28. Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in\nthe field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye\nof little faith?\n\n12:29. And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be\nnot lifted up on high.\n\n12:30. For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your\nFather knoweth that you have need of these things.\n\n12:31. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all\nthese things shall be added unto you.\n\n12:32. Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give\nyou a kingdom.\n\n12:33. Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags\nwhich grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no\nthief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.\n\n12:34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\n\n12:35. Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.\n\n12:36. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he\nshall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they\nmay open to him immediately.\n\n12:37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall\nfind watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make\nthem sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.\n\n12:38. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third\nwatch and find them so, blessed are those servants.\n\n12:39. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour\nthe thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his\nhouse to be broken open.\n\n12:40. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son\nof man will come.\n\n12:41. And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us,\nor likewise to all?\n\n12:42. And the Lord said: Who thinkest thou is the faithful and wise\nsteward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their\nmeasure of wheat in due season?\n\n12:43. Blessed is that servant whom, when his lord shall come, he shall\nfind so doing.\n\n12:44. Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he\npossesseth.\n\n12:45. But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a\ncoming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants,\nand to eat and to drink and be drunk:\n\n12:46. The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth\nnot, and at the hour that he knoweth not: and shall separate him and\nshall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.\n\n12:47. And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not\nhimself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many\nstripes.\n\n12:48. But he that knew not and did things worthy of stripes shall be\nbeaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much\nshall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they\nwill demand the more.\n\n12:49. I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that\nit be kindled?\n\n12:50. And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I\nstraitened until it be accomplished?\n\n12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no;\nbut separation.\n\n12:52. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided:\nthree against two, and two against three.\n\n12:53. The father shall be divided against the son and the son against\nhis father: the mother against the daughter and the daughter against\nher mother: the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law and the\ndaughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.\n\n12:54. And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising\nfrom the west, presently you say: A shower is coming. And so it\nhappeneth.\n\n12:55. And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be\nheat. And it cometh to pass.\n\n12:56. You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven\nand of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?\n\n12:57. And why, even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is\njust?\n\n12:58. And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst\nthou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps\nhe draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter,\nand the exacter cast thee into prison.\n\n12:59. I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the\nvery last mite.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 13\n\nThe necessity of penance. The barren fig tree. The cure of the infirm\nwoman. The journey to Jerusalem.\n\n13:1. And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of\nthe Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.\n\n13:2. And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans\nwere sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such\nthings?\n\n13:3. No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all\nlikewise perish.\n\n13:4. Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe and slew\nthem: think you that they also were debtors above all the men that\ndwelt in Jerusalem?\n\n13:5. No, I say to you: but except you do penance, you shall all\nlikewise perish.\n\n13:6. He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted\nin his vineyard: and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.\n\n13:7. And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these\nthree years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut\nit down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground?\n\n13:8. But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also,\nuntil I dig about it and dung it.\n\n13:9. And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou\nshalt cut it down.\n\n13:10. And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.\n\n13:11. And behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity\neighteen years. And she was bowed together: neither could she look\nupwards at all.\n\n13:12. Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him and said to her:\nWoman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity.\n\n13:13. And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made\nstraight and glorified God.\n\n13:14. And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed\non the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are\nwherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and\nnot on the sabbath day.\n\n13:15. And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every\none of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger\nand lead them to water?\n\n13:16. And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound,\nlo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?\n\n13:17. And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed:\nand all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously\ndone by him.\n\n13:18. He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and\nwhereunto shall I resemble it?\n\n13:19. It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast\ninto his garden: and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of\nthe air lodged in the branches thereof.\n\n13:20. And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God\nto be like?\n\n13:21. It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three\nmeasures of meal, till the whole was leavened.\n\n13:22. And he went through the cities and towns teaching and making his\njourney to Jerusalem.\n\n13:23. And a certain man said to him: Lord, are they few that are\nsaved? But he said to them:\n\n13:24. Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you,\nshall seek to enter and shall not be able.\n\nShall seek, etc.... Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking\nsufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to\nit.\n\n13:25. But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut\nthe door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door,\nsaying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know\nyou not, whence you are.\n\n13:26. Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy\npresence: and thou hast taught in our streets.\n\n13:27. And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart\nfrom me, all ye workers of iniquity.\n\n13:28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see\nAbraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of\nGod: and you yourselves thrust out.\n\n13:29. And there shall come from the east and the west and the north\nand the south: and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.\n\n13:30. And behold, they are last that shall be first: and they are\nfirst that shall be last.\n\n13:31. The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him:\nDepart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.\n\n13:32. And he said to them: Go and tell that fox: Behold, I cast out\ndevils and do cures, to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am\nconsummated.\n\n13:33. Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day\nfollowing, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of\nJerusalem.\n\n13:34. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest\nthem that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy\nchildren as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest\nnot?\n\n13:35. Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to\nyou that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say:\nBlessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 14\n\nChrist heals the dropsical man. The parable of the supper. The\nnecessity of renouncing all to follow Christ.\n\n14:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the\nchief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they\nwatched him.\n\n14:2. And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the\ndropsy.\n\n14:3. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying:\nIs it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?\n\n14:4. But they held their peace. But he taking him, healed him and sent\nhim away.\n\n14:5. And answering them, he said: Which of you shall have an ass or an\nox fall into a pit and will not immediately draw him out, on the\nsabbath day?\n\n14:6. And they could not answer him to these things.\n\n14:7. And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking\nhow they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:\n\n14:8. When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first\nplace, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:\n\n14:9. And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this\nman place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.\n\n14:10. But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place;\nthat when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up\nhigher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with\nthee.\n\n14:11. Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he\nthat humbleth himself shall be exalted.\n\n14:12. And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a\ndinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren nor thy\nkinsmen nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite\nthee again, and a recompense be made to thee.\n\n14:13. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the\nlame and the blind.\n\n14:14. And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to\nmake thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the\nresurrection of the just.\n\n14:15. When one of them that sat at table with him had heard these\nthings, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the\nkingdom of God.\n\n14:16. But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper and\ninvited many.\n\n14:17. And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them\nthat were invited, that they should come: for now all things are ready.\n\n14:18. And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to\nhim: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray\nthee, hold me excused.\n\n14:19. And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to\ntry them. I pray thee, hold me excused.\n\n14:20. And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot\ncome.\n\n14:21. And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then\nthe master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out\nquickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in hither the\npoor and the feeble and the blind and the lame.\n\n14:22. And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded;\nand yet there is room.\n\n14:23. And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and\nhedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.\n\n14:24. But I say unto you that none of those men that were invited\nshall taste of my supper.\n\n14:25. And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said\nto them:\n\n14:26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and\nwife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also,\nhe cannot be my disciple.\n\nHate not, etc.... The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our\nenemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we\nmust be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and\npart with every thing, how near or dear soever it may be to us, that\nwould keep us from following Christ.\n\n14:27. And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot\nbe my disciple.\n\n14:28. For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first\nsit down and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have\nwherewithal to finish it:\n\n14:29. Lest, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to\nfinish it, all that see it begin to mock him,\n\n14:30. Saying: This man began to build and was not able to finish.\n\n14:31. Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king,\ndoth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten\nthousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?\n\n14:32. Or else, while the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he\ndesireth conditions of peace.\n\n14:33. So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he\npossesseth cannot be my disciple.\n\n14:34. Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith\nshall it be seasoned?\n\n14:35. It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but\nshall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 15\n\nThe parables of the lost sheep and of the prodigal son.\n\n15:1. Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.\n\n15:2. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man\nreceiveth sinners and eateth with them.\n\n15:3. And he spoke to them this parable, saying:\n\n15:4. What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose\none of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go\nafter that which was lost, until he find it?\n\n15:5. And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing?\n\n15:6. And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying\nto them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost?\n\n15:7. I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one\nsinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not\npenance.\n\n15:8. Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not\nlight a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find\nit?\n\n15:9. And when she hath found it, call together her friends and\nneighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat\nwhich I had lost.\n\n15:10. So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God\nupon one sinner doing penance.\n\nBefore the angels.... By this it is plain that the spirits in heaven\nhave a concern for us below, and a joy at our repentance and\nconsequently a knowledge of it.\n\n15:11. And he said: A certain man had two sons.\n\n15:12. And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the\nportion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his\nsubstance.\n\n15:13. And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all\ntogether, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his\nsubstance, living riotously.\n\n15:14. And after he had spent all, there came a mighty famine in that\ncountry: and he began to be in want.\n\n15:15. And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country.\nAnd he sent him into his farm to feed swine.\n\n15:16. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine\ndid eat: and no man gave unto him.\n\n15:17. And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my\nfather\u2019s house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger!\n\n15:18. I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I\nhave sinned against heaven and before thee.\n\n15:19. I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy\nhired servants.\n\n15:20. And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a\ngreat way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and\nrunning to him fell upon his neck and kissed him.\n\n15:21. And the son said to him: Father: I have sinned against heaven\nand before thee I am not now worthy to be called thy son.\n\n15:22. And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the\nfirst robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on\nhis feet.\n\n15:23. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat\nand make merry:\n\n15:24. Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost\nand is found. And they began to be merry.\n\n15:25. Now his elder son was in the field and when he came and drew\nnigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.\n\n15:26. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things\nmeant.\n\n15:27. And he said to him: Thy brother is come and thy father hath\nkilled the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe.\n\n15:28. And he was angry and would not go in. His father therefore\ncoming out began to entreat him.\n\n15:29. And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years\ndo I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet\nthou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.\n\n15:30. But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his\nsubstance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.\n\n15:31. But he said to him: Son, thou art always with me; and all I have\nis thine.\n\n15:32. But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad: for this\nthy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is\nfound.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 16\n\nThe parable of the unjust steward and of the rich man and Lazarus.\n\n16:1. And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man\nwho had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had\nwasted his goods.\n\n16:2. And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of\nthee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward\nno longer.\n\n16:3. And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my\nlord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg\nI am ashamed.\n\n16:4. I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the\nstewardship, they may receive me into their houses.\n\n16:5. Therefore, calling together every one of his lord\u2019s debtors, he\nsaid to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?\n\n16:6. But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take\nthy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.\n\n16:7. Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An\nhundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write\neighty.\n\n16:8. And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had\ndone wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their\ngeneration than the children of light.\n\n16:9. And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of\niniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into\neverlasting dwellings.\n\nMammon of iniquity.... Mammon signifies riches. They are here called\nthe mammon of iniquity, because oftentimes ill gotten, ill bestowed, or\nan occasion of evil; and at the best are but worldly, and false; and\nnot the true riches of a Christian. They may receive.... By this we\nsee, that the poor servants of God, whom we have relieved by our alms,\nmay hereafter, by their intercession, bring our souls to heaven.\n\n16:10. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in\nthat which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little is\nunjust also in that which is greater.\n\n16:11. If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who\nwill trust you with that which is the true?\n\n16:12. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another\u2019s,\nwho will give you that which is your own?\n\n16:13. No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the\none and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the\nother. You cannot serve God and mammon.\n\n16:14. Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things:\nand they derided him.\n\n16:15. And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before\nmen, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an\nabomination before God.\n\n16:16. The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the\nkingdom of God is preached: and every one useth violence towards it.\n\n16:17. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of\nthe law to fall.\n\n16:18. Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another\ncommitteth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her\nhusband committeth adultery.\n\n16:19. There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine\nlinen and feasted sumptuously every day.\n\n16:20. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his\ngate, full of sores,\n\n16:21. Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich\nman\u2019s table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked\nhis sores.\n\n16:22. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the\nangels into Abraham\u2019s bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was\nburied in hell.\n\nAbraham\u2019s bosom.... The place of rest, where the souls of the saints\nresided, till Christ had opened heaven by his death.\n\n16:23. And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham\nafar off and Lazarus in his bosom:\n\n16:24. And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send\nLazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my\ntongue: for I am tormented in this flame.\n\n16:25. And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive\ngood things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now\nhe is comforted and thou art tormented.\n\n16:26. And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great\nchaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from\nthence come hither.\n\n16:27. And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send\nhim to my father\u2019s house, for I have five brethren,\n\n16:28. That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this\nplace of torments.\n\n16:29. And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let\nthem hear them.\n\n16:30. But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from\nthe dead, they will do penance.\n\n16:31. And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets,\nneither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 17\n\nLessons of avoiding scandal and of the efficacy of faith. The ten\nlepers. The manner of the coming of Christ.\n\n17:1. And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals\nshould not come. But woe to him through whom they come!\n\n17:2. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his\nneck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of\nthese little ones.\n\n17:3. Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, reprove\nhim: and if he do penance, forgive him.\n\n17:4. And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times\nin a day be converted unto thee, saying: I repent: forgive him.\n\n17:5. And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith.\n\n17:6. And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard\nseed, you might say to this mulberry tree: Be thou rooted up and be\nthou transplanted into the sea. And it would obey you.\n\n17:7. But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle,\nwill say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go. Sit\ndown to meat.\n\n17:8. And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper and gird\nthyself and serve me, whilst I eat and drink; and afterwards thou shalt\neat and drink?\n\n17:9. Doth he thank that servant for doing the things which he\ncommanded him?\n\n17:10. I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these\nthings that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we\nhave done that which we ought to do.\n\nUnprofitable servants.... Because our service is of no profit to our\nmaster; and he justly claims it as our bounden duty. But though we are\nunprofitable to him, our serving him is not unprofitable to us; for he\nis pleased to give by his grace a value to our good works, which, in\nconsequence of his promise, entitles them to an eternal reward.\n\n17:11. And it came to pass, as he was going to Jerusalem, he passed\nthrough the midst of Samaria and Galilee.\n\n17:12. And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men\nthat were lepers, who stood afar off.\n\n17:13. And lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on\nus.\n\n17:14. Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests.\nAnd it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.\n\n17:15. And one of them, when he saw that he was made clean, went back,\nwith a loud voice glorifying God.\n\n17:16. And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks. And this\nwas a Samaritan.\n\n17:17. And Jesus answering, said: Were not ten made clean? And where\nare the nine?\n\n17:18. There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this\nstranger.\n\n17:19. And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for thy faith hath made\nthee whole.\n\n17:20. And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should\ncome, he answered them and said: The kingdom of God cometh not with\nobservation.\n\n17:21. Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo,\nthe kingdom of God is within you.\n\n17:22. And he said to his disciples: The days will come when you shall\ndesire to see one day of the Son of man. And you shall not see it.\n\n17:23. And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not\nafter, nor follow them.\n\n17:24. For as the lightning that lighteneth from under heaven shineth\nunto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his\nday.\n\n17:25. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this\ngeneration.\n\n17:26. And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also\nin the days of the Son of man.\n\n17:27. They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in\nmarriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood\ncame and destroyed them all.\n\n17:28. Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and\ndrink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.\n\n17:29. And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and\nbrimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.\n\n17:30. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be\nrevealed.\n\n17:31. In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in\nthe house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be\nin the field, in like manner, let him not return back.\n\n17:32. Remember Lot\u2019s wife.\n\n17:33. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it: and\nwhosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.\n\n17:34. I say to you: In that night there shall be two men in one bed.\nThe one shall be taken and the other shall be left.\n\n17:35. Two women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken and\nthe other shall be left. Two men shall be in the field. The one shall\nbe taken and the other shall be left.\n\n17:36. They answering, say to him: Where, Lord?\n\n17:37. Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will\nthe eagles also be gathered together.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 18\n\nWe must pray always. The Pharisee and the publican. The danger of\nriches. The blind man is restored to sight.\n\n18:1. And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray\nand not to faint,\n\n18:2. Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God\nnor regarded man.\n\n18:3. And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him,\nsaying: Avenge me of my adversary.\n\nAvenge.... That is, do me justice. It is a Hebraism.\n\n18:4. And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within\nhimself: Although I fear not God nor regard man,\n\n18:5. Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her,\nlest continually coming she weary me.\n\n18:6. And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.\n\n18:7. And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night?\nAnd will he have patience in their regard?\n\n18:8. I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son\nof man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?\n\n18:9. And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised\nothers, he spoke also this parable:\n\n18:10. Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and\nthe other a publican.\n\n18:11. The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give\nthee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust,\nadulterers, as also is this publican.\n\n18:12. I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.\n\n18:13. And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift\nup his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be\nmerciful to me a sinner.\n\n18:14. I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather\nthan the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be\nhumbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.\n\n18:15. And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch\nthem. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.\n\n18:16. But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come\nto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.\n\n18:17. Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of\nGod as a child shall not enter into it.\n\n18:18. And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I\ndo to possess everlasting life?\n\n18:19. And Jesus said to him: Why dost thou call me good? None is good\nbut God alone.\n\n18:20. Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt\nnot commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false\nwitness: Honour thy father and mother.\n\n18:21. Who said: All these things have I kept from my youth.\n\n18:22. Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is\nwanting to thee. Sell all whatever thou hast and give to the poor: and\nthou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.\n\n18:23. He having heard these things, became sorrowful: for he was very\nrich.\n\n18:24. And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall\nthey that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!\n\n18:25. For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle\nthan for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.\n\n18:26. And they that heard it said: Who then can be saved?\n\n18:27. He said to them: The things that are impossible with men are\npossible with God.\n\n18:28. Then Peter said: Behold, we have left all things and have\nfollowed thee.\n\n18:29. Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath\nleft home or parents or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom\nof God\u2019s sake,\n\n18:30. Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the\nworld to come life everlasting.\n\n18:31. Then Jesus took unto him the twelve and said to them: Behold, we\ngo up to Jerusalem; and all things shall be accomplished which were\nwritten by the prophets concerning the Son of man.\n\n18:32. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked\nand scourged and spit upon.\n\n18:33. And after they have scourged him, they will put him to death.\nAnd the third day he shall rise again.\n\n18:34. And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid\nfrom them: and they understood not the things that were said.\n\n18:35. Now it came to pass, when he drew nigh to Jericho, that a\ncertain blind man sat by the way side, begging.\n\n18:36. And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this\nmeant.\n\n18:37. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.\n\n18:38. And he cried out, saying: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.\n\n18:39. And they that went before rebuked him, that he should hold his\npeace: but he cried out much more: Son of David, have mercy on me.\n\n18:40. And Jesus standing, commanded him to be brought unto him. And\nwhen he was come near, he asked him,\n\n18:41. Saying; What wilt thou that I do to thee? But he said: Lord,\nthat I may see.\n\n18:42. And Jesus said to him: Receive thy sight: thy faith hath made\nthee whole.\n\n18:43. And immediately he saw and followed him, glorifying God. And all\nthe people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 19\n\nZacheus entertains Christ. The parable of the pounds. Christ rides upon\nan ass and weeps over Jerusalem.\n\n19:1. And entering he walked through Jericho.\n\n19:2. And behold, there was a man named Zacheus, who was the chief of\nthe publicans: and he was rich.\n\n19:3. And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the\ncrowd, because he was low of stature.\n\n19:4. And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he\nmight see him: for he was to pass that way.\n\n19:5. And when Jesus was come to the place, looking up, he saw him and\nsaid to him: Zacheus, make haste and come down: for this day I must\nabide in thy house.\n\n19:6. And he made haste and came down and received him with joy.\n\n19:7. And when all saw it, they murmured, saying, that he was gone to\nbe a guest with a man that was a sinner.\n\n19:8. But Zacheus standing, said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of\nmy goods I give to the poor; and if I have wronged any man of any\nthing, I restore him fourfold.\n\n19:9. Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house,\nbecause he also is a son of Abraham.\n\n19:10. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was\nlost.\n\n19:11. As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable,\nbecause he was nigh to Jerusalem and because they thought that the\nkingdom of God should immediately be manifested.\n\n19:12. He said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country,\nto receive for himself a kingdom and to return.\n\n19:13. And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said\nto them: Trade till I come.\n\nHe gave them ten pounds.... In the original, what is here translated a\npound, is in Latin, mina, in value of our coin, three pounds two\nshillings and sixpence.\n\n19:14. But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him,\nsaying: We will not have this man to reign over us.\n\n19:15. And it came to pass that he returned, having received the\nkingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had\ngiven the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by\ntrading,\n\n19:16. And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten\npounds.\n\n19:17. And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou\nhast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities.\n\n19:18. And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five\npounds.\n\n19:19. And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities.\n\n19:20. And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which\nI have kept laid up in a napkin.\n\n19:21. For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest\nup what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst\nnot sow.\n\n19:22. He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked\nservant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid\nnot down and reaping that which I did not sow.\n\n19:23. And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at\nmy coming I might have exacted it with usury?\n\n19:24. And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him\nand give it to him that hath ten pounds.\n\n19:25. And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds.\n\n19:26. But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and\nhe shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath\nshall be taken from him.\n\n19:27. But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over\nthem, bring them hither and kill them before me.\n\n19:28. And having said these things, he went before, going up to\nJerusalem.\n\n19:29. And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and\nBethania, unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,\n\n19:30. Saying: Go into the town which is over against you, at your\nentering into which you shall find the colt of an ass tied, on which no\nman ever hath sitten: loose him and bring him hither.\n\n19:31. And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? You shall\nsay thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service.\n\n19:32. And they that were sent went their way and found the colt\nstanding, as he had said unto them.\n\n19:33. And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said to\nthem: Why loose you the colt?\n\n19:34. But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him.\n\n19:35. And they brought him to Jesus. And casting their garments on the\ncolt, they set Jesus thereon.\n\n19:36. And as he went, they spread their clothes underneath in the way.\n\n19:37. And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet, the\nwhole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a\nloud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen,\n\n19:38. Saying: Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord!\nPeace in heaven and glory on high!\n\n19:39. And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to\nhim: Master, rebuke thy disciples.\n\n19:40. To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their\npeace, the stones will cry out.\n\n19:41. And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:\n\n19:42. If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things\nthat are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.\n\n19:43. For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a\ntrench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every\nside,\n\n19:44. And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in\nthee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because\nthou hast not known the time of thy visitation.\n\n19:45. And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that\nsold therein and them that bought.\n\n19:46. Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer.\nBut you have made it a den of thieves.\n\n19:47. And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests\nand the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.\n\n19:48. And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were\nvery attentive to hear him.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 20\n\nThe parable of the husbandmen. Of paying tribute to Caesar and of the\nresurrection of the dead.\n\n20:1. And it came to pass that on one of the days, as he was teaching\nthe people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests\nand the scribes, with the ancients, met together,\n\n20:2. And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what authority dost thou\nthese things? Or, who is he that hath given thee this authority?\n\n20:3. And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one thing.\nAnswer me:\n\n20:4. The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?\n\n20:5. But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From\nheaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe in him?\n\n20:6. But if we say, of men: the whole people will stone us. For they\nare persuaded that John was a prophet.\n\n20:7. And they answered that they knew not whence it was.\n\n20:8. And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I\ndo these things.\n\n20:9. And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man\nplanted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for\na long time.\n\n20:10. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they\nshould give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent\nhim away empty.\n\n20:11. And again he sent another servant. But they beat him also and,\ntreating him reproachfully, sent him away empty.\n\n20:12. And again he sent the third: and they wounded him also and cast\nhim out.\n\n20:13. Then the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send\nmy beloved son. It may be, when they see him, they will reverence him.\n\n20:14. Whom, when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves,\nsaying: This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be\nours.\n\n20:15. So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What\ntherefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?\n\n20:16. He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the\nvineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.\n\n20:17. But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written,\nThe stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of\nthe corner?\n\n20:18. Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised: and upon\nwhomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.\n\n20:19. And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him\nthe same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke\nthis parable to them.\n\n20:20. And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign\nthemselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that\nthey might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor.\n\n20:21. And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest\nand teachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but\nteachest the way of God in truth.\n\n20:22. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no?\n\n20:23. But he, considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me?\n\n20:24. Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They\nanswering, said to him: Caesar\u2019s.\n\n20:25. And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things, that\nare Caesar\u2019s: and to God the things that are God\u2019s.\n\n20:26. And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and\nwondering at his answer, they held their peace.\n\n20:27. And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there\nis any resurrection: and they asked him,\n\n20:28. Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us: If any man\u2019s brother die,\nhaving a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take\nher to wife and raise up seed unto his brother.\n\n20:29. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife\nand died without children.\n\n20:30. And the next took her to wife: and he also died childless.\n\n20:31. And the third took her. And in like manner, all the seven: and\nthey left no children and died.\n\n20:32. Last of all the woman died also.\n\n20:33. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be?\nFor all the seven had her to wife.\n\n20:34. And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry and are\ngiven in marriage:\n\n20:35. But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the\nresurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives.\n\n20:36. Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels\nand are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.\n\n20:37. Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed at the bush,\nwhen he called the Lord: The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and\nthe God of Jacob.\n\n20:38. For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all\nlive to him.\n\n20:39. And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou\nhast said well.\n\n20:40. And after that they durst not ask him any more questions.\n\n20:41. But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of\nDavid?\n\n20:42. And David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to\nmy Lord, sit thou on my right hand,\n\n20:43. Till I make thy enemies thy footstool.\n\n20:44. David then calleth him Lord. And how is he his son?\n\n20:45. And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples:\n\n20:46. Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love\nsalutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues\nand the chief rooms at feasts:\n\n20:47. Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These\nshall receive greater damnation.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 21\n\nThe widow\u2019s mites. The signs that should forerun the destruction of\nJerusalem and the end of the world.\n\n21:1. And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the\ntreasury.\n\n21:2. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites.\n\n21:3. And he said: Verily, I say to you that this poor widow hath cast\nin more than they all.\n\n21:4. For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of\nGod: but she of her want hath cast in all the living that she had.\n\n21:5. And some saying of the temple that it was adorned with goodly\nstones and gifts, he said:\n\n21:6. These things which you see, the days will come in which there\nshall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down.\n\n21:7. And they asked him, saying: Master, when shall these things be?\nAnd what shall be the sign when they shall begin to come to pass?\n\n21:8. Who said: Take heed you be not seduced: for many will come in my\nname, saying: I am he and the time is at hand. Go ye not therefore\nafter them.\n\n21:9. And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified.\nThese things must first come to pass: but the end is not yet presently.\n\n21:10. Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and\nkingdom against kingdom.\n\n21:11. And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places and\npestilences and famines and terrors from heaven: and there shall be\ngreat signs.\n\n21:12. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you\nand persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into\nprisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name\u2019s sake.\n\n21:13. And it shall happen unto you for a testimony.\n\n21:14. Lay it up therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before how\nyou shall answer:\n\n21:15. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your\nadversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.\n\n21:16. And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren and\nkinsmen and friends: and some of you they will put to death.\n\n21:17. And you shall be hated by all men for my name\u2019s sake.\n\n21:18. But a hair of your head shall not perish.\n\n21:19. In your patience you shall possess your souls.\n\n21:20. And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army,\nthen know that the desolation thereof is at hand.\n\n21:21. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains: and those\nwho are in the midst thereof depart out: and those who are in the\ncountries not enter into it.\n\n21:22. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things may be\nfulfilled, that are written.\n\n21:23. But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days:\nfor there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this\npeople.\n\n21:24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led\naway captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by\nthe Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled.\n\n21:25. And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the\nstars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the\nconfusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves:\n\n21:26. Men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come\nupon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved.\n\n21:27. And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with\ngreat power and majesty.\n\n21:28. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up\nyour heads, because your redemption is at hand.\n\n21:29. And he spoke to them a similitude. See the fig tree and all the\ntrees:\n\n21:30. When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is\nnigh;\n\n21:31. So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know\nthat the kingdom of God is at hand.\n\n21:32. Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away till all\nthings be fulfilled.\n\n21:33. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass\naway.\n\n21:34. And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be\novercharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life:\nand that day come upon you suddenly.\n\n21:35. For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of\nthe whole earth.\n\n21:36. Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be\naccounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to\nstand before the Son of man.\n\n21:37. And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night\ngoing out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet.\n\n21:38. And all the people came early in the morning to him in the\ntemple, to hear him.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 22\n\nThe treason of Judas. The last supper. The first part of the history of\nthe passion.\n\n22:1. Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was\nat hand.\n\n22:2. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put\nJesus to death: but they feared the people.\n\n22:3. And Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, one of\nthe twelve.\n\n22:4. And he went and discoursed with the chief priests and the\nmagistrates, how he might betray him to them.\n\n22:5. And they were glad and covenanted to give him money.\n\n22:6. And he promised. And he sought opportunity to betray him in the\nabsence of the multitude.\n\n22:7. And the day of the unleavened bread came, on which it was\nnecessary that the pasch should be killed.\n\n22:8. And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go, and prepare for us the\npasch, that we may eat.\n\n22:9. But they said: Where wilt thou that we prepare?\n\n22:10. And he said to them: Behold, as you go into the city, there\nshall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water: follow him into the\nhouse where he entereth in.\n\n22:11. And you shall say to the goodman of the house: The master saith\nto thee: Where is the guest chamber, where I may eat the pasch with my\ndisciples?\n\n22:12. And he will shew you a large dining room, furnished. And there\nprepare.\n\n22:13. And they going, found as he had said to them and made ready the\npasch.\n\n22:14. And when the hour was come, he sat down: and the twelve apostles\nwith him.\n\n22:15. And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this\npasch with you, before I suffer.\n\n22:16. For I say to you that from this time I will not eat it, till it\nbe fulfilled in the kingdom of God.\n\n22:17. And having taken the chalice, he gave thanks and said: Take and\ndivide it among you.\n\n22:18. For I say to you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,\ntill the kingdom of God come.\n\n22:19. And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them,\nsaying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a\ncommemoration of me.\n\nDo this for a commemoration of me.... This sacrifice and sacrament is\nto be continued in the church, to the end of the world, to shew forth\nthe death of Christ, until he cometh. But this commemoration, or\nremembrance, is by no means inconsistent with the real presence of his\nbody and blood, under these sacramental veils, which represent his\ndeath; on the contrary, it is the manner that he himself hath\ncommanded, of commemorating and celebrating his death, by offering in\nsacrifice, and receiving in the sacrament, that body and blood by which\nwe were redeemed.\n\n22:20. In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying:\nThis is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed\nfor you.\n\n22:21. But yet behold: the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on\nthe table.\n\n22:22. And the Son of man indeed goeth, according to that which is\ndetermined: but yet, woe to that man by whom he shall be betrayed.\n\n22:23. And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was\nthat should do this thing.\n\n22:24. And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should\nseem to be the greater.\n\n22:25. And he said to them: The kings of the Gentiles lord it over\nthem; and they that have power over them are called beneficent.\n\n22:26. But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him\nbecome as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth.\n\n22:27. For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that\nserveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you,\nas he that serveth.\n\n22:28. And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations:\n\n22:29. And I dispose to you, as my Father hath disposed to me, a\nkingdom;\n\n22:30. That you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom: and may\nsit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.\n\n22:31. And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to\nhave you, that he may sift you as wheat.\n\n22:32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou,\nbeing once converted, confirm thy brethren.\n\n22:33. Who said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into\nprison and to death.\n\n22:34. And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this\nday, till thou thrice deniest that thou knowest me. And he said to\nthem:\n\n22:35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want\nanything?\n\n22:36. But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that\nhath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath\nnot, let him sell his coat and buy a sword.\n\n22:37. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled\nin me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning\nme have an end.\n\n22:38. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to\nthem: It is enough.\n\n22:39. And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the Mount of\nOlives. And his disciples also followed him.\n\n22:40. And when he was come to the place, he said to them: Pray, lest\nye enter into temptation.\n\n22:41. And he was withdrawn away from them a stone\u2019s cast. And kneeling\ndown, he prayed.\n\n22:42. Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me: but\nyet not my will, but thine be done.\n\n22:43. And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening\nhim. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer.\n\n22:44. And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the\nground.\n\n22:45. And when he rose up from prayer and was come to the disciples,\nhe found them sleeping for sorrow.\n\n22:46. And he said to them: Why sleep you? Arise: pray: lest you enter\ninto temptation.\n\n22:47. As he was yet speaking, behold a multitude; and he that was\ncalled Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to\nJesus, for to kiss him.\n\n22:48. And Jesus said to him: Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man\nwith a kiss?\n\n22:49. And they that were about him, seeing what would follow, said to\nhim: Lord, shall we strike with the sword?\n\n22:50. And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut\noff his right ear.\n\n22:51. But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when he had\ntouched his ear, he healed him.\n\n22:52. And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the\ntemple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as\nit were against a thief, with swords and clubs?\n\n22:53. When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch\nforth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of\ndarkness.\n\n22:54. And apprehending him, they led him to the high priest\u2019s house.\nBut Peter followed afar off.\n\n22:55. And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and\nwere sitting about it, Peter was in the midst of them.\n\n22:56. Whom when a certain servant maid had seen sitting at the light\nand had earnestly beheld him, she said: This man also was with him.\n\n22:57. But he denied him, saying: Woman, I know him not.\n\n22:58. And after a little while, another seeing him, said: Thou also\nart one of them. But Peter said: O man, I am not.\n\nAnother, etc.... Observe here, in order to reconcile the four\nEvangelists, that divers persons concurred in charging Peter with being\nChrist\u2019s disciple; till at length they brought him to deny him thrice.\n1. The porteress that let him in, and afterwards seeing him at the\nfire, first put the question to him; and then positively affirmed that\nhe was with Christ. 2. Another maid accused him to the standers by; and\ngave occasion to the man here mentioned to renew the charge against\nhim, which caused the second denial. 3. Others of the company took\nnotice of his being a Galilean; and were seconded by the kinsman of\nMalchus, who affirmed he had seen him in the garden. And this drew on\nthe third denial.\n\n22:59. And after the space, as it were of one hour, another certain man\naffirmed, saying: Of a truth, this man was also with him: for he is\nalso a Galilean.\n\n22:60. And Peter said: Man, I know not what thou sayest. And\nimmediately, as he was yet speaking, the cock crew.\n\n22:61. And the Lord turning looked on Peter. And Peter remembered the\nword of the Lord, as he had said: Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny\nme thrice.\n\n22:62. And Peter going out, wept bitterly.\n\n22:63. And the men that held him mocked him and struck him.\n\n22:64. And they blindfolded him and smote his face. And they asked him\nsaying: Prophesy: Who is it that struck thee?\n\n22:65. And blaspheming, many other things they said against him.\n\n22:66. And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people and the\nchief priests and scribes came together. And they brought him into\ntheir council saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us.\n\n22:67. And he saith to them: If I shall tell you, you will not believe\nme.\n\n22:68. And if I shall also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me\ngo.\n\n22:69. But hereafter the Son of man shall be sitting on the right hand\nof the power of God.\n\n22:70. Then said they all: Art thou then the Son of God? Who said: You\nsay that I am.\n\n22:71. And they said: What need we any further testimony? For we\nourselves have heard it from his own mouth.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 23\n\nThe continuation of the history of the passion.\n\n23:1. And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate.\n\n23:2. And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man\nperverting our nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar and\nsaying that he is Christ the king.\n\n23:3. And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? But\nhe answering, said: Thou sayest it.\n\n23:4. And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I\nfind no cause in this man.\n\n23:5. But they were more earnest, saying: He stirreth up the people,\nteaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.\n\n23:6. But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if the man were of Galilee?\n\n23:7. And when he understood that he was of Herod\u2019s jurisdiction, he\nsent him away to Herod, who was also himself at Jerusalem in those\ndays.\n\n23:8. And Herod seeing Jesus, was very glad: for he was desirous of a\nlong time to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he\nhoped to see some sign wrought by him.\n\n23:9. And he questioned him in many words. But he answered him nothing.\n\n23:10. And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly\naccusing him.\n\n23:11. And Herod with his army set him at nought and mocked him,\nputting on him a white garment: and sent him back to Pilate.\n\n23:12. And Herod and Pilate were made friends, that same day: for\nbefore they were enemies one to another.\n\n23:13. And Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the\nmagistrates and the people,\n\n23:14. Said to them: You have presented unto me this man as one that\nperverteth the people. And behold I, having examined him before you,\nfind no cause in this man, in those things wherein you accuse him.\n\n23:15. No, nor Herod neither. For, I sent you to him: and behold,\nnothing worthy of death is done to him.\n\n23:16. I will chastise him therefore and release him.\n\n23:17. Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast\nday.\n\n23:18. But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with\nthis man, and release unto us Barabbas:\n\n23:19. Who, for a certain sedition made in the city and for a murder,\nwas cast into prison.\n\n23:20. And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus.\n\n23:21. But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him.\n\n23:22. And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man\ndone? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore\nand let him go.\n\n23:23. But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might\nbe crucified. And their voices prevailed.\n\n23:24. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.\n\n23:25. And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition had\nbeen cast into prison, whom they had desired. But Jesus he delivered up\nto their will.\n\n23:26. And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene,\ncoming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after\nJesus.\n\n23:27. And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women,\nwho bewailed and lamented him.\n\n23:28. But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep\nnot over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children.\n\n23:29. For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed\nare the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have\nnot given suck.\n\n23:30. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And\nto the hills: Cover us.\n\n23:31. For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be\ndone in the dry?\n\n23:32. And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put\nto death.\n\n23:33. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary,\nthey crucified him there: and the robbers, one on the right hand, and\nthe other on the left.\n\n23:34. And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what\nthey do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.\n\n23:35. And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided\nhim, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ,\nthe elect of God.\n\n23:36. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him\nvinegar,\n\n23:37. And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.\n\n23:38. And there was also a superscription written over him in letters\nof Greek and Latin and Hebrew THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.\n\n23:39. And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying:\nIf thou be Christ, save thyself and us.\n\n23:40. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou\nfear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation?\n\n23:41. And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our\ndeeds. But this man hath done no evil.\n\n23:42. And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come\ninto thy kingdom.\n\n23:43. And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee: This day thou shalt\nbe with me in paradise.\n\nIn paradise.... That is, in the happy state of rest, joy, and peace\neverlasting. Christ was pleased, by a special privilege, to reward the\nfaith and confession of the penitent thief, with a full discharge of\nall his sins, both as to the guilt and punishment; and to introduce him\nimmediately after death into the happy society of the saints, whose\nlimbo, that is, the place of their confinement, was now made a paradise\nby our Lord\u2019s going thither.\n\n23:44. And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over\nall the earth until the ninth hour.\n\n23:45. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in\nthe midst.\n\n23:46. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands\nI commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.\n\n23:47. Now, the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying:\nIndeed this was a just man.\n\n23:48. And all the multitude of them that were come together to that\nsight and saw the things that were done returned, striking their\nbreasts.\n\n23:49. And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him\nfrom Galilee stood afar off, beholding these things.\n\n23:50. And behold there was a man named Joseph who was a counsellor, a\ngood and a just man,\n\n23:51. (The same had not consented to their counsel and doings) of\nArimathea, a city of Judea: who also himself looked for the kingdom of\nGod.\n\n23:52. This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.\n\n23:53. And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him\nin a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had\nbeen laid.\n\n23:54. And it was the day of the Parasceve: and the sabbath drew on.\n\nParasceve.... That is, the eve, or day of preparation for the sabbath.\n\n23:55. And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following\nafter, saw the sepulchre and how his body was laid.\n\n23:56. And returning, they prepared spices and ointments: and on the\nsabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.\n\n\nLuke Chapter 24\n\nChrist\u2019s resurrection and manifestation of himself to his disciples.\n\n24:1. And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they\ncame to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.\n\n24:2. And they found the stone rolled back from the sepulchre.\n\n24:3. And going in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.\n\n24:4. And it came to pass, as they were astonished in their mind at\nthis, behold, two men stood by them, in shining apparel.\n\n24:5. And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards\nthe ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead?\n\n24:6. He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke unto you,\nwhen he was yet in Galilee,\n\n24:7. Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful\nmen and be crucified and the third day rise again.\n\n24:8. And they remembered his words.\n\n24:9. And going back from the sepulchre, they told all these things to\nthe eleven and to all the rest.\n\n24:10. And it was Mary Magdalen and Joanna and Mary of James and the\nother women that were with them, who told these things to the apostles.\n\n24:11. And these words seemed to them as idle tales: and they did not\nbelieve them.\n\n24:12. But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre and, stooping down, he\nsaw the linen cloths laid by themselves: and went away wondering in\nhimself at that which was come to pass.\n\n24:13. And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was\nsixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.\n\n24:14. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.\n\n24:15. And it came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with\nthemselves, Jesus himself also, drawing near, went with them.\n\n24:16. But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.\n\n24:17. And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one\nwith another as you walk and are sad?\n\n24:18. And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to\nhim: Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the\nthings that have been done there in these days?\n\n24:19. To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of\nNazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all\nthe people.\n\n24:20. And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be\ncondemned to death and crucified him.\n\n24:21. But we hoped that it was he that should have redeemed Israel.\nAnd now besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things\nwere done.\n\n24:22. Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us who,\nbefore it was light, were at the sepulchre,\n\n24:23. And not finding his body, came, saying that they had also seen a\nvision of angels, who say that he is alive.\n\n24:24. And some of our people went to the sepulchre and found it so as\nthe women had said: but him they found not.\n\n24:25. Then he said to them: O foolish and slow of heart to believe in\nall things, Which the prophets have spoken.\n\n24:26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so, to enter\ninto his glory?\n\n24:27. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to\nthem in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.\n\n24:28. And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he\nmade as though he would go farther.\n\n24:29. But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is\ntowards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.\n\n24:30. And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took\nbread and blessed and brake and gave to them.\n\n24:31. And their eyes were opened: and they knew him. And he vanished\nout of their sight.\n\n24:32. And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within\nus, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?\n\n24:33. And rising up, the same hour, they went back to Jerusalem: and\nthey found the eleven gathered together, and those that were with them,\n\n24:34. Saying: The Lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon.\n\n24:35. And they told what things were done in the way: and how they\nknew him in the breaking of bread.\n\n24:36. Now, whilst they were speaking these things, Jesus stood in the\nmidst of them and saith to them: Peace be to you. It is I: Fear not.\n\n24:37. But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a\nspirit.\n\n24:38. And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts\narise in your hearts?\n\n24:39. See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Handle, and see: for\na spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me to have.\n\n24:40. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet.\n\n24:41. But while they yet believed not and wondered for joy, he said:\nHave you here any thing to eat?\n\n24:42. And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish and a honeycomb.\n\n24:43. And when he had eaten before them, taking the remains, he gave\nto them.\n\n24:44. And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you\nwhile I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which\nare written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms,\nconcerning me.\n\n24:45. Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand\nthe scriptures.\n\n24:46. And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved\nChrist to suffer and to rise again from the dead, the third day:\n\n24:47. And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his\nname, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.\n\n24:48. And you are witnesses of these things.\n\n24:49. And I send the promise of my Father upon you: but stay you in\nthe city till you be endued with power from on high.\n\nThe promise of my Father.... that is, the Holy Ghost, whom Christ had\npromised that his Father and he would send, John 14. 26, and 17. 7.\n\n24:50. And he led them out as far as Bethania: and lifting up his\nhands, he blessed them.\n\n24:51. And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from\nthem and was carried up to heaven.\n\n24:52. And they adoring went back into Jerusalem with great joy.\n\n24:53. And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God.\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN\n\n\nSt. John the Apostle and Evangelist was the son of Zebedee and Salome,\nbrother to James the Greater. He was called the Beloved disciple of\nChrist and stood by at his Crucifixion. He wrote the Gospel after the\nother Evangelists, about sixty-three years after our Lord\u2019s Ascension.\nMany things that they had omitted were supplied by him. The original\nwas written in Greek; and by the Greeks he is titled: The Divine. St.\nJerome relates that, when he was earnestly requested by the brethren to\nwrite the Gospel, he answered he would do it, if by ordering a common\nfast, they would all put up their prayers together to the Almighty God;\nwhich being ended replenished with the clearest and fullest revelation\ncoming from Heaven, he burst forth into that preface: IN THE BEGINNING\nWAS THE WORD.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 1\n\nThe divinity and incarnation of Christ. John bears witness of him. He\nbegins to call his disciples.\n\n1:1. In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the\nWord was God.\n\n1:2. The same was in the beginning with God.\n\n1:3. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that\nwas made.\n\n1:4. In him was life: and the life was the light of men.\n\n1:5. And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not\ncomprehend it.\n\n1:6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.\n\n1:7. This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that\nall men might believe through him.\n\n1:8. He was not the light, but was to give testimony of the light.\n\n1:9. That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh\ninto this world.\n\n1:10. He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world\nknew him not.\n\n1:11. He came unto his own: and his own received him not.\n\n1:12. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the\nsons of God, to them that believe in his name.\n\n1:13. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of\nthe will of man, but of God.\n\n1:14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his\nglory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full\nof grace and truth.\n\n1:15. John beareth witness of him and crieth out, saying: This was he\nof whom I spoke: He that shall come after me is preferred before me:\nbecause he was before me.\n\n1:16. And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.\n\n1:17. For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus\nChrist.\n\n1:18. No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in\nthe Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.\n\n1:19. And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from\nJerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?\n\n1:20. And he confessed and did not deny: and he confessed: I am not the\nChrist.\n\n1:21. And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am\nnot. Art thou the prophet? And he answered: No.\n\n1:22. They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an\nanswer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?\n\n1:23. He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make\nstraight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.\n\n1:24. And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.\n\n1:25. And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize,\nif thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?\n\n1:26. John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath\nstood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.\n\n1:27. The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before\nme: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.\n\n1:28. These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John\nwas baptizing.\n\n1:29. The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold\nthe Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.\n\n1:30. This is he of whom I said: After me there cometh a man, who is\npreferred before me: because he was before me.\n\n1:31. And I knew him not: but that he may be made manifest in Israel,\ntherefore am I come baptizing with water.\n\n1:32. And John gave testimony, saying: I saw the Spirit coming down, as\na dove from heaven; and he remained upon him.\n\n1:33. And I knew him not: but he who sent me to baptize with water said\nto me: He upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining\nupon him, he it is that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.\n\n1:34. And I saw: and I gave testimony that this is the Son of God.\n\n1:35. The next day again John stood and two of his disciples.\n\n1:36. And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Behold the Lamb of God.\n\n1:37. And the two disciples heard him speak: and they followed Jesus.\n\n1:38. And Jesus turning and seeing them following him, saith to them:\nWhat seek you? Who said to him: Rabbi (which is to say, being\ninterpreted, Master), where dwellest thou?\n\n1:39. He saith to them: Come and see. They came and saw where he abode:\nand they stayed with him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour.\n\n1:40. And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who\nhad heard of John and followed him.\n\n1:41. He findeth first his brother Simon and saith to him: We have\nfound the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.\n\n1:42. And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said:\nThou art Simon the son of Jona. Thou shalt be called Cephas, which is\ninterpreted Peter.\n\n1:43. On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee: and he\nfindeth Philip, And Jesus saith to him: follow me.\n\n1:44. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.\n\n1:45. Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of\nwhom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of\nJoseph of Nazareth.\n\n1:46. And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from\nNazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.\n\n1:47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an\nIsraelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.\n\n1:48. Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered\nand said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under\nthe fig tree, I saw thee.\n\n1:49. Nathanael answered him and said: Rabbi: Thou art the Son of God.\nThou art the King of Israel.\n\n1:50. Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw\nthee under the fig tree, thou believest: greater things than these\nshalt thou see.\n\n1:51. And he saith to him: Amen, amen, I say to you, you shall see the\nheaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the\nSon of man.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 2\n\nChrist changes water into wine. He casts the sellers out of the temple.\n\n2:1. And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and\nthe mother of Jesus was there.\n\n2:2. And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.\n\n2:3. And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have\nno wine.\n\n2:4. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My\nhour is not yet come.\n\nWhat is that to me, etc.... These words of our Saviour, spoken to his\nmother, have been understood by some commentators as harsh, they not\nconsidering the next following verse: Whatsoever he shall say to you,\ndo ye, which plainly shows that his mother knew of the miracle that he\nwas to perform, and that it was at her request he wrought it; besides\nthe manner of speaking the words as to the tone, and the countenance\nshown at the same time, which could only be known to those who were\npresent, or from what had followed: for words indicating anger in one\ntone of voice, would be understood quite the reverse in another.\n\n2:5. His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you,\ndo ye.\n\n2:6. Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the\nmanner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures\napiece.\n\n2:7. Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they\nfilled them up to the brim.\n\n2:8. And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief\nsteward of the feast. And they carried it.\n\n2:9. And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine and knew\nnot whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water: the\nchief steward calleth the bridegroom,\n\n2:10. And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and\nwhen men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept\nthe good wine until now.\n\n2:11. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and\nmanifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.\n\n2:12. After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his\nbrethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days.\n\n2:13. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to\nJerusalem.\n\n2:14. And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and\ndoves, and the changers of money sitting.\n\n2:15. And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he\ndrove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the\nmoney of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.\n\n2:16. And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and\nmake not the house of my Father a house of traffic.\n\n2:17. And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of\nthy house hath eaten me up.\n\n2:18. The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost\nthou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?\n\n2:19. Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in\nthree days I will raise it up.\n\n2:20. The Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in\nbuilding; and wilt thou raise it up in three days?\n\n2:21. But he spoke of the temple of his body.\n\n2:22. When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples\nremembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and\nthe word that Jesus had said.\n\n2:23. Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon the festival\nday, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he did.\n\n2:24. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all\nmen,\n\n2:25. And because he needed not that any should give testimony of man:\nfor he knew what was in man.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 3\n\nChrist\u2019s discourse with Nicodemus. John\u2019s testimony.\n\n3:1. And there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of\nthe Jews.\n\n3:2. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him: Rabbi, we know\nthat thou art come a teacher from God; for no man can do these signs\nwhich thou dost, unless God be with him.\n\n3:3. Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless\na man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\n\n3:4. Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can\nhe enter a second time into his mother\u2019s womb and be born again?\n\n3:5. Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born\nagain of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of\nGod.\n\nUnless a man be born again, etc.... By these words our Saviour hath\ndeclared the necessity of baptism; and by the word water it is evident\nthat the application of it is necessary with the words. Matt. 28. 19.\n\n3:6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born\nof the Spirit is spirit.\n\n3:7. Wonder not that I said to thee: You must be born again.\n\n3:8. The Spirit breatheth where he will and thou hearest his voice: but\nthou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every one\nthat is born of the Spirit.\n\n3:9. Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be done?\n\n3:10. Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou a master in Israel, and\nknowest not these things?\n\n3:11. Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we\ntestify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony.\n\n3:12. If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not: how\nwill you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things?\n\n3:13. And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from\nheaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.\n\n3:14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son\nof man be lifted up:\n\n3:15. That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life\neverlasting.\n\n3:16. For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son:\nthat whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life\neverlasting.\n\n3:17. For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but\nthat the world may be saved by him.\n\n3:18. He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not\nbelieve is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the\nonly begotten Son of God.\n\nIs not judged.... He that believeth, viz., by a faith working through\ncharity, is not judged, that is, is not condemned; but the obstinate\nunbeliever is judged, that is, condemned already, by retrenching\nhimself from the society of Christ and his church.\n\n3:19. And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the\nworld and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works\nwere evil.\n\nThe judgment.... That is, the cause of his comdemnation.\n\n3:20. For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to\nthe light, that his works may not be reproved.\n\n3:21. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be\nmade manifest: because they are done in God.\n\nHe that doth truth.... that is, he that acteth according to truth,\nwhich here signifies the Law of God. Thy law is truth. Psa. 118. 142.\n\n3:22. After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of\nJudea: and there he abode with them and baptized.\n\n3:23. And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there\nwas much water there. And they came and were baptized.\n\n3:24. For John was not yet cast into prison.\n\n3:25. And there arose a question between some of John\u2019s disciples and\nthe Jews, concerning purification.\n\n3:26. And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with\nthee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony: behold, he\nbaptizeth and all men come to him.\n\n3:27. John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it\nbe given him from heaven.\n\n3:28. You yourselves do bear me witness that I said, I am not Christ,\nbut that I am sent before him.\n\n3:29. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the\nbridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of\nthe bridegroom\u2019s voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.\n\n3:30. He must increase: but I must decrease.\n\n3:31. He that cometh from above is above all. He that is of the earth,\nof the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from\nheaven is above all.\n\n3:32. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man\nreceiveth his testimony.\n\n3:33. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God\nis true.\n\n3:34. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth\nnot give the Spirit by measure.\n\n3:35. The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his\nhand.\n\n3:36. He that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he that\nbelieveth not the Son shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth\non him.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 4\n\nChrist talks with the Samaritan woman. He heals the ruler\u2019s son.\n\n4:1. When Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees had heard that\nJesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John,\n\n4:2. (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),\n\n4:3. He left Judea and went again into Galilee.\n\n4:4. And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.\n\n4:5. He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar,\nnear the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.\n\n4:6. Now Jacob\u2019s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with\nhis journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.\n\n4:7. There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to\nher: Give me to drink.\n\n4:8. For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.\n\n4:9. Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a\nJew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not\ncommunicate with the Samaritans.\n\n4:10. Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of\nGod and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps\nwouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.\n\n4:11. The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw,\nand the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?\n\n4:12. Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and\ndrank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?\n\n4:13. Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water\nshall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will\ngive him shall not thirst for ever.\n\n4:14. But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain\nof water, springing up into life everlasting.\n\n4:15. The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not\nthirst, nor come hither to draw.\n\n4:16. Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.\n\n4:17. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to\nher: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.\n\n4:18. For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not\nthy husband. This, thou hast said truly.\n\n4:19. The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.\n\n4:20. Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at\nJerusalem is the place where men must adore.\n\nThis mountain.... Garizim, where the Samaritans had their schismatical\ntemple.\n\n4:21. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when\nyou shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.\n\n4:22. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know.\nFor salvation is of the Jews.\n\n4:23. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore\nthe Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to\nadore him.\n\n4:24. God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit\nand in truth.\n\n4:25. The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is\ncalled Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.\n\n4:26. Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.\n\n4:27. And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he\ntalked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why\ntalkest thou with her?\n\n4:28. The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the\ncity and saith to the men there:\n\n4:29. Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have\ndone. Is not he the Christ?\n\n4:30. They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.\n\n4:31. In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.\n\n4:32. But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.\n\n4:33. The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought\nhim to eat?\n\n4:34. Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent\nme, that I may perfect his work.\n\n4:35. Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest\ncometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries.\nFor they are white already to harvest.\n\n4:36. And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life\neverlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice\ntogether.\n\n4:37. For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth,\nand it is another that reapeth.\n\n4:38. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others\nhave laboured: and you have entered into their labours.\n\n4:39. Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the\nword of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I\nhave done.\n\n4:40. So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he\nwould tarry there. And he abode there two days.\n\n4:41. And many more believed in him, because of his own word.\n\n4:42. And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying:\nfor we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the\nSaviour of the world.\n\n4:43. Now after two days, he departed thence and went into Galilee.\n\n4:44. For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in\nhis own country.\n\n4:45. And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him,\nhaving seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival\nday: for they also went to the festival day.\n\n4:46. He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the\nwater wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at\nCapharnaum.\n\n4:47. He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went\nto him and prayed him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the\npoint of death.\n\n4:48. Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders,\nyou believe not.\n\n4:49. The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.\n\n4:50. Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed\nthe word which Jesus said to him and went his way.\n\n4:51. And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought\nword, saying, that his son lived.\n\n4:52. He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And\nthey said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.\n\n4:53. The father therefore knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus\nsaid to him: Thy son liveth. And himself believed, and his whole house.\n\n4:54. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come\nout of Judea into Galilee.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 5\n\nChrist heals on the sabbath the man languishing thirty-eight years. His\ndiscourse upon this occasion.\n\n5:1. After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went\nup to Jerusalem.\n\n5:2. Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in\nHebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.\n\nProbatica.... That is, the sheep pond; either so called, because the\nsheep were washed therein, that were to be offered up in sacrifice in\nthe temple, or because it was near the sheep gate. That this was a pond\nwhere miracles were wrought is evident from the sacred text; and also\nthat the water had no natural virtue to heal, as one only of those put\nin after the motion of the water was restored to health; for if the\nwater had the healing quality, the others would have the like benefit,\nbeing put into it about the same time.\n\n5:3. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of\nwithered: waiting for the moving of the water.\n\n5:4. And an angel of the Lord descended at certain times into the pond\nand the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond\nafter the motion of the water was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he\nlay under.\n\n5:5. And there was a certain man there that had been eight and thirty\nyears under his infirmity.\n\n5:6. Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a\nlong time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole?\n\n5:7. The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is\ntroubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another\ngoeth down before me.\n\n5:8. Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed and walk.\n\n5:9. And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and\nwalked. And it was the sabbath that day.\n\n5:10. The Jews therefore said to him that was healed: It is the\nsabbath. It is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.\n\n5:11. He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up\nthy bed and walk.\n\n5:12. They asked him therefore: Who is that man who said to thee: Take\nup thy bed and walk?\n\n5:13. But he who was healed knew not who it was: for Jesus went aside\nfrom the multitude standing in the place.\n\n5:14. Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him:\nBehold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen\nto thee.\n\n5:15. The man went his way and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had\nmade him whole.\n\n5:16. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these\nthings on the sabbath.\n\n5:17. But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.\n\n5:18. Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because\nhe did not only break the sabbath but also said God was his Father,\nmaking himself equal to God.\n\n5:19. Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you,\nthe Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father\ndoing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like\nmanner.\n\n5:20. For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things which\nhimself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you\nmay wonder.\n\n5:21. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son\nalso giveth life to whom he will.\n\n5:22. For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all\njudgment to the Son.\n\n5:23. That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He\nwho honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.\n\n5:24. Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and\nbelieveth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into\njudgment, but is passed from death to life.\n\n5:25. Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is,\nwhen the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that\nhear shall live.\n\n5:26. For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the\nSon also to have life in himself.\n\n5:27. And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son\nof man.\n\n5:28. Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in\nthe graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.\n\n5:29. And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the\nresurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the\nresurrection of judgment.\n\nUnto the resurrection of judgment.... That is, condemnation.\n\n5:30. I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my\njudgment is just: because I seek not my own will, but the will of him\nthat sent me.\n\n5:31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.\n\n5:32. There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the\nwitness which he witnesseth of me is true.\n\n5:33. You sent to John: and he gave testimony to the truth.\n\n5:34. But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things,\nthat you may be saved.\n\n5:35. He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a\ntime to rejoice in his light.\n\n5:36. But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works\nwhich the Father hath given me to perfect, the works themselves which I\ndo, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me.\n\n5:37. And the Father himself who hath sent me hath given testimony of\nme: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.\n\n5:38. And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,\nhim you believe not.\n\n5:39. Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life\neverlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me.\n\nOr.... You search the scriptures. Scrutamini.... It is not a command\nfor all to read the scriptures; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that\nreading the scriptures as they did, and thinking to find everlasting\nlife in them, they would not receive him to whom all those scriptures\ngave testimony, and through whom alone they could have that true life.\n\n5:40. And you will not come to me that you may have life.\n\n5:41. I receive not glory from men.\n\n5:42. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.\n\n5:43. I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if\nanother shall come in his own name, him you will receive.\n\n5:44. How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the\nglory which is from God alone, you do not seek?\n\n5:45. Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that\naccuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.\n\n5:46. For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also:\nfor he wrote of me.\n\n5:47. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my\nwords?\n\n\nJohn Chapter 6\n\nChrist feeds five thousand with five loaves. He walks upon the sea and\ndiscourses of the bread of life.\n\n6:1. After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is\nthat of Tiberias.\n\n6:2. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles\nwhich he did on them that were diseased.\n\n6:3. Jesus therefore went up into a mountain: and there he sat with his\ndisciples.\n\n6:4. Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand.\n\n6:5. When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very\ngreat multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy\nbread, that these may eat?\n\n6:6. And this he said to try him: for he himself knew what he would do.\n\n6:7. Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not\nsufficient for them that every one may take a little.\n\n6:8. One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to\nhim:\n\n6:9. There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes.\nBut what are these among so many?\n\n6:10. Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass\nin the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five\nthousand.\n\n6:11. And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he\ndistributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the\nfishes, as much as they would.\n\n6:12. And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up\nthe fragments that remain, lest they be lost.\n\n6:13. They gathered up therefore and filled twelve baskets with the\nfragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above to\nthem that had eaten.\n\n6:14. Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done,\nsaid: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world.\n\n6:15. Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by\nforce and make him king, fled again into the mountain himself alone.\n\n6:16. And when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea.\n\n6:17. And when they had gone up into a ship, they went over the sea to\nCapharnaum. And it was now dark: and Jesus was not come unto them.\n\n6:18. And the sea arose, by reason of a great wind that blew.\n\n6:19. When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty\nfurlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh to the\nship. And they were afraid.\n\n6:20. But he saith to them: It is I. Be not afraid.\n\n6:21. They were willing therefore to take him into the ship. And\npresently the ship was at the land to which they were going.\n\n6:22. The next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the\nsea saw that there was no other ship there but one: and that Jesus had\nnot entered into the ship with his disciples, but that his disciples\nwere gone away alone.\n\n6:23. But other ships came in from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where\nthey had eaten the bread, the Lord giving thanks.\n\n6:24. When therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor\nhis disciples, they took shipping and came to Capharnaum, seeking for\nJesus.\n\n6:25. And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they\nsaid to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?\n\n6:26. Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek\nme, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the\nloaves and were filled.\n\n6:27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which\nendureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For\nhim hath God, the Father, sealed.\n\n6:28. They said therefore unto him: What shall we do, that we may work\nthe works of God?\n\n6:29. Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that\nyou believe in him whom he hath sent.\n\n6:30. They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew\nthat we may see and may believe thee? What dost thou work?\n\n6:31. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He\ngave them bread from heaven to eat.\n\n6:32. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you\nnot bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from\nheaven.\n\n6:33. For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and\ngiveth life to the world.\n\n6:34. They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.\n\n6:35. And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that cometh to\nme shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.\n\n6:36. But I said unto you that you also have seen me, and you believe\nnot.\n\n6:37. All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that\ncometh to me, I will not cast out.\n\n6:38. Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the\nwill of him that sent me.\n\n6:39. Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that\nhe hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again\nin the last day.\n\n6:40. And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one\nwho seeth the Son and believeth in him may have life everlasting. And I\nwill raise him up in the last day.\n\n6:41. The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the\nliving bread which came down from heaven.\n\n6:42. And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father\nand mother we know? How then saith he: I came down from heaven?\n\n6:43. Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among\nyourselves.\n\n6:44. No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw\nhim. And I will raise him up in the last day.\n\nDraw him.... Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free will under any\nnecessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace.\n\n6:45. It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of\nGod. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh to\nme.\n\n6:46. Not that any man hath seen the Father: but he who is of God, he\nhath seen the Father.\n\n6:47. Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me hath\neverlasting life.\n\n6:48. I am the bread of life.\n\n6:49. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead.\n\n6:50. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man\neat of it, he may not die.\n\n6:51. I am the living bread which came down from heaven.\n\n6:52. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the\nbread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.\n\n6:53. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this\nman give us his flesh to eat?\n\n6:54. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you\neat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have\nlife in you.\n\nExcept you eat\u2014and drink, etc.... To receive the body and blood of\nChrist, is a divine precept, insinuated in this text; which the\nfaithful fulfil, though they receive but in one kind; because in one\nkind they receive both body and blood, which cannot be separated from\neach other. Hence, life eternal is here promised to the worthy\nreceiving, though but in one kind. Ver. 52. If any man eat of this\nbread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my\nflesh for the life of the world. Ver. 58. He that eateth me, the same\nalso shall live by me. Ver. 59. He that eateth this bread, shall liver\nfor ever.\n\n6:55. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting\nlife: and I will raise him up in the last day.\n\n6:56. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.\n\n6:57. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and\nI in him.\n\n6:58. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he\nthat eateth me, the same also shall live by me.\n\n6:59. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers\ndid eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for\never.\n\n6:60. These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.\n\n6:61. Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is\nhard; and who can hear it?\n\n6:62. But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at\nthis, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?\n\n6:63. If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was\nbefore?\n\nIf then you shall see, etc.... Christ by mentioning his ascension, by\nthis instance of his power and divinity, would confirm the truth of\nwhat he had before asserted; and at the same time correct their gross\napprehension of eating his flesh, and drinking his blood, in a vulgar\nand carnal manner, by letting them know he should take his whole body\nliving with him to heaven; and consequently not suffer it to be as they\nsupposed, divided, mangled, and consumed upon earth.\n\n6:64. It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing.\nThe words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.\n\nThe flesh profiteth nothing.... Dead flesh separated from the spirit,\nin the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would\nprofit nothing. Neither doth man\u2019s flesh, that is to say, man\u2019s natural\nand carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit,\nand words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of\nblasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the\nblessed sacarament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and\ndivinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ\u2019s flesh had profitedus\nnothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in us\nnothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh\nfor us. Are spirit and life.... By proposing to you a heavenly\nsacrament, in which you shall receive, in a wonderful manner, spirit,\ngrace, and life, in its very fountain.\n\n6:65. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from\nthe beginning who they were that did not believe and who he was that\nwould betray him.\n\n6:66. And he said: Therefore did I say to you that no man can come to\nme, unless it be given him by my Father.\n\n6:67. After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more\nwith him.\n\n6:68. Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?\n\n6:69. And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou\nhast the words of eternal life.\n\n6:70. And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ, the\nSon of God.\n\n6:71. Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you\nis a devil.\n\n6:72. Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was\nabout to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 7\n\nChrist goes up to the feast of the tabernacles. He teaches in the\ntemple.\n\n7:1. After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk\nin Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.\n\n7:2. Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.\n\n7:3. And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea,\nthat thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.\n\n7:4. For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself\nseeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself\nto the world.\n\n7:5. For neither did his brethren believe in him.\n\n7:6. Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is\nalways ready.\n\n7:7. The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give\ntestimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,\n\n7:8. Go you up to this festival day: but I go not up to this festival\nday, because my time is not accomplished.\n\n7:9. When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.\n\n7:10. But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the\nfeast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.\n\n7:11. The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where\nis he?\n\n7:12. And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him.\nFor some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth\nthe people.\n\n7:13. Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.\n\n7:14. Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple\nand taught.\n\n7:15. And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters,\nhaving never learned?\n\n7:16. Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his\nthat sent me.\n\n7:17. If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the\ndoctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.\n\n7:18. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that\nseeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no\ninjustice in him.\n\n7:19. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the\nlaw?\n\n7:20. Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou\nhast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?\n\n7:21. Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you\nall wonder.\n\n7:22. Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of\nMoses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a\nman.\n\n7:23. If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of\nMoses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the\nwhole man on the sabbath day?\n\n7:24. Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.\n\n7:25. Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek\nto kill?\n\n7:26. And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have\nthe rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ?\n\n7:27. But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh,\nno man knoweth, whence he is.\n\n7:28. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You\nboth know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself:\nbut he that sent me is true, whom you know not.\n\n7:29. I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.\n\n7:30. They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on\nhim, because his hour was not yet come.\n\n7:31. But of the people many believed in him and said: When the Christ\ncometh, shall he do more miracles than this man doth?\n\n7:32. The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning\nhim: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.\n\n7:33. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you:\nand then I go to him that sent me.\n\n7:34. You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither\nyou cannot come.\n\n7:35. The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go,\nthat we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the\nGentiles and teach the Gentiles?\n\n7:36. What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and\nshall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?\n\n7:37. And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and\ncried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.\n\n7:38. He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly\nshall flow rivers of living water.\n\n7:39. Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who\nbelieved in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was\nnot yet glorified.\n\n7:40. Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of\nhis, some said: This is the prophet indeed.\n\n7:41. Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ\ncome out of Galilee?\n\n7:42. Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of\nDavid and from Bethlehem the town where David was?\n\n7:43. So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.\n\n7:44. And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid\nhands upon him.\n\n7:45. The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the\nPharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?\n\n7:46. The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.\n\n7:47. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?\n\n7:48. Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?\n\n7:49. But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.\n\n7:50. Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one\nof them):\n\n7:51. Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know\nwhat he doth?\n\n7:52. They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search\nthe scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.\n\n7:53. And every man returned to his own house.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 8\n\nThe woman taken in adultery. Christ justifies his doctrine.\n\n8:1. And Jesus went unto mount Olivet.\n\n8:2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all\nthe people came to him. And sitting down he taught them.\n\n8:3. And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in\nadultery: and they set her in the midst,\n\n8:4. And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in\nadultery.\n\n8:5. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what\nsayest thou?\n\n8:6. And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But\nJesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.\n\n8:7. When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and\nsaid to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a\nstone at her.\n\n8:8. And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.\n\n8:9. But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the\neldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.\n\n8:10. Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they\nthat accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?\n\n8:11. Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn\nthee. Go, and now sin no more.\n\n8:12. Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of\nthe world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have\nthe light of life.\n\n8:13. The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of\nthyself. Thy testimony is not true.\n\n8:14. Jesus answered and said to them: Although I give testimony of\nmyself, my testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I\ngo: but you know not whence I come, or whither I go.\n\n8:15. You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man.\n\n8:16. And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone,\nbut I and the Father that sent me.\n\n8:17. And in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is\ntrue.\n\n8:18. I am one that give testimony of myself: and the Father that sent\nme giveth testimony of me.\n\n8:19. They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered:\nNeither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you\nwould know my Father also.\n\n8:20. These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple:\nand no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.\n\n8:21. Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me.\nAnd you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.\n\n8:22. The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said:\nWhither I go you cannot come?\n\n8:23. And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You\nare of this world: I am not of this world.\n\n8:24. Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if\nyou believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.\n\n8:25. They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The\nbeginning, who also speak unto you.\n\n8:26. Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent\nme, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in\nthe world.\n\n8:27. And they understood not that he called God his Father.\n\n8:28. Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the\nSon of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of\nmyself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.\n\n8:29. And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone.\nFor I do always the things that please him.\n\n8:30. When he spoke these things, many believed in him.\n\n8:31. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue\nin my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.\n\n8:32. And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.\n\n8:33. They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham: and we have never\nbeen slaves to any man. How sayest thou: You shall be free?\n\n8:34. Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever\ncommitteth sin is the servant of sin.\n\n8:35. Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son\nabideth for ever.\n\n8:36. If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free\nindeed.\n\n8:37. I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill\nme, because my word hath no place in you.\n\n8:38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the\nthings that you have seen with your father.\n\n8:39. They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith\nto them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.\n\n8:40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to\nyou, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.\n\n8:41. You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We\nare not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.\n\n8:42. Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would\nindeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of\nmyself: but he sent me.\n\n8:43. Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.\n\n8:44. You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father\nyou will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in\nthe truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he\nspeaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.\n\n8:45. But if I say the truth, you believe me not.\n\n8:46. Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you,\nwhy do you not believe me:\n\n8:47. He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear\nthem not, because you are not of God.\n\n8:48. The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well\nthat thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?\n\n8:49. Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And\nyou have dishonoured me.\n\n8:50. But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and\njudgeth.\n\n8:51. Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not\nsee death for ever.\n\n8:52. The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil.\nAbraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my\nword, he shall not taste death for ever.\n\n8:53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the\nprophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?\n\n8:54. Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is\nmy Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.\n\n8:55. And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say\nthat I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him\nand do keep his word.\n\n8:56. Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it\nand was glad.\n\n8:57. The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old.\nAnd hast thou seen Abraham?\n\n8:58. Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was\nmade, I AM.\n\n8:59. They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid\nhimself and went out of the temple.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 9\n\nHe gives sight to the man born blind.\n\n9:1. And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.\n\n9:2. And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or\nhis parents, that he should be born blind?\n\n9:3. Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but\nthat the works of God should be made manifest in him.\n\n9:4. I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the\nnight cometh, when no man can work.\n\n9:5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.\n\n9:6. When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay\nof the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,\n\n9:7. And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is\ninterpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing.\n\n9:8. The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that\nhe was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said:\nThis is he.\n\n9:9. But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.\n\n9:10. They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened?\n\n9:11. He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed\nmy eyes and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe and wash. And I went: I\nwashed: and I see.\n\n9:12. And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.\n\n9:13. They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.\n\n9:14. Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his\neyes.\n\n9:15. Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his\nsight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and\nI see.\n\n9:16. Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who\nkeepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a\nsinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.\n\n9:17. They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of\nhim that hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.\n\n9:18. The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been\nblind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him\nthat had received his sight,\n\n9:19. And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born\nblind? How then doth he now see?\n\n9:20. His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son\nand that he was born blind:\n\n9:21. But how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes,\nwe know not. Ask himself: he is of age: Let him speak for himself.\n\n9:22. These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for\nthe Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should\nconfess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.\n\n9:23. Therefore did his parents say: He is of age. Ask himself.\n\n9:24. They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said\nto him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.\n\n9:25. He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not. One\nthing I know, that whereas I was blind. now I see.\n\n9:26. They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy\neyes?\n\n9:27. He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard.\nWhy would you hear it again? Will you also become his disciples?\n\n9:28. They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we\nare the disciples of Moses.\n\n9:29. We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not\nfrom whence he is.\n\n9:30. The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful\nthing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.\n\n9:31. Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a\nserver of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.\n\n9:32. From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any\nman hath opened the eyes of one born blind.\n\n9:33. Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything.\n\n9:34. They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and\ndost thou teach us? And they cast him out.\n\n9:35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found\nhim, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?\n\n9:36. He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in\nhim?\n\n9:37. And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that\ntalketh with thee.\n\n9:38. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.\n\n9:39. And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they\nwho see not may see; and they who see may become blind.\n\nI am come, etc.... Not that Christ came for that end, that any one\nshould be made blind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his coming,\nand by their not receiving him, brought upon themselves this judgment\nof blindness.\n\n9:40. And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they\nsaid unto him: Are we also blind?\n\n9:41. Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin:\nbut now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.\n\nIf you were blind, etc.... If you were invincibly ignorant, and had\nneither read the scriptures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be\nguilty of the sin of infidelity: but now, as you boast of your\nknowledge of the scriptures, you are inexcusable.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 10\n\nChrist is the door and the good shepherd. He and his Father are one.\n\n10:1. Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into\nthe sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a\nrobber.\n\n10:2. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.\n\n10:3. To him the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice. And he\ncalleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out.\n\n10:4. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and\nthe sheep follow him, because they know his voice.\n\n10:5. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they\nknow not the voice of strangers.\n\n10:6. This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he\nspoke to them.\n\n10:7. Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I\nam the door of the sheep.\n\n10:8. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and\nthe sheep heard them not.\n\n10:9. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and\nhe shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures.\n\n10:10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to\ndestroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more\nabundantly.\n\n10:11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for\nhis sheep.\n\n10:12. But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the\nsheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth:\nand the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep,\n\n10:13. And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath\nno care for the sheep.\n\n10:14. I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.\n\n10:15. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down\nmy life for my sheep.\n\n10:16. And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I\nmust bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold\nand one shepherd.\n\n10:17. Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life,\nthat I may take it again.\n\n10:18. No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And\nI have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This\ncommandment have I received of my Father.\n\n10:19. A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.\n\n10:20. And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you\nhim?\n\n10:21. Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil.\nCan a devil open the eyes of the blind?\n\n10:22. And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was\nwinter.\n\n10:23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon\u2019s porch.\n\n10:24. The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How\nlong dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell\nus plainly.\n\n10:25. Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the\nworks that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.\n\n10:26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.\n\n10:27. My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.\n\n10:28. And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for\never. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.\n\n10:29. That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no\none can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.\n\n10:30. I and the Father are one.\n\nI and the Father are one.... That is, one divine nature, but two\ndistinct persons.\n\n10:31. The Jews then took up stones to stone him.\n\n10:32. Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my\nFather. For which of those works do you stone me?\n\n10:33. The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but\nfor blasphemy: and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.\n\n10:34. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you\nare gods?\n\n10:35. If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and\nthe scripture cannot be broken:\n\n10:36. Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into\nthe world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?\n\n10:37. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.\n\n10:38. But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works:\nthat you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the\nFather.\n\n10:39. They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their\nhands.\n\n10:40. And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John\nwas baptizing first. And there he abode.\n\n10:41. And many resorted to him: and they said: John indeed did no\nsign.\n\n10:42. But all things whatsoever John said of this man were true. And\nmany believed in him.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 11\n\nChrist raises Lazarus to life. The rulers resolve to put him to death.\n\n11:1. Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of\nthe town of Mary and of Martha her sister.\n\n11:2. (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped\nhis feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)\n\n11:3. His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom\nthou lovest is sick.\n\n11:4. And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto\ndeath, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified\nby it.\n\n11:5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.\n\n11:6. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained\nin the same place two days.\n\n11:7. Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea\nagain.\n\n11:8. The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone\nthee. And goest thou thither again?\n\n11:9. Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man\nwalk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this\nworld:\n\n11:10. But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is\nnot in him.\n\n11:11. These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus\nour friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.\n\n11:12. His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do\nwell.\n\n11:13. But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of\nthe repose of sleep.\n\n11:14. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.\n\n11:15. And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you\nmay believe. But, let us go to him.\n\n11:16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow\ndisciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.\n\n11:17. Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days\nalready in the grave.\n\n11:18. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)\n\n11:19. And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort\nthem concerning their brother.\n\n11:20. Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went\nto meet him: but Mary sat at home.\n\n11:21. Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here,\nmy brother had not died.\n\n11:22. But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God\nwill give it thee.\n\n11:23. Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.\n\n11:24. Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the\nresurrection at the last day.\n\n11:25. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that\nbelieveth in me, although he be dead, shall live:\n\n11:26. And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for\never. Believest thou this?\n\n11:27. She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art\nChrist, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.\n\n11:28. And when she had said these things, she went and called her\nsister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee.\n\n11:29. She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to\nhim.\n\n11:30. For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in\nthat place where Martha had met him.\n\n11:31. The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house and comforted\nher, when they saw Mary, that she rose up speedily and went out,\nfollowed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.\n\n11:32. When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she\nfell down at his feet and saith to him. Lord, if thou hadst been here,\nmy brother had not died.\n\n11:33. Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that\nwere come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and troubled himself,\n\n11:34. And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come\nand see.\n\n11:35. And Jesus wept.\n\n11:36. The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.\n\n11:37. But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the\nman born blind have caused that this man should not die?\n\n11:38. Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the\nsepulchre. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.\n\n11:39. Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that\nwas dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now\nof four days.\n\n11:40. Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee that if thou believe,\nthou shalt see the glory of God?\n\n11:41. They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his\neyes, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.\n\n11:42. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the\npeople who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou\nhast sent me.\n\n11:43. When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice:\nLazarus, come forth.\n\n11:44. And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and\nhands with winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin.\nJesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.\n\n11:45. Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha and\nhad seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.\n\n11:46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things\nthat Jesus had done.\n\n11:47. The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a\ncouncil and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?\n\n11:48. If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans\nwill come, and take away our place and nation.\n\n11:49. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year,\nsaid to them: You know nothing.\n\n11:50. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one\nman should die for the people and that the whole nation perish not.\n\n11:51. And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of\nthat year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.\n\n11:52. And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the\nchildren of God that were dispersed.\n\n11:53. From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.\n\n11:54. Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews: but he\nwent into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem.\nAnd there he abode with his disciples.\n\n11:55. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country\nwent up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves.\n\n11:56. They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with\nanother, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to\nthe festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a\ncommandment that, if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that\nthey might apprehend him.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 12\n\nThe anointing of Christ\u2019s feet. His riding into Jerusalem upon an ass.\nA voice from heaven.\n\n12:1. Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania,\nwhere Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.\n\n12:2. And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus\nwas one of them that were at table with him.\n\n12:3. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of\ngreat price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her\nhair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.\n\n12:4. Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to\nbetray him, said:\n\n12:5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given\nto the poor?\n\n12:6. Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because\nhe was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put\ntherein.\n\n12:7. Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against\nthe day of my burial.\n\n12:8. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not\nalways.\n\nSee the annotation of St. Matt. 26. 11.\n\n12:9. A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there;\nand they came, not for Jesus\u2019 sake only, but that they might see\nLazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.\n\n12:10. But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:\n\n12:11. Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and\nbelieved in Jesus.\n\n12:12. And on the next day, a great multitude that was come to the\nfestival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,\n\n12:13. Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried\nHosanna. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of\nIsrael.\n\n12:14. And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it, as it is written:\n\n12:15. Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on\nan ass\u2019s colt.\n\n12:16. These things his disciples did not know at the first: but when\nJesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were\nwritten of him and that they had done these things to him.\n\n12:17. The multitude therefore gave testimony, which was with him, when\nhe called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead.\n\n12:18. For which reason also the people came to meet him, because they\nheard that he had done this miracle.\n\n12:19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Do you see that\nwe prevail nothing? Behold, the whole world is gone after him.\n\n12:20. Now there were certain Gentiles among them, who came up to adore\non the festival day.\n\n12:21. These therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee,\nand desired him, saying: Sir, we would see Jesus.\n\n12:22. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. Again Andrew and Philip told\nJesus.\n\n12:23. But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son\nof man should be glorified.\n\n12:24. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into\nthe ground die,\n\n12:25. Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much\nfruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his\nlife in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.\n\n12:26. If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am,\nthere also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my\nFather honour.\n\n12:27. Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me\nfrom this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.\n\n12:28. Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I\nhave both glorified it and will glorify it again.\n\n12:29. The multitude therefore that stood and heard said that it\nthundered. Others said: An angel spoke to him.\n\n12:30. Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of me, but\nfor your sakes.\n\n12:31. Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this\nworld be cast out.\n\n12:32. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to\nmyself.\n\n12:33. (Now this he said, signifying what death he should die.)\n\n12:34. The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that\nChrist abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be\nlifted up? Who is this Son of man?\n\n12:35. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is\namong you. Walk whilst you have the light, that the darkness overtake\nyou not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.\n\n12:36. Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be\nthe children of light. These things Jesus spoke: and he went away and\nhid himself from them.\n\n12:37. And whereas he had done so many miracles before them, they\nbelieved not in him:\n\n12:38. That the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which\nhe said: Lord, who hath believed our hearing? And to whom hath the arm\nof the Lord been revealed?\n\n12:39. Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again:\n\nThey could not believe.... Because they would not, saith St. Augustine,\nTract. 33, in Joan. See the annotation, St. Mark 4. 12.\n\n12:40. He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they\nshould not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be\nconverted: and I should heal them.\n\n12:41. These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of\nhim.\n\n12:42. However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because\nof the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast\nout of the synagogue.\n\n12:43. For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.\n\n12:44. But Jesus cried and said: He that believeth in me doth not\nbelieve in me, but in him that sent me.\n\n12:45. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.\n\n12:46. I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in\nme may not remain in darkness.\n\n12:47. And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge\nhim for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.\n\n12:48. He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that\njudgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in\nthe last day.\n\n12:49. For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he\ngave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.\n\n12:50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things\ntherefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 13\n\nChrist washes his disciples\u2019 feet. The treason of Judas. The new\ncommandment of love.\n\n13:1. Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour\nwas come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having\nloved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.\n\nBefore the festival day of the pasch.... This was the fourth and last\npasch of the ministry of Christ, and according to the common\ncomputation, was in the thirty-third year of our Lord: and in the year\nof the world 4036. Some chronologers are of opinion that our Saviour\nsuffered in the thirty-seventh year of his age: but these different\nopinions on this subject are of no consequence.\n\n13:2. And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart\nof Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),\n\n13:3. Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands\nand that he came from God and goeth to God,\n\n13:4. He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and, having\ntaken a towel, girded himself.\n\n13:5. After that, he putteth water into a basin and began to wash the\nfeet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was\ngirded.\n\n13:6. He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord,\ndost thou wash my feet?\n\n13:7. Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now;\nbut thou shalt know hereafter.\n\n13:8. Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet, Jesus answered\nhim: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.\n\n13:9. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my\nhands and my head.\n\n13:10. Jesus saith to him: He that is washed needeth not but to wash\nhis feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all.\n\n13:11. For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said:\nYou are not all clean.\n\n13:12. Then after he had washed their feet and taken his garments,\nbeing set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to\nyou?\n\n13:13. You call me Master and Lord. And you say well: for so I am.\n\n13:14. If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you\nalso ought to wash one another\u2019s feet.\n\n13:15. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so\nyou do also.\n\n13:16. Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his\nlord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.\n\n13:17. If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.\n\n13:18. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the\nscripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up\nhis heel against me,\n\n13:19. At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it\nshall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.\n\n13:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send\nreceiveth me: and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.\n\n13:21. When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit; and\nhe testified, and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you shall\nbetray me.\n\n13:22. The disciples therefore looked one upon another, doubting of\nwhom he spoke.\n\n13:23. Now there was leaning on Jesus\u2019 bosom one of his disciples, whom\nJesus loved.\n\n13:24. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him and said to him: Who is it\nof whom he speaketh?\n\n13:25. He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him:\nLord, who is it?\n\n13:26. Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall reach bread dipped. And\nwhen he had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of\nSimon.\n\n13:27. And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to\nhim: That which thou dost, do quickly.\n\nThat which thou dost, do quickly.... It is not a license, much less a\ncommand, to go about his treason: but a signification to him that\nChrist would not hinder or resist what he was about, do it as soon as\nhe pleased: but was both ready and desirous to suffer for our\nredemption.\n\n13:28. Now no man at the table knew to what purpose he said this unto\nhim.\n\n13:29. For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had\nsaid to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival\nday: or that he should give something to the poor.\n\n13:30. He therefore, having received the morsel, went out immediately.\nAnd it was night.\n\n13:31. When he therefore was gone out, Jesus said: Now is the Son of\nman glorified; and God is glorified in him.\n\n13:32. If God be glorified in him, God also will glorify him in\nhimself: and immediately will he glorify him.\n\n13:33. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall\nseek me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I\nsay to you now.\n\n13:34. A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as\nI have loved you, that you also love one another.\n\n13:35. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you\nhave love one for another.\n\n13:36. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus\nanswered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now: but thou shalt\nfollow hereafter.\n\n13:37. Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay\ndown my life for thee.\n\n13:38. Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Amen,\namen, I say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 14\n\nChrist\u2019s discourse after his last supper.\n\n14:1. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also\nin me.\n\n14:2. In my Father\u2019s house there are many mansions. If not, I would\nhave told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.\n\n14:3. And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again\nand will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.\n\n14:4. And whither I go you know: and the way you know.\n\n14:5. Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And\nhow can we know the way?\n\n14:6. Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No\nman cometh to the Father, but by me.\n\n14:7. If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father\nalso: and from henceforth you shall know him. And you have seen him.\n\n14:8. Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father; and it is enough\nfor us.\n\n14:9. Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have\nyou not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How\nsayest thou: Shew us the Father?\n\n14:10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me?\nThe words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father\nwho abideth in me, he doth the works.\n\n14:11. Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?\n\n14:12. Otherwise believe for the very works\u2019 sake. Amen, amen, I say to\nyou, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do:\nand greater than these shall he do.\n\n14:13. Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the\nFather in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in\nthe Son.\n\n14:14. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do.\n\n14:15. If you love me, keep my commandments.\n\n14:16. And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another\nParaclete, that he may abide with you for ever:\n\nParaclete.... That is, a comforter: or also an advocate; inasmuch as by\ninspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. For\never.... Hence it is evident that this Spirit of Truth was not only\npromised to the persons of the apostles, but also to their successors\nthrough all generations.\n\n14:17. The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it\nseeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he\nshall abide with you and shall be in you.\n\n14:18. I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.\n\n14:19. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see\nme: because I live, and you shall live.\n\n14:20. In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in\nme, and I in you.\n\n14:21. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that\nloveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I\nwill love him and will manifest myself to him.\n\n14:22. Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it that thou\nwilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?\n\n14:23. Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep\nmy word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will\nmake our abode with him.\n\n14:24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which\nyou have heard is not mine; but the Father\u2019s who sent me.\n\n14:25. These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you.\n\n14:26. But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in\nmy name, he will teach you all things and bring all things to your\nmind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.\n\nTeach you all things.... Here the Holy Ghost is promised to the\napostles and their successors, particularly, in order to teach them all\ntruth, and to preserve them from error.\n\n14:27. Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the\nworld giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor\nlet it be afraid.\n\n14:28. You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto\nyou. If you loved me you would indeed be glad, because I go to the\nFather: for the Father is greater than I.\n\nFor the Father is greater than I.... It is evident, that Christ our\nLord speaks here of himself as he is made man: for as God he is equal\nto the Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty of understanding the\nmeaning of these words will vanish, when the relative circumstances of\nthe text here are considered: for Christ being at this time shortly to\nsuffer death, signified to his apostles his human nature by these very\nwords: for as God he could not die. And therefore as he was both God\nand man, it must follow that according to his humanity he was to die,\nwhich the apostles were soon to see and believe, as he expresses, ver.\n29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall\ncome to pass, you may believe.\n\n14:29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it\nshall come to pass, you may believe.\n\n14:30. I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of\nthis world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.\n\n14:31. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the\nFather hath given me commandment, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 15\n\nA continuation of Christ\u2019s discourse to his disciples.\n\n15:1. I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.\n\n15:2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and\nevery one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth\nmore fruit.\n\n15:3. Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to\nyou.\n\n15:4. Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of\nitself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you\nabide in me.\n\n15:5. I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in\nhim, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.\n\n15:6. If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch\nand shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the\nfire: and he burneth.\n\n15:7. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask\nwhatever you will: and it shall be done unto you.\n\n15:8. In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much\nfruit and become my disciples.\n\n15:9. As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my\nlove.\n\n15:10. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I\nalso have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and do abide in his love.\n\n15:11. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you,\nand your joy may be filled.\n\n15:12. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have\nloved you.\n\n15:13. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life\nfor his friends.\n\n15:14. You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.\n\n15:15. I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not\nwhat his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things,\nwhatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.\n\n15:16. You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have\nappointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and\nyour fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father\nin my name, he may give it you.\n\n15:17. These things I command you, that you love one another.\n\n15:18. If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.\n\n15:19. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but\nbecause you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the\nworld, therefore the world hateth you.\n\n15:20. Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater\nthan his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute\nyou. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.\n\n15:21. But all these things they will do to you for my name\u2019s sake:\nbecause they know not him that sent me.\n\n15:22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin:\nbut now they have no excuse for their sin.\n\n15:23. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.\n\n15:24. If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath\ndone, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated\nboth me and my Father.\n\n15:25. But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their\nlaw: they hated me without cause.\n\n15:26. But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the\nFather, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall\ngive testimony of me.\n\nWhom I will send.... This proves, against the modern Greeks, that the\nHoly Ghost proceedeth from the Son, as well as from the Father:\notherwise he could not be sent by the Son.\n\n15:27. And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the\nbeginning.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 16\n\nThe conclusion of Christ\u2019s last discourse to his disciples.\n\n16:1. These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be\nscandalized.\n\n16:2. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh,\nthat whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.\n\n16:3. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known\nthe Father nor me.\n\n16:4. But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come,\nyou may remember that I told you of them.\n\n16:5. But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was\nwith you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me:\nWhither goest thou?\n\n16:6. But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled\nyour heart.\n\n16:7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For\nif I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will\nsend him to you.\n\n16:8. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin and of\njustice and of judgment.\n\nHe will convince the world of sin, etc.... The Holy Ghost, by his\ncoming brought over many thousands, first, to a sense of their sin in\nnot believing in Christ. Secondly, to a conviction of the justice of\nChrist, now sitting at the right hand of his Father. And thirdly, to a\nright apprehension of the judgment prepared for them that choose to\nfollow Satan, who is already judged and condemned.\n\n16:9. Of sin: because they believed not in me.\n\n16:10. And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me\nno longer.\n\n16:11. And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already\njudged.\n\n16:12. I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them\nnow.\n\n16:13. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all\ntruth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he\nshall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall\nshew you.\n\nWill teach you all truth.... See the annotation on chap. 14. ver. 26.\n\n16:14. He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall\nshew it to you.\n\n16:15. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said\nthat he shall receive of me and shew it to you.\n\n16:16. A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little\nwhile, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.\n\n16:17. Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this\nthat he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and\nagain a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the\nFather?\n\n16:18. They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while?\nWe know not what he speaketh.\n\n16:19. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to\nthem: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little\nwhile, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you\nshall see me?\n\n16:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but\nthe world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your\nsorrow shall be turned into joy.\n\n16:21. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is\ncome; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no\nmore the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.\n\n16:22. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and\nyour heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.\n\n16:23. And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I\nsay to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it\nyou.\n\n16:24. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you\nshall receive; that your joy may be full.\n\n16:25. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh\nwhen I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you\nplainly of the Father.\n\n16:26. In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that\nI will ask the Father for you.\n\n16:27. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and\nhave believed that I came out from God.\n\n16:28. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I\nleave the world and I go to the Father.\n\n16:29. His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and\nspeakest no proverb.\n\n16:30. Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not\nthat any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth\nfrom God.\n\n16:31. Jesus answered them: Do you now believe?\n\n16:32. Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be\nscattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am\nnot alone, because the Father is with me.\n\n16:33. These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have\npeace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I\nhave overcome the world.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 17\n\nChrist\u2019s prayer for his disciples.\n\n17:1. These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he\nsaid: Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may\nglorify thee.\n\n17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give\neternal life to all whom thou hast given him.\n\n17:3. Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true\nGod, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.\n\n17:4. I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work\nwhich thou gavest me to do.\n\n17:5. And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory\nwhich I had, before the world was, with thee.\n\n17:6. I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out\nof the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they\nhave kept thy word.\n\n17:7. Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are\nfrom thee:\n\n17:8. Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And\nthey have received them and have known in very deed that I came out\nfrom thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.\n\n17:9. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou\nhast given me: because they are thine.\n\n17:10. And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am\nglorified in them.\n\n17:11. And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I\ncome to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given\nme: that they may be one, as we also are.\n\n17:12. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou\ngavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of\nperdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.\n\n17:13. And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world,\nthat they may have my joy filled in themselves.\n\n17:14. I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them:\nbecause they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.\n\n17:15. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but\nthat thou shouldst keep them from evil.\n\n17:16. They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.\n\n17:17. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.\n\n17:18. As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into\nthe world.\n\n17:19. And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be\nsanctified in truth.\n\n17:20. And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through\ntheir word shall believe in me.\n\n17:21. That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee;\nthat they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou\nhast sent me.\n\n17:22. And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them:\nthat, they may be one, as we also are one.\n\n17:23. I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one:\nand the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as\nthou hast also loved me.\n\n17:24. Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given\nme may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me,\nbecause thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.\n\n17:25. Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known\nthee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.\n\n17:26. And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known:\nthat the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in\nthem.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 18\n\nThe history of the passion of Christ.\n\n18:1. When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his\ndisciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which\nhe entered with his disciples.\n\n18:2. And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: because Jesus\nhad often resorted thither together with his disciples.\n\n18:3. Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants\nfrom the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns\nand torches and weapons.\n\n18:4. Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,\nwent forth and said to them: Whom seek ye?\n\n18:5. They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am\nhe. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.\n\n18:6. As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went\nbackward and fell to the ground.\n\n18:7. Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said: Jesus\nof Nazareth.\n\n18:8. Jesus answered: I have told you that I am he. If therefore you\nseek me, let these go their way,\n\n18:9. That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou\nhast given me, I have not lost any one.\n\n18:10. Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the servant\nof the high priest and cut off his right ear. And the name of the\nservant was Malchus.\n\n18:11. Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the\nscabbard. The chalice which my father hath given me, shall I not drink\nit?\n\n18:12. Then the band and the tribune and the servants of the Jews took\nJesus and bound him.\n\n18:13. And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law\nto Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year.\n\n18:14. Now Caiphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews: That\nit was expedient that one man should die for the people.\n\n18:15. And Simon Peter followed Jesus: and so did another disciple. And\nthat disciple was known to the high priest and went in with Jesus into\nthe court of the high priest.\n\n18:16. But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple\ntherefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the\nportress and brought in Peter.\n\n18:17. The maid therefore that was portress saith to Peter: Art not\nthou also one of this man\u2019s disciples? He saith: I am not.\n\n18:18. Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because\nit was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also,\nstanding and warming himself.\n\n18:19. The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples and of\nhis doctrine.\n\n18:20. Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have\nalways taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews\nresort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.\n\n18:21. Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken\nunto them. Behold they know what things I have said.\n\n18:22. And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing\nby gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?\n\n18:23. Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the\nevil; but if well, why strikest thou me?\n\n18:24. And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest.\n\n18:25. And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said\ntherefore to him: Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it\nand said: I am not.\n\n18:26. One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose\near Peter cut off) saith to him: Did not I see thee in the garden with\nhim?\n\n18:27. Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.\n\n18:28. Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor\u2019s hall. And it\nwas morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be\ndefiled, but that they might eat the pasch.\n\n18:29. Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation\nbring you against this man?\n\n18:30. They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we\nwould not have delivered him up to thee.\n\n18:31. Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him\naccording to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful\nfor us to put any man to death.\n\n18:32. That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said,\nsignifying what death he should die.\n\n18:33. Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and\nsaid to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?\n\n18:34. Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have\nothers told it thee of me?\n\n18:35. Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief\npriests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?\n\n18:36. Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom\nwere of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should\nnot be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.\n\n18:37. Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus\nanswered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for\nthis came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth.\nEvery one that is of the truth heareth my voice.\n\n18:38. Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he\nwent out again to the Jews and saith to them: I find no cause in him.\n\n18:39. But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the\nPasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the\nJews?\n\n18:40. Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas.\nNow Barabbas was a robber.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 19\n\nThe continuation of the history of the Passion of Christ.\n\n19:1. Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.\n\n19:2. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his\nhead: and they put on him a purple garment.\n\n19:3. And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the Jews. And they\ngave him blows.\n\n19:4. Pilate therefore went forth again and saith to them: Behold, I\nbring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in\nhim.\n\n19:5. (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the\npurple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man.\n\n19:6. When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him,\nthey cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them:\nTake him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.\n\n19:7. The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he\nought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.\n\n19:8. When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.\n\n19:9. And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence\nart thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.\n\n19:10. Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest\nthou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release\nthee?\n\n19:11. Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me,\nunless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered\nme to thee hath the greater sin.\n\n19:12. And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews\ncried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar\u2019s\nfriend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.\n\n19:13. Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth\nand sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called\nLithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.\n\n19:14. And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and\nhe saith to the Jews: Behold your king.\n\nThe parasceve of the pasch.... That is, the day before the paschal\nsabbath. The eve of every sabbath was called the parasceve, or day of\npreparation. But this was the eve of a high sabbath, viz., that which\nfell in the paschal week.\n\n19:15. But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him.\nPilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests\nanswered: We have no king but Caesar.\n\n19:16. Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And\nthey took Jesus and led him forth.\n\n19:17. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is\ncalled Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.\n\n19:18. Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each\nside, and Jesus in the midst.\n\n19:19. And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And\nthe writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.\n\n19:20. This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the\nplace where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city. And it was\nwritten in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.\n\n19:21. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not:\nThe King of the Jews. But that he said: I am the King of the Jews.\n\n19:22. Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.\n\n19:23. The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his\ngarments, (and they made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also\nhis coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.\n\n19:24. They said then one to another: Let us not cut it but let us cast\nlots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled,\nsaying: They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture\nthey have cast lots. And the soldiers indeed did these things.\n\n19:25. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his\nmother\u2019s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.\n\n19:26. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple\nstanding whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.\n\n19:27. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And\nfrom that hour, the disciple took her to his own.\n\n19:28. Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished,\nthat the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst.\n\n19:29. Now there was a vessel set there, full of vinegar. And they,\nputting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth.\n\n19:30. Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is\nconsummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.\n\n19:31. Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies\nmight not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a\ngreat sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken:\nand that they might be taken away.\n\n19:32. The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the\nfirst, and of the other that was crucified with him.\n\n19:33. But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was\nalready dead, they did not break his legs.\n\n19:34. But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and\nimmediately there came out blood and water.\n\n19:35. And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is\ntrue. And he knoweth that he saith true: that you also may believe.\n\n19:36. For these things were done that the scripture might be\nfulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him.\n\n19:37. And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom\nthey pierced.\n\n19:38. And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a\ndisciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate\nthat he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He\ncame therefore and took away the body of Jesus.\n\n19:39. And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by\nnight), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound\nweight.\n\n19:40. They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen\ncloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.\n\n19:41. Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden: and\nin the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.\n\n19:42. There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they\nlaid Jesus: because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 20\n\nChrist\u2019s resurrection and manifestation to his disciples.\n\n20:1. And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early,\nwhen it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre: and she saw the stone taken\naway from the sepulchre.\n\n20:2. She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other\ndisciple whom Jesus loved and saith to them: They have taken away the\nLord out of the sepulchre: and we know not where they have laid him.\n\n20:3. Peter therefore went out, and that other disciple: and they came\nto the sepulchre.\n\n20:4. And they both ran together: and that other disciple did outrun\nPeter and came first to the sepulchre.\n\n20:5. And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet\nhe went not in.\n\n20:6. Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the\nsepulchre: and saw the linen cloths lying,\n\n20:7. And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the\nlinen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.\n\n20:8. Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the\nsepulchre: and he saw and believed.\n\n20:9. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again\nfrom the dead.\n\n20:10. The disciples therefore departed again to their home.\n\n20:11. But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was\nweeping, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre,\n\n20:12. And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and\none at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid.\n\n20:13. They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them:\nBecause they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have\nlaid him.\n\n20:14. When she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus\nstanding: and she knew not that it was Jesus.\n\n20:15. Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?\nShe, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast\ntaken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him\naway.\n\n20:16. Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni\n(which is to say, Master).\n\n20:17. Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended\nto my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my\nFather and to your Father, to my God and to your God.\n\n20:18. Mary Magdalen cometh and telleth the disciples: I have seen the\nLord; and these things he said to me.\n\n20:19. Now when it was late the same day, the first of the week, and\nthe doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for\nfear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them:\nPeace be to you.\n\nThe doors were shut.... The same power which could bring Christ\u2019s whole\nbody, entire in all its dimensions, through the doors, can without the\nleast question make the same body really present in the sacrament;\nthough both the one and the other be above our comprehension.\n\n20:20. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his\nside. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.\n\n20:21. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father\nhath sent me, I also send you.\n\n20:22. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them:\nReceive ye the Holy Ghost.\n\n20:23. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose\nsins you shall retain, they are retained.\n\nWhose sins, etc.... See here the commission, stamped by the broad seal\nof heaven, by virtue of which the pastors of Christ\u2019s church absolve\nrepenting sinners upon their confession.\n\n20:24. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not\nwith them when Jesus came.\n\n20:25. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the\nLord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of\nthe nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand\ninto his side, I will not believe.\n\n20:26. And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and\nThomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the\nmidst and said: Peace be to you.\n\n20:27. Then he said to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither and see my\nhands. And bring hither thy hand and put it into my side. And be not\nfaithless, but believing.\n\n20:28. Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord and my God.\n\n20:29. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast\nbelieved: blessed are they that have not seen and have believed.\n\n20:30. Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his disciples,\nwhich are not written in this book.\n\n20:31. But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the\nChrist, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his\nname.\n\n\nJohn Chapter 21\n\nChrist manifests himself to his disciples by the sea side and gives\nPeter the charge of his sheep.\n\n21:1. After this, Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the\nsea of Tiberias. And he shewed himself after this manner.\n\n21:2. There were together: Simon Peter and Thomas, who is called\nDidymus, and Nathanael, who was of Cana of Galilee, and the sons of\nZebedee and two others of his disciples.\n\n21:3. Simon Peter saith to them: I go a fishing. They say to him: We\nalso come with thee. And they went forth and entered into the ship: and\nthat night they caught nothing.\n\n21:4. But when the morning was come, Jesus stood on the shore: yet the\ndisciples knew not that it was Jesus.\n\n21:5. Jesus therefore said to them: Children, have you any meat? They\nanswered him: No.\n\n21:6. He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and\nyou shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw\nit, for the multitude of fishes.\n\n21:7. That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter: It is the\nLord. Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat\nabout him (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.\n\n21:8. But the other disciples came in the ship (for they were not far\nfrom the land, but as it were two hundred cubits) dragging the net with\nfishes.\n\n21:9. As soon then as they came to land they saw hot coals lying, and a\nfish laid thereon, and bread.\n\n21:10. Jesus saith to them: Bring hither of the fishes which you have\nnow caught.\n\n21:11. Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of great\nfishes, one hundred and fifty-three. And although there were so many,\nthe net was not broken.\n\n21:12. Jesus saith to them: Come and dine. And none of them who were at\nmeat, durst ask him: Who art thou? Knowing that it was the Lord.\n\n21:13. And Jesus cometh and taketh bread and giveth them: and fish in\nlike manner.\n\n21:14. This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to his\ndisciples, after he was risen from the dead.\n\n21:15. When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter:\nSimon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him:\nYea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my\nlambs.\n\n21:16. He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He\nsaith to him: yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to\nhim: Feed my lambs.\n\n21:17. He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou\nme? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest\nthou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou\nknowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.\n\nFeed my sheep.... Our Lord had promised the spiritual supremacy to St.\nPeter; St. Matt. 16. 19; and here he fulfils that promise, by charging\nhim with the superintendency of all his sheep, without exception; and\nconsequently of his whole flock, that is, of his own church.\n\n21:18. Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst\ngird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be\nold, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee\nand lead thee whither thou wouldst not.\n\n21:19. And this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify\nGod. And when he had said this, he saith to him: Follow me.\n\n21:20. Peter turning about, saw that disciple whom Jesus loved\nfollowing, who also leaned on his breast at supper and said: Lord, who\nis he that shall betray thee?\n\n21:21. Him therefore when Peter had seen, he saith to Jesus: Lord, and\nwhat shall this man do?\n\n21:22. Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come,\nwhat is it to thee? Follow thou me.\n\n21:23. This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that that\ndisciple should not die. And Jesus did not say to him: He should not\ndie; but: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee?\n\n21:24. This is that disciple who giveth testimony of these things and\nhath written these things: and we know that his testimony is true.\n\n21:25. But there are also many other things which Jesus did which, if\nthey were written every one, the world itself. I think, would not be\nable to contain the books that should be written.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES\n\n\nThis Book, which, from the first ages, hath been called, THE ACTS OF\nTHE APOSTLES, is not to be considered as a history of what was done by\nall the Apostles, who were dispersed into different nations; but only a\nshort view of the first establishment of the Christian Church. A part\nof the preaching and action of St. Peter are related in the first\ntwelve chapters; and a particular account of St. Paul\u2019s apostolical\nlabours in the subsequent chapters. It was written by St. Luke the\nEvangelist, and the original in Greek. Its history commences from the\nAscension of Christ our Lord and ends in the year sixty-three, being a\nbrief account of the Church for the space of about thirty years.\n\n\nActs Chapter 1\n\nThe ascension of Christ. Matthias is chosen in place of Judas.\n\n1:1. The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which\nJesus began to do and to teach,\n\n1:2. Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to\nthe apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.\n\n1:3. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many\nproofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom\nof God.\n\n1:4. And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should\nnot depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the\nFather, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.\n\n1:5. For John indeed baptized with water: but you shall be baptized\nwith the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.\n\n1:6. They therefore who were come together, asked him, saying: Lord,\nwilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel?\n\n1:7. But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or\nmoments, which the Father hath put in his own power:\n\n1:8. But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you,\nand you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and\nSamaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.\n\n1:9. And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was\nraised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight.\n\n1:10. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two\nmen stood by them in white garments.\n\n1:11. Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to\nheaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come\nas you have seen him going into heaven.\n\n1:12. Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount that is called\nOlivet, which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sabbath day\u2019s journey.\n\n1:13. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,\nwhere abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,\nBartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude\nthe brother of James.\n\n1:14. All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the\nwomen, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.\n\n1:15. In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said\n(now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):\n\n1:16. Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the\nHoly Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was\nthe leader of them that apprehended Jesus:\n\n1:17. Who was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.\n\n1:18. And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity,\nand being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed\nout.\n\n1:19. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so that\nthe same field was called in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say,\nThe field of blood.\n\n1:20. For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let their habitation\nbecome desolate, and let there be none to dwell therein. And his\nbishopric let another take.\n\n1:21. Wherefore of these men who have companied with us, all the time\nthat the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,\n\n1:22. Beginning from the baptism of John, until the day wherein he was\ntaken up from us, one of these must be made a witness with us of his\nresurrection.\n\n1:23. And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed\nJustus, and Matthias.\n\n1:24. And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all\nmen, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,\n\n1:25. To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which\nJudas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place.\n\n1:26. And they gave them lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he\nwas numbered with the eleven apostles.\n\n\nActs Chapter 2\n\nThe disciples receive the Holy Ghost. Peter\u2019s sermon to the people. The\npiety of the first converts.\n\n2:1. And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were\nall together in one place:\n\n2:2. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind\ncoming: and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.\n\n2:3. And there appeared to them parted tongues, as it were of fire: and\nit sat upon every one of them.\n\n2:4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to\nspeak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to\nspeak.\n\n2:5. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of\nevery nation under heaven.\n\n2:6. And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and\nwere confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his\nown tongue.\n\n2:7. And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not\nall these that speak Galileans?\n\n2:8. And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were\nborn?\n\n2:9. Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia,\nJudea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,\n\n2:10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene,\nand strangers of Rome,\n\n2:11. Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard\nthem speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.\n\n2:12. And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to\nanother: What meaneth this?\n\n2:13. But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine.\n\n2:14. But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and\nspoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be\nthis known to you and with your ears receive my words.\n\n2:15. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the\nthird hour of the day:\n\n2:16. But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel:\n\n2:17. And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord), I\nwill pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your\ndaughters shall prophesy: and your young men shall see visions, and\nyour old men shall dream dreams.\n\n2:18. And upon my servants indeed and upon my handmaids will I pour out\nin those days of my spirit: and they shall prophesy.\n\n2:19. And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the\nearth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.\n\n2:20. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood,\nbefore the great and manifest day of the Lord shall come.\n\n2:21. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the\nname of the Lord shall be saved.\n\n2:22. Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man\napproved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God\ndid by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:\n\n2:23. This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and\nforeknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and\nslain.\n\nBy the determinate, etc.... God delivered up his Son; and his Son\ndelivered up himself, for the love of us, and for the sake of our\nsalvation; and so Christ\u2019s being delivered up was holy, and was God\u2019s\nown determination. But they who betrayed and crucified him, did\nwickedly, following therein their own malice and the instigation of the\ndevil; not the will and determination of God, who was by no means the\nauthor of their wickedness; though he permitted it; because he could,\nand did draw out of it so great a good, viz., the salvation of man.\n\n2:24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it\nwas impossible that he should be holden by it.\n\nHaving loosed the sorrow, etc.... Having overcome the grievous pains of\ndeath and all the power of hell.\n\n2:25. For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my\nface: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved.\n\n2:26. For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced:\nmoreover my flesh also shall rest in hope.\n\n2:27. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy\nOne to see corruption.\n\n2:28. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me\nfull of joy with thy countenance.\n\n2:29. Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch\nDavid: that he died and was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to\nthis present day.\n\n2:30. Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn\nto him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon\nhis throne.\n\n2:31. Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ. For\nneither was he left in hell: neither did his flesh see corruption.\n\n2:32. This Jesus hath God raised again, whereof all we are witnesses.\n\n2:33. Being exalted therefore by the right hand of God and having\nreceived of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured\nforth this which you see and hear.\n\n2:34. For David ascended not into heaven; but he himself said: The Lord\nsaid to my Lord: Sit thou on my right hand,\n\n2:35. Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.\n\n2:36. Therefore let all the house of Israel know most certainly that\nGod hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have\ncrucified.\n\n2:37. Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in\ntheir heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What\nshall we do, men and brethren?\n\n2:38. But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of\nyou in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And\nyou shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.\n\n2:39. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that\nare far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.\n\n2:40. And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them,\nsaying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation.\n\n2:41. They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there\nwere added in that day about three thousand souls.\n\n2:42. And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in\nthe communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers.\n\n2:43. And fear came upon every soul. Many wonders also and signs were\ndone by the apostles in Jerusalem: and there was great fear in all.\n\n2:44. And all they that believed were together and had all things\ncommon.\n\n2:45. Their possessions and goods they sold and divided them to all,\naccording as every one had need.\n\n2:46. And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking\nbread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and\nsimplicity of heart:\n\n2:47. Praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord\nincreased daily together such as should be saved.\n\n\nActs Chapter 3\n\nThe miracle upon the lame man, followed by the conversion of many.\n\n3:1. Now Peter and John went up into the temple at the ninth hour of\nprayer.\n\n3:2. And a certain man who was lame from his mother\u2019s womb was carried:\nwhom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called\nBeautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.\n\n3:3. He, when he had seen Peter and John, about to go into the temple,\nasked to receive an alms.\n\n3:4. But Peter with John, fastening his eyes upon him, said: Look upon\nus.\n\n3:5. But he looked earnestly upon them, hoping that he should receive\nsomething of them.\n\n3:6. But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I\ngive thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk.\n\n3:7. And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up: and forthwith\nhis feet and soles received strength.\n\n3:8. And he leaping up, stood and walked and went in with them into the\ntemple, walking and leaping and praising God.\n\n3:9. And all the people saw him walking and praising God.\n\n3:10. And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the\nBeautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and\namazement at that which had happened to him.\n\n3:11. And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them, to the\nporch which is called Solomon\u2019s, greatly wondering.\n\n3:12. But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel,\nwhy wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength\nor power we had made this man to walk?\n\n3:13. The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the\nGod of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed\ndelivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he\nshould be released.\n\n3:14. But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer\nto be granted unto you.\n\n3:15. But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the\ndead: of which we are witnesses.\n\n3:16. And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and\nknown, hath his name strengthened. And the faith which is by him hath\ngiven this perfect soundness in the sight of you all.\n\n3:17. And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as\ndid also your rulers.\n\n3:18. But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all\nthe prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.\n\n3:19. Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be\nblotted out.\n\n3:20. That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence\nof the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you,\nJesus Christ.\n\n3:21. Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the\nrestitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his\nholy prophets, from the beginning of the world.\n\n3:22. For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto\nyou of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all\nthings whatsoever he shall speak to you.\n\n3:23. And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet\nshall be destroyed from among the people.\n\n3:24. And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have\nspoken, have told of these days.\n\n3:25. You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which\nGod made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all\nthe kindreds of the earth be blessed.\n\n3:26. To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless\nyou: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.\n\n\nActs Chapter 4\n\nPeter and John are apprehended. Their constancy. The church is\nincreased.\n\n4:1. And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the\nofficer of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,\n\n4:2. Being grieved that they taught the people and preached in Jesus\nthe resurrection from the dead:\n\n4:3. And they laid hands upon them and put them in hold till the next\nday: for it was now evening.\n\n4:4. But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number\nof the men was made five thousand.\n\n4:5. And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients\nand scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.\n\n4:6. And Annas the high priest and Caiphas and John and Alexander: and\nas many as were of the kindred of the high priest.\n\n4:7. And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power or by\nwhat name, have you done this?\n\n4:8. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes\nof the people and ancients, hear.\n\n4:9. If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the\ninfirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:\n\n4:10. Be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by\nthe name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom\nGod hath raised from the dead, even by him, this man standeth here\nbefore you, whole.\n\n4:11. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which\nis become the head of the corner.\n\n4:12. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other\nname under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.\n\n4:13. Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that\nthey were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew\nthem that they had been with Jesus.\n\n4:14. Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they\ncould say nothing against it.\n\n4:15. But they commanded them to go aside out of the council: and they\nconferred among themselves,\n\n4:16. Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath\nbeen done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is\nmanifest: and we cannot deny it.\n\n4:17. But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us\nthreaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.\n\n4:18. And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor\nteach in the name of Jesus.\n\n4:19. But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the\nsight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.\n\n4:20. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.\n\n4:21. But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might\npunish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been\ndone, in that which had come to pass.\n\n4:22. For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous\ncure had been wrought.\n\n4:23. And being let go, they came to their own company and related all\nthat the chief priests and ancients had said to them.\n\n4:24. Who having heard it, with one accord lifted up their voice to God\nand said: Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea\nand all things that are in them.\n\n4:25. Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy\nservant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate\nvain things?\n\n4:26. The kings of the earth stood up: and the princes assembled\ntogether against the Lord and his Christ.\n\n4:27. For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy\nholy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate,\nwith the Gentiles and the people of Israel,\n\n4:28. To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.\n\n4:29. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy\nservants that with all confidence they may speak thy word,\n\n4:30. By stretching forth thy hand to cures and signs and wonders, to\nbe done by the name of thy holy Son, Jesus.\n\n4:31. And when they had prayed, the place was moved wherein they were\nassembled: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke\nthe word of God with confidence.\n\n4:32. And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul.\nNeither did any one say that aught of the things which he possessed was\nhis own: but all things were common unto them.\n\n4:33. And with great power did the Apostles give testimony of the\nresurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord: and great grace was in them all.\n\n4:34. For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as\nwere owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the\nthings they sold,\n\n4:35. And laid it down before the feet of the apostles. And\ndistribution was made to every one, according as he had need.\n\n4:36. And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which\nis, by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian\nborn,\n\n4:37. Having land, sold it and brought the price and laid it at the\nfeet of the Apostles.\n\n\nActs Chapter 5\n\nThe judgment of God upon Ananias and Saphira. The apostles are cast\ninto prison.\n\n5:1. But a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a\npiece of land,\n\n5:2. And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife\nbeing privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at\nthe feet of the apostles.\n\n5:3. But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that\nthou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price\nof the land?\n\n5:4. Whilst it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was\nsold, was it not in thy power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in\nthy heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.\n\n5:5. And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost.\nAnd there came great fear upon all that heard it.\n\n5:6. And the young men rising up, removed him, and carrying him out,\nburied him.\n\n5:7. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife,\nnot knowing what had happened, came in.\n\n5:8. And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman, whether you sold the land\nfor so much? And she said: Yea, for so much.\n\n5:9. And Peter said unto her: Why have you agreed together to tempt the\nspirit of the Lord? Behold the feet of them who have buried thy husband\nare at the door: and they shall carry thee out,\n\n5:10. Immediately, she fell down before his feet and gave up the ghost.\nAnd the young men coming in found her dead: and carried her out and\nburied her by her husband.\n\n5:11. And there came great fear upon the whole church and upon all that\nheard these things.\n\n5:12. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders\nwrought among the people. And they were all with one accord in\nSolomon\u2019s porch.\n\n5:13. But of the rest no man durst join himself unto them: but the\npeople magnified them.\n\n5:14. And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was\nmore increased:\n\n5:15. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and\nlaid them on beds and couches, that, when Peter came, his shadow at the\nleast might overshadow any of them and they might be delivered from\ntheir infirmities.\n\n5:16. And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the\nneighbouring cities, bringing sick persons and such as were troubled\nwith unclean spirits: who were all healed.\n\n5:17. Then the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him\n(which is the heresy of the Sadducees) were filled with envy.\n\n5:18. And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common\nprison.\n\n5:19. But an angel of the Lord by night, opening the doors of the\nprison and leading them out, said:\n\n5:20. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words\nof this life.\n\n5:21. Who having heard this, early in the morning, entered into the\ntemple and taught. And the high priest coming, and they that were with\nhim, called together the council and all the ancients of the children\nof Israel: and they sent to the prison to have them brought.\n\n5:22. But when the ministers came and opening the prison found them not\nthere, they returned and told,\n\n5:23. Saying: The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and\nthe keepers standing before the doors; but opening it, we found no man\nwithin.\n\n5:24. Now when the officer of the temple and the chief priests heard\nthese words, they were in doubt concerning them, what would come to\npass.\n\n5:25. But one came and told them: Behold, the men whom you put in\nprison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.\n\n5:26. Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without\nviolence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.\n\n5:27. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council.\nAnd the high priest asked them,\n\n5:28. Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in\nthis name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine:\nand you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.\n\n5:29. But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God\nrather than men.\n\n5:30. The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to\ndeath, hanging him upon a tree.\n\n5:31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and\nSaviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.\n\n5:32. And we are witnesses of these things: and the Holy Ghost, whom\nGod hath given to all that obey him.\n\n5:33. When they had heard these things, they were cut to the heart: and\nthey thought to put them to death.\n\n5:34. But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a\ndoctor of the law, respected by all the people, commanded the men to be\nput forth a little while.\n\n5:35. And he said to them: Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves\nwhat you intend to do, as touching these men.\n\n5:36. For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be\nsomebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined\nthemselves. Who was slain: and all that believed him were scattered and\nbrought to nothing.\n\n5:37. After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee, in the days of the\nenrolling, and drew away the people after him. He also perished: and\nall, even as many as consented to him, were dispersed.\n\n5:38. And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let\nthem alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to\nnought:\n\n5:39. But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be\nfound even to fight against God. And they consented to him.\n\n5:40. And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they\ncharged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus.\nAnd they dismissed them.\n\n5:41. And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing\nthat they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of\nJesus.\n\n5:42. And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to\nhouse, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.\n\n\nActs Chapter 6\n\nThe ordination of the seven deacons. The zeal of Stephen.\n\n6:1. And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there\narose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their\nwidows were neglected in the daily ministration.\n\nGreeks.... So they called the Jews that were born and brought up in\nGreece.\n\n6:2. Then the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples,\nsaid: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve\ntables.\n\n6:3. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good\nreputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over\nthis business.\n\n6:4. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the\nministry of the word.\n\n6:5. And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose\nStephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip and\nProchorus and Nicanor, and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte\nof Antioch.\n\n6:6. These they set before the apostles: and they praying, imposed\nhands upon them.\n\n6:7. And the word of the Lord increased: and the number of the\ndisciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great multitude\nalso of the priests obeyed the faith.\n\n6:8. And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did great wonders and\nsigns among the people.\n\n6:9. Now there arose some, of that which is called the synagogue of the\nLibertines and of the Cyrenians and of the Alexandrians and of them\nthat were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.\n\n6:10. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit that\nspoke.\n\n6:11. Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of\nblasphemy against Moses and against God.\n\n6:12. And they stirred up the people and the ancients and the scribes.\nAnd running together, they took him and brought him to the council.\n\n6:13. And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not\nto speak words against the holy place and the law.\n\n6:14. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall\ndestroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses\ndelivered unto us.\n\n6:15. And all that sat in the council, looking on him, saw his face as\nif it had been the face of an angel.\n\n\nActs Chapter 7\n\nStephen\u2019s speech before the council. His martyrdom.\n\n7:1. Then the high priest said: Are these things so?\n\n7:2. Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory\nappeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he\ndwelt in Charan.\n\n7:3. And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred:\nand come into the land which I shall shew thee.\n\n7:4. Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan.\nAnd from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this\nland, wherein you now dwell.\n\n7:5. And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot.\nBut he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after\nhim, when as yet he had no child.\n\n7:6. And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange\ncountry, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them\nevil four hundred years.\n\n7:7. And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the\nLord): and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in\nthis place.\n\n7:8. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot\nIsaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and\nJacob, the twelve patriarchs.\n\n7:9. And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God\nwas with him,\n\n7:10. And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him\nfavour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he\nappointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house.\n\n7:11. Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great\ntribulation: and our fathers found no food.\n\n7:12. But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent\nour fathers first.\n\n7:13. And at the second time, Joseph was known by his brethren: and his\nkindred was made known to Pharao.\n\n7:14. And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his\nkindred, seventy-five souls.\n\n7:15. So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers.\n\n7:16. And they were translated into Sichem and were laid in the\nsepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor,\nthe son of Sichem.\n\n7:17. And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had\npromised to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.\n\n7:18. Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph.\n\n7:19. This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers,\nthat they should expose their children, to the end they might not be\nkept alive.\n\n7:20. At the same time was Moses born: and he was acceptable to God.\nWho was nourished three months in his father\u2019s house.\n\n7:21. And when he was exposed, Pharao\u2019s daughter took him up and\nnourished him for her own son.\n\n7:22. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and\nhe was mighty in his words and in his deeds.\n\n7:23. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to\nvisit his brethren, the children of Israel.\n\n7:24. And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him:\nand striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury.\n\n7:25. And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand\nwould save them. But they understood it not.\n\n7:26. And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were\nat strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are\nbrethren. Why hurt you one another?\n\n7:27. But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away,\nsaying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us:\n\n7:28. What! Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the\nEgyptian?\n\n7:29. And Moses fled upon this word: and was a stranger in the land of\nMadian, where he begot two sons.\n\n7:30. And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the\ndesert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.\n\n7:31. And Moses seeing it wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to\nview it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying:\n\n7:32. I am the God of thy fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac\nand the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified durst not behold.\n\n7:33. And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the\nplace wherein thou standest is holy ground.\n\n7:34. Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in\nEgypt: and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver\nthem. And now come: and I will send thee into Egypt.\n\n7:35. This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee\nprince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand\nof the angel who appeared to him in the bush.\n\n7:36. He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt\nand in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.\n\n7:37. This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet\nshall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself. Him shall\nyou hear.\n\n7:38. This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the\nangel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received\nthe words of life to give unto us.\n\n7:39. Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their\nhearts turned back into Egypt,\n\n7:40. Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this\nMoses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is\nbecome of him.\n\n7:41. And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the\nidol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.\n\n7:42. And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as\nit is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and\nsacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?\n\n7:43. And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of\nyour god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will\ncarry you away beyond Babylon.\n\n7:44. The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the\ndesert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should\nmake it according to the form which he had seen.\n\n7:45. Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the\npossession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our\nfathers, unto the days of David,\n\nJesus.... That is Josue, so called in Greek.\n\n7:46. Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for\nthe God of Jacob.\n\n7:47. But Solomon built him a house,\n\n7:48. Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the\nprophet saith:\n\nDwelleth not in houses, etc.... That is, so as to stand in need of\nearthly dwellings, or to be contained, or circumscribed by them.\nThough, otherwise by his immense divinity, he is in our houses; and\nevery where else; and Christ in his humanity dwelt in houses; and is\nnow on our altars.\n\n7:49. Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. What house will\nyou build me (saith the Lord)? Or what is the place of my resting?\n\n7:50. Hath not my hand made all these things?\n\n7:51. You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always\nresist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.\n\n7:52. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they\nhave slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you\nhave been now the betrayers and murderers.\n\n7:53. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have\nnot kept it.\n\n7:54. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they\ngnashed with their teeth at him.\n\n7:55. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to\nheaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of\nGod. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man\nstanding on the right hand of God.\n\n7:56. And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and\nwith one accord ran violently upon him.\n\n7:57. And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him. And the\nwitnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose\nname was Saul.\n\n7:58. And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive\nmy spirit.\n\n7:59. And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying:\nLord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he\nfell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.\n\n\nActs Chapter 8\n\nPhilip converts the Samaritans and baptizes the eunuch.\n\n8:1. And at that time, there was raised a great persecution against the\nchurch which was at Jerusalem. And they were all dispersed through the\ncountries of Judea, and Samaria, except the apostles.\n\n8:2. And devout men took order for Stephen\u2019s funeral and made great\nmourning over him.\n\n8:3. But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to\nhouse: and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.\n\n8:4. They therefore that were dispersed went about preaching the word\nof God.\n\n8:5. And Philip, going down to the city of Samaria, preached Christ\nunto them.\n\n8:6. And the people with one accord were attentive to those things\nwhich were said by Philip, hearing, and seeing the miracles which he\ndid.\n\n8:7. For many of them who had unclean spirits, crying with a loud\nvoice, went out.\n\n8:8. And many, taken with the palsy, and that were lame, were healed.\n\n8:9. There was therefore great joy in that city. Now there was a\ncertain man named Simon who before had been a magician in that city,\nseducing the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great one:\n\n8:10. To whom they all gave ear, from the least to the greatest,\nsaying: This man is the power of God, which is called great.\n\n8:11. And they were attentive to him, because, for a long time, he had\nbewitched them with his magical practices.\n\n8:12. But when they had believed Philip preaching of the kingdom of\nGod, in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and\nwomen.\n\n8:13. Then Simon himself believed also and, being baptized, he adhered\nto Philip. And being astonished, wondered to see the signs and\nexceeding great miracles which were done.\n\n8:14. Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that\nSamaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and\nJohn.\n\n8:15. Who, when they were come, prayed for them that they might receive\nthe Holy Ghost.\n\n8:16. For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only\nbaptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.\n\n8:17. Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy\nGhost.\n\nThey laid their hands upon them, etc.... The apostles administered the\nsacrament of confirmation, by imposition of hands, and prayer; and the\nfaithful thereby received the Holy Ghost. Not but they had received the\ngrace of the Holy Ghost at their baptism: yet not that plenitude of\ngrace and those spiritual gifts which they afterwards received from\nbishops in the sacrament of confirmation, which strengthened them to\nprofess their faith publicly.\n\n8:18. And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the\napostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,\n\n8:19. Saying: Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I shall lay\nmy hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said to him:\n\n8:20. Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast\nthought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.\n\n8:21. Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not\nright in the sight of God.\n\n8:22. Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness: and pray to God,\nthat perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.\n\n8:23. For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of\niniquity.\n\n8:24. Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for me to the Lord that none\nof these things which you have spoken may come upon me.\n\n8:25. And they indeed, having testified and preached the word of the\nLord, returned to Jerusalem: and preached the gospel to many countries\nof the Samaritans.\n\n8:26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, go\ntowards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza:\nthis is desert.\n\n8:27. And rising up, he went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch,\nof great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had\ncharge over all her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to adore.\n\n8:28. And he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading Isaias\nthe prophet.\n\n8:29. And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near and join thyself to this\nchariot.\n\n8:30. And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias.\nAnd he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?\n\n8:31. Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired\nPhilip that he would come up and sit with him.\n\n8:32. And the place of the scripture which he was reading was this: He\nwas led as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb without voice\nbefore his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth.\n\n8:33. In humility his judgment was taken away. His generation who shall\ndeclare, for his life shall be taken from the earth?\n\n8:34. And the eunuch answering Philip, said: I beseech thee, of whom\ndoth the prophet speak this? Of himself, or of some other man?\n\n8:35. Then Philip, opening his mouth and beginning at this scripture,\npreached unto him Jesus.\n\n8:36. And as they went on their way, they came to a certain water. And\nthe eunuch said: See, here is water: What doth hinder me from being\nbaptized?\n\n8:37. And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy heart, thou\nmayest. And he answering, said: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son\nof God.\n\nIf thou believest with all thy heart.... The scripture many times\nmentions only one disposition, as here belief, when others equally\nnecessary are not expressed, viz., a sorrow for sins, a firm hope, and\nthe love of God. Moreover, believing with the whole heart signifies a\nbelief of every thing necessary for salvation.\n\n8:38. And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down\ninto the water, both Philip and the eunuch. And he baptized him.\n\n8:39. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the\nLord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on\nhis way rejoicing.\n\n8:40. But Philip was found in Azotus: and passing through, he preached\nthe gospel to all the cities, till he came to C\u00e6sarea.\n\n\nActs Chapter 9\n\nPaul\u2019s conversion and zeal. Peter heals Eneas and raises up Tabitha to\nlife.\n\n9:1. And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against\nthe disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest\n\n9:2. And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if\nhe found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to\nJerusalem.\n\n9:3. And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh\nto Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him.\n\n9:4. And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul,\nSaul, why persecutest thou me?\n\n9:5. Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou\npersecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.\n\n9:6. And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have\nme to do?\n\n9:7. And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the city; and there it\nshall be told thee what thou must do. Now the men who went in company\nwith him stood amazed, hearing indeed a voice but seeing no man.\n\n9:8. And Saul arose from the ground: and when his eyes were opened, he\nsaw nothing. But they, leading him by the hands, brought him to\nDamascus.\n\n9:9. And he was there three days without sight: and he did neither eat\nnor drink.\n\n9:10. Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias. And\nthe Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias, And he said: Behold I am\nhere, Lord.\n\n9:11. And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is\ncalled Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus.\nFor behold he prayeth.\n\n9:12. (And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands\nupon him, that he might receive his sight.)\n\n9:13. But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how\nmuch evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem.\n\n9:14. And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all\nthat invoke thy name.\n\n9:15. And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a\nvessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and\nthe children of Israel.\n\n9:16. For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name\u2019s\nsake.\n\n9:17. And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying\nhis hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me,\nhe that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest\nreceive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.\n\n9:18. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales: and\nhe received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized.\n\n9:19. And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with\nthe disciples that were at Damascus, for some days.\n\n9:20. And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is\nthe son of God.\n\n9:21. And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he\nwho persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came\nhither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief\npriests?\n\n9:22. But Saul increased much more in strength and confounded the Jews\nwho dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is the Christ.\n\n9:23. And when many days were passed, the Jews consulted together to\nkill him.\n\n9:24. But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched\nthe gates also day and night, that they might kill him.\n\n9:25. But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by\nthe wall, letting him down in a basket.\n\n9:26. And when he was come into Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself\nto the disciples: and they all were afraid of him, not believing that\nhe was a disciple.\n\n9:27. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and told\nthem how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him: and how\nin Damascus he had dealt confidently in the name of Jesus.\n\n9:28. And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem and\ndealing confidently in the name of the Lord.\n\n9:29. He spoke also to the Gentiles and disputed with the Greeks. But\nthey sought to kill him.\n\n9:30. Which when the brethren had known, they brought him down to\nC\u00e6sarea and sent him away to Tarsus.\n\n9:31. Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and\nSamaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was\nfilled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.\n\n9:32. And it came to pass that Peter, as he passed through, visiting\nall, came to the saints who dwelt at Lydda.\n\n9:33. And he found there a certain man named Eneas, who had kept his\nbed for eight years, who was ill of the palsy.\n\n9:34. And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee.\nArise and make thy bed. And immediately he arose.\n\n9:35. And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him: who were converted\nto the Lord.\n\n9:36. And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by\ninterpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and\nalmsdeeds which she did.\n\n9:37. And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died.\nWhom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.\n\n9:38. And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppe, the disciples, hearing\nthat Peter was there, sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would\nnot be slack to come unto them.\n\n9:39. And Peter rising up went with them. And when he was come, they\nbrought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him,\nweeping and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.\n\n9:40. And they all being put forth, Peter, kneeling down, prayed. And\nturning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes\nand, seeing Peter, sat up.\n\n9:41. And giving her his hand, he lifted her up. And when he had called\nthe saints and the widows, he presented her alive.\n\n9:42. And it was made known throughout all Joppe. And many believed in\nthe Lord.\n\n9:43. And it came to pass that he abode many days in Joppe, with one\nSimon a tanner.\n\n\nActs Chapter 10\n\nCornelius is received into the church. Peter\u2019s vision.\n\n10:1. And there was a certain man in C\u00e6sarea, named Cornelius, a\ncenturion of that which is called the Italian band:\n\n10:2. A religious man, and fearing God with all his house, giving much\nalms to the people and always praying to God.\n\n10:3. This man saw in a vision manifestly, about the ninth hour of the\nday, an angel of God coming in unto him and saying to him: Cornelius.\n\n10:4. And he, beholding him, being seized with fear, said: What is it,\nLord? And he said to him: Thy prayers and thy alms are ascended for a\nmemorial in the sight of God.\n\n10:5. And now send men to Joppe: and call hither one Simon, who is\nsurnamed Peter.\n\n10:6. He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea\nside. He will tell thee what thou must do.\n\n10:7. And when the angel who spoke to him was departed, he called two\nof his household servants and a soldier who feared the Lord, of them\nthat were under him.\n\n10:8. To whom when he had related all, he sent them to Joppe.\n\n10:9. And on the next day, whilst they were going on their journey and\ndrawing nigh to the city, Peter went up to the higher parts of the\nhouse to pray, about the sixth hour.\n\n10:10. And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they\nwere preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind.\n\n10:11. And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending, as\nit were a great linen sheet let down by the four corners from heaven to\nthe earth:\n\n10:12. Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts and creeping\nthings of the earth and fowls of the air.\n\n10:13. And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter. Kill and eat.\n\n10:14. But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing\nthat is common and unclean.\n\n10:15. And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God\nhath cleansed, do not thou call common.\n\n10:16. And this was done thrice. And presently the vessel was taken up\ninto heaven.\n\n10:17. Now, whilst Peter was doubting within himself what the vision\nthat he had seen should mean, behold the men who were sent from\nCornelius, inquiring for Simon\u2019s house, stood at the gate.\n\n10:18. And when they had called, they asked if Simon, who is surnamed\nPeter, were lodged there.\n\n10:19. And as Peter was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him:\nBehold three men seek thee.\n\n10:20. Arise, therefore: get thee down and go with them, doubting\nnothing: for I have sent them.\n\n10:21. Then Peter, going down to the men, said: Behold, I am he whom\nyou seek. What is the cause for which you are come?\n\n10:22. Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just man and one that\nfeareth God, and having good testimony from all the nation of the Jews,\nreceived an answer of an holy angel, to send for thee into his house\nAnd to hear words of thee.\n\n10:23. Then bringing them in, he lodged them. And the day following, he\narose and went with them: and some of the brethren from Joppe\naccompanied him.\n\n10:24. And the morrow after, he entered into C\u00e6sarea. And Cornelius\nwaited for them, having called together his kinsmen and special\nfriends.\n\n10:25. And it came to pass that when Peter was come in, Cornelius came\nto meet him and falling at his feet adored.\n\n10:26. But Peter lifted him up, saying: Arise: I myself also am a man.\n\n10:27. And talking with him, he went in and found many that were come\ntogether.\n\n10:28. And he said to them: you know how abominable it is for a man\nthat is a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation:\nbut God hath shewed to me, to call no man common or unclean.\n\n10:29. For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I\nask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me?\n\n10:30. And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto this hour, I was praying\nin my house, at the ninth hour and behold a man stood before me in\nwhite apparel and said:\n\n10:31. Cornelius, thy prayer is heard and thy alms are had in\nremembrance in the sight of God.\n\n10:32. Send therefore to Joppe: and call hither Simon, who is surnamed\nPeter. He lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side.\n\n10:33. Immediately therefore I sent to thee: and thou hast done well in\ncoming. Now, therefore, all we are present in thy sight to hear all\nthings whatsoever are commanded thee by the Lord.\n\n10:34. And Peter opening his mouth, said: in very deed I perceive that\nGod is not a respecter of persons.\n\n10:35. But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is\nacceptable to him.\n\nIn every nation, etc.... That is to say, not only Jews, but Gentiles\nalso, of what nation soever, are acceptable to God, if they fear him\nand work justice. But then true faith is always to be presupposed,\nwithout which (saith St. Paul, Heb. 11. 6) it is impossible to please\nGod. Beware then of the error of those, who would infer from this\npassage, that men of all religions may be pleasing to God. For since\nnone but the true religion can be from God, all other religions must be\nfrom the father of lies, and therefore highly displeasing to the God of\ntruth.\n\n10:36. God sent the word to the children of Israel, preaching peace by\nJesus Christ (He is Lord of all).\n\n10:37. You know the word which hath been published through all Judea:\nfor it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached.\n\n10:38. Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and\nwith power, who went about doing good and healing all that were\noppressed by the devil, for God was with him.\n\n10:39. And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of\nthe Jews and in Jerusalem: whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.\n\n10:40. Him God raised up the third day and gave him to be made\nmanifest,\n\n10:41. Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even\nto us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the\ndead.\n\n10:42. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that\nit is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the\ndead.\n\n10:43. To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all\nreceive remission of sins, who believe in him.\n\n10:44. While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on\nall them that heard the word.\n\n10:45. And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were\nastonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the\nGentiles also.\n\n10:46. For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.\n\n10:47. Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should\nnot be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?\n\n10:48. And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord\nJesus Christ. Then they desired him to tarry with them some days.\n\n\nActs Chapter 11\n\nPeter defends his having received the Gentiles into the church.\n\n11:1. And the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the\nGentiles also had received the word of God.\n\n11:2. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the\ncircumcision contended with him,\n\n11:3. Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat\nwith them?\n\n11:4. But Peter began and declared to them the matter in order, saying:\n\n11:5. I was in the city of Joppe praying: and I saw in an ecstasy of\nmind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet\nlet down from heaven by four corners. And it came even unto me.\n\n11:6. Into which looking, I considered and saw fourfooted creatures of\nthe earth and beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air.\n\n11:7. And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter. Kill and\neat.\n\n11:8. And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever\nentered into my mouth.\n\n11:9. And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made\nclean, do not thou call common.\n\n11:10. And this was done three times. And all were taken up again into\nheaven.\n\n11:11. And behold, immediately there were three men come to the house\nwherein I was, sent to me from C\u00e6sarea.\n\n11:12. And the Spirit said to me that I should go with them, nothing\ndoubting. And these six brethren went with me also: and we entered into\nthe man\u2019s house.\n\n11:13. And he told us how he had seen an angel in his house, standing\nand saying to him: Send to Joppe and call hither Simon, who is surnamed\nPeter,\n\n11:14. Who shall speak to thee words whereby thou shalt be saved, and\nall thy house.\n\n11:15. And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as\nupon us also in the beginning.\n\n11:16. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said: John\nindeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy\nGhost.\n\n11:17. If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed\nin the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?\n\n11:18. Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified\nGod, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto\nlife.\n\n11:19. Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on\noccasion of Stephen went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and\nAntioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only.\n\n11:20. But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they\nwere entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the Lord\nJesus.\n\n11:21. And the hand of he Lord was with them: and a great number\nbelieving, were converted to the Lord.\n\n11:22. And the tidings came to the ears of the church that was at\nJerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as\nAntioch.\n\n11:23. Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced.\nAnd he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.\n\n11:24. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.\nAnd a great multitude was added to the Lord.\n\n11:25. And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when he had\nfound, he brought to Antioch.\n\n11:26. And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they\ntaught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first\nnamed Christians.\n\n11:27. And in these days there came prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch.\n\n11:28. And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit\nthat there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to\npass under Claudius.\n\n11:29. And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed\nto send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea.\n\n11:30. Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of\nBarnabas and Saul.\n\n\nActs Chapter 12\n\nHerod\u2019s persecution. Peter\u2019s deliverance by an angel. Herod\u2019s\npunishment.\n\n12:1. And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands,\nto afflict some of the church.\n\n12:2. And he killed James, the brother of John, With the sword.\n\n12:3. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up\nPeter also. Now it was in the days of the Azymes.\n\nAzymes.... The festival of the unleavened bread, or the pasch, which\nanswers to our Easter.\n\n12:4. And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison,\ndelivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after\nthe pasch, to bring him forth to the people.\n\n12:5. Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without\nceasing by the church unto God for him.\n\n12:6. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night,\nPeter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the\nkeepers before the door kept the prison.\n\n12:7. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shined\nin the room. And he, striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying:\nArise quickly. And the chains fell off from his hands.\n\n12:8. And the angel said to him: Gird thyself and put on thy sandals.\nAnd he did so. And he said to him: Cast thy garment about thee and\nfollow me,\n\n12:9. And going out, he followed him. And he knew not that it was true\nwhich was done by the angel: but thought he saw a vision.\n\n12:10. And passing through the first and the second ward, they came to\nthe iron gate that leadeth to the city which of itself opened to them.\nAnd going out, they passed on through one street. And immediately the\nangel departed from him.\n\n12:11. And Peter coming to himself, said: Now I know in very deed that\nthe Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of\nHerod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.\n\n12:12. And considering, he came to the house of Mary the mother of\nJohn, who was surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together and\npraying.\n\n12:13. And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to\nhearken, whose name was Rhode.\n\n12:14. And as soon as she knew Peter\u2019s voice, she opened not the gate\nfor joy: but running in she told that Peter stood before the gate.\n\n12:15. But they said to her: Thou art mad. But she affirmed that it was\nso. Then said they: It is his angel.\n\n12:16. But Peter continued knocking. And when they had opened, they saw\nhim and were astonished.\n\n12:17. But he, beckoning to them with his hand to hold their peace,\ntold how the Lord had brought him out of prison. And he said: Tell\nthese things to James and to the brethren. And going out, he went into\nanother place.\n\n12:18. Now when day was come, there was no small stir among the\nsoldiers, what was become of Peter.\n\n12:19. And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, having\nexamined the keepers, he commanded they should be put to death. And\ngoing down from Judea to C\u00e6sarea, he abode there.\n\n12:20. And he was angry with the Tyrians and the Sidonians. But they\nwith one accord came to him: and, having gained Blastus who was the\nking\u2019s chamberlain, they desired peace, because their countries were\nnourished by him.\n\n12:21. And upon a day appointed, Herod being arrayed in kingly apparel,\nsat in the judgment seat and made an oration to them.\n\n12:22. And the people made acclamation, saying: It is the voice of a\ngod, and not of a man.\n\n12:23. And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had\nnot given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up\nthe ghost.\n\n12:24. But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied.\n\n12:25. And Barnabas and Saul, returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled\ntheir ministry, taking with them John who was surnamed Mark.\n\n\nActs Chapter 13\n\nSaul and Barnabas are sent forth by the Holy Ghost. They preach in\nCyprus and in Antioch of Pisidia.\n\n13:1. Now there were in the church which was at Antioch prophets and\ndoctors, among whom was Barnabas and Simon who was called Niger, and\nLucius of Cyrene and Manahen who was the foster brother of Herod the\ntetrarch, and Saul.\n\n13:2. And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy\nGhost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work\nwhereunto I have taken them.\n\n13:3. Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them,\nsent them away.\n\n13:4. So they, being sent by the Holy Ghost, went to Seleucia: and from\nthence they sailed to Cyprus.\n\n13:5. And when they were come to Salamina, they preached the word of\nGod in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also in the\nministry.\n\n13:6. And when they had gone through the whole island, as far as\nPaphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew,\nwhose name was Bar-Jesu:\n\n13:7. Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He,\nsending for Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the word of God.\n\n13:8. But Elymas the magician (for so his name is interpreted)\nwithstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.\n\n13:9. Then Saul, otherwise Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, looking\nupon him,\n\n13:10. Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil,\nenemy of all justice, thou ceasest not to pervert the right ways of the\nLord.\n\n13:11. And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou\nshalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there\nfell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one\nto lead him by the hand.\n\n13:12. Then the proconsul, when he had seen what was done, believed,\nadmiring at the doctrine of the Lord.\n\n13:13. Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from\nPaphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them,\nreturned to Jerusalem.\n\n13:14. But they, passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia:\nand, entering into the Synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.\n\n13:15. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of\nthe synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any\nword of exhortation to make to the people, speak.\n\n13:16. Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said:\nYe men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear.\n\n13:17. The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted\nthe people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an\nhigh arm brought them out from thence:\n\n13:18. And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the\ndesert:\n\n13:19. And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chanaan, divided\ntheir land among them by lot.\n\n13:20. As it were, after four hundred and fifty years. And after these\nthings, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet.\n\n13:21. And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the\nson of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.\n\n13:22. And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king:\nto whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of\nJesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.\n\n13:23. Of this man\u2019s seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised\nup to Israel a Saviour Jesus:\n\n13:24. John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance\nto all the people of Israel.\n\n13:25. And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he\nwhom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose\nshoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.\n\n13:26. Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever\namong you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent.\n\n13:27. For they that inhabited Jerusalem and the rulers thereof, not\nknowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every\nsabbath, judging him, have fulfilled them.\n\n13:28. And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate\nthat they might kill him.\n\n13:29. And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him,\ntaking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.\n\n13:30. But God raised him up from the dead the third day.\n\n13:31. Who was seen for many days by them who came up with him from\nGalilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the\npeople.\n\n13:32. And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our\nfathers,\n\n13:33. This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus,\nas in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have\nI begotten thee.\n\n13:34. And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return\nnow any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy\nthings of David, faithful.\n\nI will give you the holy, etc.... These are the words of the prophet\nIsaias, 55. 3. According to the Septuagint, the sense is: I will\nfaithfully fulfil the promises I made to David.\n\n13:35. And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not\nsuffer thy holy one to see corruption.\n\n13:36. For David, when he had served in his generation, according to\nthe will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw\ncorruption.\n\n13:37. But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption.\n\n13:38. Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him\nforgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from\nwhich you could not be justified by the law of Moses.\n\n13:39. In him every one that believeth is justified.\n\n13:40. Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in\nthe prophets:\n\n13:41. Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work\nin your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell\nit you.\n\n13:42. And as they went out, they desired them that on the next sabbath\nthey would speak unto them these words.\n\n13:43. And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of\nthe strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking\nto them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.\n\n13:44. But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together,\nto hear the word of God.\n\n13:45. And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and\ncontradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.\n\n13:46. Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first\nto speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge\nyourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.\n\n13:47. For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the\nlight of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the\nutmost part of the earth.\n\n13:48. And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of\nthe Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.\n\n13:49. And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole\ncountry.\n\n13:50. But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women and the\nchief men of the city: and raised persecution against Paul and\nBarnabas: and cast them out of their coasts.\n\n13:51. But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came\nto Iconium.\n\n13:52. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.\n\n\nActs Chapter 14\n\nPaul and Barnabas preach in Iconium and Lystra. Paul heals a cripple.\nThey are taken for gods. Paul is stoned. They preach in Derbe and\nPerge.\n\n14:1. And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into\nthe synagogue of the Jews and so spoke that a very great multitude both\nof the Jews and of the Greeks did believe.\n\n14:2. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the\nGentiles against the brethren.\n\n14:3. A long time therefore they abode there, dealing confidently in\nthe Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs\nand wonders to be done by their hands.\n\n14:4. And the multitude of the city was divided. And some of them\nindeed held with the Jews, but some with the apostles.\n\n14:5. And when there was an assault made by the Gentiles and the Jews\nwith their rulers, to use them contumeliously and to stone them:\n\n14:6. They, understanding it, fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of\nLycaonia, and to the whole country round about: and were there\npreaching the gospel.\n\n14:7. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a\ncripple from his mother\u2019s womb, who never had walked.\n\n14:8. This same heard Paul speaking. Who looking upon him and seeing\nthat he had faith to be healed,\n\n14:9. Said with a loud voice: Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped\nup and walked.\n\n14:10. And when the multitudes had seen what Paul had done, they lifted\nup their voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come down\nto us in the likeness of men.\n\n14:11. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: but Paul, Mercury: because he\nwas chief speaker.\n\n14:12. The priest also of Jupiter that was before the city, bringing\noxen and garlands before the gate, would have offered sacrifice with\nthe people.\n\n14:13. Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending\ntheir clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying,\n\n14:14. And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals,\nmen like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain\nthings to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea\nand all things that are in them:\n\n14:15. Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own\nways.\n\n14:16. Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good\nfrom heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with\nfood and gladness.\n\n14:17. And speaking these things, they scarce restrained the people\nfrom sacrificing to them.\n\n14:18. Now there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium:\nand, persuading the multitude and stoning Paul, drew him out of the\ncity, thinking him to be dead.\n\n14:19. But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and\nentered into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to\nDerbe.\n\n14:20. And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had\ntaught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and to\nAntioch:\n\n14:21. Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to\ncontinue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter\ninto the kingdom of God.\n\n14:22. And when they had ordained to them priests in every church and\nhad prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they\nbelieved.\n\n14:23. And passing through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia.\n\n14:24. And having spoken the word of the Lord in Perge, they went down\ninto Attalia.\n\n14:25. And thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been\ndelivered to the grace of God, unto the work which they accomplished.\n\n14:26. And when they were come and had assembled the church, they\nrelated what great things God had done with them and how he had opened\nthe door of faith to the Gentiles.\n\n14:27. And they abode no small time with the disciples.\n\n\nActs Chapter 15\n\nA dissension about circumcision. The decision and letter of the council\nof Jerusalem.\n\n15:1. And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That,\nexcept you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be\nsaved.\n\n15:2. And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they\ndetermined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of the other side\nshould go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem, about this\nquestion.\n\n15:3. They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed\nthrough Phenice and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles.\nAnd they caused great joy to all the brethren.\n\n15:4. And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the\nchurch and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God\nhad done with them.\n\n15:5. But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed,\nsaying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of\nMoses.\n\n15:6. And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this\nmatter.\n\n15:7. And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to\nthem: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among\nus, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel\nand believe.\n\n15:8. And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them\nthe Holy Ghost, as well as to us:\n\n15:9. And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts\nby faith.\n\n15:10. Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of\nthe disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?\n\n15:11. But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be\nsaved, in like manner as they also.\n\n15:12. And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas\nand Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the\nGentiles by them.\n\n15:13. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying:\nMen, brethren, hear me.\n\n15:14. Simon hath related how God first visited to take of the\nGentiles, a people to his name.\n\n15:15. And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written:\n\n15:16. After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle\nof David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild.\nAnd I will set it up:\n\n15:17. That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations\nupon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.\n\n15:18. To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the\nworld.\n\n15:19. For which cause I judge that they who from among the Gentiles\nare converted to God are not to be disquieted:\n\n15:20. But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from\nthe pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled\nand from blood.\n\n15:21. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in\nthe synagogues, where he is read every sabbath.\n\n15:22. Then it pleased the apostles and ancients, with the whole\nchurch, to choose men of their own company and to send to Antioch with\nPaul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas,\nchief men among the brethren.\n\n15:23. Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to\nthe brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and\nCilicia, greeting.\n\n15:24. Forasmuch as we have heard that some going out from us have\ntroubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no\ncommandment:\n\n15:25. It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose\nout men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and\nPaul:\n\n15:26. Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n15:27. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also\nwill, by word of mouth, tell you the same things.\n\n15:28. For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no\nfurther burden upon you than these necessary things:\n\n15:29. That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood\nand from things strangled and from fornication: from which things\nkeeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.\n\nFrom blood, and from things strangled.... The use of these things,\nthough of their own nature indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring\nthe Jews more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to\nexercise the latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but\ntemporary, and has long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the\nwestern churches.\n\n15:30. They therefore, being dismissed, went down to Antioch and,\ngathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle.\n\n15:31. Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.\n\n15:32. But Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, with many\nwords comforted the brethren and confirmed them.\n\n15:33. And after they had spent some time there, they were let go with\npeace by the brethren unto them that had sent them.\n\n15:34. But it seemed good unto Silas to remain there: and Judas alone\ndeparted to Jerusalem.\n\n15:35. And Paul and Barnabas continued at Antioch, teaching and\npreaching, with many others, the word of the Lord.\n\n15:36. And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return and\nvisit our brethren in all the cities wherein we have preached the word\nof the Lord, to see how they do.\n\n15:37. And Barnabas would have taken with them John also, that was\nsurnamed Mark.\n\n15:38. But Paul desired that he (as having departed from them out of\nPamphylia and not gone with them to the work) might not be received.\n\n15:39. And there arose a dissension so that they departed one from\nanother. And Barnabas indeed, taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus.\n\n15:40. But Paul, choosing Silas, departed, being delivered by the\nbrethren to the grace of God.\n\n15:41. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches,\ncommanding them to keep the precepts of the apostles and the ancients.\n\n\nActs Chapter 16\n\nPaul visits the churches. He is called to preach in Macedonia. He is\nscourged at Philippi.\n\n16:1. And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, there was a certain\ndisciple there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman that believed:\nbut his father was a Gentile.\n\n16:2. To this man the brethren that were in Lystra and Iconium gave a\ngood testimony.\n\n16:3. Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he\ncircumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they\nall knew that his father was a Gentile.\n\n16:4. And as they passed through the cities, they delivered unto them\nthe decrees for to keep, that were decreed by the apostles and ancients\nwho were at Jerusalem.\n\n16:5. And the churches were confirmed in faith and increased in number\ndaily.\n\n16:6. And when they had passed through Phrygia and the country of\nGalatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in\nAsia.\n\n16:7. And when they were come into Mysia, they attempted to go into\nBithynia: and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not.\n\n16:8. And when they had passed through Mysia, they went down to Troas.\n\n16:9. And a vision was shewed to Paul in the night, which was a man of\nMacedonia standing and beseeching him and saying: Pass over into\nMacedonia and help us.\n\n16:10. And as soon as he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to\ngo into Macedonia: being assured that God had called us to preach the\ngospel to them.\n\n16:11. And sailing from Troas, we came with a straight course to\nSamothracia, and the day following to Neapolis.\n\n16:12. And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of part of\nMacedonia, a colony. And we were in this city some days conferring\ntogether.\n\n16:13. And upon the Sabbath day, we went forth without the gate by a\nriver side, where it seemed that there was prayer: and sitting down, we\nspoke to the women that were assembled.\n\n16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city\nof Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord\nopened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.\n\n16:15. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us,\nsaying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my\nhouse and abide there. And she constrained us.\n\n16:16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl having\na pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters much gain by\ndivining.\n\nA pythonical spirit.... That is, a spirit pretending to divine, and\ntell fortunes.\n\n16:17. This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men\nare the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of\nsalvation.\n\n16:18. And this she did many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and\nsaid to the spirit: I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go\nout from her. And he went out the same hour.\n\n16:19. But her masters, seeing that the hope of their gain was gone,\napprehending Paul and Silas, brought them into the market place to the\nrulers.\n\n16:20. And presenting them to the magistrates, they said: These men\ndisturb our city, being Jews:\n\n16:21. And preach a fashion which it is not lawful for us to receive\nnor observe, being Romans.\n\n16:22. And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates,\nrending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods.\n\n16:23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them\ninto prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.\n\n16:24. Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner\nprison and made their feet fast in the stocks.\n\n16:25. And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they\nthat were in prison heard them.\n\n16:26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the\nfoundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors\nwere opened and the bands of all were loosed.\n\n16:27. And the keeper of the prison, awakening out of his sleep and\nseeing the doors of the prison open, drawing his sword, would have\nkilled himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.\n\n16:28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying: Do thyself no harm,\nfor we all are here.\n\n16:29. Then calling for a light, he went in: and trembling, fell down\nat the feet of Paul and Silas.\n\n16:30. And bringing them out, he said: Masters, what must I do, that I\nmay be saved?\n\n16:31. But they said: believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou shalt be\nsaved, and thy house.\n\n16:32. And they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all that\nwere in his house.\n\n16:33. And he, taking them the same hour of the night, washed their\nstripes: and himself was baptized, and all his house immediately.\n\n16:34. And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the\ntable for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God.\n\n16:35. And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants,\nsaying: Let those men go.\n\n16:36. And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The\nmagistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart. And go in\npeace.\n\n16:37. But Paul said to them: They have beaten us publicly,\nuncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison. And now\ndo they thrust us out privately? Not so: but let them come.\n\n16:38. And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to\nthe magistrates. And they were afraid: hearing that they were Romans.\n\n16:39. And coming, they besought them: and bringing them out, they\ndesired them to depart out of the city.\n\n16:40. And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of\nLydia: and having seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.\n\n\nActs Chapter 17\n\nPaul preaches to the Thessalonians and Bereans. His discourse to the\nAthenians.\n\n17:1. And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they\ncame to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.\n\n17:2. And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them. And for\nthree sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures:\n\n17:3. Declaring and insinuating that the Christ was to suffer and to\nrise again from the dead; and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach\nto you.\n\n17:4. And some of them believed and were associated to Paul and Silas:\nand of those that served God and of the Gentiles a great multitude: and\nof noble women not a few.\n\n17:5. But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked\nmen of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar:\nand besetting Jason\u2019s house, sought to bring them out unto the people.\n\n17:6. And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the\nrulers of the city, crying: They that set the city in an uproar are\ncome hither also:\n\nCity. Urbem.... In the Greek, the world.\n\n17:7. Whom Jason hath received. And these all do contrary to the\ndecrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.\n\n17:8. And they stirred up the people: and the rulers of the city,\nhearing these things,\n\n17:9. And having taken satisfaction of Jason and of the rest, they let\nthem go.\n\n17:10. But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night\nunto Berea. Who, when they were come thither, went into the synagogue\nof the Jews.\n\n17:11. Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who\nreceived the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures,\nwhether these things were so.\n\nMore noble.... The Jews of Berea are justly commended, for their\neagerly embracing the truth, and searching the scriptures, to find out\nthe texts alleged by the apostle: which was a far more generous\nproceeding than that of their countrymen at Thessalonica, who\npersecuted the preachers of the gospel, without examining the grounds\nthey alleged for what they taught.\n\n17:12. And many indeed of them believed: and of honourable women that\nwere Gentiles and of men, not a few.\n\n17:13. And when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of\nGod was also preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither also,\nstirring up and troubling the multitude.\n\n17:14. And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul, to go unto the\nsea: but Silas and Timothy remained there.\n\n17:15. And they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens: and\nreceiving a commandment from him to Silas and Timothy, that they should\ncome to him with all speed, they departed.\n\n17:16. Now whilst Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was\nstirred within him, seeing the city wholly given to idolatry.\n\n17:17. He disputed, therefore, in the synagogue with the Jews and with\nthem that served God: and in the market place, every day, with them\nthat were there.\n\n17:18. And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics\ndisputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would\nsay? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because\nhe preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.\n\n17:19. And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May\nwe know what this new doctrine is, which thou speakest of?\n\n17:20. For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would\nknow therefore what these things mean.\n\n17:21. (Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed\nthemselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some\nnew thing.)\n\n17:22. But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men\nof Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.\n\n17:23. For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on\nwhich was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship\nwithout knowing it, that I preach to you:\n\n17:24. God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of\nheaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.\n\nDwelleth not in temples.... God is not contained in temples; so as to\nneed them for his dwelling, or any other uses, as the heathens\nimagined. Yet by his omnipresence, he is both there and everywhere.\n\n17:25. Neither is he served with men\u2019s hands, as though he needed any\nthing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all\nthings:\n\n17:26. And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face\nof the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their\nhabitation.\n\n17:27. That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or\nfind him, although he be not far from every one of us.\n\n17:28. For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own\npoets said: For we are also his offspring.\n\n17:29. Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the\ndivinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art\nand device of man.\n\n17:30. And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now\ndeclareth unto men that all should every where do penance.\n\n17:31. Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world\nin equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by\nraising him up from the dead.\n\n17:32. And when they had heard of the resurrection of the dead, some\nindeed mocked. But others said: We will hear thee again concerning this\nmatter.\n\n17:33. So Paul went out from among them.\n\n17:34. But certain men, adhering to him, did believe: among whom was\nalso Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with\nthem.\n\n\nActs Chapter 18\n\nPaul founds the church of Corinth and preaches at Ephesus and in other\nplaces. Apollo goes to Corinth.\n\n18:1. After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.\n\n18:2. And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately\ncome from Italy, with Priscilla his wife (because that Claudius had\ncommanded all Jews to depart from Rome), he came to them.\n\n18:3. And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and\nwrought. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)\n\n18:4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the\nname of the Lord Jesus. And he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.\n\n18:5. And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was\nearnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.\n\n18:6. But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and\nsaid to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From\nhenceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.\n\n18:7. And departing thence, he entered into the house of a certain man,\nnamed Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house was adjoining\nto the synagogue.\n\n18:8. And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord,\nwith all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and\nwere baptized.\n\n18:9. And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear,\nbut speak. And hold not thy peace,\n\n18:10. Because I am with thee and no man shall set upon thee, to hurt\nthee. For I have much people in this city.\n\n18:11. And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching among them\nthe word of God.\n\n18:12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one\naccord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,\n\n18:13. Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the\nlaw.\n\n18:14. And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to\nthe Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O\nJews, I should with reason bear with you.\n\n18:15. But if they be questions of word and names and of your law, look\nyou to it. I will not be judge of such things.\n\n18:16. And he drove them from the judgment seat.\n\n18:17. And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue,\nbeat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those\nthings.\n\n18:18. But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of\nthe brethren, sailed thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and\nAquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae. For he had a vow.\n\n18:19. And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself,\nentering into the synagogue, disputed with the Jews.\n\n18:20. And when they desired him that he would tarry a longer time, he\nconsented not:\n\n18:21. But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God\nwilling, he departed from Ephesus.\n\n18:22. And going down to C\u00e6sarea, he went up to Jerusalem and saluted\nthe church: and so came down to Antioch.\n\n18:23. And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went\nthrough the country of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, confirming all\nthe disciples.\n\n18:24. Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent\nman, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures.\n\n18:25. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being\nfervent in spirit, spoke and taught diligently the things that are of\nJesus, knowing only the baptism of John.\n\n18:26. This man therefore began to speak boldly in the synagogue. Whom\nwhen Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took him to them and\nexpounded to him the way of the Lord more diligently.\n\n18:27. And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren\nexhorting wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, when he was come,\nhelped them much who had believed.\n\n18:28. For with much vigour he convinced the Jews openly, shewing by\nthe scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.\n\n\nActs Chapter 19\n\nPaul establishes the church at Ephesus. The tumult of the silversmiths.\n\n19:1. And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul,\nhaving passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and found\ncertain disciples.\n\n19:2. And he said to them: Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye\nbelieved? But they said to him: We have not so much as heard whether\nthere be a Holy Ghost.\n\n19:3. And he said: In what then were you baptized? Who said: In John\u2019s\nbaptism.\n\n19:4. Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of\npenance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after\nhim, that is to say, in Jesus.\n\n19:5. Having heard these things, they were baptized in the name of the\nLord Jesus.\n\n19:6. And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came\nupon them: and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.\n\n19:7. And all the men were about twelve.\n\n19:8. And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for the space of\nthree months, disputing and exhorting concerning the kingdom of God.\n\n19:9. But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of\nthe way of the Lord before the multitude, departing from them, he\nseparated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.\n\n19:10. And this continued for the space of two years, so that all who\ndwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Gentiles.\n\n19:11. And God wrought by the hand of Paul more than common miracles.\n\n19:12. So that even there were brought from his body to the sick,\nhandkerchiefs and aprons: and the diseases departed from them: and the\nwicked spirits went out of them.\n\n19:13. Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted\nto invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus,\nsaying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.\n\n19:14. And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief\npriest, that did this.\n\n19:15. But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know:\nand Paul I know. But who are you?\n\n19:16. And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and\nmastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of\nthat house naked and wounded.\n\n19:17. And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that\ndwelt a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord\nJesus was magnified.\n\n19:18. And many of them that believed came, confessing and declaring\ntheir deeds.\n\n19:19. And many of them who had followed curious arts brought together\ntheir books and burnt them before all. And, counting the price of them,\nthey found the money to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.\n\n19:20. So mightily grew the word of God and was confirmed.\n\n19:21. And when these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit,\nwhen he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,\nsaying: After I have been there, I must see Rome also.\n\n19:22. And sending into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him,\nTimothy and Erastus, he himself remained for a time in Asia.\n\n19:23. Now at that time there arose no small disturbance about the way\nof the Lord.\n\n19:24. For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made\nsilver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen.\n\n19:25. Whom he calling together with the workmen of like occupation,\nsaid: Sirs, you know that our gain is by this trade.\n\n19:26. And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn\naway a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia,\nsaying: they are not gods which are made by hands.\n\n19:27. So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at\nnought, but also the temple of great Diana shall be reputed for\nnothing! Yea, and her majesty shall begin to be destroyed, whom all\nAsia and the world worshippeth.\n\n19:28. Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried\nout, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!\n\n19:29. And the whole city was filled with confusion. And having caught\nGaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul\u2019s companions, they rushed\nwith one accord into the theatre.\n\n19:30. And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the\ndisciples suffered him not.\n\n19:31. And some also of the rulers of Asia, who were his friends, sent\nunto him, desiring that he would not venture himself into the theatre.\n\n19:32. Now some cried one thing, some another. For the assembly was\nconfused: and the greater part knew not for what cause they were come\ntogether.\n\n19:33. And they drew forth Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews\nthrusting him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand for\nsilence, would have given the people satisfaction,\n\n19:34. But as soon as they perceived him to be a Jew, all with one\nvoice, for the space of about two, hours, cried out: Great is Diana of\nthe Ephesians!\n\n19:35. And when the town clerk had appeased the multitudes, he said: Ye\nmen of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the\nEphesians is a worshipper of the great Diana and of Jupiter\u2019s\noffspring?\n\n19:36. For as much therefore as these things cannot be contradicted,\nyou ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly.\n\n19:37. For you have brought hither these men, who are neither guilty of\nsacrilege nor of blasphemy against your goddess.\n\n19:38. But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a\nmatter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are\nproconsuls. Let them accuse one another.\n\n19:39. And if you inquire after any other matter, it may be decided in\na lawful assembly.\n\n19:40. For we are even in danger to be called in question for this\nday\u2019s uproar, there being no man guilty (of whom we may give account)\nof this concourse. And when he had said these things, he dismissed the\nassembly.\n\n\nActs Chapter 20\n\nPaul passes through Macedonia and Greece. He raises a dead man to life\nat Troas. His discourse to the clergy of Ephesus.\n\n20:1. And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the\ndisciples and exhorting them, took his leave and set forward to go into\nMacedonia.\n\n20:2. And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with\nmany words, he came into Greece:\n\n20:3. Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for\nhim, as he was about to sail into Syria. So he took a resolution to\nreturn through Macedonia.\n\n20:4. And there accompanied him Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea:\nand of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe\nand Timothy: and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.\n\n20:5. These, going before, stayed for us at Troas.\n\n20:6. But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the azymes and came\nto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.\n\n20:7. And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break\nbread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he\ncontinued his speech until midnight.\n\nAnd on the first day of the week.... Here St. Chrysostom and many other\ninterpreters of the scripture explain, that the Christians even at this\ntime, must have changed the sabbath into the first day of the week,\n(the Lord\u2019s day,) as all Christians now keep it. This change was\nundoubtedly made by the authority of the church; hence the exercise of\nthe power, which Christ had given to her: for he is Lord of the\nsabbath.\n\n20:8. And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where\nwe were assembled.\n\n20:9. And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window,\nbeing oppressed with a deep sleep (as Paul was long preaching), by\noccasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down and was taken up\ndead.\n\n20:10. To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him and,\nembracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.\n\n20:11. Then going up and breaking bread and tasting and having talked a\nlong time to them, until daylight, so he departed.\n\n20:12. And they brought the youth alive and were not a little\ncomforted.\n\n20:13. But we going aboard the ship, sailed to Assos, being there to\ntake in Paul. For so he had appointed, himself purposing to travel by\nland.\n\n20:14. And when he had met with us at Assos, we took him in and came to\nMitylene.\n\n20:15. And sailing thence, the day following we came over against\nChios: and the next day we arrived at Samos: and the day following we\ncame to Miletus.\n\n20:16. For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be\nstayed any time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to\nkeep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.\n\n20:17. And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of\nthe church.\n\n20:18. And when they were come to him and were together, he said to\nthem: You know from the first day that I came into Asia, in what manner\nI have been with you, for all the time.\n\n20:19. Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and\ntemptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews:\n\n20:20. How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but\nhave preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to\nhouse,\n\n20:21. Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and\nfaith in our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n20:22. And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem:\nnot knowing the things which shall befall me there:\n\n20:23. Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying:\nThat bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem.\n\n20:24. But I fear none of these things, neither do I count my life more\nprecious than myself, so that I may consummate my course and the\nministry of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify\nthe gospel of the grace of God.\n\n20:25. And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone\npreaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.\n\n20:26. Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from\nthe blood of all men.\n\n20:27. For I have not spared to declare unto you all, the counsel of\nGod.\n\n20:28. Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy\nGhost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath\npurchased with his own blood.\n\n20:29. I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in\namong you, not sparing the flock.\n\n20:30. And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things,\nto draw away disciples after them.\n\n20:31. Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased\nnot with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day.\n\n20:32. And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who\nis able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the\nsanctified.\n\n20:33. I have not coveted any man\u2019s silver, gold or apparel, as\n\n20:34. You yourselves know. For such things as were needful for me and\nthem that are with me, these hands have furnished.\n\n20:35. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to\nsupport the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he\nsaid: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.\n\n20:36. And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with\nthem all.\n\n20:37. And there was much weeping among them all. And falling on the\nneck of Paul, they kissed him,\n\n20:38. Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that\nthey should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to\nthe ship.\n\n\nActs Chapter 21\n\nPaul goes up to Jerusalem. He is apprehended by the Jews in the temple.\n\n21:1. And when it came to pass that, being parted from them, we set\nsail, we came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to\nRhodes: and from thence to Patara.\n\n21:2. And when we had found a ship sailing over to Phenice, we went\naboard and set forth.\n\n21:3. And when we had discovered Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand,\nwe sailed into Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to\nunlade her burden.\n\n21:4. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to\nPaul, through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.\n\n21:5. And the days being expired, departing we went forward, they all\nbringing us on our way, with their wives and children, till we were out\nof the city. And we kneeled down on the shore: and we prayed.\n\n21:6. And when we had bid one another farewell, we took ship. And they\nreturned home.\n\n21:7. But we, having finished the voyage by sea, from Tyre came down to\nPtolemais: and saluting the brethren, we abode one day with them.\n\n21:8. And the next day departing, we came to C\u00e6sarea. And entering into\nthe house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode\nwith him.\n\nThe evangelist.... That is, the preacher of the gospel; the same that\nbefore converted the Samaritans, and baptized the eunuch, chap. 8.,\nbeing one of the first seven deacons.\n\n21:9. And he had four daughters, virgins, who did prophesy.\n\n21:10. And as we tarried there for some days, there came from Judea a\ncertain prophet, named Agabus.\n\n21:11. Who, when he was come to us, took Paul\u2019s girdle: and binding his\nown feet and hands, he said: Thus saith the Holy Ghost: The man whose\ngirdle this is, the Jews shall bind in this manner in Jerusalem and\nshall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.\n\n21:12. Which when we had heard, both we and they that were of that\nplace desired him that he would not go up to Jerusalem.\n\n21:13. Then Paul answered and said: What do you mean, weeping and\nafflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die\nalso in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.\n\n21:14. And when we could not persuade him, we ceased, saying: The will\nof the Lord be done.\n\n21:15. And after those days, being prepared, we went up to Jerusalem.\n\n21:16. And there went also with us some of the disciples from C\u00e6sarea,\nbringing with them one Mnason a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we\nshould lodge.\n\n21:17. And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us\ngladly.\n\n21:18. And the day following, Paul went in with us unto James: and all\nthe ancients were assembled.\n\n21:19. Whom when he had saluted, he related particularly what things\nGod had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.\n\n21:20. But they hearing it, glorified God and said to him: Thou seest,\nbrother, how many thousands there are among the Jews that have\nbelieved: and they are all zealous for the law.\n\n21:21. Now they have heard of thee that thou teachest those Jews, who\nare among the Gentiles to depart from Moses: saying that they ought not\nto circumcise their children, nor walk according to the custom.\n\n21:22. What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together:\nfor they will hear that thou art come.\n\n21:23. Do therefore this that we say to thee. We have four men, who\nhave a vow on them.\n\n21:24. Take these and sanctify thyself with them: and bestow on them,\nthat they may shave their heads. And all will know that the things\nwhich they have heard of thee are false: but that thou thyself also\nwalkest keeping the law.\n\nKeeping the law.... The law, though now no longer obligatory, was for a\ntime observed by the Christian Jews: to bury, as it were, the synagogue\nwith honour.\n\n21:25. But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written,\ndecreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has\nbeen offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from\nfornication.\n\n21:26. Then Paul took the men and, the next day being purified with\nthem, entered into the temple, giving notice of the accomplishment of\nthe days of purification, until an oblation should be offered for every\none of them.\n\n21:27. But when the seven days were drawing to an end, those Jews that\nwere of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the\npeople and laid hands upon him, crying out:\n\n21:28. Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every\nwhere against the people and the law and this place; and moreover hath\nbrought in Gentiles into the temple and hath violated this holy place.\n\n21:29. (For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him.\nwhom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)\n\n21:30. And the whole city was in an uproar: and the people ran\ntogether. And taking Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and\nimmediately the doors were shut.\n\n21:31. And as they went about to kill him, it was told the tribune of\nthe band that all Jerusalem was in confusion.\n\n21:32. Who, forthwith taking with him soldiers and centurions, ran down\nto them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they left off\nbeating Paul.\n\n21:33. Then the tribune, coming near, took him and commanded him to be\nbound with two chains: and demanded who he was and what he had done.\n\n21:34. And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude. And\nwhen he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him\nto be carried into the castle.\n\n21:35. And when he was come to the stairs, it fell out that he was\ncarried by the soldiers, because of the violence of the people.\n\n21:36. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying: Away\nwith him!\n\n21:37. And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith to\nthe tribune: May I speak something to thee? Who said: Canst thou speak\nGreek?\n\n21:38. Art not thou that Egyptian who before these days didst raise a\ntumult and didst lead forth into the desert four thousand men that were\nmurderers?\n\n21:39. But Paul said to him: I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen\nof no mean city. And I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people.\n\n21:40. And when he had given him leave, Paul standing on the stairs,\nbeckoned with his hand to the people. And a great silence being made,\nhe spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying:\n\n\nActs Chapter 22\n\nPaul declares to the people the history of his conversion. He escapes\nscourging by claiming the privilege of a Roman citizen.\n\n22:1. Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give\nunto you.\n\n22:2. (And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue,\nthey kept the more silence.)\n\n22:3. And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought\nup in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth\nof the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are\nthis day:\n\n22:4. Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into\nprisons both men and women,\n\n22:5. As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients.\nFrom whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus,\nthat I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.\n\n22:6. And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus,\nat mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a\ngreat light:\n\n22:7. And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul,\nSaul, why persecutest thou me?\n\n22:8. And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus\nof Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.\n\n22:9. And they that were with me saw indeed the light: but they heard\nnot the voice of him that spoke with me.\n\nHeard not the voice.... That is, they distinguished not the words;\nthough they heard the voice. Acts 9. 7.\n\n22:10. And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me:\nArise and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things\nthat thou must do.\n\n22:11. And whereas I did not see for the brightness of that light,\nbeing led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus,\n\n22:12. And one Ananias, a man according to the law, having testimony of\nall the Jews who dwelt there,\n\n22:13. Coming to me and standing by me, said to me: Brother Saul, look\nup. And I, the same hour, looked upon him.\n\n22:14. But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that\nthou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the\nvoice from his mouth.\n\nJust One.... Our Saviour, who appeared to St. Paul, Acts 9. 17.\n\n22:15. For thou shalt be his witness to all men of those things which\nthou hast seen and heard.\n\n22:16. And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away\nthy sins, invoking his name.\n\n22:17. And it came to pass, when I was come again to Jerusalem and was\npraying in the temple, that I was in a trance,\n\n22:18. And saw him saying unto me: Make haste and get thee quickly out\nof Jerusalem: because they will not receive thy testimony concerning\nme.\n\n22:19. And I said: Lord, they know that I cast into prison and beat in\nevery synagogue them that believed in thee.\n\n22:20. And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I stood by\nand consented: and kept the garments of them that killed him.\n\n22:21. And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I\nsend thee.\n\n22:22. And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their\nvoice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit\nthat he should live.\n\n22:23. And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust\ninto the air,\n\n22:24. The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and\nthat he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they\ndid so cry out against him.\n\n22:25. And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the\ncenturion that stood by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that\nis a Roman and uncondemned?\n\n22:26. Which the centurion hearing, went to the tribune and told him,\nsaying: What art thou about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.\n\n22:27. And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell me. Art thou a Roman?\nBut he said: Yea.\n\n22:28. And the tribune answered: I obtained the being free of this city\nwith a great sum. And Paul said: But I was born so.\n\n22:29. Immediately therefore they departed from him that were about to\ntorture him. The tribune also was afraid after he understood that he\nwas a Roman citizen and because he had bound him.\n\n22:30. But on the next day, meaning to know more diligently for what\ncause he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him and commanded the\npriests to come together and all the council: and, bringing forth Paul,\nhe set him before them.\n\n\nActs Chapter 23\n\nPaul stands before the council. The Jews conspire his death. He is sent\naway to Cesarea.\n\n23:1. And Paul, looking upon the council, said: Men, brethren, I have\nconversed with all good conscience before God until this present day.\n\n23:2. And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to\nstrike him on the mouth.\n\n23:3. Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall.\nFor, sittest thou to judge me according to the law and, contrary to the\nlaw, commandest me to be struck?\n\n23:4. And they that stood by said: Dost thou revile the high priest of\nGod?\n\n23:5. And Paul said: I knew not, brethren, that he is the high priest.\nFor it is written: Thou shalt not speak evil of the prince of thy\npeople.\n\n23:6. And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other\nPharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee,\nthe son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead\nI am called in question.\n\n23:7. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the\nPharisees and the Sadducees. And the multitude was divided.\n\n23:8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither\nangel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.\n\n23:9. And there arose a great cry. And some of the Pharisees rising up,\nstrove, saying: We find no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath\nspoken to him, or an angel?\n\n23:10. And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune, fearing\nlest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to\ngo down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into\nthe castle.\n\n23:11. And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said: Be\nconstant: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou\nbear witness also at Rome.\n\n23:12. And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and\nbound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor\ndrink till they killed Paul.\n\n23:13. And they were more than forty men that had made this conspiracy.\n\n23:14. Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have\nbound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we\nhave slain Paul.\n\n23:15. Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune,\nthat he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more\ncertain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill\nhim.\n\n23:16. Which when Paul\u2019s sister\u2019s son had heard, of their lying in\nwait, he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.\n\n23:17. And Paul, calling to him one of the centurions, said: Bring this\nyoung man to the tribune: for he hath some thing to tell him.\n\n23:18. And he, taking him, brought him to the tribune and said: Paul,\nthe prisoner, desired me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath\nsome thing to say to thee.\n\n23:19. And the tribune, taking him by the hand, went aside with him\nprivately and asked him: What is it that thou hast to tell me?\n\n23:20. And he said: The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou\nwouldst bring forth Paul to-morrow into the council, as if they meant\nto inquire some thing more certain touching him.\n\n23:21. But do not thou give credit to them: for there lie in wait for\nhim more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves by oath\nneither to eat nor to drink, till they have killed him. And they are\nnow ready, looking for a promise from thee.\n\n23:22. The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that\nhe should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him.\n\n23:23. Then having called two centurions, he said to them: Make ready\ntwo hundred soldiers to go as far as C\u00e6sarea: and seventy horsemen and\ntwo hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night.\n\n23:24. And provide beasts, that they may set Paul on and bring him safe\nto Felix the governor.\n\n23:25. (For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might take him away by\nforce and kill him: and he should afterwards be slandered, as if he was\nto take money.) And he wrote a letter after this manner:\n\n23:26. Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor, Felix, greeting:\n\n23:27. This man, being taken by the Jews and ready to be killed by\nthem, I rescued, coming in with an army, understanding that he is a\nRoman.\n\n23:28. And meaning to know the cause which they objected unto him, I\nbrought him forth into their council.\n\n23:29. Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law;\nbut having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.\n\n23:30. And when I was told of ambushes that they had prepared for him,\nI sent him to thee, signifying also to his accusers to plead before\nthee. Farewell.\n\n23:31. Then the soldiers, according as it was commanded them, taking\nPaul, brought him by night to Antipatris.\n\n23:32. And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go with him, they\nreturned to the castle.\n\n23:33. Who, when they were come to C\u00e6sarea and had delivered the letter\nto the governor, did also present Paul before him.\n\n23:34. And when he had read it and had asked of what province he was\nand understood that he was of Cilicia:\n\n23:35. I will hear thee, said he, when thy accusers come. And he\ncommanded him to be kept in Herod\u2019s judgment hall.\n\n\nActs Chapter 24\n\nPaul defends his innocence before Felix the governor. He preaches the\nfaith to him.\n\n24:1. And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with\nsome ancients and one Tertullus, an orator, who went to the governor\nagainst Paul.\n\n24:2. And Paul being called for, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:\nWhereas, through thee we live in much peace and many things are\nrectified by thy providence,\n\n24:3. We accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with\nall thanksgiving.\n\n24:4. But that I be no further tedious to thee, I desire thee of thy\nclemency to hear us in a few words.\n\n24:5. We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions\namong all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of\nthe sect of the Nazarenes.\n\n24:6. Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom, we having\napprehended, would also have judged according to our law.\n\n24:7. But Lysias the tribune, coming upon us with great violence, took\nhim away out of our hands;\n\n24:8. Commanding his accusers to come to thee. Of whom thou mayest\nthyself, by examination, have knowledge of all these things whereof we\naccuse him.\n\n24:9. And the Jews also added and said that these things were so.\n\n24:10. Then Paul answered (the governor making a sign to him to speak):\nKnowing that for many years thou hast been judge over this nation, I\nwill with good courage answer for myself.\n\n24:11. For thou mayest understand that there are yet but twelve days\nsince I went up to adore in Jerusalem:\n\n24:12. And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any\nman or causing any concourse of the people: neither in the synagogues,\nnor in the city.\n\n24:13. Neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now\naccuse me.\n\n24:14. But this I confess to thee that according to the way which they\ncall a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all\nthings which are written in the law and the prophets:\n\n24:15. Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that\nthere shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.\n\n24:16. And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without\noffence, towards God and towards men.\n\n24:17. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and\nofferings and vows.\n\n24:18. In which I was found purified in the temple: neither with\nmultitude nor with tumult.\n\n24:19. But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be present before thee\nand to accuse, if they had anything against me:\n\n24:20. Or let these men themselves say if they found in me any\niniquity, when standing before the council,\n\n24:21. Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing\namong them: Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this\nday by you.\n\n24:22. And Felix put them off, having most certain knowledge of this\nway, saying: When Lysias the tribune shall come down, I will hear you.\n\n24:23. And he commanded a centurion to keep him: and that he should be\neasy and that he should not prohibit any of his friends to minister\nunto him.\n\n24:24. And after some days, Felix, coming with Drusilla his wife, who\nwas a Jew, sent for Paul and heard of him the faith that is in Christ\nJesus.\n\n24:25. And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to\ncome, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but\nwhen I have a convenient time, I will send for thee.\n\n24:26. Hoping also withal that money should be given him by Paul: for\nwhich cause also oftentimes sending for him, he spoke with him.\n\n24:27. But when two years were ended, Felix had for successor Portius\nFestus. And Felix being willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul\nbound.\n\n\nActs Chapter 25\n\nPaul appeals to Caesar. King Agrippa desires to hear him.\n\n25:1. Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days, he\nwent up to Jerusalem from C\u00e6sarea.\n\n25:2. And the chief priests and principal men of the Jews went unto him\nagainst Paul: and they besought him,\n\n25:3. Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be\nbrought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.\n\n25:4. But Festus answered: That Paul was kept in C\u00e6sarea: and that he\nhimself would very shortly depart thither.\n\n25:5. Let them, therefore, saith he, among you that are able, go down\nwith me and accuse him, if there be any crime in the man.\n\n25:6. And having tarried among them no more than eight or ten days, he\nwent down to C\u00e6sarea. And the next day, he sat in the judgment seat and\ncommanded Paul to be brought.\n\n25:7. Who being brought, the Jews stood about him, who were come down\nfrom Jerusalem, objecting many and grievious causes, which they could\nnot prove:\n\n25:8. Paul making answer for himself: Neither against the law of the\nJews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended in\nany thing.\n\n25:9. But Festus, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, answering Paul,\nsaid: Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem and there be judged of these things\nbefore me?\n\n25:10. Then Paul said: I stand at Caesar\u2019s judgment seat, where I ought\nto be judged. To the Jews I have done no injury, as thou very well\nknowest.\n\n25:11. For if I have injured them or have committed any thing worthy of\ndeath, I refuse not to die. But if there be none of these things\nwhereof they accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to\nCaesar.\n\n25:12. Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered: Hast\nthou appealed to Caesar? To Caesar shalt thou go.\n\n25:13. And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to\nC\u00e6sarea, to salute Festus.\n\n25:14. And as they tarried there many days, Festus told the king of\nPaul, saying: A certain man was left prisoner by Felix.\n\n25:15. About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the\nancients of the Jews came unto me, desiring condemnation against him.\n\n25:16. To whom I answered: it is not the custom of the Romans to\ncondemn any man, before that he who is accused have his accusers\npresent and have liberty to make his answer, to clear himself of the\nthings laid to his charge.\n\n25:17. When therefore they were come hither, without any delay, on the\nday following, sitting in the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be\nbrought.\n\n25:18. Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no\naccusation of this which I thought ill of:\n\n25:19. But had certain questions of their own superstition against him,\nand of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.\n\n25:20. I therefore being in a doubt of this manner of question, asked\nhim whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these\nthings.\n\n25:21. But Paul, appealing to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus,\nI commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Caesar.\n\n25:22. And Agrippa said to Festus: I would also hear the man, myself.\nTo-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.\n\n25:23. And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice were come with\ngreat pomp and had entered into the hall of audience with the tribunes\nand principal men of the city, at Festus\u2019 commandment, Paul was brought\nforth.\n\n25:24. And Festus saith: King Agrippa and all ye men who are here\npresent with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the\nJews dealt with me at Jerusalem, requesting and crying out that he\nought not to live any longer.\n\n25:25. Yet have I found nothing that he hath committed worthy of death.\nBut forasmuch as he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have\ndetermined to send him.\n\n25:26. Of whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. For which\ncause, I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee,\nO king Agrippa, that, examination being made, I may have what to write.\n\n25:27. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to\nsignify the things laid to his charge.\n\n\nActs Chapter 26\n\nPaul gives an account to Agrippa of his life, conversion and calling.\n\n26:1. Then Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for\nthyself. Then Paul, stretching forth his hand, began to make his\nanswer.\n\n26:2. I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that I am to answer for\nmyself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am\naccused by the Jews.\n\n26:3. Especially as thou knowest all, both customs and questions, that\nare among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.\n\n26:4. And my life indeed from my youth, which was from the beginning\namong my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews do know:\n\n26:5. Having known me from the beginning (if they will give testimony)\nthat according to the most sure sect of our religion I lived, a\nPharisee.\n\n26:6. And now for the hope of the promise that was made by God to the\nfathers, do I stand subject to judgment:\n\n26:7. Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to\ncome. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews.\n\n26:8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise\nthe dead?\n\n26:9. And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things\ncontrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.\n\n26:10. Which also I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut\nup in prison, having received authority of the chief priests. And when\nthey were put to death, I brought the sentence.\n\n26:11. And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled\nthem to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted\nthem even unto foreign cities.\n\n26:12. Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and\npermission of the chief priest,\n\n26:13. At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above\nthe brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that were in\ncompany with me.\n\n26:14. And when we were all fallen down on the ground, I heard a voice\nspeaking to me in the Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou\nme? It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.\n\n26:15. And I said: Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord answered: I am\nJesus whom thou persecutest.\n\n26:16. But rise up and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I\nappeared to thee, that I may make thee a minister and a witness of\nthose things which thou hast seen and of those things wherein I will\nappear to thee,\n\n26:17. Delivering thee from the people and from the nations unto which\nnow I send thee:\n\n26:18. To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to\nlight and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive\nforgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in\nme.\n\n26:19. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not incredulous to the heavenly\nvision.\n\n26:20. But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and\nunto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that\nthey should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.\n\n26:21. For this cause, the Jews, when I was in the temple, having\napprehended me, went about to kill me.\n\n26:22. But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day,\nwitnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those\nwhich the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass:\n\n26:23. That Christ should suffer and that he should be the first that\nshould rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and to\nthe Gentiles.\n\n26:24. As he spoke these things and made his answer, Festus said with a\nloud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee\nmad.\n\n26:25. And Paul said: I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I speak\nwords of truth and soberness.\n\n26:26. For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with\nconfidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden\nfrom him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner.\n\n26:27. Believest thou the prophets, O king Agrippa? I know that thou\nbelievest.\n\n26:28. And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to\nbecome a Christian.\n\n26:29. And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much,\nnot only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such\nas I also am, except these bands.\n\n26:30. And the king rose up, and the governor and Bernice and they that\nsat with them.\n\n26:31. And when they were gone aside, they spoke among themselves,\nsaying: This man hath done nothing worthy of death or of bands.\n\n26:32. And Agrippa said to Festus: This man might have been set at\nliberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.\n\n\nActs Chapter 27\n\nPaul is shipped for Rome. His voyage and shipwreck.\n\n27:1. And when it was determined that he should sail into Italy and\nthat Paul, with the other prisoners, should be delivered to a\ncenturion, named Julius, of the band Augusta,\n\n27:2. Going on board a ship of Adrumetum, we launched, meaning to sail\nby the coasts of Asia, Aristarchus, the Macedonian of Thessalonica,\ncontinuing with us.\n\n27:3. And the day following, we came to Sidon. And Julius, treating\nPaul courteously, permitted him to go to his friends and to take care\nof himself.\n\n27:4. And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus,\nbecause the winds were contrary.\n\n27:5. And sailing over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to\nLystra, which is in Lycia.\n\n27:6. And there, the centurion, finding a ship of Alexandria sailing\ninto Italy, removed us into it.\n\n27:7. And when for many days we had sailed slowly and were scarce come\nover against Gnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed near Crete by\nSalmone.\n\n27:8. And with much ado sailing by it, we came into a certain place,\nwhich is called Good-havens, nigh to which was the city of Thalassa.\n\n27:9. And when much time was spent and when sailing now was dangerous,\nbecause the fast was now past, Paul comforted them,\n\n27:10. Saying to them: Ye men, I see that the voyage beginneth to be\nwith injury and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also\nof our lives.\n\n27:11. But the centurion believed the pilot and the master of the ship,\nmore than those things which were said by Paul.\n\n27:12. And whereas it was not a commodious haven to winter in, the\ngreatest part gave counsel to sail thence, if by any means they might\nreach Phenice, to winter there, which is a haven of Crete, looking\ntowards the south-west and north-west.\n\n27:13. And the south wind gently blowing, thinking that they had\nobtained their purpose, when they had loosed from Asson, they sailed\nclose by Crete.\n\n27:14. But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind,\ncalled Euroaquilo.\n\n27:15. And when the ship was caught and could not bear up against the\nwind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven.\n\n27:16. And running under a certain island that is called Cauda, we had\nmuch work to come by the boat.\n\n27:17. Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship:\nand fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down\nthe sail yard and so were driven.\n\n27:18. And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day\nthey lightened the ship.\n\n27:19. And the third day they cast out with their own hands the\ntackling of the ship.\n\n27:20. And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no\nsmall storm lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.\n\n27:21. And after they had fasted a long time, Paul standing forth in\nthe midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened\nunto me and not have loosed from Crete and have gained this harm and\nloss.\n\n27:22. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer. For there shall be no\nloss of any man\u2019s life among you, but only of the ship.\n\n27:23. For an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me\nthis night,\n\n27:24. Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and\nbehold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.\n\n27:25. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it\nshall so be, as it hath been told me.\n\n27:26. And we must come unto a certain island.\n\n27:27. But after the fourteenth night was come, as we were sailing in\nAdria, about midnight, the shipmen deemed that they discovered some\ncountry.\n\n27:28. Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms: and going on a little\nfurther, they found fifteen fathoms.\n\n27:29. Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough places, they cast\nfour anchors out of the stern: and wished for the day.\n\n27:30. But as the shipmen sought to fly out of the ship, having let\ndown the boat into the sea, under colour, as though they would have\ncast anchors out of the forepart of the ship,\n\n27:31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these\nstay in the ship, you cannot be saved.\n\n27:32. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall\noff.\n\n27:33. And when it began to be light, Paul besought them all to take\nmeat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited and\ncontinued fasting, taking nothing.\n\n27:34. Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat for your health\u2019s sake:\nfor there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.\n\n27:35. And when he had said these things, taking bread, he gave thanks\nto God in the sight of them all. And when he had broken it, he began to\neat.\n\n27:36. Then were they all of better cheer: and they also took some\nmeat.\n\n27:37. And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and\nsixteen souls.\n\n27:38. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting\nthe wheat into the sea.\n\n27:39. And when it was day, they knew not the land. But they discovered\na certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they\ncould, to thrust in the ship.\n\n27:40. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed\nthemselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands. And hoisting up\nthe mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore.\n\n27:41. And when we were fallen into a place where two seas met, they\nrun the ship aground. And the forepart indeed, sticking fast, remained\nunmoveable: but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the\nsea.\n\n27:42. And the soldiers\u2019 counsel was that they should kill the\nprisoners, lest any of them, swimming out should escape.\n\n27:43. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done.\nAnd he commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves first\ninto the sea and save themselves and get to land.\n\n27:44. And the rest, some they carried on boards and some on those\nthings that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass that every\nsoul got safe to land.\n\n\nActs Chapter 28\n\nPaul, after three months\u2019 stay in Melita, continues his voyage and\narrives at Rome. His conference there with the Jews.\n\n28:1. And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called\nMelita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.\n\n28:2. For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the\npresent rain and of the cold.\n\n28:3. And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had\nlaid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his\nhand.\n\n28:4. And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they\nsaid one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he\nhath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.\n\n28:5. And he indeed, shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no\nharm.\n\n28:6. But they supposed that he would begin to swell up and that he\nwould suddenly fall down and die. But expecting long and seeing that\nthere came no harm to him, changing their minds, they said that he was\na god.\n\n28:7. Now in these places were possessions of the chief man of the\nisland, named Publius: who, receiving us for three days, entertained us\ncourteously.\n\n28:8. And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever\nand of a bloody flux. To whom Paul entered in. And when he had prayed\nand laid his hands on him, he healed him.\n\n28:9. Which being done, all that had diseases in the island came and\nwere healed.\n\n28:10. Who also honoured us with many honours: and when we were to set\nsail, they laded us with such things as were necessary.\n\n28:11. And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that\nhad wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors.\n\n28:12. And when we were come to Syracusa, we tarried there three days.\n\n28:13. From thence, compassing by the shore, we came to Rhegium: and\nafter one day, the south wind blowing, we came the second day to\nPuteoli:\n\n28:14. Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them\nseven days. And so we went to Rome.\n\n28:15. And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to\nmeet us as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns. Whom when Paul\nsaw, he gave thanks to God and took courage.\n\n28:16. And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by\nhimself, with a soldier that kept him.\n\n28:17. And after the third day, he called together the chief of the\nJews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I,\nhaving done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers,\nwas delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.\n\n28:18. Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that\nthere was no cause of death in me.\n\n28:19. But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto\nCaesar: not that I had anything to accuse my nation of.\n\n28:20. For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to\nyou. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.\n\n28:21. But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning\nthee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither\nrelate or speak any evil of thee.\n\n28:22. But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as\nconcerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted.\n\n28:23. And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to\nhim unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of\nGod and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and\nthe prophets, from morning until evening.\n\n28:24. And some believed the things that were said: but some believed\nnot.\n\n28:25. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul\nspeaking this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by\nIsaias the prophet,\n\n28:26. Saying: Go to this people and say to them: With the ear you\nshall hear and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see and shall\nnot perceive.\n\n28:27. For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears\nhave they heard heavily and their eyes they have shut, lest perhaps\nthey should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand\nwith their heart and should be converted: and I should heal them.\n\n28:28. Be it known therefore to you that this salvation of God is sent\nto the Gentiles: and they will hear it.\n\n28:29. And when he had said these things, the Jews went out from him,\nhaving much reasoning among themselves.\n\n28:30. And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging: and he\nreceived all that came in to him,\n\n28:31. Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which\nconcern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without\nprohibition.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS\n\n\nSt. Paul wrote this epistle at Corinth, when he was preparing to go to\nJerusalem with the charitable contributions collected in Achaia and\nMacedonia for the relief of the Christians in Judea; which was about\ntwenty-four years after Our Lord\u2019s Ascension. It was written in Greek;\nbut at the same time translated into Latin, for the benefit of those\nwho did not understand that language. And though it is not the first of\nhis Epistles in the order of time, yet it is first placed on account of\nsublimity of the matter contained in it, of the preeminence of the\nplace to which it was sent, and in veneration of the Church.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 1\n\nHe commends the faith of the Romans, whom he longs to see. The\nphilosophy of the heathens, being void of faith and humility, betrayed\nthem into shameful sins.\n\n1:1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,\nseparated unto the gospel of God.\n\n1:2. Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy\nscriptures,\n\n1:3. Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David,\naccording to the flesh,\n\n1:4. Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the\nspirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ\nfrom the dead:\n\nPredestinated, etc.... Christ as man, was predestinated to be the Son\nof God: and declared to be so (as the apostle here signifies) first, by\npower, that is, by his working stupendous miracles; secondly, by the\nspirit of sanctification, that is, by his infinite sanctity; thirdly,\nby his ressurection, or raising himself from the dead.\n\n1:5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to\nthe faith, in all nations, for his name:\n\n1:6. Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:\n\n1:7. To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints.\nGrace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n1:8. First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all:\nbecause your faith is spoken of in the whole world.\n\n1:9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of\nhis Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:\n\n1:10. Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at\nlength I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come\nunto you.\n\n1:11. For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual\ngrace, to strengthen you:\n\n1:12. That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you by that\nwhich is common to us both, your faith and mine.\n\n1:13. And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often\npurposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I\nmight have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.\n\n1:14. To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the\nunwise, I am a debtor.\n\n1:15. So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you\nalso that are at Rome.\n\n1:16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God\nunto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the\nGreek.\n\n1:17. For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto\nfaith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.\n\n1:18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all\nungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in\ninjustice:\n\n1:19. Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God\nhath manifested it unto them.\n\n1:20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world\nare clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His\neternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.\n\n1:21. Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as\nGod or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their\nfoolish heart was darkened.\n\n1:22. For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.\n\n1:23. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the\nlikeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of\nfourfooted beasts and of creeping things.\n\n1:24. Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto\nuncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.\n\n1:25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served\nthe creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.\n\n1:26. For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For\ntheir women have changed the natural use into that use which is against\nnature.\n\nGod delivered them up.... Not by being author of their sins, but by\nwithdrawing his grace, and so permitting them, in punishment of their\npride, to fall into those shameful sins.\n\n1:27. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the\nwomen, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men,\nworking that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense\nwhich was due to their error.\n\n1:28. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God\ndelivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are\nnot convenient.\n\n1:29. Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice,\nwickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity:\nwhisperers,\n\n1:30. Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty,\ninventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,\n\n1:31. Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without\nmercy.\n\n1:32. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that\nthey who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do\nthem, but they also that consent to them that do them.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 2\n\nThe Jews are censured, who make their boast of the law and keep it not.\nHe declares who are the true Jews.\n\n2:1. Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that\njudgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For\nthou dost the same things which thou judgest.\n\n2:2. For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth,\nagainst them that do such things.\n\n2:3. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such\nthings and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?\n\n2:4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and\nlongsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee\nto penance?\n\n2:5. But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou\ntreasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation\nof the just judgment of God:\n\n2:6. Who will render to every man according to his works.\n\n2:7. To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory\nand honour and incorruption, eternal life:\n\n2:8. But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but\ngive credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.\n\n2:9. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil:\nof the Jew first, and also of the Greek.\n\n2:10. But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to\nthe Jew first, and also to the Greek.\n\n2:11. For there is no respect of persons with God.\n\n2:12. For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without\nthe law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the\nlaw.\n\n2:13. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers\nof the law shall be justified.\n\n2:14. For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those\nthings that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to\nthemselves.\n\n2:15. Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their\nconscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between\nthemselves accusing or also defending one another,\n\n2:16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus\nChrist, according to my gospel.\n\n2:17. But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest\nthy boast of God,\n\n2:18. And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things,\nbeing instructed by the law:\n\n2:19. Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light\nof them that are in darkness,\n\n2:20. An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the\nform of knowledge and of truth in the law.\n\n2:21. Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself:\nthou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.\n\n2:22. Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest\nadultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:\n\n2:23. Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the\nlaw dishonourest God.\n\n2:24. (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the\nGentiles, as it is written.)\n\n2:25. Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou\nbe a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.\n\n2:26. If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall\nnot this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?\n\n2:27. And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it\nfulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a\ntransgressor of the law?\n\n2:28. For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that\ncircumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.\n\n2:29. But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that\nof the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of\nmen, but of God.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 3\n\nThe advantages of the Jews. All men are sinners and none can be\njustified by the works of the law, but only by the grace of Christ.\n\n3:1. What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of\ncircumcision?\n\n3:2. Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were\ncommitted to them.\n\n3:3. For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief\nmake the faith of God without effect? God forbid!\n\n3:4. But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou\nmayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art\njudged.\n\nGod only is essentially true. All men in their own capacity are liable\nto lies and errors: nevertheless God, who is the truth, will make good\nhis promise of keeping his church in all truth. See St. John 16.13.\n\n3:5. But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we\nsay? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?\n\n3:6. (I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God\njudge this world?\n\n3:7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto\nhis glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?\n\n3:8. And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we\nsay) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.\n\n3:9. What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both\nJews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.\n\n3:10. As it is written: There is not any man just.\n\nThere is not any man just, viz.... by virtue either of the law of\nnature, or of the law of Moses; but only by faith and grace.\n\n3:11. There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh\nafter God.\n\n3:12. All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable\ntogether: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.\n\n3:13. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have\ndealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.\n\n3:14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:\n\n3:15. Their feet swift to shed blood:\n\n3:16. Destruction and misery in their ways:\n\n3:17. And the way of peace they have not known.\n\n3:18. There is no fear of God before their eyes.\n\n3:19. Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh\nto them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all\nthe world may be made subject to God.\n\n3:20. Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified\nbefore him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.\n\n3:21. But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest,\nbeing witnessed by the law and the prophets.\n\n3:22. Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and\nupon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction.\n\n3:23. For all have sinned and do need the glory of God.\n\n3:24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that\nis in Christ Jesus,\n\n3:25. Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his\nblood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,\n\n3:26. Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in\nthis time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is\nof the faith of Jesus Christ.\n\n3:27. Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of\nworks? No, but by the law of faith.\n\n3:28. For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works\nof the law.\n\nBy faith, etc.... The faith, to which the apostle here attributes man\u2019s\njustification, is not a presumptuous assurance of our being justified;\nbut a firm and lively belief of all that God has revealed or promised.\nHeb. 11. A faith working through charity in Jesus Christ. Gal. 5.6. In\nshort, a faith which takes in hope, love, repentance, and the use of\nthe sacraments. And the works which he here excludes, are only the\nworks of the law: that is, such as are done by the law of nature, or\nthat of Moses, antecedent to the faith of Christ: but by no means, such\nas follow faith, and proceed from it.\n\n3:29. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles?\nyes, of the Gentiles also.\n\n3:30. For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and\nuncircumcision through faith.\n\n3:31. Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we\nestablish the law.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 4\n\nAbraham was not justified by works done, as of himself, but by grace\nand by faith. And that before he was circumcised. Gentiles, by faith,\nare his children.\n\n4:1. What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father\naccording to the flesh?\n\n4:2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory,\nbut not before God.\n\nBy works.... Done by his own strength, without the grace of God, and\nfaith in him. Not before God.... Whatever glory or applause such works\nmight procure from men, they would be of no value in the sight of God.\n\n4:3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was\nreputed to him unto justice.\n\nReputed, etc.... By God, who reputeth nothing otherwise than it is.\nHowever, we may gather from this word, that when we are justified, our\njustification proceedeth from God\u2019s free grace and bounty; and not from\nany efficacy which any act of ours could have of its own nature,\nabstracting from God\u2019s grace.\n\n4:4. Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to\ngrace but according to debt.\n\nTo him that worketh.... Vis., as of his own fund, or by his own\nstrength. Such a man, says the apostle, challenges his reward as a debt\ndue to his own performances; whereas he who worketh not, that is, who\npresumeth not upon any works done by his own strength, but seeketh\njustice through faith and grace, is freely justified by God\u2019s grace.\n\n4:5. But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth\nthe ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose\nof the grace of God.\n\n4:6. As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God\nreputeth justice without works:\n\n4:7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are\ncovered.\n\nBlessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are\ncovered.... That is, blessed are those who, by doing penance, have\nobtained pardon and remission of their sins, and also are covered; that\nis, newly clothed with the habit of grace, and vested with the stole of\ncharity.\n\n4:8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.\n\nBlessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.... That is,\nblessed is the man who hath retained his baptismal innocence, that no\ngrievous sin can be imputed to him. And, likewise, blessed is the man,\nwho after fall into sin, hath done penance and leads a virtuous life,\nby frequenting the sacraments necessary for obtaining the grace to\nprevent a relapse, that sin is no more imputed to him.\n\n4:9. This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or\nin the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was\nreputed to justice.\n\nIn the circumcision, etc.... That is, is it only for the Jews that are\ncircumcised? No, says the apostle, but also for the uncircumcised\nGentiles: who, by faith and grace, may come to justice; as Abraham did\nbefore he was circumcised.\n\n4:10. How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in\nuncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.\n\n4:11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice\nof the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the\nfather of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them\nalso it may be reputed to justice:\n\n4:12. And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that\nare of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the\nfaith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.\n\n4:13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his\nseed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of\nfaith.\n\n4:14. For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the\npromise is made of no effect.\n\nBe heirs.... That is, if they alone, who follow the ceremonies of the\nlaw, be heirs of the blessings promised to Abraham; then that faith\nwhich was so much praised in him, will be found to be of little value.\nAnd the very promise will be made void, by which he was promised to be\nthe father, not of the Jews only, but of all nations of believers.\n\n4:15. For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is\nthere transgression.\n\nThe law worketh wrath.... The law, abstracting from faith and grace,\nworketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many\ntransgressions, which provoke God\u2019s wrath.\n\n4:16. Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise\nmight be firm to all the seed: not to that only which is of the law,\nbut to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of\nus all,\n\n4:17. (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations),\nbefore God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those\nthings that are not, as those that are.\n\n4:18. Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the\nfather of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So\nshall thy seed be.\n\n4:19. And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own\nbody, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the\ndead womb of Sara.\n\n4:20. In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was\nstrengthened in faith, giving glory to God:\n\n4:21. Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able\nalso to perform.\n\n4:22. And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.\n\n4:23. Now it is not written only for him, that it was reputed to him\nunto justice,\n\n4:24. But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in\nhim that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,\n\n4:25. Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our\njustification.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 5\n\nThe grounds we have for hope in Christ. Sin and death came by Adam,\ngrace and life by Christ.\n\n5:1. Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God,\nthrough our Lord Jesus Christ:\n\n5:2. By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein\nwe stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.\n\n5:3. And not only so: but we glory also in tribulations, knowing that\ntribulation worketh patience;\n\n5:4. And patience trial; and trial hope;\n\n5:5. And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured\nforth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.\n\n5:6. For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the\ntime, die for the ungodly?\n\n5:7. For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man\nsome one would dare to die.\n\n5:8. But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we\nwere sinners according to the time.\n\n5:9. Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by\nhis blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.\n\n5:10. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the\ndeath of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his\nlife.\n\n5:11. And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus\nChrist, by whom we have now received reconciliation.\n\n5:12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin\ndeath: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.\n\nBy one man.... Adam, from whom we all contracted original sin.\n\n5:13. For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed,\nwhen the law was not.\n\nNot imputed.... That is, men knew not, or made no account of sin,\nneither was it imputed to them, in the manner it was afterwards, when\nthey transgressed the known written law of God.\n\n5:14. But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who\nhave not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who\nis a figure of him who was to come.\n\n5:15. But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence\nof one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the\ngrace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.\n\n5:16. And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment\nindeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto\njustification.\n\n5:17. For if by one man\u2019s offence death reigned through one; much more\nthey who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice\nshall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.\n\n5:18. Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to\ncondemnation: so also by the justice of one, unto all men to\njustification of life.\n\n5:19. For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so\nalso by the obedience of one, many shall be made just.\n\n5:20. Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin\nabounded, grace did more abound.\n\nThat sin might abound.... Not as if the law were given on purpose for\nsin to abound: but that it so happened through man\u2019s perversity, taking\noccasion of sinning more, from the prohibition of sin.\n\n5:21. That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by\njustice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 6\n\nThe Christian must die to sin and live to God.\n\n6:1. What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may\nabound?\n\n6:2. God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any\nlonger therein?\n\n6:3. Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are\nbaptized in his death?\n\n6:4. For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that,\nas Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also\nmay walk in newness of life.\n\n6:5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,\nwe shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.\n\n6:6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the\nbody of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no\nlonger.\n\nOld man\u2014body of sin.... Our corrupt state, subject to sin and\nconcupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called our old man, as our\nstate, reformed in and by Christ, is called the new man. And the vices\nand sins, which then ruled in us are named the body of sin.\n\n6:7. For he that is dead is justified from sin.\n\n6:8. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also\ntogether with Christ.\n\n6:9. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no\nmore. Death shall no more have dominion over him.\n\n6:10. For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth,\nhe liveth unto God.\n\n6:11. So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto\nGod, in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n6:12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey\nthe lusts thereof.\n\n6:13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto\nsin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the\ndead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God.\n\n6:14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under\nthe law, but under grace.\n\n6:15. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but\nunder grace? God forbid!\n\n6:16. Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey,\nhis servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or\nof obedience unto justice.\n\n6:17. But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin but have\nobeyed from the heart unto that form of doctrine into which you have\nbeen delivered.\n\n6:18. Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.\n\n6:19. I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh.\nFor as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity,\nunto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto\nsanctification.\n\n6:20. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to\njustice.\n\n6:21. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you\nare now ashamed? For the end of them is death.\n\n6:22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you\nhave your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.\n\n6:23. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life\neverlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 7\n\nWe are released by Christ from the law and from the guilt of sin,\nthough the inclination to it still tempts us.\n\n7:1. Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law)\nthat the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth?\n\nAs long as it liveth; ... or, as long as he liveth.\n\n7:2. For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is\nbound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the\nlaw of her husband.\n\n7:3. Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an\nadulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she\nis delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an\nadulteress, if she be with another man.\n\n7:4. Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by\nthe body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again\nfrom the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.\n\n7:5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by\nthe law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.\n\n7:6. But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were\ndetained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the\noldness of the letter.\n\n7:7. What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not\nknow sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law\ndid not say: Thou shalt not covet.\n\n7:8. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all\nmanner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.\n\nSin taking occasion.... Sin, or concupiscence, which is called sin,\nbecause it is from sin, and leads to sin, which was asleep before, was\nweakened by the prohibition: the law not being the cause thereof, nor\nproperly giving occasion to it: but occasion being taken by our corrupt\nnature to resist the commandment laid upon us.\n\n7:9. And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment\ncame, sin revived,\n\n7:10. And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the\nsame was found to be unto death to me.\n\n7:11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by\nit killed me.\n\n7:12. Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and\njust and good.\n\n7:13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But\nsin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in\nme: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.\n\nThat it may appear sin, or that sin may appear, viz.... To be the\nmonster it is, which is even capable to take occasion from that which\nis good, to work death.\n\n7:14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold\nunder sin.\n\n7:15. For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good\nwhich I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do.\n\nI do not that good which I will, etc.... The apostle here describes the\ndisorderly motions of passion and concupiscence; which oftentimes in us\nget the start of reason: and by means of which even good men suffer in\nthe inferior appetite what their will abhors: and are much hindered in\nthe accomplishment of the desires of their spirit and mind. But these\nevil motions, (though they are called the law of sin, because they come\nfrom original sin, and violently tempt and incline to sin,) as long as\nthe will does not consent to them, are not sins, because they are not\nvoluntary.\n\n7:16. If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it\nis good.\n\n7:17. Now then it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.\n\n7:18. For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my\nflesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to\naccomplish that which is good, I find not.\n\n7:19. For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will\nnot, that I do.\n\n7:20. Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it:\nbut sin that dwelleth in me.\n\n7:21. I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is\npresent with me.\n\n7:22. For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward\nman:\n\n7:23. But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of\nmy mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members.\n\n7:24. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this\ndeath?\n\n7:25. The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself,\nwith the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 8\n\nThere is no condemnation to them that, being justified by Christ, walk\nnot according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Their strong\nhope and love of God.\n\n8:1. There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ\nJesus, who walk not according to the flesh.\n\n8:2. For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered\nme from the law of sin and of death.\n\n8:3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the\nflesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of\nsin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.\n\n8:4. That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who\nwalk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.\n\n8:5. For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are\nof the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things\nthat are of the spirit.\n\n8:6. For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit\nis life and peace.\n\n8:7. Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not\nsubject to the law of God: neither can it be.\n\n8:8. And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.\n\n8:9. But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the\nSpirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of\nChrist, he is none of his.\n\n8:10. And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin:\nbut the spirit liveth, because of justification.\n\n8:11. And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell\nin you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken\nalso your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.\n\n8:12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live\naccording to the flesh.\n\n8:13. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by\nthe Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.\n\n8:14. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of\nGod.\n\n8:15. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear:\nbut you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry:\nAbba (Father).\n\n8:16. For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are\nthe sons of God.\n\nThe Spirit himself, etc.... By the inward motions of divine love, and\nthe peace of conscience, which the children of God experience, they\nhave a kind of testimony of God\u2019s favour; by which they are much\nstrengthened in their hope of their justification and salvation; but\nyet not so as to pretend to an absolute assurance: which is not usually\ngranted in this mortal life: during which we are taught to work out our\nsalvation with fear and trembling. Phil. 2.12. And that he that\nthinketh himself to stand, must take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. 10.12.\nSee also, Rom. 11.20, 21, 22.\n\n8:17. And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with\nChrist: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified\nwith him.\n\n8:18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to\nbe compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us.\n\n8:19. For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of\nthe sons of God.\n\nThe expectation of the creature, etc.... He speaks of the corporeal\ncreation, made for the use and service of man; and, by occasion of his\nsin, made subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability,\ntending to corruption and other defects; so that by a figure of speech\nit is here said to groan and be in labour, and to long for its\ndeliverance, which is then to come, when sin shall reign no more; and\nGod shall raise the bodies and unite them to their souls never more to\nseparate, and to be in everlasting happiness in heaven.\n\n8:20. For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but\nby reason of him that made it subject, in hope.\n\n8:21. Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the\nservitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children\nof God.\n\n8:22. For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain,\neven till now.\n\n8:23. And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of\nthe Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the\nadoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.\n\n8:24. For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For\nwhat a man seeth, why doth he hope for?\n\n8:25. But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with\npatience.\n\n8:26. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For, we know not\nwhat we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for\nus with unspeakable groanings,\n\nAsketh for us.... The Spirit is said to ask, and desire for the saints,\nand to pray in us; inasmuch as he inspireth prayer, and teacheth us to\npray.\n\n8:27. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit\ndesireth: because he asketh for the saints according to God.\n\n8:28. And we know that to them that love God all things work together\nunto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be\nsaints.\n\n8:29. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made\nconformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn\namongst many brethren.\n\nHe also predestinated, etc.... That is, God hath preordained that all\nhis elect should be conformable to the image of his Son. We must not\nhere offer to pry into the secrets of God\u2019s eternal election; only\nfirmly believe that all our good, in time and eternity, flows\noriginally from God\u2019s free goodness; and all our evil from man\u2019s free\nwill.\n\n8:30. And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he\ncalled, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also\nglorified.\n\n8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is\nagainst us?\n\n8:32. He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us\nall, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?\n\n8:33. Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that\njustifieth:\n\n8:34. Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is\nrisen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh\nintercession for us.\n\n8:35. Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall\ntribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or\npersecution? Or the sword?\n\n8:36. (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day\nlong. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)\n\n8:37. But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath\nloved us.\n\n8:38. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor\nprincipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor\nmight,\n\nI am sure.... That is, I am persuaded; as it is in the Greek,\npepeismai.\n\n8:39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to\nseparate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 9\n\nThe apostle\u2019s concern for the Jews. God\u2019s election is free and not\nconfined to their nation.\n\n9:1. I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me\nwitness in the Holy Ghost:\n\n9:2. That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.\n\n9:3. For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my\nbrethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:\n\nAnathema; ... A curse. The apostle\u2019s concern and love for his\ncountrymen the Jews was so great, that he was willing to suffer even an\nanathema, or curse, for their sake; or any evil that could come upon\nhim, without his offending God.\n\n9:4. Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children\nand the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the\nservice of God and the promises:\n\n9:5. Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the\nflesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.\n\n9:6. Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not\nIsraelites that are of Israel.\n\nAll are not Israelites, etc.... Not all, who are the carnal seed of\nIsrael, are true Israelites in God\u2019s account: who, as by his free\ngrace, he heretofore preferred Isaac before Ismael, and Jacob before\nEsau, so he could, and did by the like free grace, election and mercy,\nraise up spiritual children by faith to Abraham and Israel, from among\nthe Gentiles, and prefer them before the carnal Jews.\n\n9:7. Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but\nin Isaac shall thy seed be called.\n\n9:8. That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are\nthe children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are\naccounted for the seed.\n\n9:9. For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I\ncome. And Sara shall have a son.\n\n9:10. And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of\nIsaac our father.\n\n9:11. For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or\nevil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand):\n\nNot yet born, etc.... By this example of these twins, and the\npreference of the younger to the elder, the drift of the apostle is, to\nshew that God, in his election, mercy and grace, is not tied to any\nparticular nation, as the Jews imagined; nor to any prerogative of\nbirth, or any forgoing merits. For as, antecedently to his grace, he\nsees no merits in any, but finds all involved in sin, in the common\nmass of condemnation; and all children of wrath: there is no one whom\nhe might not justly leave in that mass; so that whomsoever he delivers\nfrom it, he delivers in his mercy: and whomsoever he leaves in it, he\nleaves in his justice. As when, of two equally criminal, the king is\npleased out of pure mercy to pardon one, whilst he suffers justice to\ntake place in the execution of the other.\n\n9:12. Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The\nelder shall serve the younger.\n\n9:13. As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.\n\n9:14. What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!\n\n9:15. For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have\nmercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.\n\n9:16. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth,\nbut of God that sheweth mercy.\n\nNot of him that willeth, etc.... That is, by any power or strength of\nhis own, abstracting from the grace of God.\n\n9:17. For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised\nthee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared\nthroughout all the earth.\n\nTo this purpose, etc.... Not that God made him on purpose that he\nshould sin, and so be damned; but foreseeing his obstinacy in sin, and\nthe abuse of his own free will, he raised him up to be a mighty king,\nto make a more remarkable example of him: and that his power might be\nbetter known, and his justice in punishing him, published throughout\nthe earth.\n\n9:18. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he\nhardeneth.\n\nHe hardeneth.... Not by being the cause or author of his sin, but by\nwithholding his grace, and so leaving him in his sin, in punishment of\nhis past demerits.\n\n9:19. Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For\nwho resisteth his will?\n\n9:20. O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing\nformed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?\n\n9:21. Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to\nmake one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?\n\nThe potter.... This similitude is used only to shew that we are not to\ndispute with our Maker, nor to reason with him why he does not give as\nmuch grace to one as to another; for since the whole lump of our clay\nis vitiated by sin, it is owing to his goodness and mercy, that he\nmakes out of it so many vessels of honor; and it is no more than just,\nthat others, in punishment of their unrepented sins, should be given up\nto be vessels of dishonor.\n\n9:22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power\nknown, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for\ndestruction,\n\n9:23. That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of\nmercy which he hath prepared unto glory?\n\n9:24. Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also\nof the Gentiles.\n\n9:25. As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my\npeople; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not\nobtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.\n\n9:26. And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are\nnot my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.\n\n9:27. And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the\nchildren of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.\n\nA remnant.... That is, a small number only of the children of Israel\nshall be converted and saved. How perversely is this text quoted for\nthe salvation of men of all religions, when it speaks only of the\nconverts of the children of Israel!\n\n9:28. For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because\na short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.\n\n9:29. And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbaoth had left us a\nseed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.\n\n9:30. What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after\njustice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.\n\n9:31. But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come\nunto the law of justice.\n\n9:32. Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of\nworks. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.\n\n9:33. As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a\nrock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be\nconfounded.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 10\n\nThe end of the law is faith in Christ, which the Jews refusing to\nsubmit to, cannot be justified.\n\n10:1. Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is\nfor them unto salvation.\n\n10:2. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not\naccording to knowledge.\n\n10:3. For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish\ntheir own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.\n\nThe justice of God.... That is, the justice which God giveth us through\nChrist; as on the other hand, the Jews\u2019 own justice is, that which they\npretended to by their own strength, or by the observance of the law,\nwithout faith in Christ.\n\n10:4. For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that\nbelieveth.\n\n10:5. For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man\nthat shall do it shall live by it.\n\n10:6. But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy\nheart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down;\n\n10:7. Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring up Christ\nagain from the dead.\n\n10:8. But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee; even in thy\nmouth and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach.\n\n10:9. For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in\nthy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be\nsaved.\n\nThou shalt be saved.... To confess the Lord Jesus, and to call upon the\nname of the Lord (ver. 13) is not barely the professing a belief in the\nperson of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine,\nand an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will\nsave no man. St. Matt. 7.21.\n\n10:10. For, with the heart, we believe unto justice: but, with the\nmouth, confession is made unto salvation.\n\n10:11. For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him shall not be\nconfounded.\n\n10:12. For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the\nsame is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.\n\n10:13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be\nsaved.\n\n10:14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?\nOr how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how\nshall they hear without a preacher?\n\n10:15. And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written:\nHow beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of\nthem that bring glad tidings of good things?\n\nUnless they be sent.... Here is an evident proof against all new\nteachers, who have all usurped to themselves the ministry without any\nlawful mission, derived by succession from the apostles, to whom Christ\nsaid, John 20.21, As my Father hath sent me, I also send you.\n\n10:16. But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath\nbelieved our report?\n\n10:17. Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.\n\n10:18. But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath\ngone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the\nwhole world.\n\n10:19. But I say: Hath not Israel known? First, Moses saith: I will\nprovoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation: by a foolish\nnation I will anger you.\n\n10:20. But Isaias is bold, and saith: I was found by them that did not\nseek me. I appeared openly to them that asked not after me.\n\n10:21. But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands\nto a people that believeth not and contradicteth me.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 11\n\nGod hath not cast off all Israel. The Gentiles must not be proud but\nstand in faith and fear.\n\n11:1. I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also\nam an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.\n\n11:2. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not\nwhat the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against\nIsrael?\n\n11:3. Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy\naltars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life.\n\n11:4. But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven\nthousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal.\n\nSeven thousand, etc.... This is very ill alleged by some, against the\nperpetual visibility of the church of Christ; the more, because however\nthe number of the faithful might be abridged by the persecution of\nJezabel in the kingdom of the ten tribes, the church was at the same\ntime in a most flourishing condition (under Asa and Josaphat) in the\nkingdom of Judah.\n\n11:5. Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved\naccording to the election of grace.\n\n11:6. And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no\nmore grace.\n\nIt is not now by works, etc.... If salvation were to come by works,\ndone by nature, without faith and grace, salvation would not be a grace\nor favour, but a debt; but such dead works are indeed of no value in\nthe sight of God towards salvation. It is not the same with regard to\nworks done with, and by, God\u2019s grace; for to such works as these, he\nhas promised eternal salvation.\n\n11:7. What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but\nthe election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded.\n\n11:8. As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of\ninsensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should\nnot hear, until this present day.\n\nGod hath given them, etc.... Not by his working or acting in them; but\nby his permission, and by withdrawing his grace in punishment of their\nobstinacy.\n\n11:9. And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a\nstumbling block and a recompense unto them.\n\n11:10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down\ntheir back always.\n\n11:11. I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God\nforbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that\nthey may be emulous of them.\n\nThat they should fall.... The nation of the Jews is not absolutely and\nwithout remedy cast off for ever; but in part only, (many thousands of\nthem having been at first converted,) and for a time; which fall of\ntheirs, God has been pleased to turn to the good of the Gentiles.\n\n11:12. Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the\ndiminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the\nfulness of them?\n\n11:13. For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle\nof the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,\n\n11:14. If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my\nflesh and may save some of them.\n\n11:15. For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what\nshall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?\n\n11:16. For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the\nroot be holy, so are the branches.\n\n11:17. And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild\nolive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of\nthe fatness of the olive tree:\n\n11:18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest\nnot the root: but the root thee.\n\n11:19. Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be\ngrafted in.\n\n11:20. Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou\nstandest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.\n\nThou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.... We see here\nthat he who standeth by faith may fall from it; and therefore must live\nin fear, and not in the vain presumption and security of modern\nsectaries.\n\n11:21. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest\nperhaps also he spare not thee.\n\n11:22. See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them\nindeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of\nGod, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.\n\nOtherwise thou also shalt be cut off.... The Gentiles are here\nadmonished not to be proud, nor to glory against the Jews: but to take\noccasion rather from their fall to fear and to be humble, lest they be\ncast off. Not that the whole church of Christ can ever fall from him;\nhaving been secured by so many divine promises in holy writ; but that\neach one in particular may fall; and therefore all in general are to be\nadmonished to beware of that, which may happen to any one in\nparticular.\n\n11:23. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be\ngrafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.\n\n11:24. For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is\nnatural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good\nolive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be\ngrafted into their own olive tree?\n\n11:25. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery\n(lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part\nhas happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come\nin.\n\n11:26. And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall\ncome out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness\nfrom Jacob.\n\n11:27. And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their\nsins.\n\n11:28. As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your\nsake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of\nthe fathers.\n\n11:29. For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.\n\nFor the gifts and the calling of God are without.... his repenting\nhimself of them; for the promises of God are unchangeable, nor can he\nrepent of conferring his gifts.\n\n11:30. For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have\nobtained mercy, through their unbelief:\n\n11:31. So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they\nalso may obtain mercy.\n\n11:32. For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy\non all.\n\nConcluded all in unbelief.... He hath found all nations, both Jews and\nGentiles, in unbelief and sin; not by his causing, but by the abuse of\ntheir own free will; so that their calling and election is purely owing\nto his mercy.\n\n11:33. O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of\nGod! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his\nways!\n\n11:34. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his\ncounsellor?\n\n11:35. Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made\nhim?\n\n11:36. For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be\nglory for ever. Amen.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 12\n\nLessons of Christian virtues.\n\n12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you\npresent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your\nreasonable service.\n\n12:2. And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the\nnewness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the\nacceptable and the perfect will of God.\n\n12:3. For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among\nyou, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise\nunto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the\nmeasure of faith.\n\n12:4. For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have\nnot the same office:\n\n12:5. So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members\none of another:\n\n12:6. And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given\nus, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith;\n\n12:7. Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;\n\n12:8. He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity;\nhe that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with\ncheerfulness.\n\n12:9. Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil,\ncleaving to that which is good,\n\n12:10. Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour\npreventing one another.\n\n12:11. In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the\nLord.\n\n12:12. Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.\n\n12:13. Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing\nhospitality.\n\n12:14. Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.\n\n12:15. Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.\n\n12:16. Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things,\nbut consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.\n\n12:17. To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not\nonly in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men.\n\n12:18. If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all\nmen.\n\n12:19. Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto\nwrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the\nLord.\n\n12:20. But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give\nhim to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his\nhead.\n\n12:21. Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 13\n\nLessons of obedience to superiors and mutual charity.\n\n13:1. Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power\nbut from God: and those that are, are ordained of God.\n\n13:2. Therefore, he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of\nGod. And they that resist purchase to themselves damnation.\n\n13:3. For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil.\nWilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and\nthou shalt have praise from the same.\n\n13:4. For he is God\u2019s minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that\nwhich is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is\nGod\u2019s minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil.\n\n13:5. Wherefore be subject of necessity: not only for wrath, but also\nfor conscience\u2019 sake.\n\n13:6. For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of\nGod, serving unto this purpose.\n\n13:7. Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute\nis due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom\nhonour.\n\n13:8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth\nhis neighbour hath fulfilled the law.\n\n13:9. For: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou\nshalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not\ncovet. And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this\nword: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.\n\n13:10. The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the\nfulfilling of the law.\n\n13:11. And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to\nrise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.\n\n13:12. The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore\ncast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.\n\n13:13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and\ndrunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and\nenvy.\n\n13:14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for\nthe flesh in its concupiscences.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 14\n\nThe strong must bear with the weak. Cautions against judging and giving\nscandal.\n\n14:1. Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes\nabout thoughts.\n\n14:2. For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is\nweak, let him eat herbs.\n\nEat all things.... Viz., without observing the distinction of clean and\nunclean meats, prescribed by the law of Moses: which was now no longer\nobligatory. Some weak Christians, converted from among the Jews, as we\nhere gather from the apostle, made a scruple of eating such meats as\nwere deemed unclean by the law; such as swine\u2019s flesh, etc., which the\nstronger sort of Christians did eat without scruple. Now the apostle,\nto reconcile them together, exhorts the former not to judge or condemn\nthe latter, using their Christian liberty; and the latter, to take care\nnot to despise or scandalize their weaker brethren, either by bringing\nthem to eat what in their conscience they think they should not, or by\ngiving them such offence, as to endanger the driving them thereby from\nthe Christian religion.\n\n14:3. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that\neateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him\nto him.\n\n14:4. Who art thou that judgest another man\u2019s servant? To his own lord\nhe standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him\nstand.\n\n14:5. For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every\nday. Let every man abound in his own sense.\n\nBetween day, etc.... Still observing the sabbaths and festivals of the\nlaw.\n\n14:6. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that\neateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that\neateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God.\n\n14:7. For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself.\n\n14:8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we\ndie unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are\nthe Lord\u2019s.\n\n14:9. For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord\nboth of the dead and of the living.\n\n14:10. But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou\ndespise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of\nChrist.\n\n14:11. For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall\nbow to me and every tongue shall confess to God.\n\n14:12. Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for\nhimself.\n\n14:13. Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this\nrather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your\nbrother\u2019s way.\n\n14:14. I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is\nunclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean,\nto him it is unclean.\n\n14:15. For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou\nwalkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat,\nfor whom Christ died.\n\n14:16. Let not then our good be evil spoken of.\n\n14:17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and\npeace and joy in the Holy Ghost.\n\n14:18. For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved\nof men.\n\n14:19. Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and\nkeep the things that are of edification, one towards another.\n\n14:20. Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are\nclean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.\n\n14:21. It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing\nwhereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.\n\n14:22. Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he\nthat condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.\n\n14:23. But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of\nfaith. For all that is not of faith is sin.\n\nDiscerneth.... That is, distinguisheth between meats, and eateth\nagainst his conscience, what he deems unclean. Of faith.... By faith is\nhere understood judgment and conscience: to act against which is always\na sin.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 15\n\nHe exhorts them to be all of one mind and promises to come and see\nthem.\n\n15:1. Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the\nweak and not to please ourselves.\n\n15:2. Let every one of you please his neighbour unto good, to\nedification.\n\n15:3. For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The\nreproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.\n\n15:4. For what things soever were written were written for our\nlearning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we\nmight have hope.\n\n15:5. Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one\nmind, one towards another, according to Jesus Christ:\n\n15:6. That with one mind and with one mouth you may glorify God and the\nFather of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n15:7. Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you,\nunto the honour of God.\n\n15:8. For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for\nthe truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:\n\nMinister of the circumcision.... That is, executed his office and\nministry towards the Jews, the people of the circumcision.\n\n15:9. But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is\nwritten: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles\nand will sing to thy name.\n\n15:10. And again he saith: rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people.\n\n15:11. And again: praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles: and magnify him,\nall ye people.\n\n15:12. And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he\nthat shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall\nhope.\n\n15:13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in\nbelieving: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy\nGhost.\n\n15:14. And I myself also, my brethren, am assured of you that you also\nare full of love, replenished with all knowledge, so that you are able\nto admonish one another.\n\n15:15. But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort,\nas it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me\nfrom God,\n\n15:16. That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the\nGentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the\nGentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.\n\n15:17. I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God.\n\n15:18. For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ\nworketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,\n\n15:19. By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy\nGhost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I\nhave replenished the gospel of Christ.\n\n15:20. And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named,\nlest I should build upon another man\u2019s foundation.\n\n15:21. But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of shall\nsee: and they that have not heard shall understand.\n\n15:22. For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to\nyou and have been kept away till now.\n\n15:23. But now, having no more place in these countries and having a\ngreat desire these many years past to come unto you,\n\n15:24. When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that,\nas I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if\nfirst, in part, I shall have enjoyed you.\n\n15:25. But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints.\n\n15:26. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a\ncontribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem.\n\n15:27. For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if\nthe Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they\nought also in carnal things to minister to them.\n\n15:28. When therefore I shall have accomplished this and consigned to\nthem this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.\n\n15:29. And I know that when I come to you I shall come in the abundance\nof the blessing of the gospel of Christ.\n\n15:30. I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ\nand by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers\nfor me to God,\n\n15:31. That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea\nand that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to\nthe saints.\n\n15:32. That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be\nrefreshed with you.\n\n15:33. Now the God of peace be with, you all. Amen.\n\n\nRomans Chapter 16\n\nHe concludes with salutations, bidding them beware of all that should\noppose the doctrine they had learned.\n\n16:1. And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of\nthe church, that is in Cenchrae:\n\n16:2. That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you\nassist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she\nalso hath assisted many, and myself also.\n\n16:3. Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers, in Christ Jesus\n\n16:4. (Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I\nonly give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles),\n\n16:5. And the church which is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my\nbeloved: who is the firstfruits of Asia in Christ.\n\n16:6. Salute Mary, who hath laboured much among you.\n\n16:7. Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners:\nwho are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.\n\n16:8. Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the Lord.\n\n16:9. Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus and Stachys, my\nbeloved.\n\n16:10. Salute Apelles, approved in Christ.\n\n16:11. Salute them that are of Aristobulus\u2019 household. Salute Herodian,\nmy kinsman. Salute them that are of Narcissus\u2019 household, who are in\nthe Lord.\n\n16:12. Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute\nPersis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.\n\n16:13. Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.\n\n16:14. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes: and the\nbrethren that are with them.\n\n16:15. Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and\nOlympias: and all the saints that are with them.\n\n16:16. Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ\nsalute you.\n\n16:17. Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions\nand offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid\nthem.\n\n16:18. For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own\nbelly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the\ninnocent.\n\n16:19. For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice\ntherefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good and simple in\nevil.\n\n16:20. And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The\ngrace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.\n\n16:21. Timothy, my fellow labourer, saluteth you: and Lucius and Jason\nand Sosipater, my kinsmen.\n\n16:22. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.\n\n16:23. Caius, my host, and the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the\ntreasurer of the city, saluteth you: and Quartus, a brother.\n\n16:24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.\n\n16:25. Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel\nand the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the\nmystery which was kept secret from eternity;\n\n16:26. (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets,\naccording to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of\nfaith) known among all nations:\n\n16:27. To God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, to whom be honour\nand glory for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\n\n\nSt. Paul, having planted the faithful in Corinth, where he had preached\na year and a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. After\nbeing there three years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians\nand sent it by the same persons, Stephanus, Fortunatus and Achaicus,\nwho had brought their letter to him. It was written about twenty-four\nyears after our Lord\u2019s Ascension and contains several matters\nappertaining to faith and morals and also to ecclesiastical discipline.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 1\n\nHe reproveth their dissensions about their teachers. The world was to\nbe saved by preaching of the cross, and not by human wisdom or\neloquence.\n\n1:1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,\nand Sosthenes a brother,\n\n1:2. To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are\nsanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke\nthe name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.\n\n1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:4. I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that\nis given you in Christ Jesus:\n\n1:5. That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and\nin all knowledge;\n\n1:6. As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,\n\n1:7. So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the\nmanifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:8. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day\nof the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:9. God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his\nSon, Jesus Christ our Lord.\n\n1:10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms\namong you: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same\njudgment.\n\n1:11. For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them\nthat are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.\n\n1:12. Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul;\nand I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.\n\n1:13. Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? Or were you\nbaptized in the name of Paul?\n\n1:14. I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and\nCaius:\n\n1:15. Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name.\n\n1:16. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus. Besides, I know\nnot whether I baptized any other.\n\n1:17. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not\nin wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.\n\n1:18. For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is\nfoolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the\npower of God.\n\n1:19. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the\nprudence of the prudent I will reject.\n\n1:20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of\nthis world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?\n\n1:21. For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew\nnot God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save\nthem that believe.\n\n1:22. For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after\nwisdom.\n\n1:23. But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a\nstumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:\n\n1:24. But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the\npower of God and the wisdom of God.\n\n1:25. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of\nGod is stronger than men.\n\nThe foolishness, etc.... That is to say, what appears foolish to the\nworld in the ways of God, is indeed most wise; and what appears weak is\nindeed above all the strength and comprehension of man.\n\n1:26. For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise\naccording to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.\n\n1:27. But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may\nconfound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen,\nthat he may confound the strong.\n\n1:28. And the base things of the world and the things that are\ncontemptible, hath God chosen: and things that are not, that he might\nbring to nought things that are:\n\n1:29. That no flesh should glory in his sight.\n\n1:30. But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us\nwisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:\n\n1:31. That, as it is written: He that glorieth may glory in the Lord.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 2\n\nHis preaching was not in loftiness of words, but in spirit and power.\nAnd the wisdom he taught was not to be understood by the worldly wise\nor sensual man, but only by the spiritual man.\n\n2:1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of\nspeech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.\n\n2:2. For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus\nChrist: and him crucified.\n\n2:3. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.\n\n2:4. And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of\nhuman wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power:\n\n2:5. That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the\npower of God.\n\n2:6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of\nthis world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.\n\n2:7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is\nhidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:\n\n2:8. Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had\nknown it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.\n\n2:9. But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard:\nneither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath\nprepared for them that love him.\n\n2:10. But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit\nsearcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.\n\n2:11. For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man\nthat is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but\nthe Spirit of God.\n\n2:12. Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the\nSpirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us\nfrom God.\n\n2:13. Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human\nwisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things\nwith spiritual.\n\n2:14. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the\nSpirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand,\nbecause it is spiritually examined.\n\nThe sensual man\u2014the spiritual man.... The sensual man is either he who\nis taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections;\nor he who measureth divine mysteries by natural reason, sense, and\nhuman wisdom only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the things\nof God. Whereas the spiritual man is he who, in the mysteries of\nreligion, takes not human sense for his guide: but submits his judgment\nto the decisions of the church, which he is commanded to hear and obey.\nFor Christ hath promised to remain to the end of the world with his\nchurch, and to direct her in all things by the Spirit of truth.\n\n2:15. But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is\njudged of no man.\n\n2:16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct\nhim? But we have the mind of Christ.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 3\n\nThey must not contend about their teachers, who are but God\u2019s ministers\nand accountable to him. Their works shall be tried by fire.\n\n3:1. And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as\nunto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.\n\n3:2. I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet.\nBut neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.\n\n3:3. For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you\nnot carnal and walk you not according to man?\n\n3:4. For while one saith: I indeed am of Paul: and another: I am of\nApollo: are you not men? What then is Apollo and what is Paul?\n\n3:5. The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as\nthe Lord hath given.\n\n3:6. I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.\n\n3:7. Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that\nwatereth: but God that giveth the increase.\n\n3:8. Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man\nshall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.\n\n3:9. For we are God\u2019s coadjutors. You are God\u2019s husbandry: you are\nGod\u2019s building.\n\n3:10. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise\narchitect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon.\nBut let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.\n\n3:11. For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid:\nwhich is Christ Jesus.\n\n3:12. Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver,\nprecious stones, wood, hay, stubble:\n\nUpon this foundation.... The foundation is Christ and his doctrine: or\nthe true faith in him, working through charity. The building upon this\nfoundation gold, silver, and precious stones, signifies the more\nperfect preaching and practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and\nstubble, such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers (who\naffected the pomp of words and human eloquence) and such practice as is\nmixed with much imperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of the\nLord, and his fiery trial, (in the particular judgment immediately\nafter death,) shall make manifest of what sort every man\u2019s work has\nbeen: of which, during this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For\nthen the fire of God\u2019s judgment shall try every man\u2019s work. And they,\nwhose works, like wood, hay, and stubble, cannot abide the fire, shall\nsuffer loss; these works being found to be of no value; yet they\nthemselves, having built upon the right foundation, (by living and\ndying in the true faith and in the state of grace, though with some\nimperfection,) shall be saved yet so as by fire; being liable to this\npunishment, by reason of the wood, hay, and stubble, which was mixed\nwith their building.\n\n3:13. Every man\u2019s work shall be manifest. For the day of the Lord shall\ndeclare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall\ntry every man\u2019s work, of what sort it is.\n\n3:14. If any man\u2019s work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall\nreceive a reward.\n\n3:15. If any man\u2019s work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself\nshall be saved, yet so as by fire.\n\n3:16. Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit\nof God dwelleth in you?\n\n3:17. But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy.\nFor the temple of God is holy, which you are.\n\n3:18. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise\nin this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.\n\n3:19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is\nwritten: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.\n\n3:20. And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they\nare vain.\n\n3:21. Let no man therefore glory in men.\n\n3:22. For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas,\nor the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come.\nFor all are yours.\n\n3:23. And you are Christ\u2019s. And Christ is God\u2019s.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 4\n\nGod\u2019s ministers are not to be judged. He reprehends their boasting of\ntheir preachers and describes the treatment the apostles every where\nmet with.\n\n4:1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the\ndispensers of the mysteries of God.\n\n4:2. Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found\nfaithful.\n\n4:3. But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man\u2019s\nday. But neither do I judge my own self.\n\n4:4. For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby\njustified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.\n\n4:5. Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who\nboth will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make\nmanifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have\npraise from God.\n\n4:6. But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to\nmyself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one\nbe not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is\nwritten.\n\n4:7. For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not\nreceived, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou\nhadst not received it?\n\n4:8. You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us;\nand I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.\n\n4:9. For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it\nwere men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and\nto angels and to men.\n\n4:10. We are fools for Christ\u2019s sake, but you are wise in Christ: we\nare weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without\nhonour.\n\n4:11. Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and\nare buffeted and have no fixed abode.\n\n4:12. And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we\nbless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.\n\n4:13. We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of\nthis world, the offscouring of all, even until now.\n\n4:14. I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as\nmy dearest children.\n\n4:15. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many\nfathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.\n\n4:16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of\nChrist.\n\n4:17. For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son\nand faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which\nare in Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church.\n\n4:18. As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.\n\n4:19. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know,\nnot the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.\n\n4:20. For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.\n\n4:21. What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and\nin the spirit of meekness?\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 5\n\nHe excommunicates the incestuous adulterer and admonishes them to purge\nout the old leaven.\n\n5:1. It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and\nsuch fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should\nhave his father\u2019s wife.\n\n5:2. And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might\nbe taken away from among you that hath done this thing.\n\n5:3. I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already\njudged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,\n\n5:4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together\nand my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus:\n\n5:5. To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,\nthat the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n5:6. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven\ncorrupteth the whole lump?\n\n5:7. Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are\nunleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.\n\n5:8. Therefore, let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the\nleaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of\nsincerity and truth.\n\n5:9. I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators.\n\n5:10. I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the\ncovetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you\nmust needs go out of this world.\n\n5:11. But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man\nthat is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of\nidols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not\nso much as to eat.\n\n5:12. For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you\njudge them that are within?\n\n5:13. For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one\nfrom among yourselves.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 6\n\nHe blames them for going to law before unbelievers. Of sins that\nexclude from the kingdom of heaven. The evil of fornication.\n\n6:1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged\nbefore the unjust: and not before the saints?\n\n6:2. Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the\nworld shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest\nmatters?\n\n6:3. Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of\nthis world?\n\n6:4. If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this\nworld, set them to judge who are the most despised in the church.\n\n6:5. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any\none wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?\n\n6:6. But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before\nunbelievers.\n\n6:7. Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have\nlaw suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do\nyou not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?\n\nA fault.... Lawsuits can hardly ever be without a fault, on the one\nside or the other; and oftentimes on both sides.\n\n6:8. But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.\n\n6:9. Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God?\nDo not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:\n\n6:10. Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor\ncovetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the\nkingdom of God.\n\n6:11. And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are\nsanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ\nand the Spirit of our God.\n\n6:12. All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient.\nAll things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power\nof any.\n\nAll things are lawful, etc.... That is, all indifferent things are\nindeed lawful, inasmuch as they are not prohibited; but oftentimes they\nare not expedient; as in the case of lawsuits, etc. And much less would\nit be expedient to be enslaved by an irregular affection to any thing,\nhow indifferent soever.\n\n6:13. Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall\ndestroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for\nthe Lord: and the Lord for the body.\n\n6:14. Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also\nby his power.\n\n6:15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I\nthen take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot?\nGod forbid!\n\n6:16. Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one\nbody? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.\n\n6:17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.\n\n6:18. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body:\nbut he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.\n\n6:19. Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy\nGhost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?\n\n6:20. For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in\nyour body.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 7\n\nLessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is preferable to a\nmarried state.\n\n7:1. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for\na man not to touch a woman.\n\n7:2. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and\nlet every woman have her own husband.\n\nHave his own wife.... That is, keep to his wife, which he hath. His\nmeaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary, he\nwould have them rather continue as they are. (Ver. 7:8.) But he speaks\nhere to them that are already married; who must not depart from one\nanother, but live together as they ought to do in the marriage state.\n\n7:3. Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in\nlike manner to the husband.\n\n7:4. The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in\nlike manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the\nwife.\n\n7:5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time,\nthat you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest\nSatan tempt you for your incontinency.\n\n7:6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.\n\nBy indulgence.... That is, by a condescension to your weakness.\n\n7:7. For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath\nhis proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after\nthat.\n\n7:8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them\nif they so continue, even as I.\n\n7:9. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is\nbetter to marry than to be burnt.\n\nIf they do not contain, etc.... This is spoken of such as are free, and\nnot of such as, by vow, have given their first faith to God; to whom if\nthey will use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse the gift\nof continency. Some translators have corrupted this text, by rendering\nit, if they cannot contain.\n\n7:10. But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth\nthat the wife depart not from her husband.\n\n7:11. And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to\nher husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.\n\n7:12. For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife\nthat believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put\nher away.\n\nI speak, not the Lord.... Viz., by any express commandment, or\nordinance.\n\n7:13. And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent\nto dwell with her: let her not put away her husband.\n\n7:14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife:\nand the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband.\nOtherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy.\n\nIs sanctified.... The meaning is not, that the faith of the husband or\nthe wife is of itself sufficient to put the unbelieving party, or their\nchildren, in the state of grace and salvation; but that it is very\noften an occasion of their sanctification, by bringing them to the true\nfaith.\n\n7:15. But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or\nsister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in\npeace.\n\n7:16. For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy\nhusband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?\n\n7:17. But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called\nevery one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach.\n\n7:18. Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure\nuncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be\ncircumcised.\n\n7:19. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the\nobservance of the commandments of God.\n\n7:20. Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.\n\n7:21. Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou\nmayest be made free, use it rather.\n\n7:22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the\nfreeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the\nbondman of Christ.\n\n7:23. You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men.\n\n7:24. Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide\nwith God.\n\n7:25. Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I\ngive counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.\n\n7:26. I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity:\nthat it is good for a man so to be.\n\n7:27. Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed\nfrom a wife? Seek not a wife.\n\n7:28. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin\nmarry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation\nof the flesh. But I spare you.\n\n7:29. This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth,\nthat they also who have wives be as if they had none:\n\n7:30. And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that\nrejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they\npossessed not:\n\n7:31. And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the\nfashion of this world passeth away.\n\n7:32. But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without\na wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may\nplease God.\n\n7:33. But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the\nworld: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.\n\n7:34. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of\nthe Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that\nis married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her\nhusband.\n\n7:35. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you,\nbut for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend\nupon the Lord, without impediment.\n\n7:36. But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to\nhis virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him\ndo what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.\n\nLet him do what he will; he sinneth not, etc.... The meaning is not, as\nlibertines would have it, that persons may do what they will and not\nsin, provided they afterwards marry; but that the father, with regard\nto the giving his virgin in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that\nit will be no sin to him if she marry.\n\n7:37. For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his heart, having\nno necessity, but having power of his own will: and hath judged this in\nhis heart, to keep his virgin, doth well.\n\n7:38. Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well:\nand he that giveth her not doth better.\n\n7:39. A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if\nher husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will:\nonly in the Lord.\n\n7:40. But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my\ncounsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 8\n\nThough an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols are not to be\neaten, for fear of scandal.\n\n8:1. Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know\nthat we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.\n\nKnowledge puffeth up, etc.... Knowledge, without charity and humility,\nserveth only to puff persons up.\n\n8:2. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet\nknown as he ought to know.\n\n8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known by him.\n\n8:4. But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an\nidol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.\n\n8:5. For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on\nearth (for there be gods many and lords many):\n\nGods many, etc.... Reputed for such among the heathens.\n\n8:6. Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all\nthings, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all\nthings, and we by him.\n\n8:7. But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this\npresent, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an\nidol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.\n\n8:8. But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall\nwe have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.\n\n8:9. But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a\nstumblingblock to the weak.\n\n8:10. For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the\nidol\u2019s temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to\neat those things which are sacrificed to idols?\n\n8:11. And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom\nChrist hath died?\n\n8:12. Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak\nconscience, you sin against Christ.\n\n8:13. Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh,\nlest I should scandalize my brother.\n\nIf meat scandalize.... That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 9\n\nThe apostle did not make use of his power of being maintained at the\ncharges of those to whom he preached, that he might give no hindrance\nto the gospel. Of running in the race and striving for the mastery.\n\n9:1. Am not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus\nour Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?\n\n9:2. And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For\nyou are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.\n\n9:3. My defence with them that do examine me is this.\n\n9:4. Have not we power to eat and to drink?\n\n9:5. Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the\nrest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?\n\nA woman, a sister.... Some erroneous translators have corrupted this\ntext by rendering it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St.\nPaul had no wife (chap. 7 ver. 7, 8) and that he only speaks of such\ndevout women, as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation, waited\nupon the preachers of the gospel, and supplied them with necessaries.\n\n9:6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?\n\n9:7. Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who\nplanteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth\nthe flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock?\n\n9:8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also\nsay; these things?\n\n9:9. For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the\nmouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for\noxen?\n\n9:10. Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are\nwritten for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope\nand he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.\n\n9:11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter\nif we reap your carnal things?\n\n9:12. If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather?\nNevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest\nwe should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.\n\n9:13. Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things\nthat are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with\nthe altar?\n\n9:14. So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should\nlive by the gospel.\n\n9:15. But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written\nthese things, that they should be so done unto me: for it is good for\nme to die rather than that any man should make my glory void.\n\n9:16. For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity\nlieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.\n\nIt is no glory.... That is, I have nothing to glory of.\n\n9:17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against\nmy will, a dispensation is committed to me.\n\n9:18. What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver\nthe gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.\n\n9:19. For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of\nall, that I might gain the more.\n\n9:20. And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:\n\n9:21. To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law,\n(whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that\nwere under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were\nwithout the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in\nthe law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.\n\n9:22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became\nall things to all men, that I might save all.\n\n9:23. And I do all things for the gospel\u2019s sake, that I may be made\npartaker thereof.\n\n9:24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but\none receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.\n\n9:25. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself\nfrom all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible\ncrown: but we an incorruptible one.\n\n9:26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as\none beating the air.\n\n9:27. But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest\nperhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a\ncastaway.\n\nI chastise, etc.... Here St. Paul shews the necessity of self-denial\nand mortification, to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 10\n\nBy the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too\nmuch upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the\nservice of idols and from things offered to idols.\n\n10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers\nwere all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.\n\n10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea:\n\nIn Moses.... Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in\nfigure, by passing under the cloud, and through the sea; and they\npartook of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the\nmanna, (called here a spiritual food because it was a figure of the\ntrue bread which comes down from heaven,) and drinking the water,\nmiraculously brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock,\nbecause it was also a figure of Christ.\n\n10:3. And did all eat the same spiritual food:\n\n10:4. And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the\nspiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)\n\n10:5. But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were\noverthrown in the desert.\n\n10:6. Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not\ncovet evil things, as they also coveted.\n\n10:7. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written:\nThe people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.\n\n10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed\nfornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.\n\n10:9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished\nby the serpents.\n\n10:10. Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were\ndestroyed by the destroyer.\n\n10:11. Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are\nwritten for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.\n\nThe ends of the world.... That is, the last ages.\n\n10:12. Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed\nlest he fall.\n\n10:13. Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And\nGod is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which\nyou are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be\nable to bear it.\n\nOr.... no temptation hath taken hold of you.... or come upon you as\nyet, but what is human, or incident to man. Issue.... or a way to\nescape.\n\n10:14. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.\n\n10:15. I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.\n\n10:16. The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the\ncommunion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it\nnot the partaking of the body of the Lord?\n\nWhich we bless.... Here the apostle puts them in mind of their\npartaking of the body and blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and\nbecoming thereby one mystical body with Christ. From whence he infers,\nver. 21, that they who are made partakers with Christ, by the\neucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, must not be made partakers with\ndevils by eating of the meats sacrificed to them.\n\n10:17. For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of\none bread.\n\nOne bread.... or, as it may be rendered, agreeably both to the Latin\nand Greek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body,\nwho partake of that one bread. For it is by our communicating with\nChrist, and with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are\nformed into one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread,\ncompounded of many grains of corn, closely united together.\n\n10:18. Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of\nthe sacrifices partakers of the altar?\n\n10:19. What then? Do I say that what is offered in sacrifice to idols\nis any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?\n\n10:20. But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to\ndevils and not to God. And I would not that you should be made\npartakers with devils.\n\n10:21. You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of\ndevils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the\ntable of devils.\n\n10:22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All\nthings are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.\n\n10:23. All things are lawful for me: but all things do not edify.\n\n10:24. Let no man seek his own, but that which is another\u2019s.\n\n10:25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for\nconscience\u2019 sake.\n\n10:26. The earth is the Lord\u2019s and the fulness thereof.\n\n10:27. If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing\nto go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for\nconscience\u2019 sake.\n\n10:28. But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not\neat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience\u2019 sake.\n\n10:29. Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other\u2019s. For why is my\nliberty judged by another man\u2019s conscience?\n\n10:30. If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that\nfor which I give thanks?\n\n10:31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do,\ndo all to the glory of God.\n\n10:32. Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the\nchurch of God:\n\n10:33. As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which\nis profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 11\n\nWomen must have a covering over their heads. He blameth the abuses of\ntheir love feasts and upon that occasion treats of the Blessed\nSacrament.\n\n11:1. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.\n\n11:2. Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of\nme and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.\n\n11:3. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ:\nand the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God.\n\n11:4. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraceth\nhis head.\n\n11:5. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered\ndisgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.\n\n11:6. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a\nshame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.\n\n11:7. The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the\nimage and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.\n\n11:8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.\n\n11:9. For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the\nman.\n\n11:10. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because\nof the angels.\n\nA power.... that is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under\nthe power of her husband: and this, the apostle adds, because of the\nangels, who are present in the assemblies of the faithful.\n\n11:11. But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman\nwithout the man, in the Lord.\n\n11:12. For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman:\nbut all things of God.\n\n11:13. You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God\nuncovered?\n\n11:14. Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he\nnourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?\n\n11:15. But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her\nhair is given to her for a covering.\n\n11:16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,\nnor the Church of God.\n\n11:17. Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not\nfor the better, but for the worse.\n\n11:18. For first of all I hear that when you come together in the\nchurch, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.\n\n11:19. For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are\napproved may be made manifest among you.\n\nThere must be also heresies.... By reason of the pride and perversity\nof man\u2019s heart; not by God\u2019s will or appointment; who nevertheless\ndraws good out of this evil, manifesting, by that occasion, who are the\ngood and firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable.\n\n11:20. When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now\nto eat the Lord\u2019s supper.\n\nThe Lord\u2019s supper.... So the apostle here calls the charity feasts\nobserved by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the\nCorinthians, on these occasions; which were the more criminal, because\nthese feasts were accompanied with the celebrating of the eucharistic\nsacrifice and sacrament.\n\n11:21. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one\nindeed is hungry and another is drunk.\n\n11:22. What, have you no houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye\nthe church of God and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say\nto you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.\n\n11:23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto\nyou, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took\nbread,\n\n11:24. And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my\nbody, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration\nof me.\n\n11:25. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying:\nThis chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as\nyou shall drink, for the commemoration of me.\n\n11:26. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice,\nyou shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.\n\n11:27. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice\nof the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of\nthe Lord.\n\nOr drink.... Here erroneous translators corrupted the text, by putting\nand drink (contrary to the original) instead of or drink.\n\nGuilty of the body, etc., not discerning the body, etc.... This\ndemonstrates the real presence of the body and blood of Christ, even to\nthe unworthy communicant; who otherwise could not be guilty of the body\nand blood of Christ, or justly condemned for not discerning the Lord\u2019s\nbody.\n\n11:28. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread\nand drink of the chalice.\n\nDrink of the chalice.... This is not said by way of command, but by way\nof allowance, viz., where and when it is agreeable to the practice and\ndiscipline of the church.\n\n11:29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh\njudgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.\n\n11:30. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many\nsleep.\n\n11:31. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.\n\n11:32. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we\nbe not condemned with this world.\n\n11:33. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for\none another.\n\n11:34. If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not\ntogether unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 12\n\nOf the diversity of spiritual gifts. The members of the mystical body,\nlike those of the natural body, must mutually cherish one another.\n\n12:1. Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I would not have\nyou ignorant.\n\n12:2. You know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols,\naccording as you were led.\n\n12:3. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the\nSpirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord\nJesus, but by the Holy Ghost.\n\n12:4. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit.\n\n12:5. And there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord.\n\n12:6. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who\nworketh all in all.\n\n12:7. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto\nprofit.\n\n12:8. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to\nanother, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:\n\n12:9. To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of\nhealing in one Spirit:\n\n12:10. To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to\nanother, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of\ntongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.\n\n12:11. But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing\nto every one according as he will.\n\n12:12. For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the\nmembers of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also\nis Christ.\n\n12:13. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether\nJews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all\nbeen made to drink.\n\n12:14. For the body also is not one member, but many.\n\n12:15. If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of\nthe body: Is it therefore not of the body?\n\n12:16. And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of\nthe body: Is it therefore not of the body?\n\n12:17. If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If\nthe whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?\n\n12:18. But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body\nas it hath pleased him.\n\n12:19. And if they all were one member, where would be the body?\n\n12:20. But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.\n\n12:21. And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help. Nor\nagain the head to the feet: I have no need of you.\n\n12:22. Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of\nthe body are more necessary.\n\n12:23. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the\nbody, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our\nuncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.\n\n12:24. But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the\nbody together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.\n\n12:25. That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might\nbe mutually careful one for another.\n\n12:26. And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with\nit: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.\n\n12:27. Now you are the body of Christ and members of member.\n\n12:28. And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles,\nsecondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the\ngraces of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues,\ninterpretations of speeches.\n\n12:29. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors?\n\n12:30. Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing? Do\nall speak with tongues? Do all interpret?\n\n12:31. But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a\nmore excellent way.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 13\n\nCharity is to be preferred before all gifts.\n\n13:1. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not\ncharity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.\n\n13:2. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and\nall knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove\nmountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.\n\n13:3. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if\nI should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it\nprofiteth me nothing.\n\n13:4. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not\nperversely, is not puffed up,\n\n13:5. Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger,\nthinketh no evil:\n\n13:6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:\n\n13:7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,\nendureth all things.\n\n13:8. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void\nor tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.\n\n13:9. For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.\n\n13:10. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part\nshall be done away.\n\n13:11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,\nI thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things\nof a child.\n\n13:12. We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to\nface. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.\n\n13:13. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but\nthe greatest of these is charity.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 14\n\nThe gift of prophesying is to be preferred before that of speaking\nstrange tongues.\n\n14:1. Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather\nthat you may prophesy.\n\nProphesy.... That is, declare or expound the mysteries of faith.\n\n14:2. For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto\nGod: for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.\n\nNot unto men.... Viz., so as to be heard, that is, so as to be\nunderstood by them.\n\n14:3. But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and\nexhortation and comfort.\n\n14:4. He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that\nprophesieth, edifieth the church.\n\n14:5. And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to\nprophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with\ntongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive\nedification.\n\n14:6. But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what\nshall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation or in\nknowledge or in prophecy or in doctrine?\n\n14:7. Even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp,\nexcept they give a distinction of sounds, how shall it be known what is\npiped or harped?\n\n14:8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare\nhimself to the battle?\n\n14:9. So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how\nshall it be known what is said? For you shall be speaking into the air.\n\n14:10. There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world:\nand none is without voice.\n\n14:11. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to\nwhom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.\n\n14:12. So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to\nabound unto the edifying of the church.\n\nOf spirits.... Of spiritual gifts.\n\n14:13. And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he\nmay interpret.\n\n14:14. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth: but my\nunderstanding is without fruit.\n\n14:15. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also\nwith the understanding, I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also\nwith the understanding.\n\n14:16. Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that\nholdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because\nhe knoweth not what thou sayest.\n\nAmen.... The unlearned, not knowing that you are then blessing, will\nnot be qualified to join with you by saying Amen to your blessing. The\nuse or abuse of strange tongues, of which the apostle here speaks, does\nnot regard the public liturgy of the church, (in which strange tongues\nwere never used,) but certain conferences of the faithful, ver. 26,\netc., in which, meeting together, they discovered to one another their\nvarious miraculous gifts of the Spirit, common in those primitive\ntimes; amongst which the apostle prefers that of prophesying before\nthat of speaking strange tongues, because it was more to the public\nedification. Where also not, that the Latin, used in our liturgy, is so\nfar from being a strange or unknown tongue, that it is perhaps the best\nknown tongue in the world.\n\n14:17. For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not\nedified.\n\n14:18. I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.\n\n14:19. But in the church I had rather speak five words with my\nunderstanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words\nin a tongue.\n\n14:20. Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be\nchildren: and in sense be perfect.\n\n14:21. In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will\nspeak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.\n\n14:22. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to\nunbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers.\n\n14:23. If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and\nall speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or\ninfidels, will they not say that you are mad?\n\n14:24. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or\nan unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all.\n\n14:25. The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down\non his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.\n\n14:26. How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of\nyou hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue,\nhath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.\n\n14:27. If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by\nthree, and in course: and let one interpret.\n\n14:28. But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the\nchurch and speak to himself and to God.\n\n14:29. And let the prophets speak, two or three: and let the rest\njudge.\n\n14:30. But if any thing be revealed to another sitting, let the first\nhold his peace.\n\n14:31. For you may all prophesy, one by one, that all may learn and all\nmay be exhorted.\n\n14:32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.\n\n14:33. For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I\nteach in all the churches of the saints.\n\n14:34. Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted\nthem to speak but to be subject, as also the law saith.\n\n14:35. But if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at\nhome. For it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.\n\n14:36. Or did the word of God come out from you? Or came it only unto\nyou?\n\n14:37. If any seem to be a prophet or spiritual, let him know the\nthings that I write to you, that they are the commandments of the Lord.\n\n14:38. But if any man know not, he shall not be known.\n\n14:39. Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy: and forbid not to\nspeak with tongues.\n\n14:40. But let all things be done decently and according to order.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 15\n\nChrist\u2019s resurrection and ours. The manner of our resurrection.\n\n15:1. Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached\nto you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.\n\n15:2. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I\npreached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.\n\n15:3. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how\nthat Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:\n\n15:4. And that he was buried: and that he rose again the third day,\naccording to the scriptures:\n\n15:5. And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.\n\n15:6. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of\nwhom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep.\n\n15:7. After that, he was seen by James: then by all the apostles.\n\n15:8. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of\ndue time.\n\n15:9. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be\ncalled an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.\n\n15:10. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me\nhath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they.\nYet not I, but the grace of God with me:\n\n15:11. For whether I or they, so we preach: and so you have believed.\n\n15:12. Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead,\nhow do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?\n\n15:13. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not\nrisen again.\n\n15:14. And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain:\nand your faith is also vain.\n\n15:15. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have\ngiven testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he\nhath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.\n\n15:16. For if the dead rise not again, neither is Christ risen again.\n\n15:17. And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you\nare yet in your sins.\n\n15:18. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.\n\n15:19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men\nmost miserable.\n\n15:20. But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them\nthat sleep:\n\n15:21. For by a man came death: and by a man the resurrection of the\ndead.\n\n15:22. And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made\nalive.\n\n15:23. But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then\nthey that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.\n\n15:24. Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom\nto God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all\nprincipality and power and virtue.\n\n15:25. For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his\nfeet.\n\n15:26. And the enemy, death, shall be destroyed last: For he hath put\nall things under his feet. And whereas he saith:\n\n15:27. All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who\nput all things under him.\n\n15:28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also\nhimself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that\nGod may be all in all.\n\nThe Son also himself shall be subject unto him.... That is, the Son\nwill be subject to the Father, according to his human nature, even\nafter the general resurrection; and also the whole mystical body of\nChrist will be entirely subject to God, obeying him in every thing.\n\n15:29. Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if\nthe dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them?\n\nThat are baptized for the dead.... Some think the apostle here alludes\nto a ceremony then in use; but others, more probably, to the prayers\nand penitential labours, performed by the primitive Christians for the\nsouls of the faithful departed; or to the baptism of afflictions and\nsufferings undergone for sinners spiritually dead.\n\n15:30. Why also are we in danger every hour?\n\n15:31. I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in\nChrist Jesus our Lord.\n\n15:32. If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth\nit profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to\nmorrow we shall die.\n\nLet us eat and drink, etc.... That is, if we did not believe that we\nwere to rise again from the dead, we might live like the impious and\nwicked, who have no belief in the resurrection.\n\n15:33. Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.\n\n15:34. Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of\nGod. I speak it to your shame.\n\n15:35. But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what\nmanner of body shall they come?\n\n15:36. Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except\nit die first.\n\n15:37. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall\nbe: but bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the rest.\n\n15:38. But God giveth it a body as he will: and to every seed its\nproper body.\n\n15:39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but one is the flesh of men,\nanother of beasts, another of birds, another of fishes.\n\n15:40. And there are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial: but, one\nis the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.\n\n15:41. One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and\nanother the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.\n\n15:42. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in\ncorruption: it shall rise in incorruption.\n\n15:43. It is sown in dishonour: it shall rise in glory. It is sown in\nweakness: it shall rise in power.\n\n15:44. It is sown a natural body: it shall rise a spiritual body. If\nthere be a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, as it is\nwritten:\n\n15:45. The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam\ninto a quickening spirit.\n\n15:46. Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is\nnatural: afterwards that which is spiritual.\n\n15:47. The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from\nheaven, heavenly.\n\n15:48. Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as\nis the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.\n\n15:49. Therefore, as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us\nbear also the image of the heavenly.\n\n15:50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess\nthe kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.\n\n15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again:\nbut we shall not all be changed.\n\n15:52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet:\nfor the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again\nincorruptible. And we shall be changed.\n\n15:53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal\nmust put on immortality.\n\n15:54. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to\npass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.\n\n15:55. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?\n\n15:56. Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.\n\n15:57. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our\nLord Jesus Christ.\n\n15:58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable:\nalways abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is\nnot in vain in the Lord.\n\n\n1 Corinthians Chapter 16\n\nOf collection of alms. Admonitions and salutations.\n\n16:1. Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I\nhave given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.\n\n16:2. On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with\nhimself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the\ncollections be not then to be made.\n\n16:3. And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by\nletters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.\n\n16:4. And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me.\n\n16:5. Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through\nMacedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.\n\n16:6. And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter:\nthat you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.\n\n16:7. For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall\nabide with you some time, if the Lord permit.\n\n16:8. But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost.\n\n16:9. For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many\nadversaries.\n\n16:10. Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear: for\nhe worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.\n\n16:11. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct ye him on his way\nin peace, that he may come to me. For I look for him with the brethren.\n\n16:12. And touching our brother Apollo, I give you to understand that I\nmuch entreated him to come unto you with the brethren: and indeed it\nwas not his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he\nshall have leisure.\n\n16:13. Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be\nstrengthened.\n\n16:14. Let all your things be done in charity.\n\n16:15. And I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanus,\nand of Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they are the firstfruits of\nAchaia, and have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints:\n\n16:16. That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh\nwith us and laboureth.\n\n16:17. And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanus and Fortunatus and\nAchaicus: because that which was wanting on your part, they have\nsupplied.\n\n16:18. For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them,\ntherefore, that are such.\n\n16:19. The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you\nmuch in the Lord, with the church that is in their house, with whom I\nalso lodge.\n\n16:20. All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy\nkiss.\n\n16:21. The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.\n\n16:22. If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema,\nmaranatha.\n\nLet him be anathema, maranatha.... Anathema signifies here a thing\naccursed. Maran-atha, which, according to St. Jerome and St.\nChrysostom, signify, \u2018The Lord is come\u2019 already, and therefore is to be\ntaken as an admonition to those who doubted of the resurrection, and to\nput them in mind that Christ, the judge of the living and the dead, is\ncome already. Others explain Maran-atha: \u2018May our Lord come\u2019, that is,\nto judge and punish those with exemplary judgments and punishments,\nthat do not love the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n16:23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.\n\n16:24. My charity be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\n\n\nIn this Epistle St. Paul comforts those who are now reformed by his\nadmonitions to them in the former and absolves the incestuous man on\ndoing penance, whom he had before excommunicated for his crime. Hence\nhe treats of true penance and of the dignity of the ministers of the\nNew Testament. He cautions the faithful against false teachers and the\nsociety of infidels. He gives an account of his sufferings and also of\nthe favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second\nEpistle was written in the same year with the first and sent by Titus\nfrom some place in Macedonia.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 1\n\nHe speaks of his troubles in Asia. His not coming to them was not out\nof levity. The constancy and sincerity of his doctrine.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy\nour brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the\nsaints that are in all Achaia:\n\n1:2. Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father\nof mercies and the God of all comfort:\n\n1:4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able\nto comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith\nwe also are exhorted by God.\n\n1:5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ\ndoth our comfort abound.\n\n1:6. Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and\nsalvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or\nwhether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which\nworketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.\n\n1:7. That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are\npartakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.\n\n1:8. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation\nwhich came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our\nstrength, so that we were weary even of life.\n\n1:9. But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not\ntrust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.\n\n1:10. Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers:\nin whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,\n\n1:11. You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained\nfor us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in\nour behalf.\n\n1:12. For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in\nsimplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but\nin the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more\nabundantly towards you.\n\n1:13. For we write no other things to you than what you have read and\nknown. And I hope that you shall know unto the end.\n\n1:14. As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory: as you\nalso are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:15. And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that\nyou might have a second grace:\n\n1:16. And to pass by you into Macedonia: and again from Macedonia to\ncome to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.\n\n1:17. Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the\nthings that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there\nshould be with me, It is, and It is not?\n\n1:18. But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not,\nIt is, and It is not.\n\n1:19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by\nus, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But,\nIt is, was in him.\n\nIt is, was in him.... There was no inconstancy in the doctrine of the\napostles, sometimes, like modern sectaries, saying, It is, and at other\ntimes saying, It is not. But their doctrine was ever the same, one\nuniform yea, in Jesus Christ, one Amen, that is, one truth in him.\n\n1:20. For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by\nhim, amen to God, unto our glory.\n\n1:21. Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath\nanointed us, is God:\n\n1:22. Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our\nhearts.\n\n1:23. But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came\nnot any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your\nfaith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 2\n\nHe grants a pardon to the incestuous man upon his doing penance.\n\n2:1. But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in\nsorrow.\n\n2:2. For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then that can make me glad,\nbut the same who is made sorrowful by me?\n\n2:3. And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have\nsorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having\nconfidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.\n\n2:4. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you\nwith many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you\nmight know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.\n\n2:5. And if any one have caused grief, he hath not grieved me: but in\npart, that I may not burden you all.\n\n2:6. To him who is such a one, this rebuke is sufficient, which is\ngiven by many.\n\n2:7. So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort\nhim, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.\n\n2:8. Wherefore, I beseech you that you would confirm your charity\ntowards him.\n\n2:9. For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment\nof you, whether you be obedient in all things.\n\n2:10. And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have\npardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it\nin the person of Christ:\n\nI also.... The apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the\nperson and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian,\nwhom before he had put under penance, which pardon consisted in a\nreleasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin.\n\n2:11. That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of\nhis devices.\n\n2:12. And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door\nwas opened unto me in the Lord,\n\n2:13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother:\nbut bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.\n\n2:14. Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ\nJesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.\n\n2:15. For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are\nsaved and in them that perish.\n\n2:16. To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the\nothers the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so\nsufficient?\n\nThe odour of death, etc.... The preaching of the apostle, which by its\nfragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own\nfault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting\nthat divine call.\n\n2:17. For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with\nsincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 3\n\nHe needs no commendatory letters. The glory of the ministry of the New\nTestament.\n\n3:1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do)\nepistles of commendation to you, or from you?\n\n3:2. You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and\nread by all men:\n\n3:3. Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered\nby us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God:\nnot in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.\n\n3:4. And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.\n\n3:5. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of\nourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.\n\n3:6. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in\nthe letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit\nquickeneth.\n\nThe letter.... Not rightly understood, and taken without the spirit.\n\n3:7. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon\nstones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not\nsteadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his\ncountenance), which is made void:\n\n3:8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory?\n\n3:9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the\nministration of justice aboundeth in glory.\n\n3:10. For even that which was glorious in this part was not glorified\nby reason of the glory that excelleth.\n\n3:11. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which\nremaineth is in glory.\n\n3:12. Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence.\n\n3:13. And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the children of\nIsrael might not steadfastly look on the face of that which is made\nvoid.\n\n3:14. But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the\nselfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken\naway (because in Christ it is made void).\n\n3:15. But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon\ntheir heart.\n\n3:16. But when they shall be converted to the Lord, the veil shall be\ntaken away.\n\n3:17. Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is,\nthere is liberty.\n\n3:18. But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are\ntransformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit\nof the Lord.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 4\n\nThe sincerity of his preaching. His comfort in his afflictions.\n\n4:1. Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have\nobtained mercy, we faint not.\n\n4:2. But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in\ncraftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of\nthe truth commending ourselves to every man\u2019s conscience, in the sight\nof God.\n\n4:3. And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost,\n\n4:4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of\nunbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who\nis the image of God, should not shine unto them.\n\n4:5. For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and\nourselves your servants through Jesus.\n\n4:6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath\nshined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory\nof God, in the face of Christ Jesus.\n\n4:7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency\nmay be of the power of God and not of us.\n\n4:8. In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We\nare straitened: but are not destitute.\n\n4:9. We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: but\nwe perish not.\n\n4:10. Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that\nthe life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.\n\n4:11. For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus\u2019 sake:\nthat the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.\n\n4:12. So then death worketh in us: but life in you.\n\n4:13. But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I\nbelieved, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe. For which\ncause we speak also:\n\n4:14. Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with\nJesus and place us with you.\n\n4:15. For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding\nthrough many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.\n\n4:16. For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is\ncorrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.\n\n4:17. For that which is at present momentary and light of our\ntribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight\nof glory.\n\n4:18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things\nwhich are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal: but the\nthings which are not seen, are eternal.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 5\n\nHe is willing to leave his earthly mansion to be with the Lord. His\ncharity to the Corinthians.\n\n5:1. For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved,\nthat we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in\nheaven.\n\n5:2. For in this also we groan, desiring to be clothed upon with our\nhabitation that is from heaven.\n\n5:3. Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.\n\n5:4. For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being\nburthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that\nthat which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.\n\n5:5. Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given\nus the pledge of the Spirit,\n\n5:6. Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in\nthe body we are absent from the Lord.\n\n5:7. (For we walk by faith and not by sight.)\n\n5:8. But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from\nthe body and to be present with the Lord.\n\n5:9. And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.\n\n5:10. For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ,\nthat every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as\nhe hath done, whether it be good or evil.\n\nThe proper things of the body.... In the particular judgment,\nimmediately after death, the soul is rewarded or punished according to\nwhat it has done in the body.\n\n5:11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men:\nbut to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences\nwe are manifest.\n\n5:12. We commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to\nglory in our behalf: that you may have somewhat to answer them who\nglory in face, and not in heart.\n\n5:13. For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether\nwe be sober, it is for you.\n\n5:14. For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one\ndied for all, then all were dead.\n\n5:15. And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live\nto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.\n\n5:16. Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And\nif we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so\nno longer.\n\nWe know no man according to the flesh.... That is, we consider not any\nman with regard to his nation, family, kindred, or other natural\nqualities or advantages; but only with relation to Christ, and\naccording to the order of divine charity, in God, and for God. The\napostle adds, that even with respect to Christ himself, he now no\nlonger considers him according to the flesh, by taking a satisfaction\nin his being his countryman; his affection being now purified from all\nsuch earthly considerations.\n\n5:17. If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are\npassed away. Behold all things are made new.\n\n5:18. But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by\nChrist and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.\n\n5:19. For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself,\nnot imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of\nreconciliation.\n\n5:20. For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting\nby us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.\n\n5:21. Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be\nmade the justice of God in him.\n\nSin for us.... That is, to be a sin offering, a victim for sin.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 6\n\nHe exhorts them to a correspondence with God\u2019s grace and not to\nassociate with unbelievers.\n\n6:1. And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God\nin vain.\n\n6:2. For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day\nof salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time:\nbehold, now is the day of salvation.\n\n6:3. Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.\n\n6:4. But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of\nGod, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,\n\n6:5. In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in\nfastings,\n\n6:6. In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the\nHoly Ghost, in charity unfeigned,\n\n6:7. In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of\njustice on the right hand and on the left:\n\n6:8. By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as\ndeceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known:\n\n6:9. As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:\n\n6:10. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many:\nas having nothing and possessing all things.\n\n6:11. Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is\nenlarged.\n\n6:12. You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are\nstraitened.\n\n6:13. But having the same recompense (I speak as to my children): be\nyou also enlarged.\n\n6:14. Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath\njustice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?\n\n6:15. And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the\nfaithful with the unbeliever?\n\n6:16. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are\nthe temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and\nwalk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.\n\n6:17. Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the\nLord, and touch not the unclean thing:\n\n6:18. And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you\nshall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 7\n\nThe apostle\u2019s affection for the Corinthians. His comfort and joy on\ntheir account.\n\n7:1. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse\nourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit,\nperfecting sanctification in the fear of God.\n\n7:2. Receive us. We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we\nhave overreached no man.\n\n7:3. I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before\nthat you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together.\n\n7:4. Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am\nfilled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our\ntribulation.\n\n7:5. For also, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest:\nbut we suffered all tribulation. Combats without: fears within.\n\n7:6. But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of\nTitus.\n\n7:7. And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith\nhe was comforted in you, relating to us your desire, your mourning,\nyour zeal for me: so that I rejoiced the more.\n\n7:8. For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent.\nAnd if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a\ntime) did make you sorrowful,\n\n7:9. Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because\nyou were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful\naccording to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing.\n\n7:10. For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance,\nsteadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.\n\n7:11. For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful\naccording to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence,\nyea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all\nthings you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter.\n\n7:12. Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was not for his sake that\ndid the wrong, nor for him that suffered it: but to manifest our\ncarefulness that we have for you.\n\n7:13. Before God: therefore we were comforted. But in our consolation\nwe did the more abundantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his\nspirit was refreshed by you all.\n\n7:14. And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been\nput to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also\nour boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.\n\n7:15. And his bowels are more abundantly towards you: remembering the\nobedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.\n\n7:16. I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 8\n\nHe exhorts them to contribute bountifully to relieve the poor of\nJerusalem.\n\n8:1. Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath\nbeen given in the churches of Macedonia.\n\n8:2. That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of\njoy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their\nsimplicity.\n\nSimplicity.... That is, sincere bounty and charity.\n\n8:3. For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond\ntheir power, they were willing:\n\n8:4. With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of\nthe ministry that is done toward the saints.\n\n8:5. And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the\nLord, then to us by the will of God;\n\n8:6. Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he\nwould finish among you this same grace.\n\n8:7. That as in all things you abound in faith and word and knowledge\nand all carefulness, moreover also in your charity towards us: so in\nthis grace also you may abound.\n\n8:8. I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others,\napproving also the good disposition of your charity.\n\n8:9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich\nhe became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be\nrich.\n\n8:10. And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who\nhave begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago.\n\n8:11. Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is\nforward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which\nyou have.\n\n8:12. For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that\nwhich a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.\n\n8:13. For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but\nby an equality.\n\n8:14. In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that\ntheir abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an\nequality,\n\n8:15. As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that\nhad little had no want.\n\n8:16. And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you\nin the heart of Titus.\n\n8:17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation: but, being more careful,\nof his own will he went unto you.\n\n8:18. We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the\ngospel through all the churches.\n\n8:19. And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches\ncompanion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us,\nto the glory of the Lord and our determined will:\n\n8:20. Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance\nwhich is administered by us.\n\n8:21. For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also\nbefore men.\n\n8:22. And we have sent with them our brother also, whom we have often\nproved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent: with much\nconfidence in you,\n\n8:23. Either for Titus, who is my companion and fellow labourer towards\nyou, or our brethren, the apostles of the churches, the glory of\nChrist.\n\n8:24. Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the\nevidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 9\n\nA further exhortation to almsgiving. The fruits of it.\n\n9:1. For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is\nsuperfluous for me to write unto you.\n\n9:2. For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the\nMacedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your\nemulation hath provoked very many.\n\n9:3. Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of\nconcerning you be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said)\nyou may be ready:\n\n9:4. Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you\nunprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.\n\n9:5. Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they\nwould go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be\nready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.\n\n9:6. Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly:\nand he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings.\n\n9:7. Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or\nof necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.\n\n9:8. And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always,\nhaving all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work,\n\n9:9. As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the\npoor: his justice remaineth for ever.\n\n9:10. And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you\nbread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the\nfruits of your justice:\n\n9:11. That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all\nsimplicity which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.\n\n9:12. Because the administration of this office doth not only supply\nthe want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the\nLord.\n\n9:13. By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience\nof your confession unto the gospel of Christ and for the simplicity of\nyour communicating unto them and unto all.\n\n9:14. And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of\nthe excellent grace of God in you.\n\n9:15. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 10\n\nTo stop the calumny and boasting of false apostles, he set forth the\npower of his apostleship.\n\n10:1. Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of\nChrist: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am\nbold toward you.\n\n10:2. But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with\nthat confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who\nreckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.\n\n10:3. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the\nflesh.\n\n10:4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God,\nunto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,\n\n10:5. And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of\nGod: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience\nof Christ:\n\n10:6. And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your\nobedience shall be fulfilled.\n\n10:7. See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any\nman trust to himself, that he is Christ\u2019s let him think this again with\nhimself, that as he is Christ\u2019s, so are we also.\n\n10:8. For if also I should boast somewhat more of our power, which the\nLord hath given us unto edification and not for your destruction, I\nshould not be ashamed.\n\n10:9. But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by\nepistles,\n\n10:10. (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but\nhis bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):\n\n10:11. Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by\nepistles when absent, such also we will be indeed when present.\n\n10:12. For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that\ncommend themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare\nourselves with ourselves.\n\n10:13. But we will not glory beyond our measure: but according to the\nmeasure of the rule which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach\neven unto you.\n\n10:14. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we\nreached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of\nChrist.\n\n10:15. Not glorying beyond measure in other men\u2019s labours: but having\nhope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our\nrule abundantly.\n\n10:16. Yea, unto those places that are beyond you to preach the gospel:\nnot to glory in another man\u2019s rule, in those things that are made ready\nto our hand.\n\n10:17. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.\n\n10:18. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God\ncommendeth.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 11\n\nHe is forced to commend himself and his labours, lest the Corinthians\nshould be imposed upon by the false apostles.\n\n11:1. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do\nbear with me.\n\nMy folly.... So he calls his reciting his own praises, which, commonly\nspeaking is looked upon as a piece of folly and vanity; though the\napostle was constrained to do it, for the good of the souls committed\nto his charge.\n\n11:2. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have\nespoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin\nto Christ.\n\n11:3. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so\nyour minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in\nChrist.\n\n11:4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not\npreached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received;\nor another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear\nwith him.\n\n11:5. For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great\napostles.\n\n11:6. For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in\nall things we have been made manifest to you.\n\n11:7. Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be\nexalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?\n\n11:8. I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for\nyour ministry.\n\n11:9. And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to\nno man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who\ncame from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being\nburthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.\n\n11:10. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be\nbroken off in me in the regions of Achaia.\n\n11:11. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.\n\n11:12. But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion\nfrom them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be\nfound even as we.\n\n11:13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming\nthemselves into the apostles of Christ.\n\n11:14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an\nangel of light.\n\n11:15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed\nas the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their\nworks.\n\n11:16. I say again (Let no man think me to be foolish: otherwise take\nme as one foolish, that I also may glory a little):\n\n11:17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were\nin foolishness, in this matter of glorying.\n\n11:18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory\nalso.\n\n11:19. For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise.\n\n11:20. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour\nyou, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you\non the face.\n\n11:21. I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this\npart. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.\n\n11:22. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They\nare the seed of Abraham: so am I.\n\n11:23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I\nam more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes\nabove measure, in deaths often.\n\n11:24. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one.\n\n11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I\nsuffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.\n\n11:26. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers,\nin perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in\nthe city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils\nfrom false brethren:\n\n11:27. In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and\nthirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:\n\n11:28. Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the\nsolicitude for all the churches.\n\nMy daily instance.... The labours that come in, and press upon me every\nday.\n\n11:29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not\non fire?\n\n11:30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern\nmy infirmity.\n\n11:31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for\never, knoweth that I lie not.\n\n11:32. At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king,\nguarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me.\n\n11:33. And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and\nso escaped his hands.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 12\n\nHis raptures and revelations, His being buffeted by Satan. His fear for\nthe Corinthians.\n\n12:1. If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to\nvisions and revelations of the Lord.\n\n12:2. I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the\nbody, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a\none caught up to the third heaven.\n\n12:3. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I\nknow not: God knoweth):\n\n12:4. That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which\nit is not granted to man to utter.\n\n12:5. For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing\nbut in my infirmities.\n\n12:6. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish:\nfor I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of\nme above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me.\n\n12:7. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there\nwas given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.\n\n12:8. For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart\nfrom me.\n\n12:9. And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is\nmade perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my\ninfirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.\n\nPower is made perfect.... The strength and power of God more perfectly\nshines forth in our weakness and infirmity; as the more weak we are of\nourselves, the more illustrious is his grace in supporting us, and\ngiving us the victory under all trials and conflicts.\n\n12:10. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in\nreproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ.\nFor when I am weak, then am I powerful.\n\n12:11. I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have\nbeen commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are\nabove measure apostles, although I be nothing.\n\n12:12. Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all\npatience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.\n\n12:13. For what is there that you have had less than the other churches\nbut that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.\n\n12:14. Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will\nnot be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours,\nbut you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but\nthe parents for the children.\n\n12:15. But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls:\nalthough loving you more, I be loved less.\n\n12:16. But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught\nyou by guile.\n\n12:17. Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you?\n\n12:18. I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus\noverreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the\nsame steps?\n\n12:19. Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak\nbefore God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your\nedification.\n\n12:20. For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such\nas I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not.\nLest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions,\ndetractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.\n\n12:21. Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn\nmany of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the\nuncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have\ncommitted.\n\n\n2 Corinthians Chapter 13\n\nHe threatens the impenitent, to provoke them to penance.\n\n13:1. Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth\nof two or three witnesses shall every word stand.\n\n13:2. I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to\nthem that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I\nwill not spare.\n\n13:3. Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards\nyou is not weak, but is mighty in you?\n\n13:4. For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by\nthe power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with\nhim by the power of God towards you.\n\n13:5. Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves.\nKnow you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless\nperhaps you be reprobates?\n\n13:6. But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.\n\n13:7. Now we pray God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear\napproved, but that you may do that which is good and that we may be as\nreprobates.\n\nReprobates.... that is, without proof, by having no occasion of shewing\nour power in punishing you.\n\n13:8. For we can do nothing against the truth: but for the truth.\n\n13:9. For we rejoice that we are weak and you are strong. This also we\npray for, your perfection.\n\n13:10. Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being\npresent, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the\nLord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction.\n\n13:11. For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation,\nbe of one mind, have peace. And the God of peace and of love shall be\nwith you.\n\n13:12. Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you.\n\n13:13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and\nthe communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE GALATIANS\n\n\nThe Galatians, soon after St. Paul had preached the Gospel to them,\nwere seduced by some false teachers, who had been Jews and who were for\nobliging all Christians, even those who had been Gentiles, to observe\ncircumcision and the other ceremonies of the Mosaical law. In this\nEpistle, he refutes the pernicious doctrine of those teachers and also\ntheir calumny against his mission and apostleship. The subject matter\nof this Epistle is much the same as that to the Romans. It was written\nat Ephesus, about twenty-three years after our Lord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\nGalatians Chapter 1\n\nHe blames the Galatians for suffering themselves to be imposed upon by\nnew teachers. The apostle\u2019s calling.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ\nand God the Father, who raised him from the dead:\n\n1:2. And all the brethren who are with me: to the churches of Galatia.\n\n1:3. Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord\nJesus Christ,\n\n1:4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this\npresent wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:\n\n1:5. To whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n1:6. I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you\ninto the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.\n\n1:7. Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and\nwould pervert the gospel of Christ.\n\n1:8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you\nbesides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.\n\n1:9. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a\ngospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.\n\n1:10. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If\nI yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\n\n1:11. For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was\npreached by me is not according to man.\n\n1:12. For neither did I receive it of man: nor did I learn it but by\nthe revelation of Jesus Christ.\n\n1:13. For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews\u2019\nreligion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and\nwasted it.\n\n1:14. And I made progress in the Jews\u2019 religion above many of my equals\nin my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of\nmy fathers.\n\n1:15. But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother\u2019s womb\nand called me by his grace,\n\n1:16. To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the\nGentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.\n\n1:17. Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles who were before me:\nbut I went into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.\n\n1:18. Then, after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Peter: and I\ntarried with him fifteen days.\n\n1:19. But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of\nthe Lord.\n\n1:20. Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie\nnot.\n\n1:21. Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.\n\n1:22. And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in\nChrist:\n\n1:23. But they had heard only: He, who persecuted us in times past doth\nnow preach the faith which once he impugned.\n\n1:24. And they glorified God in me.\n\n\nGalatians Chapter 2\n\nThe apostle\u2019s preaching was approved of by the other apostles. The\nGentiles were not to be constrained to the observance of the law.\n\n2:1. Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to Jerusalem with\nBarnabas, taking Titus also with me.\n\n2:2. And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the\ngospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed\nto be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.\n\n2:3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled\nto be circumcised.\n\n2:4. But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in\nprivately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they\nmight bring us into servitude.\n\n2:5. To whom we yielded not by subjection: no, not for an hour: that\nthe truth of the gospel might continue with you.\n\n2:6. But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time\nit is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man): for to me\nthey that seemed to be some thing added nothing.\n\n2:7. But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the\ngospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.\n\nThe gospel of the uncircumcision.... The preaching of the gospel to the\nuncircumcised, that is, to the Gentiles. St. Paul was called in an\nextraordinary manner to be the apostle of the Gentiles; St. Peter,\nbesides his general commission over the whole flock, (John 21. 15,\netc.,) had a peculiar charge of the people of the circumcision, that\nis, of the Jews.\n\n2:8. (For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the\ncircumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.)\n\n2:9. And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and\nCephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the\nright hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and\nthey unto the circumcision:\n\n2:10. Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also\nI was careful to do.\n\n2:11. But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,\nbecause he was to be blamed.\n\nI withstood, etc.... The fault that is here noted in the conduct of St.\nPeter, was only a certain imprudence, in withdrawing himself from the\ntable of the Gentiles, for fear of giving offence to the Jewish\nconverts; but this, in such circumstances, when his so doing might be\nof ill consequence to the Gentiles, who might be induced thereby to\nthink themselves obliged to conform to the Jewish way of living, to the\nprejudice of their Christian liberty. Neither was St. Paul\u2019s\nreprehending him any argument against his supremacy; for in such cases\nan inferior may, and sometimes ought, with respect, to admonish his\nsuperior.\n\n2:12. For before that some came from James, he did eat with the\nGentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,\nfearing them who were of the circumcision.\n\n2:13. And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that\nBarnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.\n\n2:14. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of\nthe gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew,\nlivest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how\ndost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?\n\n2:15. We by nature are Jews: and not of the Gentiles, sinners.\n\n2:16. But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law,\nbut by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that\nwe may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the\nlaw: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.\n\n2:17. But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves\nalso are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid!\n\n2:18. For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make\nmyself a prevaricator.\n\n2:19. For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to\nGod; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.\n\n2:20. And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live\nnow in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me\nand delivered himself for me.\n\n2:21. I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law,\nthen Christ died in vain.\n\n\nGalatians Chapter 3\n\nThe Spirit, and the blessing promised to Abraham cometh not by the law,\nbut by faith.\n\n3:1. O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not\nobey the truth: before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth,\ncrucified among you?\n\n3:2. This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the\nworks of the law or by the hearing of faith?\n\n3:3. Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you\nwould now be made perfect by the flesh?\n\n3:4. Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.\n\n3:5. He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles\namong you: doth he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of\nthe faith?\n\n3:6. As it is written: Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him\nunto justice.\n\n3:7. Know ye, therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the\nchildren of Abraham.\n\n3:8. And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by\nfaith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.\n\n3:9. Therefore, they that are of faith shall be blessed with faithful\nAbraham.\n\n3:10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For\nit is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things\nwhich are written in the book of the law to do them.\n\n3:11. But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest:\nbecause the just man liveth by faith.\n\n3:12. But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall\nlive in them.\n\n3:13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a\ncurse for us (for it is written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a\ntree).\n\n3:14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through\nChrist Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.\n\n3:15. Brethren (I speak after the manner of man), yet a man\u2019s\ntestament, if it be confirmed, no man despiseth nor addeth to it.\n\n3:16. To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not:\nAnd to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is\nChrist.\n\n3:17. Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God,\nthe law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not\ndisannul, to make the promise of no effect.\n\n3:18. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise.\nBut God gave it to Abraham by promise.\n\n3:19. Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until\nthe seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by\nangels in the hand of a mediator.\n\nBecause of transgressions.... To restrain them from sin, by fear and\nthreats. Ordained by angels.... The law was delivered by angels,\nspeaking in the name and person of God to Moses, who was the mediator,\non this occasion, between God and the people.\n\n3:20. Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one.\n\n3:21. Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if\nthere had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should\nhave been by the law.\n\n3:22. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise,\nby the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.\n\nHath concluded all under sin.... that is, hath declared all to be under\nsin, from which they could not be delivered but by faith in Jesus\nChrist, the promised seed.\n\n3:23. But before the faith came, we were kept under the law shut up,\nunto that faith which was to be revealed.\n\n3:24. Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ: that we might be\njustified by faith.\n\nPedagogue.... That is, schoolmaster, conductor, or instructor.\n\n3:25. But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.\n\n3:26. For you are all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus.\n\n3:27. For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ have put on\nChrist.\n\n3:28. There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free:\nthere is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.\n\nNeither Jew, etc.... That is, no distinction of Jew, etc.\n\n3:29. And if you be Christ\u2019s, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs\naccording to the promise.\n\n\nGalatians Chapter 4\n\nChrist has freed us from the servitude of the law. We are the freeborn\nsons of Abraham.\n\n4:1. Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing\nfrom a servant, though he be lord of all,\n\n4:2. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the\nfather.\n\n4:3. So we also, when we were children, were serving under the elements\nof the world.\n\nUnder the elements, etc.... That is, under the first rudiments of\nreligion, in which the carnal Jews were trained up; or under those\ncorporeal creatures, used in their manifold rites, sacrifices, and\nsacraments.\n\n4:4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made\nof a woman, made under the law:\n\n4:5. That he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might\nreceive the adoption of sons.\n\n4:6. And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into\nyour hearts, crying: Abba, Father.\n\n4:7. Therefore, now he is not a servant, but a son. And if a son, an\nheir also through God.\n\n4:8. But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature,\nare not gods.\n\n4:9. But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by\nGod: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire\nto serve again?\n\n4:10. You observe days and months and times, and years.\n\nYou observe days, etc.... He speaks not of the observation of the\nLord\u2019s day, or other Christian festivals; but either of the\nsuperstitious observation of days lucky and unlucky; or else of the\nJewish festivals, to the observance of which, certain Jewish teachers\nsought to induce the Galatians.\n\n4:11. I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among\nyou.\n\n4:12. Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You\nhave not injured me at all.\n\n4:13. And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the\ngospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh.\n\n4:14. You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of\nGod, even as Christ Jesus.\n\n4:15. Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if\nit could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes and would\nhave given them to me.\n\n4:16. Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?\n\n4:17. They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude\nyou, that you might be zealous for them.\n\n4:18. But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and\nnot only when I am present with you.\n\n4:19. My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be\nformed in you.\n\n4:20. And I would willingly be present with you now and change my\nvoice: because I am ashamed for you.\n\n4:21. Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read\nthe law?\n\n4:22. For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a\nbondwoman and the other by a free woman.\n\n4:23. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh:\nbut he of the free woman was by promise.\n\n4:24. Which things are said by an allegory. For these are the two\ntestaments. The one from Mount Sina, engendering unto bondage, which is\nAgar.\n\n4:25. For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that\nJerusalem which now is: and is in bondage with her children.\n\n4:26. But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.\n\n4:27. For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that bearest not: break\nforth and cry thou that travailest not: for many are the children of\nthe desolate, more than of her that hath a husband.\n\n4:28. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.\n\n4:29. But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted\nhim that was after the spirit: so also it is now.\n\n4:30. But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son:\nfor the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free\nwoman.\n\n4:31. So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman but\nof the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free.\n\n\nGalatians Chapter 5\n\nHe exhorts them to stand to their Christian liberty. Of the fruits of\nthe flesh and of the spirit.\n\n5:1. Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.\n\n5:2. Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall\nprofit you nothing.\n\n5:3. And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a\ndebtor to do the whole law.\n\n5:4. You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you\nare fallen from grace.\n\n5:5. For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.\n\n5:6. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor\nuncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.\n\n5:7. You did run well. What hath hindered you, that you should not obey\nthe truth?\n\n5:8. This persuasion is not from him that calleth you.\n\n5:9. A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.\n\n5:10. I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of\nanother mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment,\nwhosoever he be.\n\n5:11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet\nsuffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.\n\n5:12. I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.\n\n5:13. For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not\nliberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve\none another.\n\n5:14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy\nneighbour as thyself.\n\n5:15. But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not\nconsumed one of another.\n\n5:16. I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the\nlusts of the flesh.\n\n5:17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against\nthe flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not\nthe things that you would.\n\n5:18. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.\n\n5:19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication,\nuncleanness, immodesty, luxury,\n\n5:20. Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths,\nquarrels, dissensions, sects,\n\n5:21. Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the\nwhich I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such\nthings shall not obtain the kingdom of God.\n\n5:22. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience,\nbenignity, goodness, longanimity,\n\n5:23. Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such\nthere is no law.\n\n5:24. And they that are Christ\u2019s have crucified their flesh, with the\nvices and concupiscences.\n\n5:25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.\n\n5:26. Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,\nenvying one another.\n\n\nGalatians Chapter 6\n\nHe exhorts to charity, humility and all virtue. He glories in nothing\nbut in the cross of Christ.\n\n6:1. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are\nspiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering\nthyself, lest thou also be tempted.\n\n6:2. Bear ye one another\u2019s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of\nChrist.\n\n6:3. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is\nnothing, he deceiveth himself.\n\n6:4. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory\nin himself only and not in another.\n\n6:5. For every one shall bear his own burden.\n\n6:6. And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that\ninstructeth him, in all good things.\n\n6:7. Be not deceived: God is not mocked.\n\n6:8. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he\nthat soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But\nhe that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.\n\n6:9. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap,\nnot failing.\n\n6:10. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but\nespecially to those who are of the household of the faith.\n\n6:11. See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.\n\n6:12. For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you\nto be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the\ncross of Christ.\n\n6:13. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but\nthey will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your\nflesh.\n\n6:14. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord\nJesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.\n\n6:15. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor\nuncircumcision: but a new creature.\n\n6:16. And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them and mercy:\nand upon the Israel of God.\n\n6:17. From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me: for I bear the\nmarks of the Lord Jesus in my body.\n\n6:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren.\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS\n\n\nEphesus was the capital of Lesser Asia, and celebrated for the temple\nof Diana, to which the most part of the people of the East went\nfrequently to worship. But St. Paul having preached the Gospel there,\nfor two years the first time and afterwards for about a year, converted\nmany. He wrote this Epistle to them when he was a prisoner in Rome; and\nsent it by Tychicus. He admonishes them to hold firmly the faith which\nthey had received and warns them, and also those of the neighbouring\ncities, against the sophistry of philosophers and doctrine of false\nteachers who were come among them. The matters of faith contained in\nthis Epistle are exceedingly sublime, and consequently very difficult\nto be understood. It was written about twenty-nine years after our\nLord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\nEphesians Chapter 1\n\nThe great blessings we have received through Christ. He is the head of\nall the church.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the\nsaints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.\n\n1:2. Grace be to you and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath\nblessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:\n\nIn heavenly places.... or, in heavenly things. In coelestibus.\n\n1:4. As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we\nshould be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.\n\n1:5. Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through\nJesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:\n\n1:6. Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced\nus, in his beloved son.\n\n1:7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of\nsins, according to the riches of his, grace,\n\n1:8. Which hath superabounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence,\n\n1:9. That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will,\naccording to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,\n\n1:10. In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all\nthings in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.\n\n1:11. In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according\nto the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel\nof his will.\n\n1:12. That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped\nin Christ:\n\n1:13. In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the\ngospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with\nthe holy Spirit of promise.\n\n1:14. Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of\nacquisition, unto the praise of his glory.\n\nAcquisition.... that is, a purchased possession.\n\n1:15. Wherefore, I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord\nJesus and of your love towards all the saints,\n\n1:16. Cease not to give thanks for you, making commemoration of you in\nmy prayers,\n\n1:17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may\ngive unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge\nof him:\n\n1:18. The eyes of your heart enlightened that you may know what the\nhope is of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his\ninheritance in the saints.\n\n1:19. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, who\nbelieve according to the operation of the might of his power,\n\n1:20. Which he wrought in Christ, raising him up from the dead and\nsetting him on his right hand in the heavenly places.\n\n1:21. Above all principality and power and virtue and dominion and\nevery name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that\nwhich is to come.\n\n1:22. And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him\nhead over all the church,\n\n1:23. Which is his body and the fulness of him who is filled all in\nall.\n\n\nEphesians Chapter 2\n\nAll our good comes through Christ. He is our peace.\n\n2:1. And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,\n\n2:2. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this\nworld, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit\nthat now worketh on the children of unbelief:\n\n2:3. In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our\nflesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were\nby nature children of wrath, even as the rest:\n\n2:4. But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith\nhe loved us\n\n2:5. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in\nChrist (by whose grace you are saved)\n\n2:6. And hath raised us up together and hath made us sit together in\nthe heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.\n\n2:7. That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his\ngrace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.\n\n2:8. For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of\nyourselves, for it is the gift of God.\n\n2:9. Not of works, that no man may glory.\n\nNot of works.... as of our own growth, or from ourselves; but as from\nthe grace of God.\n\n2:10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good\nworks, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.\n\n2:11. For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles in\nthe flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called\ncircumcision in the flesh, made by hands:\n\n2:12. That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the\nconversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope\nof the promise and without God in this world.\n\n2:13. But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are\nmade nigh by the blood of Christ.\n\n2:14. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down\nthe middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:\n\n2:15. Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees: that he\nmight make the two in himself into one new man, making peace.\n\n2:16. And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing\nthe enmities in himself.\n\n2:17. And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off: and\npeace to them that were nigh.\n\n2:18. For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.\n\n2:19. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you\nare fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,\n\n2:20. Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus\nChrist himself being the chief corner stone:\n\n2:21. In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into\nan holy temple in the Lord.\n\n2:22. In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in\nthe Spirit.\n\n\nEphesians Chapter 3\n\nThe mystery hidden from former ages was discovered to the apostle, to\nbe imparted to the Gentiles. He prays that they may be strengthened in\nGod.\n\n3:1. For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you\nGentiles:\n\n3:2. If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God\nwhich is given me towards you:\n\n3:3. How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known\nto me, as I have written above in a few words:\n\n3:4. As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of\nChrist,\n\n3:5. Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it\nis now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:\n\n3:6. That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body: and\ncopartners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel\n\n3:7. Of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace\nof God, which is given to me according to the operation of his power.\n\n3:8. To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach\namong the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:\n\n3:9. And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the\ndispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God\nwho created all things:\n\n3:10. That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the\nprincipalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,\n\n3:11. According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus\nour Lord:\n\n3:12. In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith\nof him.\n\n3:13. Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you,\nwhich is your glory.\n\n3:14. For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus\nChrist,\n\n3:15. Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named:\n\nAll paternity.... Or, the whole family. God is the Father, both of\nangels and men; whosoever besides is named father, is so named with\nsubordination to him.\n\n3:16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to\nbe strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man:\n\n3:17. That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted\nand founded in charity,\n\n3:18. You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the\nbreadth and length and height and depth,\n\n3:19. To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all\nknowledge: that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.\n\n3:20. Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we\ndesire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:\n\n3:21. To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all\ngenerations, world without end. Amen.\n\n\nEphesians Chapter 4\n\nHe exhorts them to unity, to put on the new man, and to fly sin.\n\n4:1. I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk\nworthy of the vocation in which you are called:\n\n4:2. With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one\nanother in charity.\n\n4:3. Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.\n\n4:4. One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your\ncalling.\n\n4:5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism.\n\n4:6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and\nin us all.\n\n4:7. But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of\nthe giving of Christ.\n\n4:8. Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive:\nhe gave gifts to men.\n\n4:9. Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended\nfirst into the lower parts of the earth?\n\n4:10. He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the\nheavens: that he might fill all things.\n\n4:11. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some\nevangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:\n\nGave some apostles\u2014Until we all meet, etc.... Here it is plainly\nexpressed, that Christ has left in his church a perpetual succession of\northodox pastors and teachers, to preserve the faithful in unity and\ntruth.\n\n4:12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,\nfor the edifying of the body of Christ:\n\n4:13. Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of\nthe Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the\nfulness of Christ:\n\n4:14. That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and\ncarried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by\ncunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.\n\n4:15. But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in\nhim who is the head, even Christ:\n\n4:16. From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined\ntogether, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in\nthe measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the\nedifying of itself in charity.\n\n4:17. This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you\nwalk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:\n\n4:18. Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the\nlife of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the\nblindness of their hearts.\n\n4:19. Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto\nthe working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.\n\n4:20. But you have not so learned Christ:\n\n4:21. If so be that you have heard him and have been taught in him, as\nthe truth is in Jesus:\n\n4:22. To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is\ncorrupted according to the desire of error.\n\n4:23. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind:\n\n4:24. And put on the new man, who according to God is created in\njustice and holiness of truth.\n\n4:25. Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with\nhis neighbour. For we are members one of another.\n\n4:26. Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.\n\n4:27. Give not place to the devil.\n\n4:28. He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him\nlabour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may\nhave something to give to him that suffereth need.\n\n4:29. Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is\ngood, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the\nhearers.\n\n4:30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed\nunto the day of redemption.\n\n4:31. Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and\nblasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.\n\n4:32. And be ye kind one to another: merciful, forgiving one another,\neven as God hath forgiven you in Christ.\n\n\nEphesians Chapter 5\n\nExhortations to a virtuous life. The mutual duties of man and wife, by\nthe example of Christ and of the Church.\n\n5:1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children:\n\n5:2. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered\nhimself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of\nsweetness.\n\n5:3. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so\nmuch as be named among you, as becometh saints:\n\n5:4. Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no\npurpose: but rather giving of thanks.\n\n5:5. For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or\ncovetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the\nkingdom of Christ and of God.\n\n5:6. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these\nthings cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.\n\n5:7. Be ye not therefore partakers with them.\n\n5:8. For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk\nthen as children of the light.\n\n5:9. For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and\ntruth:\n\n5:10. Proving what is well pleasing to God.\n\n5:11. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but\nrather reprove them.\n\n5:12. For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame\neven to speak of.\n\n5:13. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:\nfor all that is made manifest is light.\n\n5:14. Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the\ndead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.\n\n5:15. See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as\nunwise,\n\n5:16. But as wise: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.\n\n5:17. Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will\nof God.\n\n5:18. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled\nwith the Holy Spirit,\n\n5:19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual\ncanticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:\n\n5:20. Giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord\nJesus Christ, to God and the Father:\n\n5:21. Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.\n\n5:22. Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:\n\n5:23. Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the\nhead of the church. He is the saviour of his body.\n\n5:24. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the\nwives be to their husbands in all things.\n\nAs the church is subject to Christ.... The church then, according to\nSt. Paul, is ever obedient to Christ, and can never fall from him, but\nremain faithful to him, unspotted and unchanged to the end of the\nworld.\n\n5:25. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and\ndelivered himself up for it:\n\n5:26. That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in\nthe word of life:\n\n5:27. That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not\nhaving spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy\nand without blemish.\n\n5:28. So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He\nthat loveth his wife loveth himself.\n\n5:29. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and\ncherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:\n\n5:30. Because we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his\nbones.\n\n5:31. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall\ncleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.\n\n5:32. This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the\nchurch.\n\n5:33. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love his wife as\nhimself: And let the wife fear her husband.\n\n\nEphesians Chapter 6\n\nDuties of children and servants. The Christian\u2019s armour.\n\n6:1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.\n\n6:2. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment\nwith a promise:\n\n6:3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon\nearth.\n\n6:4. And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring\nthem up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.\n\n6:5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the\nflesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to\nChrist.\n\n6:6. Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the\nservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.\n\n6:7. With a good will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men.\n\n6:8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same\nshall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.\n\n6:9. And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing\nthreatenings: knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven.\nAnd there is no respect of persons with him.\n\n6:10. Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might\nof his power.\n\n6:11. Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand\nagainst the deceits of the devil.\n\n6:12. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against\nprincipalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this\ndarkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.\n\nHigh places, or heavenly places.... That is to say, in the air, the\nlowest of the celestial regions; in which God permits these wicked\nspirits or fallen angels to wander.\n\n6:13. Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able\nto resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect.\n\n6:14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and\nhaving on the breastplate of justice:\n\n6:15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.\n\n6:16. In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be\nable to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one.\n\n6:17. And take unto you the helmet of salvation and the sword of the\nSpirit (which is the word of God).\n\n6:18. By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the\nspirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for\nall the saints:\n\n6:19. And for me, that speech may be given me, that I may open my mouth\nwith confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel,\n\n6:20. For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be\nbold to speak according as I ought.\n\n6:21. But that you also may know the things that concern me and what I\nam doing, Tychicus, my dearest brother and faithful minister in the\nLord, will make known to you all things:\n\n6:22. Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose: that you may know\nthe things concerning us, and that he may comfort your hearts.\n\n6:23. Peace be to the brethren and charity with faith, from God the\nFather and the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n6:24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in\nincorruption. Amen.\n\nIn incorruption.... That is, with a pure and perfect love.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS\n\n\nThe Philippians were the first among the Macedonians converted to the\nfaith. They had a great veneration for St. Paul and supplied his wants\nwhen he was a prisoner in Rome, sending to him by Epaphroditus, by whom\nhe sent this Epistle; in which he recommends charity, unity and\nhumility and warns them against false teachers, whom he calls dogs and\nenemies of the cross of Christ. He also returns thanks for their\nbenefactions. It was written about twenty-nine years after our Lord\u2019s\nAscension.\n\n\nPhilippians Chapter 1\n\nThe apostle\u2019s affection for the Philippians.\n\n1:1. Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ: to all the saints\nin Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.\n\n1:2. Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:3. I give thanks to my God in every remembrance of you:\n\n1:4. Always in all my prayers making supplication for you all with joy:\n\n1:5. For your communication in the gospel of Christ, from the first day\nuntil now.\n\n1:6. Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good\nwork in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.\n\n1:7. As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have\nyou in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and\nconfirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.\n\n1:8. For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:9. And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in\nknowledge and in all understanding:\n\n1:10. That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere\nand without offence unto the day of Christ:\n\n1:11. Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the\nglory and praise of God.\n\n1:12. Now, brethren, I desire you should know that the things which\nhave happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the\ngospel:\n\n1:13. So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court\nand in all other places.\n\n1:14. And many of the brethren in the Lord, growing confident by my\nbands, are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear.\n\n1:15. Some indeed, even out of envy and contention: but some also for\ngood will preach Christ.\n\n1:16. Some out of charity, knowing that I am set for the defence of the\ngospel.\n\n1:17. And some out of contention preach Christ not sincerely: supposing\nthat they raise affliction to my bands.\n\n1:18. But what then? So that by all means, whether by occasion or by\ntruth, Christ be preached: in this also I rejoice, yea, and will\nrejoice.\n\n1:19. For I know that this shall fall out to me unto salvation, through\nyour prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,\n\n1:20. According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be\nconfounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall\nChrist be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.\n\n1:21. For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain.\n\n1:22. And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour.\nAnd what I shall choose I know not.\n\nThis is to me, etc.... His meaning is, that although his dying\nimmediately for Christ would be his gain, by putting him presently in\npossession of heaven; yet he is doubtful what he should choose, because\nby staying longer in the flesh, he should be more beneficial to the\nsouls of his neighbours.\n\n1:23. But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved\nand to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.\n\n1:24. But to abide still in the flesh is needful for you.\n\n1:25. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and\ncontinue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith:\n\n1:26. That your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, by my\ncoming to you again.\n\n1:27. Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ:\nthat, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you,\nthat you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for\nthe faith of the gospel.\n\n1:28. And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them\nis a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God.\n\n1:29. For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him,\nbut also to suffer for him:\n\n1:30. Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me and\nnow have heard of me.\n\n\nPhilippians Chapter 2\n\nHe recommends them to unity and humility, and to work out their\nsalvation with fear and trembling.\n\n2:1. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of\ncharity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:\n\n2:2. Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same\ncharity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment.\n\n2:3. Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But\nin humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:\n\n2:4. Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those\nthat are other men\u2019s.\n\n2:5. For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:\n\n2:6. Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal\nwith God:\n\n2:7. But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in\nthe likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.\n\nEmptied himself, exinanivit.... made himself as of no account.\n\n2:8. He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the\ndeath of the cross.\n\n2:9. For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a\nname which is above all names:\n\n2:10. That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that\nare in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:\n\n2:11. And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ\nis in the glory of God the Father.\n\n2:12. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as\nin my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and\ntrembling work out your salvation.\n\nWith fear, etc.... This is against the false faith, and presumptuous\nsecurity of modern sectaries.\n\n2:13. For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish,\naccording to his good will.\n\n2:14. And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations:\n\n2:15. That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without\nreproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom\nyou shine as lights in the world.\n\n2:16. Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ:\nbecause I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.\n\n2:17. Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of\nyour faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.\n\n2:18. And for the selfsame thing, do you also rejoice and congratulate\nwith me.\n\n2:19. And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly,\nthat I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning\nyou.\n\n2:20. For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection\nis solicitous for you.\n\n2:21. For all seek the things that are their own not the things that\nare Jesus Christ\u2019s.\n\n2:22. Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so\nhath he served with me in the gospel.\n\n2:23. Him therefore I hope to send unto you immediately: so soon as I\nshall see how it will go with me.\n\n2:24. And I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come to you\nshortly.\n\n2:25. But I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my\nbrother and fellow labourer and fellow soldier, but your apostle: and\nhe that hath ministered to my wants.\n\n2:26. For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had\nheard that he was sick.\n\n2:27. For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on\nhim. And not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow\nupon sorrow.\n\n2:28. Therefore, I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again,\nyou may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.\n\n2:29. Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord: and treat with\nhonour such as he is.\n\n2:30. Because for the work of Christ he came to the point of death:\ndelivering his life, that he might fulfil that which on your part was\nwanting towards my service.\n\n\nPhilippians Chapter 3\n\nHe warneth them against false teachers. He counts all other things\nloss, that he may gain Christ.\n\n3:1. As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the\nsame things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is\nnecessary.\n\n3:2. Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision.\n\n3:3. For we are the circumcision, who in spirit serve God and glory in\nChrist Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.\n\n3:4. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other\nthinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more:\n\n3:5. Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the\ntribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a\nPharisee:\n\n3:6. According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the\njustice that is in the law, conversing without blame.\n\n3:7. But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss\nfor Christ.\n\n3:8. Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent\nknowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss\nof all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.\n\n3:9. And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the\nlaw, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God:\njustice in faith.\n\n3:10. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the\nfellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,\n\n3:11. If by any means I may attain to the resurrection which is from\nthe dead.\n\n3:12. Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect:\nbut I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also\napprehended by Christ Jesus.\n\n3:13. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one\nthing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth\nmyself to those that are before,\n\n3:14. I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation\nof God in Christ Jesus.\n\n3:15. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if\nin any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you,\n\n3:16. Nevertheless, whereunto we are come, that we be of the same mind,\nlet us also continue in the same rule.\n\n3:17. Be ye followers of me, brethren: and observe them who walk so as\nyou have our model.\n\n3:18. For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you\nweeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:\n\n3:19. Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose\nglory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.\n\n3:20. But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for\nthe Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,\n\n3:21. Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of\nhis glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue\nall things unto himself.\n\n\nPhilippians Chapter 4\n\nHe exhorts them to perseverance in all good and acknowledges their\ncharitable contributions to him.\n\n4:1. Therefore my dearly beloved brethren and most desired, my joy and\nmy crown: so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.\n\n4:2. I beg of Evodia and I beseech Syntyche to be of one mind in the\nLord.\n\n4:3. And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women\nwho have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of\nmy fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.\n\n4:4. Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice.\n\n4:5. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.\n\n4:6. Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and\nsupplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to\nGod.\n\n4:7. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep\nyour hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.\n\n4:8. For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever\nmodest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever\nof good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline:\nthink on these things.\n\nFor the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, etc.... Here the\napostle enumerates general precepts of morality, which they ought to\npractise. Whatsoever things are true.... in words, in promises, in\nlawful oaths, etc., he commands rectitude of mind, and sincerity of\nheart. Whatsoever modest.... by these words he prescribes gravity in\nmanners, modesty in dress, and decency in conversation. Whatsoever\njust.... That is, in dealing with others, in buying or selling, in\ntrade or business, to be fair and honest. Whatsoever holy.... by these\nwords may be understood, that those who are in a religious state\nprofessed, or in holy orders, should lead a life of sanctity and\nchastity, according to the vows they make; but these words being also\napplied to those in the world, indicate the virtuous life they are\nbound by the divine commandments to follow. Whatsoever lovely.... that\nis, to practise those good offices in society, that procure us the\nesteem and good will of our neighbours. Whatsoever of good fame....\nThat is, that by our conduct and behaviour we should edify our\nneighbours, and give them good example by our actions. If there be any\nvirtue, if any praise of discipline.... that those in error, by seeing\nthe morality and good discipline of the true religion, may be\nconverted. And finally, the apostle commands, not only the Philippians,\nbut all Christians, to think on these things.... that is, to make it\ntheir study and concern that the peace of God might be with them.\n\n4:9. The things which you have both learned and received and heard and\nseen in me, these do ye: and the God of peace shall be with you.\n\n4:10. Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly that now at length your\nthought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you\nwere busied.\n\n4:11. I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in\nwhatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.\n\n4:12. I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound\n(every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to\nbe hungry: both to abound and to suffer need.\n\n4:13. I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.\n\n4:14. Nevertheless, you have done well in communicating to my\ntribulation.\n\n4:15. And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the\ngospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me\nas concerning giving and receiving, but you only.\n\n4:16. For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use.\n\n4:17. Not that I seek the gift: but I seek the fruit that may abound to\nyour account.\n\n4:18. But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from\nEpaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable\nsacrifice, pleasing to God.\n\n4:19. And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in\nglory in Christ Jesus.\n\n4:20. Now to God and our Father be glory, world without end. Amen.\n\n4:21. Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus.\n\n4:22. The brethren who are with me salute you. All the saints salute\nyou: especially they that are of Caesar\u2019s household.\n\n4:23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS\n\n\nColossa was a city of Phrygia, near Laodicea. It does not appear that\nSt. Paul had preached there himself, but that the Colossians were\nconverted by Epaphras, a disciple of the Apostles. However, as St. Paul\nwas the great Apostle of the Gentiles, he wrote this Epistle to the\nColossians when he was in prison, and about the same time that he wrote\nto the Ephesians and Philippians. The exhortations and doctrine it\ncontains are similar to that which is set forth in his Epistle to the\nEphesians.\n\n\nColossians Chapter 1\n\nHe gives thanks for the grace bestowed upon the Colossians and prays\nfor them. Christ is the head of the church and the peacemaker through\nhis blood. Paul is his minister.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy,\na brother:\n\n1:2. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus who are at\nColossa.\n\n1:3. Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus\nChrist, praying always for you.\n\n1:4. Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have\ntowards all the saints.\n\n1:5. For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have\nheard in the word of the truth of the gospel,\n\n1:6. Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and\nbringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day\nyou heard and knew the grace of God in truth.\n\n1:7. As you learned of Epaphras, our most beloved fellow servant, who\nis for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus;\n\n1:8. Who also hath manifested to us your love in the spirit.\n\n1:9. Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to\npray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of\nhis will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:\n\n1:10. That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being\nfruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God:\n\n1:11. Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory,\nin all patience and longsuffering with joy,\n\n1:12. Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be\npartakers of the lot of the saints in light:\n\n1:13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath\ntranslated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,\n\n1:14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of\nsins:\n\n1:15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every\ncreature:\n\nThe firstborn.... That is, first begotten; as the Evangelist declares,\nthe only begotten of his Father: hence, St. Chrisostom explains\nfirstborn, not first created, as he was not created at all, but born of\nhis Father before all ages; that is, coeval with the Father and with\nthe Holy Ghost.\n\n1:16. For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth,\nvisible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or\nprincipalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him.\n\n1:17. And he is before all: and by him all things consist.\n\n1:18. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,\nthe firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the\nprimacy:\n\n1:19. Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness\nshould dwell:\n\n1:20. And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making\npeace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on\nearth and the things that are in heaven.\n\n1:21. And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind\nin evil works:\n\n1:22. Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through\ndeath, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:\n\n1:23. If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and\nimmoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is\npreached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am\nmade a minister.\n\n1:24. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things\nthat are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his\nbody, which is the church:\n\nWanting.... There is no want in the sufferings of Christ in himself as\nhead: but many sufferings are still wanting, or are still to come, in\nhis body the church, and his members the faithful.\n\n1:25. Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of\nGod, which is given me towards you, that I may fulfil the word of God:\n\n1:26. The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but\nnow is manifested to his saints,\n\n1:27. To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this\nmystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.\n\n1:28. Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in\nall wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.\n\n1:29. Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he\nworketh in me in power.\n\n\nColossians Chapter 2\n\nHe warns them against the impostures of the philosophers and the Jewish\nteachers, that would withdraw them from Christ.\n\n2:1. For I would have you know what manner of care I have for you and\nfor them that are at Laodicea and whosoever have not seen my face in\nthe flesh:\n\n2:2. That their hearts may be comforted, being instructed in charity\nand unto all riches of fulness of understanding, unto the knowledge of\nthe mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus:\n\n2:3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.\n\n2:4. Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words.\n\n2:5. For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you,\nrejoicing, and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith\nwhich is in Christ.\n\n2:6. As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in\nhim:\n\n2:7. Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you\nhave learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.\n\n2:8. Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit:\naccording to the tradition of men according to the elements of the\nworld and not according to Christ.\n\n2:9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally.\n\n2:10. And you are filled in him, who is the head of all principality\nand power.\n\n2:11. In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by\nhand in despoiling of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of\nChrist.\n\n2:12. Buried with him in baptism: in whom also you are risen again by\nthe faith of the operation of God who hath raised him up from the dead.\n\n2:13. And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision\nof your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, forgiving you all\noffences:\n\n2:14. Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us,\nwhich was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way,\nfastening it to the cross.\n\n2:15. And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed\nthem confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.\n\n2:16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect\nof a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,\n\nIn meat, etc.... He means with regard to the Jewish observations of the\ndistinction of clean and unclean meats; and of their festivals, new\nmoons, and sabbaths, as being no longer obligatory.\n\n2:17. Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.\n\n2:18. Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of\nangels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up\nby the sense of his flesh:\n\nWilling, etc.... That is, by a self willed, self invented,\nsuperstitious worship, falsely pretending humility, but really\nproceeding from pride. Such was the worship, that many of the\nphilosophers (against whom St. Paul speaks, ver. 8) paid to angels or\ndemons, by sacrificing to them, as carriers of intelligence betwixt God\nand men; pretending humility in so doing, as if God was too great to be\naddressed by men; and setting aside the mediatorship of Jesus Christ,\nwho is the head both of angels and men. Such also was the worship paid\nby the ancient heretics, disciples of Simon and Menander, to the\nangels, whom they believed to be makers and lords of this lower world.\nThis is certain, that they whom the apostle here condemns, did not hold\nthe head, (ver. 19,) that is, Jesus Christ, and his mediatorship; and\ntherefore what he writes here no way touches the Catholic doctrine and\npractice, of desiring our good angels to pray to God for us, through\nJesus Christ. St. Jerome [Epist. ad Algas.] understands by the religion\nor service of angels, the Jewish teachers, who sought to subject the\nnew Christians to the observance of the Mosaic law.\n\n2:19. And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints\nand bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into\nthe increase of God.\n\n2:20. If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world,\nwhy do you yet decree as though living in the world?\n\n2:21. Touch not: taste not: handle not.\n\nTouch not, etc.... The meaning is, that Christians should not subject\nthemselves, either to the ordinances of the old law, forbidding\ntouching or tasting things unclean; or to the superstitious invention\nof heretics, imposing such restraints, under pretence of wisdom,\nhumility, or mortification.\n\n2:22. Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the\nprecepts and doctrines of men.\n\n2:23. Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and\nhumility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of\nthe flesh.\n\n\nColossians Chapter 3\n\nHe exhorts them to put off the old man, and to put on the new. The\nduties of wives and husbands, children and servants.\n\n3:1. Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are\nabove, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.\n\n3:2. Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the\nearth.\n\n3:3. For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.\n\n3:4. When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall\nappear with him in glory.\n\n3:5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth:\nfornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness,\nwhich is the service of idols.\n\n3:6. For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of\nunbelief.\n\n3:7. In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.\n\n3:8. But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice,\nblasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.\n\n3:9. Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with\nhis deeds,\n\n3:10. And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge,\naccording to the image of him that created him.\n\n3:11. Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor\nuncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is\nall and in all.\n\n3:12. Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the\nbowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:\n\n3:13. Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a\ncomplaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do\nyou also.\n\n3:14. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of\nperfection.\n\n3:15. And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also\nyou are called in one body: and be ye thankful.\n\n3:16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom,\nteaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual\ncanticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.\n\n3:17. All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.\n\n3:18. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.\n\n3:19. Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.\n\n3:20. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well\npleasing to the Lord.\n\n3:21. Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be\ndiscouraged.\n\n3:22. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh:\nnot serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart,\nfearing God.\n\n3:23. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not\nto men:\n\n3:24. Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of\ninheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.\n\n3:25. For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done\nwrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God.\n\n\nColossians Chapter 4\n\nHe recommends constant prayer and wisdom. Various salutations.\n\n4:1. Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing\nthat you also have a master in heaven.\n\n4:2. Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving.\n\n4:3. Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of\nspeech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound):\n\n4:4. That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.\n\n4:5. Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the\ntime.\n\n4:6. Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you\nmay know how you ought to answer every man.\n\n4:7. All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother and\nfaithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to\nyou.\n\n4:8. Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know\nthe things that concern you and comfort your hearts:\n\n4:9. With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of\nyou. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you.\n\n4:10. Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you: and Mark, the\ncousin german of Barnabas, touching whom you have received\ncommandments. If he come unto you, receive him.\n\n4:11. And Jesus that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision.\nThese only are my helpers, in the kingdom of God: who have been a\ncomfort to me.\n\n4:12. Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ\nJesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand\nperfect and full in all the will of God.\n\n4:13. For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for\nthem that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis.\n\n4:14. Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.\n\n4:15. Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the\nchurch that is in his house.\n\n4:16. And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that\nit be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that\nwhich is of the Laodiceans.\n\nAnd that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.... What this epistle\nwas is uncertain, and annotators have given different opinions\nconcerning it. Some expound these words of an epistle which St. Paul\nwrote to the Laodiceans, and is since lost, for that now extant is no\nmore than a collection of sentences out of the other epistles of St.\nPaul; therefore it cannot be considered even as a part of that epistle.\nOthers explain that the text means a letter sent to St. Paul by the\nLaodiceans, which he sends to the Colossians to be read by them.\nHowever, this opinion does not seem well founded. Hence it is more\nprobable that St. Paul wrote an epistle from Rome to the Laodiceans,\nabout the same time that he wrote to the Colossians, as he had them\nboth equally at heart, and that he ordered that epistle to be read by\nthe Colossians for their instructions; and being neighbouring cities,\nthey might communicate to each other what they had received from him;\nas one epistle might contain some matters not related in the other, and\nwould be equally useful for their concern; and more particularly as\nthey were equally disturbed by intruders and false teachers, against\nwhich the apostle was anxious to warn them, lest they should be\ninfected by their pernicious doctrine.\n\n4:17. And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast\nreceived in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.\n\n4:18. The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands.\nGrace be with you. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS\n\n\nThessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, in which St. Paul, having\npreached the Gospel, converted some Jews and a great number of the\nGentiles: but the unbelieving Jews, envying his success, raised such a\ncommotion against him that he, and his companion, Sylvanus were obliged\nto quit the city. Afterwards he went to Athens, where he heard that the\nconverts in Thessalonica were under a severe persecution, ever since\nhis departure; and lest they should lose their fortitude, he sent\nTimothy to strengthen and comfort them in their sufferings. In the\nmeantime St. Paul came to Corinth, where he wrote this first Epistle,\nand also the second to the Thessalonians, both in the same year, being\nthe nineteenth after our Lord\u2019s Ascension. These are the first of his\nEpistles in the order of time.\n\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 1\n\nHe gives thanks for the grace bestowed on the Thessalonians.\n\n1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians:\nin God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:2. Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you\nall: making a remembrance of you in our prayers without ceasing,\n\n1:3. Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity:\nand of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and\nour Father.\n\n1:4. Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election:\n\n1:5. For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power\nalso: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what\nmanner of men we have been among you for your sakes.\n\n1:6. And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word\nin much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:\n\n1:7. So that you were made a pattern to all that believe in Macedonia\nand in Achaia.\n\n1:8. For from you was spread abroad the word of the Lord not only in\nMacedonia and in Achaia but also in every place: your faith which is\ntowards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to speak any thing.\n\n1:9. For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we\nhad unto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living\nand true God.\n\n1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the\ndead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.\n\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 2\n\nThe sincerity of the apostle\u2019s preaching the gospel to them and of\ntheir receiving it.\n\n2:1. For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it\nwas not in vain:\n\n2:2. But having suffered many things before and been shamefully\ntreated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to\nspeak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.\n\n2:3. For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in\ndeceit.\n\n2:4. But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed\nto us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our\nhearts.\n\n2:5. For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as\nyou know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):\n\n2:6. Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others.\n\n2:7. Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of\nChrist: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse\nshould cherish her children:\n\n2:8. So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the\ngospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear\nunto us.\n\n2:9. For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and\nday, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you\nthe gospel of God.\n\n2:10. You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and\nwithout blame we have been to you that have believed:\n\n2:11. As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a\nfather doth his children),\n\n2:12. We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of\nGod, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.\n\n2:13. Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because,\nthat when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you\nreceived it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of\nGod, who worketh in you that have believed.\n\n2:14. For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God\nwhich are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the\nsame things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews:\n\n2:15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have\npersecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;\n\n2:16. Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved,\nto fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to\nthe end.\n\nTo fill up their sins.... That is, to fill up the measure of their\nsins, after which God\u2019s justice would punish them. For the wrath of God\nis come upon them to the end.... That is, to continue on them to the\nend.\n\n2:17. But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in\nsight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face\nwith great desire.\n\n2:18. For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again:\nbut Satan hath hindered us.\n\n2:19. For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not you, in\nthe presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?\n\n2:20. For you are our glory and joy.\n\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 3\n\nThe apostle\u2019s concern and love for the Thessalonians.\n\n3:1. For which cause, forbearing no longer, we thought it good to\nremain at Athens alone.\n\n3:2. And we sent Timothy, our brother and the minister of God in the\ngospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith:\n\n3:3. That no man should be moved in these tribulations: for yourselves\nknow that we are appointed thereunto.\n\n3:4. For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should\nsuffer tribulations: as also it is come to pass, and you know.\n\n3:5. For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your\nfaith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our\nlabour should be made vain.\n\n3:6. But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your\nfaith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always,\ndesiring to see us as we also to see you:\n\n3:7. Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our\nnecessity and tribulation, by your faith.\n\n3:8. Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord.\n\n3:9. For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy\nwherewith we rejoice for you before our God,\n\n3:10. Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face\nand may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith?\n\n3:11. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct\nour way unto you.\n\n3:12. And may the Lord multiply you and make you abound in charity\ntowards one another and towards all men: as we do also towards you,\n\n3:13. To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and\nour Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his\nsaints. Amen.\n\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 4\n\nHe exhorts them to purity and mutual charity. He treats of the\nresurrection of the dead.\n\n4:1. For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the\nLord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk\nand to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the\nmore.\n\n4:2. For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.\n\n4:3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should\nabstain from fornication:\n\n4:4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in\nsanctification and honour,\n\n4:5. Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:\n\n4:6. And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business:\nbecause the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told\nyou before and have testified.\n\n4:7. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto\nsanctification.\n\n4:8. Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but\nGod, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.\n\n4:9. But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to\nwrite to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.\n\n4:10. For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia.\nBut we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:\n\n4:11. And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your\nown business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and\nthat you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want\nnothing of any man\u2019s.\n\n4:12. And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that\nare asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.\n\n4:13. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them\nwho have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.\n\n4:14. For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are\nalive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them\nwho have slept.\n\n4:15. For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment\nand with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the\ndead who are in Christ shall rise first.\n\n4:16. Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together\nwith them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we\nbe always with the Lord.\n\n4:17. Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.\n\n\n1 Thessalonians Chapter 5\n\nThe day of the Lord shall come when least expected. Exhortations to\nseveral duties.\n\n5:1. But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we\nshould write to you:\n\n5:2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so\ncome as a thief in the night.\n\n5:3. For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden\ndestruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child,\nand they shall not escape.\n\n5:4. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should\novertake you as a thief.\n\n5:5. For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we\nare not of the night nor of darkness.\n\n5:6. Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and\nbe sober.\n\n5:7. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk,\nare drunk in the night.\n\n5:8. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast\nplate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.\n\n5:9. For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the purchasing\nof salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,\n\n5:10. Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live\ntogether with him.\n\n5:11. For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you\nalso do.\n\n5:12. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you\nand are over you in the Lord and admonish you;\n\n5:13. That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work\u2019s\nsake. Have peace with them.\n\n5:14. And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the\nfeeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.\n\nThe unquiet.... That is, such as are irregular and disorderly.\n\n5:15. See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow\nthat which is good towards each other and towards all men.\n\n5:16. Always rejoice.\n\n5:17. Pray without ceasing.\n\n5:18. In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ\nJesus concerning you all.\n\n5:19. Extinguish not the spirit.\n\n5:20. Despise not prophecies.\n\n5:21. But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.\n\n5:22. From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.\n\n5:23. And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that\nyour whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the\ncoming of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n5:24. He is faithful who hath called you, who also will do it.\n\n5:25. Brethren, pray for us.\n\n5:26. Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.\n\n5:27. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the\nholy brethren.\n\n5:28. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS\n\n\nIn this Epistle St. Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be constant in\nthe faith of Christ and not to be terrified by the insinuations of\nfalse teachers telling them that the day of judgment was near at hand,\nas there must come many signs and wonders before it. He bids them to\nhold firm the traditions received from him, whether by word, or by\nepistle, and shews them how they may be certain of his letters by the\nmanner he writes.\n\n\n2 Thessalonians Chapter 1\n\nHe gives thanks to God for their faith and constancy and prays for\ntheir advancement in all good.\n\n1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians.\nIn God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,\n\n1:2. Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:3. We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it\nis fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of\nevery one of you towards each other aboundeth.\n\n1:4. So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for\nyour patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations:\nwhich you endure\n\n1:5. For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be\ncounted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.\n\n1:6. Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them\nthat trouble you:\n\n1:7. And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus\nshall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:\n\n1:8. In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and\nwho obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n1:9. Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face\nof the Lord and from the glory of his power:\n\n1:10. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made\nwonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was\nbelieved upon you in that day.\n\n1:11. Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make\nyou worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his\ngoodness and the work of faith in power:\n\n1:12. That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you\nin him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n\n2 Thessalonians Chapter 2\n\nThe day of the Lord is not to come till the man of sin be revealed. The\napostle\u2019s traditions are to be observed.\n\n2:1. And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus\nChrist and of our gathering together unto him:\n\n2:2. That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified,\nneither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if\nthe day of the Lord were at hand.\n\n2:3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a\nrevolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,\n\nA revolt.... This revolt, or falling off, is generally understood, by\nthe ancient fathers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was first\nto be destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist. It may, perhaps, be\nunderstood also of a revolt of many nations from the Catholic Church;\nwhich has, in part, happened already, by means of Mahomet, Luther, &c.,\nand it may be supposed, will be more general in the days of the\nAntichrist. The man of sin.... Here must be meant some particular man,\nas is evident from the frequent repetition of the Greek article: o`,\n\u2018the\u2019 man of sin, \u2018the\u2019 son of perdition, \u2018the\u2019 adversary or opposer.\nIt agrees to the wicked and great Antichrist, who will come before the\nend of the world.\n\n2:4. Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that\nis worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself\nas if he were God.\n\nIn the temple.... Either that of Jerusalem which some think he will\nrebuild; or in some Christian church, which he will pervert to his own\nworship: as Mahomet has done by the churches of the east.\n\n2:5. Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these\nthings?\n\n2:6. And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his\ntime.\n\n2:7. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now\nholdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.\n\n2:8. And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus\nshall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the\nbrightness of his coming: him\n\n2:9. Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power\nand signs and lying wonders:\n\n2:10. And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because\nthey receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.\nTherefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:\n\nGod shall send.... That is God shall suffer them to be deceived by\nlying wonders, and false miracles, in punishment of their not\nentertaining the love of truth.\n\n2:11. That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have\nconsented to iniquity.\n\n2:12. But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren,\nbeloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto\nsalvation, in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth:\n\n2:13. Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the\npurchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\n2:14. Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which\nyou have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.\n\nTraditions.... See here that the unwritten traditions are no less to be\nreceived than their epistles.\n\n2:15. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who\nhath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope\nin grace,\n\n2:16. Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.\n\n\n2 Thessalonians Chapter 3\n\nHe begs their prayers and warns them against idleness.\n\n3:1. For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run\nand may be glorified, even as among you:\n\nMay run.... That is, may spread itself, and have free course.\n\n3:2. And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for\nall men have not faith.\n\n3:3. But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.\n\n3:4. And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things\nwhich we command, you both do and will do.\n\n3:5. And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the\npatience of Christ.\n\n3:6. And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,\nthat you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and\nnot according to the tradition which they have received of us.\n\n3:7. For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not\ndisorderly among you.\n\n3:8. Neither did we eat any man\u2019s bread for nothing: but in labour and\nin toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of\nyou.\n\n3:9. Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a\npattern unto you, to imitate us.\n\n3:10. For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that,\nif any man will not work, neither let him eat.\n\n3:11. For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly:\nworking not at all, but curiously meddling.\n\n3:12. Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord\nJesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own\nbread.\n\n3:13. But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.\n\n3:14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man\nand do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.\n\n3:15. Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother.\n\n3:16. Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every\nplace. The Lord be with you all.\n\n3:17. The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in\nevery epistle. So I write.\n\n3:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY\n\n\nSt. Paul write this Epistle to his BELOVED TIMOTHY, being then bishop\nof Ephesus, to instruct him in the duties of a bishop, both in respect\nto himself and to his charge; and that he ought to be well informed of\nthe good morals of those on whom he was to impose hands: Impose not\nhands lightly upon any man. He tells him also how he should behave\ntowards his clergy. The Epistle was written about 33 years after our\nLord\u2019s Ascension; but where it was written is uncertain: the more\ngeneral opinion is, that it was in Macedonia.\n\n\n1 Timothy Chapter 1\n\nHe puts Timothy in mind of his charge and blesses God for the mercy he\nhimself had received.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of\nGod our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:\n\n1:2. To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy and peace, from\nGod the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n1:3. As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia,\nthat thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise:\n\n1:4. Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish\nquestions rather than the edification of God which is in faith.\n\n1:5. Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a\ngood conscience, and an unfeigned faith.\n\n1:6. From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain\nbabbling:\n\n1:7. Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the\nthings they say, nor whereof they affirm.\n\n1:8. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.\n\n1:9. Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for\nthe unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the\nwicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers,\nfor manslayers,\n\nThe law is not.... He means, that the just man doth good, and avoideth\nevil, not as compelled by the law, and merely for fear of the\npunishment appointed for transgressors; but voluntarily, and out of the\nlove of God and virtue; and would do so, though there were no law.\n\n1:10. For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for\nmenstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing\nis contrary to sound doctrine:\n\n1:11. Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God\nwhich hath been committed to my trust.\n\n1:12. I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus\nour Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the\nministry:\n\n1:13. Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious.\nBut I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in\nunbelief.\n\n1:14. Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith\nand love, which is in Christ Jesus.\n\n1:15. A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ\nJesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.\n\n1:16. But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ\nJesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that\nshall believe in him unto life everlasting.\n\n1:17. Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be\nhonour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n1:18. This precept, I commend to thee, O son Timothy: according to the\nprophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,\n\n1:19. Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have\nmade shipwreck concerning the faith.\n\n1:20. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to\nSatan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.\n\n\n1 Timothy Chapter 2\n\nPrayers are to be said for all men, because God wills the salvation of\nall. Women are not to teach.\n\n2:1. I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers,\nintercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men:\n\n2:2. For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a\nquiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.\n\n2:3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,\n\n2:4. Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of\nthe truth.\n\n2:5. For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man\nChrist Jesus:\n\nOne mediator.... Christ is the one and only mediator of redemption, who\ngave himself, as the apostle writes in the following verse.\n\n2:6. Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.\n\nA redemption for all.... He is also the only mediator, who stands in\nneed of no other to recommend his petitions to the Father. But this is\nnot against our seeking the prayers and intercession, as well of the\nfaithful upon earth, as of the saints and angels in heaven, for\nobtaining mercy, grace, and salvation, through Jesus Christ. As St.\nPaul himself often desired the help of the prayers of the faithful,\nwithout any injury to the mediatorship of Jesus Christ.\n\n2:7. Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the\ntruth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.\n\n2:8. I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure\nhands, without anger and contention.\n\n2:9. In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves\nwith modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls,\nor costly attire:\n\n2:10. But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.\n\n2:11. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.\n\n2:12. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the\nman: but to be in silence.\n\n2:13.For Adam was first formed; then Eve.\n\n2:14. And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in\nthe transgression.\n\n2:15. Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in\nfaith and love and sanctification with sobriety.\n\n\n1 Timothy Chapter 3\n\nWhat sort of men are to be admitted into the clergy. The church is the\npillar of truth.\n\n3:1. A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he\ndesireth a good work.\n\n3:2. It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one\nwife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality,\na teacher,\n\nOf one wife.... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a\nwife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be\nadmitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been\nmarried more than once.\n\n3:3. Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not\ncovetous, but\n\n3:4. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in\nsubjection with all chastity.\n\n3:5. But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take\ncare of the church of God?\n\n3:6. Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the\njudgment of the devil.\n\nA neophyte.... That is, one lately baptized, a young convert.\n\n3:7. Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without:\nlest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.\n\n3:8. Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to\nmuch wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:\n\n3:9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.\n\n3:10. And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister,\nhaving no crime.\n\n3:11. The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober,\nfaithful in all things.\n\n3:12. Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their\nchildren and their own houses.\n\n3:13. For they that have ministered well shall purchase to themselves a\ngood degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.\n\n3:14. These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee\nshortly.\n\n3:15. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to\nbehave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living\nGod, the pillar and ground of the truth.\n\nThe pillar and ground of the truth.... Therefore the church of the\nliving God can never uphold error, nor bring in corruptions,\nsuperstition, or idolatry.\n\n3:16. And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was\nmanifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto\nangels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world,\nis taken up in glory.\n\n\n1 Timothy Chapter 4\n\nHe warns him against heretics, and exhorts him to the exercise of\npiety.\n\n4:1. Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall\ndepart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of\ndevils,\n\n4:2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,\n\n4:3. Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created\nto be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have\nknown the truth.\n\nForbidding to marry, to abstain from meats.... He speaks of the\nGnostics, the Marcionites, the Eneratites, the Manicheans, and other\nancient heretics, who absolutely condemned marriage, and the use of all\nkind of meat; because they pretended that all flesh was from an evil\nprinciple. Whereas the church of God, so far from condemning marriage,\nholds it a holy sacrament; and forbids it to none but such as by vow\nhave chosen the better part: and prohibits not the use of any meats\nwhatsoever in proper times and seasons; though she does not judge all\nkind of diet proper for days of fasting and penance.\n\n4:4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that\nis received with thanksgiving:\n\n4:5. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.\n\n4:6. These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good\nminister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the\ngood doctrine which thou hast attained unto.\n\n4:7. But avoid foolish and old wives fables: and exercise thyself unto\ngodliness.\n\n4:8. For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is\nprofitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of\nthat which is to come.\n\n4:9. A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.\n\n4:10. For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the\nliving God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.\n\n4:11. These things command and teach:\n\n4:12. Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the\nfaithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.\n\n4:13. Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.\n\n4:14. Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by\nprophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.\n\n4:15. Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy\nprofiting may be manifest to all.\n\n4:16. Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in\ndoing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.\n\n\n1 Timothy Chapter 5\n\nHe gives him lessons concerning widows, and how he is to behave to his\nclergy.\n\n5:1. An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men,\nas brethren:\n\n5:2. Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.\n\n5:3. Honour widows that are widows indeed.\n\n5:4. But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn\nfirst to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her\nparents; for this is acceptable before God.\n\n5:5. But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God\nand continue in supplications and prayers night and day.\n\n5:6. For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.\n\n5:7. And this give in charge, that they may be blameless.\n\n5:8. But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of\nhis house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.\n\n5:9. Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who\nhath been the wife of one husband.\n\n5:10. Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up\nchildren, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the\nsaints\u2019 feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation,\nif she have diligently followed every good work.\n\n5:11. But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in\nChrist, they will marry:\n\n5:12. Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.\n\nTheir first faith.... Their vow, by which they had engaged themselves\nto Christ.\n\n5:13. And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house:\nand are not only idle, but tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking\nthings which they ought not.\n\n5:14. I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children,\nbe mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak\nevil.\n\n5:15. For some are already turned aside after Satan.\n\n5:16. If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and\nlet not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them\nthat are widows indeed.\n\n5:17. Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double\nhonour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.\n\n5:18. For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that\ntreadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward.\n\n5:19. Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or\nthree witnesses.\n\n5:20. Them that sin reprove before all that the rest also may have\nfear.\n\n5:21. I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels,\nthat thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by\ndeclining to either side.\n\n5:22. Impose not hands lightly upon any man, neither be partaker of\nother men\u2019s sins. Keep thyself chaste.\n\n5:23. Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach\u2019s\nsake and thy frequent infirmities.\n\n5:24. Some men\u2019s sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some\nmen they follow after.\n\n5:25. In like manner also good deeds are manifest: and they that are\notherwise cannot be hid.\n\n\n1 Timothy Chapter 6\n\nDuties of servants. The danger of covetousness. Lessons for the rich.\n\n6:1. Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their\nmasters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his\ndoctrine be blasphemed.\n\n6:2. But they that have believing masters, let them not despise them,\nbecause they are brethren; but serve them the rather, because they are\nfaithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things\nteach and exhort.\n\n6:3. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of\nour Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to\ngodliness,\n\n6:4. He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes\nof words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil\nsuspicions,\n\n6:5. Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the\ntruth, supposing gain to be godliness.\n\n6:6. But godliness with contentment is great gain.\n\n6:7. For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry\nnothing out.\n\n6:8. But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are\ncontent.\n\n6:9. For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the\nsnare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires,\nwhich drown men into destruction and perdition.\n\n6:10. For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some\ncoveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in\nmany sorrows.\n\n6:11. But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice,\ngodliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.\n\n6:12. Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life,\nwhereunto thou art called and hast confessed a good confession before\nmany witnesses.\n\n6:13. I charge thee before God who quickeneth all things, and before\nChrist Jesus who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, a good\nconfession:\n\n6:14. That thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, unto the\ncoming of our Lord Jesus Christ,\n\n6:15. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the Blessed and only\nMighty, the King of kings and Lord of lords:\n\n6:16. Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom\nno man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire\neverlasting. Amen.\n\n6:17. Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust\nin the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us\nabundantly all things to enjoy)\n\n6:18. To do good, to be rich in good works, to give easily, to\ncommunicate to others,\n\n6:19. To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the\ntime to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.\n\n6:20. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding\nthe profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so\ncalled.\n\n6:21. Which some promising, have erred concerning the faith. Grace be\nwith thee. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY\n\n\nIn this Epistle, the Apostle again instructs and admonishes Timothy in\nwhat belonged to his office, as in the former; and also warns him to\nshun the conversation of those who had erred from the truth, describing\nat the same time their character, He tells him of his approaching death\nand desires him to come speedily to him. It appears from this\ncircumstance that he wrote this second Epistle in the time of his last\nimprisonment at Rome and not long before his martyrdom.\n\n\n2 Timothy Chapter 1\n\nHe admonishes him to stir up the grace he received by his ordination\nand not to be discouraged at his sufferings, but to hold firm the sound\ndoctrine of the gospel.\n\n1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to\nthe promise of life which is in Christ Jesus:\n\n1:2. To Timothy, my dearly beloved son. Grace, mercy and peace, from\nGod the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n1:3. I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with a\npure conscience, that without ceasing I have a remembrance of thee in\nmy prayers, night and day.\n\n1:4. Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be\nfilled with joy:\n\n1:5. Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also\ndwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am\ncertain that in thee also.\n\n1:6. For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God\nwhich is in thee by the imposition of my hands.\n\n1:7. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power and of\nlove and of sobriety.\n\n1:8. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of\nme his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of\nGod.\n\n1:9. Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not\naccording to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,\nwhich was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world:\n\n1:10. But is now made manifest by the illumination of our Saviour Jesus\nChrist, who hath destroyed death and hath brought to light life and\nincorruption by the gospel.\n\nBy the illumination.... That is, by the bright coming and appearing of\nour Saviour.\n\n1:11. Wherein I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and teacher of\nthe Gentiles.\n\n1:12. For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not\nashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is\nable to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.\n\n1:13. Hold the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me: in\nfaith and in the love which is in Christ Jesus.\n\n1:14. Keep the good thing committed to thy trust by the Holy Ghost who\ndwelleth in us.\n\n1:15. Thou knowest this, that all they who are in Asia are turned away\nfrom me: of whom are Phigellus and Hermogenes.\n\n1:16. The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath\noften refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:\n\n1:17. But when he was come to Rome, he carefully sought me and found\nme.\n\n1:18. The Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day.\nAnd in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou very well\nknowest.\n\n\n2 Timothy Chapter 2\n\nHe exhorts him to diligence in his office and patience in suffering.\nThe danger of the delusions of heretics.\n\n2:1. Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace which is in Christ\nJesus:\n\n2:2. And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the\nsame commend to faithful men who shall be fit to teach others also.\n\n2:3. Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.\n\n2:4. No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular\nbusinesses: that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.\n\n2:5. For he also that striveth for the mastery is not crowned, except\nhe strive lawfully.\n\n2:6. The husbandman that laboureth must first partake of the fruits.\n\n2:7. Understand what I say: for the Lord will give thee in all things\nunderstanding.\n\n2:8. Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ is risen again from the\ndead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:\n\n2:9. Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of\nGod is not bound.\n\n2:10. Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that\nthey also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with\nheavenly glory.\n\n2:11. A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also\nwith him.\n\n2:12. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he\nwill also deny us.\n\n2:13. If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny\nhimself.\n\n2:14. Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord.\nContend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of\nthe hearers.\n\n2:15. Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman\nthat needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.\n\n2:16. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards\nungodliness.\n\n2:17. And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus\nand Philetus:\n\n2:18. Who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection is\npast already, and have subverted the faith of some.\n\n2:19. But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal:\nthe Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity\nwho nameth the name of the Lord.\n\n2:20. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of\nsilver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but\nsome unto dishonour.\n\n2:21. If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall\nbe a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord,\nprepared unto every good work.\n\n2:22. But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith,\ncharity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.\n\n2:23. And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they\nbeget strifes.\n\n2:24. But the servant of the Lord must not wrangle: but be mild toward\nall men, apt to teach, patient,\n\n2:25. With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if\nperadventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;\n\n2:26. And they may recover themselves from the snares of the devil by\nwhom they are held captive at his will.\n\n\n2 Timothy Chapter 3\n\nThe character of heretics of latter days. He exhorts Timothy to\nconstancy. Of the great profit of the knowledge of the scriptures.\n\n3:1. Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times.\n\n3:2. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud,\nblasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,\n\n3:3. Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent,\nunmerciful, without kindness,\n\n3:4. Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than\nof God:\n\n3:5. Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power\nthereof. Now these avoid.\n\n3:6. For of these sort are they who creep into houses and lead captive\nsilly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:\n\n3:7. Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.\n\n3:8. Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the\ntruth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.\n\nJannes and Mambres.... The magicians of king Pharao.\n\n3:9. But they shall proceed no farther: for their folly shall be\nmanifest to all men, as theirs also was.\n\n3:10. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose,\nfaith, longsuffering, love, patience,\n\n3:11. Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at\nIconium and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all\nthe Lord delivered me.\n\n3:12. And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer\npersecution.\n\n3:13. But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and\ndriving into error,\n\n3:14. But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned and\nwhich have been committed to thee, knowing of whom thou hast learned\nthem:\n\n3:15. And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures\nwhich can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ\nJesus.\n\n3:16. All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to\nreprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:\n\nAll scripture, ... Every part of divine scripture is certainly\nprofitable for all these ends. But, if we would have the whole rule of\nChristian faith and practice, we must not be content with those\nScriptures, which Timothy knew from his infancy, that is, with the Old\nTestament alone: nor yet with the New Testament, without taking along\nwith it the traditions of the apostles, and the interpretation of the\nchurch, to which the apostles delivered both the book, and the true\nmeaning of it.\n\n3:17. That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.\n\n\n2 Timothy Chapter 4\n\nHis charge to Timothy. He tells him of his approaching death and\ndesires him to come to him.\n\n4:1. I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the\nliving and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom:\n\n4:2. Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove,\nentreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.\n\n4:3. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine\nbut, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves\nteachers having itching ears:\n\n4:4. And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will\nbe turned unto fables.\n\n4:5. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an\nevangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.\n\nAn evangelist ... a diligent preacher of the gospel.\n\n4:6. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my\ndissolution is at hand.\n\n4:7. I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept\nthe faith.\n\n4:8. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which\nthe Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to\nme, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me\nquickly.\n\n4:9. For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to\nThessalonica:\n\n4:10. Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.\n\n4:11. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee: for he\nis profitable to me for the ministry.\n\n4:12. But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.\n\n4:13. The cloak that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest,\nbring with thee: and the books, especially the parchments.\n\n4:14. Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will\nreward him according to his works:\n\n4:15. Whom do thou also avoid: for he hath greatly withstood our words.\n\n4:16. At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May\nit not be laid to their charge!\n\n4:17. But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the\npreaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I\nwas delivered out of the mouth of the lion.\n\n4:18. The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve\nme unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n4:19. Salute Prisca, and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus.\n\n4:20. Erastus remained at Corinth. And Trophimus I left sick at\nMiletus.\n\n4:21. Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus\nand Claudia and all the brethren, salute thee.\n\n4:22. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TITUS\n\n\nSt. Paul, having preached the faith in the island of Crete, he ordained\nhis beloved disciple and companion, Titus, bishop, and left him there\nto finish the work which he had begun. Afterwards the Apostle, on a\njourney to Nicopolis, a city of Macedonia, wrote this Epistle to Titus,\nin which he directs him to ordain bishops and priests for the different\ncities, shewing him the principal qualities necessary for a bishop. He\nalso gives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock,\nexhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with\nlenity. It was written about thirty-three years after our Lord\u2019s\nAscension.\n\n\nTitus Chapter 1\n\nWhat kind of men he is to ordain priests. Some men are to be sharply\nrebuked.\n\n1:1. Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according\nto the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth,\nwhich is according to godliness:\n\n1:2. Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath\npromised before the times of the world:\n\n1:3. But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is\ncommitted to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:\n\n1:4. To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and\npeace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.\n\n1:5. For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in\norder the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every\ncity, as I also appointed thee:\n\n1:6. If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful\nchildren, not accused of riot or unruly.\n\n1:7. For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not\nproud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy\nof filthy lucre:\n\n1:8. But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:\n\n1:9. Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that\nhe may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the\ngainsayers.\n\n1:10. For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers:\nespecially they who are of the circumcision.\n\n1:11. Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things\nwhich they ought not, for filthy lucre\u2019s sake.\n\n1:12. One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always\nliars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.\n\n1:13. This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they\nmay be sound in the faith:\n\n1:14. Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn\nthemselves away from the truth.\n\n1:15. All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled\nand to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their\nconscience are defiled.\n\n1:16. They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny\nhim: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.\n\n\nTitus Chapter 2\n\nHow he is to instruct both old and young. The duty of servants. The\nChristian\u2019s rule of life.\n\n2:1. But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine:\n\n2:2. That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in\nlove, in patience.\n\n2:3. The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false\naccusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:\n\n2:4. That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their\nhusbands, to love their children.\n\n2:5. To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle,\nobedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.\n\n2:6. Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober.\n\n2:7. In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine,\nin integrity, in gravity,\n\n2:8. The sound word that can not be blamed: that he who is on the\ncontrary part may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.\n\n2:9. Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things\npleasing, not gainsaying:\n\n2:10. Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that\nthey may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.\n\n2:11. For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:\n\n2:12. Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we\nshould live soberly and justly and godly in this world,\n\n2:13. Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great\nGod and our Saviour Jesus Christ.\n\n2:14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all\niniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of\ngood works.\n\n2:15. These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let\nno man despise thee.\n\n\nTitus Chapter 3\n\nOther instructions and directions for life and doctrine.\n\n3:1. Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a\nword, to be ready to every good work.\n\n3:2. To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing\nall mildness towards all men.\n\n3:3. For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring,\nslaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy,\nhateful and hating one another.\n\n3:4. But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared:\n\n3:5. Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to\nhis mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration and renovation of\nthe Holy Ghost.\n\n3:6. Whom he hath poured forth upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ\nour Saviour:\n\n3:7. That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to\nhope of life everlasting.\n\n3:8. It is a faithful saying. And these things I will have thee affirm\nconstantly, that they who believe in God may be careful to excel in\ngood works. These things are good and profitable unto men.\n\n3:9. But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and\nstrivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.\n\n3:10. A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition,\navoid:\n\n3:11. Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth,\nbeing condemned by his own judgment.\n\nBy his own judgment.... Other offenders are judged, and cast out of the\nchurch, by the sentence of the pastors of the same church. Heretics,\nmore unhappy, run out of the church of their own accord, and by doing\nso, give judgment and sentence against their own souls.\n\n3:12. When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come\nunto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.\n\n3:13. Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollo, with care that nothing\nbe wanting to them.\n\n3:14. And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary\nuses: that they be not unfruitful.\n\n3:15. All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in the\nfaith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO PHILEMON\n\n\nPhilemon, a noble citizen of Colossa, had a servant named Onesimus, who\nrobbed him and fled to Rome, where he met St. Paul, who was then a\nprisoner there the first time. The apostle took compassion on him and\nreceived him with tenderness and converted him to the faith; for he was\na Gentile before. St. Paul sends him back to his master with this\nEpistle in his favour: and though he beseeches Philemon to pardon him,\nyet the Apostle writes with becoming dignity and authority. It contains\ndivers profitable instructions and points out the charity and humanity\nthat masters should have for their servants.\n\n\nPhilemon Chapter 1\n\nHe commends the faith and charity of Philemon; and sends back to him\nhis fugitive servant, whom he had converted in prison.\n\n1:1. Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, a brother: to\nPhilemon, our beloved and fellow labourer,\n\n1:2. And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to Archippus, our fellow\nsoldier, and to the church which is in thy house.\n\n1:3. Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:4. I give thanks to my God, always making a remembrance of thee in my\nprayers.\n\n1:5. Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord\nJesus and towards all the saints:\n\n1:6. That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the\nacknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus.\n\n1:7. For I have had great joy and consolation in thy charity, because\nthe bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.\n\n1:8. Wherefore, though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus to\ncommand thee that which is to the purpose:\n\n1:9. For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as\nPaul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.\n\n1:10. I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands,\nOnesimus,\n\n1:11. Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is\nprofitable both to me and thee:\n\n1:12. Whom I have sent back to thee. And do thou receive him as my own\nbowels.\n\n1:13. Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might\nhave ministered to me in the bands of the gospel.\n\n1:14. But without thy counsel I would do nothing: that thy good deed\nmight not be as it were of necessity, but voluntary.\n\n1:15. For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee that\nthou mightest receive him again for ever:\n\n1:16. Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear\nbrother, especially to me. But how much more to thee, both in the flesh\nand in the Lord?\n\n1:17. If therefore thou count me a partner, receive him as myself.\n\n1:18. And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put\nthat to my account.\n\n1:19. I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to\nsay to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.\n\n1:20. Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! Refresh my bowels in\nthe Lord.\n\n1:21. Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that\nthou wilt also do more than I say.\n\n1:22. But withal prepare me also a lodging. For I hope that through\nyour prayers I shall be given unto you.\n\n1:23. There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus:\n\n1:24. Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow labourers.\n\n1:25. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE HEBREWS\n\n\nSt. Paul wrote this Epistle to the Christians in Palestine, the most\npart of whom being Jews before their conversion, they were called\nHebrews. He exhorts them to be thoroughly converted and confirmed in\nthe faith of Christ, clearly shewing them the preeminence of Christ\u2019s\npriesthood above the Levitical, and also the excellence of the new law\nabove the old. He commends faith by the example of the ancient fathers:\nand exhorts them to patience and perseverance and to remain in\nfraternal charity. It appears from chap. 13 that this Epistle was\nwritten in Italy, and probably at Rome, about twenty-nine years after\nour Lord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 1\n\nGod spoke of old by the prophets, but now by his Son, who is\nincomparably greater than the angels.\n\n1:1. God, who, at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times\npast to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,\n\n1:2. In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath\nappointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.\n\n1:3. Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his\nsubstance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making\npurgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high:\n\nThe figure ... that is, the express image, and most perfect\nresemblance. Making purgation.... That is, having purged away our sins\nby his passion.\n\n1:4. Being made so much better than the angels as he hath inherited a\nmore excellent name than they.\n\n1:5. For to which of the angels hath he said at any time: Thou art my\nSon, to-day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father,\nand he shall be to me a Son?\n\n1:6. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world,\nhe saith: And let all the angels of God adore him.\n\n1:7. And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels\nspirits and his ministers a flame of fire.\n\n1:8. But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre\nof justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom.\n\n1:9. Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy\nGod, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.\n\n1:10. And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth: and\nthe works of thy hands are the heavens.\n\n1:11. They shall perish: but thou shalt continue: and they shall all\ngrow old as a garment.\n\n1:12. And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be\nchanged. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.\n\n1:13. But to which of the angels said he at any time: Sit on my right\nhand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?\n\n1:14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them\nwho shall receive the inheritance of salvation?\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 2\n\nThe transgression of the precepts of the Son of God is far more\ncondemnable than of those of the Old Testament given by angels.\n\n2:1. Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we\nhave heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.\n\n2:2. For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every\ntransgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:\n\n2:3. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which,\nhaving begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them\nthat heard him.\n\n2:4. God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers\nmiracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own\nwill.\n\n2:5. For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof\nwe speak.\n\n2:6. But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man,\nthat thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest\nhim?\n\n2:7. Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast\ncrowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of\nthy hands.\n\n2:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath\nsubjected all things to him he left nothing not subject to him. But now\nwe see not as yet all things subject to him.\n\n2:9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for\nthe suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through\nthe grace of God he might taste death for all.\n\n2:10. For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all\nthings, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author\nof their salvation, by his passion.\n\nPerfect by his passion.... By suffering, Christ was to enter into his\nglory, Luke 24.26, which the apostle here calls being made perfect.\n\n2:11. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all\nof one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,\nsaying:\n\n2:12. I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the\nchurch will I praise thee.\n\n2:13. And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my\nchildren, whom God hath given me.\n\n2:14. Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood,\nhe also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that,\nthrough death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that\nis to say, the devil:\n\n2:15. And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all\ntheir lifetime subject to servitude.\n\n2:16. For nowhere doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of\nAbraham he taketh hold.\n\nNo where doth he, etc.... That is, he never took upon him the nature of\nangels, but that of the seed of Abraham.\n\n2:17. Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his\nbrethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest\nbefore God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.\n\n2:18. For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he\nis able to succour them also that are tempted.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 3\n\nChrist is more excellent than Moses. Wherefore we must adhere to him by\nfaith and obedience.\n\n3:1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation\nconsider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:\n\n3:2. Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his\nhouse.\n\n3:3. For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so\nmuch as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the\nhouse.\n\n3:4. For every house is built by some man: but he that created all\nthings is God.\n\n3:5. And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a\ntestimony of those things which were to be said:\n\n3:6. But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we\nhold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.\n\n3:7. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his\nvoice,\n\n3:8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of\ntemptation in the desert,\n\n3:9. Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,\n\n3:10. Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation,\nand I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.\n\n3:11. As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.\n\n3:12. Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil\nheart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.\n\n3:13. But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day,\nthat none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.\n\n3:14. For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the\nbeginning of his substance firm unto the end.\n\n3:15. While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not\nyour hearts, as in that provocation.\n\n3:16. For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of\nEgypt by Moses.\n\n3:17. And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them\nthat sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?\n\n3:18. And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his\nrest: but to them that were incredulous?\n\n3:19. And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 4\n\nThe Christian\u2019s rest. We are to enter into it through Jesus Christ.\n\n4:1. Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering\ninto his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.\n\n4:2. For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto\nthem. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with\nfaith of those things they heard.\n\n4:3. For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I\nhave sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this\nindeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.\n\n4:4. For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God\nrested the seventh day from all his works.\n\n4:5. And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest.\n\n4:6. Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they\nto whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:\n\n4:7. Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David; To day, after so\nlong a time as it is above said: To day if you shall hear his voice,\nharden not your hearts.\n\n4:8. For if Jesus had given them rest he would never have afterwards\nspoken of another day.\n\nJesus.... Josue, who in Greek is called Jesus.\n\n4:9. There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.\n\n4:10. For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested\nfrom his works, as God did from his.\n\n4:11. Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man\nfall into the same example of unbelief.\n\n4:12. For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing\nthan any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul\nand the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner\nof the thoughts and intents of the heart.\n\n4:13. Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all\nthings are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.\n\n4:14. Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the\nheavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.\n\n4:15. For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our\ninfirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.\n\n4:16. Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that\nwe may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 5\n\nThe office of a high priest. Christ is our high priest.\n\n5:1. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in\nthe things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and\nsacrifices for sins:\n\n5:2. Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err:\nbecause he himself also is compassed with infirmity.\n\n5:3. And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to\noffer for sins.\n\n5:4. Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is\ncalled by God, as Aaron was.\n\n5:5. So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a\nhigh priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have\nI begotten thee.\n\n5:6. As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever,\naccording to the order of Melchisedech.\n\n5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears,\noffering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him\nfrom death, was heard for his reverence.\n\n5:8. And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by\nthe things which he suffered.\n\n5:9. And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause\nof eternal salvation:\n\n5:10. Called by God a high priest, according to the order of\nMelchisedech.\n\n5:11. Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered:\nbecause you are become weak to hear.\n\n5:12. For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need\nto be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and\nyou are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.\n\n5:13. For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word\nof justice: for he is a little child.\n\n5:14. But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have\ntheir senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 6\n\nHe warns them of the danger of falling by apostasy and exhorts them to\npatience and perseverance.\n\n6:1. Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go\non to things more perfect: not laying again the foundation of penance\nfrom dead works and of faith towards God,\n\nThe word of the beginning.... The first rudiments of the Christian\ndoctrine.\n\n6:2. Of the doctrine of baptisms and imposition of hands, and of the\nresurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.\n\n6:3. And this will we do, if God permit.\n\n6:4. For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have\ntasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy\nGhost,\n\nIt is impossible, etc.... The meaning is, that it is impossible for\nsuch as have fallen after baptism, to be again baptized; and very hard\nfor such as have apostatized from the faith, after having received many\ngraces, to return again to the happy state from which they fell.\n\n6:5. Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the\nworld to come,\n\n6:6. And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying\nagain to themselves the Son of God and making him a mockery.\n\n6:7. For the earth, that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon\nit and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled,\nreceiveth blessing from God.\n\n6:8. But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and\nvery near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.\n\n6:9. But, my dearly beloved, we trust better things of you, and nearer\nto salvation; though we speak thus.\n\n6:10. For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the\nlove which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do\nminister to the saints.\n\n6:11. And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same\ncarefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:\n\n6:12. That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through\nfaith and patience shall inherit the promises.\n\n6:13. For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater\nby whom he might swear, swore by himself,\n\n6:14. Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I\nshall multiply thee.\n\n6:15. And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.\n\n6:16. For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for\nconfirmation is the end of all their controversy.\n\n6:17. Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the\npromise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:\n\n6:18. That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to\nlie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to\nhold fast the hope set before us.\n\n6:19. Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which\nentereth in even within the veil:\n\n6:20. Where the forerunner Jesus is entered for us, made a high priest\nfor ever according to the order of Melchisedech.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 7\n\nThe priesthood of Christ according to the order of Melchisedech excels\nthe Levitical priesthood and puts an end both to that and to the law.\n\n7:1. For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high\nGod, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and\nblessed him:\n\n7:2. To whom also Abraham divided the tithes of all: who first indeed\nby interpretation is king of justice: and then also king of Salem, that\nis, king of peace:\n\n7:3. Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither\nbeginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God,\ncontinueth a priest for ever.\n\nWithout father, etc.... Not that he had no father, etc., but that\nneither his father, nor his pedigree, nor his birth, nor his death, are\nset down in scripture.\n\n7:4. Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the\npatriarch gave tithes out of the principal things.\n\n7:5. And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the\npriesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according\nto the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though they themselves\nalso came out of the loins of Abraham.\n\n7:6. But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes\nof Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.\n\n7:7. And without all contradiction, that which is less is blessed by\nthe better.\n\n7:8. And here indeed, men that die receive tithes: but there, he hath\nwitness that he liveth.\n\n7:9. And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes paid tithes\nin Abraham:\n\n7:10. For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedech met\nhim.\n\n7:11. If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it\nthe people received the law), what further need was there that another\npriest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech: and not be\ncalled according to the order of Aaron?\n\n7:12. For the priesthood being translated, it is necessary that a\ntranslation also be made of the law,\n\n7:13. For he of whom these things are spoken is of another tribe, of\nwhich no one attended on the altar.\n\n7:14. For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which\ntribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.\n\n7:15. And it is yet far more evident: if according to the similitude of\nMelchisedech there ariseth another priest,\n\n7:16. Who is made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment,\nbut according to the power of an indissoluble life.\n\n7:17. For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever according to the\norder of Melchisedech.\n\n7:18. There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment,\nbecause of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof:\n\n7:19. For the law brought nothing to perfection: but a bringing in of a\nbetter hope, by which we draw nigh to God.\n\n7:20. And inasmuch as it is not without an oath (for the others indeed\nwere made priests without an oath:\n\n7:21. But this with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord hath\nsworn and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever).\n\n7:22. By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.\n\n7:23. And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason\nof death they were not suffered to continue:\n\nMany priests, etc.... The apostle notes this difference between the\nhigh priests of the law, and our high priest Jesus Christ; that they\nbeing removed by death, made way for their successors; whereas our Lord\nJesus is a priest for ever, and hath no successor; but liveth and\nconcurreth for ever with his ministers, the priests of the new\ntestament, in all their functions. Also, that no one priest of the law,\nnor all of them together, could offer that absolute sacrifice of\neverlasting redemption, which our one high priest Jesus Christ has\noffered once, and for ever.\n\n7:24. But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting\npriesthood:\n\n7:25. Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by\nhim; always living to make intercession for us.\n\nMake intercession.... Christ, as man, continually maketh intercession\nfor us, by representing his passion to his Father.\n\n7:26. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy,\ninnocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the\nheavens:\n\n7:27. Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices,\nfirst for his own sins, and then for the people\u2019s: for this he did\nonce, in offering himself.\n\n7:28. For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word\nof the oath (which was since the law) the Son who is perfected for\nevermore.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 8\n\nMore of the excellence of the priesthood of Christ and of the New\nTestament.\n\n8:1. Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have\nsuch an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of\nmajesty in the heavens,\n\n8:2. A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the\nLord hath pitched, and not man.\n\nThe holies.... That is, the sanctuary.\n\n8:3. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices:\nwherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.\n\n8:4. If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that\nthere would be others to offer gifts according to the law.\n\nIf then he were on earth, etc.... That is, if he were not of a higher\ncondition than the Levitical order of earthly priests, and had not\nanother kind of sacrifice to offer, he should be excluded by them from\nthe priesthood, and its functions, which by the law were appropriated\nto their tribe.\n\n8:5. Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it\nwas answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith\nhe) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn\nthee on the mount.\n\nWho serve unto, etc.... The priesthood of the law and its functions\nwere a kind of an example and shadow of what is done by Christ in his\nchurch militant and triumphant, of which the tabernacle was a pattern.\n\n8:6. But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is\na mediator of a better testament which is established on better\npromises.\n\n8:7. For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a\nplace have been sought for a second.\n\n8:8. For, finding fault with them, he saith: Behold the days shall\ncome, saith the Lord: and I will perfect, unto the house of Israel and\nunto the house of Juda, a new testament:\n\n8:9. Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on\nthe day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of\nEgypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them\nnot, saith the Lord.\n\n8:10. For this is the testament which I will make to the house of\nIsrael after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their\nmind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God:\nand they shall be my people.\n\n8:11. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man\nhis brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the\nleast to the greatest of them.\n\nThey shall not teach, etc.... So great shall be light and grace of the\nnew testament, that it shall not be necessary to inculcate to the\nfaithful the belief and knowledge of the true God, for they shall all\nknow him.\n\n8:12. Because I will be merciful to their iniquities: and their sins I\nwill remember no more.\n\n8:13. Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which\ndecayeth and groweth old is near its end.\n\nA new.... Supply \u2018covenant\u2019.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 9\n\nThe sacrifices of the law were far inferior to that of Christ.\n\n9:1. The former indeed had also justifications of divine service and a\nworldly sanctuary.\n\n9:2. For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the\ncandlesticks and the table and the setting forth of loaves, which is\ncalled the Holy.\n\n9:3. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy\nof Holies:\n\n9:4. Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about\non every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and\nthe rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament.\n\n9:5. And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the\npropitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly.\n\n9:6. Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle,\nthe priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of\nsacrifices.\n\n9:7. But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not\nwithout blood, which he offereth for his own and the people\u2019s\nignorance:\n\n9:8. The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was\nnot yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing.\n\n9:9. Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts\nand sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make\nhim perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,\n\n9:10. And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until\nthe time of correction.\n\nOf correction.... Viz., when Christ should correct and settle all\nthings.\n\n9:11. But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come,\nby a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is,\nnot of this creation:\n\n9:12. Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood,\nentered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.\n\nEternal redemption.... By that one sacrifice of his blood, once offered\non the cross, Christ our Lord paid and exhibited, once for all, the\ngeneral price and ransom of all mankind: which no other priest could\ndo.\n\n9:13. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an\nheifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing\nof the flesh:\n\n9:14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost\noffered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead\nworks, to serve the living God?\n\n9:15. And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by\nmeans of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which\nwere under the former testament, they that are called may receive the\npromise of eternal inheritance.\n\n9:16. For where there is a testament the death of the testator must of\nnecessity come in.\n\n9:17. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is\nas yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.\n\n9:18. Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.\n\n9:19. For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to\nall the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and\nscarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the\npeople.\n\n9:20. Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath\nenjoined unto you.\n\n9:21. The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like\nmanner, he sprinkled with blood.\n\n9:22. And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with\nblood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission.\n\n9:23. It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things\nshould be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with\nbetter sacrifices than these.\n\n9:24. For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the\npatterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in\nthe presence of God for us.\n\n9:25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest\nentereth into the Holies every year with the blood of others:\n\nOffer himself often.... Christ shall never more offer himself in\nsacrifice, in that violent, painful, and bloody manner, nor can there\nbe any occasion for it: since by that one sacrifice upon the cross, he\nhas furnished the full ransom, redemption, and remedy for all the sins\nof the world. But this hinders not that he may offer himself daily in\nthe sacred mysteries in an unbloody manner, for the daily application\nof that one sacrifice of redemption to our souls.\n\n9:26. For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of\nthe world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the\ndestruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself.\n\n9:27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the\njudgment:\n\n9:28. So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The\nsecond time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto\nsalvation.\n\nTo exhaust.... That is, to empty, or draw out to the very bottom, by a\nplentiful and perfect redemption.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 10\n\nBecause of the insufficiency of the sacrifices of the law, Christ our\nhigh priest shed his own blood for us, offering up once for all the\nsacrifice of our redemption. He exhorts them to perseverance.\n\n10:1. For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the\nvery image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer\ncontinually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect.\n\n10:2. For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the\nworshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.\n\nThey would have ceased.... If they had been of themselves perfect to\nall the intents of redemption and remission, as Christ\u2019s death is there\nwould have been no occasion of so often repeating them: as there is no\noccasion for Christ\u2019s dying any more for our sins.\n\n10:3. But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year:\n\n10:4. For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin\nshould be taken away.\n\n10:5. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and\noblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me.\n\n10:6. Holocausts for sin did not please thee.\n\n10:7. Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written\nof me: that I should do thy will, O God.\n\n10:8. In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for\nsin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are\noffered according to the law.\n\n10:9. Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away\nthe first, that he may establish that which followeth.\n\n10:10. In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body\nof Jesus Christ once.\n\n10:11. And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often\noffering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.\n\n10:12. But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth\non the right hand of God,\n\n10:13. From henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his\nfootstool.\n\n10:14. For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are\nsanctified.\n\n10:15. And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that\nhe said:\n\n10:16. And this is the testament which I will make unto them after\nthose days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts and on\ntheir minds will I write them:\n\n10:17. And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.\n\n10:18. Now, where there is a remission of these, there is no more an\noblation for sin.\n\nThere is no more an oblation for sin.... Where there is a full\nremission of sins, as in baptism, there is no more occasion for a sin\noffering to be made for such sins already remitted; and as for sins\ncommitted afterwards, they can only be remitted in virtue of the one\noblation of Christ\u2019s death.\n\n10:19. Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into\nthe holies by the blood of Christ:\n\n10:20. A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the\nveil, that is to say, his flesh:\n\n10:21. And a high priest over the house of God:\n\n10:22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith, having\nour hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with\nclean water.\n\n10:23. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering\n(for he is faithful that hath promised):\n\n10:24. And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to\ngood works:\n\n10:25. Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but\ncomforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day\napproaching.\n\n10:26. For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth,\nthere is now left no sacrifice for sins:\n\nIf we sin wilfully.... He speaks of the sin of wilful apostasy from the\nknown truth; after which, as we can not be baptized again, we can not\nexpect to have that abundant remission of sins, which Christ purchased\nby his death, applied to our souls in that ample manner as it is in\nbaptism: but we have rather all manner of reason to look for a dreadful\njudgment; the more because apostates from the known truth, seldom or\nnever have the grace to return to it.\n\n10:27. But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of\na fire which shall consume the adversaries.\n\n10:28. A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under\ntwo or three witnesses:\n\n10:29. How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who\nhath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of\nthe testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an\naffront to the Spirit of grace?\n\n10:30. For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I\nwill repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.\n\n10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.\n\n10:32. But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated,\nyou endured a great fight of afflictions.\n\n10:33. And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were\nmade a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that\nwere used in such sort.\n\n10:34. For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took\nwith joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a\nbetter and a lasting substance.\n\n10:35. Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.\n\n10:36. For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God,\nyou may receive the promise.\n\n10:37. For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come\nwill come and will not delay.\n\n10:38. But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he\nshall not please my soul.\n\n10:39. But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but\nof faith to the saving of the soul.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 11\n\nWhat faith is. Its wonderful fruits and efficacy demonstrated in the\nfathers.\n\n11:1. Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the\nevidence of things that appear not.\n\n11:2. For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.\n\n11:3. By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of\nGod: that from invisible things visible things might be made.\n\n11:4. By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain,\nby which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony\nto his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.\n\n11:5. By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and\nhe was not found because God had translated him. For before his\ntranslation he had testimony that he pleased God.\n\n11:6. But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that\ncometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that\nseek him.\n\n11:7. By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things\nwhich as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the\nsaving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was\ninstituted heir of the justice which is by faith.\n\n11:8. By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place\nwhich he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not\nknowing whither he went.\n\nHe that is called Abraham ... or, Abraham being called.\n\n11:9. By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange\ncountry, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of\nthe same promise.\n\n11:10. For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder\nand maker is God.\n\n11:11. By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to\nconceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he\nwas faithful who had promised,\n\n11:12. For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as\ndead) as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand which is by\nthe sea shore innumerable.\n\n11:13. All these died according to faith, not having received the\npromises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing\nthat they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.\n\n11:14. For they that say these things do signify that they seek a\ncountry.\n\n11:15. And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they\ncame out, they had doubtless, time to return.\n\n11:16. But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly\ncountry. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he\nhath prepared for them a city.\n\n11:17. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that\nhad received the promises offered up his only begotten son,\n\n11:18. (To whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy seed be called:)\n\n11:19. Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead.\nWhereupon also he received him for a parable.\n\nFor a parable.... That is, as a figure of Christ, slain and coming to\nlife again.\n\n11:20. By faith also of things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.\n\n11:21. By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and\nadored the top of his rod.\n\nAdored the top of his rod.... The apostle here follows the ancient\nGreek Bible of the seventy interpreters, (which translates in this\nmanner, Gen. 47. 31.,) and alleges this fact of Jacob, in paying a\nrelative honour and veneration to the top of the rod or sceptre of\nJoseph, as to a figure of Christ\u2019s sceptre and kingdom, as an instance\nand argument of his faith. But some translators, who are no friends to\nthis relative honour, have corrupted the text, by translating it, he\nworshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff; as if this circumstance\nof leaning upon his staff were any argument of Jacob\u2019s faith, or worthy\nthe being thus particularly taken notice of by the Holy Ghost.\n\n11:22. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the going\nout of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his\nbones.\n\n11:23. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his\nparents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the\nking\u2019s edict.\n\n11:24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the\nson of Pharao\u2019s daughter:\n\n11:25. Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to\nhave the pleasure of sin for a time:\n\n11:26. Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the\ntreasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.\n\n11:27. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king:\nfor he endured, as seeing him that is invisible.\n\n11:28. By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood:\nthat he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.\n\n11:29. By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which\nthe Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.\n\n11:30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them\nseven days.\n\n11:31. By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers,\nreceiving the spies with peace.\n\n11:32. And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of\nGedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:\n\n11:33. Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained\npromises, stopped the mouths of lions,\n\n11:34. Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,\nrecovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to\nflight the armies of foreigners.\n\n11:35. Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were\nracked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better\nresurrection.\n\n11:36. And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of\nbands and prisons.\n\n11:37. They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they\nwere put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in\ngoatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:\n\n11:38. Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in\nmountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.\n\n11:39. And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith,\nreceived not the promise:\n\n11:40. God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be\nperfected without us.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 12\n\nExhortation to constancy under their crosses. The danger of abusing the\ngraces of the New Testament.\n\n12:1. And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over\nour head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us\nrun by patience to the fight proposed to us:\n\n12:2. Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having\njoy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now\nsitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.\n\n12:3. For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from\nsinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your\nminds.\n\n12:4. For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.\n\n12:5. And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as\nunto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord:\nneither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.\n\n12:6. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every\nson whom he receiveth.\n\n12:7. Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his\nsons. For what son is there whom the father doth not correct?\n\n12:8. But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made\npartakers, then are you bastards and not sons.\n\n12:9. Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and\nwe reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits\nand live?\n\n12:10. And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure,\ninstructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his\nsanctification.\n\n12:11. Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring\nwith it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are\nexercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.\n\n12:12. Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble\nknees:\n\n12:13. And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting,\nmay go out of the way; but rather be healed.\n\n12:14. Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man\nshall see God.\n\n12:15. Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God:\nlest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be\ndefiled:\n\n12:16. Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for\none mess sold his first birthright.\n\n12:17. For know ye that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the\nbenediction, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance,\nalthough with tears he had sought it.\n\nHe found, etc.... That is, he found no way to bring his father to\nrepent, or change his mind, with relation to his having given the\nblessing to his younger brother Jacob.\n\n12:18. For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a\nburning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,\n\n12:19. And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which they\nthat heard excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken to\nthem.\n\n12:20. For they did not endure that which was said: and if so much as a\nbeast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned.\n\n12:21. And so terrible was that which was seen, Moses said: I am\nfrighted, and tremble.\n\n12:22. But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living\nGod, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of\nangels,\n\n12:23. And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the\nheavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just\nmade perfect,\n\n12:24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the\nsprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.\n\n12:25. See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped\nnot who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that\nturn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.\n\n12:26. Whose voice then moved the earth; but now he promiseth, saying:\nYet once more: and I will move, not only the earth, but heaven also.\n\n12:27. And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the\ntranslation of the moveable things as made, that those things may\nremain which are immoveable.\n\n12:28. Therefore, receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace:\nwhereby let us serve, pleasing God, with fear and reverence.\n\n12:29. For our God is a consuming fire.\n\n\nHebrews Chapter 13\n\nDivers admonitions and exhortations.\n\n13:1. Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.\n\n13:2. And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware\nof it, have entertained angels.\n\n13:3. Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them:\nand them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.\n\n13:4. Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For\nfornicators and adulterers God will judge.\n\nOr, Let marriage be honourable in all.... That is, in all things\nbelonging to the marriage state. This is a warning to married people,\nnot to abuse the sanctity of their state, by any liberties or\nirregularities contrary thereunto. Now it does not follow from this\ntext that all persons are obliged to marry, even if the word omnibus\nwere rendered, in all persons, instead of in all things: for if it was\na precept, St. Paul himself would have transgressed it, as he never\nmarried. Moreover, those who have already made a vow to God to lead a\nsingle life, should they attempt to marry, they would incur their own\ndamnation. 1 Tim. 5. 12.\n\n13:5. Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such\nthings as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither\nwill I forsake thee.\n\n13:6. So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not\nfear what man shall do to me.\n\n13:7. Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you:\nwhose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,\n\n13:8. Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.\n\n13:9. Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is\nbest that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which\nhave not profited those that walk in them.\n\n13:10. We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the\ntabernacle.\n\n13:11. For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the\nholies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.\n\n13:12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his\nown blood, suffered without the gate.\n\n13:13. Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his\nreproach.\n\nLet us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his\nreproach.... That is, bearing his cross. It is an exhortation to them\nto be willing to suffer with Christ, reproaches, persecutions, and even\ndeath, if they desire to partake of the benefit of his suffering for\nman\u2019s redemption.\n\n13:14. For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to\ncome.\n\n13:15. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to\nGod, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.\n\n13:16. And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such\nsacrifices God\u2019s favour is obtained.\n\n13:17. Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as\nbeing to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with\njoy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.\n\n13:18. Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being\nwilling to behave ourselves well in all things.\n\n13:19. And I beseech you the more to do this, that I may be restored to\nyou the sooner.\n\n13:20. And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the\ngreat pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the\neverlasting testament,\n\n13:21. Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you\nthat which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom\nis glory for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n13:22. And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of\nconsolation. For I have written to you in a few words.\n\n13:23. Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom\n(if he come shortly) I will see you.\n\n13:24. Salute all your prelates and all the saints. The brethren from\nItaly salute you.\n\n13:25. Grace be with you all. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE\n\n\nThis Epistle is called Catholic or Universal, as formerly were also the\ntwo Epistles of St. Peter, the first of St. John and that of St. Jude,\nbecause they were not written to any peculiar people or particular\nperson, but to the faithful in general. It was written by the apostle\nSt. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our\nLord, being his kinsman (for cousins german with the Hebrews were\ncalled brothers). He was the first Bishop of Jerusalem. In this Epistle\nare set forth many precepts appertaining to faith and morals;\nparticularly, that faith without good works will not save a man and\nthat true wisdom is given only from above. In the fifth chapter he\npublishes the sacrament of anointing the sick. It was written a short\ntime before his martyrdom, about twenty-eight years after our Lord\u2019s\nAscension.\n\n\nJames Chapter 1\n\nThe benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God is the author of\nall good, but not of evil. We must be slow to anger and not hearers\nonly, but doers of the word. Of bridling the tongue and of pure\nreligion.\n\n1:1. James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the\ntwelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.\n\n1:2. My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers\ntemptations:\n\nInto divers temptations.... The word temptation, in this epistle, is\nsometimes taken for trials by afflictions or persecutions, as in this\nplace: at other times, it is to be understood, tempting, enticing, or\ndrawing others into sin.\n\n1:3. Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience\n\n1:4. And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and\nentire, failing in nothing.\n\n1:5. But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to\nall men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.\n\n1:6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth\nis like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the\nwind.\n\n1:7. Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing\nof the Lord.\n\n1:8. A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.\n\n1:9. But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:\n\n1:10. And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the\ngrass shall he pass away.\n\n1:11. For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and\nthe flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof\nperished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.\n\n1:12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath\nbeen proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised\nto them that love him.\n\n1:13. Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God.\nFor God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.\n\n1:14. But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn\naway and allured.\n\n1:15. Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.\nBut sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.\n\n1:16. Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.\n\n1:17. Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down\nfrom the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of\nalteration.\n\n1:18. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth,\nthat we might be some beginning of his creature.\n\nSome beginning.... That is, a kind of first fruits of his creatures.\n\n1:19. You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to\nhear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.\n\n1:20. For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.\n\n1:21. Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of\nnaughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to\nsave your souls.\n\n1:22. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your\nown selves.\n\n1:23. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be\ncompared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.\n\n1:24. For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what\nmanner of man he was.\n\n1:25. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath\ncontinued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the\nwork: this man shall be blessed in his deed.\n\n1:26. And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his\ntongue but deceiving his own heart, this man\u2019s religion is vain.\n\n1:27. Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this:\nto visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep\none\u2019s self unspotted from this world.\n\n\nJames Chapter 2\n\nAgainst respect of persons. The danger of transgressing one point of\nthe law. Faith is dead without works.\n\n2:1. My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory,\nwith respect of persons.\n\nWith respect of persons.... The meaning is, that in matters relating to\nfaith, the administering of the sacraments, and other spiritual\nfunctions in God\u2019s church, there should be no respect of persons; but\nthat the souls of the poor should be as much regarded as those of the\nrich. See Deut. 1.17.\n\n2:2. For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden\nring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean\nattire:\n\n2:3. And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel\nand shall say to him: Sit thou here well: but say to the poor man:\nStand thou there, or: Sit under my footstool:\n\n2:4. Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of\nunjust thoughts?\n\n2:5. Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this\nworld, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised\nto them that love him?\n\n2:6. But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you\nby might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats?\n\n2:7. Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?\n\n2:8. If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures:\nThou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.\n\n2:9. But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved\nby the law as transgressors.\n\n2:10. And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point,\nis become guilty of all.\n\nGuilty of all; ... That is, he becomes a transgressor of the law in\nsuch a manner, that the observing of all other points will not avail\nhim to salvation; for he despises the lawgiver, and breaks through the\ngreat and general commandment of charity, even by one mortal sin. For\nall the precepts of the law are to be considered as one total and\nentire law, and as it were a chain of precepts, where, by breaking one\nlink of this chain, the whole chain is broken, or the integrity of the\nlaw consisting of a collection of precepts. A sinner, therefore, by a\ngrievous offence against any one precept, incurs eternal punishment;\nyet the punishment in hell shall be greater for those who have been\ngreater sinners, as a greater reward shall be for those in heaven who\nhave lived with greater sanctity and perfection.\n\n2:11. For he that said: Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou\nshalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill,\nthou art become a transgressor of the law.\n\n2:12. So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of\nliberty.\n\n2:13. For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And\nmercy exalteth itself above judgment.\n\n2:14. What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith,\nbut hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?\n\n2:15. And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:\n\n2:16. And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled;\nyet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what\nshall it profit?\n\n2:17. So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.\n\n2:18. But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me\nthy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.\n\n2:19. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils\nalso believe and tremble.\n\n2:20. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?\n\n2:21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac\nhis son upon the altar?\n\n2:22. Seest thou that faith did cooperate with his works and by works\nfaith was made perfect?\n\n2:23. And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God,\nand it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of\nGod.\n\n2:24. Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith\nonly?\n\n2:25. And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified\nby works, receiving the messengers and sending them out another way?\n\n2:26. For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith\nwithout works is dead.\n\n\nJames Chapter 3\n\nOf the evils of the tongue. Of the difference between the earthly and\nheavenly wisdom.\n\n3:1. Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the\ngreater judgment.\n\n3:2. For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word,\nthe same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about\nthe whole body.\n\n3:3. For if we put bits into the mouths of horses, that they may obey\nus: and we turn about their whole body.\n\n3:4. Behold also ships, whereas they are great and are driven by strong\nwinds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the\nforce of the governor willeth.\n\n3:5. Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great\nthings. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.\n\n3:6. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is\nplaced among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth\nthe wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.\n\n3:7. For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the\nrest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man.\n\n3:8. But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly\npoison.\n\n3:9. By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men who are\nmade after the likeness of God.\n\n3:10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My\nbrethren, these things ought not so to be.\n\n3:11. Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and\nbitter water?\n\n3:12. Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So\nneither can the salt water yield sweet.\n\n3:13. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him\nshew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.\n\n3:14. But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your\nhearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.\n\n3:15. For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly,\nsensual, devilish.\n\n3:16. For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and\nevery evil work.\n\n3:17. But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then\npeaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full\nof mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.\n\n3:18. And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make\npeace.\n\n\nJames Chapter 4\n\nThe evils that flow from yielding to concupiscence and being friends to\nthis world. Admonitions against pride, detraction and the like.\n\n4:1. From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not\nhence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?\n\n4:2. You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You\ncontend and war, and you have not: because you ask not.\n\n4:3. You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may\nconsume it on your concupiscences.\n\n4:4. Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the\nenemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world\nbecometh an enemy of God.\n\n4:5. Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the\nspirit covet which dwelleth in you?\n\n4:6. But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the\nproud and giveth grace to the humble.\n\n4:7. Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly\nfrom you.\n\n4:8. Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your\nhands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.\n\n4:9. Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into\nmourning and your joy into sorrow.\n\n4:10. Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you.\n\n4:11. Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his\nbrother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth\nthe law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but\na judge.\n\n4:12. There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to\ndeliver.\n\n4:13. But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that\nsay: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will\nspend a year and will traffic and make our gain.\n\n4:14. Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.\n\n4:15. For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a\nlittle while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say:\nIf the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that.\n\n4:16. But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is\nwicked.\n\n4:17. To him therefore who knoweth to do good and doth it not, to him\nit is sin.\n\n\nJames Chapter 5\n\nA woe to the rich that oppress the poor. Exhortations to patience and\nto avoid swearing. Of the anointing the sick, confession of sins and\nfervour in prayer.\n\n5:1. Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which\nshall come upon you.\n\n5:2. Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.\n\n5:3. Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be\nfor a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You\nhave stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.\n\n5:4. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields,\nwhich by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them\nhath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.\n\n5:5. You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished\nyour hearts, in the day of slaughter.\n\n5:6. You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted\nyou not.\n\n5:7. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord.\nBehold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth:\npatiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.\n\n5:8. Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the\ncoming of the Lord is at hand.\n\n5:9. Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be\njudged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.\n\n5:10. Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour\nand patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.\n\n5:11. Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard\nof the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the\nLord is merciful and compassionate.\n\n5:12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,\nnor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea,\nYea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment.\n\n5:13. Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him\nsing.\n\n5:14. Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the\nchurch and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name\nof the Lord.\n\nLet him bring in, etc.... See here a plain warrant of scripture for the\nsacrament of extreme unction, that any controversy against its\ninstitution would be against the express words of the sacred text in\nthe plainest terms.\n\n5:15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord\nshall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.\n\n5:16. Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for\nanother, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man\navaileth much.\n\nConfess your sins one to another.... That is, to the priests of the\nchurch, whom (ver.14) he had ordered to be called for, and brought in\nto the sick; moreover, to confess to persons who had no power to\nforgive sins, would be useless. Hence the precept here means, that we\nmust confess to men whom God hath appointed, and who, by their\nordination and jurisdiction, have received the power of remitting sins\nin his name.\n\n5:17. Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed\nthat it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three\nyears and six months.\n\n5:18. And he prayed again. And the heaven gave rain: and the earth\nbrought forth her fruit.\n\n5:19. My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert\nhim:\n\n5:20. He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from\nthe error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a\nmultitude of sins.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE\n\n\nThe first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine\nconcerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to all\npersons of what state or condition soever. The Apostle commands\nsubmission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a\nvirtuous life in imitation, of Christ. This Epistle is written with\nsuch apostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with\nwhich its writer, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his\nLord and Master, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively\nhe calls Babylon, about fifteen years after our Lord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\n1 Peter Chapter 1\n\nHe gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the true\nfaith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by many\ntribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holiness\nof God and our redemption by the blood of Christ.\n\n1:1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed\nthrough Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect,\n\n1:2. According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the\nsanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the\nblood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.\n\n1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who\naccording to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by\nthe resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:\n\n1:4. Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot\nfade, reserved in heaven for you,\n\n1:5. Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready\nto be revealed in the last time.\n\n1:6. Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little\ntime made sorrowful in divers temptations:\n\n1:7. That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which\nis tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at\nthe appearing of Jesus Christ.\n\n1:8. Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see\nhim not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable\nand glorified;\n\n1:9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.\n\n1:10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently\nsearched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.\n\n1:11. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in\nthem did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ\nand the glories that should follow.\n\n1:12. To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they\nministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have\npreached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven,\non whom the angels desire to look.\n\n1:13. Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober,\ntrust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:14. As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former\ndesires of your ignorance,\n\n1:15. But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you\nalso in all manner of conversation holy:\n\n1:16. Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.\n\n1:17. And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons,\njudgeth according to every one\u2019s work: converse in fear during the time\nof your sojourning here.\n\n1:18. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as\ngold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your\nfathers:\n\n1:19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and\nundefiled.\n\n1:20. Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but\nmanifested in the last times for you:\n\n1:21. Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the\ndead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in\nGod.\n\n1:22. Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a\nbrotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:\n\n1:23. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by\nthe word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.\n\n1:24. For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower\nof grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.\n\n1:25. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word\nwhich by the gospel hath been preached unto you.\n\n\n1 Peter Chapter 2\n\nWe are to lay aside all guile and go to Christ the living stone, and,\nas being now his people, walk worthily of him, with submission to\nsuperiors and patience under sufferings.\n\n2:1. Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations\nand envies and all detractions,\n\n2:2. As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that\nthereby you may grow unto salvation:\n\n2:3. If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.\n\n2:4. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but\nchosen and made honourable by God:\n\n2:5. Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy\npriesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by\nJesus Christ.\n\n2:6. Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a\nchief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him\nshall not be confounded.\n\n2:7. To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that\nbelieve not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made\nthe head of the corner:\n\n2:8. And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who\nstumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.\n\n2:9. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy\nnation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath\ncalled you out of darkness into his marvelous light:\n\n2:10. Who in time past were not a people: but are now the people of\nGod. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.\n\n2:11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to\nrefrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,\n\n2:12. Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas\nthey speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which\nthey shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.\n\n2:13. Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God\u2019s sake:\nwhether it be to the king as excelling,\n\n2:14. Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers\nand for the praise of the good.\n\n2:15. For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to\nsilence the ignorance of foolish men:\n\n2:16. As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the\nservants of God.\n\n2:17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.\n\n2:18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to\nthe good and gentle but also to the froward.\n\n2:19. For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man\nendure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.\n\n2:20. For what glory is it, if, committing sin and being buffeted for\nit, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently: this is\nthankworthy before God.\n\n2:21. For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for\nus, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.\n\n2:22. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.\n\n2:23. Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he\nthreatened not, but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.\n\n2:24. Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that\nwe, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you\nwere healed.\n\n2:25. For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to\nthe shepherd and bishop of your souls.\n\n\n1 Peter Chapter 3\n\nHow wives are to behave to their husbands. What ornaments they are to\nseek. Exhortations to divers Virtues.\n\n3:1. In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that,\nif any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the\nconversation of the wives,\n\n3:2. Considering your chaste conversation with fear.\n\n3:3. Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or\nthe wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:\n\n3:4. But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a\nquiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.\n\n3:5. For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted\nin God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:\n\n3:6. As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are,\ndoing well and not fearing any disturbance.\n\n3:7. Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge,\ngiving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the\nco-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.\n\n3:8. And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of\nanother, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:\n\n3:9. Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but\ncontrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may\ninherit a blessing.\n\n3:10. For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his\ntongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.\n\n3:11. Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace\nand pursue it:\n\n3:12. Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto\ntheir prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil\nthings.\n\n3:13. And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?\n\n3:14. But if also you suffer any thing for justice\u2019 sake, blessed are\nye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled.\n\n3:15. But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always\nto satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in\nyou.\n\n3:16. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas\nthey speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your\ngood conversation in Christ.\n\n3:17. For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to\nsuffer than doing ill.\n\n3:18. Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the\nunjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the\nflesh, but enlivened in the spirit,\n\n3:19. In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in\nprison:\n\nSpirits that were in prison.... See here a proof of a third place, or\nmiddle state of souls: for these spirits in prison, to whom Christ went\nto preach, after his death, were not in heaven; nor yet in the hell of\nthe damned: because heaven is no prison: and Christ did not go to\npreach to the damned.\n\n3:20. Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the\npatience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building:\nwherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.\n\n3:21. Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also:\nnot the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of\na good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.\n\nWhereunto baptism, etc.... Baptism is said to be of the like form with\nthe water by which Noe was saved, because the one was a figure of the\nother. Not the putting away, etc.... As much as to say, that baptism\nhas not its efficacy, in order to salvation, from its washing away any\nbodily filth or dirt; but from its purging the conscience from sin,\nwhen accompanied with suitable dispositions in the party, to answer the\ninterrogations made at that time, with relation to faith, the\nrenouncing of Satan with all his works; and the obedience to God\u2019s\ncommandments.\n\n3:22. Who is on the right hand of God, swallowing down death that we\nmight be made heirs of life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the\nangels and powers and virtues being made subject to him.\n\n\n1 Peter Chapter 4\n\nExhortations to cease from sin, to mutual charity, to do all for the\nglory of God, to be willing to suffer for Christ.\n\n4:1. Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed\nwith the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath\nceased from sins:\n\n4:2. That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after\nthe desires of men but according to the will of God.\n\n4:3. For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the\nGentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of\nwine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.\n\n4:4. Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the\nsame confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.\n\n4:5. Who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living\nand the dead.\n\n4:6. For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead: That\nthey might be judged indeed according to men, in the flesh: but may\nlive according to God, in the Spirit.\n\n4:7. But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in\nprayers.\n\n4:8. But before all things have a constant mutual charity among\nyourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.\n\n4:9. Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,\n\n4:10. As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to\nanother: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.\n\n4:11. If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any\nminister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that\nin all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is\nglory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n4:12. Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to\ntry you: as if some new thing happened to you.\n\n4:13. But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that,\nwhen his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding\njoy.\n\n4:14. If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be\nblessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and\nthat which is his Spirit resteth upon you.\n\n4:15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer\nor a coveter of other men\u2019s things.\n\n4:16. But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him\nglorify God in that name.\n\n4:17. For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God.\nAnd if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not\nthe gospel of God?\n\n4:18. And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the\nungodly and the sinner appear?\n\nScarcely.... That is, not without much labour and difficulty; and\nbecause of the dangers which constantly surround, the temptations of\nthe world, of the devil, and of our own corrupt nature.\n\n4:19. Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God\ncommend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.\n\n\n1 Peter Chapter 5\n\nHe exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and\nrecommends to all humility and watchfulness.\n\n5:1. The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech who am myself\nalso an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as also a\npartaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:\n\n5:2. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not\nby constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre\u2019s\nsake but voluntarily:\n\n5:3. Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of\nthe flock from the heart.\n\n5:4. And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a\nnever fading crown of glory.\n\n5:5. In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do\nyou all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud,\nbut to the humble he giveth grace.\n\n5:6. Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may\nexalt you in the time of visitation:\n\n5:7. Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.\n\n5:8. Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring\nlion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.\n\n5:9. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction\nbefalls, your brethren who are in the world.\n\n5:10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal\nglory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself\nperfect you and confirm you and establish you.\n\n5:11. To him be glory and empire, for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n5:12. By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have\nwritten briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace\nof God, wherein you stand.\n\n5:13. The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you,\nsaluteth you. And so doth my son, Mark.\n\n5:14. Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you who are\nin Christ Jesus. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE\n\n\nIn this Epistle St. Peter says (chap. 3.), Behold this second Epistle I\nwrite to you: and before (chap. 1. 14), Being assured that the laying\naway of this my tabernacle is at hand. This shews, that it was written\na very short time before his martyrdom, which was about thirty-five\nyears after our Lord\u2019s Ascension. In this Epistle he admonishes the\nfaithful to be mindful of the great gifts they received from God and to\njoin all other virtues with their faith. He warns them against false\nteachers, by describing their practices and foretelling their\npunishments. He describes the dissolution of this world by fire and the\nday of judgment.\n\n\n2 Peter Chapter 1\n\nHe exhorts them to join all other virtues with their faith, in order to\nsecure their salvation.\n\n1:1. Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that\nhave obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:2. Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God and\nof Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\n1:3. As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and\ngodliness are given us through the knowledge of him who hath called us\nby his own proper glory and virtue.\n\n1:4. By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by\nthese you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the\ncorruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.\n\n1:5. And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And\nin virtue, knowledge:\n\n1:6. And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in\npatience, godliness:\n\n1:7. And in godliness, love of brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood,\ncharity.\n\n1:8. For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to\nbe neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n1:9. For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping,\nhaving forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.\n\n1:10. Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may\nmake sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall\nnot sin at any time.\n\n1:11. For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the\never-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.\n\n1:12. For which cause, I will begin to put you always in remembrance of\nthese things: though indeed you know them and are confirmed in the\npresent truth.\n\n1:13. But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir\nyou up by putting you in remembrance.\n\n1:14. Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at\nhand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.\n\n1:15. And I will endeavour that you frequently have after my decease\nwhereby you may keep a memory of these things.\n\n1:16. For we have not by following artificial fables made known to you\nthe power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ: but we were\neyewitnesses of his greatness.\n\n1:17. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, this voice\ncoming down to him from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in\nwhom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.\n\n1:18. And this voice, we heard brought from heaven, when we were with\nhim in the holy mount.\n\n1:19. And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well\nto attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day\ndawn and the day star arise in your hearts.\n\n1:20. Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made\nby private interpretation.\n\nNo prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation.... This\nshows plainly that the scriptures are not to be expounded by any one\u2019s\nprivate judgment or private spirit, because every part of the holy\nscriptures were written by men inspired by the Holy Ghost, and declared\nas such by the Church; therefore they are not to be interpreted but by\nthe Spirit of God, which he hath left, and promised to remain with his\nChurch to guide her in all truth to the end of the world. Some may tell\nus, that many of our divines interpret the scriptures: they may do so,\nbut they do it always with a submission to the judgment of the Church,\nand not otherwise.\n\n1:21. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the\nholy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.\n\n\n2 Peter Chapter 2\n\nHe warns them against false teachers and foretells their punishment.\n\n2:1. But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there\nshall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition\nand deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift\ndestruction.\n\nSeeds of perdition.... That is, heresies destructive of salvation.\n\n2:2. And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of\ntruth shall be evil spoken of.\n\n2:3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make\nmerchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not:\nand their perdition slumbereth not.\n\n2:4. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them,\ndrawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be\nreserved unto judgment:\n\n2:5. And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth\nperson, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world\nof the ungodly.\n\n2:6. And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites\ninto ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to\nthose that should after act wickedly,\n\n2:7. And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd\nconversation of the wicked:\n\n2:8. For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from\nday to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.\n\n2:9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to\nreserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:\n\n2:10. And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of\nuncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear\nnot to bring in sects, blaspheming.\n\n2:11. Whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, bring not\nagainst themselves a railing judgment.\n\nBring not a railing judgment, etc.... That is, they use no railing, nor\ncursing sentence; not even in their conflicts with the evil angels. See\nSt. Jude, ver. 9.\n\n2:12. But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the\nsnare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not,\nshall perish in their corruption:\n\n2:13. Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure\nthe delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess,\nrioting in their feasts with you:\n\nThe delights of a day: that is, the short delights of this world, in\nwhich they place all their happiness.\n\n2:14. Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not:\nalluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with\ncovetousness: children of malediction.\n\n2:15. Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the\nway of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity,\n\n2:16. But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke,\nwhich, speaking with man\u2019s voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.\n\n2:17. These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with\nwhirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.\n\n2:18. For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires\nof fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as\nconverse in error:\n\n2:19. Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of\ncorruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the\nslave.\n\n2:20. For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the\nknowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled\nin them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than\nthe former.\n\n2:21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of\njustice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy\ncommandment which was delivered to them.\n\n2:22. For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is\nreturned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in\nthe mire.\n\n\n2 Peter Chapter 3\n\nAgainst scoffers denying the second coming of Christ. He declares the\nsudden dissolution of this world and exhorts to holiness of life.\n\n3:1. Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in\nwhich, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:\n\n3:2. That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before\nfrom the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the\nLord and Saviour.\n\n3:3. Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come\ndeceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,\n\n3:4. Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time\nthat the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the\nbeginning of the creation.\n\n3:5. For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were\nbefore, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the\nword of God:\n\n3:6. Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,\nperished.\n\n3:7. But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are\nkept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and\nperdition of the ungodly men.\n\n3:8. But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day\nwith the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.\n\n3:9. The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth\npatiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that\nall should return to penance,\n\n3:10. But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the\nheavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be\nmelted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be\nburnt up.\n\n3:11. Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what\nmanner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?\n\n3:12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord,\nby which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements\nshall melt with the burning heat?\n\n3:13. But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his\npromises, in which justice dwelleth.\n\n3:14. Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent\nthat you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.\n\n3:15. And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our\nmost dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written\nto you:\n\n3:16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in\nwhich are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and\nunstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own\ndestruction.\n\n3:17. You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed,\nlest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own\nsteadfastness.\n\n3:18. But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour\nJesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity,\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\n\n\nThe same vein of divine love and charity towards our neighbour, which\nruns throughout the Gospel written by the beloved disciple and\nEvangelist, St. John, is found also in his Epistles. He confirms the\ntwo principal mysteries of faith: The mystery of the Trinity and the\nmystery of the incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God. The\nsublimity and excellence of the evangelical doctrine he declares: And\nthis commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also\nhis brother (chap. 4,21). And again: For this is the charity of God,\nthat we keep his commandments, and: His commandments are not heavy\n(chap. 5,3). He shews how to distinguish the children of God from those\nof the devil: marks out those who should be called Antichrists:\ndescribes the turpitude and gravity of sin. Finally, he shews how the\nsinner may hope for pardon. It was written, according to Baronius\u2019\naccount, sixty-six years after our Lord\u2019s Ascension.\n\n\n1 John Chapter 1\n\nHe declares what he has seen and heard of Christ who is the life\neternal, to the end that we may have fellowship with God and all good\nthrough him. Yet so if we confess our sins.\n\n1:1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we\nhave seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have\nhandled, of the word of life.\n\n1:2. For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness\nand declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and\nhath appeared to us.\n\n1:3. That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you: that\nyou also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship may be with the\nFather and with his Son Jesus Christ.\n\n1:4. And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice and your\njoy may be full.\n\n1:5. And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and\ndeclare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.\n\n1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness,\nwe lie and do not the truth.\n\n1:7. But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have\nfellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son\ncleanseth us from all sin.\n\n1:8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth\nis not in us.\n\n1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our\nsins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.\n\n1:10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his\nword is not in us.\n\n\n1 John Chapter 2\n\nChrist is our advocate. We must keep his commandments and love one\nanother. We must not love the world nor give ear to new teachers, but\nabide by the spirit of God in the church.\n\n2:1. My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not\nsin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus\nChrist the just.\n\n2:2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,\nbut also for those of the whole world.\n\n2:3. And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his\ncommandments.\n\nWe have known him, if we keep his commandments.... He speaks of that\npractical knowledge by love and affection, which can only be proved by\nour keeping his commandments; and without which we can not be said to\nknow God as we should do.\n\n2:4. He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments\nis a liar: and the truth is not in him.\n\n2:5. But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of\nGod is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him.\n\n2:6. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as\nhe walked.\n\n2:7. Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old\ncommandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is\nthe word which you have heard.\n\n2:8. Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both\nin him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light\nnow shineth.\n\nA new commandment.... Viz., the commandment of love, which was first\ngiven in the old law; but was renewed and extended by Christ. See John\n13.34.\n\n2:9. He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in\ndarkness even until now.\n\n2:10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no\nscandal in him.\n\n2:11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in\ndarkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath\nblinded his eyes.\n\n2:12. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven\nyou for his name\u2019s sake.\n\n2:13. I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from\nthe beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome\nthe wicked one.\n\n2:14. I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I\nwrite unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God\nabideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.\n\n2:15. Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any\nman love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.\n\n2:16. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh\nand the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not\nof the Father but is of the world.\n\n2:17. And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he\nthat doth the will of God abideth for ever.\n\n2:18. Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that\nAntichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby\nwe know that it is the last hour.\n\nIt is the last hour.... That is, it is the last age of the world. Many\nAntichrists; ... that is, many heretics, enemies of Christ and his\nchurch, and forerunners of the great Antichrist.\n\n2:19. They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had\nbeen of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they\nmay be manifest, that they are not all of us.\n\nThey were not of us.... That is, they were not solid, steadfast,\ngenuine Christians: otherwise they would have remained in the church.\n\n2:20. But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.\n\nThe unction from the Holy One.... That is, grace and wisdom from the\nHoly Ghost. Know all things.... The true children of God\u2019s church,\nremaining in unity, under the guidance of their lawful pastors, partake\nof the grace of the Holy Ghost, promised to the church and her pastors;\nand have in the church all necessary knowledge and instruction; so as\nto have no need to seek it elsewhere, since it can be only found in\nthat society of which they are members.\n\n2:21. I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but\nas to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth.\n\n2:22. Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This\nis Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.\n\n2:23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that\nconfesseth the Son hath the Father also.\n\n2:24. As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning\nabide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the\nbeginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.\n\n2:25. And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life\neverlasting.\n\n2:26. These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce\nyou.\n\n2:27. And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him\nabide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his\nunction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as\nit hath taught you, abide in him.\n\nYou have no need, etc.... You want not to be taught by any of these\nmen, who, under pretence of imparting more knowledge to you, seek to\nseduce you (ver. 26), since you are sufficiently taught already, and\nhave all knowledge and grace in the church, with the unction of the\nHoly Ghost; which these new teachers have no share in.\n\n2:28. And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear\nwe may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.\n\n2:29. If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who\ndoth justice is born of him.\n\n\n1 John Chapter 3\n\nOf the love of God to us. How we may distinguish the children of God\nand those of the devil. Of loving one another and of purity of\nconscience.\n\n3:1. Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us,\nthat we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the\nworld knoweth not us, because it knew not him.\n\n3:2. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet\nappeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall\nbe like to him: because we shall see him as he is.\n\n3:3. And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as\nhe also is holy.\n\n3:4. Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is\niniquity.\n\nIniquity.... transgression of the law.\n\n3:5. And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him\nthere is no sin.\n\n3:6. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath\nnot seen him nor known him.\n\nSinneth not.... viz., mortally. See chap. 1.8.\n\n3:7. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is\njust, even as he is just.\n\n3:8. He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from\nthe beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might\ndestroy the works of the devil.\n\n3:9. Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth\nin him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.\n\nCommitteth not sin.... That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this\nseed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God.\nBut then he may fall from this happy state, by the abuse of his free\nwill, as appears from Rom. 11.20-22; Cor. 9.27; and 10.12; Phil. 2.12;\nApoc. 3.11.\n\n3:10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the\ndevil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, nor he that loveth not his\nbrother.\n\n3:11. For this is the declaration which you have heard from the\nbeginning, that you should love one another.\n\n3:12. Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother.\nAnd wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and\nhis brother\u2019s just.\n\n3:13. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.\n\n3:14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love\nthe brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.\n\n3:15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no\nmurderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.\n\n3:16. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid\ndown his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the\nbrethren.\n\n3:17. He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his\nbrother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the\ncharity of God abide in him?\n\n3:18. My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in\ndeed and in truth.\n\n3:19. In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall\npersuade our hearts.\n\n3:20. For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and\nknoweth all things.\n\n3:21. Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have\nconfidence towards God.\n\n3:22. And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we\nkeep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his\nsight.\n\n3:23. And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name\nof his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given\ncommandment unto us.\n\n3:24. And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in\nhim. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he\nhath given us.\n\n\n1 John Chapter 4\n\nWhat spirits are of God, and what are not. We must love one another,\nbecause God has loved us.\n\n4:1. Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if\nthey be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the\nworld.\n\nTry the spirits.... Viz., by examining whether their teaching be\nagreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the\nchurch. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth God, heareth us [the\npastors of the church]. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the\nspirit of error.\n\n4:2. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth\nthat Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:\n\nEvery spirit which confesseth, etc.... Not that the confession of this\npoint of faith alone, is, at all times, and in all cases, sufficient;\nbut that with relation to that time, and for that part of the Christian\ndoctrine, which was then particularly to be confessed, taught, and\nmaintained against the heretics of those days, this was the most proper\ntoken, by which the true teachers might be distinguished form the\nfalse.\n\n4:3. And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is\nAntichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now\nalready in the world.\n\nThat dissolveth Jesus.... Viz., either by denying his humanity, or his\ndivinity. He is now already in the world.... Not in his person, but in\nhis spirit, and in his precursors.\n\n4:4. You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because\ngreater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.\n\n4:5. They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the\nworld heareth them.\n\n4:6. We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of\nGod heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit\nof error.\n\n4:7. Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God.\nAnd every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.\n\n4:8. He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.\n\n4:9. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God\nhath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by\nhim.\n\n4:10. In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because\nhe hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our\nsins.\n\n4:11. My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one\nanother.\n\n4:12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God\nabideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.\n\n4:13. In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he\nhath given us of his spirit.\n\n4:14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son\nto be the Saviour of the world.\n\n4:15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth\nin him, and he in God.\n\n4:16. And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to\nus. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and\nGod in him.\n\n4:17. In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have\nconfidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in\nthis world.\n\n4:18. Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear,\nbecause fear hath pain. And he that feareth is not perfected in\ncharity.\n\nFear is not in charity, etc.... Perfect charity, or love, banisheth\nhuman fear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear,\nwhich makes men mistrust or despair of God\u2019s mercy; and that kind of\nservile fear, which makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the\noffence offered to God. But it no way excludes the wholesome fear of\nGod\u2019s judgments, so often recomended in holy writ; nor that fear and\ntrembling, with which we are told to work out our salvation. Phil.\n2.12.\n\n4:19. Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us.\n\n4:20. If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar.\nFor he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God\nwhom he seeth not?\n\n4:21. And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God\nlove also his brother.\n\n\n1 John Chapter 5\n\nOf them that are born of God, and of true charity. Faith overcomes the\nworld. Three that bear witness to Christ. Of faith in his name and of\nsin that is and is not to death.\n\n5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And\nevery one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of\nhim.\n\nIs born of God.... That is, is justified, and become a child of God by\nbaptism: which is also to be understood; provided the belief of this\nfundamental article of the Christian faith be accompanied with all the\nother conditions, which, by the word of God, and his appointment, are\nalso required to justification; such as a general belief of all that\nGod has revealed and promised: hope, love, repentance, and a sincere\ndisposition to keep God\u2019s holy law and commandments.\n\n5:2. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God\nand keep his commandments.\n\n5:3. For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And\nhis commandments are not heavy.\n\n5:4. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is\nthe victory which overcometh the world: Our faith.\n\nOur faith.... Not a bare, speculative, or dead faith; but a faith that\nworketh by charity. Gal. 5.6\n\n5:5. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that\nJesus is the Son of God?\n\n5:6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by\nwater only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which\ntestifieth that Christ is the truth.\n\nCame by water and blood.... Not only to wash away our sins by the water\nof baptism, but by his own blood.\n\n5:7. And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the\nWord, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.\n\n5:8. And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and\nthe water and the blood. And these three are one.\n\nThe spirit, and the water, and the blood.... As the Father, the Word,\nand the Holy Ghost, all bear witness to Christ\u2019s divinity; so the\nspirit, which he yielded up, crying out with a loud voice upon the\ncross; and the water and blood that issued from his side, bear witness\nto his humanity, and are one; that is, all agree in one testimony.\n\n5:9. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is\ngreater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he\nhath testified of his Son.\n\n5:10. He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in\nhimself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he\nbelieveth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.\n\nHe that believeth not the Son, etc.... By refusing to believe the\ntestimonies given by the three divine persons, that Jesus was the\nMessias, and the true Son of God, by whom eternal life is obtained and\npromised to all that comply with his doctrine. In him we have also this\nlively confidence, that we shall obtain whatever we ask, according to\nhis will, when we ask what is for our good, with perseverance, and in\nthe manner we ought. And this we know, and have experience of, by\nhaving obtained the petitions that we have made.\n\n5:11. And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life.\nAnd this life is in his Son.\n\n5:12. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not\nlife.\n\n5:13. These things I write to you that you may know that you have\neternal life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.\n\n5:14. And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That,\nwhatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.\n\n5:15. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we\nhave the petitions which we request of him.\n\n5:16. He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death,\nlet him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death.\nThere is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.\n\nA sin which is not to death, etc.... It is hard to determine what St.\nJohn here calls a sin which is not to death, and a sin which is unto\ndeath. The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are\ncalled venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his\nbrother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given\nhim: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been\nguilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin. And when he speaks of a\nsin that is unto death, and adds these words, for that I say not that\nany man ask, it cannot be supposed that St. John would say this of\nevery mortal sin, but only of some heinous sins, which are very seldom\nremitted, because such sinners very seldom repent. By a sin therefore\nwhich is unto death, interpreters commonly understand a wilfull\napostasy from the faith, and from the known truth, when a sinner,\nhardened by his own ingratitude, becomes deaf to all admonitions, will\ndo nothing for himself, but runs on to a final impenitence. Nor yet\ndoes St. John say, that such a sin is never remitted, or cannot be\nremitted, but only has these words, for that I say not that any man ask\nthe remission: that is, though we must pray for all sinners\nwhatsoever, yet men can not pray for such sinners with such a\nconfidence of obtaining always their petitions, as St. John said\nbefore, ver. 14. Whatever exposition we follow on this verse, our faith\nteacheth us from the holy scriptures, that God desires not the death of\nany sinner, but that he be converted and live, Ezech. 33.11. Though\nmen\u2019s sins be as red as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow,\nIsa. 3.18. It is the will of God that every one come to the knowledge\nof the truth, and be saved. There is no sin so great but which God is\nwilling to forgive, and has left a power in his church to remit the\nmost enormous sins: so that no sinner need despair of pardon, nor will\nany sinner perish, but by his own fault. A sin unto death.... Some\nunderstand this of final impenitence, or of dying in mortal sin; which\nis the only sin that never can be remitted. But, it is probable, he may\nalso comprise under this name, the sin of apostasy from the faith, and\nsome other such heinous sins as are seldom and hardly remitted: and\ntherefore he gives little encouragement, to such as pray for these\nsinners, to expect what they ask.\n\n5:17. All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.\n\n5:18. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the\ngeneration of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.\n\n5:19. We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in\nwickedness.\n\nAnd the whole world is seated in wickedness.... That is, a great part\nof the world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one, meaning the\ndevil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, that is, of\nall the wicked. John 12.31.\n\n5:20. And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us\nunderstanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son.\nThis is the true God and life eternal.\n\nAnd may be in his true Son. He is, or this is the true God, and life\neternal.... Which words are a clear proof of Christ\u2019s divinity, and as\nsuch made use of by the ancient fathers.\n\n5:21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.\n\nKeep yourselves from idols.... An admonition to the newly converted\nChristians, lest conversing with heathens and idolaters, they might\nfall back into the sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto death\nhere mentioned by St. John.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\n\n\nThe Apostle commends Electa and her family for their steadfastness in\nthe true faith and exhorts them to persevere, lest they lose the reward\nof their labours. He exhorts them to love one another. But with\nheretics to have no society, even not to salute them. Although this\nEpistle is written to a particular person, yet its instructions may\nserve as a lesson to others, especially to those who, from their\nconnections, situation, or condition in life, are in danger of\nperversion.\n\n\n2 John Chapter 1\n\nHe recommends walking in truth, loving one another and to beware of\nfalse teachers.\n\n1:1. The Ancient to the lady Elect and her children, whom I love in the\ntruth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth,\n\nThe ancient.... That is, the ancient bishop St. John, being the only\none of the twelve apostles then living. To the lady Elect.... Some\nconjecture that Electa might be the name of a family, or of a\nparticular church; but the general opinion is, that it is the proper\nname of a lady, so eminent for her piety and great charity, as to merit\nthis Epistle from St. John.\n\n1:2. For the sake of the truth which dwelleth in us and shall be with\nus for ever.\n\n1:3. Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father and from\nChrist Jesus the Son of the Father: in truth and charity.\n\n1:4. I was exceeding glad that I found of thy children walking in\ntruth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.\n\n1:5. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to\nthee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one\nanother.\n\n1:6. And this is charity: That we walk according to his commandments.\nFor this is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning,\nyou should walk in the same:\n\n1:7. For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that\nJesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a seducer and an antichrist.\n\n1:8. Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have\nwrought: but that you may receive a full reward.\n\n1:9. Whosoever revolteth and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ\nhath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both\nthe Father and the Son.\n\n1:10. If any man come to you and bring not this doctrine, receive him\nnot into the house nor say to him: God speed you.\n\nNor say to him, God speed you.... This admonition is in general, to\nforewarn the faithful of the dangers which may arise from a familiarity\nwith those who have prevaricated and gone from the true faith, and with\nsuch as teach false doctrine. But this is not forbidding a charity for\nall men, by which we ought to wish and pray for the eternal salvation\nof every one, even of our enemies.\n\n1:11. For he that saith unto him: God speed you, communicateth with his\nwicked works.\n\n1:12. Having more things to write unto you, I would not by paper and\nink: for I hope that I shall be with you and speak face to face, that\nyour joy may be full.\n\n1:13. The children of thy sister Elect salute thee.\n\n\n\n\nTHE THIRD EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\n\n\nSt. John praises Gaius for his walking in truth and for his charity,\ncomplains of the bad conduct of Diotrephes and gives a good testimony\nto Demetrius.\n\n\n3 John Chapter 1\n\n1:1. The Ancient, to the dearly beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.\n\n1:2. Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make it my prayer that\nthou mayest proceed prosperously and fare well, as thy soul doth\nprosperously.\n\n1:3. I was exceedingly glad when the brethren came and gave testimony\nto the truth in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.\n\n1:4. I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk\nin truth.\n\nNo greater grace.... that is nothing that gives me greater joy and\nsatisfaction.\n\n1:5. Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatever thou dost for the\nbrethren: and that for strangers,\n\n1:6. Who have given testimony to thy charity in the sight of the\nchurch. Whom thou shalt do well to bring forward on their way in a\nmanner worthy of God:\n\n1:7. Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the\nGentiles.\n\nTaking nothing of the Gentiles.... These ministers of the gospel are\ncommended by St. John, who took nothing from the Gentiles, lest they\nshould seem to preach in order to get money by it.\n\n1:8. We therefore ought to receive such: that we may be fellow helpers\nof the truth.\n\n1:9. I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to\nhave the preeminence among them, doth not receive us.\n\n1:10. For this cause, if I come, I will advertise his works which he\ndoth, with malicious words prating against us. And as if these things\nwere not enough for him, neither doth he himself receive the brethren,\nand them that do receive them he forbiddeth, and casteth out of the\nchurch.\n\nDiotrephes who loveth.... This man seemeth to be in power, but not a\nfriend to the faithful; therefore this part of the letter might be an\nadmonition to him from the apostle.\n\n1:11. Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is\ngood. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.\n\n1:12. To Demetrius, testimony is given by all, and by the truth itself:\nyea and we also give testimony. And thou knowest that our testimony is\ntrue.\n\n1:13. I had many things to write unto thee: but I would not by ink and\npen write to thee.\n\n1:14. But I hope speedily to see thee: and we will speak mouth to\nmouth. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Salute the friends by\nname.\n\n\n\n\nTHE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JUDE\n\n\nSt. Jude, who wrote this Epistle, was one of the twelve Apostles and\nbrother to St. James the Less. The time it was written is uncertain:\nonly it may be inferred from verse 17 that few or none of the Apostles\nwere then living, except St. John. He inveighs against the heresies and\nwicked practices of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics, etc.,\ndescribing them and their leaders by strong epithets and similes, He\nexhorts the faithful to contend earnestly for the faith first delivered\nto them and to beware of heretics.\n\n\nJude Chapter 1\n\nHe exhorts them to stand to the faith first delivered to them and to\nbeware of heretics.\n\n1:1. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them\nthat are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and\ncalled.\n\n1:2. Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled.\n\n1:3. Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your\ncommon salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech\nyou to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.\n\n1:4. For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long\nago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God\ninto riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n1:5. I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things,\nthat Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did\nafterwards destroy them that believed not.\n\n1:6. And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their\nown habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains,\nunto the judgment of the great day.\n\nPrincipality.... That is, the state in which they were first created,\ntheir original dignity.\n\n1:7. As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner,\nhaving given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh,\nwere made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.\n\n1:8. In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise\ndominion and blaspheme majesty.\n\nBlaspheme majesty.... Speak evil of them that are in dignity; and even\nutter blasphemies against the divine majesty.\n\n1:9. When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended\nabout the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of\nrailing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.\n\nContended about the body, etc.... This contention, which is no where\nelse mentioned in holy writ, was originally known by revelation, and\ntransmitted by tradition. It is thought the occasion of it was, that\nthe devil would have had the body buried in such a place and manner, as\nto be worshipped by the Jews with divine honours. Command thee.... or\nrebuke thee.\n\n1:10. But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what\nthings soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are\ncorrupted.\n\n1:11. Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after\nthe error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have\nperished in the contradiction of Core.\n\nGone in the way, etc.... Heretics follow the way of Cain, by murdering\nthe souls of their brethren; the way of Balaam, by putting a scandal\nbefore the people of God, for their own private ends; and the way of\nCore or Korah, by their opposition to the church governors of divine\nappointment.\n\n1:12. These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without\nfear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about\nby winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by\nthe roots:\n\n1:13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion:\nwandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.\n\n1:14. Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied,\nsaying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:\n\nProphesied.... This prophecy was either known by tradition, or from\nsome book that is since lost.\n\n1:15. To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for\nall the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and\nfor all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.\n\n1:16. These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to\ntheir own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring\npersons, for gain\u2019s sake.\n\n1:17. But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have\nbeen spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:\n\nBut you, my dearly beloved, be mindful, etc.... He now exhorts the\nfaithful to remain steadfast in the belief and practice of what they\nhad heard from the apostles, who had also foretold that in aftertimes\n(lit. in the last time) there should be false teachers, scoffing and\nridiculing all revealed truths, abandoning themselves to their passions\nand lusts; who separate themselves from the Catholic communion by\nheresies and schisms. Sensual men.... carried away and enslaved by the\npleasures of the senses.\n\n1:18. Who told you that in the last time there should come mockers,\nwalking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses.\n\n1:19. These are they who separate themselves, sensual men, having not\nthe Spirit.\n\n1:20. But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy\nfaith, praying in the Holy Ghost,\n\n1:21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our\nLord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.\n\nBuilding yourselves upon your most holy faith.... Raising by your\nactions, a spiritual building, founded, 1st, upon faith; 2d, on the\nlove of God; 3d, upon hope, whilst you are waiting for the mercies of\nGod, and the reward of eternal life; 4th, joined with the great duty of\nprayer.\n\n1:22. And some indeed reprove, being judged:\n\n1:23. But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have\nmercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.\n\nAnd some indeed reprove being judged.... He gives them another\ninstruction to practice charity in endeavouring to convert their\nneighbour, where they will meet with three sorts of persons: 1st, With\npersons obstinate in their errors and sins; these may be said to be\nalready judged and condemned; they are to be sharply reprehended,\nreproved, and if possible convinced of their error. 2d, As to others\nyou must endeavour to save them, by pulling them, as it were, out of\nthe fire, from the ruin they stand in great danger of. 3d, You must\nhave mercy on others in fear, when you see them through ignorance of\nfrailty, in danger of being drawn into the snares of these heretics;\nwith these you must deal more gently and mildly, with a charitable\ncompassion, hating always, and teaching others to hate the carnal\ngarment which is spotted, their sensual and corrupt manners, that\ndefile both the soul and body.\n\n1:24. Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present\nyou spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in\nthe coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:\n\n1:25. To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be\nglory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and\nfor all ages of ages. Amen.\n\nNow to him, etc.... St. Jude concludes his epistle with this doxology\nof praising God, and praying to the only God our Saviour, which may\neither signify God the Father, or God as equally agreeing to all the\nthree persons, who are equally the cause of Christ\u2019s incarnation, and\nman\u2019s salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who, being God from\neternity, took upon him our human nature, that he might become our\nRedeemer.\n\n\n\n\nTHE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\n\n\nIn the first, second, and third chapters of this Book are contained\ninstructions and admonitions which St. John was commanded to write to\nthe seven bishops of the churches in Asia. And in the following\nchapters, to the end, are contained prophecies of things that are to\ncome to pass in the Church of Christ, particularly towards the end of\nthe world, in the time of Antichrist. It was written in Greek, in the\nisland of Patmos, where St. John was in banishment by order of the\ncruel emperor Domitian, about sixty-four years after our Lord\u2019s\nAscension.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 1\n\nSt. John is ordered to write to the seven churches in Asia. The manner\nof Christ\u2019s appearing to him.\n\n1:1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make\nknown to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass: and\nsignified, sending by his angel to his servant John,\n\nThe things which must shortly come; ... and again it is said, ver. 3,\nThe time is at hand.... This can not be meant of all the things\nprophesied in the Apocalypse, where mention is made also of the day of\njudgment, and of the glory of heaven at the end of the world. That some\nthings were to come to pass shortly, is evident, by what is said to the\nSeven Churches, chap. 2 and 3, Or that the persecutions foretold should\nbegin shortly. Or that these words signified, that all time is short,\nand that from the coming of Christ, we are now in the last age or last\nhour. See 1 John 2.18.\n\n1:2. Who hath given testimony to the word of God and the testimony of\nJesus Christ, what things soever he hath seen.\n\n1:3. Blessed is he that readeth and heareth the words of this prophecy:\nand keepeth those things which are written in it. For the time is at\nhand.\n\n1:4. John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace be unto you\nand peace, from him that is and that was and that is to come: and from\nthe seven spirits which are before his throne:\n\n1:5. And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first\nbegotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath\nloved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,\n\n1:6. And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father. To\nhim be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n1:7. Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him:\nand they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall\nbewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen.\n\n1:8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord\nGod, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.\n\nI am Alpha and Omega.... These are the names of the first and last\nletters of the Greek alphabet, and signify the same as what follows:\nThe beginning and the end: the first cause and last end of all beings:\nwho is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.... These words\nsignify the true God only, and are here applied to our Lord and Saviour\nJesus Christ, who is to come again to judge the living and the dead.\n\n1:9. I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation and in the\nkingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island which is called\nPatmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus.\n\n1:10. I was in the spirit on the Lord\u2019s day and heard behind me a great\nvoice, as of a trumpet,\n\n1:11. Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven\nchurches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus\nand to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.\n\n1:12. And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being\nturned, I saw seven golden candlesticks:\n\n1:13. And in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, one like to\nthe Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt about\nthe paps with a golden girdle.\n\n1:14. And his head and his hairs were white as white wool and as snow.\nAnd his eyes were as a flame of fire:\n\n1:15. And his feet like unto fine brass, as in a burning furnace. And\nhis voice as the sound of many waters.\n\n1:16. And he had in his right hand seven stars. And from his mouth came\nout a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was as the sun shineth in his\npower.\n\n1:17. And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid\nhis right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last,\n\n1:18. And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever\nand have the keys of death and of hell.\n\n1:19. Write therefore the things which thou hast seen: and which are:\nand which must be done hereafter.\n\n1:20. The mystery of the seven stars, which thou sawest in my right\nhand and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels\nof the seven churches. And the seven candlesticks are the seven\nchurches.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 2\n\nDirections what to write to the angels or bishops of Ephesus, Smyrna,\nPergamus and Thyatira.\n\n2:1. Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith\nhe who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the\nmidst of the seven golden candlesticks:\n\n2:2. I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou\ncanst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say\nthey are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars:\n\n2:3. And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not\nfainted.\n\n2:4. But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first\ncharity.\n\n2:5. Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance\nand do the first works. Or else I come to thee and will move thy\ncandlestick out of its place, except thou do penance.\n\n2:6. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites,\nwhich I also hate.\n\n2:7. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life\nwhich is in the paradise of my God.\n\n2:8. And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith\nthe First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:\n\n2:9. I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And\nthou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are\nthe synagogue of Satan.\n\n2:10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the\ndevil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you\nshall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I\nwill give thee the crown of life.\n\n2:11. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches: He that shall overcome shall not be hurt by the second death.\n\n2:12. And to the angel of the church of Pergamus write: These things\nsaith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:\n\n2:13. I know where thou dwellest, where the seat of Satan is. And thou\nholdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith. Even in those days\nwhen Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where\nSatan dwelleth.\n\n2:14. But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there\nthem that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a\nstumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit\nfornication.\n\n2:15. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaites.\n\n2:16. In like manner do penance. If not, I will come to thee quickly\nand will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.\n\n2:17. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches: To him that overcometh I will give the hidden manna and will\ngive him a white counter: and in the counter, a new name written, which\nno man knoweth but he that receiveth it.\n\n2:18. And to the angel of the church of Thyatira write: These things\nsaith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like to a flame of fire and his\nfeet like to fine brass.\n\n2:19. I know thy works and thy faith and thy charity and thy ministry\nand thy patience and thy last works, which are more than the former.\n\n2:20. But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the\nwoman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce\nmy servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to\nidols.\n\n2:21. And I gave her a time that she might do penance: and she will not\nrepent of her fornication.\n\n2:22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed: and they that commit adultery\nwith her shall be in very great tribulation, except they do penance\nfrom their deeds,\n\n2:23. And I will kill her children with death: and all the churches\nshall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts. And I will\ngive to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say,\n\n2:24. And to the rest who are at Thyatira: Whosoever have not this\ndoctrine and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say: I\nwill not put upon you any other burthen.\n\n2:25. Yet that which you have, hold fast till I come.\n\n2:26. And he that shall overcome and keep my works unto the end, I will\ngive him power over the nations.\n\nPower over the nations.... This shews, that the saints, who are with\nChrist our Lord in heaven, receive power from him to preside over\nnations and provinces, as patrons; and shall come with him at the end\nof the world to execute his will against those who have not kept his\ncommandments.\n\n2:27. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and as the vessel of a\npotter they shall be broken:\n\n2:28. As I also have received of my Father. And I will give him the\nmorning star.\n\n2:29. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 3\n\nDirections what to write to Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.\n\n3:1. And to the angel of the church of Sardis write: These things saith\nhe that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know thy\nworks, that thou hast the name of being alive. And thou art dead.\n\n3:2. Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready\nto die. For I find not thy works full before my God.\n\n3:3. Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and\nheard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will\ncome to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will\ncome to thee.\n\n3:4. But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their\ngarments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are\nworthy.\n\n3:5. He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments:\nand I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will\nconfess his name before my Father and before his angels.\n\n3:6. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches.\n\n3:7. And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things\nsaith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he\nthat openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:\n\n3:8. I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened,\nwhich no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength and hast\nkept my word and hast not denied my name.\n\n3:9. Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are\nJews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and\nadore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.\n\n3:10. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep\nthee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world\nto try them that dwell upon the earth.\n\n3:11. Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no\nman take thy crown.\n\n3:12. He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of\nmy God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name\nof my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which\ncometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.\n\n3:13. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches.\n\n3:14. And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write: These things\nsaith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of\nthe creation of God:\n\nThe Amen, ... that is, the true one, the Truth itself; the Word and Son\nof God. The beginning ... that is, the principle, the source, and the\nefficient cause of the whole creation.\n\n3:15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would\nthou wert cold or hot.\n\n3:16. But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will\nbegin to vomit thee out of my mouth.\n\n3:17. Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of\nnothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor\nand blind and naked.\n\n3:18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be\nmade rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame\nof thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve,\nthat thou mayest see.\n\n3:19. Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and\ndo penance.\n\n3:20. Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my\nvoice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with\nhim: and he with me.\n\n3:21. To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with me in my\nthrone: as I also have overcome and am set down with my Father in his\nthrone.\n\n3:22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the\nchurches.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 4\n\nThe vision of the throne of God, the twenty-four ancients and the four\nliving creatures.\n\n4:1. After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in\nheaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a trumpet\nspeaking with me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things\nwhich must be done hereafter.\n\n4:2. And immediately I was in the spirit. And behold, there was a\nthrone set in heaven, and upon the throne one sitting.\n\n4:3. And he that sat was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine\nstone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like\nunto an emerald.\n\n4:4. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon\nthe seats, four and twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments.\nAnd on their heads were crowns of gold.\n\n4:5. And from the throne proceeded lightnings and voices and thunders.\nAnd there were seven lamps burning before the throne, which are the\nseven spirits of God.\n\n4:6. And in the sight of the throne was, as it were, a sea of glass\nlike to crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the\nthrone, were four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind.\n\n4:7. And the first living creature was like a lion: and the second\nliving creature like a calf: and the third living creature, having the\nface, as it were, of a man: and the fourth living creature was like an\neagle flying.\n\n4:8. And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and\nround about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day\nand night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who\nis and who is to come.\n\n4:9. And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and\nbenediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and\never:\n\n4:10. The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on\nthe throne and adored him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their\ncrowns before the throne, saying:\n\n4:11. Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and\npower. Because thou hast created all things: and for thy will they were\nand have been created.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 5\n\nThe book sealed with seven seals is opened by the Lamb, who thereupon\nreceives adoration and praise from all.\n\n5:1. And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a\nbook, written within and without, sealed with seven seals.\n\n5:2. And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is\nworthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?\n\n5:3. And no man was able, neither in heaven nor on earth nor under the\nearth, to open the book, nor to look on it.\n\n5:4. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book,\nnor to see it.\n\n5:5. And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not: behold the lion of\nthe tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book\nand to loose the seven seals thereof.\n\n5:6. And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four\nliving creatures and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing, as\nit were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven\nSpirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.\n\n5:7. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that\nsat on the throne.\n\n5:8. And when he had opened the book, the four living creatures and the\nfour and twenty ancients fell down before the Lamb, having every one of\nthem harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of\nsaints.\n\nThe prayers of saints.... Here we see that the saints in heaven offer\nup to Christ the prayers of the faithful upon earth.\n\n5:9. And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to\ntake the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain\nand hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and\ntongue and people and nation:\n\n5:10. And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall\nreign on the earth.\n\n5:11. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about\nthe throne and the living creatures and the ancients (and the number of\nthem was thousands of thousands),\n\n5:12. Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain is worthy to\nreceive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honour and glory\nand benediction.\n\n5:13. And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under\nthe earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I\nheard all saying: To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb,\nbenediction and honour and glory and power, for ever and ever.\n\n5:14. And the four living creatures said: Amen. And the four and twenty\nancients fell down on their faces and adored him that liveth for ever\nand ever.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 6\n\nWhat followed upon opening six of the seals.\n\n6:1. And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals: and I\nheard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of\nthunder, saying: Come and see.\n\n6:2. And I saw: and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a\nbow, and there was a crown given him, and he went forth conquering that\nhe might conquer.\n\nWhite horse.... He that sitteth on the white horse is Christ, going\nforth to subdue the world by his gospel. The other horses that follow\nrepresent the judgments and punishment that were to fall on the enemies\nof Christ and his church. The red horse signifies war; the black horse,\nfamine; and the pale horse (which has Death for its rider), plagues or\npestilence.\n\n6:3. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living\ncreature saying: Come and see.\n\n6:4. And there went out another horse that was red. And to him that sat\nthereon, it was given that he should take peace from the earth: and\nthat they should kill one another. And a great sword was given to him.\n\n6:5. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living\ncreature saying: Come and see. And behold a black horse. And he that\nsat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.\n\n6:6. And I heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living\ncreatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two\npounds of barley for a penny: and see thou hurt not the wine and the\noil.\n\n6:7. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the\nfourth living creature saying: Come and see.\n\n6:8. And behold a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was\nDeath. And hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four\nparts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine and with death and\nwith the beasts of the earth.\n\n6:9. And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the\nsouls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony\nwhich they held.\n\nUnder the altar.... Christ, as man, is this altar, under which the\nsouls of the martyrs live in heaven, as their bodies are here deposited\nunder our altars.\n\n6:10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy\nand True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell\non the earth?\n\nRevenge our blood.... They ask not this out of hatred to their enemies,\nbut out of zeal for the glory of God, and a desire that the Lord would\naccelerate the general judgment, and the complete beatitude of all his\nelect.\n\n6:11. And white robes were given to every one of them one; And it was\nsaid to them that they should rest for a little time till their fellow\nservants and their brethren, who are to be slain even as they, should\nbe filled up.\n\n6:12. And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there\nwas a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair:\nand the whole moon became as blood.\n\n6:13. And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree\ncasteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind.\n\n6:14. And the heaven departed as a book folded up. And every mountain,\nand the islands, were moved out of their places.\n\n6:15. And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the\nrich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves\nin the dens and in the rocks of mountains:\n\n6:16. And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and\nhide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the\nwrath of the Lamb.\n\n6:17. For the great day of their wrath is come. And who shall be able\nto stand?\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 7\n\nThe number of them that were marked with the seal of the living God and\nclothed in white robes.\n\n7:1. After these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners\nof the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that they should not\nblow upon the earth nor upon the sea nor on any tree.\n\n7:2. And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun,\nhaving the sign of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to\nthe four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,\n\n7:3. Saying: Hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees, till we sign\nthe servants of our God in their foreheads.\n\n7:4. And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred\nforty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of\nIsrael.\n\n7:5. Of the tribe of Juda, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of\nRuben, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand\nsigned:\n\n7:6. Of the tribe of Aser, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of\nNephthali, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Manasses, twelve\nthousand signed:\n\n7:7. Of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of\nLevi, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand\nsigned:\n\n7:8. Of the tribe of Zabulon, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of\nJoseph, twelve thousand signed: Of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve\nthousand signed.\n\n7:9. After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of\nall nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the\nthrone and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in\ntheir hands.\n\n7:10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God,\nwho sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb.\n\n7:11. And all the angels stood round about the throne and the ancients\nand the four living creatures. And they fell down before the throne\nupon their faces and adored God,\n\n7:12. Saying: Amen. Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving,\nhonour and power and strength, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n7:13. And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are\nclothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they?\n\n7:14. And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me:\nThese are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed\ntheir robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.\n\n7:15. Therefore, they are before the throne of God: and they serve him\nday and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall\ndwell over them.\n\n7:16. They shall no more hunger nor thirst: neither shall the sun fall\non them, nor any heat.\n\n7:17. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule\nthem and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and\nGod shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 8\n\nThe seventh seal is opened. The angels with the seven trumpets.\n\n8:1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in\nheaven, as it were for half an hour.\n\n8:2. And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God: and there\nwere given to them seven trumpets.\n\n8:3. And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden\ncenser: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer\nof the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the\nthrone of God.\n\n8:4. And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended\nup before God from the hand of the angel.\n\n8:5. And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the\naltar and cast it on the earth: and there were thunders and voices and\nlightnings and a great earthquake.\n\n8:6. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared\nthemselves to sound the trumpet.\n\n8:7. And the first angel sounded the trumpet: and there followed hail\nand fire, mingled with blood: and it was cast on the earth. And the\nthird part of the earth was burnt up: and the third part of the trees\nwas burnt up: and all green grass was burnt up.\n\n8:8. And the second angel sounded the trumpet: and, as it were, a great\nmountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea. And the third part\nof the sea became blood.\n\n8:9. And the third part of those creatures died which had life in the\nsea: and the third part of the ships was destroyed.\n\n8:10. And the third angel sounded the trumpet: and a great star fell\nfrom heaven, burning as it were a torch. And it fell on the third part\nof the rivers and upon the fountains of waters:\n\n8:11. And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part\nof the waters became wormwood. And many men died of the waters, because\nthey were made bitter.\n\n8:12. And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of\nthe sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part\nof the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day\ndid not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.\n\n8:13. And I beheld: and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the\nmidst of heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe, Woe, Woe to the\ninhabitants of the earth, by reason of the rest of the voices of the\nthree angels, who are yet to sound the trumpet!\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 9\n\nLocusts come forth from the bottomless pit. The vision of the army of\nhorsemen.\n\n9:1. And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall\nfrom heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the\nbottomless pit.\n\nA star full.... This may mean the fall and apostasy of great and\nlearned men from the true faith. Or a whole nation falling into error\nand separating from the church, not having the sign of God in their\nforeheads. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit....\nThat is, to the angel, not to the fallen star. To this angel was given\nthe power, which is here signified by a key, of opening hell.\n\n9:2. And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose,\nas the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened\nwith the smoke of the pit.\n\n9:3. And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the\nearth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have\npower.\n\nThere came out locusts.... These may be devils in Antichrist\u2019s time,\nhaving the appearance of locusts, but large and monstrous, as here\ndescribed. Or they may be real locusts, but of an extraordinary size\nand monstrous shape, such as were never before seen on earth, sent to\ntorment those who have not the sign (or seal) of God on their\nforeheads. Some commentators by these locusts understand heretics, and\nespecially those heretics, that sprung from Jews, and with them denied\nthe divinity of Jesus Christ; as Theodotus, Praxeas, Noetus, Paul of\nSamosata, Sabellius, Arius, etc. These were great enemies of the\nChristian religion; they tormented and infected the souls of men,\nstinging them like scorpions, with the poison of their heresies. Others\nhave explained these locusts, and other animals, mentioned in different\nplaces throughout this sacred and mystical book, in a most absurd,\nfanciful, and ridiculous manner; they make Abaddon the Pope, and the\nlocusts to be friars mendicant, etc. Here it is thought proper, not to\nenter into any controversy upon that subject, as the inventors of these\nfancies have been already answered, and fully refuted by many\ncontrovertists: besides, those who might be inposed on by such\nchimerical writers, are in these days much better informed.\n\n9:4. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of\nthe earth nor any green thing nor any tree: but only the men who have\nnot the sign of God on their foreheads.\n\n9:5. And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but\nthat they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the\ntorment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.\n\n9:6. And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And\nthey shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.\n\n9:7. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto\nbattle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and\ntheir faces were as the faces of men.\n\n9:8. And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as\nlions.\n\n9:9. And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise\nof their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to\nbattle.\n\n9:10. And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in\ntheir tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had\nover them\n\n9:11. A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is\nAbaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).\n\n9:12. One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more\nhereafter.\n\n9:13. And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard a voice from\nthe four horns of the golden altar which is before the eyes of God,\n\n9:14. Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: Loose the four\nangels who are bound in the great river Euphrates.\n\n9:15. And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour,\nand a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.\n\n9:16. And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times\nten thousand. And I heard the number of them.\n\n9:17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on\nthem had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the\nheads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths\nproceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.\n\n9:18. And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by\nthe fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of\ntheir mouths.\n\n9:19. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their\ntails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with\nthem they hurt.\n\n9:20. And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did\nnot do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not\nadore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood,\nwhich neither can see nor hear nor walk:\n\n9:21. Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their\nsorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 10\n\nThe cry of a mighty angel. He gives John a book to eat.\n\n10:1. And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed\nwith a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head: and his face was as the\nsun, and his feet as pillars of fire.\n\n10:2. And he had in his hand a little book, open. And he set his right\nfoot upon the sea, and his left foot upon the earth.\n\n10:3. And he cried with a loud voice as when a lion roareth. And when\nhe had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.\n\n10:4. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about\nto write. And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up the\nthings which the seven thunders have spoken. And write them not.\n\n10:5. And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth\nlifted up his hand to heaven.\n\n10:6. And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created\nheaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things\nwhich are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That\ntime shall be no longer.\n\n10:7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall\nbegin to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he\nhath declared by his servants the prophets.\n\nDeclared.... literally evangelized, to signify the good tidings,\nagreeable to the Gospel, of the final victory of Christ, and of that\neternal life, which should be the reward of the temporal sufferings of\nthe martyrs and faithful servants of God.\n\n10:8. And I heard a voice from heaven, again speaking to me and saying:\nGo and take the book that is open, from the hand of the angel who\nstandeth upon the sea and upon the earth.\n\n10:9. And I went to the angel, saying unto him that he should give me\nthe book. And he said to me: Take the book and eat it up. And it shall\nmake thy belly bitter: but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.\n\n10:10. And I took the book from the hand of the angel and ate it up:\nand it was in my mouth, sweet as honey. And when I had eaten it, my\nbelly was bitter.\n\n10:11. And he said to me: Thou must prophesy again to many nations and\npeoples and tongues and kings.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 11\n\nHe is ordered to measure the temple. The two witnesses.\n\n11:1. And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said\nto me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that\nadore therein.\n\n11:2. But the court which is without the temple, cast out and measure\nit not: because it is given unto the Gentiles. And the holy city they\nshall tread under foot, two and forty months:\n\n11:3. And I will give unto my two witnesses: and they shall prophesy, a\nthousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.\n\nMy two witnesses.... It is commonly understood of Henoch and Elias.\n\n11:4. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks that stand\nbefore the Lord of the earth.\n\n11:5. And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their\nmouths and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them,\nin this manner must he be slain.\n\n11:6. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of\ntheir prophecy: And they have power over waters, to turn them into\nblood and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.\n\n11:7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that\nascendeth out of the abyss shall make war against them and shall\novercome them and kill them.\n\n11:8. And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which\nis called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt: where their Lord also was\ncrucified.\n\n11:9. And they of the tribes and peoples and tongues and nations shall\nsee their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer\ntheir bodies to be laid in sepulchres.\n\n11:10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and\nmake merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two\nprophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.\n\n11:11. And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God\nentered into them. And they stood upon their feet: and great fear fell\nupon them that saw them.\n\n11:12. And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them: Come\nup hither. And they went up to heaven in a cloud: and their enemies saw\nthem.\n\n11:13. And at that hour there was made a great earthquake: and the\ntenth part of the city fell. And there were slain in the earthquake,\nnames of men, seven thousand: and the rest were cast into a fear and\ngave glory to the God of heaven.\n\n11:14. The second woe is past: and behold the third woe will come\nquickly.\n\n11:15. And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great\nvoices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our\nLord\u2019s and his Christ\u2019s, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.\n\n11:16. And the four and twenty ancients who sit on their seats in the\nsight of God, fell on their faces and adored God, saying:\n\n11:17. We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast\nand who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power,\nand thou hast reigned.\n\n11:18. And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time\nof the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render\nreward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that\nfear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have\ncorrupted the earth.\n\n11:19. And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his\ntestament was seen in his temple. And there were lightnings and voices\nand an earthquake and great hail.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 12\n\nThe vision of the woman clothed with the sun and of the great dragon\nher persecutor.\n\n12:1. And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the\nsun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve\nstars.\n\nA woman.... The church of God. It may also, by allusion, be applied to\nour blessed Lady. The church is clothed with the sun, that is, with\nChrist: she hath the moon, that is, the changeable things of the world,\nunder her feet: and the twelve stars with which she is crowned, are the\ntwelve apostles: she is in labour and pain, whilst she brings forth her\nchildren, and Christ in them, in the midst of afflictions and\npersecutions.\n\n12:2. And being with child, she cried travailing in birth: and was in\npain to be delivered.\n\n12:3. And there was seen another sign in heaven. And behold a great red\ndragon, having seven heads and ten horns and on his heads seven\ndiadems.\n\n12:4. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast\nthem to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready\nto be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour\nher son.\n\n12:5. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations\nwith an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne.\n\n12:6. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place\nprepared by God, that there they should feed her, a thousand two\nhundred sixty days.\n\n12:7. And there was a great battle in heaven: Michael and his angels\nfought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels.\n\n12:8. And they prevailed not: neither was their place found any more in\nheaven.\n\n12:9. And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is\ncalled the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was\ncast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.\n\n12:10. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come\nsalvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his\nChrist: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused\nthem before our God day and night.\n\n12:11. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word\nof the testimony: and they loved not their lives unto death.\n\n12:12. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe\nto the earth and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you,\nhaving great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.\n\n12:13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he\npersecuted the woman who brought forth the man child.\n\n12:14. And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle,\nthat she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is\nnourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the\nserpent.\n\n12:15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water,\nas it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the\nriver.\n\n12:16. And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth\nand swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.\n\n12:17. And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war\nwith the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have\nthe testimony of Jesus Christ.\n\n12:18. And he stood upon the sand of the sea.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 13\n\nOf the beast with seven heads and of a second beast.\n\n13:1. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads\nand ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads,\nnames of blasphemy.\n\nA beast.... This first beast with seven heads and ten horns, is\nprobably the whole company of infidels, enemies and persecutors of the\npeople of God, from the beginning to the end of the world. The seven\nheads are seven kings, that is, seven principal kingdoms or empires,\nwhich have exercised, or shall exercise, tyrannical power over the\npeople of God; of these, five were then fallen, viz.: the Egyptian,\nAssyrian, Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian monarchies: one was present,\nviz., the empire of Rome: and the seventh and chiefest was to come,\nviz., the great Antichrist and his empire. The ten horns may be\nunderstood of ten lesser persecutors.\n\n13:2. And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard: and his feet\nwere as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And\nthe dragon gave him his own strength and great power.\n\n13:3. And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his\ndeath\u2019s wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the\nbeast.\n\nOne of his heads, etc.... Some understand this of the mortal wound,\nwhich the idolatry of the Roman empire (signified by the sixth head)\nreceived from Constantine; which was, as it were, healed again by\nJulian the Apostate.\n\n13:4. And they adored the dragon which gave power to the beast. And\nthey adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the beast? And who shall\nbe able to fight with him?\n\n13:5. And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and\nblasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.\n\n13:6. And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to\nblaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven.\n\nHis tabernacle, etc.... That is, his church and his saints.\n\n13:7. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to\novercome them. And power was given him over every tribe and people and\ntongue and nation.\n\n13:8. And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not\nwritten in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the\nbeginning of the world.\n\nSlain from the beginning, etc.... In the foreknowledge of God; and\ninasmuch as all mercy and grace, from the beginning, was given in view\nof his death and passion.\n\n13:9. If any man have an ear, let him hear.\n\n13:10. He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he\nthat shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the\npatience and the faith of the saints.\n\n13:11. And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth: and he had\ntwo horns, like a lamb: and he spoke as a dragon.\n\nAnother beast.... This second beast with two horns, may be understood\nof the heathenish priests and magicians; the principal promoters both\nof idolatry and persecution.\n\n13:12. And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight.\nAnd he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first\nbeast, whose wound to death was healed.\n\n13:13. And he did great signs, so that he made also fire to come down\nfrom heaven unto the earth, in the sight of men.\n\n13:14. And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which\nwere given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that\ndwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which\nhad the wound by the sword and lived.\n\n13:15. And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast: and\nthat the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that\nwhosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain.\n\n13:16. And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor,\nfreemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on\ntheir foreheads:\n\n13:17. And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the\ncharacter, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.\n\n13:18. Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the\nnumber of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of\nhim is six hundred sixty-six.\n\nSix hundred sixty-six.... The numeral letters of his name shall make up\nthis number.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 14\n\nOf the Lamb and of the virgins that follow him. Of the judgments that\nshall fall upon the wicked.\n\n14:1. And I beheld: and lo a Lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him\nan hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his\nFather written on their foreheads.\n\n14:2. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters and\nas the voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as the\nvoice of harpers, harping on their harps.\n\n14:3. And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne and\nbefore the four living creatures and the ancients: and no man could say\nthe canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand who were purchased\nfrom the earth.\n\n14:4. These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are\nvirgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were\npurchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.\n\n14:5. And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without\nspot before the throne of God.\n\n14:6. And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven,\nhaving the eternal gospel, to preach unto them that sit upon the earth\nand over every nation and tribe and tongue and people:\n\n14:7. Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord and give him honour,\nbecause the hour of his judgment is come. And adore ye him that made\nheaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters.\n\n14:8. And another angel followed, saying: That great Babylon is fallen,\nis fallen; which made all nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of\nher fornication.\n\nBabylon.... By Babylon may be very probably signified all the wicked\nworld in general, which God will punish, and destroy after the short\ntime of this mortal life: or it may signify every great city wherein\nenormous sins and abominations are daily committed; and that when the\nmeasure of its iniquities is full, the punishments due to its crimes\nare poured on it. It may also be some city of the description in the\ntext, that will exist, and be destroyed, as here described, towards the\nend of the world.\n\n14:9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If\nany man shall adore the beast and his image and receive his character\nin his forehead or in his hand,\n\n14:10. He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is\nmingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath: and shall be tormented\nwith fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the\nsight of the Lamb.\n\n14:11. And the smoke of their torments, shall ascend up for ever and\never: neither have they rest day nor night, who have adored the beast\nand his image and whoever receiveth the character of his name.\n\n14:12. Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of\nGod and the faith of Jesus.\n\n14:13. And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed\nare the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the\nSpirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow\nthem.\n\nDie in the Lord.... It is understood of the martyrs who die for the\nLord.\n\n14:14. And I saw: and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one\nsitting like to the Son of man, having on his head a crown of gold and\nin his hand a sharp sickle.\n\n14:15. And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud\nvoice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle and reap,\nbecause the hour is come to reap. For the harvest of the earth is ripe.\n\n14:16. And he that sat on the cloud thrust his sickle into the earth:\nand the earth was reaped.\n\n14:17. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he\nalso having a sharp sickle.\n\n14:18. And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over\nfire. And he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle,\nsaying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the\nvineyard of the earth, because the grapes thereof are ripe.\n\n14:19. And the angel thrust in his sharp sickle into the earth and\ngathered the vineyard of the earth and cast it into the great press of\nthe wrath of God:\n\n14:20. And the press was trodden without the city, and blood came out\nof the press, up to the horses\u2019 bridles, for a thousand and six hundred\nfurlongs.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 15\n\nThey that have overcome the beast glorify God. Of the seven angels with\nthe seven vials.\n\n15:1. And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful: seven\nangels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the\nwrath of God.\n\n15:2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them\nthat had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name,\nstanding on the sea of glass, having the harps of God:\n\n15:3. And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the\ncanticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord\nGod Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages.\n\n15:4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou\nonly art holy. For all nations shall come and shall adore in thy sight,\nbecause thy judgments are manifest.\n\n15:5. And after these things, I looked: and behold, the temple of the\ntabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.\n\n15:6. And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven\nplagues, clothed with clean and white linen and girt about the breasts\nwith golden girdles.\n\n15:7. And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels\nseven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and\never.\n\n15:8. And the temple was filled with smoke from the majesty of God and\nfrom his power. And no man was able to enter into the temple, till the\nseven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 16\n\nThe seven vials are poured out. The plagues that ensue.\n\n16:1. And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven\nangels: Go and pour out the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the\nearth.\n\n16:2. And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth. And\nthere fell a sore and grievous wound upon men who had the character of\nthe beast: and upon them that adored the image thereof.\n\n16:3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And there\ncame blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the\nsea.\n\n16:4. And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the\nfountains of waters. And there was made blood.\n\n16:5. And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O\nLord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged\nthese things.\n\n16:6. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou\nhast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.\n\n16:7. And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God\nAlmighty, true and just are thy judgments.\n\n16:8. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was\ngiven unto him to afflict men with heat and fire.\n\n16:9. And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the\nname of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they\npenance to give him glory.\n\n16:10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the\nbeast. And his kingdom became dark: and they gnawed their tongues for\npain.\n\n16:11. And they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains\nand wounds: and did not penance for their works.\n\n16:12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river\nEuphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared\nfor the kings from the rising of the sun.\n\n16:13. And I saw from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the\nbeast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits\nlike frogs.\n\n16:14. For they are the spirits of devils, working signs: and they go\nforth unto the kings of the whole earth, to gather them to battle\nagainst the great day of the Almighty God.\n\n16:15. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and\nkeepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.\n\n16:16. And he shall gather them together into a place which in Hebrew\nis called Armagedon.\n\nArmagedon.... That is, the hill of robbers.\n\n16:17. And the seventh angel poured out his vial upon the air. And\nthere came a great voice out of the temple from the throne, saying: It\nis done.\n\n16:18. And there were lightnings and voices and thunders: and there was\na great earthquake, such an one as never had been since men were upon\nthe earth, such an earthquake, so great.\n\n16:19. And the great city was divided into three parts: and the cities\nof the Gentiles fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God,\nto give her the cup of the wine of the indignation of his wrath.\n\n16:20. And every island fled away: and the mountains were not found.\n\n16:21. And great hail, like a talent, came down from heaven upon men:\nand men blasphemed God, for the plague of the hail: because it was\nexceeding great.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 17\n\nThe description of the great harlot and of the beast upon which she\nsits.\n\n17:1. And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials\nand spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of\nthe great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters:\n\n17:2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And\nthey who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her\nwhoredom.\n\n17:3. And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman\nsitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,\nhaving seven heads and ten horns.\n\n17:4. And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet,\nand gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup\nin her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication.\n\n17:5. And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the\ngreat, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the\nearth.\n\nA mystery.... That is, a secret; because what follows of the name and\ntitle of the great harlot is to be taken in a mystical sense.\nBabylon.... Either the city of the devil in general; or, if this place\nbe to be understood of any particular city, pagan Rome, which then and\nfor three hundred years persecuted the church; and was the principal\nseat both of empire and idolatry.\n\n17:6. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with\nthe blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her,\nwith great admiration.\n\n17:7. And the angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee\nthe mystery of the woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which\nhath the seven heads and ten horns.\n\n17:8. The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up\nout of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants\non the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the\nfoundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is\nnot.\n\nThe beast which thou sawest.... This beast which supports Babylon, may\nsignify the power of the devil: which was and is not, being much\nlimited by the coming of Christ, but shall again exert itself under\nAntichrist. The seven heads of this beast are seven mountains or\nempires, instruments of his tyranny; of which five were then fallen.\n(See chap. 13.1, and below, ver. 10.) The beast itself is said to be\nthe eighth, and is of the seven; because they all act under the devil,\nand by his instigation, so that his power is in them all, yet so as to\nmake up, as it were, an eighth empire, distinct from them all.\n\n17:9. And here is the understanding that hath wisdom. The seven heads\nare seven mountains, upon which the woman sitteth: and they are seven\nkings.\n\n17:10. Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when\nhe is come, he must remain a short time.\n\n17:11. And the beast which was and is not: the same also is the eighth,\nand is of the seven, and goeth into destruction.\n\n17:12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not\nyet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour\nafter the beast.\n\nTen kings.... Ten lesser kingdoms, enemies also of the church of\nChrist: which, nevertheless, shall be made instruments of the justice\nof God for the punishment of Babylon. Some understand this of the\nGoths, Vandals, Huns, and other barbarous nations, that destroyed the\nempire of Rome.\n\n17:13. These have one design: and their strength and power they shall\ndeliver to the beast.\n\n17:14. These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb shall overcome\nthem because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are\nwith him are called and elect and faithful.\n\n17:15. And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the\nharlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues.\n\n17:16. And the ten horns which thou sawest in the beast: These shall\nhate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her\nflesh and shall burn her with fire.\n\n17:17. For God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth\nhim: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God\nbe fulfilled.\n\n17:18. And the woman which thou sawest is the great city which hath\nkingdom over the kings of the earth.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 18\n\nThe fall of Babylon. Kings and merchants lament over her.\n\n18:1. And after these things, I saw another angel come down from\nheaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his\nglory.\n\n18:2. And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great\nis fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the\nhold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful\nbird:\n\n18:3. Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her\nfornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with\nher; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of\nher delicacies.\n\n18:4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her,\nmy people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive\nnot of her plagues.\n\n18:5. For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath\nremembered her iniquities.\n\n18:6. Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto\nher double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath\nmingled, mingle ye double unto her.\n\n18:7. As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so\nmuch torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart:\nI sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.\n\n18:8. Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning\nand famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is\nstrong, who shall judge her.\n\n18:9. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and\nlived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over\nher, when they shall see the smoke of her burning:\n\n18:10. Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas!\nthat great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy\njudgment come.\n\n18:11. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her:\nfor no man shall buy their merchandise any more.\n\n18:12. Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of\npearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine\nwood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of\nprecious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble:\n\n18:13. And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine\nand oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and\nchariots: and slaves and souls of men.\n\n18:14. And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee:\nand all fat and goodly things are perished from thee. And they shall\nfind them no more at all.\n\n18:15. The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand\nafar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning,\n\n18:16. And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with\nfine linen and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious\nstones and pearls.\n\n18:17. For in one hour are so great riches come to nought. And every\nshipmaster and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many\nas work in the sea, stood afar off,\n\n18:18. And cried, seeing the place of her burning, saying: What city is\nlike to this great city?\n\n18:19. And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and\nmourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made\nrich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour\nshe is made desolate.\n\n18:20. Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets.\nFor God hath judged your judgment on her.\n\n18:21. And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great\nmillstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as\nthis, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found\nno more at all.\n\n18:22. And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play\non the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee:\nand no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all\nin thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in\nthee:\n\n18:23. And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee:\nand the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at\nall in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all\nnations have been deceived by thy enchantments.\n\n18:24. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of\nall that were slain upon the earth.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 19\n\nThe saints glorify God for his judgments on the great harlot. Christ\u2019s\nvictory over the beast and the kings of the earth.\n\n19:1. After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people\nin heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our\nGod.\n\n19:2. For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great\nharlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged\nthe blood of his servants, at her hands.\n\n19:3. And again they said: Alleluia. And her smoke ascendeth for ever\nand ever.\n\n19:4. And the four and twenty ancients and the four living creatures\nfell down and adored God that sitteth upon the throne, saying: Amen.\nAlleluia.\n\n19:5. And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our\nGod, all ye his servants: and you that fear him, little and great.\n\n19:6. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the\nvoice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying:\nAlleluia: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, hath reigned.\n\n19:7. Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the\nmarriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself.\n\n19:8. And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine\nlinen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications\nof saints.\n\n19:9. And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the\nmarriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are\ntrue.\n\n19:10. And I fell down before his feet, to adore him. And he saith to\nme: See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren who\nhave the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony of Jesus is\nthe spirit of prophecy.\n\nI fell down before, etc.... St. Augustine (lib. 20, contra Faust, c.\n21) is of opinion, that this angel appeared in so glorious a manner,\nthat St. John took him to be God; and therefore would have given him\ndivine honour had not the angel stopped him, by telling him he was but\nhis fellow servant. St. Gregory (Hom. 8, in Evang.) rather thinks that\nthe veneration offered by St. John, was not divine honour, or indeed\nany other than what might lawfully be given; but was nevertheless\nrefused by the angel, in consideration of the dignity to which our\nhuman nature had been raised, by the incarnation of the Son of God, and\nthe dignity of St. John, an apostle, prophet, and martyr.\n\n19:11. And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that\nsat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he\njudge and fight.\n\n19:12. And his eyes were as a flame of fire: and on his head were many\ndiadems. And he had a name written, which no man knoweth but himself.\n\n19:13. And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his\nname is called: THE WORD OF GOD.\n\n19:14. And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses,\nclothed in fine linen, white and clean.\n\n19:15. And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword, that\nwith it he may strike the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of\niron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of\nGod the Almighty.\n\n19:16. And he hath on his garment and on his thigh written: KING OF\nKINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.\n\n19:17. And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud\nvoice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of\nheaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God:\n\n19:18. That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes\nand the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that\nsit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and\nof great.\n\n19:19. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies,\ngathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse and with\nhis army.\n\n19:20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who\nwrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the\ncharacter of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast\nalive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.\n\n19:21. And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon\nthe horse, which proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were\nfilled with their flesh.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 20\n\nSatan is bound for a thousand years. The souls of the martyrs reign\nwith Christ in the first resurrection. The last attempts of Satan\nagainst the church. The last judgment.\n\n20:1. And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the\nbottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.\n\n20:2. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the\ndevil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.\n\nBound him, etc.... The power of Satan has been very much limited by the\npassion of Christ: for a thousand years; that is, for the whole time of\nthe New Testament; but especially from the time of the destruction of\nBabylon or pagan Rome, till the new efforts of Gog and Magog against\nthe church, towards the end of the world. During which time the souls\nof the martyrs and saints live and reign with Christ in heaven, in the\nfirst resurrection, which is that of the soul to the life of glory; as\nthe second resurrection will be that of the body, at the day of the\ngeneral judgment.\n\n20:3. And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a\nseal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the\nthousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little\ntime.\n\n20:4. And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given\nunto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony\nof Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor\nhis image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their\nhands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.\n\n20:5. The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were\nfinished. This is the first resurrection.\n\n20:6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.\nIn these the second death hath no power. But they shall be priests of\nGod and of Christ: and shall reign with him a thousand years.\n\n20:7. And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be\nloosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations\nwhich are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall\ngather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of\nthe sea.\n\n20:8. And they came upon the breadth of the earth and encompassed the\ncamp of the saints and the beloved city.\n\n20:9. And there came down fire from God out of heaven and devoured\nthem: and the devil, who seduced them, was cast into the pool of fire\nand brimstone, where both the beast\n\n20:10. And the false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever\nand ever.\n\n20:11. And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from\nwhose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found\nfor them.\n\n20:12. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of\nthe throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened,\nwhich is the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things\nwhich were written in the books, according to their works.\n\n20:13. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell\ngave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one\naccording to their works.\n\n20:14. And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the\nsecond death.\n\n20:15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast\ninto the pool of fire.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 21\n\nThe new Jerusalem described.\n\n21:1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and\nthe first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.\n\nThe first heaven and the first earth was gone ... being changed, not as\nto their substance, but in their qualities.\n\n21:2. And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down\nout of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.\n\n21:3. And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the\ntabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall\nbe his people: and God himself with them shall be their God.\n\n21:4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death\nshall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any\nmore, for the former things are passed away.\n\n21:5. And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things\nnew. And he said to me: Write. For these words are most faithful and\ntrue.\n\n21:6. And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega: the\nBeginning and the End. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the\nfountain of the water of life, freely.\n\n21:7. He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be\nhis God: and he shall be my son.\n\n21:8. But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers\nand whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall\nhave their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which\nis the second death.\n\n21:9. And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of\nthe seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come and I will shew\nthee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.\n\n21:10. And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he\nshewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,\n\n21:11. Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a\nprecious stone, as to the jasper stone even as crystal.\n\n21:12. And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in\nthe gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names\nof the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.\n\n21:13. On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on\nthe south, three gates: and on the west, three gates.\n\n21:14. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them,\nthe twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,\n\n21:15. And he that spoke with me had a measure of a reed of gold, to\nmeasure the city and the gates thereof and the wall.\n\n21:16. And the city lieth in a four-square: and the length thereof is\nas great as the breadth. And he measured the city with the golden reed\nfor twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the height and the\nbreadth thereof are equal.\n\n21:17. And he measured the wall thereof an hundred forty-four cubits,\nthe measure of a man, which is of an angel.\n\nThe measure of a man, i.e., According to the measure of men, and used\nby the angel.... This seems to be the true meaning of these words.\n\n21:18. And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but\nthe city itself pure gold like to clear glass.\n\n21:19. And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with\nall manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper: the\nsecond, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald:\n\n21:20. The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh,\nchrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a\nchrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.\n\n21:21. And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every\nseveral gate was of one several pearl. And the street of the city was\npure gold, as it were, transparent glass.\n\n21:22. And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the\ntemple thereof, and the Lamb.\n\n21:23. And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine\nin it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the\nlamp thereof.\n\n21:24. And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of\nthe earth shall bring their glory and honour into it.\n\n21:25. And the gates thereof shall not be shut by day: for there shall\nbe no night there.\n\n21:26. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into\nit.\n\n21:27. There shall not enter into it any thing defiled or that worketh\nabomination or maketh a lie: but they that are written in the book of\nlife of the Lamb.\n\n\nApocalypse Chapter 22\n\nThe water and tree of life. The conclusion.\n\n22:1. And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal,\nproceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.\n\n22:2. In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the\nriver, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits\nevery month: and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.\n\n22:3. And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God and\nof the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him.\n\n22:4. And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their\nforeheads.\n\n22:5. And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of\nthe lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall\nenlighten them. And they shall reign for ever and ever.\n\n22:6. And he said to me: These words are most faithful and true. And\nthe Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to shew his\nservants the things which must be done shortly.\n\n22:7. And: Behold I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words\nof the prophecy of this book.\n\n22:8. And I, John, who have heard and seen these things. And, after I\nhad heard and seen, I fell down to adore before the feet of the angel\nwho shewed me these things.\n\n22:9. And he said to me: See thou do it not. For I am thy fellow\nservant, and of thy brethren the prophets and of them that keep the\nwords of the prophecy of this book. Adore God.\n\n22:10. And he saith to me: Seal not the words of the prophecy of this\nbook. For the time is at hand.\n\nFor the time is at hand.... That is, when compared to eternity, all\ntime and temporal things vanish, and are but of short duration. As to\nthe time when the chief predictions should come to pass, we have no\ncertainty, as appears by the different opinions, both of the ancient\nfathers and late interpreters. Many think that most things set down\nfrom the 4th chapter to the end, will not be fulfilled till a little\ntime before the end of the world. Others are of opinion, that a great\npart of them, and particularly the fall of the wicked Babylon, happened\nat the destruction of paganism, by the destruction of heathen Rome, and\nits persecuting heathen emperors. Of these interpretations, see\nAleazar, in his long commentary; see the learned Bossnet, bishop of\nMeaux, in his treatise on this Book; and P. Alleman, in his notes on\nthe same Apocalypse, tom. 12, who in his Preface says, that this, in a\ngreat measure, may be now looked upon as the opinion followed by the\nlearned men. In fine, others think that St. John\u2019s design was in a\nmystical way, by metaphors and allegories, to represent the attempts\nand persecutions of the wicked against the servants of God, the\npunishments that should in a short time fall upon Babylon, that is,\nupon all the wicked in general: the eternal happiness and reward, which\nGod had reserved for the pious inhabitants of Jerusalem, that is, for\nhis faithful servants, after their short trials and the tribulations of\nthis mortal life. In the mean time we meet with many profitable\ninstructions and admonitions, which we may easily enough understand:\nbut we have no certainty when we apply these predictions to particular\nevents: for as St. Jerome takes notice, the Apocalypse has as many\nmysteries as words, or rather mysteries in every word. Apocalypsis\nJoannis tot habet Sacramenta quot verba\u2014parum dixi, in verbis singulis\nmultiplices latent intelligentiae. Ep. ad Paulin, t. 4. p. 574. Edit.\nBenedict.\n\n22:11. He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let\nhim be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still:\nand he that is holy, let him be sanctified still.\n\nLet him hurt still.... It is not an exhortation, or license to go on in\nsin; but an intimation, that how far soever the wicked may proceed,\ntheir progress shall quickly end, and then they must expect to meet\nwith proportionable punishments.\n\n22:12. Behold, I come quickly: and my reward is with me, to render to\nevery, man according to his works.\n\n22:13. I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and\nthe End.\n\n22:14. Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb:\nthat they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the\ngates into the city.\n\n22:15. Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and\nservers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.\n\n22:16. I, Jesus, have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in\nthe churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning\nstar.\n\n22:17. And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let\nhim say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come. And he that will,\nlet him take the water of life, freely.\n\n22:18. For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the\nprophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall\nadd unto him the plagues written in this book.\n\n22:19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of\nthis prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,\nand out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in\nthis book.\n\n22:20. He that giveth testimony of these things, saith: Surely, I come\nquickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.\n\n22:21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nAPPENDICES\n\n\nThese texts come from the 1582 Rhemes and 1610 Doway printings of the\nportions of the Bible. The primary sources provide a glimpse both into \nthe history of\nthe Douay-Rheims version and the English language itself. The reader\nwill quickly notice that the letter \u2018j\u2019 does not appear in the texts,\nrather \u2018i\u2019 functions either as a vowel or a consonant. Likewise \u2018u\u2019 is\nnot a distinct letter; it is employed typographically in the lower-case\nin place of \u2018v\u2019 where not starting a word. The letters \u2018u\u2019 and \u2018v\u2019 both\nfunction either as vowels or consonants. The word \u2018vniuersity\u2019\ndemonstrates this rule. The letter \u2018w\u2019 is often employed, but in many\ncases the earlier form of a double-v (vv) appears instead.\n\nThe transcriber has done his best to render the text accurately. Note\nthe relaxed spelling standards of the time; many variants appear. While\nthe errata section from the 1610 edition observed: \u201cWe haue also found\nsome other faultes of lesse importance; and feare there be more. But we\ntrust the reader may easely correct them, as they occurre.\u201d only\nobvious errors have been amended. Where the transcriber has doubt\nbetween whether an irregular spelling is either an error and a variant,\nthe printed text stands. 7-bit ASCII cannot fully represent the\ntypographical standards of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and\nmany special characters have been replaced with modern equivalents.\nWhere verse numbers stand in the margins of the printed texts, they\nhave been transferred to the body; the verse numbers in the \u2018Prayer of\nManasses\u2019 have been supplied from other versions. Reference notes have\nbeen transferred from the margins, and their abbreviations modernized.\n\n\nADDITIONAL BOOKS\n\nThe prayer of Manasses, vvith the third & fourth Bookes of Esdras,\nextant in most Latin and vulgare Bibles, are here placed after al the\nCanonical bookes, of the old Testament: because they are not receiued\ninto the Canon of Diuine Scriptures by the Catholique Church.\n\n\nTHE PRAYER OF MANASSES KING OF IVDA, WHEN HE WAS HELD CAPTIVE IN\nBABYLON.\n\nLORD omnipotent God of our fathers, Abraham, & Isaac, and Iacob, and of\ntheir iust sede, (2 Par 33:12) [2] which didst make heauen and earth:\nwith al the ornamentes of them, [3] which hast bound the sea with the\nword of thy precept, which hast shut vp the depth, and sealed it with\nthy terrible and laudable name: [4] whom al thinges dread, & tremble at\nthe countinance of thy powre, [5] because the magnificence of thy\nglorie is importable, & the wrath of thy threatning vpon sinners is\nintollerable: [6] but the mercie of thy promise is infinite and\nvnsearchable: [7] because thou art our Lord, most high, benigne, long\nsuffering, and very merciful, and penitent vpon the wickednes of men.\nThou Lord according to the multitude of thy goodnes hast promised\npenance, and remission to them that haue sinned to thee, and by the\nmultitude of thy mercies thou hast decreed penance to sinners, vnto\nsaluation. [8] Thou therfore Lord God of the iust, hast not appointed\npenance to the iust, Abraham, & Isaac and Iacob, them that haue not\nsinned to thee, but hast appointed penance for me a sinner: [9] because\nI haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea. Myne iniquities\nLord be multiplied, mine iniquities be multiplied, and I am not worthie\nto behold, & looke vpon the height of heauen, for the multitude of mine\niniquities. [10] I am made crooked with manie a band of yron, that I\ncan not lift vp my head, and I haue not respiration: because I haue\nstirred vp thy wrath, and haue done euil before thee: I haue not done\nthy wil, and thy commandmentes I haue not kept: I haue set vp\nabominations, and multiplied offenses. [11] And now I bowe the knee of\nmy hart, beseeching goodnes of thee. [12] I haue sinned Lord, I haue\nsinned, & I acknowlege myne iniquities. [13] Wherefore I beseech\ndisiring thee, forgeue me Lord, forgeue me: and destroy me not together\nwith myne iniquities, neither reserue thou for euer, being angrie,\neuils for me, neither damme me into the lowest places of the earth:\nbecause thou art Lord, God, I say, of the penitent: [14] in me thou\nshalt shew al thy goodnes because thou shalt saue me vnworthie\naccording to thy great mercie, [15] and I wil prayse thee alwayes al\nthe dayes of my life: because al the power of the heauens prayseth\nthee, and to thee is glorie for euer and euer. Amen.\n\n\nTHE THIRD BOOKE OF ESDRAS.\n\nFor helpe of the readers, especially such as haue not leysure to read\nal, vve haue gathered the contentes of the chapters; but made no\nAnnotations: because the text it self is but as a Commentarie to the\nCanonical bookes; and therfore we haue only added the concordance of\nother Scriptures in the margin.\n\nCHAP. I.\n\nIosias king of Iuda maketh a great Pasch, 7. geuing manie hostes to\nsuch as wanted for sacrifice: 14. the Priestes and Leuites performing\ntheir functions therin: 22. in the eightenth yeare of his reigne, 25.\nHe is slayne in battel by the king of AEgypt, 32. and much lamented by\nthe Iewes. 34. His sonne Ieconias succedeth. 37. After him Ioacim, 40.\nwho is deposed by the king of Babylon. 43. Ioachim reigneth three\nmonethes, and is caried into Babylon. 46. Sedecias reigneth eleuen\nyeares wickedly. 52. and he with his people is caried captiue into\nBabylon, the citie and temple are destroyed. 57. so remayned til the\nMonarchie of the Persians.\n\nAND Iosias made a Pasch in Ierusalem to our Lord & immolated the Phase\nthe fourtenth moone of the moneth: (4 Kings 23:21 / 2 Par 35:1) 2\nappointing the Priestes by courses of dayes clothed with stoles in the\ntemple of our Lord. 3 And he spake to the Leuites the sacred seruantes\nof Isreal, that they should sanctifie them selues to our Lord in the\nplacing of the holie arke of our Lord in the house, which king Salomon\nsonne of Dauid built. 4 It shal not be for you to take it vpon your\nshoulders. And now serue your Lord, and take the care of that nation\nIsrael, in part according to your villages and tribes, 5 according to\nthe writing of Dauid king of Israel, and according to the magnificence\nof Salomon his sonne, al in the temple, and according to your fathers\nportion of principalitie, among them that stand in the sight of your\nbrethren the children of Isreal. 6 Immolate the Pasch, and prepare the\nsacrifices for your bretheren, and doe according to the precept of our\nLord which was geuen to Moyses. (Ex 12\n/ Lev 23 / Num 28) 7 And Iosias gaue vnto the people that was found of\n/ sheepe,\nlambes, and kiddes, and goates thirtie thousand, calues there thousand.\n8 These thinges were geuen to the people of the kinges goodes according\nto promisse: and to the priestes for the Phase, sheepe in number two\nthousand, and calues an hundred. 9 And Iechonias, and Semeias, and\nNathanael bretheren, and Hasabias, and Oziel, and Coraba for the Phase\nsheepe fiue thousand, calues fiue hundred. 10 And when these thinges\nwere done in good order, the Priestes an the Leuites stood hauing\nazymes by tribes. 11 And according to the portions of their fathers\nprincipalitie, in the sight of the people they did offer, to our Lord\naccording to those thinges, which were written in the booke of Moyses:\n12 and rosted the Phase with fire as it ought: and the hostes they\nboyled in cauldrons, and in pottes with beneuolence: 13 and they\nbrought to al that were of the people: and afterward they prepared for\nthem selues and the priestes. 14 For the Priestes offered the fatte,\nvntil the houre was ended: and the Leuites prepared for them selues,\nand their brethren, the children of Aaron. 15 And the sacred singing\nmen, the children of Asaph were by order according to the precept of\nDauid and Asaph, and Zacharias, and Ieddimus, which was from the king.\n16 And the porters at euerie gate, so that none transgressed his owne:\nfor their brethren prepared for them. 17 And the thinges were\nconsummate that perteyned to the sacrifice of our Lord. 18 In that day\nthey celebrated the Phase, and offered hostes vpon the sacrifice of our\nLord, according to the precept of king Iosias. 19 And the children of\nIsrael, that were found at that time, celebrated the Phase: and the\nfestiual day of Azymes for seuen dayes: 20 and there was not celebrated\nsuch a Phase in Isreal, from the times of Samuel the prophet: 21 and al\nthe kinges of Israel did not celebrate such a Phase as Iosias did, and\nthe Priestes, and the Leuites, and the Iewes, and al Israel, that were\nfound in their abode at Ierusalem. 22 In the eightenth yeare, Iosias\nreigning was the Phase celebrated. 23 And the workes of Iosias were\ndirected in the sight of his Lord in a hart ful of feare: 24 and the\nthinges concerning him are writen in the ancient times, touching them\nthat sinned, and were irreligous against our Lord aboue al nations, and\nthat sought not the wordes of our Lord vpon Israel. 25 And after al\nthis fact of Iosias, came vp Pharao the king of AEgypt comming in\nCharcamis from the way vpon Euphrates, and Iosias went forth to meete\nhim. (4 Kings 23:29 / 2 Par 35:20) 26 And the king of AEgypt sent to\nIosias saying: What is there betwen me & thee king of Iuda? 27 I was\nnot sent of the Lord to fight against thee: for my battel is vpon\nEuphrates, goe downe in hast. 28 And Iosias did not returne vpon his\nchariote: but endeuoured to ouerthrow him, not attending the word of\nthe prophet from the mouth of our Lord: 29 but he made battel against\nhim in the field of Mageddo. And princes went downe to king Iosias. 30\nAnd the king said to his seruantes: Remoue me from the battel, for I am\nweakned excedingly. And forthwith his seruantes remoued him out of the\nbattel. 31 And he went vp into his second chariote: & comming to\nIerusalem, dyed, and was buried in his fathers sepulchre. 32 And in al\nIurie they mourned for Iosias, & the rulers with their wiues lamented\nhim vntil this day. And this was geuen out to be done alwayes vnto al\nthe stocke of Israel. 33 But these thinges were writen before in the\nbooke of the histories of the kinges of Iuda: and al the actes of the\ndoing of Iosias, and his glorie and his vnderstanding in the law of our\nLord: and the thinges that were done by him, and that are not writen in\nthe booke of the kinges of Israel and Iuda. 34 And they that were of\nthe nation, taking Iechonias the sonne of Iosias, made him king for\nIosias his father, when he was three and twentie yeares old. (4 Kings\n23:30 / 2 Par 36:1) 35 And he reigned ouer Israel three monethes. And\nthe king of AEgypt remoued him, that he should not reigne in Ierusalem:\n36 and he put a taxe vpon the nation of siluer an hundred talentes, and\nof gold one talent. 37 And the king of AEgypt made Ioacim his brother\nking of Iuda and Ierusalem: 38 and he bound the magistrates of Ioacim,\nand Zaracel his brother, and taking them brought them backe into\nAEgypt. 39 Ioacim was fiue and twentie yeares old when he began to\nreigne in the land of Iuda and Ierusalem: and he did euil in the sight\nof our Lord. 40 And after this man came vp Nabuchodonosor the king of\nBabylon, and binding him with a bande of brasse, brought him into\nBabylon. 41 And Nabuchodonosor tooke the sacred vessels of our Lord,\nand carried away, and consecrated them in his temple in Babylon. 42 For\nhis vncleanes, and lacke of religion is written in the booke of the\ntimes of the kinges. 43 And Ioachin his sonne reigned for him. And when\nhe was made king, he was eightene yeares old. 44 And reigned three\nmonethes and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and did euil in the sight of our\nLord: 45 and after a yeare Nabuchodonosor sending, transported him into\nBabylon together with the sacred vessels of our Lord. (4 Kings 24:13)\n46 And he made Sedecias king of Iuda and Ierusalem, when he was one and\ntwentie yeares old: (4 Kings 24:17) and he reigned eleuen yeares. 47\nAnd he did euil in the sight of our Lord, and was not afraid of the\nwordes which were spoken by Ieremie the prophet from the mouth of our\nLord: (Jer 37:2) 48 and being sworne of king Nabuchodonosor, forsworne\nhe did reuolt: and his necke being hardened, & his hart, he\ntransgressed the ordinances of our Lord the God of Israel. 49 And the\nprinces of the people of our Lord did manie thinges wickedly, and they\ndid impiously aboue al the vncleannes of the nations: and they polluted\nthe temple of our Lord that was holie of Ierusalem. 50 And the God of\ntheir fathers sent by his messenger to reclame them, for that he would\nspare them, and his tabernacle. 51 But they scorned at his messengers:\nand in the day that our Lord spake to them, they were mocking his\nprophetes. 52 Who was moued euen vnto wrath vpon his nation for their\nimpietie, and commanded the kinges of the Chaldees to come vp. 53 These\nslewe their yong men with the sword, round about their holie temple,\nand spared not yong man, and old man, and virgin, and youth: 54 but al\nwere deliuered into their handes: & taking al the sacred vessels of our\nLord, and the kinges treasures, they caried them into Babylon, 55 and\nburnt the house of our Lord, and threwe downe the walles of Ierusalem:\nand the towres therof they burnt with fire, 56 and consumed al their\nhonorable thinges, and brought them to naught, and those that were left\nof the sword, they led into Babylon. 57 And they were his seruants\nvntil the Persians reigned in the fulfilling of the word of our Lord by\nthe mouth of Ieremie: (Jer 25:12 / Jer 29:10 / Dan 9:2) 58 as long as\nthe land quietly kept her sabbathes, al the time of her desolation she\nsabbathized in the application of seuentie yeares.\n\nCHAP. II.\n\nCyrus king of Persia permitteth the Iewes to returne into their\ncountrie: 10. and deliuereth to them the holie vessels, which\nNabuchodonosor had taken from the temple. 16. Certaine aduersaries\nwriting to king Artaxerxes, hinder those that would repayre the ruines\nof Ierusalem.\n\nCYRVS king of the Persians reigning for the accomplishment of the word\nof our Lord by the mouth of Ieremie, (2 Par 36:22 / 1 Esd 1:1 / 1 Esd\n6:3 / Jer 25:12\n/ Jer 29:10 / Dan 9:2) 2 our Lord raysed vp the spirit of Cyrus king of\n/ the\nPersians, and he proclaymed in al his kingdomes, and that by writing, 3\nsaying: Thus sayth Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord of Israel, the\nhigh Lord, hath made me king ouer the whole earth. 4 and hath signified\nto me to build him a house in Ierusalem, which is in Iurie. 5 If there\nbe any of your kinred, his Lord goe vp with him into Ierusalem. 6\nWhosoeuer therefore dwel about the places, let them helpe them that are\nin the same place, in gold and siluer, 7 in giftes, with horses, and\nbeastes, and with other thinges which by vowes are added into the\ntemple of our Lord, which is in Ierusalem. 8 And the princes of the\ntribes, of the villages and of Iurie, of the tribe of Beniamin, & the\nPriestes, and the Leuites standing vp, whom our Lord moued to goe vp,\nand to build the house of our Lord which is in Ierusalem, and they that\nwere round about them, 9 did helpe them with al their gold and siluer,\nand beastes, and manie whose minde was stirred vp, with many vowes. 10\nAnd Cyrus the king brought forth the sacred vessel of our Lord, which\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon transported out of Ierusalem, and\nconsecrated them to his Idol. 11 And Cyrus the king of Persians\nbringing them forth, deliuered them to Mithridatus, who was ouer his\ntreasures. 12 And by him they were deliuered to Salmanasar president of\nIurie. 13 And of these this was the number: Cuppes for libamentes of\nsiluer two thousand foure hundred, basens of siluer thirtie: phials of\ngold thirtie, also of siluer two thousand foure hundred: and other\nvessels a thousand. 14 and al the vessels of gold and siluer, were fiue\nthousand eight hundred sixtie. 15 And they were numbered to Salmanasar\ntogether with them, that came out of the captiuite of Babylon into\nIerusalem. 16 But in the times of Artaxerxes king of the Persians,\nthere wrote to him of them that dwelt in Iurie and Ierusalem, Balsamus,\nand Mithridatus, and Sabellius, and Rathimus, Balthemus, Sabellius\nscribe, and the rest dweling in Samaria, and other places the epistle\nfolowing to king Artaxerxes. (1 Esd 4:7) 17 SIR, thy seruantes Rathimus\nouer occurrentes, and Sabellius the scribe, and the other iudges of thy\ncourt in Caelesyria, and Phenice. 18 And now be it knowen to our Lord\nthe king, that Iewes came vp from you to vs, coming into Ierusalem a\nrebellious, & very naughty citie, do build the fornaces thereof, and\nset vp the walles, and rayse the temple. 19 And if this citie, and the\nwalles shal be finished, they wil not onlie not abyde to pay tributes,\nbut also wil resist the kinges. 20 And because that is in doing about\nthe temple, we thought it should doe wel not to neglect this same\nthing: 21 but to make it knowen to our Lord the king, that if it shal\nseme good, o king it may be sought in the bookes of thy fathers, 22 and\nthou shalt find in the recordes, thinges writen of these, and thou\nshalt know that this citie hath bene rebellious, and trubling kinges,\nand cities, 23 and the Iewes rebelles, & making battels in it from time\nout of mind, for the which cause this citie was made desolate. 24 Now\ntherfore we doe thee to vnderstand, Lord king, that if this citie shal\nbe built, and the walles therof shal be erected, there wil be no\ncomming downe for thee into Caelesyria, & Phenice. 25 Then wrote the\nking to Rathimus, the writer of the occurrentes, and to Balthemus, and\nto Sabellius the scribe, and to the rest ioyned with them, and to the\ndwellers in Syria, and Phenice, as foloweth: 26 I haue read the epistle\nthat you sent me. I commanded therfore search to be made, & it was\nfound that the same citie is from the beginning rebellious to kinges,\n27 and the men rebelles, and making battels in it, & there were most\nvalient kinges ruling in Ierusalem, and exacting tributes in\nCaelesyria, & Phenice. 28 Now therfore I haue geuen commandment to\nforbid those men to build the citie, and to stay them that nothing be\ndone more then is: 29 and that they proceeded not farder, wherof are\neuils, so that there may be truble brougt vpon the kinges. 30 Then\nthese things being read which were writen of king Artaxerxes, Rathimus,\nand Sabellius the scribe, and they that were apointed with them ioyning\ntogether in hast came to Ierusalem with a troupe of horsemen, and\nmultitude, & companie: 31 and they begane to forbid the builders, and\nthey ceased from building of the temple in Ierusalem, til in the second\nyeare of the reigne of Darius king of the Persians.\n\nCHAP. III.\n\nAfter a solemne supper made to al the court, and chief princes, king\nDarius sleeping: 4. three esquires of the bodie keeping watch, proposed\nthe question: 10. VVhether wine, or a King, or wemen, or the truth doth\nexcel? 17. The first prayseth wine.\n\nKING Darius made a great supper to al his domestical seruantes, and to\nal the magistrates of Media and Persia, 2 and to al that were purple,\nand to the praetors, and counsuls, and liuetenantes vnder him from\nIndia vnto AEthiopia, an hundred twentie seuen prouinces. 3 And when\nthey had eaten and drunken, and returned ful, then Darius went vp into\nhis chamber, and slept, and awaked. 4 Then those three youngmen kepers\nof his bodie, which garded the kings bodie, sayd one to an other; 5 Let\neuerie one of vs say a word that may excel: & whose word soeuer shal\nappeare wiser then the others, to him wil king Darius geue great\ngiftes, 6 to be couered with purple, & to drinke in gold, and to sleepe\nvpon gold, & a chariote with a bridle of gold, & a bonet of silke, and\na cheyne about his necke: 7 and he shal sit in the second place next\nDarius for his wisdome. And he shal be called the cosin of Darius. 8\nThen euerie one writing his word signed it, and they put it vnder the\npillow of Darius the king, 9 and they sayd. When the king shal rise, we\nwil geue him our writinges: and which soeuer of the three the king shal\niudge, and the magistrates of Persia, that his word is the wiser, to\nhim shal the victorie be geuen as is writen. 10 One wrote: Wine is\nstrong. 11 An other wrote, a King is stronger. 12 The third wrote,\nWemen are more strong: but aboue al thinges truth ouercometh. 13 And\nwhen the king was risen, they tooke their writinges, and gaue him, and\nhe read. 14 And sending he called al the Magistrates of Persians, and\nthe Medes, and them that weare purple, and the pretors, and the\nouerseers; 15 and they sate in the councel: and the writinges were read\nbefore them. 16 And he sayd: Cal the youngmen, and they shal declare\ntheir owne wordes. And they were called, and went in. 17 And he sayd to\nthem: Declare vnto vs concerning these thinges which are writen. And\nthe first began, he that had spoken of the strength of wine, 18 and\nsayd: O ye men, how doth wine preuaile ouer al men that drinke! it\nseduceth the minde. 19 And also the mind of king and orphane it maketh\nvaine. Also of the bondman and the free, of the rich man and the poore,\n20 and euerie mind it turneth into securitie and pleasantnes, and it\nremembreth not any sorow and dewtie, 21 and al hartes it maketh honest,\nand it remembreth not king, nor magistrate, and it maketh a man speake\nal thinges by talentes. 22 And when they haue drunke, they remember not\nfrendship, nor brotherhood: yea and not long after they take swordes.\n23 And when they are recouered and risen from the wine, they remember\nnot what they haue done. 24 O ye men, doth not wine excel? who thinketh\nto doe so? And hauing sayd this, he held his peace.\n\nCHAP. IIII.\n\nThe second prayseth the excellencie of a king: 13. The third (which is\nZorobabel) commendeth wemen: 33. but preferreth truth aboue al. 41.\nVVhich is so approued, and he is rewarded. 42. The king moreouer at his\nrequest restoreth the holie vessels of the temple, and granteth meanes\nto build the citie of Ierusalem, and the temple.\n\nAND the next began to speake, he that spake of the strength of a king.\n2 O ye men doe not the men excel, which obteyne land and sea, and al\nthinges that are in them? 3 But a king excelleth aboue al thinges, and\nhath dominion ouer them: and euerie thing whatsoeuer he shal say to\nthem, they doe. 4 And if he send them to warryers, they goe, and throw\ndowne mountaines, and the walles, and towers. 5 They kil, and are\nkilled: and the kinges word they transgresse not. For if they shal\nouercome, they bring to the king al thinges whatsoeuer they haue taken\nfor a praye. 6 In like maner also al others, for so many as are not\nsouldiars, nor fight, but til the ground: when they shal reape, againe\nthey bring tributes to the king. 7 And he being one onlie if he say:\nKil ye, they kil: say he: forgeue, the forgeue. 8 say he: strike: they\nstrike: say he, destroy, they destroy: say he build, they build. 9 say\nhe, cut downe, they cut downe, say he plant, they plant: 10 and al the\npeople, & potestates here him, and beside this he sitteth downe, and\ndrinketh, and sleepeth. 11 And others gard him round about, and can not\ngoe euerie one, and doe their owne workes, but at a word are obedient\nto him. 12 O ye men, how doth not a king excel that is so renowmed? And\nhe held his peace. 13 The third that spake of wemen and truth, this is\nZorobabel, began to speake. 14 O ye men, not the great king, & many\nmen, neither is it wine that dothe excel. Who is it then that hath the\ndominion of them? 15 Haue not wemen brought forth the king, and al the\npeople, that ruleth ouer land & sea: 16 and were they not borne of\nthem, and did not they bring vp them which planted the vineyardes,\nwhereof wine is made? 17 And they make the garmentes of al men, & they\ndoe honor to al men, and men can not be separed from wemen. 18 If they\nhaue gathered gold and siluer, and euerie beutiful thing, & see a woman\ncomelie and fayre, 19 leauing al these thinges they fixe their looke\nvpon her, & with open mouth beholde her, and allure her more then gold\nand siluer, and euerie precious thing. 20 Man forsaketh his father that\nbrought him vp, and his countrie, and ioyneth himself to a woman. 21\nAnd with a woman he refresheth his soul: and neither doth he remember\nfather, nor mother, nor countrie. 22 And hereby you must know that\nwemen rule ouer you. Are you not sorie? 23 And a man taketh his sword,\n& goeth into the way to commit theftes and murders, & to sayle seas &\nriuers, 24 and seeth a lyon, and goeth in darkenes: and when he hath\ncommitted theft, and fraude, and spoyles, he bringeth it to his\nbeloued. 25 And againe, man loueth his wife more then father or mother.\n26 And many haue become madde for their wiues: and haue been made\nbondmen for them: 27 and many haue perished and bene slayne, and haue\nsinned for wemen. 28 And now beleue me, that the king is great in his\npowre: because al countries are afrayd to touch him. 29 Neuertheles I\nsaw Apemes the daughter of Bezaces the concubine of a meruelous king,\nsitting by the king at his right hand, 30 and taking of the crowne from\nhis head, and putting it vpon her self, and with the palme of her left\nhand she stroke the king. 31 And beside these thinges he with open\nmouth beheld her: and if she smiled he laugheth, and if she be angrie\nwith him, he flattereth, til he be reconciled to her fauour. 32 O ye\nmen, why are not wemen stronger? Great is the earth, and high is the\nheauen: who doeth these thinges? 33 And then the king and they that\nweare purple looked one vpon an other. And he began to speake of truth.\n34 O ye men, are not wemen strong? The earth is great and heauen is\nhigh: & the swift course of the sunne turneth the heauen round into his\nplace in one day. 35 Is not he magnifical that doth these thinges, and\nthe truth great, and stronger aboue al thinges? 36 Al the earth calleth\nvpon the truth, heauen also blesseth it, and al workes are moued, and\ntremble at it, and there is not any thing with it vniust. 37 Wine is\nvniust, the king is vniust, wemen are vniust, al the sonnes of men are\nvniust, and al their workes are vniust, and in them is not truth, and\nthey shal perish in their iniquitie: 38 and truth abydeth, and groweth\nstrong for euer, and liueth, and preuayleth for euer and euer. 39\nNeither is there with it acception of persons, nor differences: but the\nthinges that are iust it doth to al men, to the vniust and malignant,\nand al men are wel pleased in the workes thereof. 40 And there is no\nvniust thing in the iudgement therof, but strength, and reigne, and\npower, and maiestie of worldes. Blessed be the God of truth. 41 And he\nleft speaking. And al the people cryed, and sayd: Great is truth and it\npreuaileth. 42 Then the king sayd to him: Aske, if thou wilt any more,\nthen the thinges that are writen, and I wil geue it thee, according as\nthou art found wiser then thy neighbours, & thou shalt sitte next to\nme, and shalt be called my cosin. 43 Then sayd he to the king: Be\nmidful of thy vow, which thou hast vowed, to build Ierusalem in the day\nthat thou didst receiue the kingdom: 44 and to send backe al the\nvessels that were taken out of Ierusalem, which Cyrus separated, when\nhe sacked Babylon, and would haue sent them backe thither. 45 And thou\nhast vowed to build the temple, which the Idumeians burnt, when Iurie\nwas destroyed of the Chaldees. 46 And now this is that which I aske\nLord, & which I desire, this is the maiestie which I desire of thee,\nthat thou performe the vowe which thou hast vowed to the king of heauen\nby thy mouth. 47 Then Darius the king rising vp, kissed him: and wrote\nletters to al the officers, and ouerseers, and them that weare purple,\nthat they should conduct him, and them that were with him, al going vp\nto build Ierusalem. 48 And to al the ouerseers that were in Syria, and\nPhoenice, and Libanus he wrote letters, that they should draw Ceder\ntrees from Libanus into Ierusalem, to build the citie with them. 49 And\nhe wrote to al the Iewes which went vp from the kingdome into Iurie for\nlibertie, euerie mightie man, & magistrate, & ouerseer not to come vpon\nthem to their gates, 50 and al the countrie which they had obtayned to\nbe free vnto them, & that the Idumeians leaue the castels which they\npossesse of the Iewes, 51 and to the building of the temple to geue\neuerie yeare twentie talentes vntil it were throughly built: 52 & vpon\nthe altars to burne holocausts dayly, as they haue commandment: to\noffer other ten talentes euery yeare, 53 & to al that go forth from\nBabylon to build the citie, that there should be libertie as wel to\nthem as to their children, and to al the priestes that goe before. 54\nAnd he wrote a quantitie also, and commanded the sacred stole to be\ngeuen, wherein they should serue; 55 and to the Leuites he wrote to\ngeue preceptes, vntil the day wherein the house shal be finished, and\nIerusalem builded. 56 And to al that kepe the citie, he wrote portions\nand wages to be geuen to them. 57 And he sent away al the vessels\nwhatsoeuer Cyrus had separated from Babylon, and al thinges whatsoeuer\nCyrus sayd, he also commanded to be donne, and to be sent to Ierusalem.\n58 And when that yong man was gone forth, lyfting vp his face toward\nIerusalem, he blessed the king of heauen, 59 & sayd: Of thee is\nvictorie, and of thee is wisdome, and glorie. And I am thy seruant. 60\nBlessed art thou which hast geuen me wisedom, and I wil confesse to\nthee Lord God of our fathers. 61 And he toke the letters, and went into\nBabylon. And he came, and told al his brethren that were in Babylon: 62\nand they blessed the God of their fathers, because he gaue them\nremission and refreshing, 63 that they should goe vp and build\nIerusalem, and the temple wherein his name was renowmed, and they\nreioyced with musike and ioy seuen dayes.\n\nCHAP. V.\n\nThose that returned from captiuitie of Bablyon into Ierusalem, and\nIurie, are recited. 47. They restore Gods seruice: 66. but are hindered\nfrom building.\n\nAFTER these thinges there were chosen, to goe vp the princes of townes\nby their houses, and tribes, and their wiues, and their sonnes and\ndaughters, and their men seruantes and wemen seruantes, and their\ncattel. (1 Esd 2:1) 2 And Darius the king sent together with them a\nthousand horsmen, til they conducted them to Ierusalem with peace, &\nwith musicke & with tymbrels, and shaulmes: 3 and al the brethren were\nplaying, and he made them goe vp together with them. 4 And these are\nthe names of the men that went vp by their townes according to tribes,\nand according to the portion of their principalitie. 5 Priestes: The\nchildren of Phinees, the sonne of Aaron, Iesus the sonne of Iosedec,\nIoacim the sonne of Zorobabel, the sonne of Salatheil of the house of\nDauid, of the progenie of Phares, of the tribe of Iuda. 6 Who spake\nvnder Darius king of the Persians the meruelous wordes in the second\nyeare of his reigne the first moneth Nisan. 7 And they are these, that\nof Iurie came vp from the captiuitie of the transmigration, whom\nNabuchodonosor the king of Babylon transported into Babylon, and\nreturned into Ierusalem. (1 Esd 2:2 / 2 Esd 7:6) 8 And euerie one\nsought a part of Iurie according to his owne citie, they that came with\nZorobabel, and Iesus, Nehemias, Areores, Elimeo, Emmanio, Mardocheo,\nBeelsuro, Mechpsatochor, Olioro, Emonia one of their princes. 9 And the\nnumber of them of the same nation, of their rulers the children of\nPhares, two thousand an hundred seuentie two: 10 The children of Ares,\nthree thousand an hundred fiftie seuen: 11 The children of Phoemo, an\nhundred fourtie two: in the children of Iesus and Ioabes, a thousand\nthree hundred two: 12 the children of Demu, two thousand foure hundred\nseuentie: the children of Choraba, two hundred fiue: the children of\nBanica, an hundred sixtie eight, 13 the children of Bebech, foure\nhundred three: the children of Archad, foure hundred twentie seuen: 14\nthe children of Cham, thirtie seuen: the children of Zoroar, two\nthousand sixtie seuen: the children of Adin, foure hundred sixtie one:\n15 the children of Aderectes, an hundred eight: the children of Ciaso\nand Zelas an hundred seuen: the children of Azoroc, foure hundred\nthirtie nine: 16 the children of Iedarbone, an hundred thirtie two: the\nchildren of Ananias, an hundred thirtie: the children of Asoni,\nninetie: 17 the children of Marsar, foure hundred twentie two: the\nchildren of Zabarus, nintie fiue: the children of Sepolemon, an hundred\ntwentie three: 18 the children of Nepopas, fiftie fiue: the children of\nHechanatus, an hundred fiftie eight: the children of Cebethamus, an\nhundred thirite two: 19 the children of Crearpatros, which are of\nEnocadie and Modia, foure hundred twentie three: they of Gramas and\nBabea, an hundred twentie one. 20 They of Besselon, and Ceagge, sixtie\nfiue: they of Bastraro, an hundred twentie two: 21 they of Bechenobes,\nfiftie fiue: the children of Liptis, an hundred fiftie fiue: the\nchildren of Labonni, three hundred fiftie seuen: 22 the children of\nSichem, three hundred seuentie: the children of Suadon, & Cliomus,\nthree hundred seuentie eight: 23 the children of Ericus, two thousand\nan hundred fourtie fiue: the children of Anaas, three hundred seuentie.\nThe priestes: 24 the children of Ieddus, the sonne of Euther, the sonne\nof Eliasib, three hundred seuenty two: the children of Emerus, two\nhundred fiftie two: 25 the children of Phasurius, three hundred fiftie\nseuen the children of Caree, two hundred twentie seuen. 26 The Leuites:\nThe children of Iesus in Caduhel, and Bamis, and Serebias, and Edias,\nseuentie foure, the whole number from the twelfth yeare, thiritie\nthousand foure hundred sixtie two. 27 The sonnes, and daughters, and\nwiues, the whole number, fourtie thousand two hundred fourtie two. 28\nThe children of the Priestes, that sang in the temple: the children of\nAsaph, an hundred twentie eight. 29 And the porters: the children of\nEsmeni, the children of Azer, the children of Amon, the children of\nAccuba, of Topa, the children of Tobi, al an hundred thirtie nine. 30\nPriestes that serued in the temple: the children of Sel, the children\nof Gaspha, the children of Tobloch, the children of Caria, the children\nof Su, the children of Hellu, the children of Lobana, the children of\nArmacha, the children of Accub, the children of Vtha, the children of\nCetha, the children of Aggab, the children of Obai, the children of\nAnani, the children of Canna, the children of Geddu, 31 the children or\nAn, the children of Radin, the children of Desanon, the children of\nNachoba, the children of Caseba, the children of Gaze, the children of\nOzui, the children of Sinone, the children of Attre, the children of\nHasten, the children of Asiana, the children of Manei, the children of\nNasissim, the children of Acusu, the children of Agista, the children\nof Azui, the children of Fauon, the children of Phasalon, 32 the\nchildren of Meedda, the children of Phusa, the children of Caree, the\nchildren of Burcus, the children of Saree, the children of Coesi, the\nchildren of Nasith, the children of Agisti, the children of Pedon. 33\nSalomon his children, the children of Asophot, the children of Phasida,\nthe children of Celi, the children of Dedon, the children of Gaddehel,\nthe children of Sephegi, 34 the children of Aggia, the children of\nSachareth, the children of Sabathen, the children of Caroneth, the\nchildren of Malsith, the children of Ama, the children of Sasus, the\nchildren of Addus, the children of Suba, the children of Eura, the\nchildren of Rahotis, the children of Phasphat, the children of Malmon.\n35 Al that serued the sanctuarie, and the seruantes of Salomon, foure\nhundred eightie two. 36 These are the children that came vp from\nThelmela, Thelharsa: the princes of them, Carmellam, and Careth: 37 and\nthey could not declare their cities, and their progenies, how they are\nof Israel. The children of Dalari, the children of Tubal, the children\nof Nechodaici, 38 of the Priestes, that did the function of priesthood:\nand there were not found the children of Obia, the children of Achisos,\nthe children of Addin, who tooke a wife of the daughters of Pargeleu:\n39 and they were called by his name, and the writing of the kinred of\nthese was sought in the register, and it was not found, and they were\nforbid to doe the function of priesthood. 40 And Nehemias and Astharus\nsayd to them: Let not the holie thinges be participated, til there\narise a hiegh priest lerned for declaration and truth. 41 And al Israel\nwas beside men seruantes, and wemen seruantes, fourtie two thousand\nthree hundred fourtie. 42 Their men seruantes and wemen seruantes,\nseuen thousand three hundred thirtie seuen. Singing men and singing\nwemen, two hundred three score fiue. 43 Camels, foure hundred thiritie\nfiue. Horses, seuen thousand thirtie six. Mules, two hundred thousand\nfourtie fiue. Beastes vnder yoke, fiue thousand twentie fiue. 44 And of\nthe rulers themselues by their villages, when they came into the temple\nof God, which was in Ierusalem, to renew and raise vp the temple in his\nplace, according to their power: 45 and to be geuen into the temple to\nthe sacred treasure of the workes, of gold twelue thousand mnas, and\nfiue thousand mnas of siluer, and stoles for Priestes an hundred. 46\nAnd the Priestes and Leuites, and they that came out of the people,\ndwelt in Ierusalem, and in the countrie, and the sacred singingmen, and\nporters, and al Israel in their countries. 47 And the seuenth moneth\nbeing at hand, and when the children of Israel were euerie man in his\nowne affayres, they came together with one minde into the court, that\nwas before the east gate. (1 Esd 3:1) 48 And Iesus the sonne of\nIosedec, and his brethren the priestes: Zorobabel the sonne of\nSalathiel, and his brethren standing vp, prepared an altar, 49 that\nthey might offer vpon it holocaustes, according to the thinges that are\nwriten in the booke of Moyses the man of God. 50 And there assembled\nthere of other nations of the land, and al the nations of the land\nerected the altar in his place, and they offered hostes, and morning\nholocaustes to our Lord. 51 And they celebrated the feast of\nTabernacles, and the solemne day, as it is commanded in the lawe: and\nsacrifices dayly, as it behoued: 52 and after these the appointed\noblations, and the hostes of the sabbathes, and of the newmoones, and\nof al the solemne sanctified dayes. 53 And as manie as vowed to our\nLord from the new moone of the seuenth moneth, began to offer the\nhostes to God, and the temple of our Lord was not yet built. 54 And\nthey gaue monie to the masones and workemen, and drinke and victuals\nwith ioy. 55 And they gaue cartes to the Sidonians, and Tyrianes, that\nwith them they should carie ceder beames from Lybanus, and should make\nboates in the hauen Ioppe, according to the decre that was writen for\nthem by Cyrus king of the Persians. 56 And in the second yeare coming\ninto the temple of God in Ierusalem, in the second moneth began Zorobel\nthe sonne of Salathiel, and Iosue the sonne of Iosedec, and their\nbretheren, and the Priestes and Leuites, and al that were come from the\ncaptiuitie into Ierusalem. 57 and they founded the temple of God in the\nnewmoone of the second moneth of the second yeare, after that they came\ninto Iurie and Ierusalem. 58 And they appoynted the Leuites from\ntwentie yeares, ouer the workes of our Lord: and Iesus stood and his\nsonne, and the bretheren, al Leuites ioyning together, & executors of\nthe lawe, doing the workes in the house of our Lord. 59 And al the\nPriestes stood, hauing stoles with trumpettes: 60 and Leuites the\nchildren of Asaph, hauing cymbals together praysing our Lord, and\nblessing him according to Dauid king of Israel. 61 And they song a song\nto our Lord, because his sweetenes, and honour is for euer vpon Israel.\n62 And al the people sounded with trumpet, and cried out with a loud\nvoice, praysing our Lord in the raysing vp of the house of our Lord. 63\nAnd there came of the Priestes and Leuites, and presidentes by their\nvillages the more ancientes, which had sene the old house: 64 and to\nthe building of this with crie and great lamentation, and manie with\ntrumpettes and great ioy: 65 in so much that the people heard not the\ntrumpettes for the lamentatinon of the people. For the multitude was\nsounding with trumpettes magnifically, so that it was heard far of. 66\nAnd the enimes of the tribe of Iuda, and Beniamin heard it, and they\ncame to knowe what the voyce of the trumpettes was: 67 And they knew\nthat they which were of the captiuitie doe build a temple to our Lord\nthe God of Israel. 68 And coming to Zorobabel & Iesus, the ouerseers of\nthe villages, they sayd to them: We will build together with you: (1\nEsd 4:2) 69 For we haue in like maner heard your Lord, & we walke like\nfrom the dayes of Asbazareth king of the Assyrians, who transported vs\nhither. 70 And Zorobabel, and Iesus, & the princes of the villages of\nIsrael, sayd to them: 71 It is not for vs and you to build the house of\nour God. For we alone wil build to our Lord of Israel according as\nCyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded. 72 And the nations of\nthe land lying vpon them that are in Iurie, and lifting vp the worke of\nthe building, and bringing ambushmentes, and peoples, prohibited them\nto build. 73 and practising assaultes hindred them, that the building\nmight not be finished al the time of the life of king Cyrus, and they\ndifferred the building for two yeares vntil the reigne of Darius.\n\nCHAP. VI.\n\nThe Iewes by assistance of king Darius build vp the Temple in\nIerusalem.\n\nAND in the second yeare of the reigne of Darius prophecied Aggeus, and\nZacharias the sonne of Addo the prophet to Iurie and Ierusalem in the\nname of God of Israel vpon them. (1 Esd 5:1) 2 Then Zorobabel the sonne\nof Salathiel standing vp, and Iesus the sonne of Iosedec begane to\nbuild the house of our Lord, which is in Ierusalem. 3 When the\nprophetes of our Lord were present with them, and did helpe them. At\nthe same time came Sisennes to them, the deputie of Syria, and of\nPhenice, and Satrabuzanes, and his felowes: 4 and they sayd to them: By\nwhose commandment, build ye this house, and this roofe, and perfite al\nother thinges? And who are the workmen that build these thinges? 5 And\nthe ancientes of the Iewes, which were left of the captiuitie by our\nLord, had fauoure when the visitation was made vpon them. 6 And they\nwere not hindered from building, til it was signified to Darius of al\nthese thinges, and answer was receiued. 7 A copie of the letter, which\nthey sent to Darius. SISENNES deputie of Syria and Phenice, and\nSatrabuzanes, and his felowes in Syria and Phenice presidents, to king\nDarius greetings: 8 Be al thinges knowen to our Lord the king, that\nwhen we came into the countrie of Iurie, and had entered into\nIerusalem, we found them building the great house of God. 9 And the\ntemple of polished stones, and of great and precious matter in the\nwalles. 10 And the workes to be a doing earnestly, and to succede, and\nprosper in their handes, and in al glorie to be perfited most\ndiligently. 11 Then we asked the ancients saying, by whose permission\nbuild ye this house, & found these workes? 12 And therfore we asked\nthem, that we might doe thee to know the men & the ouerseers, and we\nrequired of them a rolle of the names of the ouerseers. 13 But they\nanswered vs saying: We are the seruantes of the Lord, which made heauen\nand earth. 14 And this house was built these manie yeares past by a\nking of Israel, that was great and most valiant, and was finished. 15\nAnd because our fathers were prouoking to wrath, and sinned agaynst God\nof Israel, he deliuered them into the handes of Nabuchodonosor the king\nof Babylon, king of the Chaldees. 16 And throwing downe this house they\nburnt it, and they led the people captiue into Babylon. 17 In the first\nyeare when Cyrus reigned the king of Babylon, Cyrus the king wrote to\nbuild this house. 18 And these sacred vessels of gold and siluer which\nNabuchodonosor had taken out of the house which is in Ierusalem, and\nhad consecrated them in his owne temple, Cyrus brought them forth\nagayne out of the temple which was in Babylon, and they were deliuered\nto Zorobabel, & to Salmanasar the deputie. 19 And it was commanded them\nthat they should offer these vessels, & lay them vp in the temple,\nwhich was in Ierusalem, and build the temple of God itself in his\nplace. 20 Then did Salmanasar lay the fundations of the house of our\nLord, which is in Ierusalem: and from that time vntil now it is a\nbuilding, and is not accomplished. 21 Now therfore if thou thincke it\ngood o king, let it be sought in the kings liberaries of Cyrus the\nking, which are in Babylon: 22 and if it shal be found, that the\nbuilding of the house of the Lord, which is in Ierusalem, begane by the\ncounsel of Cyrus the king, and it be thought good of our Lord the king,\nlet him write to vs of these thinges. 23 Then Darius the king commanded\nsearch to be made in the libraries: and there was found in Ecbatana a\ntowne that is in the countrie of Media, one place wherin were writen\nthese wordes: (1 Esd 6:1) 24 IN THE FIRST YEARE of the reigne of Cyrus,\nking Cyrus commanded to build the house of the Lord which is in\nIerusalem, where they did burne incense with dayly fire, 25 the height\nwherof shal be of ten cubits, & the bredth three score cubites, foure\nsquare with three stones polished, and with a loft galerie of wood of\nthe same countrie, & one new galerie, and the expenses to be geuen out\nof the house of Cyrus the king. 26 And the sacred vesseles of the house\nof the Lord, as wel of gold as of siluer, which Nabuchodonosor tooke\nfrom the house of our Lord, which is in Ierusalem where they were\nlayed, that they be put there: 27 And he commanded Sisennes the deputie\nof Syria & Phoenice, and Satrabuzanes, and his felowes & them that were\nordayned presidentes in Syria & Phoenice, that they should refraine\nthemselues from that place. 28 And I also haue geuen commandment to\nbuild it wholly: and haue prouided, that they helpe them, which are of\nthe captiuitie of the Iewes, til the temple of the house of the Lord be\naccomplished. 29 And from the vexation of the tributes of Coelesyria &\nPhoenice, a quantitie to be geuen diligently to these men for the\nsacrifice of the Lord, to Zorobabel the gouernour, for oxen, and\nrammes, and lambes. 30 And in like maner corne also, and salt, and\nwine, and oyle continually yeare by yeare, according as the priestes\nwhich are in Ierusalem, haue prescribed to be spent dayly: 31 that\nlibamentes may be offered to the most high God for the king & his\nchildren, & that they may pray for their life. 32 And that it be\ndenounced, that whosoeuer shal transgresse anie thing of these which\nare writen, or shal despise it, a beame be taken of theyr owne, & they\nbe hanged, & their goodes be confiscate to the king. 33 Therfore the\nLord also, whose name is inuocated there, destroy euery king & nation,\nthat shal extend their hand to hinder or to handle il the house of the\nLord which is in Ierusalem. 34 I Darius the king haue decreed that it\nbe most diligently done according to these thinges.\n\nCHAP. VII.\n\nThe house of God is finished, 7. and dedicated, 10. the feast of Pasch\nis also celebrated seuen dayes with Azimes.\n\nTHEN Sisennes the deputie of Coelesyria, and Phaenice, and\nSatrabuzames, and their felowes, obeying those thinges which were\ndecreed of Darius the king, (1 Esd 6:13) 2 applied the sacred workes\nmost diligently, working together with the ancientes of the Iewes, the\nprinces of Syria. 3 And the sacred workes prospered, Aggeus & Zacharias\nthe prophetes prophecying. 4 And they accomplished al thinges by the\nprecept of our Lord the God of Israel, and by the counsel of Cyrus, &\nDarius, and Artaxerxes the king of the Persians. 5 And our house was a\nfinishing vntil the three and twentith day of the moneth of Adar, the\nsixth yeare of Darius the king. 6 And the children of Israel, and the\nPriestes and Leuites, and the rest that were of the captiuitie, which\nwere added did according to those thinges that are written in the booke\nof Moyses. 7 And they offered for the dedication of the temple of our\nLord, oxen an hundred, rammes two hundred, lambes foure hundred. 8 And\nkiddes for the sinnes of al Israel, twelue, according to the number of\nthe tribes of Israel. 9 And the Priestes and Leuites stood clothed with\nstoles by tribes, ouer al the workes of our Lord the God of Israel,\naccording to the booke of Moyses, and the porters at euerie gate. 10\nAnd the children of Israel, wih them that were of the captiuitie\ncelebrated the phase of the fourtenth moone of the first moneth, when\nthe Priestes and Leuites were sanctified. 11 Al the children of the\ncaptiuitie were not sanctified together, because al the Leuites were\nsanctified together. 12 And al the children of the captuitie immolated\nthe phase, both for their brethren the Priestes, and for them selues.\n13 And the children of Israel did eate, they that were of the\ncaptiuitie al that remayned apart from al the abominations of the\nnations of the land seeking our Lord. 14 And they celebrated the\nfestiual day of Azymes seuen dayes feasting in the sight of our Lord.\n15 Because he turned the counsel of the king of the Assirians toward\nthem, to strengthen their handes to the workes of our Lord the God of\nIsrael.\n\nCHAP. VIII.\n\nEsdras going from Babylon to Ierusalem, 9. carieth king Artaxerxes\nfauourable letters, 14. with licence to take gold, siluer, and al\nthinges necessarie at their pleasure. 31. The chief men that goe with\nhim are recited. 51. He voweth a fast praying for good success in their\niorney. 56. weigheth the gold and siluer, which he deliuereth to the\nPriestes, and Leuites. 69. And seuerely admonisheth the people to\nrepentance, for their mariages made with infideles.\n\nAND after him when Artaxerxes king of the Persians reigned, came Esdras\nthe sonne of Azarias, the sonne of Helcias the sonne of Salome, (1 Esd\n7:1) 2 the sonne of Sadoc, the sonne of Achitob, the sonne of Ameri,\nthe sonne of Azahel, the sonne of Bocci, the sonne of Abisue, the sonne\nof Phinees the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the first priest. 3\nThis Esdras came vp from Babylon being scribe & wise in the law of\nMoyses, which was geuen of our Lord the God of Israel to teach and to\ndoe. 4 And the king gaue him glorie, because he had found grace in al\ndignitie and desire in his sight. 5 And there went vp with him of the\nchildren of Israel, and the Priestes, and the Leuites, and the sacred\nsingers of the temple, and the porters, and the seuantes of the temple\ninto Ierusalem. 6 In the seuenth yeare when Artaxerxes reigned in the\nfifth moneth, this is the seuenth yeare of his reigne, going forth of\nBabylon in the newmoone of the fifth moneth, 7 they came to Ierusalem\naccording to his commandment, according to the prosperitie of their\niourney, which their Lord gaue them. 8 For in these Esdras had great\nknowlege, that he would not pretermitte anie of those thinges, which\nwere according to the law, and the preceptes of our Lord, and in\nteaching al Israel al iusticie and iudgement. 9 And they that wrote the\nwritinges of Araxerxes the king, coming deliuered the writing which was\ngranted of Artaxerxes the king to Esdras the Priest, & the reader of\nthe law of our Lord, the copie wherof here foloweth. 10 KING Artaxerxes\nto Esdras the Priest, and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting. 11 I\nof curtesie esteming it among benifites, haue commanded them that of\ntheir owne accord are desirous of the nation of the Iewes, and of the\nPriestes and Leuites, which are in my kingdom, to goe with thee into\nIerusalem. 12 If anie therfore desire to goe with thee, let them come\ntogether, and set forward as it hath pleased me, and my seuen freindes\nmy counselers: 13 that they may visite those thinges which are done\ntouching Iurie and Ierusalem, obseruing as thou hast in the law of the\nLord. 14 And let them carie the giftes to the Lord the God of Israel,\nwhich I haue vowed and my freindes to Ierusalem, and al the gold and\nsiluer, that shal be found in the countrie of Babylon to the Lord in\nIerusalem, with that, 15 which is geuen for the nation it self vnto the\ntemple of their Lord which is in Ierusalem: that this gold and siluer\nbe gathered for oxen, and rammes, and lambes, and kiddes, and for the\nthinges that are agreable to these, 16 that they may offer hostes to\nthe Lord vpon the altar of their Lord, which is in Ierusalem. 17 And al\nthinges whatsoeuer thou with thy brethren wilt doe with gold and\nsiluer, doe it at thy pleasure according to the precept of the Lord thy\nGod. 18 And the sacred vessels, which are geuen thee to the workes of\nthe house of the Lord thy God, which is in Ierusalem. 19 And other\nthinges whatsoeuer shal helpe thee to the workes of the temple of thy\nGod, thou shalt geue it out of the kings treasure. 20 When thou with\nthy brethren wilt doe ought with gold and siluer, doe according to the\nwil of the Lord. 21 And I king Artaxerxes haue geuen commandment to the\nkeepers of the treasure of Syria and Phaenice, that what thinges soeuer\nEsdras the Priest and reader of the law of the Lord, shal write for,\nthey geue him vnto an hundred talentes of siluer, likewise also of\ngold. 22 And vnto an hundred measures of corne, & an hundred vessels of\nwine, and other thinges whatsoeuer abound without taxing. 23 Let al\nthinges be done to the most high God according to the law of God, lest\nperhaps there arise wrath in the reigne of the king, and of his sonne,\nand his sonnes. 24 And to you it is sayd, that vpon al the Priestes,\nand Leuites, and sacred singers, and seruantes of the temple, & scribes\nof this temple 25 no tribute, nor any other taxe be sette, and that no\nman haue auctoritie to obiect any thing to them. 26 But thou Esdras\naccording to the wisedom of God appoynt iudges, and arbitrers in al\nSyria and Phaenice: and teach al them that know no the law of thy God:\n27 that whosoeuer shal transgresse the law, they be diligently punished\neither with death, or with torment, or els with a forfeite of money, or\nwith banishment. 28 And Esdras the scribe sayd: Blessed be the God of\nour fathers, which hath geuen this wil into the kings hart, to glorifie\nhis house, which is in Ierusalem. 29 And hath honoured me in the sight\nof the king, and of his counselers, and freindes, and them that weare\npurple. 30 And I was made constant in minde according to the ayde of\nour Lord my God, and gathered together of Israel men, that should goe\nvp together with me. 31 And these are the princes according to their\nkindredes, and seueral principalities of them that came vp from Babylon\nthe kingdom of Artaxerxes. (1 Esd 8:1) 32 Of the children of Phares,\nGerfomus: and of the children of Siemarith, Amenus: of the children of\nDauid, Acchus the sonne of Scecilia: 33 Of the children of Phares,\nZacharias, and with him returned an hundred fiftie men. 34 Of the\nchildren of leader Moabilion, Zaraei, and with him two hundred fiftie\nmen: 35 Of the children of Zachues, Iechonias of Zechoel, and with him\ntwo hundred fiftie men: 36 of the children of Sala, Maasias of\nGotholia, & with him seuentie men: 37 of the children of Saphatia,\nZarias of Michel, and with him eightie men: 38 of the children of Iob,\nAbdias of Iehel, and with him two hundred twelue men: 39 of the\nchildren of Bania, Salimoth, the sonne of Iosaphia, and with him an\nhundred sixtie men: 40 of the children of Beer, Zacharias Bebei, and\nwith him two hundred eight men: 41 of the children of Ezead, Ioannes of\nEccetan, and with him an hundred ten men: 42 of the children of\nAdonicam, which were last, and these are their names, Eliphalam the\nsonne of Gebel, and Semeias, and with him seuentie men. 43 And I\ngathered them together to the riuer that is called Thia, and we camped\nthere three dayes, and vewed them againe. 44 And of the children of the\nPriestes and Leuites I found not there. 45 And I sent to Eleazarus, and\nEccelon, and Masman, and Maloban, and Enaathan, and Samea, and Ioribum,\nNathan, Enuaugam, Zacharias, and Mosolam the leaders them selues, and\nthat were skilful. 46 And I sayd to them that they should come to\nLoddeus, who was at the place of the treasurie. 47 And I commanded them\nto say to Loddeus, and his brethren, and to them that were in the\ntreasurie, that they should send vs them that might doe the function of\npriesthood in the house of the Lord our God. 48 And they brought vnto\nvs according to the mightie hand of the Lord our God cunning men: of\nthe children of Moholi, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Israel,\nSebebia, & his sonnes and brethren, which were eightene: 49 Asbia, and\nAmin of the sonnes of the children of Chananeus, and their children\ntwentie men. 50 And of them that serued the temple, whom Dauid gaue,\nand the princes themselues to the ministerie of the Leuites of them\nthat serued the temple, two hundred twentie. Al their names were\nsignified in writings. 51 And I vowed there a fast to the yong men in\nthe sight of God, that I might aske of him a good iourney for vs, and\nthem that were with vs, and for the children, and the cattel because of\nambushementes. 52 For I was ashamed to aske of the king footemen and\nhorsemen in my companie, to guard vs, against our aduersaries. 53 For\nwe sayd to the king that the power of our Lord wil be with them that\nseeke him with al affection. 54 And agayne we besought the Lord our God\naccording to these thinges: whom also we had propicious, and we\nobteyned of our God. 55 And I separated of the rulers of the people,\nand of the Priestes of the temple, twelue men, and Sedebia, and Asanna,\nand with them of their brethren ten men. 56 And I weyed to them the\ngold and siluer, and the vessels of the house of our God perteyning to\nthe Priestes, which the king had geuen, and his counselers, and the\nprinces, and al Israel. 57 And when I had weyed it, I deliuered of\nsiluer an hundred fiftie talentes, and siluer vessels of an hundred\ntalentes, and of gold an hundred talentes. 58 And of vessels of gold\nseuen score and twelue brasen vessels good of shyning brasse,\nresembling the forme of gold. 59 And I sayd to them: You are also\nsanctified to our Lord, and the vessels be holie, and the gold and\nsiluer is vowed to our Lord the God of our fathers. 60 Watch and keepe,\ntil you deliuer them to some of the rulers of the people, and to the\nPriestes, and Leuites, and to the princes of the cities of Israel in\nIerusalem, in the treasurie of the house of our God. 61 And those\nPriestes and Leuites that receiued the gold and siluer and vessels,\nbrought it to Ierusalem into the temple of our Lord. 62 And we went\nforward from the riuer Thia, the twelfth day of the first moneth, til\nwe entred into Ierusalem. 63 And when the third day was come, in the\nfourth day the gold being weyed, and the siluer, was deliuered in the\nhouse of the Lord our God, to Marimoth Priest the sonne of Iori. 64 And\nwith him was Eleazar the sonne of Phinees: and with them were Iosadus\nthe sonne of Iesus, and Medias, and Banni the sonne of a Leuite, by\nnumber and weight al thinges. 65 And the weight of them was writen the\nsame houre. 66 And they that came out of the captiuitie, offered\nsacrifice to our Lord the God of Israel, oxen twelue, for al Israel,\nrammes eightie six, 67 lambes seuentie two, bucke goates for sinne\ntwelue, and for health twelue kyne, al for the sacrifice of our Lord.\n68 And they read againe the preceptes of the king to the kinges\nofficers, and to the deputies of Coelesyria, and Phoenice: and they\nhonored the nation, and the temple of our Lord. 69 And these thinges\nbeing finished, the rulers came to me, saying: The stocke of Isreal,\nand the princes, and the Priestes, and the Leuites, (1 Esd 9:1) 70 and\nthe strange people, and nations of the land haue not separated their\nvncleannes from the Chananeites, and Hetheites, and Pherezeites, and\nIebuseites, and Moobites, & AEgyptians, and Idumeians. 71 For they are\nioyned to their daughters both themselues, and their sonnes: and the\nholie sede is mingled with the strange nations of the earth, and the\nrulers and magistrates were partakers of that iniquitie from the\nbeginning of the reigne it self. 72 And forthwith as I heard these\nthinges, I rent my garmentes and sacred tunike: and tearing the heares\nof my head, and my beard, I sate sorowful and heauie. 73 And there\nassembled to me mourning vpon this iniquitie, as manie as were then\nmoued by the word of our Lord the God of Israel, and I sate sad vntil\nthe euening sacrifice. 74 And I rising vp from fasting, hauing my\ngarmentes rent and the sacred tunike, kneeling, and stretching forth my\nhandes to our Lord, 75 I sayd: Lord I am confounded, and ashamed before\nthy face, 76 for our sinnes are multiplied ouer our heades, and our\niniquities are exalted euen to heauen. 77 Because from the times of our\nfathers we are in great sinne vnto this day. 78 And for the sinnes of\nvs, and of our fathers we haue bene deliuered with our brethren, and\nwith our Priestes to the kinges of the earth, into sword and\ncaptiuitie, and spoile with confusion vnto this present day. 79 And now\nwhat a great thing is this that mercie hath happened to vs from thee o\nLord God, & leaue thou vnto vs a roote, and a name in the place of thy\nsanctification, 80 to discouer our light in the house of the Lord our\nGod, to geue vs meate in al the time of our bondage. 81 And when we\nserued, we were not forsaken of the Lord our God: but he sette vs in\nfauour, appointing the kinges of the Persians to geue us meate, 82 and\nto glorifie the temple of the Lord our God, and to build the\ndesolations of Sion, to geue vs stabilitie in Iurie, and Ierusalem. 83\nAnd now what say we Lord, hauing these thinges? For we haue\ntransgressed thy preceptes, which thou gauest into the handes of thy\nseruantes the prophetes, 84 saying: That the land into which ye entred\nto possesse the inheritance therof, is a land polluted with the\ncoinquinations of the strangers of the land, and their vncleanes hath\nfilled it wholy with their filthines. 85 And now your daughters you\nshal not match with their sonnes, and their daughters you shal not take\nfor your sonnes. 86 And you shal not seeke to haue peace with them for\neuer, that growing strong you may eate the best things of the land, and\nmay distribute the inheritance to your children for euer. 87 And the\nthinges that happen to vs, al are done for our nauhtie workes, and our\ngreat sinnes. 88 And thou gauest vs such a roote, and we are returned\nagaine to transgresse thy ordinances, that we would be mingled with the\nvncleannes of the nations of this land. 89 Wilt not thou be wrath with\nvs to destroy vs, til there be no roote left nor our name? 90 Lord God\nof Israel thou art true. For there is a roote left vntil this present\nday. 91 Behold, now we are in thy sight in our iniquities. For it is\nnot to stand any longer before thee in these matters. 92 And when\nEsdras with adoration confessed weeping, lying flat on the ground\nbefore the temple, there were gathered before him out of Ierusalem a\nverie great multitude, men and wemen, and yong men and yong wemen. For\nthere was great weeping in the multitude it self. (1 Esd 10:1) 93 And\nwhen he had cried, Iechonias of Ieheli of the children of Israel, sayd\nto Esdras: We haue sinned against our Lord, for that we haue taken vnto\nvs in mariage strange wemen of the nations of the land. 94 And now thou\nart ouer al Israel, in these therfore let there be an othe from our\nLord to expel al our wiues that are of strangers with their children.\n95 As it was decreed to thee of the ancesters according to the law of\nour Lord, rising vp declare it. 96 For to thee the busines perteineth,\nand we are with thee: doe manfully. 97 And Esdras rysing vp adiured the\nprinces of the Priestes and Leuites, and al Israel to doe according to\nthese thinges and they sware.\n\nCHAP. IX.\n\nEsdras fasting for the sinnes of the people, commandeth that they\nseparate al strange wemen from them. 18. The Priestes and Leuites,\nwhich had offended herein, are recited. 38 He readeth the law before\nthe people: 48 certaine doe expound to the multitudes in seueral\nplaces. 52 And so they are dismissed with ioy.\n\nAND Esdras rysing vp from before the court of the temple, went into the\nchamber of Ionathas the sonne of Nasabi. (1 Esd 10:6) 2 And lodging\nthere he tasted no bread, nor dranke water for the iniquitie of the\nmultitude. 3 And there was proclamation made in al Iurie, & in\nIerusalem to al that were of the captiuitie gathered in Ierusalem, 4\nthat whosoeuer shal not appeare with in two or three dayes, according\nto the iudgement of the ancients sitting vpon it, their goods should be\ntaken away, and himselfe should be iudged an alien from the multitude\nof the captiuitie. 5 And al were gathered that were of the tribe of\nIuda, and of Beniamin within three dayes in Ierusalem: this is the\nninth moneth, the twentith day of the moneth. 6 And al the multitude\nsate in the court of the temple trembling, for the present winter. 7\nAnd Esdras rysing vp sayd to them: You haue done vnlawfully taking to\nyou in mariage strang wiues, that you might adde to the sinnes of\nIsrael. 8 And now geue confession, & magnificence to our Lord the God\nof our fathers: 9 and accomplish his wil, and depart from the nations\nof the land, and from your wiues the strangers. 10 And al the multitude\ncried, and they sayd with a lowde voice: As thou hast sayd, we wil doe.\n11 But because the multitude is great, and winter time, and we can not\nstand in the ayre without succour: and this is a worke for vs not of\none day, nor of two, for we haue sinned much in these thinges: 12 Let\nthe rulers of the multitude stand, and that dwel with vs, and as manie\nas haue with them forreine wiues, 13 and at a time appointed let the\npriestes out of euerie place, and the iudges assist, vntil they appeaze\nthe wrath of our Lord concerning this busines. 14 And Ionathas the\nsonne of Ezeli, and Ozias of Thecam tooke vpon them according to these\nwordes: and Bosoramus, and Leuis, and Sabbathaeus, wrought together\nwith them. 15 And al that were of the captiuitie stood according to al\nthese thinges. 16 And Esdras the priest chose vnto him men the great\nprinces of their fathers according to their names: & they sate together\nin the newmoone of the tenth moneth to examine this busines. 17 And\nthey determined of the men that had outlandish wiues, vntil the\nnewmoone of the first moneth. 18 And there were found of the priestes\nentermingled that had outlandish wiues. 19 Of the sonnes of Iesus the\nsonne of Iosedec, and his brethren: Maseas, and Eleazarus, and Ioribus,\nand Ioadeus, 20 and they put to their handes to expel their wiues: and\nto offer a ramme to obtayne pardon for their ignorance. 21 And the\nsonnes of Semmeri: Maseas and Esses, Ieelech, and Azarias. 22 And of\nthe children of Fofere: Limosias, Hismaenis, and Nathanee, Iussio,\nReddus, and Thalsas. 23 And of the Leuites: Iorabdus, and Semeis, and\nColnis, and Calitas, and Facteas, and Coluas, and Eliomas, 24 and of\nthe sacred singing men, Eliasib, Zaccarus. 25 And of the porters,\nSalumus, and Tolbanes. 26 And of Israel: of the sonnes of Foro, Ozi,\nand Remias, and Geddias, & Melchias, and Michelus, Eleazarus, and\nIammebias, and Bannas. 27 And of the sonnes of Iolaman: Chamas, and\nZacharias, and Iezuelus, and Ioddius, and Erimoth, and Helias. 28 And\nof the sonnes of Zathoim: Eliadas, and Liasumus, Zochias, and Larimoth,\n& Zabdis, and Thebedias. 29 And of the sonnes of Zebes: Ioannes, and\nAmanias, and Zabdias, and Emeus. 30 And of the sonnes of Banni: Olamus,\n& Maluchus, and Ieddeus, and Iasub, and Azabus, & Ierimoth. 31 And of\nthe sonnes of Addin: Nathus, and Moosias, & Caleus, and Raanas,\nMaaseas, Mathathias, and Beseel, and Bonnus, and Manasses. 32 And of\nthe sonnes of Nuae: Noneas, and Aseas, and Melchias, and Sameas, and\nSimon, Beniamin, and Malchus, and Marras. 33 And of the sonnes of Asom:\nCarianeus, Mathathias, & Bannus, & Eliphalach, and Manasses, and Semei.\n34 And of the sonnes of Banni: Ieremias, and Moadias, and Abramus, &\nIohel, and Baneas, & Pelias, and Ionas, and Marimoth, & Eliasib, and\nMatheneus, and Eliasis, and Orizas, and Dielus, and Semedius, &\nZambris, and Iosephus. 35 And of the sonnes of Nobei: Idelus, and\nMathathias, and Sabadus, and Zecheda, Zedmi, and Iessei, Baneas. 36 Al\nthese maried outlandish wiues, and did put them away with their\nchildren. 37 And the Priestes and the Leuites, and they that were of\nIsrael, dwelt in Ierusalem, and in the whole countrie in the newmoone\nof the seuenth moneth. And the children of Israel were in their\nhabitations. 38 And al the multitude was gathered together into the\ncourt, which is on the east of the sacred gate: 39 and they sayd to\nEsdras the high priest, and reader, that he should bring the law of\nMoyses, which was deliuered of our Lord the God of Israel. 40 And\nEsdras the high priest brought the law to al the multitude of them from\nman vnto woman, and to al the priestes to heare the law in the newmoone\nof the seuenth moneth. 41 And he read in the court, which is before the\nsacred gate of the temple, from breake of day vntil euening before men\nand wemen. And they al gaue their minde to the law. 42 And Esdras the\npriest, and reader of the law stoode vpon a tribunal of wood, which was\nmade. 43 And by him stood Mathathias, and Samus, and Ananias, Azarias,\nVrias, Ezechias, and Balsamus on the right hand, 44 and on the left\nFaldeus, Misael, Malachias, Ambusthas, Sabus, Nabadias, and Zacharias.\n45 And Esdras tooke the booke before al the multitude: for he was\nchiefe in glorie in the sight of al. 46 And when he had ended the law,\nthey stood al vpright: and Esdras blessed our Lord the most high God,\nthe God of Sabaoth omnipotent. 47 And al the people answered: Amen. And\nlifting vp their handes falling on the ground, they adored our Lord. 48\nIesus and Banaeus, and Sarebias, and Iaddimus, and Accubus, and\nSabbathaeus, and Calithes, & Azarias, and Ioradus, and Ananias, and\nPhilias Leuites, 49 who taught the law of our Lord, and read the same\nin the multitude, & euerie one preferred them that vnderstood the\nlesson. 50 And Atharathes sayd to Esdras the high priest and the\nreader, and to the Leuites, that taught the multitude, 51 saying: This\nday is sancitified to our Lord. And they al wept, when they had heard\nthe law. 52 And Esdras sayd, departing therfore eate ye al the fattest\nthinges, & drinke al most swete things, and send giftes to them that\nhaue not. 53 For this is the holy day of our Lord, & be not sad. For\nour Lord wil glorifie you. 54 And the Leuites denounced openly to al,\nsaying: This day is holie, be not sad. 55 And they went al to eate, and\ndrinke, and make merie, and to geue giftes to them that had not, that\nthey might make merie, for they were excedingly exalted with the wordes\nthat they were taught. 56 And they were al gathered in Ierusalem to\ncelebrate the ioy, according to the testament of our Lord the God of\nIsrael.\n\n\nTHE FOVRTH BOOKE OF ESDRAS.\n\nCHAP. I.\n\nEsdras is sent to expostulate with the vngratful Iewes for neglecting\nGods manie great benefites.\n\nTHE second book of Esdras the prophet, the sonne of Sarei, the sonne of\nAzarei, the sonne of Helcias, the sonne of Sadanias, the sonne of\nSadoch, the sonne of Achitob, (1 Esd 7:1) 2 the sonne of Achias, the\nsonne of Phinees, the sonne of Heli, the sonne of Amerias, the sonne of\nAsiel, the sonne of Marimoth, the sonne of Arna, the sonne of Ozias,\nthe sonne of Borith, the sonne of Abisei, the sonne of Phinees, the\nsonne of Eleazar, 3 the sonne of Aaron of the tribe of Leui; who was\ncaptiue in the countrie of the Medes, in the reigne of Artaxerxes king\nof the Persians. 4 And the word of our Lord came to me, saying: 5 Goe,\nand tel my people their wicked deedes, and their children the\niniquities, that they haue done against me, that they may tel their\nchildrens children: 6 because the sinnes of their parentes are\nincreased in them, for they being forgetful of me haue sacrified to\nstrange goddes. 7 Did not I bring them out of the land of AEgypt from\nthe house of bondage? But they haue prouoked me, & haue despised my\ncounsels. 8 But doe thou shake of the heare of thy head, and throw al\neuils vpon them: because they haue not obeyed my law. And it is a\npeople without discipline. 9 How long shal I beare with them, on whom I\nhaue bestowed so great benefiates? 10 I haue ouer throwen manie kinges\nfrom them. I haue stroke Pharao with his seruantes, and al his hoste.\n(Ex 14) 11 Al nations did I destroy before their face, & in the East I\ndissipated the peoples of two prouinces Tyre and Sidon, and I slew al\ntheir aduersaries. 12 But speake thou to them, saying: Thus sayth our\nLord: 13 I made you passe through the sea, and gaue you fensed streates\nfrom the beginning. I gaue you Moyses for your gouernour, and Aaron for\nthe Priest: 14 I gaue you light by the piller of fire, & did manie\nmeruelous things among you: but you haue forgotten me, sayth our Lord.\n(Ex 13) 15 Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent: The quayle was a signe to\nyou, I gaue you a campe for defense, and there you murmured: 16 And you\ntriumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but yet\nvntil now you haue murmured. (Ex 16) 17 Where are the benefites, that I\nhaue geuen you? Did you not crie out to me when you were hungrie in the\ndesert, 18 saying: Why hast thou brought vs into this desert to kil vs?\nit had bene better for vs to serue the AEgyptians, then to dye in this\ndesert. (Num 14) 19 I was sorie for your mournings, & gaue you manna to\neate. You did eate bread of Angels. (Ex 16 / Wis 16:20) 20 When you\nthirsted did not I cleaue the rocke, & waters flowed in abundance? for\nthe heates I couered you with the leaues of trees. 21 I deliuered vnto\nyou fatte landes: The Chananeites, and Pherezeites, and Philistheans I\nthrew out from your face: what shal I yet doe to you, sayth our Lord?\n(Isa 9:4) 22 Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent: In the desert when you\nwere thirstie in the riuer of the Amorrheites, and blasphemeing my\nname, (Ex 15:25) 23 I gaue you not fire for blasphemies, but casting\nwood into the water, I made the riuer swete. 24 What shal I doe to thee\nIacob? Thou wouldest not obey o Iuda. I wil transferre my self to other\nnations, and wil geue them my name, that they may keepe my ordinances.\n(Ex 32) 25 Because you haue forsaken me, I aslo forsake you: when you\naske mercie of me, I wil not haue mercie. (Isa 1:15) 26 When you shal\ninuocate me, I wil not heare you. For you haue defiled your handes with\nbloud, and your fete are quicke to commit murders. 27 Not as though you\nhaue forsaken me, but yourselues, sayth our Lord. 28 Thus saith our\nLord omnipotent, haue not I desired you, as a father his sonnes, and a\nmother her daughters, and as a nurce her litle ones, 29 that you would\nbe my people, and I your God, and to me for children, and I to you for\na father? 30 So haue I gathered you, as the henne her chickenes vnder\nher winges. But now what shal I doe to you? I wil throw you from my\nface. (Matt 23:37) 31 When you shal bring me oblation, I wil turne away\nmy face from you. (Isa 66:5) For I haue refused your festiual dayes, &\nnewmoones, and circumcisions. 32 I sent my seruantes the prophetes to\nyou, whom being taken you slew, and mangled their bodies, whose bloud I\nwil require, sayth our Lord. 33 Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent, your\nhouse is made desolate, I wil throw you away, as the winde doth\nstubble, 34 and your children shal not haue issue: because they haue\nneglected my commandment, and haue done that which is euil before me.\n35 I wil deliuer your houses to a people comming, who not hearing me do\nbeleue: to whom I haue not shewed signes, they wil do the thinges that\nI haue commanded. 36 The prophetes they haue not sene, and they wil be\nmindful of their iniquities. 37 I cal to witnes the grace of the people\ncomming, whose litle ones reioyce with ioy, not seing me with their\ncarnal eyes, but in spirit beleuing the thinges that I haue sayd. 38\nAnd now brother behold what glorie: and see people comming from the\neast, 39 to whom I wil geue the conduction of Abraham, Isaac, and\nIacob, and of Osee, and Amos, and of Ioel, and Abdias, and Ionas, and\nMichaeas, 40 and Naum and Habacuc, of Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zacharias,\nand Malachias, who also is called the Angel of our Lord. (Mal 3:1)\n\nCHAP. II.\n\nThe Synagogue expostulateth with her children for their ingratitude;\n10. shewing that they shal be forsaken, and the gentiles called.\n\nTHVS saith our Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, to whom I\ngaue commandment by my seruantes the Prophetes, whom they would not\nheare, but made my counsel frustrate. 2 Their mother that bare them,\nsayth to them: Goe children, because I am a wydow and forsaken. 3 I\nbrought you vp with ioy, & haue lost you with mourning & sorow, because\nyou haue sinned before our Lord your God, & haue done that which is\neuil before him. 4 But now what shal I doe to you? I am a wydow and\ndesolote, goe my children, & aske mercie of our Lord. 5 And I cal thee\no father a witnes vpon the mother of the children, that would not keepe\nmy testament, 6 that thou geue them confusion, & their mother into\nspoile, that there be no generation of them. 7 Let their names be\ndispersed into the Gentiles, let them be destroyed out of the land:\nbecause they haue despised my sacrament. 8 Woe be to thee Assur, which\nhidest the wicked with thee. Thou naughtie nation, remember what I did\nto Sodom & Gomorrha: (Gen 19:24) 9 whose land lieth in cloddes of\npitch, & heapes of ashes: so wil I make them, that haue not heard me,\nsaith our Lord omnipotent. 10 Thus saith our Lord to Esdras: Tel my\npople, that I wil geue them the kingdom of Ierusalem, which I ment to\ngeue to Isreal. 11 And I wil take to me the glorie of them, and wil\ngeue them eternal tabernacles, which I had prepared for them. 12 The\nwood of life shal be to them for an odour of oyntment, and they shal\nnot labour, nor be wearied. 13 Goe & you shal receiue. Aske for your\nselues a few dayes, that they may abide. Now the kingdom is prepared\nfor you, watch ye. 14 Cal thou heauen and earth to witnes: for I haue\ndestroyed euil, and haue created good, because I liue sayth our Lord.\n15 Mother embrace thy children, bring them vp with ioy. As a doue\nconfirme their feete: because I haue chosen thee, sayth our Lord. 16\nAnd I wil raise againe the dead out of their places, and out of the\nmonumentes I wil bring them forth, because I haue knowen my name in\nIsrael. 17 Feare not o mother of the children, because I haue chosen\nthee, saith our Lord. 18 I wil send thee ayde, my seruantes I saie, and\nIeremie, at whose counsel I haue sanctified, and prepared for thee\ntweleue trees loden with diuerse fruites, 19 and as manie fountaines\nflowing milke and honie: and seuen huge mountaines, hauing the rose and\nthe lilie, in the which I wil fil thy children with ioy. (Ex 15:27) 20\nIustifie thou the widow, iudge for the pupil, geue to the needie,\ndefend the orphane, cloth the naked, 21 cure the broken & feeble, mocke\nnot the lame, defend the maimed, and admitte the blind to the vision of\nmy glorie. 22 The old man & the yong keepe with in thy walles: 23 where\nthou shalt finde the dead, committe them to the graue signing it, & I\nwil geue thee the first seate in my resurrection. (Tob 1:20) 24 Pause\nand rest my people, because thy rest shal come. 25 As a good nurce\nnourish thy children, confirme their feete. 26 The seruantes that I\nhaue geuen thee, none of them shal perish. For I wil require them of\nthy number. 27 Be not wearied. For when the day of affliction and\ndistresse shal come, others shal weepe, and be sad, but thou shalt be\nmerie and plenteous. 28 The gentiles shal enuie, and shal be able to\ndoe nothing against thee, sayth our Lord. 29 My handes shal couer thee,\nthat thy children see not hel. 30 Be pleasant thou mother with thy\nchildren, because I wil deliuer thee sayth our Lord. 31 Remember thy\nchildren that sleepe, for I wil bring them out of the sides of the\nearth, & wil doe mercie with them: because I am merciful, sayth our\nLord omnipotent. 32 Embrace thy children til I come, & shew them\nmercie: because my fountaines runne ouer, and my grace shal not faile.\n33 I Esdras receiued commandment of our Lord, in mount Oreb; that I\nshould goe to Israel: to whom when I came, they refused me, and\nreiected the commandement of our Lord. 34 And therfore, I say vnto you\ngentiles, which heare, and vnderstand, Looke for your pastor, he wil\ngeue you the rest of eternitie: because he is at hand, that shal come\nin the end of the world. 35 Be ye readie for the rewardes of the\nkingdom, because perpetual light shal shine to you for time\neuerlasting. 36 Flee from the shadow of this world: receiue ye the\npleasantnes of your glorie. I openly cal to witnes my sauiour. 37\nReceiue the commended gift and be pleasant, geuing thankes to him that\ncalled you to the heauenlie kingdomes. 38 Arise, & stand & see the\nnumber of them that are signed in the feast of our Lord. 39 They that\nhaue transferred them selues from the shadow of the world, haue\nreceiued glorious garmentes of our Lord. 40 Receiue o Sion thy number,\nand shut vp thyne made white, which haue accomplished the law of our\nLord. 41 The number of thy children, which thou didst wish is ful.\nDesire the powre of our Lord that thy people may be sanctified, which\nwas called from the beginning. 42 I Esdras saw in mount Sion a great\nmultiude, which I could not number, and they did al prayse our Lord\nwith songes. (Apoc 7:9) 43 And in the middes of them was a young man\nhigh of stature, appearing aboue ouer them al, & he put crownes vpon\neuerie one of their heades, and he was more exalted. And I was astonied\nat the miracle. 44 Then asked I an Angel, and sayd: Who are these Lord?\n45 Who answering sayd to me: These are they that haue laid of the\nmortal garment, and taken an immortal, and haue confessed the name of\nGod. Now they are crowned, and receiue palmes. 46 And I sayd to the\nAngel: That yongman what is he, which putteth the crownes vpon them,\nand geueth palmes into their handes? 47 And answering he sayd to me:\nThe same is the Sonne of God, whom they did confesse in the world: & I\nbegane to magnifie them, that stood strongly for the name of our Lord.\n48 Then sayd the Angel to me: Goe, tel my people, what maner of\nmeruelous thinges and how great, thou hast sene of the Lord God.\n\nCHAP. III.\n\nThe workes of God are wonderful from the beginning, 7. and men\nvngrateful 13. In Abraham God chose to himself a peculiar people: who\nneuertheles were froward, and obstinate. 23. He also chose Dauid, but\nstil the people were sinful: 28. the Babylonians also, by whom the are\nafflicted, are no lesse but rather greater sinners.\n\nIN the thirteth yeare of the ruine of the citie I was in Babylon, and\nwas trubled lying in my chamber, and my cogitations came vp ouer my\nhart: 2 because I saw the desolation of Sion, and the abundance of them\nthat dwelt in Babylon. 3 And my spirit was tossed excedingly, and I\nbegan to speake to the highest timorous wordes, 4 and sayd: O Lord\ndominatour thou spakest from the beginning, when thou didst plant the\nearth, and that alone, and didst rule ouer the people, (Gen 1) 5 and\ngauest Adam a dead bodie: but that also was the worke of thy handes, &\ndidst breath into him the spirit of life, and he was made to liue\nbefore thee: (Gen 2:7) 6 and thou broughst him into paradise, which thy\nright hand had planted, before the earth came. 7 And him thou didst\ncommand to loue thy way, and he transgressed it, & forth with thou\ndidst institute death in him, and in his posteritie, and there were\nborne nations, and tribes, and peoples, and kindreds, wherof there is\nno number. 8 And euerie nation walked in their owne wil, & they did\nmeruelous thinges before thee, and despised thy preceptes. 9 And agane\nin time thou broughst in the floud vpon inhabitantes of the world, and\ndidst destroy them. (Gen 7) 10 And there was made in euery one of them,\nas vnto Adam to dye, so to them the floud, 11 But thou didst leaue one\nof them, Noe with his house and of him were al the iust. 12 And it came\nto passe, when they began to be multiplied, that dwelt vpon the earth,\n& multiplied children and peoples and manie nations: and they begane\nagaine to doe impietie more then the former. 13 And it came to passe\nwhen they did iniquitie before thee, thou didst choose thee a man of\nthem whose name was Abraham. 14 And thou didst loue him and to him\nonlie thou didst shew thy wil. (Gen 12) 15 And thou didst dispose vnto\nhim an euerlasting testament, and toldst him that thou wouldst neuer\nforsake his seede. And thou gauest him Issac, and to Isaac thou gauest\nIacob and Esau. 16 And Iacob thou didst seuer to thy selfe, but Esau\nthou didst separate. And Iacob grewe to a great multitude. 17 And it\ncame to passe when thou didst bring forth his sede out of AEgypt, thou\nbroughst it vpon mount Sinai. (Ex 19) 18 And thou didst bowe the\nheauens, and fasten the earth, and didst shake the world, and madest\nthe depthes to tremble, and trubledst the world, 19 and thy glorie\npassed foure gates of fire, and of earthquake, and winde, and frost,\nthat thou mightst geue a law to the seede of Iacob, and to the\ngeneration of Israel diligence. 20 And thou didst not take away from\nthem a malignant hart, that thy law might bring forth fruite in them.\n21 For Adam the first bearing a vicious hart transgressed and was\nouercome, yea and al that were borne of him. 22 And it was made a\npermanent infirmitie, and the law with the hart of the people, with the\nwickednes of the roote, and that which is good departed, and the wicked\nremayned. 23 And the times passed, & the yeares were ended: and thou\ndidst raise vp vnto thee a seruant named Dauid, 24 and spakest vnto him\nto build a citie of thy name, and to offer vnto thee in it\nfrankencense, and oblations. 25 And this was done manie yeares, and\nthey that inhabited the citie forsooke thee, 26 in al things as Adam\nand al his generations. For they also vsed a wicked hart. 27 And thou\ndidst deliuer thy citie into the hands of thyne enimies. 28 Why, doe\nthey better thinges, that inhabite Babylon? And for this shal she rule\nouer Sion? (Jer 12) 29 It came to passe when I was come hither, and had\nsene the impieties that can not be numbred: and my soul saw manie\noffending this thirteth yeare, & my hart was astonied: 30 because I saw\nhow thou bearest with their sinne, and didst spare them that did\nimpiously, and didst destroy thine owne people, and preserue thine\nenimies, and didst not signifie it. 31 I nothing remember how this way\nshould be forsaken: doth Babylon better thinges then Sion? 32 Or hath\nanie nation knowen thee beside Israel: or what tribes haue beleued thy\ntestamentes as Iacob? 33 Whose reward hath not appeared, nor their\nlabour fructified. For passing through I passed among the nations, and\nI saw them abound, and not mindeful of thy commandmentes. 34 Now\ntherfore wey our iniquities in a ballance, and theirs that dwel in the\nworld: & thy name shal not be found, but in Israel. 35 Or when haue not\nthey sinned in thy sight, that inhabite the earth? or what nation hath\nso obserued thy commandmentes? 36 These certes by their names thou\nshalt finde to haue kept thy commandments, but the nations thou shalt\nnot finde.\n\nCHAP. IIII.\n\nMans witte and reason is not able to vnderstand the counsel and\niudgement of God, 22. why his people are afflicted by wicked nations,\n33. nor of times, and thinges to come.\n\nAND the Angel answered me, that was sent to me, whose name was Vriel, 2\nand sayd to me: Thy hart exceding hath exceded in this world, & thou\nthinkest to comprehend the way of the Highest. 3 And I sayd: It is so\nmy Lord. And he answered me, & sayd: I am sent to shew thee three\nwayes, & to propose to thee three similitudes. 4 Of the which if thou\nshalt declare to me one of them, I also wil shew thee the way which\nthou desirest to see, and wil teach thee whence a wicked hart is. 5 And\nI sayd, Speak my Lord. And he sayd to me: Goe, wey me the weight of the\nfire, or measure me the blast of the winde, or cal me backe the day\nthat is past. 6 And I answered, and sayd: what man borne can doe it,\nthat thou askest me of these thinges? 7 And he sayd to me: If I should\naske thee, saying: How great habitations are there in the hart of the\nsea, or how great vaines be there in the beginning of the depth, or how\ngreat vaines be there aboue the firmament, and what are the issues of\nparadise: 8 thou wouldest perhaps say to me: I haue not descended into\nthe depth, nor into hel as yet, neither haue I ascended at anie time\ninto heauen. 9 But now I haue not asked thee, sauing of the fire, and\nthe winde, and the day by the which thou hast passed, and from the\nwhich thou canst not be separated: and thou hast not answered me of\nthem. 10 And he sayd to me: Thou canst not know the thinges that are\nthine which grow together with thee: 11 and how can thy vessel\ncomprehend the way of the Highest, and now the world being outwardly\ncorrupted, vnderstand the corruption euident in my sight: 12 I sayd to\nhim: Better were it for vs not to be, then yet liuing to liue in\nimpieties, and to suffer, and not to vnderstand for what thing. 13 And\nhe answered me, & said: Going forth I went forward to a wood of trees\nin the filde, and they deuised a deuise, (Judges 9 / 2 Par 25) 14 and\nsaid: Come and let vs goe, and make warre against the sea, that it may\nretyre backe before vs, and we may make vs other woodes. 15 And in like\nmaner the waues of the sea they also deuised a deuise, and sayd: Come\nlet vs goe vp, let vs ouerthrow the woodes of the filde, that there\nalso we may consummate an other countrie for our selues. 16 And the\nwoodes deuise was made vaine, for fire came, and consumed it. 17\nLikewise also the deuise of the waues of the sea. For the sand stood, &\nstayed them. 18 For if thou wert iudge of these, whom wouldest thou\nbegin to iustifie, or whom to condemne? 19 And I answered, and sayd:\nVerely they deuised a vayne deuise. For the earth is geuen to the wood,\nand a place to the sea to carie her waues. 20 And he answered me, and\nsayed: Thou hast iudged wel, and why hast thou not iudged for thy self?\n21 For as the earth is geuen to the wood, and the sea for the waues\ntherof: so they that inhabite vpon the earth, can vnderstand onlie the\nthinges that are vpon the earth: and they vpon the heauens, the thinges\nthat are aboue the height of the heauens. 22 And I answered, and sayd:\nI besech thee Lord, that sense may be geuen me to vnderstand. 23 For I\nmeant not to aske of thy superiour thinges, but of those that passe by\nvs dayly. For what cause Israel is geuen into reproche to the gentiles,\nthe people whom thou hast loued, is geuen to impious tribes, & the law\nof our fathers is brought to destruction, & the written ordinances are\nno where: 24 and we haue passed out of the world, as locustes, and our\nlife is astonishment and dreade, and we are not worthie to obtaine\nmercie. 25 But what wil he doe to his name that is inuocated vpon vs?\nand of these thinges I did aske. 26 And he answered me, and sayd: If\nthou search very much, thou shalt often meruail: because the world\nhastening hasteneth to passe, 27 and can not comprehend the thinges\nwhich in times to come are promised to the iust: because this world is\nful of iniustice and infirmities. 28 But conerning the thinges that\nthou demandest I wil tel thee: for the euil is sowed, and the\ndestruction therof is not yet come. 29 If then that which is sowen be\nnot turned vp, and the place depart where the euil is sowen, that shal\nnot come where the good is sowen. 30 Because the grayne of il seede\nhath bene sowen in the hart of Adam from the beginning: and how much\nimpietie hath it ingendered vntil now, and doth ingender vntil the\nfloore come? 31 And esteme with thy self the graine of the il seede,\nhow much fruite of impietie it hath ingendred: 32 When the eares shal\nbe cut, which are innumerable, what a great floore wil they begin to\nmake? 33 And I answered, and sayd: How, and when shal these things be?\nwhy are our yeares few and euil? 34 And he answered me, and sayd to me,\nHasten not aboue the Highest. For thou doest hasten in vaine to be\naboue him, for thy excesse is much. 35 Did not the soules of the iust\nin the cellars, aske of these things, saying: How hope I so, and when\nshal the fruite come of the floore of our reward? 36 And Ieremiel the\nArchangel answered to those things, and sayd: When the number of the\nsedes in you shal be filled, because he hath weyed the world in a\nbalance, 37 and with a measure hath he measured the times, and in\nnumber he hath numbered the times, and hath not moued, nor stirred\nthem, vntil the foresayd measure be filled. 38 And I answered, and\nsayd: O Lord Dominatour, we also are al ful of impietie. 39 And left\nperhaps for vs the floores of the iust be not filled, for the sinnes of\nthe inhabitantes vpon the earth. 40 And he answered me, and sayd: Goe,\nand aske a woman with childe, if when she hath accomplished her nine\nmonethes, her wombe can yet hold the infant within it? 41 And I sayd it\ncan not Lord. And he sayd to me, in hel the cellars of the soules are\nlike to the matrice. 42 For as she that is: In trauail maketh hast, to\nescape the necessitie of trauailing: so this also hasteneth to render\nthose thinges which are commended to it. 43 From the beginning it shal\nbe shewed thee touching those thinges, which thou doest couet to see.\n44 And I answered, and sayd: If I haue found grace before thine eyes, &\nif it be possible, and if I by fitte, 45 shew mee if there be more to\ncome then is passed, or more things haue passed, then are to come. 46\nWhat passed, I know: but what is to come, I know not. 47 And he sayd to\nme: Stand vpon the right side, and I wil shew thee the interpretation\nof the similitude. 48 And I stood, and saw: and behold a burning\nfornace passed before me, & it came to passe when the flame passed, I\nsaw: and behold the smoke ouercame. 49 And these thinges there passed\nbefore me a clowd ful of water, and with violence casting in much\nraine: and when the violence of raine was cast, the droppes therin\nouercame. 50 And he sayd to me: Thinke with thyself, as the raine\nincreaseth more then the droppes, and the fire then the smoke: so did\nthe measure that passed, more a bound. But the droppes, and the smoke\nouercame: 51 and I prayed, & sayd, shal I liue thinkest thou vntil\nthese dayes? or what shal be in those dayes? 52 He answered me, and\nsayd: Of the signes wherof thou askest me, in part I can tel thee,\nhowbeit of thy life I was not sent to tel thee, neither doe I know.\n\nCHAP. V.\n\nDiuers signes of thinges to come are shewed to Esdras by an Angel: 16.\nfor the comforth of the people in captiuitie.\n\nBVT concerning signes: behold the dayes shal come, wherin they that\ninhabite the earth shal be taken in a great number: and the way of\ntruth shal be hid: and the countrie shal be barren from fayth. 2 And\niniustice shal be multiplied aboue that which thy self seest, & aboue\nthat which thou hast heard in time past. (Matt 24) 3 And they shal put\ntheir foote into the countrie which now thou seest to reigne, and they\nshal see it desolate. 4 And if the Highest geue thee life, thou shalt\nsee after the third trumpet, and the sunne shal sodenly shine agayne in\nthe night, and the moone thrise in a day, 5 and out of wood bloud shal\ndistil, and the stone shal geue his voice, and the peoples shal be\nmoued: 6 and he reigne, whom they hope not that inhabite vpon the\nearth, and soules shal make their flight away. 7 & the sea of Sodom\nshal cast the fishes, and shal make a noise in the night, which manie\nknew not, and al shal heare the voice therof, 8 and there shal be made\na confusion in manie places, and the fire shal often be sent backe, and\nthe sauage beastes shal goe to other places, and wemen in their\nmonethlie flowers shal bring forth monsters, 9 and in swete waters shal\nsalt waters be found, and al frendes shal ouerthrow one an other: and\nthen shal witte be hid, and vnderstanding shal be separated into his\ncellar: 10 and it shal be sought of manie, and shal not be found: and\niniustice shal be multiplied, and incontinencie vpon the earth. 11 And\none countrie shal aske her neighbour, and shal say: Hath iustice doing\niust passed throught thee? and she shal denie it. 12 And it shal be in\nthat time, men shal hope, and shal not obtaine: they shal labour, and\ntheir wayes shal not haue successe. 13 These signes I am permitted to\ntel thee: and if thou pray againe and weepe, as also now, and fast\nseuen dayes, thou shalt heare againe greater thinges then these. 14 And\nI awaked, and my bodie did shiuer excedingly: and my soule laboured,\nthat it fainted: 15 and the Angel that came, that spake in me, held me,\nand strengthened me, and sette me vpon my feete. 16 And it came to\npasse in the second night, and Salathiel the prince of the people came\nto me, and sayd to me: Where wast thou? and why is thy countenance\nheauie? 17 Knowest thou not that Isreal is committed to thee in the\ncountrie of their transmigration? 18 Rise vp therfore, and taste bread,\nand forsake vs not, as the pastour his flocke in the hand of wicked\nwolues. 19 And I sayd to him: Goe from me, & approch not vnto me. And\nhe heard, as I sayd: and he departed from me. 20 And I fasted seuen\ndayes howling & weeping, as Vriel the Angel commanded me. 21 And it\ncame to passe after seuen dayes, and againe cogitations of my hart\nmolested me very much, 22 and my soule resumed the spirit of\nvnderstanding: & agayne I began to speake wordes before the Highest: 23\nand I sayd: Lord Dominatour of euerie wood of the earth, & al the trees\ntherof, thou hast chosen one vineyard: 24 & of euerie land of the world\nthou hast chosen thee one ditch: & of al the flowers of the world thou\nhast chosen thee one lilie: 25 and of al depthes of the sea, thou hast\nfilled thee one riuer: and of al the builded cities, thou hast\nsanctified vnto thyself Sion: 26 and of al created soules, thou hast\nnamed thee one doue: and of al beastes that were made, thou hast\nprouided thee one shepe: 27 and of al multiplied peoples, thou host\npurchased thee one people: and a law approued of al thou hast geuen to\nthis people, whom thou didst desire. 28 And now Lord, why hast thou\ndeliuered one vnto manie? And thou hast perpared vpon one roote others,\nand hast dispersed thy onlie one in manie: 29 and they haue troden vpon\nit, which gainesayd thy couenants, and which beleued not thy\ntestamentes. 30 And if hating thou hatest thy people, it ought to be\nchastised with thy handes. 31 And it came to passe, when I had spoken\nthe wordes, and the Angel was sent to me, that came to me before the\nnight past, 32 and he sayd to me: Heare me, and I wil instruct thee:\nand harken to me, and I wil adde before thee. 33 And I sayd: Speake my\nLord. And he sayd to me: Thou art become excedingly in excesse of minde\nfor Israel: hast thou loued it more then him that made it? 34 And I\nsayd to him: No Lord, but for sorow I haue spoken, for my veynes\ntorment me euerie houre, to apprehend the pathe of the Highest, and to\nsearch part of his iudgement. 35 And he sayd to me: Thou canst not. And\nI sayd: Why Lord? To what was I borne, or why was not my mothers wombe\nmy graue, that I might not see the labour of Iacob, & the wearines of\nthe stocke of Israel? 36 And he sayd to me: Number me the thinges that\nare not yet come, and gather me the dispersed droppes, and make me the\nwithered flowers grene againe, 37 and open me the shut cellars, & bring\nme forth the blastes inclosed in them, shew me the image of a voice:\nand then wil I shew thee the labour that thou desirest to see. 38 And I\nsayd: Lord Dominatour, for who is there that can know these thinges,\nbut he that hath not his habitation with men? 39 And I am vnwise, and\nhow can I speake of these thinges, which thou hast asked me? 40 And he\nsayd to me: As thou canst not doe one of these thiges, which haue bene\nsayd: so canst thou not finde my iudgement, or in the end the charitie,\nwhich I haue promised to the people. 41 And I sayd: But behold Lord\nthou art nigh to them that are nere the end: and what shal they doe\nthat haue bene before me, or we, or they after vs? 42 And he sayd to\nme: I wil resemble my iudgement to a crowne. As there shal not be\nslacknes of the last, so neither swiftnes of the former. 43 And I\nanswered, and sayd: Couldst thou not make them that haue bene, and that\nare, and that shal be, at once, that thou mayst shew thy iudgement the\nquicker? 44 And he answered me, and sayd: The creature can not hasten\naboue the Creatour, nor the world sustayne them that are to be created\nin it, at once. 45 And I sayd: As thou didst say to thy seruant, that\nquickening thou didst quicken the creature created by thee at once, and\nthe creature susteined it: it may now also beare them present at once.\n46 And he sayd to me: Aske the matrice of a woman, & thou shalt say to\nit: And if thou bring forth children, why by times? Aske it therfore,\nthat it geue ten at once. 47 And I sayd, it can not verily: but\naccording to time. 48 And he sayd to me: And I haue geuen a matrice to\nthe earth for them, that are sowen vpon it by time. 49 For as the\ninfant bringeth not forth the thinges that perteyne to the aged, so\nhaue I disposed the world created of me. 50 And I asked, and sayd:\nWheras thou hast now geuen me a way, I wil speake before thee: for our\nmother, of whom thou toldest me, yet she is yong: now draweth nigh to\nold age. 51 And he answered me, and sayd: Aske her that beareth\nchildren, and she wil tel thee. 52 For thou shalt say to her: Why are\nnot they whom thou hast brought forth, now like to them that were\nbefore thee, but lesse of stature? 53 And she also wil say vnto thee:\nThey that are borne in the youth of streingth are of one sort, and they\nof an other, that are borne about the time of old age, when the matrice\nfayleth. 54 Consider therfore thou also, that you are of lesse stature,\nthen they that were before you: 55 and they that are after you, of\nlesser then you, as it were creatures now waxing old, and past the\nstrength of youth. 56 And I sayd: I besech thee Lord, if I haue found\ngrace before thine eyes, shew vnto thy seruant, by whom thou doest\nvisite thy creature.\n\nCHAP. VI.\n\nGod knowing al thinges before they were made, created them 54. for man:\nand considerth the endes of al.\n\nAND he sayd to me: In the beginning of the earthlie world, and before\nthe endes of the world stood, and before the congregation of the windes\ndid blow, (Prov 8) 2 and before the voyces of thunders sounded, &\nbefore the flashinges of lightenings shined, and before the fundations\nof paradise were confirmed, 3 and before beautiful flowers were sene,\nand before the moued powers were established, and before the\ninnumerable hostes of Angels were gathered, 4 and before the heightes\nof the ayre were aduanced, and before the measures of the firmaments\nwere named, and before the chymneies were hote in Sion, 5 and before\nthe present yeares were searched out, and before their inuentions that\nnow sinne, were put away, and they signed that made fayth their\ntreasure: 6 then I thought, and they were made by me only, and not by\nany other: and the end by me, and not by any other. 7 And I answered,\nand sayd: What separation of times shal there be? and when shal the end\nof the former be, and the begynning of that which foloweth? 8 And he\nsayd to me, from Abraham vnto Isaac, when Iacob and Esau were borne of\nhim, the hand of Iacob held from the begynning the heele of Esau, 9 for\nthe end of this world is Esau, and the begynning of the next Iacob. 10\nThe hand of a man betwen the heele and the hand. Aske no other thing\nEsdras. 11 And I answered, and sayd: O Lord dominatour, if I haue found\ngrace before thyne eyes, 12 I pray thee shew thy seruant the end of thy\nsignes, wherof thou didst shew me part the night before. 13 And he\nanswered, and sayd to me: Arise vpon thy feete, and heare a voice most\nful of sound. 14 And it shal be as it were a commotion, neither shal\nthe place be moued wherin thou standest. 15 Therfore when it speaketh\nbe not thou afrayd, because of the end is the word, and the fundation\nof the earth vnderstood, 16 for concerning them the word trembleth and\nis moued, for it knoweth that their end must be changed. 17 And it came\nto passe, when I had heard, I rose vpon my feete, and I heard: and\nbehold a voice speaking, and the sound therof as the sound of manie\nwaters: 18 and it sayd: Behold the dayes come, and the time shal be\nwhen I wil begyne to approch, that I may visite the inhabitantes vpon\nthe earth. 19 And when I wil begin to enquire of them that vniustly\nhaue hurt with their iniustice, and when the humilitie of Sion shal be\naccomplished. 20 And when the world shal be ouersigned that shal\nbeginne to passe, I wil doe these signes: Bookes shal be opened before\nthe face of the firmament, and al shal see together, 21 and infantes of\none yeare shal speake with their voices, & wemen with child shal bring\nforth vntimely infantes not ripe of three or foure monethes, and shal\nliue, and shal be raysed vp. 22 And sodenly shal appeare sowen places\nnot sowen, & ful cellers shal sodenly be found emptie: 23 and a trumpet\nshal sound; which when al shal heare, they wil sodenly be afrayd. 24\nAnd it shal be in that time, freindes as enimies shal ouerthrow\nfreindes, and the earth shal be afrayd with them: & the vaynes of\nfountaynes shal stand, and shal not runne in three howres: 25 and it\nshal be, euerie one that shal be leaft of al these, of whom I haue\nforetold thee, he shal be saued, and shal see my saluation, & the end\nof your world. 26 And the men that are receiued, shal see, they that\ntasted not death from their natiuitie, and the hart of the inhabitantes\nshal be turned into an other sense. 27 For euil shal be put out, and\ndeceite shal be extinguished, 28 but fayth shal florish, and corruption\nshal be ouercome, and truth shal be shewed, which was without fruite so\nmanie dayes. 29 And it came to passe, when he spake to me, & I loe by\nlitle & litle looked on him before whom I stood, 30 and he sayd to me\nthese wordes: I am come to shew thee the time of the night to come. 31\nIf therfore thou pray agayne, and fast agayne seuen dayes, agayne I wil\ntel thee greater thinges by the day which I haue heard. 32 For thy\nvoice is heard before the Highest. For the strong hath sene thy\ndirection, and hath fore sene the chastitie which thou hast had from\nthy youth: 33 and for this cause he hath sent me to shew thee al these\nthinges, and to say to thee, haue confidence, and feare not, 34 and\nhasten not with the former times to thinke vayne thinges, that thou\nhasten not from the last times. 35 And it came to passe after these\nthinges, and I wept againe, and in like maner I fasted seuen dayes, to\naccomplish the three weekes, that were told me. 36 And it came to passe\nin the eight night, and my hart was trubled againe in me, and I began\nto speake before the Highest. 37 For my spirit was inflamed excedingly,\nand my soul was distressed. 38 And I sayd: O Lord, speaking thou didst\nspeake from the beginning of creature from the first day, saying: Let\nheauen be made and earth: and thy word was a perfect worke. 39 And then\nthere was spirit, and darknesse was caried about, and silence, the\nsound of the voyce of man was not yet from thee. 40 Then thou didst\ncommand the lighsome light to be brought forth of thy treasures, wherby\nthy worke might appeare. 41 And in the second day thou didst create the\nspirit of the firmament, and commandest it to diuide, and to make a\ndiuision betwen the waters, that a certayn part should depart vpward,\nand part should remaine beneth. 42 And in the third day thou didst\ncommand the waters to be gathered together in the seuenth part of the\nearth: but sixe partes thou didst drie and preserue, that of them might\nbe seruing before thee thinges sowen of God, and tilled. 43 For thy\nword proceded, and the worke forth with was made. 44 For sodenly came\nforth fruite of multitude infinite, and diurse tastes of concupiscence,\nand flowers of vnchangeable colour, and odours of vnsearcheable smel,\nand in the third day these thinges were made. 45 And in the fourth day\nthou didst command to be made the brightnesse of the sunne, the light\nof the moone, the disposition of the starres: 46 and didst command them\nthat they should serue man, that should be made. 47 And in the fifth\nday: thou saydst to the seuenth part, where the water was gathered\ntogether, that it should bring forth beastes, and foules, and fishes:\nand so was it done, 48 the dumme water and without life, the thinges\nthat by Gods appointement were commanded, made beastes, that therby the\nnations may declare thy meruelous workes. 49 And then thou didst\npreserue two soules: the name of one thou didst cal Henoch, and the\nname of the second thou didst cal Leuiathan, 50 and thou didst separate\nthem from eche other. For the seuenth part, where the water was\ngathered together, could not hold them. 51 And thou gauest to Henoch\none part, which was dried the third day, to dwelt therin, where are a\nthousand mountaynes. 52 But to Leuiathan thou gauest the seuenth part\nbeing moyst, and kepst it, that it might be to deuoure whom thou wilt,\nand when thou wilt. 53 And in the sixt day thou didst command the\nearth, to create before thee cattel, and beastes, and creeping\ncreatures: 54 and ouer these Adam, whom thou madest ruler ouer al the\nworkes, which thou didst make, & out of him are al we brought forth,\nand the people whom thou hast chosen. 55 And al these thinges I haue\nsayd before thee o Lord, because thou didst create the world for vs. 56\nBut the residue of the nations borne of Adam thou saydst that they were\nnothing, and that they were like to spittle, and as it were the droping\nout of a vessel thou didst liken the abundance of them. 57 And now\nLord, behold these nations which are reputed for nothing, haue begune\nto rule ouer vs, and to deuoure vs: 58 but we thy people whom thou\ndidst cal thy first onlie begotten emulatour, are deliuered into their\nhandes: 59 and if the world was created for vs, why doe not we possesse\ninheritance with the world? how long these thinges?\n\nCHAP. VII.\n\nWithout tribulations no man can attayne immortal life: 17. which the\niust shal inherite: and the wicked shal perish. 28. Christ wil come,\nand dye for mankind. 36. Prayers of the iust shal profite til the end\nof this world, but not after the general iudgement. 48. Al sinned in\nAdam. 52. and haue added more sinnes, 57. but it is in mans powre, 62.\nby Gods grace, to liue eternally.\n\nAND it came to passe when I had ended to speake these wordes, the Angel\nwas sent to me, which had bene sent to me the first nights, 2 and he\nsayd to me: Arise Esdras, and heare the wordes which I am come to\nspeake to thee. 3 And I sayd: Speake my God. And he sayd to me: The sea\nis set in a large place, that it might be deepe and wide: 4 but the\nentrance to it shal be set in a straict place, that it might be like to\nriuers. 5 For who witting wil enter into the sea, and see it, or rule\nouer it: if he passe not the streite, how shal he come into the bredth?\n6 Also an other thing: A citie is built, and set in a plaine place, and\nit is ful of al goodes. 7 The entrance therof narrow, and set in a\nstepe place, so that on the right hand there was fire, & on the left\ndepe water: 8 and there is one onlie pathe set betwen them, that is,\nbetwen the fire and the water, so that the pathe can not conteyne, but\nonlie a mans steppe. 9 And if the citie shal be geuen a man for\ninheritance, if he neuer passe through the peril set before it, how\nshal he receiue his inhertance? 10 And I sayd: So Lord. And he sayd to\nme, So it is: Israel also a part. 11 For I made the world for them: and\nwhen Adam transgressed my constitution, that was iudged which was done.\n12 And the entrance of this world were made streite, and sorowful, &\npaynful, and few and euil, and ful of dangers, & stuffed very much with\nlabour. 13 For the entrances of the greater world are large andsecure,\nand making fruite of immortalitie. 14 If then they that liue entring in\nenter into these streite and vayne thinges: they can not receiue the\nthinges that are layd vp. 15 Now therfore why art thou trubled, wheras\nthou art corruptible? and why art thou moued, wheras thou art mortal?\n16 And why hast thou not taken in thy hart that which is to come, but\nthat which is present? 17 I answered, and sayd: Lord dominatour: behold\nthou hast disposed by thy law that the iust shal inherite these\nthinges, and the impious shal perish. (Deut 8) 18 But the iust shal\nsuffer the streites, hoping for the wyde places, for they that haue\ndone impiously, haue both suffered the streites, and shal not see the\nwide places. 19 And he sayd to me: There is no iudge aboue God, nor\nthat vnderstandeth aboue the Highest. 20 For manie present doe perish,\nbecause the law of God which was set before, is neglected. 21 For God\ncommanding commanded them that came, when they came, what doing they\nshould liue, and what obseruing they should not be punished. 22 But\nthey were not perswaded, and gaynesayd him, and made to them selues a\ncogitation of vanitie, 23 and proposed to them selues deceites of\nsinnes, & they sayd to the Highest that he was not, and they knew not\nhis wayes, 24 and dispised his law, and denyed his couenaunces, and had\nnot fidelitie in his ordinances, and did not accomplish his workes. 25\nFor this cause Esdras, the emptie to the emptie, and the ful to the\nful. 26 Behold the time shal come, and it shal be when the signes shal\ncome, which I haue foretold thee, and the bride shal appeare, and\nappearing she shal be shewed that now is hid with the earth: 27 and\neuerie one that is deliuered from the foresaid euils, he shal see my\nmeruelous thinges. 28 For my sonne IESVS shal be reueled with them that\nare with him, and they shal be merie that are leaft in the foure\nhundred yeares. 29 And it shal be after these yeares, and my sonne\nCHRIST shal dye: and al men that haue breath, 30 and the world shal be\nturned into the old silence seuen dayes, as in the former iudgementes,\nso that none shal be leaft. 31 And it shal be after seuen dayes, and\nthe world shal be raysed vp that yet waketh not, and shal dye\ncorrupted: 32 and the earth shal render the thinges that sleepe in it,\n& the dust them that dwel in it with silence, and the cellars shal\nrender the soules that are commended to them. 33 And the Highest shal\nbe reueled vpon the seate of iudgement, and miseries shal passe, and\nlong sufferance shal be gathered together. 34 And iudgement onlie shal\nremayne, truth shal stand, and fayth shal waxe strong, 35 and the worke\nshal folow, and the reward shal be shewed, and iustice shal awake, and\niniustice shal not haue dominion. [See note below.] 36 And I sayd:\nFirst Abraham prayed for the Sodomites, and Moyses for the fathers that\nsinned in the desert. (Gen 18 / Ex 32) 37 And they that were after him\nfor Isreal in the dayes of Achaz, and of Samuel, 38 and Dauid for the\ndestruction, and Salomon for them that came vnto the sanctification. (2\nKings 24:17 / 2 Par 6:13) 39 And Elias for them that receiued raine,\nand for the dead that he might liue, (3 Kings 17 & 18) 40 and Ezechias\nfor the people in the dayes of Sennacherib, and manie for manie. (4\nKings 19:15) 41 If therfore now when corruptible did increase, and\niniustice was multiplied, and the iust prayed for the impious: why now\nalso shal it not be so? 42 And he answered me and sayd: This present\nworld is not the end, much glorie remaineth in it: for this cause they\nprayed for the impotent. 43 For the day of iudgement shal be the end of\nthis time, and the beginning of the immortalitie to come, wherein\ncorruption is past: 44 intemperance is dissolued, incredulitie is cut\nof: and iustice hath increased, truth is strong. 45 For then no man can\nsaue him that hath perished, nor drowne him that hath ouercome. And I\nanswered, 46 and sayd: This is my word the first and the last, that it\nhad bene better not to geue the earth to Adam, or when he had now geuen\nit, to restraine him that he should not sinne. 47 For what doth it\nprofit men presently to liue in sorow, and being dead to hope for\npunishment? 48 O what hast thou done Adam? For if thou didst sinne, it\nwas not made thy fal only, but ours also which came of thee. (Rom 5:12)\n49 For what doth it profit vs if immortal time be promised to vs: but\nwe haue done mortal workes? 50 And that euerlasting hope is foretold\nvs: but we most wicked are become vayne? 51 And that habitations of\nhealth and securitie are reserued for vs, but we haue conuerst\nnaughtely? 52 And that the glorie of the Highest is reserued to protect\nthem that haue slowly conuerst: but we haue walked in most wicked\nwayes. 53 And that paradise shal be shewed, whose fruite continueth\nincorrupted, wherin is securitie and remedie: 54 but we shal not enter\nin: for we haue conuerst in vnlawful places. 55 And their faces which\nhaue had abstinence, shal shyne aboue the starres: but our faces blacke\naboue darkenes. 56 For we did not thinke liuing when we did iniquitie,\nthat we shal beginne after death to suffer. 57 And he answered, and\nsayd: This is the cogitation of the battel which man shal fight, who is\nborne vpon the earth, 58 that if he shal be ouercome, he suffer that\nwhich thou hast sayd: but if he ouercome he shal receiue that which I\nsay: 59 for this is the life which Moyses spake of when he liued, to\nthe people, saying: Choose vnto thee life, that thou mayst liue. (Deut\n30:19) 60 But they beleued him not, no nor the Prophetes after him, no\nnor me which haue spoken to them. 61 Because there should not be sorow\nvnto their perdition, as there shal be ioy vpon them, to whom saluation\nis perswaded. 62 And I answered, and sayd: I know Lord, that the\nHighest is called merciful in that, that he hath mercie on them which\nare not yet come into the world, 63 and that he hath mercie on them\nwhich conuerse in his law: 64 and he is long suffering, because he\nsheweth long sufferance to them that haue sinned, as it were with their\nowne workes: 65 and he is bountiful, because he wil geue according to\nexigentes: 66 and of freat mercie, because he multiplieth more mercies\nto them that are present, and that are past, and that are to come. 67\nFor if he shal not multiplie his mercies, the world shal not be made\naliue with them that did inherite it. 68 And he geueth: for if he shal\nnot geue of his bountie, that they may be releeued which haue done\niniquitie, the tenth thousand part of men can not be quickned from\ntheir iniquities. 69 And the iudge if he shal not forgeue them that are\ncured with his word, and wype away a multitude of contentions: there\nshould not perhaps be leaft in an innumerable multitiude, but very few.\n\nCHAP. VIII.\n\nGod is merciful in this world, yet fewe are saued. 6. Gods workes, and\ndisposition of his creatures are meruelous. 15. Esdras prayeth for the\npeople of Israel: 37. and saluation is promised to the iust, and\npunishment threatned to the wicked.\n\nAND he answered me, & sayd: This world the Highest made for manie, but\nthat to come for few. 2 And I wil speake a similitude Esdras before\nthee. For as thou shalt aske the earth, and it wil tel thee, that it\nwil geue much more earth wherof earthen worke may be made, but a litle\ndust wherof gold is made: so also is the act of this present world. 3\nManie in deede are created, but few shal be saued. (Matt 20:16) 4 And I\nanswered, and sayd: Then o soul swallow vp the sense, and deuoure that\nwhich is wise. 5 For thou art agred to obey, and willing to prophecie.\nFor there is no space geuen thee but only to liue. 6 O Lord if thou\nwilt not permitte thy seruant, that we pray before thee, and thou geue\nvs seede to the hart, and tillage to the vnderstanding, wherof may the\nfruite be made, wherby euerie corrupt person may liue, that shal beare\nthe place of a man? 7 For thou art alone, and we are one workmanshippe\nof thy handes, as thou hast spoken: 8 and as now the bodie made in the\nmatrice, and thou doest geue the members, thy creature is preserued in\nfire & water: and nine monethes thy workemanship doth suffer thy\ncreature that is created in it: 9 and it self that keepeth, and that\nwhich is kept, both shal be preserued: and the matrice being preserued\nrendreth agayne at some time the thinges that are growen in it. 10 For\nthou hast commanded of the members, that is the brestes to geue milke\nvnto the fruite of the brestes, 11 that the thing which is made, may be\nnourished til a certayne time, and afterward thou mayst dispose him to\nthy mercie. 12 For thou hast, brought him vp in thy iustice, and hast\ninstructed him in thy law, and hast corrected him in thy vnderstanding:\n13 and thou shalt mortifie him, as thy creature: and shalt geue him\nlife, as thy worke. 14 If then thou wilt destroy him that is made with\nso great labours: it is easie by thy commandment to be ordayned, that\nalso which was made, might be preserued. 15 And now Lord I wil speake,\nof euerie man thou rather knowest: but concerning thy people, for which\nI am sorowful: 16 and concerning thine inheritance, for which I mourne,\nand for Israel for whom I am pensiue, and concerning Iacob, for whom I\nam sorowful. 17 Therfore wil I begin to pray before thee for me, & for\nthem: because I see our defaultes that inhabite the earth. 18 But I\nhaue heard of the celeritie of the iudge that shal be. 19 Therfore\nheare my voyce, and vnderstand my word, and I wil speake before thee.\n20 The beginning of the wordes of Esdras before he was assumpted: and I\nsayd: Lord which inhabitest the world, whose eyes are eleuated vnto\nthinges on high and in the ayre: 21 and whose throne is inestimable,\nand glorie incomprehensible: by whom standeth an host of Angels with\ntrembling, 22 whose keping is turned in wynde and fire, thou whose word\nis true, and sayings premanent: 23 whose commandment is strong, and\ndisposition terrible: whose looke dryeth vp the depthes, and\nindignation maketh the mountaynes to melt, and truth doth testifie. 24\nHeare the prayer of thy seruant, & with thine eares receiue the\npetition of thy creature. 25 For whiles I liue, I wil speake: and\nwhiles I vnderstand, I wil answere: 26 Neither doe thou respect the\nsinnes of thy people, but them that serue thee in truth. 27 Neither doe\nthou attend the impious endeuours of the nations, but them that with\nsorowes haue kept thy testimonies. 28 Neither thinke thou of them that\nin thy sight haue conuerst falsly, but remember them that according to\nthy wil haue knowen thy feare. 29 Neither be thou willing to destroy\nthem that haue had the maners of beastes: but respect them that haue\ntaught thy law gloriously. 30 Neither haue indignation towards them,\nwhich are iudged worse then beastes: but loue them that alwayes haue\nconfidence in thy iustice, and glorie. 31 Because we and our fatheres\nlanguish with such diseases: but thou for sinners shalt be called\nmerciful. 32 For if thou shalt be desirous to haue mercie on vs, then\nthou shalt be called merciful, to vs hauing no workes of iustice. 33\nFor the iust which haue manie workes layd vp, of their owne workes shal\nreceiue reward. 34 For what is man, that thou art angrie with him: or\nthe corruptible kinde, that thou art so bitter touching it? 35 For in\ntruth there is no man of them that be borne, which hath not done\nimpiously, and of them that confesse, which haue not sinned. (3 Kings\n8:46 / 2 Par 6:36) 36 For in this shal thy iustice be declared, and thy\ngoodnes, o Lord, when thou shalt haue mercie on them, that haue no\nsubstance of good workes. 37 And he answered me, and sayd: Thou hast\nspoken somethinges rightly: and according to thy wordes, so also shal\nit be done, 38 because I wil not in dede thinke vpon the worke of them\nthat haue sinned before death, before the iudgement, before perdition:\n39 but I wil reioyce vpon the creature of the iust, and I wil remember\ntheir pilgrimage also, and saluation, and receiuing of reward. 40\nTherfore as I haue spoken, so also it is. 41 For as the husbandman\nsoweth vpon the ground manie seedes, and planteth manie plantes, but\nnot al which were sowen in time, are preserued, nor yet al that were\nplanted, shal take roote: so they also that are sowen in the world,\nshal not al be saued. (Matt 13 & 20) 42 And I answered, and sayd: If I\nhaue found grace, let me speake. 43 As the seede of the husbandman, if\nit come not vp, or receiue not the rayne in time, if it be corupted\nwith much rayne, perisheth: 44 so likewise also man who made with thy\nhandes, and thou named his image: because thou art likened to him, for\nwhom thou hast made al thinges, and hast likened him to the seede of\nthe husbandman. 45 Be not angrie vpon vs, but spare thy people, and\nhaue mercie on thy inheritance. And thou hast mercie on thy creature.\n46 And he answered me, and sayd: The thinges that are present to them\nthat are present, and that shal be, to them that shal be. 47 For thou\nlackest much to be able to loue my creature aboue me: and to thee often\ntimes, euen to thyselfe I haue approched, but to the vniust neuer. 48\nBut in this also thou art meruelous before the Highest, 49 because thou\nhast humbled thyself as becometh thee: & hast not iudged thyself, that\namong the iust thou maist be very much glorified. 50 For which cause\nmanie miseries, and miserable thinges shal be done to them that\ninhabite the world in the later dayes: because they haue walked in much\npride. 51 But thou for thyselfe vnderstand, & for them that are like\nvnto thee seeke glorie. 52 For to you paradise is open, the tree of\nlife is planted, time to come is prepared, abundance is prepared, a\ncitie is builded, rest is approued, goodnes is perfited, & perfit\nwisdome. 53 The roote of euil is signed from you: infirmitie, and mothe\nis hid from you: & corruption is fled into hel in obliuion. 54 Sorowes\nare past, & the treasure of immortalitie is shewed in the end. 55 Adde\nnot therfore inquiring of the multitude of them that perish. 56 For\nthey also receiuing libertie, haue despised the Highest, and contemned\nhis lawe, and forsaken his wayes. 57 Yea and moreouer they haue troden\ndowne his iust ones, 58 and haue sayd in their hart, that there is no\nGod: and that, knowing that they dye. (Ps 13 & 52) 59 For as the\nthinges aforesayd shal receiue you: so thirst and torment, which are\nprepared shal take them: for he would not man to be destroyed. 60 But\nthey them selues also which are created, haue defyled his name which\nmade them: & haue bene vnkind to him that prepared life. 61 Wherfore my\niudgement now approcheth. 62 Which thinges I haue not shewed to al, but\nto thee, & to few like vnto thee. And I answered, and sayd: 63 Behold\nnow Lord thou hast shewed me a multitude of signes, which thou wilt\nbeginne to doe in the latter times: but thou hast not shewed me at what\ntime.\n\nCHAP. IX.\n\nCertaine signes shal goe before the day of iudgement. 14. More shal\nperish then be saued. 25. Prayer with other good workes, are meanes to\nsaluation.\n\nAND he answered me, and sayd: Measuring measure thou the time in it\nselfe: and it shal be when thou seest, after a certaine part of the\nsignes which are spoken of before shal passe, 2 then shalt thou\nvnderstand, that the same is the time wherin the Highest wil beginne to\nvisite the world that was made by him. 3 And when there shal be sene in\nthe world mouing of places, and truble of peoples, 4 then shalt thou\nvnderstand, that of these spake the Highest, from the dayes that were\nbefore thee, from the beginning. 5 For as al that is made in the world\nhath a beginning, and also a consummation, and the consummation is\nmanifest: 6 so also the times of the Highest haue the beginning\nmanifest in wonders and powers, and the consummations in worke and in\nsignes. 7 And it shal be, euery one that shal be saued, and that can\nescape by his workes, and by fayth, in which you haue beleeued, 8 shal\nbe leaft out of the foresayd dangers, and shal see my saluation in my\nland, and in my costes, because I haue sancitifed my selfe from the\nworld. 9 And then shal they be in miserie, that now haue abused my\nwayes: and they that haue reiected them in contempt, shal abide in\ntorments. 10 For they that knew not me, hauing obtained benefits when\nthey liued: 11 and they that loathed my law, when they yet had\nlibertie, 12 and when as yet place of penance was open to them\nvnderstoode not, but despised: they must after death in torment know\nit. 13 Thou therfore be not yet curious, how the impious shal be\ntormented: but inquire how the iust shal be saued, and whose the world\nis, and for whom the world is, and when. 14 And I answered, and sayd:\n15 I haue spoken hertofore, and now I say, and hereafter wil say: that\nthey are more which perish then that shal be saued: (Matt 10) 16 as a\nfloud is multiplied aboue, more then a droppe. 17 And he ansvvered me,\nand sayd: Like as the field so also the sedes: and as the flovvers,\nsuch also the colours: and as the workeman, such also the worke: and\nsuch as the husbandman, such is the husbandrie: because it was the time\nof the world. 18 And now when I was preparing for them, for these that\nnow are before the world was made, wherin they should dwel: and no man\ngaynsayd me. 19 For then euery man, and now the creator in this world\nprepared, and haruest not fayling, and law vnsearchable their manners\nare corrupted. 20 And I considered the world, and behold there was\ndanger because of the cogitations that came in it. 21 And I saw, and\nspared it very much: and I kept vnto my selfe a grape kernel of a\ncluster, and a plant of a great trybe. 22 Let the multitude therfore\nperish, which was borne without cause, and let my kernel be kept, & my\nplant: because I finished it with much labour. 23 And thou if thou adde\nyet seuen other dayes, but thou shalt not fast in them, 24 thou shalt\ngoe into a field of flowers, where no house is built: & thou shalt eate\nonly of the flowers of the field, and flesh thou shalt not tast, and\nwine thou shalt not drinke, but only flowers. 25 Pray to the Highest\nwithout intermission, and I wil come, and wil speake with thee. 26 And\nI went forth, as he sayd to me, into a field which is called Ardath,\nand I sate there among the flowers. And I did eate of the herbes of the\nfield, and the meate of them made me ful. 27 And it came to passe after\nseuen dayes, and I sate downe vpon the grasse, and my hart was trubled\nayayne as before. 28 And my mouth was opened, and I beganne to speake\nbefore the Highest, and sayd: 29 O Lord thou shewing thy selfe to vs,\nwast shewed to our fathers in the desert, which is not troden, and\nvnfruitful, when they came out of AEgypt: and saying thou saydst: (Ex\n19 & 24 / Deut 4) 30 Thou Israel heare me, and sede of Iacob attend to\nmy wordes. 31 For behold, I sow my lawe in you, and it shal bring forth\nfruite in you, and you shal be glorified in it for euer. 32 For our\nfathers receiuing the law obserued it not, and kept not my ordinances,\nand the fruite of the law did not appeare: for it could not, because it\nwas thine. 33 For they that receiued it, perished, not keeping that\nwhich had bene sowen in them. (Ex 32) 34 And behold it is the custome,\nthat when the earth hath receiued sede, or the sea a shippe, or some\nvessel meate or drinke: when that shal be destroyed wherin it was\nsowne, or into the which it was cast: 35 that which was sowne, or cast\nin, or the thinges that were receiued, are destroyed withal, and the\nthinges receiued now tarye not with vs: but it is not so done to vs. 36\nWe in dede that receiued the law, sinning haue perished, and our hart\nthat receiued it: 37 For the law hath not perished, but hath remayned\nin his labour. (Ezech 48) 38 And when I spake these thinges in my hart,\nI looked backe with myne eyes, and saw a woman on the right side, and\nbehold she mourned, and wept with a lowd voice, and was sorrowful in\nmynde exceedingly, and her garments rent, and ashes vpon her heade. 39\nAnd I left the cogitations, wherin I was thinking, and I turned to her\nand sayd to her: 40 Why weepest thou? and why art thou sorie in mynde.\nAnd she sayd to me: 41 Suffer me my Lord, that I may lament myselfe, &\nadde sorrow: because I am of a very pensiue mynde, and am humbled\nexceedingly. 42 And I sayd to her, What ayleth thee: tel me. And she\nsayd to me: 43 I thy seruant haue beene barren, and haue not borne\nchilde, hauing a husband thirty yeares. 44 For I euery howre, and\neuerie day, and these thirty yeares do beseche the Highest night and\nday. 45 And it came to passe, after thirtie yeares God heard me thy\nhandmayd, and saw my humilitie, and attended to my tribulation, and\ngaue me a sonne: and I was very ioyful vpon him, and my husband, and al\nmy citizens, and we did glorifie the Strong exceedingly. 46 And I\nnourished him with much labour. 47 And it came to passe when he was\ngrowen, and came to take a wife, I made a feast day.\n\nCHAP. X.\n\nThe state of Ierusalem is prefigured by a woman mourning, 25. and\nafterwardes reioycing.\n\nAND it came to passe, when my sonne was entred into his inner chamber,\nhe fel downe, and dyed: 2 and we al ouerthrewe the lights, and al my\ncitizens rose vp to comfort me, and I was quiet vntil the other day at\nnight. 3 And it came to passe, when al were quiet to comfort me, that I\nmight be quiet: and I arose in the night, and fled: and came as thou\nseest into this field. 4 And I meane nowe not to returne into the\ncitie, but to stay here: and neither eate, nor drinke, but without\nintermission to mourne, and to fast vntil I dye. 5 And I left the talke\nwherin I was, and with anger answered her, & sayd: 6 Thou foole aboue\nal wemen, seest thou not our mourning, & what thinges chance to vs? 7\nBecause Sion our mother is sorroweful with al sorrowe, and humbled, and\nmourneth most bitterly. 8 And now wheras we al mourne, and are sadde:\nwheras we are sorrowful, and art thou sorrowful for one sonne? 9 For\naske the earth, and it wil tel thee: that it is she, that ought to\nlament the fal of so manie thinges that spring vpon it. 10 And of her\nwere al borne from the beginning, and others shal come: and behold,\nalmost al walke into perdition, and the multitude of them commeth to\ndestruction. 11 And who then ought to mourne more, but she that hath\nlost so great a multitude, rather then thou which art sorie for one? 12\nAnd if thou say vnto me, that my mourning is not lyke the earthes:\nbecause I haue lost the fruite of my wombe, which I bare with sorrowes,\nand brought forth with paynes: 13 but the earth according to the maner\nof the earth, and the present multitude in it hath departed as it came:\nand I saye to thee, 14 as thou hast brought forth with payne, so the\nearth also geueth her fruite for man from the beginning to him that\nmade her. 15 Now therfore kepe in with thy sorrowe, and beare stoutly\nthe chances that haue befallen thee. 16 For if thou iustifie the end of\nGod, thou shalt in time both receiue his counsel, and also in such\nthinges thou shalt be praysed. 17 Goe in therfore into the citie to thy\nhusband. And she sayd to me: 18 I wil not doe it, neither wil I enter\ninto the citie, but here wil I dye. 19 And I added yet to speake to\nher, & sayd: 20 Doe not this word, but consent to him that counseleth\nthee. For how manie are the chances of Sion? Take comfort for the\nsorrowe of Ierusalem. 21 For thou seest that our sanctification is made\ndesert, and our altar is throwen downe, and our temple is destroyed, 22\nand our psalter is humbled, and hymne is silent, and our exultation is\ndissolued, and the light of our candelsticke is extinguished, and the\narke of our testament is taken for spoyle, & our holie thinges are\ncontaminated, and the name that is inuocated vpon vs, is almost\nprophaned: and our children haue suffred contumelie, and our Priestes\nare burnt, & our Leuites are gone into captiuitie, & our virgins are\ndefloured, and our wiues haue suffered rape, and our iust men are\nviolently taken, and our litle ones are lost, and our yong men are in\nbondage, and our valiants are made impotent: 23 and that which is\ngreatest of al, the seale of Sion, because she is vnsealed of her\nglorie: For she is also deliuered into the handes of them that hate vs.\n24 Thou therfore shake of thy great heauines, and lay away from thee\nthe multitude of sorrowes, that the Strong may be propicious to thee\nagayne, and the Highest wil geue thee rest, rest from thy labours. 25\nAnd it came to passe, when I spake to her, her face did shine suddenly,\nand her shape, and her visage was made glistering, so that I was\nafrayde excedingly at her, & thought what this thing should be. 26 And\nBehold, suddenly she put forth a great sound of a voyce ful of feare,\nthat the earth was moued at the womans sound. And I saw: 27 and behold,\nthe woman did no more appeare vnto me, but a citie was built, & a place\nwas shewed of great fundations: and I was afrayd, & crying with a loude\nvoyce I sayd: 28 Where is Vriel the Angel, that from the beginning came\nto me? for he made me come in multitude in excesse of this minde, and\nmy end is made into corruption, & my prayer into reproch. 29 And when I\nwas speaking these thinges, behold he came to me, and sawe me. 30 And\nbehold I was layd as dead, & my vnderstanding was alienated, and he\nheld my right hand, and strengthned me, & set me vpon my feete, & sayd\nto me: 31 What ayleth thee? and why is thy vnderstanding, and the sense\nof thy hart trubled, & why art thou trubled? And I sayd: 32 Because\nthou hast forsaken me, and I in dede haue done according to thy wordes,\n& went out into the field: & behold, I haue seene, & doe see that which\nI cannot vtter. And he sayd to me: 33 Stand like a man, & I wil moue\nthee. And I sayd: 34 Speake thou my Lord in me, forsake me not, that I\ndie not in vaine: 35 because I haue seene thinges that I knew not, & I\ndoe heare thinges that I know not. 36 Or is my sense deceiued, & doth\nmy soule dreame? 37 Now therfore I besech thee, that thou shew vnto thy\nseruant concerning this trance. And he answered me, & sayd: 38 Heare\nme, and I wil teach thee, and wil tel thee of what thinges thou art\nafrayd: because the Highest hath reuealed vnto thee manie mysteries. 39\nHe hath seene thy right way, that without intermission thou was\nforrowful for thy people, and didst mourne exceedingly for Sion. 40\nThis therfore is the vnderstanding of the vision which appeared to thee\na litle before. 41 The woman whom thou sawest mourning, thou beganst to\ncomfort her. 42 And now thou seest not the forme of the woman, but\nthere appeared to thee a citie to be built. 43 And because she tolde\nthee of the fal of her sonne, this is the interpretation. 44 This woman\nwhich thou sawest, she is Sion, and wheras she told thee of her, whom\nnow also thou shalt see, as a citie builded. 45 And whereas she told\nthee, that she was barren thirtie yeares: for the which there were\nthirtie yeares, when there was not yet oblation offered in it. 46 And\nit came to passe after thirtie yeares, Salomon built the citie, and\noffered oblations: then it was, when the barren bare a childe. 47 And\nthat which she sayd vnto thee, that she nourished him with labour, this\nwas the habitation in Ierusalem. 48 And wheras she sayd to thee, that\nmy sonne comming into the bryde chamber dyed, and that a fal chanced\nvnto him, this was the ruine of Ierusalem that is made. 49 And behold,\nthou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her\nsonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue\nchanced, these were to be opened to thee. 50 And now the Highest seeth\nthat thou wast sorie from the hart: and because with thy whole hart\nthou sufferest for her, he hath shewed thee the clearnes of her glorie,\nand the fayrenes of her beautie. 51 For therfore did he say to thee,\nthat thou shouldest tarie in a field where house is not built. 52 For I\nknew that the Highest beganne to shew thee these thinges: 53 therfore I\nsayd vnto thee, that thou shouldest goe into a field, where is no\nfundation of building. 54 For the worke of mans building could not be\nborne in the place, where the citie of the Highest began to be shewed.\n55 Thou therfore feare not, neither let thy hart dread: but goe in, and\nsee the beautie, and greatnes of the building, as much as the sight of\nthyne eyes is capable to see: 56 & afterward thou shalt heare as much,\nas the hearing of thyne eares is capable to heare. 57 For thou art\nblessed aboue manie, and art called with the Highest as few. 58 And to\nmorrow night thou shalt tarie here: 59 and the Highest wil shew thee\nthose visions of the thinges on high, which the Highest wil doe to them\nthat inhabite vpon the earth in the later dayes. 60 And I slept that\nnight, and the other next, as he had sayd to me.\n\nCHAP. XI.\n\nAn eagle appeareth to Esdras coming forth of the sea, with three\nheades, and twelue winges: sometimes one reigning in the world,\nsometimes an other, but euerie one vanisheth away. 36. A lion also\nappeareth coming forth of the wood, to suppresse the eagle.\n\nAND I sawe a dreame, & behold an eagle came vp out of the sea: which\nhad twelue winges of fethers, and three heades. 2 And I saw, and behold\nshe spred her winges into al the earth, and al the windes of heauen\nblew vpon her, and were gathered together. 3 And I saw, and of her\nfethers sprang contrarie feathers, and they became litle winges, and\nsmale. 4 For her heades were at rest, and the midle head was greater\nthen the other heades, but she rested with them. 5 And I saw, and\nbehold the eagle flew with her winges, and reigned ouer the earth, and\nouer them that dwel in it. 6 And I saw, that al thinges vnder heauen\nwere subiect to her, and no man gaynesayd her, no not one of the\ncreature that is vpon the earth. 7 And I saw, and behold the eagle rose\nvp vpon her talons, and made a voice with her winges, saying: 8 Watch\nnot al together, sleepe euerie one in his place, & watch according to\ntime. 9 But let the heades be preserued to the last. 10 And I saw, and\nbehold the voice came not out of her heades, but from the middes of her\nbodie. 11 And I numbered her contrarie winges, and behold they were\neight. 12 And I saw, and behold on the right side rose one wing, and\nreighned ouer al the earth. 13 And it came to passe, when it reigned,\nan end came to it, and the place therof appeared not: and the next rose\nvp, & reigned, that held much time. 14 And it came to passe, when it\nreigned, & the end of it also came, that it appeared not as the former.\n15 And behold, a voice was sent forth to it, saying: 16 Heare thou that\nhast held the earth of long time. Thus I tel thee before thou beginne\nnot to appeare. 17 None after thee shal hold thy time, no nor the halfe\ntherof. 18 And the third lifted vp it selfe, and held the principalitie\nas also the former: and that also appeared not. 19 And so it chanced to\nal the other by one & by one to haue the principalitie, & agayne to\nappeare nowhere. 20 And I saw, and behold in time the rest of the\nwinges were sent vp on the right side, that they also might hold the\nprincipalitie: and of them there were that held it, but yet forthwith\nthey appeared not. 21 For some also of them stoode vp, but they held\nnot the principalitie. 22 And I saw after these thinges, and behold the\ntwelue winges, and two litle winges appeared not: 23 and nothing\nremayned in the bodie of the eagle but two heades resting, and six\nlitle winges. 24 And I saw, and behold from the six litle winges two\nwere diuided, and they remayned vnder the head, that is on the right\nside. For foure taried in their place. 25 And I saw, and behold the\nvnderwinges thought to set vp them selues, and to hold the\nprincipalities. 26 And I saw, and behold one was set vp, but forthwith\nit appeared not. 27 And they that were second did sooner vanish away\nthen the former. 28 And I saw, and behold the two that remayned,\nthought with them selues that they also would reigne: 29 and when they\nwere thincking thereon, behold one of the resting heades, which was the\nmidde one awaked, for this was greater then the other two heades. 30\nAnd I saw that the two heades were complete with themselues. 31 And\nbehold the head with them that were with him turned, and did eate the\ntwo vnderwinges that thought to reigne. 32 And this head terrified al\nthe earth, & ruled in it ouer them that inhabite the earth with much\nlabour, and he that held the dominion of the whole world aboue al the\nwinges that were. 33 And I saw after these thinges, and behold the\nmidle head sodenly appeared not, as did the winges. 34 And there\nremained two heads, which reigned also themselues ouer the earth, and\nouer them that dwelt therein. 35 And I saw, and behold the head on the\nright side deuoured that which was on the left. 36 And I heard a voice\nsaying to me, Looke against thee, and consider what thou seest. 37 And\nI saw, & behold as a lion raysed out of the wood roaring: and I saw\nthat he sent out a mans voyce to the eagle. And he spake saying. 38\nHeare thou, and I wil speake to thee, and the Highest wil say to thee:\n39 Is it not thou that hast ouercome of the foure beastes, which I made\nto reigne in my world, and that by them the end of their times might\ncome? 40 And the fourth coming ouercame al the beastes that were past,\nand by might held the world with much feare, and al the world with most\nwicked laboure, and he inhabitied the whole earth so long time with\ndeceipte. 41 And thou hast iudged the earth not with truth. 42 For thou\nhast afflicted the meeke, and hast trubled them that were quiet, and\nhast loued lyers, & hast destroyed their habitations that did\nfructifie, and hast ouerthrowen their walles that did not hurt thee. 43\nAnd thy contumelie is ascended euen to the Highest, and thy pride to\nthe Strong. 44 And the Highest hath looked vpon the proud times: and\nbehold they are ended, and the abominations therof are accomplished. 45\nTherfore thou eagle appeare no more, and thy horrible winges, & thy\nlitle winges most wicked, and thy heades malignant, and thy talons most\nwicked, and al thy bodie vayne, 46 that al the earth may be refreshed,\nand may returne deliuered from thy violence, and may hope for his\niudgement, and mercie that made it.\n\nCHAP. XII.\n\nThe eagle vanisheth away, 5. Esdras prayeth, 10. and the former visions\nare declared to him.\n\nAND it came to passe, whiles the lyon spake these wordes to the eagle:\nI saw, 2 and behold the head that had ouercome, and those foure winges\nappeared not which passed to him, and were set vp to reigne: and their\nreigne was smal, and ful of tumult. 3 And I saw, and behold they\nappeared not, and al the bodie of the eagle was burnt, & the earth was\nafrayd excedingly, and I by the tumult and traunce of minde, and for\ngreat feare awaked, and sayd to my spirit: 4 Behold thou hast geuen me\nthis, in that, that thou searchest the wayes of the Highest. 5 Behold\nyet I am wearie in minde, and in my spirit I am very feeble, and there\nis not so much as a litle strength in me for the great feare, that I\nwas afrayd of this night. 6 Now therfore I wil pray the Highest, that\nhe strengthen me euen to the end. 7 And I sayd: Lord Dominatour, if I\nhaue found grace before thine eyes, and if I am iustified before thee\naboue manie, and if in deede my prayer be ascended before thy face, 8\nstrengthen me, and shew vnto me thy seruant the interpretation, and\ndistinction of this horrible vision, that thou mayst comfort my soule\nmost fully. 9 For thou hast counted me worthie to shew vnto me the\nlater times. And he sayd to me: 10 This is the interpretation of this\nvision. 11 The eagle which thou sawest coming vp from the sea, this is\nthe kingdom which was sene in a vision to Daniel thy brother. (Dan 7:7)\n12 But it was not interpreted to him, therfore I do now interprete it\nto thee. 13 Behold the dayes come, and there shal rise a kingdon vpon\nthe earth, and the feare shal be more terrible then of al the kingdomes\nthat were before it. 14 And there shal twelue kinges reigne in it, one\nafter an other. 15 For the second shal beginne to reigne, and he shal\ncontinew more time then the rest of the twelue. 16 This is the\ninterpretation of the twelue winges which thou sawest. 17 And the voice\nthat spake which thou heardst, not coming forth of her heads, but from\nthe middes of her bodie, 18 this is the interpretation, that after the\ntime of that kingdom shal rise no smal contentions, and it shal be in\ndanger to fal: and it shal not fal then, but shal be constituted againe\naccording to the beginning therof. 19 And wheras thou sawest eight\nvnderwings cleauing to the wings therof, 20 this is the interpretation,\neight kinges shal arise in it, whose times shal be light, and yeares\nswift, and two of them shal perish. 21 But when the middest time\napprocheth, foure shal be kept til a time, when the time therof shal\nbeginne to approch to be ended, yet two shal be kept to the end. 22 And\nwheras thou sawest three heads resting, 23 this is the interpretation:\nin her last dayes the Highest wil rayse vp three kingdoms, and wil cal\nbacke manie thinges into them, and they shal rule ouer the earth, 24\nand them that dwel in it, with much labour aboue al them that vvere\nbefore them. For this cause they are called the heads of the eagle. 25\nFor these shal be they that shal recapitulate her impieties, and that\nshal accomplish her last thinges. 26 And wheras thou sawest a greater\nhead not appearing, this is the interpretation therof: that one of them\nshal dye vpon his bed, and yet with torments. 27 For the two that shal\nremayne, the sword shal eate them. 28 For the sword of one shal deuoure\nhim that is with him: but yet this also at the last shal fal by the\nsword. 29 And wheras thou sawest two vnderwings passing ouer the head\nthat is on the right side, 30 this is the interpretation: these are\nthey whom the Highest hath kept to their end, this is a smal kingdom,\nand ful of truble. 31 As thou sawest the lyon also, whom thou sawest\nawaking out of the wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and\nrebuking her, and her iniustices by al his wordes as thou hast heard:\n32 this is the wynde which the Highest hath kept vnto the end for them,\nand their impieties: and he shal rebuke them, and shal cast in their\nspoyles before them. 33 For he shal sette them in iudgment aliue: and\nit shal be, when he hath reproued them, then shal he chastise them. 34\nFor the rest of my people he shal deliuer with miserie, them that are\nsaued vpon my borders, and he shal make them ioyful til the end shal\ncome, the day of iudgment, wherof I haue spoken to thee from the\nbeginning. 35 This is the dreame which thou sawest, and these be the\ninterpretations. 36 Thou therfore only hast bene worthie to know this\nsecrete of the Highest. 37 Write therfore in a booke al these thinges\nwhich thou hast sene, and put them in a hidden place: 38 and thou shalt\nteach them the wise men of thy people, whose harts thou knowest able to\ntake, and to kepe these secretes. 39 But doe thou stay here yet other\nseuen dayes, that there may be shewed thee whatsoeuer shal seme good to\nthe Highest to shew thee. 40 And he departed from me. And it came to\npasse, when al the people had heard that the seuen dayes were past, and\nI had not returned into the citie, and al gathered them selues together\nfrom the least vnto the greatest: & came to me, & spake to me saying:\n41 What haue we sinned to thee, or what haue we done vniustly against\nthee, that leauing vs thou hast sitten in this place? 42 For thou alone\nart remayning to vs of al peoples, as a cluster of grapes of the\nvineyard, and as a candle in a darke place, and as an hauen and shippe\nsaued from the tempest. 43 Or are not the euiles that chance,\nsufficient for vs? 44 If then thou shalt forsake vs, how much better\nhad it bene to vs, if we also had bene burnt with the burning of Sion?\n45 For we are not better then they that dyed there. And they wept with\na lowd voice. And I answered them, and sayd: 46 Be of good chere\nIsrael, and be not sorowful thou house of Iacob. 47 For there is\nremebrance of you before the Highest, and the Strong hath not forgotten\nyou in tentation. 48 For I haue not forsaken you, neither did I depart\nform you: but I came into this place, to pray for the desolation of\nSion, and to seeke mercie for the low estate of your sanctification. 49\nAnd now goe euery one of you into his house, and I wil come to you\nafter these dayes. 50 And the people departed, as I sayd to them, into\nthe citie: 51 but I sate in the fielde seuen dayes, as he commanded me:\nand I did eate of the flowers of the field only, of the herbes was my\nmeate made in those dayes.\n\nCHAP. XIII.\n\nA vision of a winde (as it first semed, but) in dede, v. 3. of a man:\n5. strong against the enimies: 21. with the interpretation.\n\nAND it came to passe after seuen dayse, and I dreamed a dreame in the\nnight. 2 And behold there rose a winde from the sea, that trubled al\nthe waues therof. 3 And I saw, and behold that man grew strong with\nthousandes of heauen: and when he turned his countenance to consider,\nal thinges trembled that were sene vnder him: 4 and whersoeuer voyce\nproceded out of his mouth, al that heard his voices begane to burne, as\nthe earth is quiet when it feeleth the fire. 5 And I saw after these,\nand behold a multitude of men was gathered together, of whom there was\nno number, from the foure windes of heauen, to fight against the man\nthat was come vp out of the sea. 6 And I saw, and behold he had grauen\nto himself a great mountaine, & he flew vpon it. 7 And I sought to see\nthe countrie, or the place whence the mountaine was grauen, & I could\nnot. 8 And after these thinges I saw, and behold al that were gathered\nto him, to ouerthrowe him, feared exceedingly, yet they were bold to\nfieght. 9 And behold as he sawe the violence of the multitude that\ncame, he lifted not vp his hand, nor held sword, nor anie warlyke\ninstrument but only as I saw, 10 that he sent forth out of his mouth as\nit were a blaste of fire, and from his lippes a spirit of flame, & from\nhis tongue he sentforth sparkles & tempests, and al thinges were\nmingled together with this blast of fire, & spirit of flame, &\nmultitude of tempests. 11 And it fel with violence vpon the multitude,\nthat was prepared to fight, and burned them al, that suddenly there was\nnothing sene of an innumerable multitude, but only dust, & the sauour\nof smoke: and I saw, and was afrayd. 12 And after these thinges I saw\nthe man himself descending from the mountaine, and calling to him an\nother peaceable multitude, 13 and there came to him the countenance of\nmanie men some reioycing, and some sorrowing: and some bond, some\nbringing of them them that were offered. And I was sicke for much\nfeare, and awaked, and sayd. 14 Thou from the beginning hast shewed thy\nseruant these meruelous thinges, and hast counted me worthie that thou\nwouldest receiue my petition. 15 And now shew me yet the interpretation\nof this dreame. 16 For as I thinke in my iudgement, woe to them that\nwere leaft in those dayes: & much more woe to them that were not leaft.\n17 For they that were not leaft, were sorrowful. 18 I vnderstand now\nwhat thinges are layde vp in the later dayes, and they shal happen to\nthem, yea and to them that are leaft. 19 For therefore they came into\ngreat dangers, and manie necessities, as these dreames do shew. 20 But\nyet it is easier, aduenturing to come into it, then to passe, as a\ncloud from the world, and vow to see the thinges that happen in the\nlater time. And he answered me, and sayd: 21 Both the interpretation of\nthe vision I wil tel thee: and also concerning the thinges that thou\nhast spoken I wil open to thee. 22 Wheras thou speakest of them that\nwere leaft, this is the interpretation. 23 He that taketh away danger\nat that time, he hath garded himself. They that haue fallen into\ndanger, these are they that haue workes, and fayth in the Strongest. 24\nKnow therefore that they are more blessed which are leaft, then they\nthat are dead. 25 These are the interpretations of the vision, wheras\nthou sawest a man coming from the hart of the sea, 26 the same is he\nwhom the Highest preserueth much time, which by himself shal deliuer\nhis creature: and he shal dispose them that are leaft. 27 And wheras\nthou sawest proceede out of his mouth, as it were winde, and fire, and\ntempest: 28 and wheras he held no sworde, nor warlike instrument: for\nhis violence destroyed the multitude that came to ouerthrow him: this\nis the interpretation. 29 Behold the dayes come, when the Highest shal\nbegin to deliuer them, that are vpon the earth: 30 and he shal come in\nexcesse of minde vpon them that inhabit the earth. 31 And one shal\nthinke to ouerthrow an other: one citie an other citie, one place an\nother place, and nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.\n(Matt 24 / Luke 21) 32 And it shal be, when these thinges shal come to\npasse, and the signes shal happen, which I shewed thee before: and then\nshal my sonne be reueled, whom thou sawest, as a man coming vp. 33 And\nit shal be when al nations shal heare his voice: and euery one in his\ncountrie shal leaue their warre, that they haue toward each other: 34\nand an innumerable multitude shal be gathered in one, as willing to\ncome to ouerthrow him. 35 But he shal stand vpon the top of mount Sion.\n36 And Sion shal come, and it shal be shewed to al prepared and\nbuilded, as thou sawest the mountaine to be grauen without handes. 37\nAnd the same my sonne shal reproue the thinges that the gentils haue\ninuented, these their impieties which came nere to the tempest, because\nof their euil cogitaitons, and torments wherewith they shal begin to be\ntormented. 38 Which were likened to the flame, and he shal destroy them\nwithout labour by the law that was likened to the fyre. 39 And wheras\nthou sawest him gathering vnto him an other peaceable multitude. 40\nThese are the ten tribes, which were made captiue out of their land in\nthe dayes of Osee the King, whom Salmanasar the King of the Assyrians\nled captiue: and he transported them beyond the riuer, and they were\ntransported into an other land. (4 Kings 17) 41 But they gaue\nthemselues this counsel, to forsake the multitude of nations, and to\ngoe forth into a farther countrie, where mankind neuer inhabited. 42 Or\nthere to obserue their ordinances, which they had not kept in their\ncountrie. 43 And they entred in by the narrow entrances of the riuer\nEuphrates. 44 For the Highest then wrought them signes, and stayed the\nvaines of the riuer til they passed. (Ex 14 / Jos 3) 45 For by that\ncountie was a great way to goe, of one yeare and a half: for the\ncountrie is called Arsareth. 46 Then did they inhabite there til in the\nlater time: and now againe when they beginne to come, 47 againe the\nHighest shal stay the vaines of the riuer, that they may passe: for\nthese thou sawest a multitiude with peace. 48 But they also that were\nleaft of the people, these are they that be within my border. 49 In\nshal come to passe therefore, when he shal begine to destroy the\nmultitude of these nations, that are gathered, he shal protect them\nthat haue ouercome the people: 50 and then shal he shew them very manie\nwonders. 51 And I sayd: Lord dominatour, shew me this, why I saw a man\ncomming vp from the hart of the sea, and he sayd to me: 52 As thou\ncanst not either search these thinges, or know what thinges are in the\ndepth of the sea: so can not any man vpon the earth see my sonne, or\nthem that are with him, but in the time of a day. 53 This is the\ninterpretation of the dreame which thou sawest, and for the which thou\nonly art here illuminated. 54 For thou hast leaft thyne owne law, and\nhast bene occupied about my law, and hast sought it. 55 For thou hast\ndisposed thy lyfe in wisdom, and thyne vnderstanding thou hast called\nmother: 56 and for this I haue shewed thee riches with the Highest. For\nit shal be after other three dayes, I wil speake other thinges to thee,\nand I wil expound to thee weightie and meruelous thinges. 57 And I went\nforth, and passed into the fielde, much glorifying & praising the\nHighest for the meruelous thinges that he did by time. 58 And because\nhe gouerneth it, and the thinges that are brought in times, & I sate\nthere three dayes.\n\nCHAP. XIIII.\n\nGod appeareth in a bush, 6. reuealing some thinges to be published, and\nsome thinges to be hid. 10. As the world waxeth old, al thinges become\nworse. 27. The people of Israel are vngratful. 32. Al shal be iudged in\nthe Resurrection according to their deedes.\n\nAND it came to passe the third day, and I sate vnder an oke. 2 And\nbehold a voice came forth against me out of a bush, and sayd: Esdras,\nEsdras: and I sayd: Loe here I am Lord. And I arose vpon my feete. And\nhe sayd to me: 3 Reueling I was reueled vpon the bush, and spake to\nMoyses, when the people serued in AEgypt, (Ex 3) 4 and I sent him, and\nbrought my people out of AEgypt, and brought him vpon mount Sina, &\nheld him with me manie dayes. 5 And I told him manie meruelous thinges,\n& shewed him the secrets of times, and the end: and I commanded him,\nsaying: 6 These wordes thou shalt publish abroade, and these thou shalt\nhyde. 7 And now to thee I say: 8 The signes which I haue shewed, and\nthe dreames which thou hast sene, and the interpretations which thou\nhast sene, lay them vp in thy hart. 9 For thou shalt be receiued of al,\nthou shalt be conuerted the residue with thy counsel, and with the like\nto thee, til the times be finished: 10 Because the world hath lost his\nyouth, and the times draw nere to waxe old. 11 For the world is diuided\nby twelue partes, & the tenth part, & half of the tenth part are\npassed: 12 and there remaineth hereafter the half of the tenth part. 13\nNow therefore dispose thy house, and correct thy people, & comfort the\nhumble of them, & forsake now corruption, 14 and put from thee mortal\ncogitations, and cast from thee humane burdens, and doe from thee now\ninfirme nature, & lay at one side cogitations most trublesome to thee,\n& make speedie transmigration from these times, 15 for the euiles which\nthou hast sene to haue chanced now, worse then these wil they doe\nagaine: (Matt 24 / 1 John 2) 16 for looke how much the world shal\nbecome weake by age, so much shal euiles be multiplied vpon the\ninhabitants. 17 For truth hath remoued it self farther of, and lying\nhath approched, for now the vision which thou sawest, hasteneth to\ncome. 18 And I answered, and sayd before thee o Lord: 19 For behold I\nwil goe, as thou hast commanded me, & wil rebuke the people that now\nis. But them that shal yet be born, who shal admonish? 20 The world\ntherfore is set in darknes, and they that dwel in it without light. 21\nBecause thy law is burnt, therefore no man knowth the workes that haue\nbene done by thee, or that shal begin. 22 For if I haue found grace\nwith thee, send the Holie Ghost to me, & I wil write al that hath bene\ndone in the world from the beginning, the thinges that were written in\nthy law, that men may finde the pathe: and they that wil liue in the\nlater times, may liue. 23 And he answered me, and sayd: Goe gather\ntogether the people, and thou shalt say to them, that they seeke thee\nnot for fourtie dayes. 24 And doe thou prepare thee manie tables of\nboxe, & take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Salemia, Echanus, and Asiel,\nthese fiue which are readie to write sweeftly. 25 And come hither, & I\nwil light in thy hart a candle of vnderstanding, which shal not be put\nout til the things be finished, which thou shalt begine to write. 26\nAnd then some thinges thou shalt open to the perfect, some thou shalt\ndeliuer secretly to the wyse. For to morrow this houre thou shalt\nbegine to write. 27 And I went as he commanded me, & gathered together\nal the people, and sayd: 28 Heare Israel these wordes: 29 Our fathers\nwere pilgrimes from the beginning in AEgypt, and were deliuered from\nthence. (Gen 47) 30 And they receiued the law of life, which they kept\nnot, which you also after them haue transgressed: (Deut 4 / Acts 7) 31\nand the land was geuen you by lotte, and the land of Sion, and your\nfathers, and you haue done iniquitie, and haue not kept the wayes which\nthe Highest commanded you. 32 And whereas he is a iust iudge, he hath\ntaken from you in time that which he had geuen. 33 And now you are\nhere, and your brethren are among you. 34 If then you wil rule ouer\nyour sense, & instruct your hart, you shal be preserued aliue, and\nafter death shal obtaine mercie. 35 For the iudgement shal come after\ndeath, when we shal returne to lyfe againe: and then the names of the\niust shal appeare, and the dedes of the impious shal be shewed. 36 Let\nno man therfore come to me now, nor aske for me vntil fourtie dayes. 37\nAnd I tooke the fiue men, as he commandede me, and we went forth into\nthe field, and taried there. 38 And I was come to the morrow, & behold\nas voice called me, saying: Esdras open thy mouth, and drinke that\nwhich I wil geue thee to drinke. (Ezech 3) 39 And I opened my mouth, &\nbehold a ful cuppe was brought me, this was ful as it were with water:\nbut the colour therof like as fire. 40 And I tooke it, and dranke; and\nwhen I had drunken of it, my hart was tormented with vnderstanding, and\nwisdome grewe into my brest. For my spirit was kept by memorie. 41 And\nmy mouth was opened, and was shut no more. 42 The Highest gaue\nvnderstanding vnto the fiue men, and they wrote excesses of the night\nwhich were spoken, which they knewe not. 43 And at night they did eate\nbreade, but I spake by day, & by night held not my peace. 44 And there\nwere written in the fourtie dayes two hundred foure bookes. 45 And it\ncame to passe when they had ended the fourtie daies, the Highest spake,\nsaying: 46 The former thinges which thou hast written, set abrode, and\nlet the worthie and vnworthiereade: but the last seuentie bookes thou\nshalt keepe, that thou mayest deliuer them to the wyse of thy people.\n47 For in these is the vaine of vnderstanding, and the fountaine of\nwisdome, and the streame of knowledge. and I did soe.\n\nCHAP. XV.\n\nEsdras is bid to denounce, that assuredly manie euiles wil come to the\nworld. 9. God wil protect his people, the wicked shal be punished, and\nlament their final miseries, God reuenging for the good.\n\nBEHOLD speake into the eares of my people the wordes of prophecie,\nwhich I shal put into thy mouth, sayth our Lord: 2 and see that they be\nwritten in paper, because they be faithful and true. 3 Be not afrayd of\nthe cogitations against thee, neither let the incredulities truble thee\nof them that speake. 4 Because euerie incredulous person shal dye in\nhis incredulitie. 5 Behold I bring in, sayth our Lord, vpon the whole\nearth euils, sword, and famine, and death, and destruction. 6 Because\niniquitie hath fully polluted ouer al the earth, and their hurtful\nworkes are accomplished. 7 Therefore sayth our Lord: 8 I wil not now\nkepe silence of their impieties which they doe irreligiously, neither\nwil I beare with those thinges, which they practise vniustly. Behold\nthe innocent & iust bloud crieth to me, & the soules of the iust crie\ncontinually. 9 Reuenging I wil reuenge them, sayth our Lord, and I wil\ntake al innocent bloud out of them vnto me. (Apoc 6:10 & 19:2) 10\nBehold my people is led to slaughter as a flocke, I wil no more suffer\nit to dwel in the land of AEgypt. 11 But I wil bring them forth in a\nmightie hand and valiant arme, and wil strike with plague as before,\nand wil corrupt al the land thereof. 12 AEgypt shal mourne, and\nfundations thereof beaten with plague, and with the chastisement which\nGod wil bring vpon it. 13 The husbandmen that til the ground shal\nmourne, because their seedes shal perish by blasting, and haile, and by\na terible starre. 14 Woe to the world and them that dwel therein. 15\nBecause the sword is at hand and the destruction of them, and nation\nshal rise vp against nation to fight, & sword in their handes. (Matt 24\n/ Luke 21) 16 For there shal be instabilitie to men, & growing one\nagainst an other they shal not care for their king, & the princes of\nthe way of their doinges, in their might. 17 For a man shal desire to\ngo into the citie & can not. 18 Because of their prides the cities shal\nbe trubled, the houses raised, the men shal feare. 19 Man shal not\npitie his neighbour, to make their houses nothing worth in the sword,\nto spoyle their goodes for famine of bread, & much tribulation. 20\nBehold, I cal together sayth God, al the kinges of the earth to feare\nme, that are from the Orient, & from the South, from the East, & from\nLibanus, to be turned vpon themselues, and to render the thinges that\nthey haue geuen them. 21 As they doe vntil this day to myne elect, so\nwil I doe, and render in their bosome. Thus sayth our Lord God: 22 My\nright hand shal not spare sinners, neither shal the sword cease vpon\nthem that shede innocent bloud vpon the earth. 23 Fire came forth from\nhis wrath, and hath deuoured the fundations of the earth, and sinners\nas it were straw set on fire. 24 Woe to them that sinne, and obserue\nnot my comandmentes, sayth our Lord. 25 I wil not spare them: depart o\nchildren from the powre. Defile not my sanctification: 26 because the\nLord knoweth al that sinne against him; therefore hath he deliuered\nthem into death and into slaughter. 27 For now are euils come vpon the\nworld, and you shal tarrie in them. For God wil not deliuer you,\nbecause you haue sinned against him. 28 Behold an horrible vision, and\nthe face of it from the east. 29 And the nations of dragons of Arabians\nshal come forth in manie chariots, & as a winde the number of them is\ncaried vpon the earth, so that now al doe feare and tremble, that shal\nheare them. 30 the Carmonians madde for anger, and they shal goe forth\nas wild boares out of the wood, & they shal come with great power, and\nshal stand in fight with them, & they shal waste the portion of the\nland of the Assirians. 31 And after these thinges the dragons shal\npreuaile mindful of their natiuitie, and conspiring shal turne\nthemselues in great force to pursue them. 32 These shal be trubled and\nhold their peace at their force, and shal turne their fete into flight.\n33 And from the territorie of the Assirians the besiegers shal beseige\nthem, and shal consume one of them, and there shal be feare and\ntrembling in their armie, and contention against their kinges. 34\nBehold cloudes from the east, and from the north vnto the south, and\ntheir face very horrible, ful of wrath and storme. 35 And they shal\nbeate one against an other, and they shal beate downe manie starres,\nand their starre vpon the earth, and bloud shal be from the sword vnto\nthe bellie. 36 And mans dung vnto the camels litter, and there shal be\nmuch feare, and trembling vpon the earth. 37 And they shal shake that\nshal see that wrath, and tremble shal take them: and after these\nthinges there shal manie showers be moued: 38 from the south, and the\nnorth: and an other portion from the weast. 39 And the windes from the\neast shal reuaile vpon it, and shal shut it vp, and the cloudes which\nhe raised in wrath, and the starre to make terrour to the east winde,\nand the west shal be destroyed. 40 And there shal be exalted great and\nmightie cloudes ful of wrath, and a starre to terrifie al the earth,\nand the inhabitantes therof, and they shal powre in vpon euerie high,\nand eminent place a terrible starre, 41 fire, and haile, and flying\nswordes, and manie waters, so that al fildes also shal be filled, and\nal riuers with the fulnes of manie waters. 42 And they shal throw downe\ncities, and walles, and mountaines, and hilles, and the trees of the\nwoodes, and the grasse of the medowes, and their corne. 43 And they\nshal passe constant vnto Babylon, and shal raise her. (Apoc 18) 44 They\nshal come together against her, and shal compasse her, and shal power\nout the starre, and al wrath vpon her, and the dust and smoke shal goe\nvp euen into heauen, and round about shal lament her. 45 And they that\nshal remaine vnder her, shal serue them that terified her. 46 And thou\nAsia agreeing into the hope of Babylon, and the glorie of her person,\n47 woe be to thee thou wretch, because thou art like to her, and hast\nadorned thy daughters in fornication, to please & glorie in thy louers,\nwhich haue desired alwayes to fornicate with thee. 48 Thou hast\nimitated the odious in al her workes, and in her inuentions: therefore\nsayth God: 49 I wil send in euils vpon thee, widowhood, pouertie, and\nfamine, and sword, and pestilence, to destroy thy houses by violation,\nand death, and glorie of thy vertue. 50 As a flower shal be withered,\nwhen the heate shal rise that is sent forth vpon thee, 51 thou shalt be\nweakned as a litle poore soule plaged and chastised of wemen, that the\nmightie and the louers may not receiue thee. 52 Wil I be zealous\nagainst thee sayth our Lord, 53 vnles thou hadst slayne myne elect at\nal times, exalting the slaughter of the handes, and saying vpon their\ndeath, when thou wast drunken. 54 Adorne the beautie of thy\ncountenance. 55 The reward of thy fornication is in thy bosome,\ntherefore thou shalt receiue recompence. 56 As thou shalt doe to my\nelect, sayth our Lord, so shal God do to thee, and shal deliuer thee\nvnto euil. 57 And thy children shal dye for famine: and thou shalt fal\nby the sword, and thy cities shal be destroyed, & al thyne shal fal in\nthe filde by the sword. 58 And they that are in the mountaines, shal\nperish, with famine, and shal eate their owne flesh, & drinke bloud,\nfor the famine of bread and thirst of waters. 59 Vnhappie by the seas\nshalt thou come, and againe thou shalt receuie euils. 60 And in the\npassage they shal beate against the idle citie, and shal destroy some\nportion of thy land, and shal deface part of thy glorie, againe\nreturning to Babylon ourethrowen. 61 And being throwen downe thou shalt\nbe to them for stubble, and they shal be to thee fire: 62 and deuoure\nthee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountaynes, al thy woodes and\nfruitful trees they wil burne with fire. 63 Thy children they shal lead\ncaptiue, & shal haue thy goodes for a praye, and the glorie of thy face\nthey shal destroy.\n\nCHAP. XVI.\n\nAl are admonished, that extreme calamities shal fal vpon this world,\n36. the penitent returning to iustice shal escape, 55. & as al thinges\nwere made by Gods omnipotent powre at his wil, so al thinges shal serue\nto the reward of the blessed, and punishment of the wicked.\n\nVVOE to thee Babylon & Asia, woe to thee AEgypt, and Syria. 2 Gird\nyourselues with sackclothes and shirtes of heare, & mourne for your\nchildren, & be sorie: because your destruction is at hand. 3 The sword\nis sent in vpon you, and who is he that can turne it away? 4 Fire is\nsent in vpon you, and who is he that can quench it? 5 Euiles are sent\nin vpon you, and who is he that can repel them? 6 Shal anie man repel\nthe lion being hungrie in the woode, or quench the fire in stubble,\nforthwith when it beginneth to burne? 7 Shal anie man repel the arrow\nshot of a strong archer? 8 Our strong Lord sendeth in euiles, and who\nis he that can repel them? 9 Fire came forth from his wrath, and who is\nhe that can quench it? 10 He wil lighten, who shal not feare, he wil\nthunder, and who shal not be afrayed? 11 Our Lord wil threaten, and who\nshal not vtterly be destroyed before his face? 12 The earth hath\ntrembled, and the fundations thereof, the sea tosseth vp waues from the\ndepth, and the floudes of it shal be destroyed, and the fishes thereof\nat the face of our Lord, and at the glorie of his powre: 13 because his\nright hand is strong which bendeth the bow, his arrowes be sharpe that\nare shot of him, they shal not misse, when they shal begine to be shot\ninto the endes of the earth. 14 Behold euiles are sent, and they shal\nnot returne til they come vpon the earth. 15 The fire is kindled and it\nshal not be quenched, til it consume the fundations of the earth. 16\nFor as the arrow shot of a strong archer returneth not, so shal not the\neuils returne backe, that shal be sent vpon the earth. 17 Woe is me,\nwoe is me: who shal deliuer me in those dayes? 18 The beginning of\nsorrowes and much mourning, the beginning of famine and much\ndestruction. The beginning of warres and the potestates shal feare, the\nbeginning of euiles and al shal tremble. 19 In these what shal I doe,\nwhen the euils shal come? 20 Behold famine, and plague, and\ntribulation, and distresse are sent al as scourges for amendment, 21\nand in al these they wil not conuert themselues from their iniquities,\nneither wil they be alwayes mindful of the scourges. 22 Behold, there\nshal be good cheape victuals vpon the earth, so that they may thinke\nthat peace is directly coming toward them, and then shal euiles spring\nvpon the earth, sword, famine, and great confusion. 23 For by famine\nmanie that inhabit the earth shal dye, and the sword shal destroy the\nrest that remained aliue of the famine, 24 and the dead shal be cast\nforth as dung, and there shal be none to comfort them. For the earth\nshal be left desert, and the cities therof shal be throwen downe. 25\nThere shal not be left a man to til the ground and to sow it. 26 The\ntrees shal yeeld fruites, and who shal gather them? 27 The grape shal\nbecome ripe, & who shal tread it? For there shal be great desolation to\nplaces. 28 For a man shal desire to see a man, or to heare his voyce.\n29 For there shal be leaft ten of a citie, and two of the field that\nhaue hid themselues in thicke woodes, and cliffes of rockes. 30 As\nthere are left in the oliuet, and on euerie tree, three of foure\noliues. 31 Or as in a vinyeard when it is gathered there are grapes\nleft by them, that diligently search the vineyard: 32 so shal there be\nleft in those dayes three or foure, by them that search their houses in\nthe sword. 33 And the earth shal be left desolate, and the fildes\nthereof shal waxe old, & the wayes thereof, and al the pathes thereof\nshal bringforth thornes, because no man shal passe by it. 34 Virgins\nshal mourne hauing no bridegromes, wemen shal mourne hauing no\nhusbandes, their daughters shal mourne hauing no helpe: 35 their\nbridegromes shal be consumed in battel, and their husbandes be\ndestroyed in famine. 36 But heare these thinges, and know them ye\nseruantes of our Lord. 37 Behold the word of our Lord, receiue it:\nbeleue not the goddes of whom our Lord speaketh. 38 Behold the euiles\napproch, and slacke not. 39 As a woman with childe when shee bringeth\nforth her child in the ninth moneth, the houre of her deliuerance\napproching, two or three howres before, paines come about her wombe,\nand the infants coming out of her wombe, they wil not tarrie one\nmoment. 40 So the euiles shal not slacke to come forth vpon the earth,\nand the world shal lament, and sorowes shal hold it round about. 41\nHeare the word, my people: prepare yourselues vnto the fight, & in the\neuiles so be ye as strangers of the earth. 42 He that selleth as if he\nshould flee, and he that byeth as he that should lose it. 43 He that\nplayeth the marchant, as he that should take no fruite: and he that\nbuildeth as he that should not inhabite. 44 He that soweth, as he that\nshal not reape: so he also that pruneth a vinyeard, as if he should not\nhaue the vintage. 45 They that marie so as if they should not get\nchildren, & they that marie not, so as if were widowes. 46 Wherfore\nthey that labour, labour without cause: 47 for foreners shal reape\ntheir fruites, & shal violently take their goodes, and ouerthrow their\nhouses, and lead theire children captiue, because in captiuitie, and\nfamine they beget their children. 48 And they that play the marchantes\nby robrie, the longer they adorne their cities and houses, and their\npossessions and persons: 49 so much the more wil I be zealous toward\nthem, vpon their sinnes, sayth our Lord. 50 As a whore enuieth an\nhonest & very good woman: 51 so shal iustice hate impietie when she\nadorneth herselfe, and accuseth her to her face, when he shal come that\nmay defend him that searcheth out al vpon the earth. 52 Therefore be\nnot made like to her, nor to her workes. 53 For yet a little whyle &\niniquitie shal be taken away from the earth, & iustice shal reigne ouer\nyou. 54 Let not the sinner say he hath not sinned: because he shal\nburne coales of fire vpon his head, that sayth I haue not sinned before\nour Lord God and his glorie. 55 Behold our Lord shal know al the workes\nof men, and their inuentions, & their cogitations, and their hartes.\n(Eccli 23 / Luke 16) 56 For he sayd: Let the earth be made, and it was\nmade: let the heauen be made, & it was made. (Gen 1) 57 And by his\nworde the starrs were made, & he noweth the number of the starres. (Ps\n146:4) 58 Who searcheth the depth and the treasures therof: who hath\nmeasured the sea, & capacitie therof. (Job 38) 59 Who hath shut vp the\nsea in the midest of waters, & hath hanged the earth vpon the waters\nwith his word. 60 Who hath spred heauen as it were a vault, ouer the\nwaters he hath founded it. 61 Who hath put fountaines of waters in the\ndesert, and lakes vpon the toppes of mountaines, to send forth riuers\nfrom the high rocke to watter the earth. 62 Who made man & put his hart\nin the midds of the bodie, and gaue him spirit, life and vnderstanding.\n63 And the inspiration of God omnipotent that made al thinges, and\nsearcheth al hid thinges, in the secretes of the earth. 64 He knoweth\nyour inuention, and what you thinke in your hartes sinning, and willing\nto hide your sinnes. 65 Wherfore our Lord in searching hath searched al\nyour workes, and he wil put you al to open shame, 66 and you shal be\nconfounded when your sinnes shal come forth before men, and the\niniquities shal be they, that shal stand accusers in that day. 67 What\nwil you doe? or how shal you hide your sinnes before God and his\nAngels? 68 Behold God is the Iudge, feare him. Cease from your sinnes,\nand now forget your iniquities to doe them anie more, & God wil bring\nyou out, and deliuer you from al tribulation. 69 For behold the heate\nof a great multitude is kindled ouer you, and they shal take certaine\nof you by violence, & shal make the slaine to be meate for idols. 70\nAnd they that shal consent vnto them, shal be to them in derision, and\nin reproch, and in conculcation. 71 For there shal be place against\nplaces, and against the next cities great insurrection vpon them that\nfeare our Lord. 72 They shal be as it were madde sparing no bodie, to\nspoyle and waste yet them that feare our Lord. 73 because they shal\nwaste and spoyle the goodes, and shal cast them out of their houses. 74\nThen shal appeare the probation of mine elect, as gold that is proued\nby the fire. 75 Heare be beloued, sayth our Lord: Behold the dayes of\ntribulation are come: and out of them I wil deliuer you. 76 Doe not\nfeare, nor stagger, because God is your guide. 77 And he that kepeth my\ncommandmentes, and precepts, sayth our Lord God: Let not your sinnes\nouerway you, nor your inquities be aduanced ouer you. 78 Woe to them\nthat are entangled with their sinnes, and are couered with their\niniquities, as a filde is entangled with the wood, & the path therof\ncouered with thornes, by which no man passeth, & it is closed out, &\ncast to be deuoured of the fire.\n\nFINIS.\n\n\n=Note:= This translation comes from the Latin text, usually printed in \nan appendix to editions of the Vulgate, but these editions miss seventy\nverses between 7:35 and 7:36. The missing fragment was discovered in a\nLatin manuscript by Robert Lubbock Bensly in 1874. Below is a\ntranslation of this fragment from a revised Authorized Version.\nAlthough often numbered 7:36-7:105, they are here number as A:1-A:70 to\navoid any repetition in chapter:verse designations.\n\nA:1. And the pit of torment shall appear, and over against it shall be\nthe place of rest: and the furnace of hell shall be shewed, and over\nagainst it the paradise of delight. A:2. And then shall the Most High\nsay to the nations that are raised from the dead, See ye and understand\nwhom ye have denied, or whom ye have not served, or whose commandments\nye have despised. A:3. Look on this side and on that: here is delight\nand rest, and there fire and torments. Thus shall he speak unto them in\nthe day of judgement: A:4. This is a day that hath neither sun, nor\nmoon, nor stars, A:5. neither cloud, nor thunder, nor lightning,\nneither wind, nor water, nor air, neither darkness, nor evening, nor\nmorning, A:6. neither summer, nor spring, nor heat, nor winter, neither\nfrost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew, A:7. neither noon, nor\nnight, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, save only\nthe splendour of the glory of the Most High, whereby all shall see the\nthings that are set before them: A:8. for it shall endure as it were a\nweek of years. A:9. This is my judgement and the ordinance thereof; but\nto thee only have I shewed these things. A:10. And I answered, I said\neven then, O Lord, and I say now: Blessed are they that be now alive\nand keep the statutes ordained of thee. A:11. But as touching them for\nwhom my prayer was made, what shall I say? for who is there of them\nthat be alive that hath not sinned, and who of the sons of men that\nhath not transgressed thy covenant? A:12. And now I see, that the world\nto come shall bring delight to few, but torments unto many. A:13. For\nan evil heart hath grown up in us, which hath led us astray from these\nstatutes, and hath brought us into corruption and into the ways of\ndeath, hath shewed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from\nlife; and that, not a few only, but well nigh all that have been\ncreated. A:14. And he answered me, and said, Hearken unto me, and I\nwill instruct thee; and I will admonish thee yet again: A:15. for this\ncause the Most High hath not made one world, but two. A:16. For whereas\nthou hast said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly\nabound, hear the answer thereunto. A:17. If thou have choice stones\nexceeding few, wilt thou set for thee over against them according to\ntheir number things of lead and clay? A:18. And I say, Lord, how shall\nthis be? A:19. And he said unto me, Not only this, but ask the earth,\nand she shall tell thee; intreat her, and she shall declare unto thee.\nA:20. For thou shalt say unto her, Thou bringest forth gold and silver\nand brass, and iron also and lead and clay: A:21. but silver is more\nabundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, lead\nthan iron, and clay than lead. A:22. Judge thou therefore which things\nare precious and to be desired, whatso is abundant or what is rare.\nA:23. And I said, O Lord that bearest rule, that which is plentiful is\nof less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious. A:24. And\nhe answered me, and said, Weigh within thyself the things that thou\nhast thought, for he that hath what is hard to get rejoiceth over him\nthat hath what is plentiful. A:25. So also is the judgement which I\nhave promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved,\ninasmuch as these are they that have made my glory now to prevail, and\nof whom my name is now named. A:26. And I will not grieve over the\nmultitude of them that perish; for these are they that are now like\nunto vapour, and are become as flame and smoke; they are set on fire\nand burn hotly, and are quenched. A:27. And I answered and said, O thou\nearth, wherefore hast thou brought forth, if the mind is made out of\ndust, like as all other created things? A:28. For it were better that\nthe dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been\nmade therefrom. A:29. But now the mind groweth with us, and by reason\nof this we are tormented, because we perish and know it. A:30. Let the\nrace of men lament and the beasts of the field be glad; let all that\nare born lament, but let the fourfooted beasts and the cattle rejoice.\nA:31. For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not\nfor judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation\npromised unto them after death. A:32. For what doth it profit us, that\nwe shall be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment? A:33.\nFor all that are born are defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins\nand laden with offences: A:34. and if after death we were not to come\ninto judgement, peradventure it had been better for us. A:35. And he\nanswered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and\nall them that came of him, he first prepared the judgement and the\nthings that pertain unto the judgement. A:36. And now understand from\nthine own words, for thou hast said that the mind groweth with us.\nA:37. They therefore that dwell upon the earth shall be tormented for\nthis reason, that having understanding they have wrought iniquity, and\nreceiving commandments have not kept them, and having obtained a law\nthey dealt unfaithfully with that which they received. A:38. What then\nwill they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the\nlast times? A:39. For how great a time hath the Most High been\nlongsuffering with them that inhabit the world, and not for their\nsakes, but because of the times which he hath foreordained! A:40. And I\nanswered and said, If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, shew\nthis also unto thy servant, whether after death, even now when every\none of us giveth up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those\ntimes come, in which thou shalt renew the creation, of whether we shall\nbe tormented forthwith. A:41. And he answered me, and said, I will shew\nthee this also; but join not thyself with them that are scorners, nor\nnumber thyself with them that are tormented. A:42. For thou hast a\ntreasure of good works laid up with the Most High, but it shall not be\nshewed thee until the last times. A:43. For concerning death the\nteaching is: When the determinate sentence hath gone forth from the\nMost High that a man should die, as the spirit leaveth the body to\nreturn again to him who gave it, it adoreth the glory of the Most High\nfirst of all. A:44. And if it be one of those that have been scorners\nand have not kept the way of the Most High, and that have despised his\nlaw, and that hate them that fear God, A:45. these spirits shall not\nenter into habitations, but shall wander and be in torments forthwith,\never grieving and sad, in seven ways. A:46. The first way, because they\nhave despised the law of the Most High. A:47. The second way, because\nthey cannot now make a good returning that they may live. A:48. The\nthird way, they shall see the reward laid up for them that have\nbelieved the covenants of the Most High. A:49. The fourth way, they\nshall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days.\nA:50. The fifth way, they shall see the dwelling places of the others\nguarded by angels, with great quietness. A:51. The sixth way, they\nshall see how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment. A:52. The\nseventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways,\nbecause they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame,\nand shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High\nbefore whom they have sinned whilst living, and before whom they shall\nbe judged in the last times. A:53. Now this is the order of those who\nhave kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from\nthe corruptible vessel. A:54. In the time that they dwelt therin they\npainfully served the Most High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that\nthey might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly. A:55. Wherefore this\nis the teaching concerning them: A:56. First of all they shall see with\ngreat joy the glory of him who taketh them up, for they shall have rest\nin seven orders. A:57. The first order, because they have striven with\ngreat labour to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together\nwith them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death.\nA:58. The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the\nsouls of the ungodly wander, and the punishment that awaiteth them.\nA:59. The third order, they see the witness which he that fashioned\nthem beareth concerning them, that while they lived they kept the law\nwhich was given them in trust. A:60. The fourth order, they understand\nthe rest which, being gathered in their chambers, they now enjoy with\ngreat quietness, guarded by angels, and the glory that awaiteth them in\nthe last days. A:61. The fifth order, they rejoice, seeing how they\nhave now escaped from that which is corruptible, and how they shall\ninherit that which is to come, while they see moreover the straitness\nand the painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large\nroom which they shall receive with joy and immortality. A:62. The sixth\norder, when it is shewed unto them how their face shall shine as the\nsun, and how they shall be made like unto the light of the stars, being\nhenceforth incorruptible. A:63. The seventh order, which is greater\nthan all the aforesaid orders, because they shall rejoice with\nconfidence, and because they shall be bold without confusion, and shall\nbe glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom in\ntheir lifetime they served, and from whom they shall receive their\nreward in glory. A:64. This is the order of the souls of the just, as\nfrom henceforth is announced unto them, and aforesaid are the ways of\ntorture which they that would not give heed shall suffer from\nhenceforth. A:65. And I answered and said, Shall time therefore be\ngiven unto the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that\nthey may see that whereof thou hast spoken unto me? A:66. And he said,\nTheir freedom shall be for seven days, that for seven days they may see\nthe things whereof thou hast been told, and afterwards they shall be\ngathered together in their habitations. A:67. And I answered and said,\nIf I have found favour in thy sight, shew further unto me thy servant\nwhether in the day of judgement the just will be able to intercede for\nthe ungodly or to intreat the Most High for them, A:68. whether fathers\nfor children, or children for parents, or brethren for brethren, or\nkinsfolk for their next of kin, or friends for them that are most dear.\nA:69. And he answered me, and said, Since thou hast found favour in my\nsight, I will shew thee this also: The day of judgement is a day of\ndecision, and displayeth unto all the seal of truth; even as now a\nfather sendeth not his son, or a son his father, or a master his slave,\nor a friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may be sick, or\nsleep, or eat, or be healed: A:70. so never shall any one pray for\nanother in that day, neither shall one lay a burden on another, for\nthen shall all bear every one his own righteousness or unrighteousness.\n\n\nBOOKS FOR COMPARISON\n\n\nTHE PROPHECIE OF ABDIAS.\n\nABDIAS borne in Sichem, of the tribe Ephraim, prophecied the same time\nwith Amos; so briefly that his prophecie is not parted into chapters:\n1. against the Idumeans; foreshewing their destruction; 10. for their\nperpetual emnitie against the Iewes, and confederacie with the\nChaldees. 17. The captiuitie and relaxation of the Iewes. 19. And\nredemption of the whole world by Christ.\n\nTHE vision of Abdias. Thus sayth our Lord God to Edom: We haue heard a\nbruit from our Lord, and he hath sent a legate to the Gentils: Rise ye,\nand let vs arise against him into battel. 2 Behold I haue geuen thee a\nlitle one in the Gentils: thou art contemptible excedingly. 3 The pride\nof thy hart hath extolled thee, dwelling in the clefts of rockes,\nexalting thy throne: which sayst in thy hart: Who shal plucke me downe\nto the earth. 4 If thou shalt be exalted as an eagle, and if thou shalt\nset thy nest among the starres: thence wil I plucke thee downe, sayth\nour Lord. 5 If theues had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how\nhadst thou held thy peace. would not they haue stolen thinges sufficent\nfor themselues. if the grape gathereres had entered in to thee, would\nthey not haue left thee at the least a cluster. 6 How haue they\nsearched Esau, haue they sought out his hidden thinges. 7 Euen to the\nborder haue they cast thee out: al the men of thy league haue mocked\nthee: the men of thy peace haue peuailed against thee: they that eate\nwith thee, shal lay embushments vnder thee: there is no wisedom in him.\n8 Why, shal not I in that day, sayth our Lord, destroy the wise out of\nIdumea, and prudence from the mount of Esau, 9 And thy valients of the\nSouth shal feare, that man may perish from the mount of Esau. 10 For\nthe slaughter, and for the iniquitie against thy brother Iacob,\nconfusion shal couer thee, and thou shalt perish for euer. 11 In the\nday when thou stoodest against him, when strangers tooke his armie, and\nforeners entered his gates, and vpon Ierusalem cast lotte: thou also\nwast as one of them. 12 And thou shalt not dispise in the day of thy\nbrother, in the day of his peregrination: and thou shalt not reioyce\nouer the children of Iuda, in the day of their perdition: & thou shalt\nnot magnifie thy mouth in the day of distresse. 13 Neither shalt thou\nenter the gate of my people in the day of their ruine: neither shalt\nthou also dispise in his euils in the day of his distruction: and thou\nshalt not be sent out against his armie in the day of his destruction.\n14 Neither shalt thou stand in the outgoings to kil them that flee: and\nthou shalt not shut vp his remnant in the day of tribulation. 15\nBecause the day of our Lord is at hand vpon al nations: as thou hast\ndone, so shal it be done to thee: thy retribution he wil returne vpon\nthine owne head. 16 For as you haue drunke vpon my holie mount, shal al\nGentils drinke continually: & they shal drinke, and swallow vp, and\nthey shal be as though they were not. 17 And in mount Sion shal be\nsaluation, and it shal be holie: and the house of Iacob shal possesse\nthose that had possessed them. 18 And the house of Iacob shal be a\nfyre, and the house of Ioseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble:\nand they shal be kindled in them, and shal deuoure them: and there shal\nbe no remaynes of the house of Esau, because our Lord hath spoken. 19\nAnd they that are toward the South, shal inherite the mount of Esau,\nand they in the champaine countries, Philisthiims: and they shal\npossesse the region of Ephraim, and the region of Samaria: and Beniamin\nshal possesse Galaad. 20 And the transmigration of this host of the\nchildren of Israel, al places of the Chananeits euen to Sarepta: and\nthe transmigration of Ierusalem, that is in Bosphorus, shal possesse\nthe cities of the South. 21 And sauiours shal ascend into mount Sion to\niudge the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shal be to our Lord.\n\n\nTHE CATHOLIKE EPISTLE OF IVDE THE APOSTLE.\n\nHe exhorteth them to stand to their old faith, shevving them by\nexamples, that it is damnable not to continue and be constant: 8\ninueighing against the lecherie, blasphemie, apostasie, banketing of\nthe heretikes, 14 and that their damnation vvas long foretold. 17\nCatholikes therfore to be vnmoueable, to reproue the obstinate, to\nrecouer al not desperate, to confirme the vveake, and to liue them\nselues vertuously and vvithout mortal sinne, vvhich by Gods grace they\nmay doe.\n\nIVDE the seruant of IESVS Christ, and brother of Iames: to them that\nare in God the Father beloued, and in IESVS Christ preserued, and\ncalled. 2 Mercie to you, and peace and charitie be accomplished. 3 My\ndeerest, taking al care to vvrite vnto you of your common saluation, I\nthought it necessarie to vvrite vnto you: beseeching you to contend for\nthe faith once deliuered to the sainctes. 4 For there are certaine men\nsecretely entred in (vvhich vvere long ago prescribed vnto this\niudgement) impious, transferring the grace of our God into riotousnes,\nand denying the onely Dominator, and our Lord IESVS Christ. 5 But I\nvvil admonish you, that once knovv al things, that IESVS, sauing the\npeople out of the land of AEgipt, secondly destroied them vvhich\nbeleeued not. 6 But the Angels vvhich kept not their pricipalitie, but\nforsooke their owne habitation, he hath reserued vnder darkenesse in\neternal bondes vnto the iudgement of the great day. 7 As Sodom and\nGomorrhe, and the cities adioyning in like maner hauing fornicated, and\ngoing after other flesh, vvere made an example, sustaining the paine of\neternal fire. 8 In like maner these also defile the flesh, and despise\ndominion, & blaspheme maiestie. 9 Vvhen Micheal the Archangel,\ndisputing vvith the Diuel, made altercation for the body of Moyses: he\ndurst not inferre iudgment of blasphemie, but said, Our Lord \u2018commaund\u2019\nthee. 10 But these, vvhat things so euer certes they are ignorant of,\nthey blaspheme: and vvhat things so euer naturally, as dumme beastes,\nthey knovv, in those they are corrupted. 11 Vvo vnto them, \u2018vvhich\u2019\nhaue gone in the vvay of Cain: and vvith the errour of Balaam, haue for\nrevvard povvred out them selues, and haue perished in the contradiction\nof Core. 12 These are in their bankets, spottes, feasting together\nvvithout feare, feeding them selues, cloudes vvithout vvater vvhich are\ncaried about of vvindes, trees of autumne, vnfruitful, tvvise dead,\nplucked vp by the rootes, 13 raging vvaues of the sea, foming out their\novvne confusions, vvandering starres: to vvhom the storme of darkenesse\nis reserued for euer. 14 And of these propheceied Enoch, the seuenth\nfrom Adam, saying, Behold our Lord is come in his holy thousandes, 15\nto doe iudgement against al, and to reproue al the impious, of al the\nvvorkes of their impietie vvherby they haue done impiously, and of al\nthe hard thinges vvhich impious sinners haue spoken against him. 16\nThese are murmurers, ful of complaintes, vvalking according to their\novvne desires, and their mouth speaketh pride, admiring persons for\ngaine sake. 17 But you my deerest, be mindeful of the vvordes vvhich\nhaue been spoken before by the Apostles of our Lord IESVS Christ, 18\nvvho told you, that in the last time shal come mockers, according to\ntheir ovvne desires vvalking in impieties. 19 These are they vvhich\nsegregate them selues, sensual, hauing not the Spirit. 20 But you my\ndeerest, building your selues vpon \u2018our\u2019 most holy faith, in the holy\nGhost, praying, 21 keepe your selues in the loue of God, expecting the\nmercie of our Lord IESVS Christ vnto life euerlasting. 22 And these\ncertes reproue being iudged: 23 but them saue, pulling out of the fire.\nAnd on other haue mercie in feare: hating also that vvhich is carnal,\nthe spotted cote. 24 And to him that is able to preserue you vvithout\nsinne, and to sette you immaculate before the sight of his glorie in\nexultation in the comming of our Lord IESVS Christ, 25 to the onely God\nour Sauiour by IESVS Christ our Lord be glorie and magnificence, empire\nand power before al worldes, and novv and for al vvorldes euermore.\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\nSUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL\n\n\nAs recorded in the title, the Douay-Rheims version is a translation\nprimarily from the Latin Vulgate. A brief selection from the preface to\nthe 1582 edition explains the reasons for this approach. Together with\nthe glossary the text shows the translators scholarly motivations, but\nalso provides a glimpse into the charged climate of the period. The\ntranscriber hopes he did a tolerable job in transliterating the Greek\nwords in the preface. The glossary contains words newly used in the\nlanguage of the day. Some were later dropped from the Challoner\nrevision, others have found common usage today.\n\n\nTHE PREFACE TO THE READER\n\nTreating of the causes vvhy this nevv Testament is translated according\nto the auncient vulgar Latin text.\n\nTHE holy Bible long since translated by vs into English, and the old\nTestament lying by vs for lacke of good meanes to publish the vvhole in\nsuch sort as a vvorke of so great charge and importance requireth: vve\nhaue yet through Gods goodnes at length fully finished for thee (most\nChristian reader) all the NEVV TESTAMENT, vvhich is the principal, most\nprofitable & comfortable peece of holy vvrite: and, as vvel for all\nother institution of life and doctrine, as specially for deciding the\ndoubtes of these daies, more propre and pregnant then the other part\nnot yet printed.\n\nNOVV TO GIVE thee also intelligence in particular, most gentle Reader,\nof such thinges as it behoueth thee specially to knovv concerning our\nTranslation: Vve translate the old vulgar Latin text, not the common\nGreeke text, for these causes.\n\n1. It is so auncient, that it vvas vsed in the Church of God aboue 1300\nyeres agoe, as appeareth by the fathers of those times.\n\n2. It is that (by the common receiued opinion and by al probabilitie)\nvvhich S. Hierom aftervvard corrected according to the Greeke, by the\nappointment of Damasus then Pope, as he maketh mention in his preface\nbefore the foure Euangelistes, vnto the said Damasus: and \u2018in Catalogo\nin fine,\u2019 and \u2018ep. 102.\u2019\n\n3. Consequently it is the same vvhich S. Augustine so commendeth and\nallovveth in an Epistle to S. Hierom.\n\n4. It is that, vvhich for the most part euer since hath been vsed in\nthe Churches seruice, expounded in sermons, alleaged and interpreted in\nthe Commentaries and vvritings of the auncient fathers of the Latin\nChurch.\n\n5. The holy Councel of Trent, for these and many other important\nconsiderations, hath declared and defined this onely of al other latin\ntranslations, to be authentical, and so onely to be vsed and taken in\npublike lessons, disputations, preachings, and expositions, and that no\nman presume vpon any pretence to reiect or refuse the same.\n\n6. It is the grauest, sincerest, of greatest maiestie, least\npartialitie, as being vvithout al respect of controuersies and\ncontentions, specially these of our time, as appeareth by those places\nvvhich Erasmus and others at this day translate much more to the\naduantage of the Catholike cause.\n\n7. It is so exact and precise according to the Greeke, both the phrase\nand the word, that delicate Heretikes therfore reprehend it of rudenes.\nAnd that it follovveth the Greeke far more exactly then the Protestants\ntranslations, beside infinite other places, we appeale to these. Tit.\n3,14. \u2018Curent bonis operibus praeesse.\u2019 \u2018proissasthai.\u2019 Engl. bib.\n1577, \u2018to mainteine good vvorks.\u2019 and Hebr. 10, 20. \u2018Viam nobis\ninitiauit,\u2019 \u2018enekainisen.\u2019 English Bib. \u2018he prepared.\u2019 So in these\nvvordes, \u2018Iustificationes,\u2019 \u2018Traditiones,\u2019 \u2018Idola\u2019 &c. In al vvhich\nthey come not neere the Greeke, but auoid it of purpose.\n\n8. The Aduersaries them selues, namely Beza, preferre it before al the\nrest. (Inpraefat. no. Test an. 1556.) And againe he saith, that the old\nInterpreter translated very religiously. (Annot. in 1. Luc. v. 1.)\n\n9. In the rest, there is such diuersitie and dissension, and no end of\nreprehending one an other, and translating euery man according to his\nfantasie, that Luther said, If the vvorld should stand any long time,\nvve must receiue againe (which he thought absurd) the Decrees of\nCouncels, for preseruing the vnitie of faith, because of so diuers\ninterpretations of the Scripture. And Beza (in the place aboue\nmentioned) noteth the itching ambition of his fellovv-translators, that\nhad much rather disagree and dissent from the best, then seeme them\nselues to haue said or vvritten nothing. And Bezas translation it self,\nbeing so esteemed in our countrie, that the Geneua English Testaments\nbe translated according to the same, yet sometime goeth so vvide from\nthe Greeke, and from the meaning of the holy Ghost, that them selues\nwhich protest to translate it, dare not folow it. For example, Luc.\n3,36. They haue put these wordes, \u2018The sonne of Cainan,\u2019 which he\nwittingly and wilfully left out: and (Act. 1,14.) they say, \u2018Vvith the\nvvomen,\u2019 agreably to the vulgar Latin: where he saith, \u2018Cum vxoribus,\u2019\n\u2018vvith their vviues.\u2019\n\n10. It is not onely better then al other Latin translations, but then\nthe Greeke text it self, in those places where they disagree.\n\nThe proofe hereof is euident, because most of the auncient Heretikes\nwere Grecians, & therfore the Scriptures in Greeke were more corrupted\nby them, as the auncient fathers often complaine. Tertullian noteth the\nGreeke text which is at this day (1 Cor. 15,47) to be an old corruption\nof Marcion the Heretike, and the truth to be as in our vulgar latin,\n\u2018Secundus homo de caelo caelestis,\u2019 \u2018The second man from heauen\nheauenly.\u2019 So reade other auncient fathers, and Erasmus thinketh it\nmust needes be so, and Caluin him self folovveth in \u2018Instit. li. 2. c.\n13. parag. 2.\u2019 Againe S. Hierom noteth that the Greeke text (1 Cor. 7,\n33) which is at this day, is not the \u2018Apostolical veritie\u2019 or the true\ntext of the Apostle: but that which is in the vulgar Latin, \u2018Qui cum\nvxore est, solicitus est quae sunt mundi, quomodo placeat vxori, &\ndiuisus est.\u2019 \u2018He that is vvith a vvife, is careful of vvorldly things,\nhovv he may please his vvife, and is deuided or distracted.\u2019 The\nEcclesiastical historie called the Tripartite, noteth the Greeke text\nthat now is (1 Io. 4, 3) to be an old corruption of the auncient Greeke\ncopies, by the Nestorian Heretikes, & the true reading to be as in our\nvulgar Latin, \u2018Omnis spiritus qui soluit IESVM, Ex Deo non est.\u2019 \u2018Euery\nspirit that dissolueth IESVS, is not of God:\u2019 and Beza confesseth that\nSocrates in his Ecclesiastical historie readeth so in the Greeke.\n\nBut the proofe is more preganant out of the Aduersaires them selues.\nThey forsake the Greeke text as corrupted, and translate according to\nthe vulgar Latin, namely Beza and his scholers the English translatours\nof the Bible, in these places. Hebr. chap. 9. vers. 1. saying, \u2018The\nfirst couenant,\u2019 for that vvhich is in the Greeke. \u2018The first\ntabernacle.\u2019 vvhere they put, \u2018couenant,\u2019 not as of the text, but in an\nother letter, as to be vnderstood, according to the vulgar Latin,\nvvhich most sincerely leaueth it out altogether, saying, \u2018Habuit quidem\n& prius iustificationes &c.\u2019 \u2018The former also in deede had\niustifications &c.\u2019 Againe, Ro. 11, vers. 21. They translate not\naccording to the Greek text, \u2018Tempori seruientes,\u2019 \u2018seruing the time,\u2019\nvvhich Beza sayth must needes be a corruption: but according to the\nvulgar Latin, \u2018Domino seruientes,\u2019 \u2018seruing our Lord.\u2019 Againe, Apoc.\n11, vers. 2. they translate not the Greeke text, \u2018Atrium quod intra\ntemplum est,\u2019 \u2018the court vvhich is vvithin the temple:\u2019 but cleane\ncontrarie, according to the vulgar Latin, vvhich Beza saith is the true\nreading, \u2018Atrium quod est foris templum,\u2019 \u2018the court vvhich is vvithout\nthe temple.\u2019 Onely in this last place, one English Bible of the yere\n1562, folovveth the errour of the Greeke. Againe, 2 Tim. 23 vers. 14.\nthey adde, \u2018but,\u2019 more then is in the Greeke, to make the sense more\ncommodious and easie, according as it is in the vulgar Latin. Againe,\nIa. 5, 12. they leaue the Greeke, and folovv the vulgar Latin, saying,\n\u2018lest you fall into condemnation.\u2019 \u201cI doubt not (saith Beza) but this\nis the true and sincere reading, and I suspect the corruption in the\nGreeke came thus &c.\u201d It vvere infinite to set dovvne al such places,\nvvhere the Aduersaries (specially Beza) folovv the old vulgar Latin and\nthe Greeke copie agreable therevnto, condemning the Greeke text that\nnovv is, of corruption.\n\n\nHARD VVORDES EXPLICATED\n\nThe explication of certaine vvordes in this translation, not familiar\nto the vulgar reader, vvhich might not conueniently be vttered\notherwise.\n\nA\n\nAbstracted. Dravven avvay. [James 1:14]\n\nAcquisition. Getting, purchasing. [Eph 1:14]\n\nAduent. The comming. [Matt 24:27]\n\nAdulterating. Corrupting. [2 Cor 2:17] The Greeke vvord signifieth to\nmake commoditie of the vvord of God, as vulgar Vinteners do of their\nvvine. Vvhereby is expressed the peculiar trade of al Heretikes, and\nexceding proper to the Protestants, that so corrupt Scriptures by\nmixture of their ovvne phantasies, by false translations, glosses,\ncolorable and pleasant commentaries, to deceiue the tast of the simple,\nas tauerners and tapsters do, to make their vvines salable by manifold\nartificial deceites. The Apostles contrarievvise, as all Catholikes,\ndeliuer the Scriptures and vtter the vvord of God sincerely and\nentirely, in the same sense and sort as the fathers left them to the\nChurch, interpreting them by the same Spirit by vvhich they vvere\nvvritten or spoken.\n\nAgnition. Knovvledge or acknovvledging. [Philemon 1:6]\n\nAllegorie. A Mystical speache, more then the bare letter. [Gal 4:24]\nHere vve learne that the holy Scriptures haue beside the litteral\nsense, a deeper spiritual and more principal meaning: which is not only\nto be taken of the holy vvordes, but of the very factes and persons\nreported: both the speaches and the actions being significatiue ouer\nand aboue the letter.\n\nAmen. What is it vvhen our Lord saith, Amen, amen? He doth much commend\nand vrge the thing he so vttereth, doubling it. Amen in Hebrue\nsignifieth verum, a truth. [John 8:34]\n\nAnathema. By vse of Scripture is either that vvhich by separation from\nprofane vse, and by dedication to God, is holy, dreadful, and not\nvulgarly to be touched: or contrarievvise, that which is reiected,\nseuered or abandoned from God, as cursed and detested, and therfore is\nto be auoided. [Rom 9:3]\n\nArchisynagogue. Cheefe gouerner of a Synagogue. [Mark 5:22]\n\nAssist. Signifieth the Angels standing and attending, alvvaies readie\nto doe their ministerie. [Luke 1:19]\n\nAssumption. Christs departure out\nof this vvorld by his death and Ascension. [Luke 9:51]\n\nAzymes. Vnleauened bread. [Matt 26:17]\n\nC\n\nCalumniate. By this vvord is signified violent oppression by vvord or\ndeede. [Luke 3:14]\n\nCatechizeth, and, Catechized. He catechizeth that teacheth the\nprinciples of the Christian faith: and they that heare and learne, are\ncatechized, and are therfore called often in the Annotations,\n\nCatechumens. [Gal 6:6]\n\nCharacter. A marke or stampe. [Apoc 13:16]\n\nCommessations. Immoderate bankets, and belly cheere, vvith vvanton\nriotousnes. [Gal 5:21]\n\nCondigne. Comparable. [Rom 8:18]\n\nContristate. This vvord signifieth to make heauie and sad. [Eph 4:30]\n\nCooperate. Signifieth vvorking vvith others, likevvise Cooperation,\nCooperatours. [Rom 8:28]\n\nCorbana. This Corbana was a place about the Temple, which receiued the\npeoples gifts or offerings. [Matt 27:6]\n\nD\n\nDepositum. The vvhole doctrine of our Christianity being taught by the\nApostles, and deliuered to their successors, and comming dovvne from\none Bishop to an other, is called the Depositum, as it vvere a thing\nlaid into their hands, and committed vnto them to keepe. Vvhich because\nit passeth from hand to hand, from age to age, from Bishop to Bishop\nvvithout corruption, change, or alteration, is al one vvith Tradition,\nand is the truth giuen vnto the holy Bishops to keepe, and not to lay\nmen. [1 Tim 6:20] It may signifie also, Gods graces giuen vs to keepe.\nA great comfort to al Christians, that euery of their goode deedes and\nsufferings for Christ, and al the vvorldly losses susteined for defense\nor confession of their faith, be extant vvith God, and kept as\ndepositum, to be repaied or receiued againe in heauen. [2 Tim 1:12,14]\n\nDidrachme. These didrachmes were peeces of money which they payed for\ntribute. [Matt 17:23,24]\n\nDominical day. Sunday. [Apoc 1:10] It is to be marked, that this holy\nday by the Apostles tradition also, vvas named Dominicus dies, our\nLordes day, or the Dominike, vvhich is also an old Ecclesiastical vvord\nin our language, for the name Sunday is a heathenish calling, as al\nother of the vveeke daies be in our language.\n\nDonaries. Giftes offered to God for his Temple, &c. [Luke 21:5]\n\nE\n\nEuacuated from Christ. That is, Made voide and hauing no part vvith\nhim. [Gal 5:4] The scandal of the crosse euacuated, that is, made\nvoide, cleane taken avvay. [Gal 5:11]\n\nEuangelize. Signifieth such preaching of good tidinges, as concerneth\nthe Gospel. How is it possible to expresse Euangelizo, but as vve do,\nEuangelize? for Euangelium being the Gospel, what is, Euangelizo or to\nEuangelize, but to shew the glad tydings of the Gospel, of the time of\ngrace, of al Christs benefites? Al which signification is lost, by\ntranslating as the English bibles do, \u201cI bring you good tydings.\u201d\n\nEunuches. Gelded men.\n\nEuro-aquilo. A north-east vvinde. [Acts 27:14]\n\nExinanited. Abased excedingly. [Phil 2:7]\n\nG\n\nGratis. An vsual vvord to signifie, for nothing, freely, for\nGodamercie, vvithout desert.\n\nH\n\nHolocauste. A kinde of sacrifice vvhere al vvas burnt in the honour of\nGod. [Hebr 10:6]\n\nHostes. Sacrifices. [1 Cor 10:18]\n\nI\n\nInuocated. Called vpon, praied vnto. [Acts 9:21] Hereof vve say,\nInuocation of Saincts, and to inuocate.\n\nIssue. Good euent. [1 Cor 10:13]\n\nIustice. Taken in the nevv Testament, not as it is contrarie to vvrong\nor iniurie, but for that qualitie vvhereof a man is iust and iustified.\n[Rom 4:9]\n\nN\n\nNeophyte. Neophytus is he that vvas lately christened or nevvely\nplanted in the mystical body of Christ. [1 Tim 3:6]\n\nP\n\nParaclete. By interpretation is either a comforter, or an aduocate: and\ntherfore to translate it by any one of them only, is perhaps to abridge\nthe sense of this place. [John 14:16]\n\nParasceue. The Ievves Sabboth-eue, Good friday. [Mark 15:42]\nParasceue is as solemne a word for the Sabboth eue, as Sabboth is for\nthe Iewes seuenth day, and now among Christians much more solemner,\ntaken for Good-friday onely. These wordes then we thought it far better\nto keepe in the text, and to tel their signification in the margent or\nin a table for that purpose, then to disgrace bothe the text and them\nwith translating them.\n\nPasche. Easter, and the Paschal lambe. [Luke 22:1]\n\nPentecost. Vvhitsuntide, &, the space of fiftie daies.\n\nPrefinition. A determination before. [Eph 3:11]\n\nPrepuce. The foreskinne not circumcised, & therfore signifieth the\nGentiles: as circumcision, the Ievves and their state. [Rom 2:25]\n\nPrescience. Foreknovvledge. [Acts 2:23]\n\nPreuaricatour. Transgressor: and preuarication, transgression. [Rom\n2:25]\n\nLoaues of Proposition. So called, because they vvere proposed and set\nvpon the table in the Temple, before God. [Matt 12:4]\n\nR\n\nRepropitiate the sinnes. That is, make a reconciliation for them. [Heb\n2:17]\n\nResolution. The separation of the body and the soule, the departing out\nof this life. [2 Tim 4:6]\n\nResuscitate the grace. That is, Raise, quicken, renew and reviue the\ngrace vvhich othervvise languisheth and decaieth. [2 Tim 1:6]\n\nS\n\nSabbatisme. A time of resting and ceasing from labours. [Heb 4:9]\n\nSacrament. For mysterie. [Eph 1:9]\n\nSancta Sanctorum. The holie of holies, that is, the inmost and holiest\nplace of the Ievves Temple, as it vvere the Chauncel. [Heb 9:3]\n\nSuperedified. Builded vpon Christ the principal stone. [1 Pet 2:5]\n\nT\n\nTetrarch. Gouernour or Prince of the 4 part of a countrie. [Matt 14:1]\n\nThrones. An higher order of Angels. [Col 1:16]\n\nV\n\nVictims. Sacrifice. [Acts 7:42]","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1067908}